Without a Trace (TV Series) Where and Why (2007) User Reviews

Should Have Been Better, But At Least Stoic 'Jack' Shows Some Emotion At End

[ccthemovieman-1 · 6/10 · 17 January 2009]

This "crossover" episode completes the story of "Terry Wicker," a bad man who has killed many and abducted his son twice! The first part was on CSI and is an early episode in Season Eight.

This was the first "Without A Trace" episode I've seen since watching the first season on DVD. I don't find the principal characters in this show to be people you get to care about. They are too detached, like their leader "Jack Malone." However, at the very ending of this episode, "Jack" shows a little emotion and a caring heart. I'm sure his character has that but too often, as in this episode and the one that preceded it on CSI, he seems way to distant. It looks like he and "Gil" could be good friends if they worked together, but this was a one-shot deal. It has to be since Petersen is through with CSI.

Speaking of emotions, I felt this "crossover" story should have been more than what it was. A few reviewers of the first-part on CSI seem to have the same opinion. A story of a guy who killing many people and has thing weird relationship with his small boy, should have been fascinating.....but it wasn't.

As mentioned, the only really excellent part was the last minute when it makes you feel sorry for law enforcement people, who see so much death and sorrow.

The End of a Serial-Killer

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 25 March 2023]

Terry Wicker flees from Las Vegas by bus, bringing his son Kobe. He leaves the bus on the road, pretending that Kobe is sick, and steals a car in a parking lot in Arizona. Grissom and Jack Malone notes that the boy was drugged by his father since there is a sleep medication on the ground. Then, the FBI team locates the car abandoned in Tucson nearby a railroad and Jack finds a buried skeleton of a child while Grissom returns to Las Vegas to process Gina's car. In New York, when the FBI brings Terry's sister Sylvia to be interviewed in the office, she tells the agents that the last time he saw her brother was six years ago. Meanwhile, Grissom discovers that the skull that Jack found belongs to Jason Taylor. Now Jack and his agents investigate Terry's past in New York to look for a clue to find the serial-killer.

"Where and Why" is a crossover with "CSI" episode (8.06) "Who and What", with the conclusion of the story and the end of the deranged serial-killer Terry Lee Wicker. The episode is focused in FBI Agent Jack Malone, his agents and Grissom that investigate the recent pattern shown by Terry to find him. The conclusion is very sad, with Jack Malone forced to give the heartbroken news about Jason Taylor to his parents. Only for reference, yesterday the news informed that at least eighty (80) children vanish in Rio de Janeiro every month. Sad reality of missing children in the present days in the world. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil) "Where and Why"