Without a Trace (season 6)

Without A Trace Season 6
Season 6, region 2 DVD cover
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	18
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	September 27, 2007 (2007-09-27) – May 15, 2008 (2008-05-15)
Home video release
DVD release date	Region 1: TBA Region 2: July 5, 2010 Region 4: TBA
Season chronology
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The sixth season of Without a Trace began airing in United States on September 27, 2007. Twelve episodes had been completed before the WGA Strike. A further six episodes were produced after the end of the strike, making this the shortest season of Without a Trace at 18 episodes.

This season included a cross-over with CSI: Crime Scene Investigation involving Jack and Gil Grissom tracking a serial killer from Las Vegas to New York.^[1] This established Without a Trace as part of the same fictional universe as the trilogy of CSI shows and Cold Case.

The sixth season of Without a Trace has not been released on dvd in region 1 but was released in region 2 in Germany on November 20, 2009^[2] on and in the UK on July 5, 2010.^[3]

Cast

• Anthony LaPaglia as FBI Missing Persons Unit Special Agent John Michael "Jack" Malone
• Poppy Montgomery as FBI Missing Persons Unit Special Agent Samantha "Sam" Spade
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste as FBI Missing Persons Unit Special Agent Vivian "Viv" Johnson
• Enrique Murciano as FBI Missing Persons Unit Special Agent Danny Taylor
• Roselyn Sanchez as FBI Missing Persons Unit Special Agent Elena Delgado
• Eric Close as FBI Missing Persons Unit Special Agent Martin Fitzgerald.

List of episodes

"Series #" refers to the episode's number in the overall series, whereas "Season #" refers to the episode's number in this particular season. The sixth season's episodes are altogether 735 minutes in length.^[4]

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
119	1	"Lost Boy"	John Polson	Byron Balasco, Greg Walker	September 27, 2007 (2007-09-27)	16.73[5]
Elijah Douglas, the four-year-old adopted son of a celebrity couple is kidnapped, and the team must determine if the reason has to deal with the parents' status or the boy's own Sudanese origin. They are soon lead to a man who was trying to extort the couple claiming to be the child's biological father.
120	2	"Clean Up"	Chris Long	Gwendolyn M. Parker	October 4, 2007 (2007-10-04)	14.20[6]
The team considers if Leo Cutler a father who cleans crime scenes for a living led to his disappearance with his daughter, Hannah. The case is linked to the daughter's possible sexual assault, and her self-esteem issues about being considered overweight.
121	3	"Res Ipsa"	Greg Walker	Greg Walker	October 11, 2007 (2007-10-11)	13.62[7]
The team looks into the disappearance of television reporter Christine Woods and learn that her disappearance is tied to her son's torture and death in a Guatemala prison. Jack is forced to bring in the CIA the help crack the case.
122	4	"Baggage"	Scott White	Diego Gutierrez, Jan Nash	October 25, 2007 (2007-10-25)	12.73[8]
Rhonda Brewer disappears after her boyfriend is killed in a police shooting. Agents believe the disappearance is connected to the girl's brother, a notorious gang leader who had a falling out with her. Later, Sam learns she is pregnant after a one night stand.
123	5	"Run"	Kate Woods	Jan Nash	November 1, 2007 (2007-11-01)	14.58[9]
Kelly Schmidt, later identified as Sue Carlton disappears after an office shooting, but the case is tied to a custody battle and accusations of molestation.
n/a	n/a	"Who and What" (Part 1)	Danny Cannon	Richard Catalani, Danny Cannon, Carol Mendelsohn, and Naren Shankar	November 8, 2007 (2007-11-08) (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode)	21.94[10]
Jack flies to Las Vegas to assist with a case being spearheaded by a team led by Catherine Willows and Gil Grissom of CSI Las Vegas. After a new crime surfaces in Las Vegas, Jack and Grissom are on the trail of a potential serial killer whom Jack investigated years earlier in New York.
124	6	"Where and Why" (Part 2)	Jonathan Kaplan	Jan Nash, Greg Walker	November 8, 2007 (2007-11-08) (CSI crossover)	21.68[10]
When a serial killer eludes capture in Nevada and escapes with his son to New York, Jack and the team pick up the trail with the help of CSI Las Vegas team leader Gil Grissom.
125	7	"Absalom"	Martha Mitchell	Jose Molina	November 15, 2007 (2007-11-15)	14.41[11]
When college student, Tom Sweeney disappears after making racial remarks in a class that are posted on the web, the team wonders if those may be directly connected to his disappearance. But the case reveals about the student's racial identity and his real father.
126	8	"Fight/Flight"	Jeannot Szwarc	David H. Goodman	November 22, 2007 (2007-11-22)	12.21[12]
The disappearance of ultimate fighter, Brett Hendricks leads the team to investigate his background, where they learn the man had a number of enemies and they also learn about his motivation to become a fighter after he was beat up in school and he was afraid he enjoyed the fighting too much. Sam tracks down her baby's father.
127	9	"One Wrong Move"	Jeff T. Thomas	Gwendolyn M. Parker, Diego Gutierrez	December 6, 2007 (2007-12-06)	12.68[13]
When single mother Lindsay Bynum goes missing, the team determines if the ex-con's past criminal activity (embezzlement) caused her to disappear after visiting a prison inmate. Agent Johnson gets a possible break in her case involving the kidnapping of a young woman in a sex trafficking case.
128	10	"Claus and Effect"	Bobby Roth	Alicia Kirk, David Amann	December 13, 2007 (2007-12-13)	15.15[14]
Glen Beckett, a child prodigy turned store Santa vanishes and the team wonders if he had criminal connections and they learn he is a brilliant mathematician who dropped out of college after having a crisis of conscience.
129	11	"4G"	Eric Close	Amanda Segel Marks	January 10, 2008 (2008-01-10)	13.83[15]
Malone and his team start off the new year investigating how private investigator, Scott Lucas might have gone missing and learn the investigator had a special bond with a teenager who had a terrible foster home life and the teenager tried to be like the PI.
130	12	"Article 32"	Martha Mitchell	Byron Balasco	January 17, 2008 (2008-01-17)	13.29[16]
The team works on a case where a female veterans-hospital who made the prosthetics for the injured souldiers disappears and the team learns she was involved in an anti-Iraq war group who is planning a huge explosion and she tried to back out of it after hearing the stories of the injured soldiers.
131	13	"Hard Reset"	John Polson	Jan Nash, David Amann, Greg Walker and Jose Molina	April 3, 2008 (2008-04-03)	15.20[17]
Jack goes missing after taking a case into his own hands which soon becomes intertwined with a human trafficking prostitution case that Vivian is working on.
132	14	"A Bend In the Road"	Jonathan Kaplan	Diego Gutierrez, Amanda Segel Marks	April 10, 2008 (2008-04-10)	14.49[18]
While struggling to deal with the aftermath of Jack's accident, the team searches to find Diana Reed, a teen heart transplant recipient, believing her disappearance might be connected to her donor and learn she was trying to find out as much about her donor as she could. Samantha talks to Brian.
133	15	"Deja Vu"	Chris Long	Byron Balasco, David Amann	April 24, 2008 (2008-04-24)	13.47[19]
The team searches for Jay McCann, a coma patient who had woken up after three years only to disappear and the team is lead to another missing persons case in which the person disappeared on the same night the patient lapsed into a coma. Jack leaves the hospital and searches for a girl he saved from sex traffickers and then kills her abductor.
134	16	"A Dollar and a Dream"	Martha Mitchell	David H. Goodman, David Mongan	May 1, 2008 (2008-05-01)	12.83[20]
After Lacey Moran, the latest lottery winner goes missing, the team looks at her friends, family, job, and the people she knew. Along the way the team becomes convinced that the lucky lottery winner wasn't so lucky after all and she might have stolen the ticket. Jack investigates Brian.
135	17	"Driven"	John Polson	Byron Balasco, Gwendolyn M. Parker	May 8, 2008 (2008-05-08)	14.67[21]
Connor Baynes, a man who recently saved a child from being hit from a bus, goes missing and the team is lead to an old house fire that claimed the lives of two people and the police suspected Baynes set the fire. Jack's mental health is evaluated by a psychiatrist (Linda Hunt) and when Sam confronts Brian about his past he discontinues everything to do with her or his baby.
136	18	"Satellites"	Jonathan Kaplan	Greg Walker, Jan Nash	May 15, 2008 (2008-05-15)	14.54[22]
When five pople with an odd connection all are abducted from a local coffee shop the team learns about an old case that involved child molestation by a counselor at a summer camp. Meanwhile, Sam gives birth and the department opens an inquiry on Jack and talks to his staff and demotes him because they feel he is unfit to lead the department.

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