The seventh season premiere of Without a Trace kicks off with Agent Jack Malone demoted and feeling the loss of his power, Agent Samantha Spade back to work after giving birth to her baby and punching bad guys again. Yes, the Missing Persons Squad of the FBI is back!

We are also introduced to a new boss in the office -- Agent Clark Medina -- played by Steven Weber, who many of you may recognise as the man who played Jack Rudolph in the short lived and ill-fated Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. He initially comes across as irritating and constantly hangs around asking pointless questions, perhaps coming across as the "anti-Jack." He also pointedly ignores Jack Malone, as if he is making a point that he doesn't like him. This isn't lost on the others.

The one to go missing in this episode is a man called Ryan Mitchell. His daughter went missing several years previously and he has never managed to get over it. He keeps looking for her, convinced that she is alive and still out there. His wife wants to move on with her life while he wants to keep searching. While angrily confronting a man in the street, he disappears.

As the team looks into his disappearance, they find out that Mitchell was helping another couple come to terms with the disappearance of their son and also help look for him. This leads them to a psychic who claims to have met Mitchell but is he telling the whole truth about the encounter?

I really liked this episode. For a start, there were a few confrontational scenes between Malone and Medina as they kind of sized one another up and took swipes at each other. It was a case of who was going to take the biggest bite out of the other one? Medina is clearly trying to assert his authority over Malone but you can clearly see that Malone doesn't care and that ultimately he will do whatever he wants and that there is potential there for a future showdown.

The episode is also a bit of a weepie because it had a nice ending. A lot of the episodes in season 6 had pretty bad endings which I didn't like. But this episode had a really nice ending, a kind of "awwww" ending. Those are the endings that I like the best!

I think Jack is also sending a message to his boss that he will continue to do things his own way and that ultimately, although a person may not be under duress, sometimes it's good to still pursue a case and bring someone in. You could see on Medina's face that he got the message - and that he didn't appreciate it.