Lie to Me

2009 • FOX
4.8
368 reviews
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Season 2 episodes (22)

1 The Core of It
9/28/09
The Lightman Group investigates a murder case where a woman with multiple personalities (guest star Christensen) may either be a witness or the killer. Meanwhile, the President of the United States hires the firm to interrogate a potential Supreme Court nominee.
2 Truth or Consequences
10/5/09
Zoe enlists the Lightman Group to defend a star college football player accused of statutory rape. Meanwhile, Foster and Loker travel to a religious compound to find out whether it's actually a nefarious cult.
3 Control Factor
10/12/09
While on vacation in Mexico, Lightman and Emily become involved in the case of a missing American woman. Back home, Foster investigates tainted blood in D.C.-area hospitals with Lightman's rival.
4 Honey
10/19/09
Eric Matheson, a man suspected of killing his wife, is brought in for questioning by the Lightman Group. Determined to prove his innocence, he takes drastic measures that put the team's lives in danger.
5 Grievous Bodily Harm
10/26/09
A face from Lightman's past pulls him into a dangerous criminal conspiracy, testing his friendship and loyalty. Meanwhile, The Lightman Group investigates a high school student's homicidal threats.
6 Lack of Candor
11/9/09
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
11/16/09
A troubled teenager believes he was abducted as a baby and turns to the Lightman Group to help him uncover the secrets of his past. Meanwhile, Loker investigates the origin of a deadly stampede that occurred at an electronics megastore the day after Thanksgiving.
8 Secret Santa
11/23/09
During the holiday season, Lightman goes to Afghanistan to assist in a mission to rescue two captured marines, and his only source of intelligence is an American expatriate.
9 Fold Equity
11/30/09
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.
10 Tractor Man
12/14/09
During a political protest in Washington, D.C., a disgruntled farmer parks his explosives-packed tractor near the Treasury Department building, forcing Lightman and his team to make some crucial life-or-death decisions. Meanwhile, a third-grade field trip gets stuck in the Lightman Group offices, and Loker has to play babysitter.
11 Beat the Devil
6/7/10
Lightman plays a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a brilliant, charming psychology graduate student whom Lightman identifies as a psychopath. When nobody believes him, Lightman sets out to prove the doubters wrong and catch the psychopath before he kills again. Complicating matters is Lightman's former mentor, a renowned psychologist who, also fooled by the charismatic young man, is protecting him for personal and professional reasons. Meanwhile, Loker and Torres travel to a small town to look into a UFO sighting.
12 Sweet Sixteen
6/14/10
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.
13 The Whole Truth
6/21/10
Lightman is called to testify in the trial of a beautiful widow accused of murdering her much older husband.
14 React to Contact
6/28/10
Lightman tries to save the life of a veteran.
15 Teachers & Pupils
7/12/10
After the grisly shooting of an officer in a federal housing project, the D.C. police hire Lightman to read the face of the paralyzed victim, who can move only his eyes.
16 Delinquent
7/19/10
Torres' half-sister, Ava, who is incarcerated in a juvenile corrections facility, mysteriously re-enters Torres' life when a fellow inmate vanishes. Meanwhile, the Lightman Group becomes embroiled in a case that forces the sisters to revisit their troubled upbringing.
17 Bullet Bump
7/26/10
After a young woman dies at a gubernatorial campaign rally in Virginia, The Lightman Group is hired to assess whether the case is a failed assassination attempt or a well-disguised murder plot.
18 Headlock
8/2/10
Lightman risks being exposed as a gambler in an underground fight club when one of the fighters is found dead. Meanwhile, Foster's romance with Burns (guest star Max Martini) hits a snag when she uncovers a troubling secret.
19 Pied Piper
8/16/10
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.
20 Exposed
8/23/10
After Foster's boyfriend, Dave Burns, gets abducted, Lightman tries to track him down with the help of Burns' mysterious ex-partner.
21 Darkness and Light
8/30/10
The Lightman Group investigates the disappearance of a young woman, which leads them to uncover a criminal element in the adult film business.
22 Black & White
9/13/10
The Lightman Group investigates the murder of a journalist friend of Lightman's who was exposing a corrupt politician, a case that tests Lightman's relationship with Reynolds and the FBI. Meanwhile, Emily's newfound interest in dating makes her father uncomfortable.

About this show

Inspired by the scientific discoveries of real life body language specialist and criminal investigator Dr. Paul Eikman, the weekly police detective series Lie to Me follows Dr. Cal Lightman (Tim Roth) and his special team of experts as assist local police, government agencies, and federal law enforcement in solving some of their most difficult cases. Dr. Lightman can detect a lie simply by studying a person's face, body, voice, and speech. The simplest gesture can tip Dr. Lightman off. He can read every emotion from, from jealousy, to sexual attraction, to resentment his subject had thought they kept hidden. But as helpful as this talent is in his professional life, it often proves a curse in his personal life. As the leader of The Lightman Group, Dr. Lightman presides over a team comprised of gifted psychologist Dr. Gillian Foster (Kelli Williams), who always has a solid grasp on the big picture, lead researcher Eli Loker (Brendan Hines), who despises the human tendency to lie to such a degree that he practices "radical honesty," and agency newcomer Ria Torres, a true natural in the field of deception detection. Together, The Lightman Group can sniff out any lie, and ensure that justice is served even when the culprit is a master manipulator.

Ratings and reviews

4.8
368 reviews
Emily Zimmerman
January 8, 2016
I bought this episode so I could watch it on YouTube on my Vizio smart tv, but when I went into purchases on my YouTube account, it said it had an error with playback. Every other paid purchase is fine. I will rate this 5 stars once it is fixed or I get a refund.
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Marcia Grant
February 25, 2015
Enjoyable drama that seem to hold my interest, amuse and intrigue me with the thought that it could actually be possible to discern what individuals are thinking and feeling.
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Ernesto Perpinal
October 7, 2014
I love this serie, every episode was incredible and everything was just great and I'm sad that the story at the end was getting weak and it ended leaving some doubts but after that still love it :-D
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