Without a Trace: Season 1

2002 · 23 episodes · ★ 7.8

What Season 1 of Without a Trace

Season 1 of Without a Trace Has 23 episodes and premiered on September 26, 2002. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

23episodes

Sep 26, 2002premiered

May 15, 2003latest episode

16.7 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Pilot
Sep 26, 2002 · 42 min · ★ 9.0
Maggie Cartwright appears to have simply walked away from every thing in her life, having left everything of hers behind. Later a ransom note appears on her mother's email list demanding a million dollars for her safe return.
Directing: David Nutter · Writing: Hank Steinberg · Starring: Bradford Tatum, Noel Gugliemi, Stephen Snedden, Thom Barry
1x02 Birthday Boy
Oct 3, 2002 · 42 min
Eleven-year-old Gabe Freedman is separated from his father on the subway to Yankee Stadium.
Directing: David Nutter · Writing: Hank Steinberg · Starring: Megan Gallagher, David Henrie, David Paymer, Michael Esparza
1x03 He Saw, She Saw
Oct 10, 2002 · 42 min · ★ 5.5
Four different witnesses claim that a woman was abducted from a mall parking lot while her husband was standing just yards away with his back turned to her.
Directing: Rachel Talalay · Writing: Jan Nash · Starring: Elizabeth Morehead, Stacy Edwards, Rick Ravanello, Kyle Secor
1x04 Between the Cracks
Oct 17, 2002 · 44 min · ★ 6.6
Nineteen-year-old model Eve Cleary disappears and it turns out that there are very few people who actually knew her.
Directing: Steve Gomer · Writing: Ed Redlich · Starring: Charles S. Dutton, Kaitlin Doubleday, Alex Veadov, John Livingston
1x05 Suspect
Oct 24, 2002 · 45 min · ★ 8.5
After telling his mother, he wanted to leave school for good, seventeen year old Andy Deaver vanishes from his private boarding school, last seen by it's headmaster, Graham Spaulding.
Directing: Peter Markle · Writing: Allison Abner · Starring: Blake Bashoff, Lynn Whitfield, Kathleen Garrett, Jacqueline Hahn
1x06 Silent Partner
Oct 31, 2002 · 42 min · ★ 5.2
Patrick Kent, a Vice-President of a New York investment-banking firm, vanishes from a San Diego airport, only leaving behind two empty suitcases.
Directed by Randall Zisk · Written by Greg Walker · Starring: Tyler Posey, Benjamín Benítez, Philip Baker Hall, Colleen Flynn
1x07 Snatch Back
Nov 7, 2002 · 42 min · ★ 5.2
Abby, the three-year-old daughter of ADA Angela Buckman and her NYU lecturer husband Matthew, vanishes while in the park with her nanny.
Directing: Leslie Libman · Writing: Stacy Rukeyser · Starring: Marin Hinkle, Elizabeth Banks, Susan Krebs, John Mese
1x08 Little Big Man
Nov 14, 2002 · 42 min
After a confrontation with a local bully, foster teen William Hope disappears leaving his job at a burger restaurant late at night.
Directed by Paul Holahan · Written by Jacob Epstein · Starring: Denise Dowse, Freda Foh Shen, Dempsey Pappion, John Lafayette
1x09 In Extremis
Nov 21, 2002 · 42 min
Third-year-resident Anwar Samir vanishes from the hospital he works in. Because of his Saudi-Arabian background, suspicions of terrorist links arise.
Directed by Peter Markle · Written by Francisco Castro · Starring: Bahar Soomekh, Deirdre Lovejoy, John Maynard, Maz Jobrani
1x10 Midnight Sun
Dec 12, 2002 · 43 min
When a man leaves his home in the morning with his daughter to take her to school and then to open his dry-cleaning store, but they both of they never make it there .
Directing: Michelle MacLaren · Writing: Hank Steinberg · Starring: Brett Cullen, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Tomas Arana, Nigel Thatch
1x11 Maple Street
Jan 9, 2003 · 44 min
Annie Miller disappears on her way to school. The group looks into her disappearance, with their suspects ranging from the local mayor, to Annie's godfather, all the way to a young man working for the father of her best friend. Twenty-four hours after Annie's disappearance, her best friend Siobhan Arintero also vanishes, leaving only a collection of videos to help find the two girls.
Directing: John McNaughton · Writing: Maria Maggenti · Starring: Judith Hoag, Michaela Watkins, Daniel Zacapa, Alia Shawkat
1x12 Underground Railroad
Jan 16, 2003 · 44 min
Jack and the team search for a pregnant woman, Kathy Dobson, who disappeared from a hospital before being told that she has serious complications. As the detectives race against time to find Kathy, their investigation gradually reveals that Kathy's seemingly happy life actually hasn't been going very well. She is eight-and-a-half months pregnant and, under the tight control of her husband Paul, has withdrawn from her family and friends. Paul's brother Ritchie, who has been following Kathy and providing Paul with addresses she visits, lists a woman who may be affiliated with an ""underground railroad"" that helps battered women. When the team members find the woman, they learn that she has been assaulted by Paulâ€”but she still refuses to lead them to Kathy.
Directed by Tom McLoughlin · Written by Hank Steinberg · Starring: Nicole DeHuff, John Rubinstein, Steve Ryan, A.J. Buckley
1x13 Hang On to Me
Jan 30, 2003 · 45 min
Chet Collins has been searching for his son since the boy was kidnapped four years earlier on a camping trip, and is the one case that Jack has never been able to forget. When Chet disappears, leaving behind only his wedding ring and the mountains of debt he had accumulated in his search, Jack will go to any lengths to find Collins and save him from himself.
Directing: Paul Holahan · Writing: Ed Redlich · Starring: Charles S. Dutton, Rosalind Chao, Ramy Zada, Clay Wilcox
1x14 The Friendly Skies
Feb 6, 2003 · 44 min
The team investigate a disappearance of a flight attendant who may have been having a relationship with one of the pilot's.
Directed by Paul Holahan · Written by Hank Steinberg · Starring: Heather Donahue, James Sie, Sarah Rafferty, Susan Barnes
1x15 There Goes the Bride
Feb 20, 2003 · 45 min
A bride disappears at her own wedding and suspicions of kidnapping. Meanwhile, the team explores the relationship between the newlyweds, who were lived together for a little while.
Directed by Deran Sarafian · Written by Steven Kane · Starring: Kelly Overton, Mackenzie Astin, Paul Carafotes, Lawrence Pressman
1x16 Clare de Lune
Feb 27, 2003 · 42 min · ★ 8.0
A girl vanishes from a psychiatric hospital, and it appears she may have escaped with a staff member. Then the team learns of a troubling incident from her past that may hold the key to her disappearance.
Directing: Mel Damski · Writing: Allison Abner · Starring: Jessica Lundy, Aria Noelle Curzon, Amber Tamblyn, Phillip Van Dyke
1x17 Kam Li
Mar 13, 2003 · 44 min
They search for a retired U.S. Army officer who has disappeared right after a dinner that was given in his honor by former members of his Vietnam platoon
Directing: Randall Zisk · Writing: Jacob Epstein · Starring: Sarah Joy Brown, William Sanderson, Griff Furst, Ernie Hudson
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1x18 The Source
Apr 3, 2003 · 43 min
Delia , a television reporter, disappears in the middle of the investigation of a nightclub owner who is a suspected drug dealer. They also discovers that Delia was working on the case of a murderer on death row who she thought was innocent, and who might be linked to an assistant district attorney working with Jack on the case.
Directed by Peter Markle · Written by Greg Walker · Starring: Dan Butler, Patrick Fabian, Josh Hopkins, Julie Dretzin
1x19 Victory for Humanity
Apr 10, 2003 · 44 min
They search for a young high-school teacher who disappeared after a night class in the Bronx, turning up contradictory information about the subject.
Directed by Charles Correll · Written by Hank Steinberg · Starring: Michael Saucedo, Tommy Hinkley, Mimi Michaels, Jeff D'Agostino
1x20 No Mas
Apr 24, 2003 · 45 min
The team find themselves up against the ropes as multiple mysteries arise in the case of a boxer. Dante Jones disappears moments before a bout with a $500,000 purse that which could have made him a title contender. Jack suspects it's stunt, but Vivian, a Jones fan, can't believe that the charity-loving, straight-arrow fighter would go doewn that low road. The search goes in a new direction when his younger brother who he is always bailing out of trouble, vanishes. Then it's learned he has made 2 million dollers in the past five years,but he only has $6000 in his bank account.
Directed by Paul Holahan · Written by Greg Walker · Starring: Mike Starr, Bodhi Elfman, Dwayne L. Barnes, Frankie J. Allison
1x21 Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been?
May 1, 2003 · 45 min
Jack's methods for investigation of child molester could result in the case being kicked out of court. Then on top of that, the Office of Professional Responsibility decides to investigate the team, but their real target is Jack
Directing: Peter Markle · Writing: Ed Redlich, Harry Litman · Starring: Christina Chang, Lynn Whitfield, Frank John Hughes, Spencer Garrett
1x22 Fall Out (1)
May 8, 2003 · 44 min
With the aftershocks of Sept. 11 and man named Barry , who lost his wife that day and then his job soon after. The man lashes out at her former boss an employment-agency owner. Blaming her for his wife's death and his own failure to find a job, Barry kidnaps the woman for ransom.Then he demands the money be exchanged at a bookstore, but when the cash is delivers Berry is provoked and takes the store's patrons hostage. Among them is Samantha,and given Jack's affection for her complicates the negotiations.
Directing: Kevin Hooks · Writing: Hank Steinberg · Starring: Lynn Whitfield, Carter Jenkins, Tom Irwin, Gregory Itzin
1x23
1x23 Fall Out (2) Season Finale
May 15, 2003 · 45 min
When the team tries to plot a strategy after they find out that Samantha has been shot and that she might be critically injured in the hostage crisis situation. Jack makes a deal with Berry so that Sam can get help and Jack goes in there and takes Sam's place.
Directed by Paul Holahan · Written by Hank Steinberg · Starring: Lynn Whitfield, Steffani Brass, Tom Irwin, Barbara Tarbuck