{television} without a trace; season three (2004)

Under the leadership of senior FBI Agent Jack Malone (Anthony LaPaglia), a team of missing persons experts (including Oscar nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste) works to track down people who've vanished … without a trace. In the show's riveting third season, the squad tries to locate the winner of a reality show makeover, a nurse's aide with a checkered past and a blind girl who disappeared while on a camping trip.

ireviewnetflix.com rating: **** This is my second favorite currently airing crime drama, just behind Cold Case. Jerry Bruckheimer's hit continues to tell great stories in its third season and also scored some of it's highest numbers as far as ratings and viewers are concerned. While it started to delve even more deeply into the character's personal lives including a developing relationship between Poppy Montgomery and Eric Close's characters. However, the show went a little too far into the character's personal lives with an episode called "Malone v. Malone" in which Jack Malone attempts to gain custody of his two young daughters. This was, in my opinion, the slowest and most boring episode of the season and perhaps the series thus far. However, the rest of the episodes were solid mysteries that generally ended with a great twist. "Upstairs, Downstairs," "American Goddess," and the two-parter ""Nickel and Dimed," stand out as episodes that I really enjoyed this season.