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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!

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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 why, which helps law enforcement and government agencies uncover the

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 1 - The Core of It
    8.1/10(1175 votes)

    #1 - The Core of It

    S2:E1

    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:Unknown

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  2. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 2 - Truth or Consequences
    7.9/10(1013 votes)

    #2 - Truth or Consequences

    S2:E2

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Nick Santora

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  3. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 3 - Control Factor
    7.8/10(961 votes)

    #3 - Control Factor

    S2:E3

    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:Unknown

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  4. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 4 - Honey
    7.9/10(966 votes)

    #4 - Honey

    S2:E4

    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:Unknown

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  5. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 5 - Grievous Bodily Harm
    8.0/10(956 votes)

    #5 - Grievous Bodily Harm

    S2:E5

    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.

    Directors:Eric Laneuville, Timothy Busfield
    Writer:Matt Olmstead

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  6. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 6 - Lack of Candor
    7.6/10(872 votes)

    #6 - 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.

    Directors:Terrence O'Hara, Eric Laneuville
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 7 - Black Friday
    7.6/10(888 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:Daniel Sackheim
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 8 - Secret Santa
    7.7/10(952 votes)

    #8 - 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.

    Director:Michael Zinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 9 - Fold Equity
    7.5/10(871 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.

    Director:Elodie Keene
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 10 - Tractor Man
    7.9/10(881 votes)

    #10 - Tractor Man

    S2:E10

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 11 - Beat The Devil
    8.5/10(1188 votes)

    #11 - Beat The Devil

    S2:E11

    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:Unknown
    Writer:David Ehrman

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  12. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 12 - Sweet Sixteen
    7.8/10(855 votes)

    #12 - Sweet Sixteen

    S2:E12

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 13 - The Whole Truth
    8.1/10(913 votes)

    #13 - The Whole Truth

    S2:E13

    Lightman is an expert witness at the trial of a woman charged with murdering her high-powered, and much older, husband.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 14 - React to Contact
    7.4/10(819 votes)

    #14 - React to Contact

    S2:E14

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

    Director:Michael Zinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 15 - Teacher and Pupils
    8.0/10(852 votes)

    #15 - Teacher and Pupils

    S2:E15

    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

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  16. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 16 - Delinquent
    7.6/10(825 votes)

    #16 - 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.

    Director:Michael Zinberg
    Writer:Sarah Fain

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  17. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 17 - Bullet Bump
    7.6/10(767 votes)

    #17 - Bullet Bump

    S2:E17

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

    Director:James Hayman
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 18 - Headlock
    7.3/10(756 votes)

    #18 - Headlock

    S2:E18

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 19 - Pied Piper
    7.9/10(805 votes)

    #19 - Pied Piper

    S2:E19

    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:Unknown

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  20. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 20 - Exposed
    7.4/10(765 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Director:Terrence O'Hara
    Writer:David Graziano

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  21. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 21 - Darkness and Light
    7.9/10(793 votes)

    #21 - Darkness and Light

    S2:E21

    A missing woman leads the Lightman group to discover criminal activity in the adult film industry.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Matt Olmstead

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  22. Lie to Me Season 2 Episode 22 - Black and White
    7.6/10(753 votes)

    #22 - 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

    Director:Daniel Sackheim
    Writer:Unknown

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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 1175 votes. Directed by Daniel Sackheim and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/28/2009. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Truth or Consequences".