- 1 Pilot
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Dr. Cal Lightman is the world's leading deception expert who studies facial expressions and involuntary body language to discover not only if someone is lying, but why. Lightman and his team of deception experts assist law enforcement and government agencies to expose the truth behind the lies. 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.
Average Episode Rating: 3.8 | Air Date: 2009-01-21
- 2 Moral Waiver
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When a female soldier accuses her platoon leader of sexual assault, Lightman is brought to Fort Meade to find out if there's any truth to the accusation. The woman is found to be covering for someone else. Lightman tricks the Staff Sergeant into admitting that he coerced sex with a soldier by threatening to give her the most dangerous assignment. Meanwhile, Foster investigates whether a high-profile basketball recruit accepted bribes to play for a university.
Average Episode Rating: 4.3 | Air Date: 2009-01-28
- 3 A Perfect Score
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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. Lightman discovers that a fellow student killed her to protect her involvement in an SAT cheating scam. Foster investigates a NASA test pilot accused of intentionally crashing a million aircraft.
Average Episode Rating: 4.3 | Air Date: 2009-02-04
- 4 Love Always
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A controversial South Korean ambassador is presumed to be an assassination target at his son's state wedding. The Lightman team is sent to prevent the murder. Yet the son is shot instead and Lightman exposes long-held family secrets and lies in order to identify the killer -- the jealous ex-husband of the son's wife who was using the potential threat at the lavish affair as a cover.
Average Episode Rating: 4.5 | Air Date: 2009-02-18
- 5 Unchained
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Lightman and Torres team up to interrogate a notorious and imprisoned gang leader who claims to be rehabilitated. If the gang leader is freed on parole, 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. He may have been murdered in a hazing prank gone wrong, but it is revealed that he violated a fireman's code by sleeping with the chief's niece.
Average Episode Rating: 4.0 | Air Date: 2009-03-04
- 6 Do No Harm
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Foster and Lightman investigate a potential abduction of an 11-year-old girl. During the investigation, the audience learns more about Gillian's private issues. Ria and Eli try to find out whether a renowned peace activist is really who she claims to be. However, Eli is attracted to the woman, which interferes with his professional opinion, but eventually relents and is the one who took a confession from her, after he has doubts on her story's credibility.
Average Episode Rating: 4.0 | Air Date: 2009-03-11
- 7 The Best Policy
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An old friend of Lightman asks him to look into a death caused by a new experimental drug. Foster and Loker help the U.S. government negotiate the release of two Americans about to be executed for possession of narcotics.
Average Episode Rating: 4.0 | Air Date: 2009-03-18
- 8 Depraved Heart
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Lightman is obsessed with his investigation of two women (Naila Azad, Seema Lazar) who committed suicide - he is assisted by Torres; Foster and Loker try to recover millions of dollars for investors who were scammed. Loker lies to Foster with the aid of muscle relaxants to calm his face when he tips the SEC off on who the scammer actually was; one of the ramifications were that the money was not returned to their owners. Loker confides in Torres in what he did.
Average Episode Rating: 4.0 | Air Date: 2009-04-01
- 9 Life Is Priceless
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While investigating a building collapse, Lightman discovers a massive cover-up. Meanwhile, a billionaire asks the team to determine if his girlfriend loves him for the right reasons and convinces Loker and Torres to take the case by the large sum of money he is offering to the company.
Average Episode Rating: 3.7 | Air Date: 2009-04-08
- 10 Better Half
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The Lightman Group is hired by Cal's ex-wife, Zoe Landau, to help with an arson case.
Average Episode Rating: 3.7 | Air Date: 2009-04-22
- 11 Undercover
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The group investigates a controversial case about a cop who shot a teenager and the threat of a terrorist attack. Meanwhile, the Lightman Group is supposedly "sued" relating to the multi-million dollar scam, but it was actually a test for Torres' loyalty to see if she would reveal what Loker did (Lightman already knew). Loker is made an unpaid intern near the end of the episode by Lightman, instead of being fired as he was expecting.
Average Episode Rating: 4.0 | Air Date: 2009-04-29
- 12 Blinded
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An FBI agent enlists the Lightman Group in the hunt for a serial rapist. Lightman is slightly disadvantaged by the skills of lying demonstrated by a former serial rapist whom the suspect is thought to be copycatting. Loker, Torres and Foster all work on this case. Ben Reynolds is made part of the Lightman group at the end of the episode.
Average Episode Rating: 4.7 | Air Date: 2009-05-06
- 13 Sacrifice
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Domestic terrorist bombings are occurring across the Washington, DC area sending everyone in a panic. FBI Agent Ben Reynolds calls on The Lightman Group to help identify those responsible and prevent more attacks. Lightman finds that the bombs were detonated remotely and that the bombers were set-up by someone else. The case takes a personal turn for Torres when Dupree goes missing. Lightman decides to hide the news from Torres so she can remain focused on the big picture. Is honesty indeed the best policy? Zoe helps Lightman with the investigation and both are concerned about their daughter's safety.
Average Episode Rating: 4.5 | Air Date: 2009-05-13
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