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The Worst 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 Gone
    7.0/10(6 votes)

    #1 - Gone

    S3:E12

    A baby goes missing, and her mother accuses an unknown person of the kidnapping. When Lightman sees she’s hiding something, he digs deeper and discovers a family in need of repair.

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    Director:Adam Arkin
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Headlock
    7.3/10(731 votes)

    #2 - Headlock

    S2:E18

    A fighter in an underground club is found dead; Foster discovers a troubling secret.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for React to Contact
    7.4/10(791 votes)

    #3 - React to Contact

    S2:E14

    Lightman is confronted with unsettling truths about his past while trying to save an Iraq war veteran.

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    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Exposed
    7.4/10(735 votes)

    #4 - Exposed

    S2:E20

    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.

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  5. Background image for Double Blind
    7.4/10(7 votes)

    #5 - Double Blind

    S3:E4

    Lightman becomes involved in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse when he meets a beautiful woman at an art gallery. Meanwhile, Torres is still reeling after her fatal mistake.

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  6. Background image for Smoked
    7.4/10(8 votes)

    #6 - Smoked

    S3:E8

    Lightman is hired by a terminally ill restaurant owner to find his daughter's killer as his dying wish.

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    Director:Kate Woods
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  8. Background image for Rebound
    7.4/10(7 votes)

    #7 - Rebound

    S3:E10

    A wealthy woman asks Lightman to look into her new boyfriend's background.

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    Director:Unknown
  9. Background image for Killer App
    7.4/10(8 votes)

    #8 - Killer App

    S3:E13

    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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    Director:Unknown
  10. Background image for Fold Equity
    7.5/10(846 votes)

    #9 - Fold Equity

    S2:E9

    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.

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    Director:Elodie Keene
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Black and White
    7.5/10(727 votes)

    #10 - Black and White

    S2:E22

    The Lightman Group investigates the murder of a journalist and friend of Lightman’s who was killed while exposing a corrupt politician

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    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for In the Red
    7.5/10(10 votes)

    #11 - In the Red

    S3:E1

    Lightman tries to stop a man intent on revenge from robbing a bank.

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    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Moral Waiver
    7.6/10(1.5k votes)

    #12 - Moral Waiver

    S1:E2

    When a female soldier charges a commanding officer with sexual assault, Lightman is brought to Fort Meade to find out if there's any truth to the accusation. Meanwhile, the Lightman Group is hired to determine whether the young star of a college basketball team accepted a bribe to play for the university.

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    Director:Adam Davidson
  14. Background image for A Perfect Score
    7.6/10(1.3k votes)

    #13 - A Perfect Score

    S1:E3

    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. The team also investigates a NASA test pilot accused of intentionally crashing a $250 million aircraft

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    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Love Always
    7.6/10(1.2k votes)

    #14 - Love Always

    S1:E4

    At a state wedding, Lightman and his team work to prevent the assassination of a South Korean ambassador. But when someone else is shot, Lightman exposes long-held family secrets and lies to identify the assassin.

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    Director:Tim Hunter
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for The Best Policy
    7.6/10(1.1k votes)

    #15 - The Best Policy

    S1:E7

    When Lightman is hired to find a corporate spy at a pharmaceutical company, 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 with negotiations for the release of two Americans imprisoned in Yemen.

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  17. Background image for Life Is Priceless
    7.6/10(1.0k votes)

    #16 - Life Is Priceless

    S1:E9

    In the wake of a building collapse in a small town outside Washington, Lightman is brought in to determine who is at fault, and he discovers a massive cover-up. Meanwhile, the team is hired by a "dot-com" billionaire to determine if his girlfriend loves him for the right reasons.

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  18. Background image for Better Half
    7.6/10(1.0k votes)

    #17 - Better Half

    S1:E10

    When Assistant U.S. Attorney Zoe Landau, Lightman's ex-wife and Emily's mother, enlists Lightman to help investigate an arson case in which the only eyewitness is a 5-year-old boy, it quickly becomes clear that she and Lightman still have feelings for each other. Meanwhile, Foster and Torres question a rapper who is suspected of murder.

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  19. Background image for Lack of Candor
    7.6/10(846 votes)

    #18 - Lack of Candor

    S2:E6

    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.

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  20. Background image for Black Friday
    7.6/10(864 votes)

    #19 - Black Friday

    S2:E7

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Delinquent
    7.6/10(801 votes)

    #20 - Delinquent

    S2:E16

    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.

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  22. Background image for Bullet Bump
    7.6/10(741 votes)

    #21 - Bullet Bump

    S2:E17

    The Lightman Group investigates when a young woman is killed at a political rally in Virginia.

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    Director:James Hayman
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Do No Harm
    7.7/10(1.1k votes)

    #22 - 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
  24. Background image for Undercover
    7.7/10(985 votes)

    #23 - Undercover

    S1:E11

    The Lightman Group gets embroiled in the controversial case of a policeman who shot a potentially innocent teenager. Meanwhile, investors who were bilked by a Ponzi scheme are suing The Lightman Group for botching the recovery of their money,

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  25. Background image for Secret Santa
    7.7/10(924 votes)

    #24 - Secret Santa

    S2:E8

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Unchained
    7.8/10(1.2k votes)

    #25 - 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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Gone" is the worst rated episode of "Lie to Me". It scored 7/10 based on 6 votes. Directed by Adam Arkin and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/24/2011. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Headlock".