Without a Trace: Season 3
Without a Trace Season 3 continues the overarching saga across 23 episodes.
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Without a Trace Season 2.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Season overview
Without a Trace Season 3 continues the overarching saga across 23 episodes.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
In the Dark
Sep 23, 2004
The team searches for a recently blinded girl and her companion who disappeared during a camping trip. Vivian takes over as the supervisor, while Jack struggles to say goodbye to
Thou Shalt Not
Oct 7, 2004
The team search for a nurses' aide who who disappeared from a rural road while changing a flat tire, only to discover that she is actually a fugitive wanted for the bombing of an a
Light Years
Oct 14, 2004
This time, the team searches for a delusional appearing Sci-fi fanatic who disappeared from his appartment after ranting on about those ""out to get him"" (before peeling back the
Upstairs Downstairs
Oct 21, 2004
When a nanny, and the child she took care of, disappear from her employers' home after being fired by them, the team must determine if the nanny is a kidnapping victim, or a kidnap
American Goddess
Oct 28, 2004
The winner of a plastic surgery make-over T.V. show vanishes during a publicity event, which was all about her.
Nickel and Dimed (1)
Nov 4, 2004
A young mother disappears after leaving her three year old son with a babysitter.
Nickel and Dimed (2)
Nov 11, 2004
To find a missing young mother who was recruited as a drug mule, Samantha goes undercover to lure the drug trafficker who recruited the young woman.
Doppelgänger: Part 2
Nov 18, 2004
When a homeless woman disappears from a shelter, the team is forced to re-examine the case of twin brothers Greg and Rick Knowles. Five months earlier (Doppelganger), Greg Knowles
Trials
Nov 25, 2004
When a juror disappears, the initial belief is that his disappearance is connected to the trial that is being covered, where a young man named Terrell Brooks has accused of murderi
Malone v. Malone
Dec 9, 2004
Things with Jack and Maria's divorce are getting nastier as Maria's attorney forces Jack to relive not only his childhood traumas, but also throw his affair with Sam in his face an
4.0
Jan 6, 2005
Tara Patterson disappears from a bus stop on her way to an S.A.T. prep course, and the team is called in to investigate the disappearance of the 4.0 student. While investigating, t
Penitence
Jan 13, 2005
When Mac, a prisoner only two weeks from parole, disappears during a fight in the yard along with another prisoner, his sister contacts the FBI for help. No one can figure out why
Volcano
Feb 3, 2005
When Ian Norville disappears on a field trip to a museum in Manhattan, the team gets involved, but it isn't long before Jack turns his suspicion to his father, Daniel, who soon adm
Neither Rain Nor Sleet
Feb 10, 2005
After postal worker Rosie Diaz goes missing during what seemed to be a regular workday, the team initially connects her disappearance to her cargo, which include $12,000 worth of t
Party Girl
Feb 17, 2005
When a spoiled heiress in her early twenties is kidnapped, the team has to work against the clock to save Chelsea, who is being featured on a website giving fans the option to choo
Manhunt
Feb 24, 2005
Martin is swamped with guilt after a young boy is kidnapped shortly after he jogs by. The team tries to reassure Martin that his presence was a help rather than a hindrance as they
Lone Star
Mar 10, 2005
Lance Hamilton is a successful real estate agent in his early thirties who disappears one day after showing a house. When the team gets involved, they soon realise that Lance had m
Transitions
Mar 31, 2005
When Stephanie Healy doesn't show up for choir practice, the team heads in to investigate and soon learns Stephanie had recently had a fight with her boyfriend. While speaking with
Second Sight
Apr 14, 2005
After a young woman named Agnes Deschamps goes missing, the team takes a look into her disappearance and learns that the young woman was believed to be a psychic. Sam has trouble a
The Bogie Man
May 4, 2005
Seven years ago, a thirteen-year-old girl named Amber Bryce went missing, and suspicion fell on her boyfriend, then-seventeen-year-old Curtis Horne. When Daisy Thorpe, who had beco
Off the Tracks
May 5, 2005
Danny is skeptical when the pregnant girlfriend of his missing estranged brother, Rafael ""Rafi"" Alvarez, and mother of their 9-year-old son, tells him that Rafi has transformed h
John Michaels
May 12, 2005
John Michaels is a 71-year-old insurance investigator who went missing after last being seen getting into a car with two strange men. While investigating his disappearance, the tea
Endgame
May 19, 2005
Paige was last seen sneaking out of her office at the same time as an NYPD detective was asking her boss to direct him to Paige for a routine inquiry. To the team's surprise, the N