Lie to Me: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Lie to Me Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
The Core of It
Sep 28, 2009
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 pe
Truth or Consequences
Oct 5, 2009
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
Control Factor
Oct 12, 2009
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,
Honey
Oct 19, 2009
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.
Grievous Bodily Harm
Oct 26, 2009
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 an
Lack of Candor
Nov 9, 2009
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
Black Friday
Nov 16, 2009
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.
Secret Santa
Nov 23, 2009
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.
Fold Equity
Nov 30, 2009
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 f
Tractor Man
Dec 14, 2009
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, actres
Beat The Devil
Jun 7, 2010
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.
Sweet Sixteen
Jun 14, 2010
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 p
The Whole Truth
Jun 21, 2010
Lightman is an expert witness at the trial of a woman charged with murdering her high-powered, and much older, husband.
React to Contact
Jun 28, 2010
Lightman is confronted with unsettling truths about his past while trying to save an Iraq war veteran.
Teacher and Pupils
Jul 12, 2010
After a grisly shooting in a federal housing project, Lightman is hired to read the face of the paralyzed victim.
Delinquent
Jul 19, 2010
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.
Bullet Bump
Jul 26, 2010
The Lightman Group investigates when a young woman is killed at a political rally in Virginia.
Headlock
Aug 2, 2010
A fighter in an underground club is found dead; Foster discovers a troubling secret.
Pied Piper
Aug 16, 2010
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.
Exposed
Aug 23, 2010
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.
Darkness and Light
Aug 30, 2010
A missing woman leads the Lightman group to discover criminal activity in the adult film industry.
Black and White
Sep 13, 2010
The Lightman Group investigates the murder of a journalist and friend of Lightman’s who was killed while exposing a corrupt politician