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List Price: $59.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 4606
Released: March 13, 2007 |
| Our Price: $17.25 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
WITHOUT A TRACE is a fast-paced procedural drama about the Missing Persons Squad of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The sole responsibility of the special task force is to find missing persons by applying advanced psychological profiling techniques. The team reconstructs a "Day of Disappearance" timeline that details every minute of the 24 hours prior to the disappearance, following one simple rule: learn who the victim is in order to learn where the victim is.
Description of Without a Trace - The Complete Second Season:
"You can't save everyone, Jack," a child molester taunts FBI Agent Jack Malone before hurling himself out a window. But the tireless efforts of Malone (Anthony LaPaglia in his Golden Globe-winning role) and the members of the elite Missing Persons Squad to do just that are what make Without a Trace so compelling. Each episode is a race against time to find a person who has mysteriously vanished (their slow fade from the screen has lost none of its unsettling power). In some of this sophomore season's most gripping cases, people and events are not what they seem. In "Confidence," the task force discovers that a missing wealthy socialite has a seriously shady past and keeps "bad company." The past haunts the present in "Risen," in which Vivian (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) gets a new lead on a four-year-old case (Kirstie Alley is excellent as the missing girl's distraught mother), and in "Copycat," a sociopath with a grudge against Jack (see "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been" from the first season) is involved in a disappearance with disturbing similarities to a 12-year-old case.
The procedural aspect of Without a Trace is fascinating as Jack and company employ advanced profiling techniques in their investigations. Over the course of the season, episodes also deftly flesh out the characters. Samantha (Poppy Montgomery) struggles with the psychological repercussions of being shot in the season 1 cliffhanger. Taylor (Enrique Murciano) is revealed to have a brother who is in jail. Samantha, who had an affair with Jack, is drawn to Martin (Eric Close). Jack learns that his father (Martin Landau in an Emmy Award-winning performance) has Alzheimer's. He also weighs a move to Chicago to save his rocky marriage. Fulfilling the promise of the auspicious first season, Without a Trace has established itself as among the best-written and -acted (not for nothing did the series earn a Best Casting for TV award from the Casting Society of America) hours on television. And without commercials to break the tension, it's an even more intense experience on DVD. --Donald Liebenson
Without a Trace - The Complete Second Season Reviews:
What a great show...can't wait for more seasons to be available 
2009-11-16 - I purchased this DVD for my mother who is house bound and watched a few with her. When she finished I took the DVD home and watched all the episodes. What a great show I never got around to watching when it was on TV. Now I can't wait to order all the other seasons when they become available. This was a slightly used DVD that I purchased but it was in excellent condition and came to us in the mail very quickly. Great Service...thanks so much.
didn't receive this DVD 
2009-06-24 - Seller sold out and I never received DVD. Seller was prompt at refunding my money
without a trace season 2
2009-02-27 - Entermedia Plus provided these disks. When contacted about returning them because they do not contain subtitles, and I have a hearing loss necessitating disks with subtitles, I was bombarded with offensive, rude e-mails and accused of criminal activity and told I wasn't a Christian, all because I had contacted Best Buy and was told the authentic disks do contain subtitles and their experience with Entermedia Plus was that they provided bootleg disks. I was not making any accusations, just passing along the information I had obtained and requesting a refund or exchange for materials I could use. Their escalated irate e-mails were scary and highly offensive.
Hooked on Without a Trace
2009-02-14 - I am hooked on Without a Trace. The actors and actresses make each episode believable and emotionally charged. I sat and watched episode after episode until I was done with the whole season.
One of the best shows on TV!
2009-01-08 - I don't watch a heck of a lot of primetime tv as I consider most of it so un-original, but this is one of best shows currently airing, along with "The Office" and the new "Battlestar" in my opinion. The premise is simple - at the beginning of each episode someone goes missing, and the FBI's (fictional) Missing Persons Unit searches for them, following the trail the various clues lead to. While the mystery is (generally) solved by episode's end, the show offers no guarantee of a happy ending.
The show has had some very compelling sometimes gut-wrenching storylines, and very strong acting (the American FBI unit is played by a combo Australian/British/American cast). The head of the unit is Jack Malone, a great character who often uses physcology and rough around-the-edges tactics in his questioning to arrive at the truth. Jack is also "on the edge," will not play politics with his superiors, and of course his personal life is often a mess.
Some eposides also offer a particularily "dark" tone, but still very intelligent storytelling. Standout episodes from season 2 include "The Bus" (episode 1), "Copycat" (episode 5) "Wannabe," (15) "Doppleganger,"(19) and "Two Families" (episode 21). Though each episode usually features a "stand-alone" plot, the show occasionally rewards regular viewers with a degree of continuity - occasionally a compelling storyline or "villian" re-appears in later episodes.
I agree with others that it's a shame that only through season 2 has been released on DVD - guess I just gotta keep setting the VCR for TNT.
