Lie to Me* (2009–2011)

1. S01E01PilotJanuary 21, 2009 8.1Dr. Cal Lightman, an expert in how facial expressions and body language betray emotions, solves cases for law-enforcement agencies and whoev
2. S01E02Season's bestMoral WaiverJanuary 28, 2009 8.6While Cal tries to determine the truthfulness of a female soldier's rape accusation against her sergeant, basketball fan Gillian probes a ch
3. S01E03A Perfect ScoreFebruary 4, 2009 8.4The murder of a federal judge's teen daughter leads the Lightman Group to her highly competitive prep school. Meanwhile, a NASA test pilot i
4. S01E04Love AlwaysFebruary 18, 2009 8.3The team is assigned to protect the South Korean ambassador, a presidential candidate in his country and the object of death threats, during
5. S01E05UnchainedMarch 4, 2009 8.1A governor weighing a pardon for a reformed gang leader imprisoned for killing a cop hires Cal to determine if the guy has really reformed.
6. S01E06Do No HarmMarch 11, 2009 7.7While Lightman and Foster probe the disappearance of an 11-year-old adopted girl, Loker and Torres must determine whether a Ugandan peace ac
7. S01E07The Best PolicyMarch 18, 2009 8.1Lightman is hired by an old friend to find a corporate spy at a pharmaceutical company, then gets mixed up in a conspiracy surrounding a new
8. S01E08Depraved HeartApril 1, 2009 8.0Cal becomes obsessed with the suicides of three young Indian-immigrant women, and Loker takes an unusual interest in the Ponzi scheme he and
9. S01E09Life Is PricelessApril 8, 2009 7.7When a building under construction collapses, Cal and Gillian must determine if someone on the scene might have sabotaged it and how. The sa
10. S01E10Better HalfApril 22, 2009 7.3Cal's ex-wife, an assistant U.S. attorney, hires him to get to the bottom of an arson case in which the victim accuses a childhood friend, w
11. S01E11UndercoverApril 29, 2009 8.1An undercover cop chasing a drug suspect mistakenly shoots an innocent teen, and Cal is hired to determine the man's intentions. Meanwhile,
12. S01E12BlindedMay 6, 2009 8.6An FBI agent enlists the Lightman Group in the hunt for a serial rapist. Cal's assignment: infiltrate a prison and befriend a convict whom t
13. S01E13SacrificeMay 13, 2009 8.4Following a terrorist attack outside Washington, D.C., FBI agent Reynolds enlists the Lightman Group to find the perpetrators. Then the case

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

1. S02E01The Core of ItSeptember 28, 2009 8.3A woman with multiple personalities could be either a witness to a murder---or the killer. Meanwhile, the government hires the Lightman Grou
2. S02E02Truth or ConsequencesOctober 5, 2009 8.1Zoe enlists the Lightman Group to probe a college-football star accused of statutory rape; Foster and Loker visit a religious compound to de
3. S02E03Control FactorOctober 12, 2009 7.7While vacationing in Mexico, Cal and Emily get involved in the case of a missing American woman. Back in D.C., Foster and Cal's rival, Jack
4. S02E04HoneyOctober 19, 2009 7.6A man is determined to prove that he didn't murder his wife, and his effort to do so puts the Lightman Group in danger.
5. S02E05Grievous Bodily HarmOctober 26, 2009 7.8An old friend of Cal's attempts to pull him into a criminal conspiracy. Meanwhile, the Lightman Group probes a high-school student's murdero
6. S02E06Lack of CandorNovember 9, 2009 7.7Cal and Gillian probe the murder of a witness in a government case and discover that Agent Reynolds, the star witness in the case, is hiding
7. S02E07Black FridayNovember 16, 2009 7.6A troubled teen who believes he was abducted as a baby wants to learn about his past. Meanwhile, Loker investigates a deadly stampede at a m
8. S02E08Secret SantaNovember 23, 2009 8.3Cal spends the holidays in Afghanistan, where he relies solely on an American expatriate to help a mission to find a pair of missing Marines
9. S02E09Fold EquityNovember 30, 2009 7.5Cal, Foster and Reynolds go all in to find a missing finalist from the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, where Cal must determine if the o
10. S02E10Tractor ManDecember 14, 2009 7.9A protesting farmer parks his explosives-packed tractor near the U.S. Treasury building. Meanwhile, Loker plays babysitter to third-graders
11. S02E11Beat the DevilJune 7, 2010 7.2Cal suspects that a charming psychology graduate student is a murderous psychopath, but the young man's teacher (who has a history with Cal)
12. S02E12Sweet SixteenJune 14, 2010 7.9Cal and Gillian look back over events in their lives---including the therapy session at which they met---after a former colleague of Cal's a
13. S02E13The Whole TruthJune 21, 2010 8.4Cal is a witness at the trial of a woman accused of murdering her much-older husband, a business tycoon.
14. S02E14React to ContactJune 28, 2010 8.4Cal confronts unsettling truths in his past as he and his team try to save the lives of an Iraq War vet and his family.
15. S02E15Season's bestTeacher and PupilsJuly 12, 2010 8.5After a housing-project shooting, the D.C. police ask Cal to read the face of a paralyzed victim, who can move only his eyes.
16. S02E16DelinquentJuly 19, 2010 8.0Torres recalls a difficult childhood and shares an uneasy reunion with her incarcerated half sister after the latter's fellow inmate disappe
17. S02E17Bullet BumpJuly 26, 2010 8.2When a gubernatorial race in Virginia turns deadly following the death of a young woman at a campaign event, the Lightman Group is tapped to
18. S02E18HeadlockAugust 2, 2010 7.4Cal risks being exposed as a gambler when a fighter is found dead in an underground fight club. Meanwhile, Foster's romance with Burns is th
19. S02E19Pied PiperAugust 16, 2010 7.7Cal and Zoe are called to witness the execution of a man they helped send to death row 17 years before---and face the possibility that he's
20. S02E20ExposedAugust 23, 2010 7.9Foster's boyfriend, Dave Burns, is kidnapped, and Cal must track him down with the help of Burns' mysterious ex-partner.
21. S02E21Darkness and LightAugust 30, 2010 7.9A young woman's disappearance leads to an investigation of crime in the pornography industry.
22. S02E22Black and WhiteSeptember 13, 2010 7.5The probe of the murder of Cal's friend, a journalist who was investigating political corruption, tests Cal's relationship with Reynolds and

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

1. S03E01In the RedOctober 4, 2010 7.9Tim tries to stop a man bent on revenge from robbing a bank and in the process holds a guilty man accountable for his actions.
2. S03E02Season's bestThe Royal WeOctober 11, 2010 8.3Lightman defends a falsely accused man from an angry mob. In the course of proving his innocence, Lightman unearths a secret that allows a m
3. S03E03Dirty LoyalOctober 18, 2010 7.5The Lightman Group is hired to look into police profiling following an incident involving Wallowski, and it turns out that Internal Affairs
4. S03E04Double BlindOctober 25, 2010 8.1The Lightman Group's expertise is called into question when a woman plays cat-and-mouse with Cal while he's checking for security leaks at a
5. S03E05The Canary's SongNovember 8, 2010 7.7Cal investigates a coal-mine explosion that killed six miners, and he suspects foul play. So to prove it he goes into the mine. Meanwhile, t
6. S03E06Beyond BeliefNovember 15, 2010 7.9Cal goes head-to-head with a self-help guru to free a wealthy woman who might be under his control. Cal also suspects the group of threateni
7. S03E07VeronicaNovember 22, 2010 8.0Cal helps a woman with early-onset Alzheimer's reconstruct a memory, and unearths a secret that could prove deadly in the process.
8. S03E08SmokedNovember 29, 2010 7.5A terminally ill restaurateur hires Cal to track down his murdered daughter's killer. She had been first in line to inherit her father's suc
9. S03E09FunhouseJanuary 10, 2011 7.8Cal commits himself to a mental hospital to investigate whether a patient is being held there legitimately and comes to question his own san
10. S03E10ReboundJanuary 10, 2011 7.8A wealthy woman wants Cal to conduct a background check on her new boyfriend, who turns out to be quite a "social chameleon."
11. S03E11SavedJanuary 17, 2011 7.8Cal probes a fatal traffic accident caused by three teens.
12. S03E12GoneJanuary 24, 2011 7.9Cal investigates the abduction of a baby and comes to believe that the child's mother is hiding something.
13. S03E13Killer AppJanuary 31, 2011 7.2Cal probes the death of a social-network cofounder who had feared that she was being squeezed out by her partner.

Season 3 ranked & reviewed