Episode
Without a Trace: Penitence
Overview
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 a member of the Aryan gang would escape with a black prisoner. While Martin and Viv talk to the other prisoners and Jack tries to wade his way through the sister's lies and half-truths where her brother is concerned, Danny focuses on a new prisoner who Mac had been protecting.
Details
- Series
- Without a Trace
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2005-01-13
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Penitence is Episode 12 in Season 3 of Without a Trace. It aired on 2005-01-13. The runtime is 44 min.
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