Review - Without a Trace : 22 x 42
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Mark O'Neill
I am a 30-something professional writer, blogger and editor. Originally from Scotland and now living the ex-pat life in Würzburg, Germany. I have been writing for over 20 years and have worked for newspapers and appeared on BBC television and radio. Now internet is the new medium and I am still feeling my way around. Manic depressive obsessive tea drinker, obsessive internet surfer with Monty Python-type sense of humour. Best taken in small doses. Consult your pharmacist before visiting. By Mark O'Neill
Published on 10/5/2008
As the seventh season of Without a Trace continues to look for missing people in the state of New York, Agent Spade enjoys being a mom, Agent Taylor enjoys cooing over the baby and Agent Malone finds himself suddenly in demand by Wall Street headhunters. But are those headhunters being directed towards him by his own boss - Agent Clark Medina?....
Will Jack be getting pushed out the door of the FBI for the private sector soon?
The case coming across the desks of the Missing Persons Squad this week is that of Sara Kent, a business executive whose company had just been bought out for millions of dollars. She was last seen leaving a party and getting into a taxi cab which was in actual fact stolen earlier and taken over by two armed robbers. She was dragged out of the cab screaming and was never seen again.
The team suddenly have several motives to consider. The first one is that she knew of several high ranking executives in her company who were having affairs and who stood to lose a lot of money if their wives found out and divorced them. Did they take out a contract on Sara Kent?
Then there's the alcoholic father who is heavily in debt to the Mob. Did the Mob abduct his daughter to force the father to pay up?
Plus let's not forget the fact that Sara's company has just been bought out for MILLIONS of dollars which would make Sara a very wealthy woman. Maybe someone got to hear about all that money and it's just a straight case of kidnapping and ransom? But where's the ransom demand?
But then it turns out that Sara and a friend were in a bar and a couple of aggressive guys didn't like the fact that Sara and friend spurned their advances. Maybe THEY had something to do with it? Or what about her boyfriend?
Is your head spinning yet?! ;-)
While the team work their way through the suspects, Jack gets approached by a Wall Street millionaire with a job offer. He's looking for someone to run his security and Jack is apparently the man to do it. Agent Medina even steps in and offers a reference. But Jack is mystified because Medina wasn't even on his reference list. So that begs the question. Was Medina the one that sent the headhunter to Jack's door? Is Medina the one pushing Jack out of the FBI?
This was a reasonably good episode but I have to say that Medina is starting to get annoying really fast and so is Jack to a certain degree. His normal forwardness and aggressiveness has kind of disappeared only to be replaced with a kind of puppy dog submissiveness. You are waiting for him to jump up and bark when all he does instead is whimper! Come on Jack! Bark at Medina! Send him back to Washington DC where he belongs and get back behind that desk!
The team suddenly have several motives to consider. The first one is that she knew of several high ranking executives in her company who were having affairs and who stood to lose a lot of money if their wives found out and divorced them. Did they take out a contract on Sara Kent?
Then there's the alcoholic father who is heavily in debt to the Mob. Did the Mob abduct his daughter to force the father to pay up?
Plus let's not forget the fact that Sara's company has just been bought out for MILLIONS of dollars which would make Sara a very wealthy woman. Maybe someone got to hear about all that money and it's just a straight case of kidnapping and ransom? But where's the ransom demand?
But then it turns out that Sara and a friend were in a bar and a couple of aggressive guys didn't like the fact that Sara and friend spurned their advances. Maybe THEY had something to do with it? Or what about her boyfriend?
Is your head spinning yet?! ;-)
While the team work their way through the suspects, Jack gets approached by a Wall Street millionaire with a job offer. He's looking for someone to run his security and Jack is apparently the man to do it. Agent Medina even steps in and offers a reference. But Jack is mystified because Medina wasn't even on his reference list. So that begs the question. Was Medina the one that sent the headhunter to Jack's door? Is Medina the one pushing Jack out of the FBI?
This was a reasonably good episode but I have to say that Medina is starting to get annoying really fast and so is Jack to a certain degree. His normal forwardness and aggressiveness has kind of disappeared only to be replaced with a kind of puppy dog submissiveness. You are waiting for him to jump up and bark when all he does instead is whimper! Come on Jack! Bark at Medina! Send him back to Washington DC where he belongs and get back behind that desk!