3. Light Years — Episode — Without a Trace

3. Light Years

While Jack must start to deal with his messy divorce from Maria, and the impact his affair with Samantha will have on his custody battle, the team begins to search for a missing x-ray technician who has long believed he was abducted by aliens as a child and has feared their return all his life.

Plot summary and ending

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Complete story — includes the ending

Teddy Cota, an x-ray technician with a fascination with extraterrestrials, goes missing. After speaking to members of Teddy's friends and family, the team learn that his alien obsession may have to do with events in his childhood that have been muddled. With Jack back in charge the team must decipher fact from fiction in order to track down Teddy before it's too late. Jack and Vivian have a heated argument while driving together, during which Jack is confronted with some very uncomfortable home truths.

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