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TV series

Without a Trace

2002TV-147 seasons7.2 / 10

The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.

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Synopsis

The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.

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Episode 1

In the Dark

44m5.0 / 10

The team searches for a recently blinded girl and her companion who disappeared during a camping trip. Vivian takes over as the supervisor, while Jack struggles to say goodbye to his family.

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Directed by Paul HolahanGuest stars Francis Capra, Gabrielle Christian, Angela Goethals, Paul Schulze, Mary Mara, Chris Owen, Roy Abramsohn, Iyari Limon

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Episode 2

Thou Shalt Not

44m8.0 / 10

The team search for a nurses' aide who who disappeared from a rural road while changing a flat tire, only to discover that she is actually a fugitive wanted for the bombing of an abortion clinic.

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Directed by Randall ZiskGuest stars Regan Burns, Jesse Head, Fay Hauser, Suzanne Santo, Clare Carey, Max Martini, Jennie Fahn, Amanda Carlin

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Episode 3

Light Years

44m9.0 / 10

This time, the team searches for a delusional appearing Sci-fi fanatic who disappeared from his appartment after ranting on about those ""out to get him"" (before peeling back the tinfoil covering his windows). Jack also has to deal with the consequences of his actions in the affair and how it affected the rest of the team.

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Directed by Craig ZiskWritten by Greg WalkerGuest stars T.J. Thyne, Navi Rawat, Ivar Brogger, David Eigenberg, Raphael Sbarge, Margaret Easley, Joseph Hodge, Nathan Norton

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Episode 4

Upstairs Downstairs

44m8.0 / 10

When a nanny, and the child she took care of, disappear from her employers' home after being fired by them, the team must determine if the nanny is a kidnapping victim, or a kidnapping suspect.

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Directed by Timothy BusfieldGuest stars Chad Lowe, Susan Floyd, Andrew Robinson, Anthony DeSando, Esperanza Catubig, Amy Hill, Jennifer Aquino, Patricia Belcher

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Episode 5

American Goddess

43m8.0 / 10

The winner of a plastic surgery make-over T.V. show vanishes during a publicity event, which was all about her.

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Directed by Tony GoldwynWritten by Maria MaggentiGuest stars Stephanie Courtney, Aaron Lustig, Evan Handler, Cristine Rose, Elizabeth Berkley, Brennan Elliott, J.D. Walsh, Katharine Powell

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Episode 6

Nickel and Dimed (1)

44m5.0 / 10

A young mother disappears after leaving her three year old son with a babysitter.

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Directed by Martha MitchellWritten by David AmannGuest stars Earl Billings, E.E. Bell, Christopher Cousins, Geoff Meed, Cathryn de Prume, Carol Locatell, Ben Bode, Chane't Johnson

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Episode 7

Nickel and Dimed (2)

44m9.0 / 10

To find a missing young mother who was recruited as a drug mule, Samantha goes undercover to lure the drug trafficker who recruited the young woman.

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Guest stars Sung Kang, Mary Mouser, Mo Gaffney, Geoff Meed, Jeanne Chinn, Susan Mosher, Tim Kelleher, Audrey Marie Anderson

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Episode 8

Doppelgänger: Part 2

44m8.0 / 10

When a homeless woman disappears from a shelter, the team is forced to re-examine the case of twin brothers Greg and Rick Knowles. Five months earlier (Doppelganger), Greg Knowles had confessed to a series of brutal murders, but the team was always convinced that it was Rick who had actually performed the killings. When Greg is released from jail and exonerated of the crimes, the team has to work against the clock to prove that Rick is the guilty party and to save one twin from the other.

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Directed by Timothy BusfieldGuest stars Todd Louiso, John Cothran, Roy Lee Jones, Jane Fleiss, Claudette Nevins, Susan Merson, Brian McLaughlin, John Hayden

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Episode 9

Trials

43m8.0 / 10

When a juror disappears, the initial belief is that his disappearance is connected to the trial that is being covered, where a young man named Terrell Brooks has accused of murdering Janelle Billingsley. When the team investigates further, they learn that not only did Ducek change his will to leave his younger lover a fortune, but he has been rather mysterious about a painting from his youth in Czechoslovakia. The team soon begins to believe that Ducek is really a former Nazi soldier named Klaus Reinhardt.

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Directed by David Von AnckenGuest stars Rickey D'Shon Collins, David Garrison, Cory Hardrict, Josef Sommer, John Kapelos, George Wyner, Madison Mason, Jack Coleman

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Episode 10

Malone v. Malone

44m9.0 / 10

Things with Jack and Maria's divorce are getting nastier as Maria's attorney forces Jack to relive not only his childhood traumas, but also throw his affair with Sam in his face and attack his dedication to his job.

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Guest stars Scott Cohen, Timothy Busfield, Talia Balsam, Robin Karfo, Teresa Parente, Vanessa Marano, Laura Marano, Martin Landau

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Episode 11

4.0

44m8.0 / 10

Tara Patterson disappears from a bus stop on her way to an S.A.T. prep course, and the team is called in to investigate the disappearance of the 4.0 student. While investigating, the team soon finds out that Tara is in deeper then they think when they start learning about smart drugs and married men with secrets.

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Guest stars Michelle Horn, Brian Skala, Brooke Nevin, Kathrine Narducci, Gia Carides, Alanna Boatright, Kayla Mae Maloney, Joey Hardy Gray

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Episode 12

Penitence

44m9.0 / 10

When Mac, a prisoner only two weeks from parole, disappears during a fight in the yard along with another prisoner, his sister contacts the FBI for help. No one can figure out why a member of the Aryan gang would escape with a black prisoner. While Martin and Viv talk to the other prisoners and Jack tries to wade his way through the sister's lies and half-truths where her brother is concerned, Danny focuses on a new prisoner who Mac had been protecting.

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Written by Allison AbnerGuest stars Billy Lush, Andrew Bryniarski, Dean Norris, Cyril O'Reilly, Anne Ramsay, Jenny Gago, Corey Reynolds, Dave Florek

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Episode 13

Volcano

43m8.0 / 10

When Ian Norville disappears on a field trip to a museum in Manhattan, the team gets involved, but it isn't long before Jack turns his suspicion to his father, Daniel, who soon admits that he didn't take the necessary precautions with his son, who happens to be autistic.

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Written by Greg WalkerGuest stars Dyllan Christopher, Shannon Cochran, Vincent Angell, Christine Tucci, Hayden McFarland, Vincent Guastaferro, Shaheen Vaaz, Lennie Loftin

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Episode 14

Neither Rain Nor Sleet

44m8.0 / 10

After postal worker Rosie Diaz goes missing during what seemed to be a regular workday, the team initially connects her disappearance to her cargo, which include $12,000 worth of the game Demon Storm, which all the kids were after. But when the team gets in touch with child protective services, they learn that Rosie recently had her foster children taken away after an anonymous abuse call. A search of her home uncovers a DVD containing child pornography, and the team starts to look at the case from another angle. Danny comments on Martin and Sam's obvious closeness, and wonders why they're keeping it quiet.

Episode credits

Directed by Timothy BusfieldGuest stars Hillary Tuck, Ivonne Coll, Elizabeth Peña, Jowharah Jones, Bob Morrisey, Lombardo Boyar, Jon Huertas, Pat Healy

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Episode 15

Party Girl

43m8.0 / 10

When a spoiled heiress in her early twenties is kidnapped, the team has to work against the clock to save Chelsea, who is being featured on a website giving fans the option to choose whether she lives or dies. As they continue to investigate her disappearance, the team learns that Chelsea had finally been starting to grow up, but she may not have time to enjoy her new life.

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Directed by Rob BaileyGuest stars Keram Malicki-Sánchez, Kali Rocha, Marc Casabani, Kirsten Nelson, Sofia Sokolov, Joshua Harto, Rick Pasqualone, Sara Botsford

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Episode 16

Manhunt

44m9.0 / 10

Martin is swamped with guilt after a young boy is kidnapped shortly after he jogs by. The team tries to reassure Martin that his presence was a help rather than a hindrance as they search for the kidnapped child, but Sam's continued reluctance to admit to their relationship partnered with Martin's jealousy of her relationship with Jack only cause more problems.

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Directed by Jeannot SzwarcWritten by David AmannGuest stars Chelsea Field, Ajay Mehta, Bruce Gray, Patrick Cassidy, Dylan Baker, Masam Holden, Grace Phillips, Cheryl Francis Harrington

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Episode 17

Lone Star

44m8.0 / 10

Lance Hamilton is a successful real estate agent in his early thirties who disappears one day after showing a house. When the team gets involved, they soon realise that Lance had more than one dealing with a local hood, Jimmy 'The Tooth' Fusco, and begin to suspect that Lance may not have been the good guy everyone thought he was. After tracking down the woman Lance had recently been spotted kissing in his office, the team needs to revise their opinion, knowing now that Lance is one of the good guys, but wondering if he's died for his beliefs.

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Directed by Paul HolahanGuest stars Diane Mizota, Lochlyn Munro, Bridget Flanery, Jon Polito, Joe Nieves, Alexia Landeau, Michael Harney, Alex Sol

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Episode 18

Transitions

43m8.0 / 10

When Stephanie Healy doesn't show up for choir practice, the team heads in to investigate and soon learns Stephanie had recently had a fight with her boyfriend. While speaking with Eddie, the team is shocked to learn that Stephanie used to be Stephen Patrick Healy. Convinced that the truth to what is happening in Stephanie's present lies in her past, the team investigates who Stephen was. Vivian has trouble hiding her worsening problems from the team, and is upset that Martin has been talking to Sam about his suspicions.

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Directed by Timothy BusfieldGuest stars Dale Midkiff, Eileen Ryan, Brian Tee, Sandra Nelson, Eric Lange, Michael Fairman, Joseph C. Phillips, Stephanie Venditto

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Episode 19

Second Sight

43m8.0 / 10

After a young woman named Agnes Deschamps goes missing, the team takes a look into her disappearance and learns that the young woman was believed to be a psychic. Sam has trouble accepting that one of their witnesses purports to be a psychic, although she is thrown when the woman correctly points out her problems with Martin. Jack, Martin and Danny pick up the extra hours with Vivian out awaiting heart surgery and together the team manages to track the young woman down after a supermarket parking lot kidnapping yeilds an unlikely clue.

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Guest stars Karen Austin, K Callan, Victor Raider-Wexler, Bill Brochtrup, Joseph C. Phillips, Natacha Roi, Alexandra Lydon, Andrew Hawkes

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Episode 20

The Bogie Man

44m9.3 / 10

Seven years ago, a thirteen-year-old girl named Amber Bryce went missing, and suspicion fell on her boyfriend, then-seventeen-year-old Curtis Horne. When Daisy Thorpe, who had become obsessed with getting justice for Amber's death, also ends up missing, the team is called in to investigate. While Martin and Danny work from the office, Sam and Jack work in the field, starting their investigation with the local cleric, Amber's father, and trying to find out why Curtis Horne has stayed in town all these years. While Vivian is home having troubles with Reggie, Martin makes a decision about his relationship with Sam.

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Directed by Rob BaileyGuest stars Ashley Rose Orr, John Krasinski, Dwier Brown, Randy Oglesby, Cynthia Ettinger, Brandon Keener, Megan Lusk, Lindsey Ginter

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Episode 21

Off the Tracks

44m8.0 / 10

Danny is skeptical when the pregnant girlfriend of his missing estranged brother, Rafael ""Rafi"" Alvarez, and mother of their 9-year-old son, tells him that Rafi has transformed himself into a responsible family man, who recently obtained a loan to open his own body shop. But Danny's investigation uncovers that Rafi has been seen with a convicted car thief, and the large sum of cash he'd been flaunting for his purchase of a body shop didn't come from the bank. Though Jack makes the point that Rafi may have legitimate explanations for the suspicious circumstances, Danny braces himself for the very real possibility that his brother may have put himself in harm's way.

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Written by Greg WalkerGuest stars William O'Leary, Angelo Pagán, Stephanie Venditto, Marisol Ramirez, Reynaldo Gallegos, Alex Fernandez, David Costabile, Mik Scriba

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Episode 22

John Michaels

44m3.3 / 10

John Michaels is a 71-year-old insurance investigator who went missing after last being seen getting into a car with two strange men. While investigating his disappearance, the team finds that he had recently tried to make amends with his ex-wife and has been trying desperately to get his older daughter on the straight and narrow. Things get strange in the case though, and all is not as it seems.

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Guest stars Rosemary Forsyth, Michelle Krusiec, Teresa Parente, Martin Landau, Susan Misner, Michael Cudlitz, Sarah Joy Brown, Sarah Demeestere

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Episode 23

Endgame

44m9.0 / 10finale

Paige was last seen sneaking out of her office at the same time as an NYPD detective was asking her boss to direct him to Paige for a routine inquiry. To the team's surprise, the NYPD detective turns out to have been an imposter, causing them to question why Paige chose to run from this mystery man, what he wanted -- and if he caught up with her. Further investigation uncovers that the seemingly upstanding and socially conscious Paige was involved in a lucrative identity theft ring with close ties to a terrorist on a watch list who was recently seen in New York with her. Meanwhile, the remaining team members are gravely concerned about Vivian, who is undergoing open-heart surgery on that very day.

Episode credits

Directed by Jeannot SzwarcWritten by David AmannGuest stars Anna Belknap, Darby Stanchfield, Charles Mesure, Jason George, Lisa Sheridan, Alex Cranmer, Joseph C. Phillips, Shontae Saldana

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Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026

More about Without a Trace

Cast

Anthony LaPagliaJack Malone
Poppy MontgomerySamantha Spade
Marianne Jean-BaptisteVivian Johnson
Enrique MurcianoDanny Taylor
Roselyn SánchezElena Delgado
Eric CloseMartin Fitzgerald
Lynn WhitfieldPaula Van Doren
Jsu GarciaCarlos Aguilar

Credits

Created by
Hank Steinberg

Production details

Status
Ended
Series type
Scripted
Episodes
160
Original language
English

Networks & production

  • CBSUnited States
  • Jerry Bruckheimer TelevisionUnited States
  • CBS ProductionsUnited States
  • CBS StudiosUnited States
  • Warner Bros. TelevisionUnited States

Themes

criminal investigationfbimissing personnew york citypolicepolice procedural