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Lie to Me


Monday 8:00 PM on FOX

Premier :: 2009-01-21

Genre :: Drama
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Dr. Cal Lightman, the world's leading deception expert, studies facial expressions and involuntary body language to discover not only when a person is lying but why, in a bid to help law enforcement and government agencies uncover the truth behind the lies.

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+ Series 3

+ Episode 5 - Double Blind
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+ Episode 4 - Veronica
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+ Episode 3 - Dirty Loyal
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+ Episode 2 - The Royal We
Aired - 17 November 2010

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+ Episode 1 - In the Red
Aired - 10 November 2010

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+ Series 2

+ Episode 22 - Black & White
Aired - 13 September 2010

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The Lightman Group investigates the murder of a journalist and friend of Lightman’s who was killed while exposing a corrupt politician No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 21 - Darkness and Light
Aired - 30 August 2010

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A missing woman leads the Lightman group to discover criminal activity in the adult film industry. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 20 - Exposed
Aired - 23 August 2010

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After Foster's boyfriend, Dave Burns (guest star Martini), gets abducted Lightman tries to track him down with the help of Burns' mysterious ex partner. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 19 - Pied Piper
Aired - 16 August 2010

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Lightman and his ex-wife, Zoe witness the execution of a murderer they prosecuted 17 years ago and face the possibility that they sent the wrong man to his death. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 18 - Headlock
Aired - 02 August 2010

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A fighter in an underground club is found dead; Foster discovers a troubling secret. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 17 - Bullet Bump
Aired - 26 July 2010

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The Lightman Group investigates when a young woman is killed at a political rally in Virginia. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 16 - Delinquent
Aired - 19 July 2010

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When a pregnant girl is found murdered, Cal and the LMG team help Torres try to clear her juvenile-delinquent sister of charges, and protect her from the real killer. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 15 - Teacher and Pupils
Aired - 12 July 2010

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After a grisly shooting in a federal housing project, Lightman is hired to read the face of the paralyzed victim. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 14 - React to Contact
Aired - 28 June 2010

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Lightman is confronted with unsettling truths about his past while trying to save an Iraq war veteran. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 13 - The Whole Truth
Aired - 21 June 2010

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Lightman is an expert witness at the of a woman charged with murdering her high-powered, and much older, husband. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 12 - Sweet Sixteen
Aired - 14 June 2010

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After Lightman's former Pentagon colleague is killed in a car bomb, Lightman and Foster are forced to revisit a series of events from their past, including the therapy sessions that brought them together. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 11 - Beat the Devil
Aired - 07 June 2010

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Lightman investigates one of his mentor's graduate students, whom he is convinced is a psychopath, while Loker and Torres look into a UFO sighting. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 10 - Tractor Man
Aired - 14 December 2009

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A protesting farmer parks his explosives-packed tractor near the US Treasury building. Meanwhile, Loker plays babysitter to third-graders stuck in the Lightman Group office, actress Felicia Day guest stars as their teacher. Miguel Ferrer guest stars as FBI ASAC Steele, Ben Reynolds' boss. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 9 - Fold Equity
Aired - 30 November 2009

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Lightman, Foster and Reynolds travel to Las Vegas to help locate a missing finalist in the World Series of Poker. Lightman uses his skills to read the other competitors' faces to figure out which one knows about the disappearance. Meanwhile, Loker and Torres analyze Loker's new relationship, and as a result, get closer to each other. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 8 - Secret Santa
Aired - 23 November 2009

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Cal spends the holidays in Afghanistan, where he relies solely on an American expatriate to help a mission to find a pair of missing Marines. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 7 - Black Friday
Aired - 16 November 2009

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The Lightman Group helps a teenager who believes he was abducted as a baby, while Loker and Torres try to figure out what caused a deadly stampede at an electronics store. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 6 - Lack of Candor
Aired - 09 November 2009

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After a federal witness is killed, the US attorney arrives at the Lightman Group to take the next witness in line, Reynolds, into protected custody. Cal feels that the US Marshals Service cannot protect Reynolds, so he takes him "hostage" and demands that he be able to run the investigation into the witness's death. During his investigation, he finds out that while undercover Reynolds did drugs and killed a man and wants to keep it a secret to avoid prosecution after he finds out that his handler (Alicia Coppola) did not properly report the event. Through his own undercover operation, Cal records the handler admitting that she led Reynolds to believe that everything was all set legally, and the US attorney subsequently takes her into custody. Meanwhile Loker and Torres discover that the original witness was killed after the cell phone that his mistress provided was tracked to his safe house's location. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 5 - Grievous Bodily Harm
Aired - 26 October 2009

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Cal's old friend Terry Marsh (Lennie James) attempts to pull him into a criminal conspiracy after he settles Terry's gambling debts. The criminals abduct both Cal and Terry and try to recruit Cal to be their personal lie detector, forcing him to determine the validity of a client's counterfeit bills. Over the course of the episode, it is revealed that both Terry and Cal got into trouble with the police, and that Terry volunteered to take all the blame, allowing Cal to continue with his life. The event ends with an FBI raid, and Lightman tells Terry that they're even. Meanwhile, the Lightman Group probes murderous threats against a high school. They determine that the threats were made by an overweight girl, who is suicidal due to emotional attacks by her classmates and gym teacher. However, the gym teacher is arrested for obstruction of justice, while the overweight girl is in the hospital recovering from an attempted overdose. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 4 - Honey
Aired - 19 October 2009

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Eric Matheson (Garret Dillahunt) is determined to prove that he didn't murder his wife. Torres is assigned to investigate the murder, and goes to the house of the victim's sister. Matheson finds Torre's car and gets into it after she forgot to lock the door. When Torres returns, Matheson holds her at gunpoint, instructing her to drive to the Lightman Group offices. Cal makes a deal with Mattheson, asking him to let all the employees go as long as he helps prove Mattheson's innocence. Mattheson complies, and Foster, Loker, Reynolds and Torres attempt to solve the case, while Loker has second thoughts about not calling the authorities. Cal and the team find out that Mattheson was actually innocent, and that his wife was actually killed by a creditor. Mattheson demands that he sees the creditor, saying he will either take his life or Cal's. Cal pleads for Mattheson to kill him, but Foster, Loker and Reynolds trick Mattheson into letting his guard down after a disguised Loker pretends to recount the last moments of Mattheson's wife's life. As Mattheson is in a moment of rage before killing Loker, Reynolds draws his gun and shoots Mattheson, disarming him. The episode ends with Lightman at Foster's home, asking if he could sleep in her spare room for the night. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 3 - Control Factor
Aired - 12 October 2009

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While on vacation in Mexico with Emily, Lightman becomes involved in the case of a missing American woman, who is a single mother on vacation with her daughter. Upon investigation, Lightman learns that the mother got herself involved with an illegal fertility broker and he manages to find her just in time. Back home, Foster investigates D.C.-area hospitals with Lightman's rival, Jack Rader. They try to uncover the reason that five people have grown gravely ill after receiving blood transfusions. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 2 - Truth or Consequences
Aired - 05 October 2009

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Zoe enlists Lightman to help with her client -- a 22 year-old black star college football player who has been accused of statutory rape with a white 16 year-old girl. The case hits home for Lightman, who learns that his daughter Emily was friends with the group of girls who attend these college fraternity parties. Through the course of their investigation, Lightman and Torres determine that Zoe's client was set-up by the girl, whose friends leaked the video of the hookup. Lightman figures that the man did not know the girl was underage, noting that his face showed that he knew he shouldn't find underage girls attractive. Meanwhile, Foster and Loker travel to a religious compound to determine whether its claim of IRS exemption is valid. They believe the head of the compound is holding the women against their will. Foster facilitates the escape of one woman and her children, and faces the wrath of both Loker and the government. At the end, the girl's father believes the system is protecting the football player, and decides that someone has to pay. He shoots the prosecutor that dropped the charges against the football player, with whose death the episode ends. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 1 - The Core of It
Aired - 28 September 2009

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A young woman approaches Lightman at his book signing, believing she has seen a murder. Lightman finds that the woman has multiple personalities, and he believes that one of her personalities witnessed the murder. Lightman passes off helping Agent Reynolds vet a potential Supreme Court nominee, instead choosing to pursue the case of the multiple-personality woman. The case is passed on to Torres, whom the nominee does not treat with respect due to her age. Torres puts her preconceived judgments about the man aside when she analyzes the facts. Lightman unlocks the woman's original personality, who helps Lightman find the original murderer. Zoe informs Lightman that she is taking their daughter, Emily, and moving to Chicago to open a law firm. Lightman buys out her stake in The Lightman Group so that she can start her own practice in town. Add your review
+ Series 1

+ Episode 13 - Sacrifice
Aired - 13 May 2009

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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. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 12 - Blinded
Aired - 06 May 2009

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An FBI agent enlists the Lightman Group in the hunt for a serial rapist. Lightman is slightly disadvantaged by the skills of lying demonstrated by a former serial rapist whom the suspect is thought to be copycatting. Loker, Torres and Foster all work on this case. Ben Reynolds is made part of the Lightman group at the end of the episode. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 11 - Undercover
Aired - 29 April 2009

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The group investigates a controversial case about a cop who shot a teenager and the threat of a terrorist attack. Meanwhile, the Lightman Group is supposedly "sued" relating to the multi-million dollar scam, but it was actually a test for Torres' loyalty to see if she would reveal what Loker did (Lightman already knew). Loker is made an unpaid intern near the end of the episode by Lightman, instead of being fired as he was expecting. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 10 - Better Half
Aired - 22 April 2009

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The Lightman Group is hired by Cal's ex-wife, Zoe Landau, to help with an arson case. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 9 - Life Is Priceless
Aired - 08 April 2009

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While investigating a building collapse, Lightman discovers a massive cover-up. Meanwhile, a billionaire asks the team to determine if his girlfriend loves him for the right reasons and convinces Loker and Torres to take the case by the large sum of money he is offering to the company. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 8 - Depraved Heart
Aired - 01 April 2009

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Lightman is obsessed with his investigation of two women (Naila Azad, Seema Lazar) who committed suicide - he is assisted by Torres; Foster and Loker try to recover millions of dollars for investors who were scammed. Loker lies to Foster with the aid of muscle relaxants to calm his face when he tips the SEC off on who the scammer actually was; one of the ramifications were that the money was not returned to their owners. Loker confides in Torres in what he did. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 7 - The Best Policy
Aired - 18 March 2009

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An old friend of Lightman asks him to look into a death caused by a new experimental drug. Foster and Loker help the U.S. government negotiate the release of two Americans about to be executed for possession of narcotics. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 6 - Do No Harm
Aired - 11 March 2009

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Foster and Lightman investigate a potential abduction of an 11-year-old girl. During the investigation, the audience learns more about Gillian's private issues. Ria and Eli try to find out whether a renowned peace activist is really who she claims to be. However, Eli is attracted to the woman, which interferes with his professional opinion, but eventually relents and is the one who took a confession from her, after he has doubts on her story's credibility. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 5 - Unchained
Aired - 04 March 2009

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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. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 4 - Love Always
Aired - 18 February 2009

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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. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 3 - A Perfect Score
Aired - 04 February 2009

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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. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 2 - Moral Waiver
Aired - 28 January 2009

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When a female soldier accuses her platoon leader 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 Staff Sergeant into admitting that he coerced sex with a soldier 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. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 1 - Pilot
Aired - 21 January 2009

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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. Add your review
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