CBS Thursday, 10:00 CBS grid | Thursday grid | Main debut Thursday, Sep 26: 10:00 producers Jerry Bruckheimer Jonathan Littman David Nutter Hank Steinberg stars Anthony LaPaglia (Murder One) Enrique Murciano Poppy Montgomery (Glory Days) Eric Close (Now and Again, Dark Skies) studio Jerry Bruckheimer Television Warner Bros. Television CBS Productions What I Say Just how many special divisions are at the Bureau? LaPaglia is a known face, Montgomery soon will be and they'll both be part of the team investigating missing persons. No surprise that this is from Bruckheimer -- and seems a little like a kissing cousin of "CSI." Nothin' wrong with that. My Analysis & Prediction Full season. It's got THE lead-in slot on the sked...it used be a slot where everything goes to die: opposite "ER." With "ER" graying around the temples, it's a two-horse race since "Primetime Thursday" (ABC) is essentially a non-factor. I don't expect "ER" to wither, but look for "Without A Trace" to chip enough out of County General to stick around. What They Say There are yet more crime-solving agencies left to exploit. This drama focuses on the Missing Persons Squad of the FBI who are charged with using advanced psychological profiling to locate missing persons, whether they were kidnapped, murdered, committed suicide or are missing by choice. Jack Malone (Anthony LaPaglia) heads a group of FBI investigators who specialize in finding missing people. link WITHOUT A TRACE is a fast-paced procedural drama about the Missing Persons Squad of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The sole responsibility of the special task force is to find missing persons by applying advanced psychological profiling techniques to peel back the layers of the victims' lives and trace their whereabouts in an effort to discover whether they have been abducted, been murdered, committed suicide or simply run away. The team reconstructs a "Day of Disappearance" timeline that details every minute of the 24 hours prior to the disappearance, following one simple rule: learn who the victim is in order to learn where the victim is. Senior agent Jack Malone (Anthony LaPaglia) heads the dedicated team that knows too well that every second counts when someone vanishes. His squad includes Samantha Spade (Poppy Montgomery), an agent who doesn't let her good looks get in the way of being tough; Vivian Johnson (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a no-nonsense investigator; Danny Taylor (Enrique Murciano), an intense and private agent; and Martin Fitzgerald (Eric Close), the newest member of the team, considered a lightweight by the squad because his only experience involves fighting white-collar crime. Layout, "What I Say" & "My Analysis" materials Copyright © 2002 letterten media TV Guide & Zap2It logos and data Copyright TV Guide Magazine Group & Tribune Media respectively. Network data Copyright listed network.