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Without a Trace Season 3 Episode 2

Thou Shalt Not

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AIRED: 10/7/04

The team search for a nurses' aide who who disappeared from a rural road while changing a flat tire, only to discover that she is actually a fugitive wanted for the bombing of an abortion clinic.

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Good case

7.0

By Parricida, Mar 09, 2009

One of those episodes where case is good and exciting and there is some really good emotions involved but on the other hand the other thing going on onscreen.. char storylines really make it feel horrible. I do not know what.. i really like when shows like this have concentration on char and so many ways I think it should do it more.. but they are not just working it out.. or.. I am not sure. All the emphases they try to put on chars comes in so cruel and not likable storylines that turns it a big mess. And the whole thing with Jack leaving and now staying - it feels so artificial, written, not natural.moreless
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Interesting plot twists and character development

9.5

By pikatopia, Sep 06, 2006

I enjoyed this episode, not because of the great plot - which it had, but because it very subtley arranged for viewers to get more character development. We see Jack trying to adjust to not being in charge - having his own ideas but obviously suppressing them. We also see Sam and Martin's relationship has deepened. Their scene at the clinic shined a little light on both of them. We hear Sam saying she has been pregnant before, though given the plot context, she could have simply been saying it to go along with the story. Martin cares for her so much - the hand on her back, the looks - they have amazing chemistry.

This episode dealt with touchy issues - abortion, bomb scares - but all the while keeping us in tune with the cast and characters. And the end scene with "let...go..." absolutely brought tears to my eyes. "And now standing in front of all of you, I feel proud. Proud of how much this clinic has accomlished and how far it's come - how far we've all come. But now it's time to let go - not of our beliefs, but of our anger and hatred. I'm a religious woman, I believe in God and my God tells me that I have to forgive those who sin against me. To whoever did this to me - I forgive you. I know you never meant to hurt me and that your wounds unlike mine are not healed. So I say to you today...let go. let go."moreless
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An episode with major and minor plots well-connected.

8.5

By Tguy, Aug 19, 2005

The major plot of this episode raises two interesting moral points, concerning abortion and redemption, the first being incidental to the second, as ‘Maureen Grady’ disappears after trying for two years to make up for bombing an abortion clinic by working as a nurse in a hospital’s burns unit. The guilt she feels, and the way she attempts to deal with it, is contrasted with her husband’s continued conviction that they did the right thing in the first place. Her death at the end of the episode is less interesting than her survival would have been.

The minor plot is also interesting, dealing with Jack’s need to return to his post in charge of the unit (because of the circumstances of his divorce) presenting him with a conflict as he wishes to be fair to Vivian, whom he believes to be capable of running the unit as his replacement.

The point of the episode, insofar as it has an easily reducable one, is that in life one is presented with choices which often are not easy or pleasant.

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Eric Close	Martin Fitzgerald
Poppy Montgomery	Samantha Spade
Anthony LaPaglia	Jack Malone
Enrique Murciano	Danny Taylor
Marianne Jean-Baptiste	Vivian Johnson

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Cast & Crew: RECURRING AND GUESTS

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Scott Haven	Earl Ridgeway	Guest Star
Jennie Fahn	Bomb Survivor	Guest Star
Kendra Danielle Smith	Receptionist	Guest Star
Eric Scott Gould	ND Agent #1	Recurring Role
Bill Smitrovich	Alexander Olczyk	Recurring Role

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TRIVIA (3)
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- Goof: In the last minutes of the episode when Maureen is shot, Samantha can be seen pressing down her right hand on the bleeding wound. After the flashback, she touches her forehead and strokes her hair back with same hand but there's no blood on her hand or face.
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- Goof: Vivian comments that "Jacob and Rebecca were married in the book of Genesis." This is not accurate. Genesis 25: 20-25 states that Rebecca was the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob.
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- Goof: Toward the end of the episode after she is shot and killed, there is a very clear shot of the pulse point in her neck pounding away When the camera moves away from her face.
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QUOTES (2)
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- Nathan Grady: No. The Lord has given us everything that we could want.
  Danny Taylor: Except a cell phone.
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- Sam: Who called in the report? Her husband?
  Danny: No, the cops when they found this car at 1:00 a.m.
  Sam: Highway in the middle of nowhere, woman driving alone, she gets a flat, it's dark, somebody stops ... I'd be scared and I'm an F.B.I. agent.
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NOTES (4)
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- Music:
  "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
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- This was one of three episodes for 2005 award considerations for Outstanding Drama Series for the Emmys.
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- Original Titles:
  "Thou Shalt Not" (original airing)
  "Thou Shalt Not... " (re-aired by the network)
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- This episode was dedicated to the memory of Without a Trace director Charlie Correll, who died of pancreatic cancer on June 4, 2004.
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ALLUSIONS (1)
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- Title: "Thou Shalt Not"
  
  The title of this episode is a reference to the Ten Commandments, many of which begin with the line [t]hou shalt not...
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