Episode
Without a Trace: Tail Spin
Overview
The team tries to determine whether or not the recent disappearance of an air traffic controller has connections to the Middle East. The team soon learns that his wife died in an automobile accident and he was having an affair with her sister.
Details
- Series
- Without a Trace
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2007-01-07
- Runtime
- 42 min
Episode context
Tail Spin is Episode 12 in Season 5 of Without a Trace. It aired on 2007-01-07. The runtime is 42 min.
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Episode 11: Fade-Away
When 17-year-old Ted Soros goes missing after a basketball game, the team begins an investigation, soon learning that Ted was an emancipated minor who was living on his own to attend a school with an exemplary basketball program. Learning he had recently contacted his mother with a request for legal advice from an uncle, the team begins to suspect that Ted may have done something that he could face criminal charges for, and realise that Ted's secret is connected to a university recruiting party. While the team works Ted's disappearance, Jack learns from Ann that she lost the baby, and waits for her at the clinic while she seeks medical attention.
Episode 13: Eating Away
Barry Rosen goes missing shortly after being poisoned with bleach in a chili eating contest. While investigating Barry's disappearance, the team soon learns that he had been approached to throw the eating contest, and also that he had been spending a lot of time with a local prostitute in an effort to learn how to act around women. Danny is caught in the middle when Carlos asks him for a letter of reference in an upcoming custody review, and Elena informs him that Carlos is actually suing her for sole custody of Sofie. Danny warns Carlos that he is not going to be caught in the middle.
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Episode 14: Primed
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Episode 9: Watch Over Me
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Episode 15: Desert Springs
The team searches for missing water plant supervisor Jason Turner, and learn that he had become the target of a lot of anger after recent layoffs at the plant. Carlos comes to the office looking for Elena.
Episode 8: Win Today
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Episode 16: Without You
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Episode 7: All the Sinners, Saints
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Episode 17: Deep Water
A newly elected senator goes missing and Jack immediately turns his attention towards her husband.
Episode 6: The Calm Before
The team investigates when Aaron Gibbs ends up missing one night and soon learn that he had been lying to his wife about quitting his job, and had been working nights in a fight club. During the course of the investigation, Jack and the others learn that Aaron's disappearance was connected to events that took place during Hurricane Katrina, when Aaron was fighting to save his sons, and follow the trail of evidence, believing that the events of that night in New Orleans hold the key to finding the truth about the missing man.
Episode 18: Connections
The team searches for a fifteen-year-old girl who lived with her grandfather and was last seen at an Internet café. Sam gets an unexpected visit from her estranged sister.