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Lie to Me: Season 2

22 episodes Premiered Sep 28, 2009 Updated Sep 27, 2026
Previously on Lie to Me

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Lie to Me Season 1.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (5): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (17): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

The Core of It

Sep 28, 2009 · 44 min

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

S2·E2 Core

Truth or Consequences

Oct 5, 2009 · 44 min

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

S2·E3 Core

Control Factor

Oct 12, 2009 · 44 min

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,

S2·E4 Core

Honey

Oct 19, 2009 · 44 min

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.

S2·E5 Core

Grievous Bodily Harm

Oct 26, 2009 · 44 min

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

S2·E6 Core

Lack of Candor

Nov 9, 2009 · 44 min

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

S2·E7 Core

Black Friday

Nov 16, 2009 · 44 min

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.

S2·E8 Core

Secret Santa

Nov 23, 2009 · 44 min

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.

S2·E9 Core

Fold Equity

Nov 30, 2009 · 44 min

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

S2·E10 Core

Tractor Man

Dec 14, 2009 · 43 min

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

S2·E11 Core

Beat The Devil

Jun 7, 2010 · 44 min

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.

S2·E12 Mytharc

Sweet Sixteen

Jun 14, 2010 · 44 min

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

S2·E13 Core

The Whole Truth

Jun 21, 2010 · 44 min

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

S2·E14 Core

React to Contact

Jun 28, 2010 · 44 min

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

S2·E15 Core

Teacher and Pupils

Jul 12, 2010 · 44 min

After a grisly shooting in a federal housing project, Lightman is hired to read the face of the paralyzed victim.

S2·E16 Mytharc

Delinquent

Jul 19, 2010 · 44 min

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.

S2·E17 Core

Bullet Bump

Jul 26, 2010 · 43 min

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

S2·E18 Core

Headlock

Aug 2, 2010 · 44 min

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

S2·E19 Core

Pied Piper

Aug 16, 2010 · 44 min

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.

S2·E20 Core

Exposed

Aug 23, 2010 · 44 min

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.

S2·E21 Mytharc

Darkness and Light

Aug 30, 2010 · 44 min

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

S2·E22 Mytharc

Black and White

Sep 13, 2010 · 44 min

The Lightman Group investigates the murder of a journalist and friend of Lightman’s who was killed while exposing a corrupt politician

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