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The Best Episodes of Lie to Me

The world's leading deception researcher, Dr. Cal Lightman, studies facial expression, body language and tone of voice to determine when a person is lying and...

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  1. Background image for Blinded
    8.7/10(1.5k votes)

    #1 - Blinded

    S1:E12

    Ben Reynolds, an FBI agent who's been pursuing a serial rapist terrorizing the Washington area, partners with The Lightman Group for its toughest case yet. Lightman infiltrates a prison to befriend Andrew Jenkins, a convicted criminal and a pathological liar who the serial rapist may be copy-catting. Meanwhile, Torres and Loker search Jenkins' fan mail, and Foster questions one of the rapist's recent victims.

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  2. Background image for Beat The Devil
    8.5/10(1.2k votes)

    #2 - Beat The Devil

    S2:E11

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  3. Background image for Funhouse
    8.4/10(7 votes)

    #3 - Funhouse

    S3:E9

    Cal Lightman questions his own sanity while he tries to get a patient released from a mental hospital.

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    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Saved
    8.3/10(6 votes)

    #4 - Saved

    S3:E11

    Lightman investigates three high school students responsible for a deadly traffic accident.

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    Director:Unknown
  5. Background image for Dirty Loyal
    8.2/10(6 votes)

    #5 - Dirty Loyal

    S3:E3

    The Lightman Group gets hired by Internal Affairs to investigate an incident that involves Det. Wallowski and her partner Det. Farr.

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    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Beyond Belief
    8.2/10(6 votes)

    #6 - Beyond Belief

    S3:E6

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Veronica
    8.2/10(6 votes)

    #7 - Veronica

    S3:E7

    Lightman tries to help a woman with early-onset Alzheimer's piece together her fragmented memories, but it uncovers a deadly secret.

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    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Pilot
    8.1/10(1.9k votes)

    #8 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    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.

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  10. Background image for The Core of It
    8.1/10(1.1k votes)

    #9 - The Core of It

    S2:E1

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for The Whole Truth
    8.1/10(883 votes)

    #10 - The Whole Truth

    S2:E13

    Lightman is an expert witness at the trial of a woman charged with murdering her high-powered, and much older, husband.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Sacrifice
    8.0/10(1.0k votes)

    #11 - Sacrifice

    S1:E13

    After a terrorist bombing outside of Washington, DC, FBI Agent Ben Reynolds calls on The Lightman Group to help identify those responsible and prevent more attacks. The case takes a personal turn for one member of the team and begs the question of whether honesty is indeed the best policy. Zoe helps Lightman with the investigation and both are concerned about their daughter's safety.

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  13. Background image for Teacher and Pupils
    8.0/10(830 votes)

    #12 - Teacher and Pupils

    S2:E15

    After a grisly shooting in a federal housing project, Lightman is hired to read the face of the paralyzed victim.

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  14. Background image for Truth or Consequences
    7.9/10(988 votes)

    #13 - Truth or Consequences

    S2:E2

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  15. Background image for Honey
    7.9/10(938 votes)

    #14 - Honey

    S2:E4

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Grievous Bodily Harm
    7.9/10(930 votes)

    #15 - Grievous Bodily Harm

    S2:E5

    When Cal's old pal, Terry Marsh, comes to town, he brings plenty of trouble with him. Meanwhile, the rest of the team meets with some students from a prep school to determine if any of them are responsible for a threatening tape that was sent to the headmaster.

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  17. Background image for Tractor Man
    7.9/10(855 votes)

    #16 - Tractor Man

    S2:E10

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Pied Piper
    7.9/10(781 votes)

    #17 - Pied Piper

    S2:E19

    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.

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    Director:Paul McCrane
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Darkness and Light
    7.9/10(771 votes)

    #18 - Darkness and Light

    S2:E21

    A missing woman leads the Lightman group to discover criminal activity in the adult film industry.

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  20. Background image for The Royal We
    7.9/10(7 votes)

    #19 - The Royal We

    S3:E2

    While defending a wrongly accused man, Lightman uncovers a dark secret that helps a damaged woman and her daughter.

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    Director:Adam Davidson
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Unchained
    7.8/10(1.2k votes)

    #20 - Unchained

    S1:E5

    Lightman and Torres interrogate an imprisoned gang leader who claims to be rehabilitated. If the gang leader is freed, 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.

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  22. Background image for Depraved Heart
    7.8/10(1.1k votes)

    #21 - Depraved Heart

    S1:E8

    Lightman becomes obsessed with his investigation of two young women who committed suicide. Meanwhile, the team tries to recover billions of dollars for investors who were bilked by a Ponzi scheme.

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  23. Background image for Control Factor
    7.8/10(936 votes)

    #22 - Control Factor

    S2:E3

    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.

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    Director:James Hayman
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Sweet Sixteen
    7.8/10(829 votes)

    #23 - Sweet Sixteen

    S2:E12

    An Irish terrorist comes to Dr. Lightman to find out who killed his wife and daughter seven years ago, which reveals secrets about Lightman's relationship with Dr. Foster and his past job working counter-terrorism for the government.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for The Canary's Song
    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #24 - The Canary's Song

    S3:E5

    When Lightman investigates an explosion that killed six coal miners, he suspects foul play may be involved and goes below the surface to find the truth; the FBI seeks the Lightman Group's help with another case.

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  26. Background image for Do No Harm
    7.7/10(1.1k votes)

    #25 - Do No Harm

    S1:E6

    Lightman and Foster investigate the disappearance of an 11-year-old girl who may have been murdered. Meanwhile, Loker and Torres must determine whether a famous peace activist is who she claims to be and if her bestselling memoir is true, but Loker's attraction to the socially conscious woman may be clouding his assessment of her.

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    Director:John Behring

Best Episodes Summary

"Blinded" is the best rated episode of "Lie to Me". It scored 8.7/10 based on 1508 votes. Directed by Milan Cheylov and written by Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft, it aired on 5/6/2009. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Beat The Devil".