Senior Agent Jack Malone, ein harter aber mitfühlender, erfahrener und scharfsinniger Profi, ist Leiter der speziellen FBI-Task Force in New York namens Missing Persons Squad, und er weiß allzu gut, dass es auf jede Sekunde ankommt, wenn jemand verschwindet. Die Aufgabe der Sondereinheit besteht darin, vermisste Personen unter Anwendung fortschrittlicher psychologischer Profiling-Techniken aufzufinden, indem die Lebensumstände des Opfers Schicht für Schicht freigelegt und ihre Aufenthaltsorte bestimmt werden, um somit herauszufinden, ob diese entführt wurden, untergetaucht sind, Selbstmord begangen haben oder einfach Opfer eines Unfalls geworden sind. Die Teammitglieder erstellen einen Zeitplan für den "Tag des Verschwindens" und rekonstruieren damit die letzten 24 Stunden vor dem Verschwinden. Sie widmen sich jedem noch so kleinen Detail im Leben des Opfers unter Befolgung einer einfachen Regel: Finde heraus, wer das Opfer ist, um herauszufinden wo das Opfer ist.
01
Die Söhne Afrikas
The four-year-old adopted son of a celebrity couple is kidnapped, and the team must determine if the reason has to deal with the parents' status or the boy's own Sudanese origin.
02
Säuberungsaktionen
The team considers if a father who cleans crime scenes for a living led to his disappearance with his daughter.
03
Ohne Hoffnung
The team searches for a missing mother who they believe may be searching for her son, who is also missing.
04
Altlasten
When a woman disappears after her boyfriend is killed by the police, the team suspects gang involvement. Later, Sam learns she's pregnant.
05
Angst
An office shooting forces a woman to disappear, possibly to hide a deep secret.
06
Jagdlust
(Crossover episode with CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Season 8 Episode 6.)
Malone's team joins forces with Gil Grissom, a CSI from Las Vegas, and his team as they track a serial killer with ties to New York.
07
Absalom
When a college student disappears after making racial remarks in a class, the team wonders if those may be directly connected to his disappearance.
08
Der Kämpfer
The disappearance of an ultimate fighter leads the team to investigate his background, where they learn the man had a number of enemies.
09
Eine falsche Bewegung
The team determines if an ex-con's past criminal activity caused her to disappear after visiting a prison inmate. Det. Mars and Agent Johnson also continue their investigation.
10
Das perfekte System
A child prodigy turned store Santa vanishes and the team wonders if he had criminal connections.
11
Das Leben der anderen
Malone and his team start off the new year investigating how a private investigator might have went missing.
12
Unter Beschuss
The team work on a case where a veterans-hospital worker vanishes and have two leads.
13
Leben oder Tod
Jack goes missing after taking a case into his own hands which soon becomes intertwined with a human trafficking prostitution case that Vivian is working on.
14
Neuanfang
While struggling to deal with the aftermath of Jack's accident, the team searches to find a teen heart transplant recipient, believing her disappearance might be connected to her donor. Samantha talks to Brian.
15
Déjà-vu
The team searches for a coma patient who had woken up after three years only to disappear.
16
Der Traum vom Geld
After the latest lottery winner goes missing, the team works to figure out why.
17
Schuldgefühle
A truck driver goes missing after saving a boy's life, and the team determines if that has anything to do with his disappearance. Meanwhile, Jack's mental health is examined by a psychiatrist.
18
Malone
Five people with an odd connection go missing from a coffee shop, and the team determines what the connection had to do with their disappearance. Meanwhile, Spade gets ready for the birth of her child.