Is 'Without A Trace' morphing into 'Profiler'?

There is something eerie going on with WAT. And the parallels to the psycho-catcher show Profiler (which ran from iirc 1995-99) are really getting to me. Does anyone else see any?

Last week they had the actor who played Jack Of All Trades (a serial murderer, mad genius, and stalker) in Profiler play a serial abductor on WAT, with the Profileresque interrogation room psycho bust-up to boot. This week they had the cast toy around with the name Jack Malone- actor Robert Davi's character's name in Profiler. They had Antonio LaPaglia's character stalked and psycho'd by a guy he put away many years before, including getting his daughter abducted- another straight lift from Ally Walker's character's story line in Profiler.

Poppy Montgomery is also looking blonder and more gaunt and 'haunted', plus ever more expensive pantssuits, much like Ally Walker's character ('Samantha Waters'/'Sam') got in Profiler. Maybe something which has to do with masking aging of the actresses, but curious. And Antonio LaPaglia is really getting that Robert Davi character resignation/fatalism and chic, also. The third main character in WAT, the black woman actress, also seems to me to be doing things that look ever more like Roma Maffia's and Erica Gimpel's in Profiler, too.

I may be wrong, but the photography and visual effects stuff on WAT seems to be getting snazzy like things were on P'r. WAT is an increasingly "dark" show, isn't it, too?

I just thought it was curious that WAT seems to be reaching back to story lines and style forms that seemed to have run their course in the late 90s. 'Profiler' clearly came out of the O.J. Simpson trial aftermath and it quickly homed in on reactionary, generally Southernish, generally white male, psychopaths getting taken out by a modern, smart, hard-yet-vulnerable, and attractive, woman. I am of course not sure that it is a strong trend, but it's a strange and sad social commentary on some kind of backsliding we've been doing as a society when a (tacitly) political motif in criminality that was in popular decline in 1998 and 1999 is apparently making a comeback.

I refused to watch Profiler because of the endless Jack of All Trades. I don't like "one-armed man" style shows.