8.1/101,095 votes#1 - The Core of It
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/2009
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.
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Writer: N/A
7.9/10949 votes#2 - Truth or Consequences
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/2009
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nick Santora
7.8/10900 votes#3 - Control Factor
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/2009
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.
Director: James Hayman
Writer: N/A
7.9/10903 votes#4 - Honey
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/2009
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.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: N/A
8.0/10896 votes#5 - Grievous Bodily Harm
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/2009
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.
Director: Eric Laneuville, Timothy Busfield
Writer: Matt Olmstead
7.6/10814 votes#6 - Lack of Candor
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/2009
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.
Director: Eric Laneuville, Terrence O'Hara
Writer: N/A
7.6/10828 votes#7 - Black Friday
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/2009
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.
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Writer: N/A
7.7/10887 votes#8 - Secret Santa
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/2009
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.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: N/A
7.5/10810 votes#9 - Fold Equity
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/2009
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.
Director: Elodie Keene
Writer: N/A
7.9/10817 votes#10 - Tractor Man
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/2009
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/101,112 votes#11 - Beat The Devil
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 6/7/2010
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Ehrman
7.8/10795 votes#12 - Sweet Sixteen
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 6/14/2010
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10845 votes#13 - The Whole Truth
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 6/21/2010
Lightman is an expert witness at the trial of a woman charged with murdering her high-powered, and much older, husband.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10756 votes#14 - React to Contact
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 6/28/2010
Lightman is confronted with unsettling truths about his past while trying to save an Iraq war veteran.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: N/A
8.0/10796 votes#15 - Teacher and Pupils
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 7/12/2010
After a grisly shooting in a federal housing project, Lightman is hired to read the face of the paralyzed victim.
Director: Roxann Dawson
Writer: Nick Santora
7.6/10772 votes#16 - Delinquent
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 7/19/2010
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.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Sarah Fain
7.6/10711 votes#17 - Bullet Bump
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 7/26/2010
The Lightman Group investigates when a young woman is killed at a political rally in Virginia.
Director: James Hayman
Writer: N/A
7.3/10699 votes#18 - Headlock
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 8/2/2010
A fighter in an underground club is found dead; Foster discovers a troubling secret.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10752 votes#19 - Pied Piper
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 8/16/2010
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.
Director: Paul McCrane
Writer: N/A
7.4/10704 votes#20 - Exposed
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 8/23/2010
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.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: David Graziano
7.9/10741 votes#21 - Darkness and Light
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 8/30/2010
A missing woman leads the Lightman group to discover criminal activity in the adult film industry.
Director: N/A
Writer: Matt Olmstead
7.5/10695 votes#22 - Black and White
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 9/13/2010
The Lightman Group investigates the murder of a journalist and friend of Lightman’s who was killed while exposing a corrupt politician
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Lie to Me Season 2
Every episode of Lie to Me Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Lie to Me Season 2!
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...
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:FOX
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"The Core of It" is the best rated episode of "Lie to Me" season 2. It scored 8.1/10 based on 1095 votes. Directed by Daniel Sackheim and written by N/A, it aired on 9/28/2009. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Truth or Consequences".