How Many Episodes Of "In Plain Sight" Have You Seen?

During the course of her birthday, US Marshal Mary Shannon tries to find out how a mob hit-man's son under her protection in WITSEC became one of the victims in a double homicide.

Diamond thief, bigamist, and con-artist Teri Ranzino (aka Trudy Wainright, Tenley Bishop, Toni Denard, Tress Stevenson), is put into Witsec after stealing 10 million dollars in raw diamonds from her latest clueless husband/mark, getting arrested by the FBI, agreeing to divulge the whereabouts of 20 million dollars worth of illegal conflict diamonds, and giving up the identities of the men conspiring to sell them. After settling in to her new life, the now-Trenna Morris, finds a new rich man to marry, claims she really loves this one, and ropes Mary into being a bridesmaid. When the diamond smuggler, Ngwama Mubutu, sees her picture in the paper, however, "happily ever after" may not be in her future. Raphael proposes to Mary after being called up to the Majors, with disastrous results.

After setting her cheating, art thieving husband up for the F.B.I., Marci and Jay Allen (now Arnstein) are placed into WITSEC, because the art smugglers/fugitives Jay worked with, are still at-large. As retaliation for his wife's betrayal, and as part of his deal with the D.O.J., Jay insists on bring his mistress into the program as well. Unfortunately for him, after six months, he tries to turn over a new leaf by getting Mary to re-relocate his mistress, Kay, moments before she shows up drunk at an art show, exposing Jay's secret to his wife. Shortly afterwards, Jay is critically shot. This begs the question... who shot Jay Arnstein? The scorned wife? The jilted lover? The smugglers? Or could it be some new, unknown threat? While recovering from a sports injury, Raf is laid-up at Mary's where he and her adversarial sister, Brandi, get a chance to know each other better.

When teenager Iris McBride witnesses her boyfriend, Lawrence, being shot by a member of a violent Hispanic gang, she and her family must enter WITSEC to prevent retaliation for her planned ID and testimony. Iris's arrogant father, Dr. McBride, now Dr. Morris, goes ballistic, refusing to accept his forced circumstance, making life difficult for his family and the Marshal's alike. Fed up with his new lifestyle that he feels is beneath him, he tries to make his wife choose him, and their old life, over his daughter. Overhearing her Father's plan to leave the program, leaving her in it alone, but not hearing her Mother's refusal, Iris runs away. Lily, the "Morris's" youngest daughter divulges a secret she and Iris have been keeping about the shooting that changes everything. Brandi and Raph become closer.

Over a year earlier, Mary had a tryst with an ex-cop/witness from Chicago, who is now being accused of murdering a cop in Albuquerque...also a former officer from Chicago. Mary and Marshall work to prove his innocence.

Mary is abducted leaving a studio where her mother, Jinx, is auditioning for a musical, by blundering drug thugs who think she is Brandi, who really has stolen their drugs... twenty pounds of pure Meth. Brandi's New Jersey boyfriend, Chuck, is abducted by the thugs as well, after the drug dealers shoot and kill two F.B.I. agents in Chucks home, who had arrested him, and arranged to place him into WITSEC for his testimony about the drug ring. With precious few clues to go on, the Albuquerque P.D., the F.B.I., and the Inspectors for WITSEC forge a joint task-force to figure out who has kidnapped her, and hopefully rescue Mary from her abductors, before it's too late. Certain truths about Brandi are coming to light to the authorities.

Mary is placed on administrative leave pending the investigation of the FBI's raid on her house at the conclusion of the previous season. (The FBI unsuccessfully searched Mary's house for the drugs that her sister Brandi was holding for Brandi's boyfriend, Chuck.) While on leave, Mary's cases are given to Marshall, but Mary is allowed to work unofficially -- as Marshall's deputy -- when one of Mary's witnesses, who had been taken into the program 17 years earlier, dies under mysterious circumstances.

A woman with three children who tries to find a man who can take care of them, hooks up with a criminal. When the man is arrested and she agrees to testify against him, so she enters the Witness Protection Program under Mary's supervision. When she continues to get a man, her eldest son is tired of it and Mary offers to help him get emancipated.

A Jewish man from New York who, wanting to raise some money so that he and his wife could start a family, went into business with some Albanian criminals and used his father in law's business as a cover. But when the FBI assumed his father in law was the one associating with the Albanians and came to arrest him, he came forward. But his wife shunned him. He entered the Witness Protection Program and spent most of his time longing for his wife. One day he informs Mary that someone is following him. She learns that he was not sent by the Albanians but is a Rabbi from New York. The Rabbi was sent by his wife, who wants a divorce, so he has to sign something. He refuses to do it unless his wife tells him herself. So she comes to New Mexico and he learns something she's been keeping from him which makes him unwilling to give her what she wants.

Marshall is assigned to handle the case of Norman Baker, an engineer who designed a bridge that later collapsed. Baker testifies against Karl Hogeland, the head of the construction firm that built the bridge, but Hogeland and several relatives of those killed in the collapse still threaten Baker's safety. After a year in the WITSEC program, however, Baker continues to be obsessed with proving that the collapse wasn't his fault. In the meantime, Brandi continues to be pursued by Peter Alpert, whom she met while covering for her mother at AA.

Months after the investigation of Mary's kidnapping, and the FBI's unsuccessful raid seeking methamphetamine at Mary's house, the FBI arrests Brandi on drug charges stemming from that investigation. Wondering where the FBI got new information to bring the charges, Mary asks Stan's help to sweep her house for bugs, and they discover a device planted in one of the walls. Mary learns that the young woman who recently came to visit Jinx might be her half-sister - but suspects that that woman might actually have been part of an FBI ruse.

Jesus Moreno, a former lieutenant to a Miami crime boss, enters the WITSEC program after his wife is gunned down by his former employer's gunmen. Accompanying him into the program is his 18 year-old daughter Olivia, who also witnessed her mother's murder - and whose rebellious behavior creates regular conflict with her father. The plans for Moreno's upcoming testimony against his former boss are hobbled, however, when Olivia disappears on the eve of the trial. As Mary deals with the problems in the Moreno family, she is also confronted with a surprise visit by Rafael's mother from the Dominican Republic. She has made the trip to celebrate Mary and Rafael's engagement - even though Mary actually rejected Rafael's marriage proposal several months before.

A master counterfeiter goes into Witness Protection after she discovers her girlfriend and partner in crime cheating on her with one of her male business partners.

A special witness is brought to WITSEC - a woman from Latin America named Francesca Leandra, who barely escaped assassination in her home country because of her political activities. The State Department asks that WITSEC assign Mary to her full time, and Mary initially likes staying in the palatial home the government has found for her. But Francesca rebels against the opulent surroundings, and insists upon relocation to the most crime-ridden part of Albuquerque. This leads to a series of confrontations with the gang members in that part of town - and eventually, to Mary getting shot while trying to protect Francesca.

A break in threatens the security of the first witnesses Mary and Marshall handled together, prompting flash backs to the way Mary joined WitSec.

Mary and Marshall try to help FBI Agent Mike Faber convince his informant to enter WITSEC. Despite their best efforts, the informant refuses their protection and gets himself into a heap of trouble. After Mary, Marshall and Agent Faber save the informant from certain death, he and his family join Witsec. Meanwhile, Stan has to deal with an ex-boxer/witness suffering from pugilistic dementia.

When a hardened bank robber who's been in Witsec in prison for decades is finally paroled, it falls to Mary to help him acclimate to life on the outside and keep him from falling back into a life of crime. Meanwhile, when one of Mary's other witnesses becomes the victim of a revenge plot, Marshall steps in to help out -- only to find himself in a predicament when the witness prefers him to Mary.

The members of WITSEC join other U.S. Marshals to help with an annual roundup of fugitives. This poses a problem for Mary's regular partner, Marshall, who is joined for this exercise by his father, who is also a U.S. Marshal (though not involved in witness protection) and very much "old school" - including the high standard to which he holds his sometimes sensitive, intellectual son. Then things become complicated when Marshall believes he recognizes one of his protected witnesses fleeing from a scene where several fugitives are apprehended.

Mary is assigned to protect a witness named Judy Wagrowski, whose extraordinary mathematical abilities allowed her to keep all the financial records of a numbers racket in her head. That skill, however, is the result of her Asperger's Syndrome, which also makes it difficult for her to understand figures of speech or to keep the secrets necessary to remain a protected witness. Judy also has trouble breaking her ties with Larry Silvers, one of the suspects she will testify against, whom she regards as her only friend. At the same time, Marshall and Stan try to help a nurse secure the green card she was promised as part of her agreement to testify - meeting with puzzling resistance on the part of the INS.

Mary plays "stepmother" to a rebellious 16 year-old witness of a jewelry heist whose separated parents are too self-involved to deal with their teenaged daughter's issues. At a family reunion, Marshall suspects that a witness has sold out his brother. Brandi takes care of Scott after he is assaulted under mysterious circumstances.

Mary uses a thief to catch a thief when she asks a witness to consult on a crime in order to exonerate Brandi of grand theft auto.

When a Financial clerk sees a murder happen in front of him, he is forced to enter the program, but refuses to take down his friend's wife, who he is madly in love with. In Romeo and Juliet kind of love, these two star-crossed lovers will do anything to be together.

Mary's latest witness is a smooth-talking con man, who finds it impossible to leave behind his life of swindling other people even while in the witness protection program. But despite discovering that he has failed to leave his old ways behind, Mary is even more frustrated to learn that his inside connections to a major weapons trafficker make it impossible for the federal government to drop him from WITSEC -- and instead requires that she and Marshall go undercover with him to try to catch the weapons dealer.

Mary must help a terminally ill father heal a tarnished relationship with his distant children.

Mary gets a WITSEC two-fer, when a witness is forced to enter the program after being mistaken for his criminal younger brother. Not only must she protect the pair from their enemies, but also from each other.

Mary helps protect a guilt-ridden army veteran, while butting heads with his JAG attorney.

On the day of her sister's wedding, Mary is called in to testify at a secret grand jury but winds up having to protect her least favorite witness from hired mercenaries.

Mary brings the baby to work when she can't find anyone to take care of her. And things are hectic. One of her witnesses, Beth thinks that her landlord is out to get her. Marshall has to deal with a female inmate who's a racist who's being threatened by every minority in the prison. Mashall tries to tell her to tone down her attitude but she's proud of who she is. And Carlos calls Mary telling her he's having another of his visions. And Stan learns from the Assistant Director that someone is thinking of shutting down the New Mexico office. And she's willing to keep it open in exchange for his supporting her when she makes a move to be Director.

A man, who sells pharmaceuticals to doctors, witnesses one of his clients do something illegal so he testifies and enters WITSEC along with his family. His daughter who plays lacrosse is told she has to stop, because she was so good that they could be discovered and her whole family could be placed in jeopardy. A few months in, Mary and Marshall learn the man is seeing another woman and they learn that she's also his wife. She's allowed into WITSEC but she has to be told about her husband's other family and vice versa, and that's when things get messed up. And his daughter disappears.

After being on the run from the FBI for three decades, Mary's father is finally in custody, but he wants to make a deal to protect his family.

Mary is trying to figure out what to do with her father's remains. Jinx and Brandy, who is pregnant, show up. Jinx wants to have a memorial for Mary's father, but Mary wonders why; it's not like there are people who knew him fondly. And with Marshall and Abigail's wedding approaching, but Marshall is spending a lot of time with Mary, helping her. Abigail wants him to be honest about his feelings for Mary. So he tries to talk to Mary but she's very busy with what to do with her father and the memorial, and she has a new witness, a teen age model whom she expects to be prissy. But she's afraid and uncertain of what she's going to do, because for the last few years people have been telling her what to do. Marshall tries to talk to Mary at the memorial, but the lights go out and they go to the basement to fix the lights and they find something Mary's father left for her baby, which Mary doesn't want to accept. And the future of the New Mexico office is uncertain.