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Without a Trace: Cloudy With a Chance of Gettysburg

 

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Tuesday December 16, 2008

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A TV weatherman arrives at work bleeding from his side and the team tries to beat the clock to find out what that has to do with his disappearance.

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    In this episode of Without a Trace, the following happens. A TV weather man by the name of Ben Coleman goes missing. The last time he was seen, he had a cut on his side which started bleeding whilst he was still on air. The team soon learn that Ben recently broke up with his fiancé, and he has recently sent another woman flowers. We soon learn that the guy, who was with the girl when she received the flowers, is one of Ben's friends. Ben sent her the flowers on behalf of his friend. We soon learn that Ben recently met up with an old friend from High School. They went to a re-enactment and his friend accidentally stabbed him. The team soon track down a con man who Ben was tracking down. Ben went to see him and collapsed when he met the con man. The team are then led to where Ben is, and he is alive but barely.

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    As a television weatherman films his usual report, the camera crew notices that he is bleeding from his side. The weatherman disappears shortly thereafter. Jack and the team try to determine if the man's wound is related to his disappearance. hide show

    A sceond consecutive disappointmet for "Without a Trace." I found this episode to be very dull and uninteresting. Despite the fact that the weatherman admits he's a jackass, I had no sympathy for him. That being as it may, it's tough to route for him. When the cause of his disappearance was reaveled I wasn't surprised. After all, hints had been dropped about that throughout the episode. Plus the ending has been recycled countless times. Did anybody actually think he was not going to quit once that microphone was put in his hand? I hope things turn around in 2009.

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  • Goof: At the end of the episode, Jack fires a cannon, a shell whistling through the air is heard, and then hits a car off camera. It's unlikely that re-enactors of war would have a live round in any of their firearms. []
  • Original International Air Dates:
    Finland: February 6, 2009 on MTV3
    Czech Republic: March 11, 2009 on TV Nova
    Australia: October 28, 2009 on Channel 9
    Turkey: November 9, 2009 on CNBC-e []
  • Jack: Unless his bike has opposable thumbs, he lied about what happened to him.
    Sam: Well, maybe whoever cut him came back to finish the job.
    Jack: Just goes to show.
    Sam: What's that?
    Jack: Can't trust a guy in a bow tie. []
  • Dale Harmon: Missing? Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
    Sam: You know, normally we like a little more contrition in our suspects.
    Dale Harmon: Suspect?
    Sam: Yeah.
    Dale Harmon: I didn't do anything to that jackass. []
  • Dale Harmon: Grow some balls. Catch a bad guy.
    Ben Coleman: I'm the weatherman.
    Dale Harmon: For now. Eventually, you'll be the guy that somebody younger, less talented replaces. Until then, try not to suck. []
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  • Jack: Oh, man. Like being in a Salvador Dali painting.

    Jack refers to the man who was perhaps the 20th century's most famous surrealist artist. The eccentric Dalí painted works which were capable of figuratively bending time and space and literally distorting the senses, such as his most famous work, The Persistence of Memory (sometimes called Soft Watches or Melting Clocks). []
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