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Lie To Me Season 2 |
| Episode 1 - [The Core Of It] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jennifer Beals as Zoe Landau | Richmond Arquette | Erika Christensen | Kelli Williams as Dr. Gillian Foster | Anthony Starke | Michael Raymond-James | Director : Daniel Sackheim | |
| Air Date : Sep. 28, 2009 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 2 - [Truth Or Consequences] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jennifer Beals as Zoe Landau | James Marsters | John Pyper-Ferguson | Gretchen Egolf | John Carroll Lynch | Allie Gonino as Susan | Colton Shires as Zack | Writer : Nick Santora | |
| Air Date : Oct. 05, 2009 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 3 - [Control Factor] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Marc Blucas | Mary Mara | Rebecca Field | Patrick J. Adams | Nicole DuPort | José Zúñiga | Mary Mouser as Tyler Seeger | Dale Midkiff | Timothy Carhart | Director : James Hayman | |
| Air Date : Oct. 12, 2009 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 4 - [Honey] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Sean O'Bryan | Garret Dillahunt | Meta Golding | Michael Patrick McGill | Kevin McCorkle | Kristen Ariza as Heidi | Director : Timothy Busfield | |
| Air Date : Oct. 19, 2009 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 5 - [Grievous Bodily Harm] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Spencer Garrett | Jim Meskimen | Jay R. Ferguson | Pasha D. Lychnikoff | James Frain | Lennie James | Director : Eric Laneuville | Director : Timothy Busfield | Writer : Matt Olmstead | |
| Air Date : Oct. 26, 2009 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 6 - [Lack Of Candor] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Alicia Coppola | Brian Howe | Director : Eric Laneuville | Director : Terrence O'Hara | |
| Air Date : Nov. 09, 2009 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 7 - [Black Friday] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Nick Searcy | Jim Hanna | J. Downing | Shashawnee Hall | Jackie Debatin | Director : Daniel Sackheim | |
| Air Date : Nov. 16, 2009 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 8 - [Secret Santa] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jason Gedrick | April Grace | Mark Rolston | Michael A. Goorjian | Director : Michael Zinberg | |
| Air Date : Nov. 23, 2009 | Rating ➦ ★★★★ |
| Episode 9 - [Fold Equity] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : José Pablo Cantillo | Matt Corboy | Abby Brammell | Todd Stashwick | Director : Elodie Keene | |
| Air Date : Nov. 30, 2009 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 10 - [Tractor Man] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Dec. 14, 2009 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 11 - [Beat The Devil] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : David Ehrman | |
| Air Date : Jun. 07, 2010 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 12 - [Sweet Sixteen] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Jun. 14, 2010 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 13 - [The Whole Truth] |
| Details : Lightman is an expert witness at the trial of a woman charged with murdering her high-powered and much older husband. |
| Air Date : Jun. 21, 2010 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 14 - [React To Contact] |
| Details : Lightman is confronted with unsettling truths about his past while trying to save an Iraq war veteran. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Alona Tal | Director : Michael Zinberg | |
| Air Date : Jun. 28, 2010 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 15 - [Teacher And Pupils] |
| Details : After a grisly shooting in a federal housing project Lightman is hired to read the face of the paralyzed victim. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Theo Rossi as Tressler | Writer : Nick Santora | Director : Roxann Dawson | |
| Air Date : Jul. 12, 2010 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 16 - [Delinquent] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Manny Montana as Dax | Director : Michael Zinberg | Writer : Sarah Fain | |
| Air Date : Jul. 19, 2010 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 17 - [Bullet Bump] |
| Details : The Lightman Group investigates when a young woman is killed at a political rally in Virginia. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : James Hayman | |
| Air Date : Jul. 26, 2010 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 18 - [Headlock] |
| Details : A fighter in an underground club is found dead; Foster discovers a troubling secret. |
| Air Date : Aug. 02, 2010 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 19 - [Pied Piper] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Paul McCrane | |
| Air Date : Aug. 16, 2010 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 20 - [Exposed] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Terrence O'Hara | |
| Air Date : Aug. 23, 2010 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 21 - [Darkness And Light] |
| Details : A missing woman leads the Lightman group to discover criminal activity in the adult film industry. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Matt Olmstead | |
| Air Date : Aug. 30, 2010 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 22 - [Black And White] |
| Details : The Lightman Group investigates the murder of a journalist and friend of Lightman’s who was killed while exposing a corrupt politician |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Daniel Sackheim | |
| Air Date : Sep. 13, 2010 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |