Lie To Me For Old Time's Sake
This week on Lie To Me, Dr. Lightman gets the girl! Sorta. Kinda. Maybe. Well, it's a bit confusing, We know he got naked with his ex-wife, and we know he has some pretty interesting tattoos going on, but we thought she was engaged to someone else. Was she just using poor little sappy Cal? Yeah, we didn't think that sounded right either.
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Yes! We finally got to meet the ex-wife! And wow, what a piece of work she is. First she shows up with a case for the Lightman Group. Then she implies Gillian is the reason the marriage broke up in the first place. Then she flirts with her ex-husband after getting off the phone to her fiance. Umm... okay.... Let's talk about the cases of the week.
The primary focus was on the arson case. There's a tragic death when a family's house burns to the ground. Mom, Dad, Adorable Poppet and Troubled Tween are safe. Grandma didn't make it out. But the Adorable Poppet says he saw who set the fire -- a man he knows ran out of the cellar as the firemen arrived.
Lightman's ex-wife wants her adoring ex-husband to figure out if the boy is telling the truth. Sure, the guy with the history of shouting people down. That's who I would think of first for this case too.
And sure enough, Lightman gets all up in the kid's face. THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF GOT EATEN BY WOLVES. DO YOU WANT TO BE EATEN BY WOLVES?
It's amazing his daughter turned out so normal. OR IS SHE? Ahem, sorry. His daughter had only a small part this week, mostly just there to walk in at inconvenient times and tell Cal his ex-wife still loves him. But we've digressed.
The man the boy is accusing of arson is a TV reporter and a friend of his father's. It really makes no sense, but the boy is telling the truth. Foster figures out that the boy is just as sure that Santa Claus exists and encourages the hunt for the arsonist to turn elsewhere.
For a while it's looking like Mom or Dad did it -- maybe even the Troubled Tween. After all, she's the one who fed her brother the story. And why would she do that? Ah, to get the reporter in trouble. She found out her mother was having an affair with him, and when the circumstances presented themselves, she couldn't help trying to get him hauled off to jail.
But then there's another fire. Everyone from the first fire has a pretty good alibi -- aka being checked into the hospital -- so the plot thickens! Right up until it occurs to Cal that this couple is getting divorced as well, and maybe there's a connection. Yep, the wife in this second arson case was having an affair as well -- with the reporter!
One more confrontation with the reporter reveals he wasn't "the guy" -- his wife was "the guy." Yep, she was jealous of all the women her husband was dating now that he's a big TV star. So she started burning down homes.
Case number two involves Torres and Foster helping to solve the mystery of who killed a man who worked for a famous rapper. Nope, it wasn't the rapper's arch-musical-nemesis. Ah hah! Yes! It's the protective cousin of the arch-musical-nemesis who was trying to hide the fact that his particular famous rapper is gay. Ah well. Not every problem can be solved with a gun. Torres figures out all this was going on underneath all the lies pretty much all on her own.
And finally -- yes, there are many arguments and awkward moments with Cal and his ex. Cal is obviously still smitten by her. She seems... well, dare we say it? Flighty. And a bit nuts. We really don't know what we see in him.
But then, she doesn't have a British accent. I wonder if the long legs and gorgeous face are the functional equivalent for men.
The primary focus was on the arson case. There's a tragic death when a family's house burns to the ground. Mom, Dad, Adorable Poppet and Troubled Tween are safe. Grandma didn't make it out. But the Adorable Poppet says he saw who set the fire -- a man he knows ran out of the cellar as the firemen arrived.
Lightman's ex-wife wants her adoring ex-husband to figure out if the boy is telling the truth. Sure, the guy with the history of shouting people down. That's who I would think of first for this case too.
And sure enough, Lightman gets all up in the kid's face. THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF GOT EATEN BY WOLVES. DO YOU WANT TO BE EATEN BY WOLVES?
It's amazing his daughter turned out so normal. OR IS SHE? Ahem, sorry. His daughter had only a small part this week, mostly just there to walk in at inconvenient times and tell Cal his ex-wife still loves him. But we've digressed.
The man the boy is accusing of arson is a TV reporter and a friend of his father's. It really makes no sense, but the boy is telling the truth. Foster figures out that the boy is just as sure that Santa Claus exists and encourages the hunt for the arsonist to turn elsewhere.
For a while it's looking like Mom or Dad did it -- maybe even the Troubled Tween. After all, she's the one who fed her brother the story. And why would she do that? Ah, to get the reporter in trouble. She found out her mother was having an affair with him, and when the circumstances presented themselves, she couldn't help trying to get him hauled off to jail.
But then there's another fire. Everyone from the first fire has a pretty good alibi -- aka being checked into the hospital -- so the plot thickens! Right up until it occurs to Cal that this couple is getting divorced as well, and maybe there's a connection. Yep, the wife in this second arson case was having an affair as well -- with the reporter!
One more confrontation with the reporter reveals he wasn't "the guy" -- his wife was "the guy." Yep, she was jealous of all the women her husband was dating now that he's a big TV star. So she started burning down homes.
Case number two involves Torres and Foster helping to solve the mystery of who killed a man who worked for a famous rapper. Nope, it wasn't the rapper's arch-musical-nemesis. Ah hah! Yes! It's the protective cousin of the arch-musical-nemesis who was trying to hide the fact that his particular famous rapper is gay. Ah well. Not every problem can be solved with a gun. Torres figures out all this was going on underneath all the lies pretty much all on her own.
And finally -- yes, there are many arguments and awkward moments with Cal and his ex. Cal is obviously still smitten by her. She seems... well, dare we say it? Flighty. And a bit nuts. We really don't know what we see in him.
But then, she doesn't have a British accent. I wonder if the long legs and gorgeous face are the functional equivalent for men.