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About LIE TO ME & Episode Guides

About LIE TO ME & Episode Guides


Lie to Me Aired From January 21, 2009 - January 31, 2011 On FOX.



ABOUT THE SHOW:
DR. CAL LIGHTMAN can detect the truth by analyzing a person's face, body, voice and speech. When someone shrugs his shoulder, rotates his hand or raises his lower lip, Lightman knows he's lying. By analyzing facial expressions, he can read feelings - from hidden resentment to sexual attraction to jealousy. But as Lightman well knows, his scientific ability is both a blessing and a curse in his personal life, where family and friends deceive each other as readily as criminals and strangers do. Lightman is the world's leading deception expert, a scientist who studies facial expressions and involuntary body language to discover not only if you are lying but why.

From writer Samuel Baum and the executive producers of 24 and "Arrested Development" comes LIE TO ME, a compelling new drama series inspired by the scientific discoveries of Dr. Paul Ekman, a real-life specialist who can read clues embedded in the human face, body and voice to expose both the truth and lies in criminal investigations.

Lightman heads a team of experts at The Lightman Group who assist federal law enforcement, government agencies and local police with their most difficult cases. DR. GILLIAN FOSTER is a gifted psychologist and Lightman's professional partner who brings balance to the partnership by looking at the bigger picture while Lightman focuses on the details. He needs her guidance and insight into human behavior, whether he knows it or not. ELI LOKER is Lightman's lead researcher, who is so uncomfortable with the human tendency to lie that he's decided to practice what he calls "radical honesty." He says everything on his mind at all times and often pays the price. RIA TORRES is the newest member of the agency, and one of the few "naturals" in the field of deception detection. She has a raw, untrained ability to read people that makes her a force to be reckoned with.

CAST:

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Tim RothDr. Cal Lightman
Kelli WilliamsDr. Gillian Foster
Monica RaymundRia Torres
Brendan HinesEli Loker


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Season 1 Episode Guide



1. Pilot
Dr. Cal Lightman is the world's leading deception expert who studies facial expressions and involuntary body language to discover not only if someone is lying, but why. Lightman and his team of deception experts assist law enforcement and government agencies to expose the truth behind the lies.
The son of a family of devout Jehovah's Witnesses is accused of killing his teacher after being caught fleeing the scene of her murder. Meanwhile, the team is hired by the Democratic National Committee to investigate a second case in which the Chairman of the House Ethics Committee is accused of paying for sex.

2. Moral Waiver
When a female soldier accuses her commanding officer of sexual assault, Lightman is brought to Fort Meade to find out if there's any truth to the accusation. The woman is found to be covering for someone else. Lightman tricks the officer into admitting that he coerced sex with a cadet by threatening to give her the most dangerous assignment.
Meanwhile, Foster investigates whether a high-profile basketball recruit accepted bribes to play for a university.

3. A Perfect Score
The murder of a teenage girl who is the daughter of a powerful federal judge leads The Lightman Group to a highly competitive college-prep school where getting to the head of the class means everything. Lightman discovers that a fellow student killed her to protect her involvement in an SAT cheating scam.
Foster investigates a NASA test pilot accused of intentionally crashing a $250 million aircraft.

4. Love Always
A controversial South Korean ambassador is presumed to be an assassination target at his son's state wedding. The Lightman team is sent to prevent the murder. Yet the son is shot instead and Lightman exposes long-held family secrets and lies in order to identify the killer -- the jealous ex-husband of the son's wife who was using the potential threat at the lavish affair as a cover.

5. Unchained
Lightman and Torres team up to interrogate a notorious and imprisoned gang leader who claims to be rehabilitated. If the gang leader is freed on parole, he might help fight inner-city violence or return to his life of crime.
Foster and Loker investigate the death of a firefighter who was killed in the line of duty. He may have been murdered in a hazing prank gone wrong, but it is revealed that he violated a fireman's code by sleeping with the chief's niece.

6. Do No Harm
Lightman and Foster investigate the disappearance of an 11-year-old girl who may have been murdered. When she is eventually found, the girl refuses to reveal any information about the kidnapper. Lightman finds that she is protecting another victim that's currently being held by the same captor.
Meanwhile, Loker and Torres must determine whether a famous peace activist has lied about her meager upbringing and is who she claims to be in her bestselling memoir. This may jeopardize her global standing, but Loker's attraction to the socially conscious woman may be clouding his assessment of her.

7. The Best Policy
A good friend of Lightman's asks him to find out who stole confidential research from his pharmaceutical company. Lightman must weigh the loyalty to his friendship when he discovers a high-level conspiracy surrounding a new drug that could put thousands of lives at risk.
The team is also hired by the State Department to assist in negotiations for the release of two Americans imprisoned in Yemen.

8. Depraved Heart
Lightman becomes obsessed with finding a link between two young women who committed suicide. More is learned about what drove him to study micro-expressions: the death of his mother.
Foster and the team try to recover billions of dollars for investors in a teachers' union pension fund who were bilked by a Ponzi scheme.

9. Life is Priceless
Workers are trapped underneath a collapsed building in a small town outside Washington and everyone lies to cover their culpability. Lightman is brought in to determine who is at fault, and he discovers a massive cover-up.
The team is hired by an internet billionaire mogul who wants to see if his fiance's motives for marrying him are legitimate

10. Better Half
Assistant U.S. Attorney Zoe Landau -- Lightman's ex-wife and Emily's mother -- brings a case in. She wants Lightman to help investigate a serial arsonist case in which the only key eyewitness is a 5-year-old boy. While Zoe gives glimpses about what it's like being married to a human lie detector, it quickly becomes clear that she and Lightman still have feelings for each other.
Meanwhile, Foster and Torres are immersed in the world of rival rap groups when one rapper gets killed in a drive-by shooting.

11. Undercover
Lightman investigates a possible cover up by the police in the shooting of a potentially innocent teen. The case reveals to be bigger than it seems when the FBI is looking internally to root out a terror suspect within the DC police. Lightman must weigh whether to sacrifice an innocent kid for a potential national security risk.
Meanwhile, investors who were bilked by a Ponzi scheme are suing The Lightman Group for botching the recovery of their money.

12. Blinded
FBI Agent Ben Reynolds has been pursuing a serial rapist who is terrorizing the Washington area. He reluctantly partners with The Lightman Group to track down information from a convicted criminal who the rapist seems to be copy-catting. Lightman infiltrates a prison to befriend Andrew Jenkins, a pathological liar who seems to stump even the mighty Lightman. The serial rapist may be Jenkins' protege.
As Torres and Loker search Jenkins' fan mail, Foster questions one of the rapist's recent victims. Foster is attacked by the rapist, which leads the team to discover the unlikely culprit.
Lightman asks for a permanent police presence in the firm, meaning Agent Reynolds might be working with The Lightman Group again.


13. Sacrifice
Domestic terrorist bombings are occurring across the Washington, DC area sending everyone in a panic. FBI Agent Ben Reynolds calls on The Lightman Group to help identify those responsible and prevent more attacks. Lightman finds that the bombs were detonated remotely and that the bombers were set-up by someone else.
The case takes a personal turn for Torres when Dupree goes missing. Lightman decides to hide the news from Torres so she can remain focused on the big picture. Is honesty indeed the best policy?
Zoe helps Lightman with the investigation and both are concerned about their daughter's safety.

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Season 2 Episode Guide



1. The Core of It
A woman with multiple personalities comes to Lightman for help. The Lightman Group has to figure out is she either the killer or the witness to a murder. Meanwhile the Lightman Group is also hired to question a candidate to the Supreme Court.

2. Truth or Consequences
Zoe has the Lightman Group look into a college athlete accused of rape. Meanwhile, Foster and Loker head to a religious compound in order to determine whether or not it is actually a cult.

3. Control Factor
While Cal is on vacation in Mexico, he's brought in to help investigate the bizarre case of a missing woman. Meanwhile, the rest of the team deals with reports of contaminated blood.

4. Honey
The Lightman Group brings in Eric Matheson, a man accused of killing his wife, for questioning. To prove his innocence, Eric takes extreme measures, all while putting everyone in danger.

5. Grievous Bodily Harm
A blast from the past pulls Lightman into a dangerous game of cat and mouse testing his loyalty. The Lightman Group look into a death threat from a high school student.

6. Lack of Candor
When a government witness is murdered, the FBI hires The Lightman Group to determine who leaked the witness' whereabouts to the killers and to protect Agent Reynolds, the star witness in the case. When Reynolds refuses to testify in the case, Lightman and Foster learn he is hiding something in his past

7. Black Friday
A troubled teenager turns to the Lightman Group to help him dig up secrets of his past. Meanwhile, on the day after Thanksgiving Loker gets to investigate a deadly stampede at an electronics store.

8. Secret Santa
It's the Holidays and Lightman is asked to go to Afghanistan on a mission to retrieve two captured Marines, with the help of an American expatriate who might have flipped sides.

9. Fold Equity
A finalist of World Series of Poker is gone missing, so Lightman, Foster and Reynolds go to Vegas to investigate his disappearence. Meanwhile, Loker and Torres start getting close, while going over some footage of Loker's latest date.

10. Tractor Man
An unhappy farmer threatens the U.S. Treasury Department building by parking his tractor full of explosives nearby. He is claiming to speak to the president for losing his three generation's farm. Lightman has to figure out whether the threat is real or not. Meanwhile, Loker has to bear down with a group of third graders in a field trip stuck in the Lightman Group offices, due to the possible bomb threat nearby.

11. Beat the Devil
Lightman investigates one of his mentor's graduate students, which he is convinced that is a psychopath. Meanwhile, Loker and Torres investigate a UFO sighting.

12. Sweet Sixteen
Lightman and Foster are forced to revisit events in their past after one of Lightman's former Pentagon colleague is killed by a car bomb.

13. The Whole Truth
Lightman is called to testify in the trial of Clara, a sassy young widow accused of murdering her much older billionaire husband.

14. React to Contact
The Lightman group use all kinds methods to save an Iraq war veteran and his family. While doing so Lightman must face troubling truths from his own past.

15. Teacher and Pupils
Lightman is hired by the D.C. Police to read the paralyzed victim of a horrifying shooting in a federal housing project. Meanwhile, Clara hires Cal to teach her how to read people; so she follows him everywhere.

16. Delinquent
Torres's troubled half-sister, who resides at a juvenile detention facility, re-enters Torres life when one of her fellow inmates disappears. The Lightman Group must investigate the facts surrounding the disappearence, forcing Torres to revisit her past.

17. Bullet Bump
Lightman investigates what he thinks may be a dirty cover-up, involving the Governor of Virginia and the the death of a young campaign worker killed by the shooter who was supposedly trying to kill the Governor.

18. Headlock
Lightman finds himself in a complex situation when his interest in illegal fighting risks him being exposed as a gambler, as one of the fighters from the underground fight club that he frequents is found dead. Meanwhile, Foster's romance with Dr. Burns gets complicated when she uncovers a troubling secret.

19. Pied Piper
Lightman and Zoe must re-visit a case from 17 years ago, when they are asked to witness Jason Wilkie's execution. With the help of Cal and Zoe, Jason was convicted of the murder of 8-year-old Rex Sheridan, but when the Sheridan family is targeted again they must face the possibility that they might have sent an innocent man to his death. Lightman becomes determined to uncover the truth once and for all.

20. Exposed
Foster's boyfriend, Dr. Burns is kidnapped and Lightman works with his mysterious ex-partner to find him.

21. Darkness and Light
The Lightman Group investigates a young woman that has gone missing. In the course of the investigation it seems she may be linked to criminal activity in the porn business.

22. Black and White
The Lightman Group investigates the murder of a journalist friend of Lightman who was doing a report on exposing a corrupt politician. Meanwhile, Emily's new interest in dating makes Cal get in a distressed situation.

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Season 3 Episode Guide



Episode 1: In The Red
Lightman infiltrates a group of bank robbers to prevent the actual robbery from succesfully taking place.

Episode 2: The Royal We
Lightman defends a wrongly accused man from an increasingly hostile mob. In the process of exonerating him, Lightman uncovers a dark secret that helps a damaged mother and her daughter begin the healing process.

Episode 3: Dirty Loyal
The Lightman Group is hired to examine police profiling techniques in the wake of an incident involving Wallowski, and Internal Affairs attempts to leverage Lightman's relationship with Wallowski to get him to incriminate her.

Episode 4: Double Blind
An art museum hires the Lightman group to determine wheter their personnel is trustworthy because of an upcoming major exhibition. Torres feels bad when a robbery attempt is made on the museum, which she didn't anticipate. Lightman meets a beautiful woman who turns out to be playing him to distract him and get what she wants.

Episode 5: The Canary's Song
When a mining incident occurs, The Lightman Group is hired to find out if it really was an accident or if it was intentional. Lightman goes underground to see if the miners are hiding anything about the incident. Meanwhile, Foster is clearing Lightman's name with the FBI, who discovered that Lightman has been participating in underground poker games.

Episode 6: Beyond Belief
Lightman goes head-to-head with the leader of a self-help empire to free a wealthy woman who may be under the control of the cult-like leader. When Lightman begins to investigate, things get personal as he suspects the group of threatening him and his daughter, Emily.

Episode 7: Veronica
A woman with early Alzheimers' is hit by Lightmans' car while Emily is driving and texting at the same time. The woman seems to be confused. Emily calls Cal to assist her. The woman seems to believe that people close to her have all been killed by a man called Charlie. Lightman further investigates what's going on.

Episode 8: Smoked
After a young girl gets shot during the robbery of the diner, Lightman and Foster think that it was no accident, but premeditated. Since it was a family restaurant, they investigate the family. The current owner is dying of cancer and his will regarding the restaurant ownership strikes Lightman as a motive for the murder.

Episode 9: Funhouse
Lightman is called to a mental hospital to determine if a patient is being held against his will. Attempting to have the patient released, Lightman finds himself descending down a path that forces him to question his own sanity and brings him face-to-face with his own past.

Episode 10: Rebound
Lightman is hired by a wealthy woman to do a background check on her new boyfriend, so he digs deep into the man's past to find out the truth about this social chameleon.

Episode 11: Saved
Lightman is hired to investigate three high school students responsible for a fatal traffic accident, which takes a turn for the better when he finds the heroic paramedic who was first on the scene.

Episode 12: Gone
When a baby abduction is mentioned on the news, Lightman and Foster study the faces of the parents. Lightman thinks that there is foul play from one of them. They dig further into the case to help out with the police investigation of the abduction.

Episode 13: Killer App
Foster's former patient, one of the founders of a social-networking app, comes to the Lightman Group when she thinks she's being squeezed out by her partner. When she turns up dead a short time later, Lightman fights against the prevailing evidence to expose the truth behind the murder.

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