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"Without a Trace" Review, Synopsis and General Information

By Rachel Thomas, About.com

Premiered:

September 26, 2002

When is it on?:

Thursdays at 10pm ET on CBS (Check local listings)

Starring:

Anthony LaPaglia as Jack Malone
Poppy Montgomery as Samantha Spade
Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Vivian Johnson
Enrique Murciano as Danny Taylor
Eric Close as Martin Fitzgerald

Trivia:

The show was originally titled, "Vanished."

Synopsis:

"Without a Trace" is a riveting procedural drama about the New York Missing Persons Squad of the FBI.

The team reconstructs a "day of disappearance" timeline that details every minute of the 24 hours prior to the disappearance and digs into every facet of the victim's life, following one simple rule: learn who the victim is in order to learn where the victim is. Senior agent Jack Malone, a tough but compassionate, seasoned and astute professional, heads the dedicated team that knows too well that every second counts when someone vanishes.

His squad includes Samantha Spade, an agent whose blonde good looks belie a tough, complex approach to her work; Vivian Johnson, a no-nonsense investigator with a special insight into victims' families; Danny Taylor, whose sensitivity is often covered up by his street smarts, and the strait-laced Martin Fitzgerald, who joined the team as a result of his father's connections but has since earned his stripes. As the agents work on varied and complicated cases, details about their own lives continue to unfold.

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