| | | | Part 1 The Disappearance |
| 1 | | | Day 1: White Chucks, Size 10 1/2 |
| | Rayquan | McMillian | The best American violinist. aka: Ray. |
| | Nicole | Sellins | Ray McMillian's girlfriend. |
| | Pyotr Ilyich | Tchaikovsky | A Russian composer. |
| | Janice | Stevens | Ray's violin's teacher. |
| | Ben | Amundsen | Janice's good friend. |
| | Chuck | Taylor | American basketball player. |
| 2 | | | Day 1: Darkness |
| | Mike | | The doorman. |
| | Rochelle | | Ray's aunt. |
| | Nora | Marks | Ray's grandmother. |
| | Bill | Soames | The head of the FBI's art crime unit. |
| | Mischa | Rowland | One of the top Italian violin experts. |
| 3 | | | Day 2: Temporary Solution |
| | Anderson | Cooper | American broadcaster. |
| | Thurston | | Ray's uncle. |
| | Kim | Wach | Ray's lawyer. |
| | Ralph | Vaughan | A composer. |
| | Tommy | Reed | The Benson Insurance Company representative. |
| | Alicia | Childress | A private art detective. |
| 4 | | | Days 3-4: Alicia |
| | Pilar | Jimenez | A hotel housekeeper. |
| | Dante | Marks | One of the members of Marks family. |
| | Joyce | | Ray's aunt. |
| 5 | | | Day 17: Mom |
| | Larry | | Ray's uncle. |
| | | | Part 2: The Joy of Family 6 Years Ago |
| 6 | | | The Wedding October |
| | Hilary | Hahn | American violinist. |
| | Cheryl | | Ray's mother's acquaintance. |
| | Ricky | | Cheryl's son. |
| | Aiden | | Ray's buddy. |
| | Chad | Horner | One of the violinist. |
| | Roger | | Sara's father. |
| | Melanie | | Sara's friend. |
| | Mike | | One of Roger's guests. |
| | Ellie | | One of Roger's guests. |
| | Anne | | Roger's acquaintance. |
| | Beth | Lamb | One of the band members playing viola. |
| | Christine | Long | One of the band members playing cello. |
| | James | Sinclaire | The groom. |
| | Sara | | The bride. |
| | Mark | Jennings | Ray's rival. |
| | Gary | Stinson | Ray's orchestra instructor. |
| | James | Baldwin | American writer. |
| | Langston | Hughes | American poet. |
| | Toni | Morrison | American novelist. |
| | Alice | Walker | American novelist. |
| 7 | | | Grandma Nora November |
| | Barbra | Streissand | American singer. |
| | Leon | Marks | Ray's grandmother's grandfather. |
| 8 | | | Holidays Excavations December |
| | Eric | | A clerk. |
| | Bob | Evans | American film producer. |
| 9 | | | Opportunity January |
| | Whoopi | Goldberg | American actress, comedian, author and television personality. |
| | Shawn | | One of the students to participate for the regional concert. |
| | Janelle | | One of the students to participate for the regional concert. |
| | Jenny | Carlson | The first violinist. |
| | | | Part 3 Treasure |
| 10 | | | Janice 14 Months Ago |
| | Dorothy | DeLay | One of a handful black kids to go to summer music camps. |
| | Julie | Asher | Ray's competitor. |
| | Professor | Harris | A teacher in music history and piano. |
| | Van | Cliburn | American pianist. |
| | Jacob | Fisher | Owner of a musical instrument store and repair shop. |
| | Nigel | Kennedy | An English violinist. |
| | Eugene | Lahman | One who made exquisite violin and stringed instruments. |
| 11 | | | Grandma Nora 3 Years Ago |
| | Annabeth | Wines | Leon's wife. |
| 12 | | | Authentication 14 Months Ago |
| | Alexa | Thompson | A Social Media Manager. |
| | Lil | Wayne | American rapper. |
| | Antonio | Stradivari | An Italian luthier. |
| 13 | | | New York City 13 Months Ago |
| | Neil | Armstrong | American astronaut. |
| | Kara | | Ray's new acquaintance. |
| | Suzanne | Herz | Markham University President. |
| | | | Part 4 Music Making |
| 14 | | | Debut 11 Months Ago |
| | Max | Bruch | A German composer. |
| | James | Meader | Janice's acquaintance. |
| | Thomas | Marks | The great great great grandfather of the Marks' clan. |
| | Andrea | Marks | Thomas Marks' great great great granddaughter. |
| 15 | | | Performance 10 Months Ago |
| | Jessica | Deitcher | A self-proclaimed musical prodigy. |
| | Henry | Mason | The conductor from the Wake Forest University Orchestra. |
| | Bryce | Webster | One of the students who joined the competition. |
| | Ms. | Lakeland | Bryce's accompanist. |
| | Sheila | Wallace | The festival director. |
| 16 | | | Family Visit 8 Months Ago |
| | Holly | Marks | A violinist. |
| | Edith | Marks | Thomas Marks' wife. |
| | Adeline | | Edith Marks' daughter. |
| 17 | | | Birdland 8 Months Ago |
| | Stephane | Grappelli | A French-Italian Jazz violinist. |
| | LeShawnah | | Thurston's girlfriend. |
| | Samuel Coleridge | Taylor | A British composer. |
| | William Grant | Still | An American composer. |
| | Ludwig van | Beethoven | A German composer. |
| | George | Gershwin | An American pianist. |
| | Johann S. | Bach | A German composer. |
| | Arcangelo | Corelli | An Italian violinist and composer. |
| | Wolfgang A. | Mozart | An Austrian composer of the Classical period. |
| | Felix | Mendelssohn | A German composer, pianist, organist and conductor. |
| | Johannes | Brahms | A German composer, pianist, organist and conductor. |
| | Lucas | Debargue | A French pianist. |
| | Kristoff van | Cordan | A German musical prodigy. |
| 18 | | | Demands 7 Months Ago |
| | Joseph | Meyerhoff | American businessman. |
| | Lobella | Marks | Thomas Marks' wife. |
| | Albert | Bonavincenzo | Marks' lawyer. |
| 19 | | | Baton Rouge 6 Months Ago |
| | Ezra | Bocquet | A police officer. |
| | Ray | Charles | American singer-songwriter. |
| | Monica | DeLongue | Dean of music at LSU. |
| | | | Part 5 Starstruck |
| 20 | | | Nicole 6 Months Ago |
| | Riccardo | Muti | An Italian conductor. |
| | Kevin | Fiore | An orchestra's conductor. |
| | Jascha | Herfetz | An American violinist. |
| | Yehudi | Menuhin | An American violinist and conductor. |
| | Gil | Shaham | An American violinist. |
| | Itzhak | Perlman | Israeli-American violinist. |
| | Grace | | Ray's accompanist. |
| | Claud | Gillian | The executive artistic director. |
| | Kyle | Rasmussen | A musical artist. |
| | David | Talbot | An American journalist. |
| 22 | | | Boston 4 Months Ago |
| | Antonin | Dvořák | A Czech composer. |
| | Billy | Badass | A rapper. |
| 23 | | | Settlement 4 Months Ago |
| | Gene | | One of Ray's distant cousins. |
| | Rita | | One of Ray's distant cousins. |
| | Stevie | Wonder | An American singer-songwriter. |
| | Colin | Handzo | Lawyer of Ray's family. |
| 24 | | | Theft |
| | Maurice | Ravel | A French composer. |
| | Fritz | Kreisler | Austrian-American violinist. |
| | Niccolo | Paganini | Italian violinist. |
| | Rachel Vetter | Huang | A violinist. |
| | Leonid | Molchalin | One of the world's foremost Tchaikovsky's authorities. |
| | Adolph | Brodsky | A performer and a teacher. A Russian violinist. |
| | Ivan | Galamian | American-American musician. |
| | Isaac | Stern | American violinist. |
| | Gary | Broussard | A science writer for the New York Times. |
| | | | Part 6 Competition |
| 27 | | | Day 33: The Prequalifying Round |
| | Svettlana | Svottsolov | A participant in Tchaikovsky's competition. |
| | Mikhail | Lezenkov | A Serbian contestant. |
| | John | Lennon | An English singer-songwriter. |
| 28 | | | Day 36: First Round |
| | Mariamna | Gaevscaya | Ray's on-stage accompanist. |
| | Kwon | Jungho | A cellist. |
| | Dmitri | Shostakovich | A Russian composer. |
| 29 | | | Day 40: Second Round |
| | Pablo | de Sarasate | A Spanish violin virtuoso composer and conductor. |
| 30 | | | Day 42: Serbia |
| | Marie | Hodges | Alicia's alias. |
| | Adele | | An English singer-songwriter. |
| | Taylor | Swift | American singer-songwriter. |
| | | | Part 7: Breaking In |
| 33 | | | Opening The Envelope |
| | Big Jim | | The overseer at Marks' field. |
| | Charles | | A slave who played piano. |
| | Russel | | A slave who played the fiddle. |
| | Ezra | | One of the masters in Marks' field. |
| | Melachi | | Leon Marks' brother. |
| | William | | One of the slaves who played the fiddle. |
| | Betty | | One of the slaves who played the fiddle. |
| | Abraham | | One of the slaves who played the fiddle. |
| 35 | | | Day 56: Marcus Terry |
| | Tina | Reed | Nicole's best friend. |
| | Marcus | Terry | Nicole's boyfriend. |
| | Elizabeth | Sutton | The orchestra patron. |
| | Benjamin | | Elizabeth's husband. |
| | James | | One of Elizabeth's sons. |
| | William | | One of Elizabeth's sons. |
| 36 | | | Aftermath |
| | Caitlin | Landuyt | Editor of Vintage Books and anchor. |
| | | Kastenmeier | The judge. |
| | Joseph | Haydn | Austrian composer. |
| | Kelly | Hall | A professional violinist. |
| | Wynton | Marsalis | American trumpeter. |
| | Trombone | Shorty | American musician. |
