
"Without a Trace" is a fast-paced procedural drama about the Missing Persons Squad of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York City. The sole responsibility of the special task force is to find missing persons by applying advanced psychological profiling techniques to the evidence and decide whether the missing people have been abducted, murdered, committed suicide or simply run away. Members of the unit include supervisory agent Jack Malone (Anthony LaPaglia) and field agent Samantha "Sam" Spade (Poppy Montgomery).
An up-and-coming executive for a high-end clothing company is abducted after a rooftop party in Manhattan.
A white-collar criminal disappears while on his way to testify against a former associate, but the team's investigation leads them to believe there is more to the story.
The teenage son of a Secret Service agent disappears; a long-festering secret that set a deadly chain of events in motion is discovered.
The team is forced to drop one case for another when a child is abducted from a shopping mall.