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News anchors: CBS' new hit series "Without a Trace" takes an inside look at the FBI's missing persons unit. The series' actors receive special firearms and situational training at FBI headquarters in Los Angeles - where they learn what it takes to be a federal agent.

Mark Llewellyn: In the FBI, in the missing persons squad, which is part of the violent crimes program, there are a lot of different emotions that come to the surface. [part of a training simulation] Get your hands up! [gun fire]

Narrator: Meet Mark Llewellyn a 27-year veteran of the FBI.

ML: Whew (laughter)

(off camera): You haven't lost it.

ML: And that's part of the psychological training that agents go through in the beginning - to find out if they're really cut out for this type of position.

Narrator: Llewellyn's the guy who provides all the technical expertise to the CBS series "Without a Trace"

ML: As a consultant I'm able to read the scripts and I can give suggestions and they've been very good at adapting to those suggestions. Not only to make the FBI look good, but to make things look real.

Eric Close: [part of a training simulation] Drop the gun! Drop the gun!

Narrator: In fact, some of the show's stars like Eric Close like to come in for a little touch-up. And that means learning how to shoot a weapon.

Hugh Coleman: This is called a FATS simulator. It's a firearms training simulator.

Narrator: Hugh Coleman is in charge of firearms training for the Los Angeles division of the FBI.

HC: We don't shoot to kill, we don't shoot to wound - we shoot to stop the threat.

(Clip from Without A Trace)

Narrator: Close who plays FBI agent Martin Fitzgerald on the show was very impressed with what he saw.

EC: It's amazing to me that these guys put their lives on the line everyday, lterally. I can't imagine what it would be like, day in and day out on these cases and not always being successful.

EC: [part of a training simulation] FBI. Gun. [repeated gun fire] How many times did I get hit? (laughter)

HC: You had no misses so...

EC: Because I had you as a partner [?, unclear] (laughter)

HC: You can see your stats up there. You had five basically grazing shots but again the hits didn't stop him from running away.

Narrator: Llewellyn says the show is unique because it presents a side of the FBI people rarely see.

ML: They wanted this to be very realistic. They wanted the right wording, they wanted the right scenarios and they wanted the agents to perform in the right manner. And I think they've done that.

ML: (to EC) Nothing to it.

EC: Yeah, right.