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The Best Episodes of Without a Trace Season 4

Every episode of Without a Trace Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Without a Trace Season 4!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 1 - Showdown
    7.8/10(178 votes)

    #1 - Showdown

    S4:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:David Amann

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  2. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 2 - Safe
    7.8/10(225 votes)

    #2 - Safe

    S4:E2

    The team searches for a missing teenager who was paranoid about his own personal safety and left an ominous message behind.

    Director:Jeannot Szwarc
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 3 - From the Ashes
    7.3/10(172 votes)

    #3 - From the Ashes

    S4:E3

    The team adds a new member who already as a connection to one of the team as they search for a missing prostitute.

    Director:Timothy Busfield
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 4 - Lost Time
    7.5/10(184 votes)

    #4 - Lost Time

    S4:E4

    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.

    Director:Martha Mitchell
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 5 - Honor Bound
    6.9/10(179 votes)

    #5 - Honor Bound

    S4:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 6 - Viuda Negra
    7.4/10(190 votes)

    #6 - Viuda Negra

    S4:E6

    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.

    Director:Paul McCrane
    Writer:Scott Williams

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  7. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 7 - The Innocents
    8.0/10(220 votes)

    #7 - The Innocents

    S4:E7

    The team worries about a grieving father who couldn't accept his daughter's death, especially after child pornography is found in his home.

    Director:Martha Mitchell
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 8 - A Day in the Life
    8.6/10(292 votes)

    #8 - A Day in the Life

    S4:E8

    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.

    Director:Jeannot Szwarc
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 9 - Freefall
    7.1/10(182 votes)

    #9 - Freefall

    S4:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 10 - When Darkness Falls
    7.2/10(189 votes)

    #10 - When Darkness Falls

    S4:E10

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 11 - Blood Out
    7.1/10(170 votes)

    #11 - Blood Out

    S4:E11

    The team investigates when a young paramedic with gang ties disappears. Jack and Ann bond over their recent losses.

    Directors:Eric Close, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 12 - Patient X
    6.8/10(162 votes)

    #12 - Patient X

    S4:E12

    After therapist Gina Hill disappears, the team investigates and initially suspects that one of her patients may be involved. After discussions with Gina's fiancé 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.

    Director:Timothy Busfield
    Writer:David Amann

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  13. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 13 - Rage
    7.4/10(185 votes)

    #13 - Rage

    S4:E13

    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.

    Directors:Eric Close, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Kate Woods
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 14 - Odds or Evens
    7.3/10(176 votes)

    #14 - Odds or Evens

    S4:E14

    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.

    Director:Martha Mitchell
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 15 - The Stranger
    7.4/10(178 votes)

    #15 - The Stranger

    S4:E15

    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.

    Directors:Eric Close, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 16 - The Little Things
    7.2/10(165 votes)

    #16 - The Little Things

    S4:E16

    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.

    Directors:Eric Close, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, John Polson
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 17 - Check Your Head
    8.0/10(288 votes)

    #17 - Check Your Head

    S4:E17

    The team tries to track down a reclusive columnist who hadn't left her apartment in months and was communicating with numerous prisoners.

    Director:Timothy Busfield
    Writer:Diego Gutierrez

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  18. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 18 - The Road Home
    7.6/10(185 votes)

    #18 - The Road Home

    S4:E18

    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.

    Director:Chad Lowe
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 19 - Expectations
    6.9/10(171 votes)

    #19 - Expectations

    S4:E19

    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.

    Director:Rosemary Rodriguez
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 20 - More Than This
    7.3/10(169 votes)

    #20 - More Than This

    S4:E20

    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.

    Director:Timothy Busfield
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 21 - Shattered
    7.0/10(187 votes)

    #21 - Shattered

    S4:E21

    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.

    Director:Jeannot Szwarc
    Writer:David H. Goodman

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  22. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 22 - Requiem
    7.4/10(185 votes)

    #22 - Requiem

    S4:E22

    The team searches for Ted Jordano and his teenage children after the three turn up missing and their house is a veritable bloodbath.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 23 - White Balance
    7.9/10(259 votes)

    #23 - White Balance

    S4:E23

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Greg Walker

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  24. Without a Trace Season 4 Episode 24 - Crossroads
    7.3/10(186 votes)

    #24 - Crossroads

    S4:E24

    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.

    Director:Jeannot Szwarc
    Writer:David Amann

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Showdown" is the best rated episode of "Without a Trace" season 4. It scored 7.8/10 based on 178 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by David Amann, it aired on 9/29/2005. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Safe".