Without a Trace: Season 4

2005 · 24 episodes · ★ 7.3

What Season 4 of Without a Trace

Season 4 of Without a Trace Has 24 episodes and premiered on September 29, 2005. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

24episodes

Sep 29, 2005premiered

May 18, 2006latest episode

17.2 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01
4x01 Showdown
Sep 29, 2005 · 43 min
Martin and Danny are ambushed by Emil Dornvald, who ends up killing the prisoner they are transoprting. Martin is in serious condition, and a barely wounded Danny is at the end of his rope as he tries to find the man who put Martin in the hospital in critical condition. Jack has his hands full with keeping Danny in check and hunting down Emil Dornvald, the mercenary who had previously worked for General Gamba. Things get sticky when Victor Fitzgerald and Tom Banes of Homeland Security get involved, determined to make a deal with Nuru, whom Jack believes isn't the friendly that Homeland Security believes he is.
Written by David Amann · Starring: Anna Belknap, Charles Mesure, Jason George, Ned Vaughn
4x02
4x02 Safe
Oct 6, 2005 · 44 min
The team searches for a missing teenager who was paranoid about his own personal safety and left an ominous message behind.
Directing: Jeannot Szwarc · Starring: Shane Haboucha, Michael Welch, Kenneth Schmidt, Caryn West
4x03
4x03 From the Ashes
Oct 13, 2005 · 44 min
The team adds a new member who already as a connection to one of the team as they search for a missing prostitute.
Directing: Timothy Busfield · Starring: Alex Hyde-White, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, Peyton List, Shelly Cole
4x04
4x04 Lost Time
Oct 20, 2005 · 44 min
After evidence surfaces suggests that a woman believed murdered by her lover seven years earlier may be alive, Jack wonders if he went too far trying to get a confession.
Directed by Martha Mitchell · Starring: Eve Gordon, Don Swayze, Justin Kirk, Vanessa Lee Chester
4x05
4x05 Honor Bound
Oct 27, 2005 · 42 min
Wendy Kim goes missing during her shift at the family deli, and the team gets involved to find out what happened to the young Korean woman. It isn't long before they learn that Wendy had recently broken off an engagement to a young Korean man her parents were very supportive of, and that she had recently been doing a lot of on-line dating and had gotten herself involved with the wrong kind of men, including one who wouldn't take no for an answer.
Starring: Chad Donella, Parry Shen, Nicole Bilderback, Erin Cardillo
4x06
4x06 Viuda Negra
Nov 3, 2005 · 43 min
After James Costa is kidnapped after enjoying a night out with his wife in Mexico, Danny and Jack go in at the request of James' mother-in-law, but find that between the Mexican authorities and the grieving wife, no one is too willing to help them. While Vivian, Sam, Martin and Elena work the case back in New York, Jack encounters resistance from the locals, and it is only with Danny's help speaking Spanish that they are able to get much of the information they need. The team soon becomes suspicious of Lucy Costa, convinced she knows more about her husband's disappearance than she is saying.
Directing: Paul McCrane · Writer: Scott Williams · Starring: Alex Kingston, Joyce Van Patten, Paul Collins, Elizabeth Dennehy
4x07
4x07 The Innocents
Nov 10, 2005 · 43 min
The team worries about a grieving father who couldn't accept his daughter's death, especially after child pornography is found in his home.
Directing: Martha Mitchell · Starring: Jennifer Stone, Danielle Chuchran, Gordon Clapp, Katie Mitchell
4x08
4x08 A Day in the Life
Nov 17, 2005 · 44 min
After young Shawn Hopkins disappears one night after leaving the arcade, his parents soon begin to believe that the team is not doing everything to find their daughter, and are shocked to learn that their son has been gambling and has also been seen with a local drug dealer. After learning that Shawn had taken up the cause of a friend who had been raped, Larry and Susan Hopkins are relieved to learn that their son wasn't doing anything wrong, but worried that he still might not come home.
Directing: Jeannot Szwarc · Starring: Laurie Metcalf, Andrea Bowen, Matt Craven, Josh Wise
4x09
4x09 Freefall
Nov 24, 2005 · 43 min
Max Cassidy vanishes after leaving a message on his wife's voicemail, with both Jack and Ann frantic to find him. While investigating, Jack realises that Max was having an affair, and that he's gotten much deeper into a case than he should have following the murder of his partner, Jimmy, a man Max had felt was too green for undercover work. Both Jack and Ann fear the worst as the team tries to hunt down Max.
Starring: Albie Selznick, Larry Cedar, William Russ, Marcus Chait
4x10
4x10 When Darkness Falls
Dec 8, 2005 · 44 min
Sam agrees to do a favor for a friend by looking into the identity of a young amnesiac who was found wearing expensive clothes by two police officers. The investigation leads them to a play the woman was involved in and a mugging gone wrong, then they follow the trail to the woman's past, which seems to have been the trigger for her amnesia. Jack takes some time off work to deal with his father, who is getting worse as his Alzheimers begins to take over and his kidneys fail. Jack finally convinces Frank to seek help, but it's too late, and Jack has to say goodbye to his father.
Starring: Melissa Sagemiller, Tara Karsian, Martin Landau, Matt Malloy
4x11
4x11 Blood Out
Jan 5, 2006 · 43 min
The team investigates when a young paramedic with gang ties disappears. Jack and Ann bond over their recent losses.
Directing: Eric Close, Marianne Jean-Baptiste · Starring: Darris Love, Sophina Brown, Eugene Byrd, Tyrees Allen
4x12
4x12 Patient X
Jan 19, 2006 · 42 min
After therapist Gina Hill disappears, the team investigates and initially suspects that one of her patients may be involved. After discussions with Gina's fiancÃ© and her own therapist, the team follows the trail of clues to a bartender named Vince with an unusual ability to get good women to do whatever he wants them to. Martin continues to struggle with his recovery.
Directing: Timothy Busfield · Writer: David Amann · Starring: Laura Johnson, Michael Reilly Burke, Allison Smith, Rodney Rowland
4x13
4x13 Rage
Jan 26, 2006 · 41 min
When a school teacher goes missing, the team's investigation leads them to suspect that she may have been too closely connected to a student.
Directing: Eric Close, Kate Woods · Starring: Robert Mailhouse, Jack McGee, Melora Hardin, Kitty Swink
4x14
4x14 Odds or Evens
Feb 2, 2006 · 43 min
After Andy Reynolds, a dishonorably discharged U.S. Marine, goes missing, Jack heads to Tokyo, where Reynolds once confessed to raping a young woman. Back in the U.S., the other agents continue to investigate Reynolds' life, and learn that he had recently gotten the victim to tape a sworn statement that he wasn't the rapist after learning that a former lover had given birth to his child.
Directed by Martha Mitchell · Starring: Keiko Agena, Hiroki Matsukata, Scott Holroyd, Nick Chinlund
4x15
4x15 The Stranger
Feb 9, 2006 · 42 min
When Leah Robinson goes missing after a confrontation with a young man at an art gallery, the team mvoes in to investigate and soon become suspicious of Leah, suspecting her of murdering young women that she believed to be involved with her husband, Ken. Ann isn't quite ready to take her romance with Jack public, and their relationship gets rocky when their different methods of handling the case tip off the suspect.
Directing: Eric Close, Marianne Jean-Baptiste · Starring: Brandon Quinn, Meeghan Holaway, Joe Bays, Christopher Shyer
4x16
4x16 The Little Things
Mar 2, 2006 · 43 min
The team investigates after five-year-old Ethan Heller is carjacked from the family car, and Danny starts to figure out what's going on with Martin.
Directed by John Polson, Eric Close · Starring: Joseph Castanon, Mary Chris Wall, Natalia Baron, Lawrence Monoson
4x17
4x17 Check Your Head
Mar 9, 2006 · 43 min
The team tries to track down a reclusive columnist who hadn't left her apartment in months and was communicating with numerous prisoners.
Directing: Timothy Busfield · Writer: Diego Gutierrez · Starring: Stephen Marcus, Christina Hendricks, Creagen Dow, Dominic Scott Kay
4x18
4x18 The Road Home
Mar 30, 2006 · 42 min
The team searches for 18-year-old Brandon Parker only to learn that 15-year-old Matt Jameson had stolen his former teammate's identity in order to get a job to support his three younger siblings after his mother had taken off. They manage to connect Matt to an old friend from a former foster home, Casey Miller, and soon realise that Matt has gotten in over his head while trying to keep his younger sisters and brother together. Sam starts to get suspicious of Martin's behavior and confronts him on his drug addiction. She goes to Danny looking for help, but Danny is reluctant to get involved in Martin's problems.
Directing: Chad Lowe · Starring: Will Rothhaar, Katy Selverstone, Kevin Alejandro, Steven Gilborn
4x19
4x19 Expectations
Apr 13, 2006 · 42 min
Megan Sullivan is H.I.V. positive, pregnant and missing. Initially the team suspects that her husband, who seemed to be less than thrilled about the baby, is involved, but soon learn that Megan had received a call from a prison, and their search tracks them to a former lover, who gave her H.I.V., her husband's former mistress, who had seen her taking part in a tense conversation not long before she vanished, and her own H.I.V. specialist, who had recently given her bad news. Martin thanks Danny for his help, and tells him that he is continuing to seek counseling for his addiction.
Directing: Rosemary Rodriguez · Starring: Heather McComb, David Newsom, Betty Buckley, Wendy Schenker
4x20
4x20 More Than This
Apr 20, 2006 · 42 min
After Breck Mulligan goes missing from the women's shelter he had been working at, the team is called in to investigate. Breck was originally assigned to work at the shelter as part of a his probation for drug related offences, but the plight of the women and children seeking help had gotten to him and he had continued to work for the shelter, even going so far as to sleep with rich older women to get donations to help the shelter. The team is surprised to learn how little faith Breck's family and friends had in him, discovering that his friends had staged in 'intervention' the night he went missing, trying to convince him to walk away from his new life.
Directing: Timothy Busfield · Starring: Gina Torres, Monica Keena, Perry King, Jossara Jinaro
4x21
4x21 Shattered
Apr 27, 2006 · 42 min
The team searches for a teenage figure skater who disappears after practice one day and discover that many people in her life had reason to worry. The team's investigation leads to the rink's operator, a convicted rapist who was the last to see the girl.
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc · Written by David H. Goodman · Starring: Katija Pevec, Ross Malinger, Tracey Needham, Suzanne Whang
4x22
4x22 Requiem
May 4, 2006 · 44 min
The team searches for Ted Jordano and his teenage children after the three turn up missing and their house is a veritable bloodbath.
Starring: Corri English, Bret Loehr, Karl Makinen, Jan Hoag
4x23
4x23 White Balance
May 11, 2006 · 43 min
Jack finds himself in the hotseat when a young white woman and a young black man, go missing on the same night and Jack is ordered to put more of the team's resources into finding the young woman.
Writer: Greg Walker · Starring: George Newbern, Lynn Whitfield, Scout Taylor-Compton, Kristin Herrera
4x24
4x24 Crossroads Season Finale
May 18, 2006 · 44 min
After attorney Jennifer Nichols disappears, the team investigates the last few days in her life and soon find that she had grown disillusioned with her most recent relationship with Allen Davis. Discussions with a married ex-lover reveal that Nichols had recently gone through an old case file relating to a ten-year-old bank robbery, which has a connection to her recent relationship. Jack and Ann avoid discussing a recent development in their relationship -- her pregnancy.
Directing: Jeannot Szwarc · Writer: David Amann · Starring: Jason Priestley, Brian Howe, Natalie Zea, Joshua Gomez