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 THE new CBS cop show "Without A Trace" is about the FBI’s special task force (aren’t they all) that finds missing persons.
It’s up to this team of crack investigators to reconstruct the whole day of disappearance (DOD) in order to figure out whether the missing person has been abducted, murdered or simply ran away to join the circus. Heading up the special task force is Anthony LaPaglia - who, as always, is terrific - as Agent Jack Malone. (He looks as much like a Malone, however, as I look like an O’Reilly.) His team is made up of Samantha Spade (whose real life name, Poppy Montgomery, sounds made up too!), Vivian Johnson (Marianne Jean-Baptiste, a personal favorite), Danny Taylor (Enrique Murciano) and Martin Fitzgerald (Eric Close). Now, this is all good. Too bad the premise doesn’t feel real.
In the premiere episode, a 28-year-old female publishing executive (Arija Bareikis) has been missing just over a day. One clue that makes the feds realize she was "troubled" is that on the night she disappeared, she’d had dinner with an old friend at Carmine’s. "You don’t go to Carmine’s [with a man] unless it’s Valentine’s Day," says one of the crack investigators. Excuse me? They better investigate a little better. Carmine’s is famous as a family-style restaurant. If you did get taken there on Valentine’s Day, you’d know for sure the relationship was o-v-e-r. Didn’t anybody bother to come to New York for the facts ma’am, just the facts? Anyway, after using millions of dollars of FBI money trying to find the missing publishing exec, they discover what has happened to her. And not a moment too soon, either. It’s not what you expect. While the plot will keep you guessing and the acting is quite good (even if they have too many good looking people for one FBI field office), the set-up is kinda dopey. Seems more of a stretch than Pavarotti’s Speedo.
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For one thing, have you ever tried to get the local cops, let alone the FBI, to open an investigation within hours of discovering that an adult has gone missing? Good luck.
