Draft:List of Without a Trace characters

This is an overview of regular and recurring characters on the TV series Without a Trace.

Overview

Main cast

Actor	Character	Season
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Anthony LaPaglia	Jack Malone	Main
Poppy Montgomery	Samantha Spade	Main
Marianne Jean-Baptiste	Vivian Johnson	Main
Enrique Murciano	Danny Taylor	Main
Roselyn Sánchez	Elena Delgado				Main
Eric Close	Martin Fitzgerald	Main

Main characters

Jack Malone

Main article: Jack Malone (Without a Trace)

Samantha Spade

Main article: Samantha Spade

Vivian Johnson

Main article: Vivian Johnson

Danny Taylor

Danny Taylor
'Without a Trace' character
First appearance	"Pilot"
Last appearance	"Undertow"
Created by	Hank Steinberg
Portrayed by	Enrique Murciano
In-universe information
Gender	Male
Occupation	FBI agent
Family	Rafael "Rafi" Alvarez (brother) Sylvia Marquez (sister-in-law) Nicky Alvarez (nephew)
Spouse	Elena Delgado (Wife)
Children	Sophie Delgado (Stepdaughter)

Special Agent Danny Taylor (played by Enrique Murciano) is an FBI agent and a member of the FBI missing persons case squad in New York City.

Danny, who is Hispanic American and whose original name was Danny Alvarez, comes from a troubled background. His parents were killed in a car accident when he was a young boy. He blamed himself for the accident. Danny's father was yelling at his mother and Danny wanted him to stop. He began to misbehave in the backseat to distract his father's attention. His father turned around to yell at him and the car crashed. Danny and his brother were put in foster care, where Danny had a troubled youth. Eventually Danny straightened out his life and changed his surname to distance himself from his past. Due to this, Danny is frequently sympathetic to drug addicts, alcoholics and children with poor home situations.

Danny studied to become a lawyer, but was unable to pass the bar exam due to his alcoholism: he had a car accident on the morning of the exam. Nowadays Danny is a recovering alcoholic. In season four, Danny is the first to notice Martin's drug problem and is quick to suggest that he needs help. Danny introduced Martin to AA and started him on the road to recovery.

Danny has good relationships with his co-workers, frequently supporting them in their personal lives, as well as their professional ones. Danny respects Jack and is very loyal to him. He sees Jack as a father figure and often connects with Jack on a personal level, which no one else on the team, except Samantha, ever achieves. He often sees Vivian as the mother figure of the team. When Martin first joined the team, Danny had an adversarial relationship with Martin but they soon found that they worked well together. They have become close friends over the years. Danny is friendly with Samantha and they frequently enjoy a teasing relationship. When Sam became pregnant in the sixth season, Danny quickly purchased her a gift and showed his support.

In the fifth season, he started a relationship with fellow Agent Elena Delgado while she was working through some custody issues with her ex (also Danny's friend) over their daughter Sofie. Danny wants to get involved, which eventually leads to Sofie being kidnapped by Elena's ex, Carlos Aguilar. It appears that the relationship has since continued.

Danny has an older brother, Rafael "Rafi" Alvarez, played by actor Alex Fernandez, who protected him from their father's abuse. Rafi became a drug addict and small-time criminal and was sentenced to prison. Danny didn't want anything to do with him until Sylvia Marquez, Rafi's girlfriend and mother of his son Nicky, came looking for him and Danny finally agreed to testify on his behalf in his parole hearing. Rafi got parole and started working in Sylvia's brother's garage, but ran into trouble again when he tried to start a garage of his own. In the episode 21 of season 3 Off the tracks Sylvia called Danny when Rafi disappeared, and he discovered his brother had gotten addicted to drugs again. Danny was able to find him and they reconciled. In season seven we learn that Danny has continued seeing Agent Delgado and spending time with her daughter Sofi. On the anniversary of the day he said "I love you" he gave her a gold necklace, and they decided to take their relationship public at work when Jack Malone saw them kissing (7x07). Later in the final season, Danny and Elena get married.

Elena Delgado

Elena Delgado
Without a Trace character
First appearance	"From The Ashes"
Last appearance	"Undertow"
Created by	Hank Steinberg
Portrayed by	Roselyn Sánchez
In-universe information
Gender	Female
Occupation	FBI agent
Spouse	Carlos Aguilar (ex-boyfriend/father of Sofia) Danny Taylor (husband)
Children	Sofia Delgado (with Carlos)

Special Agent Elena Delgado (portrayed by Roselyn Sánchez) is the newest member of the Missing Persons Unit.

It is implied that Elena comes from a Hispanic immigrant family as she speaks with an accent and is fluent in Spanish. When she first joined the team, she was already separated from her ex-boyfriend Carlos Aguilar and raises their daughter Sofia on her own. In the episode "Honor Bound", she reveals that she spent much of her adolescence rebelling against her traditionalist family, which provides some useful insight into the case.

Elena joined the team during the third episode of Season 4 as Jack's team was stretched to its limit. She was previously an experienced NYPD officer prior to joining the FBI. Her working relationship with supervisor Jack Malone starts off rather coldly as she had been hoping to be transferred to White Collar Crimes but was sent to Missing Persons instead. She soon catches the attention of Danny Taylor, who happened to be acquainted with her estranged ex-boyfriend Carlos. While in the midst of an ongoing custody battle for their daughter Sofia, Elena is kidnapped by Carlos and was later rescued. She continued dating Danny after the incident. They marry at the end of Season 7.

Martin Fitzgerald

Main article: Martin Fitzgerald (Without a Trace)

Recurring characters

Friends & Family

Maria Malone

Maria Malone (portrayed by Talia Balsam) is the ex wife of Jack Malone. Together they have two daughters, Hannah and Kate Malone. She's a lawyer. She left Jack because he had an affair with his subordinate Samantha Spade. She left for Chicago and obtain the full custody of her two daughters after a custody battle with Jack. Even if she want to have the full custody of her daughter, she still want Jack to be a part of their lives.

In 2010, her eldest daughter, Hannah, began to behave badly and Maria no longer knew how to do it decided to send her back to live with her father.

Hanna Malone

Hanna Malone (portrayed by Vanessa Marano) is the eldest daughter of Jack Malone and Maria Malone. She's 16 in season 7.

She was 8 in season 1. She loves her parents but doesn't accept their divorce. She moved to Chicago with her mother and little sister Kate after the divorce. She comes back at age 16 because she got into trouble while in Chicago. According to Jack, she got caught smoking marijuana and has a boyfriend who is bad for her. She comes to live with her father in New York for a fresh start. They have a difficult relationship at first start, but they eventually accept each other after Jack helps Hannah for find her missing boyfriend Shay.

Kate Malone

Kate Malone (portrayed by Laura Marano) is Jack and Maria Malone’s second daughter and Hannah's sister. She is two years younger than Hannah.

Frank Malone

Francis Samuel "Frank" Malone (portrayed by Martin Landau) was the father of Jack Malone. He lost his wife in 1979 after she committed suicide. His relationship with his son was very complicated because of this. He eventually died of Alzheimer Disease in season 4.

Brian Donovan

Brian Donovan (portrayed by Adam Kaufman) is the boyfriend of Samantha Spade and the father of her son Finn Spade.

FBI members

James Mackeroy

James Mackeroy (portrayed by Joshua Gomez) is a member of the FBI tech division.

Anne Cassidy

Anne Cassidy (portrayed by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) is the widow of fellow late agent Max Cassidy. She started a relationship with Jack in the fourth season. Soon after they started dating, she got pregnant, which was an unpleasant surprise to both of them. With her unexpected pregnancy a couple weeks later she lost the baby, but they still remained together until her departure in "Fade-Away".

Others

Sadik Marku

Sadik Marku (portrayed by Mark Pellegrino) is the ring leader of a Mafia gang.

In "Requiem", three members of the Jordano family went missing and the FBI searched for them. They learned that Ioannis "Johnny" Patani was a loan shark trying to get money back from them, and his hits ended up getting put out. This included a boy who witnessed a murder. The FBI traced Johnny back to his boss, Sadik. Jack approached the duo on suspicion that Sadik may know where the missing Jordanos are, though Sadik refused to say anything even if he knew. When Jack accuses him of putting out the hits, Sadik brushes him off, noting how they're having this conversation due to a lack of evidence. He told Jack that accidents happen and Jack was giving him too much credit. After the case was solved without any obvious links to Sadik, Jack still confronted Sadik. Jack promised to get him in the end and Sadik promptly spit in his face. Jack retaliated by beating Sadik to the ground and ordering him at gun point to leave the Jordanos alone.

In "The Damage Done", Sadik's girlfriend and son went missing. Jack Malone was initially more concerned with settling an old score with Sadik, He put Sadik in the interrogation room on false charges of gun possession so Sadik would answer questions, believing he wouldn't say anything in front of his gang. Sadik told Jack that he left the Jordanos alone and Jack shouldn't mess up the case by focusing on him, though Jack insisted he was treating Sadik as he would any other person. The FBI investigated Sadik's gang members and known enemies. Sadik swears he did nothing to his own son, but Jack isn't entirely convinced. When Sadik's girlfriend Julia shows up badly beaten, Julia refuses to see Sadik. Jack informs Sadik that his son is still with the kidnapper. When Sadik left the interrogation room, he hunted down prime suspects and one of them ended up in the hospital. Sadik was brought in again and questioned for any possible suspects.

Jack came to suspect Frankie Lamaj, though Sadik was confident Frankie wouldn't betray him. Frankie was proven to have sold two passports to Sadik's wife Odeta, leading the FBI to suspect Odeta had her stepson Petros. However, the FBI found loopholes in Julia and Odeta's stories, and Jack realizes Julia is the culprit. Julia confesses that she was intending to leave Sadik with their son and packed a gun for protection. She looked away for a second and Petros accidentally shot himself. She staged the disappearance to cover up the crime. Jack later went to inform Sadik, insisting that his son's death was an accident. Accepting his son's fate, Sadik looked away and shed tears in mourning.

References

Without a Trace characters Category:Television characters introduced in 2002