Lie To Me Sadly
Ok, no one told us this episode of Lie To Me was going to be so saaad! We had to reach for the tissues there at the end. Sheesh. Sure, the whole episode was about cheery topics like suicide, cancer, and making illegal immigrants live in squalor, but the end was just heart breaking.
And TMI-Boy! It was bad enough that his overt honesty was messing up the investigation, but then he turns around and stabs everyone in the back -- just to punish one woman? Oh, TMI-Boy, how we loved thee. We'll miss you so, when you've gotten yourself fired from the Lightman Institute. (But we hope you have a lovely movie career or wherever you're going next.)
We're just getting started with this rant. More after the jump.
And TMI-Boy! It was bad enough that his overt honesty was messing up the investigation, but then he turns around and stabs everyone in the back -- just to punish one woman? Oh, TMI-Boy, how we loved thee. We'll miss you so, when you've gotten yourself fired from the Lightman Institute. (But we hope you have a lovely movie career or wherever you're going next.)
We're just getting started with this rant. More after the jump.
So here's how TMI-Boy sows the seeds of his own destruction. The minor plot this week has Gillian Foster and TMI-Boy helping out with an investigation into a Wall Street evil-doer who stole a bunch of people's money. Foster is convinced the old man -- who is dying of cancer and sick from multiple chemo treatments -- is hiding something. He says the money is all gone, but she thinks he's hiding it for his daughter and grandchildren.
TMI-Boy can't keep his mouth shut. Evidently he is incensed by what has happened and feels the need to tell everyone there just how despicable he finds them. Foster finally sends him away, but not before he's made everyone distrust them. Foster eventually figures out that it's the daughter who was the evil-doer, and the dad is taking the fall for her. I mean, he's dying anyway, right? So he doesn't feel like it's even that much of a sacrifice. Gillian convinces him to tell her where the money is -- on the condition that his daughter stays out of it.
TMI-Boy can't believe she's made a compromise and is letting the daughter get away with the theft. After all, they were hired to investigate and find out the truth, not make deals. (Even though the Lightman Group does this every week, it seems like.) Anyway, he goes behind Foster's back and gets the daughter arrested, thus messing up the deal she made, and making the old man swear he'll never tell where the money is. Of course Foster realizes how this has happened and confronts TMI-Boy. He (of course) lies to her, saying he had nothing to do with the arrest. They must have found out some other way. He used one of Lightman's own tricks to pull it off -- took a sedative to keep from looking/sounding guilty. (I'm tired all the time myself, does that make me a good liar?)
So anyway, we're sure there will be repurcussions in future episodes. Poor TMI-Boy. Can't imagine he'll stay on as a regular if he gets himself fired. We'll miss him. He's kinda adorable.
But that's hardly the saddest part of this episode. After all, it starts off with a young woman jumping off a bridge. The next morning, Dr. Lightman drives by the spot with his daughter in the car, and traffic is all backed up. Lightman jumps out (with his daughter) to go find out what's going on. Thanks, dad. Apparently she's as curious as he is, though, so I guess it's okay that he's dragging her around a crime scene sweet-talking pretty blonde cops into letting him get involved. (Lightman's daughter explains at one point that her dad studies suicides as a hobby, so I guess she's used to this.)
So here's the story. Two sisters from India (with expired tourist visas) jump off the same bridge within a week of each other. As they're investigating, a third Indian woman commits suicide by stepping in front of a subway train. (Did we mention that this was a sad episode?) After tracking them to a strip club, then losing the trail, Dr. Lightman notices not a microexpression, but a skin condition on one of the women brought on by pregnancy. The autopsies show that the other two suicide victims were also pregnant. So the team (joined by the pretty cop) start trying to figure out where the babies are.
Soon it's discovered that all three were getting paid as surrogate mothers. So it's likely the women had post-partum depression. Dr. Lightman thinks this doesn't explain the suicides. (We've seen women with post-partum depression. It's horrible, and absolutely results in suicide way too many times. No one should ever minimize it. But we digress.) So they track down the last known address of one of the women and discover a whole group of young Indian women living in... shall we say... less than ideal circumstances. And they're all pregnant. One of them finally admits this was all the idea of the guy in immigration who helps extend their visas. He says he'll pay them $5,000 to be surrogates, and then charges them rent, etc. to live in this horrible place. So by the time they give birth, they're broke. At which point he tosses them out on the street. So yeah, they're ready to jump off a bridge.
We warned you! Heavy stuff! And this isn't even the saddest bit!
This whole time, Lightman has been brooding in his batcave -- oops, office -- watching over and over again this old home-movie of a woman telling a psychiatrist why she should be allowed to leave inpatient treatment to go home and visit her family. TMI-Boy explains to The New Girl that the woman was the patient of one of Dr. Lightman's professors when he was in graduate school. She was given permission to go home for the weekend because she seems fine in the film. But then when she got home, she killed herself.
So everyone was baffled about what happened. Lightman watched the film over and over, then figured out if he slowed down the movie he could see the microexpressions of agony the woman was hiding in her explanation of how she was well enough to go home for the weekend.
TMI-Boy explains that this is how Dr. Lightman discovered microexpressions. With this film of this woman. Though this doesn't really explain why he's continuing to obsess over this film. The New Girl thinks she sees guilt on his face at one point when she interrupts one of his private screenings. She guesses the woman wasn't his professor's patient, but his own patient somehow. Since The New Girl is a natural, and didn't have to learn how to see micro-expressions, she can see easily that the woman is in pain, in spite of her words. Near the end of the episode, The New Girl confronts Dr. Lightman about his relationship to the woman. They ALMOST have a moment. Like maybe The New Girl might be able to get closer to Lightman than Foster has. But then Dr. Lightman pushes her away (literally, with a hand on her chest) and tells her to go home and get some sleep.
Meanwhile (and here's the sad part) Dr. Lightman's daughter is still hanging around the episode, saying her father should open up to her more. So the very last scene has him setting up the sad film in his daughter's room at home. When she comes in, he sits her down saying he wants to show her something. He turns on the film and she asks, "Oh, is this Grandma? You've never shown this to me before." And he says, "I know. There's something I want to tell you now." (End of Scene.)
And we dove for the tissues. Sigh. What an actor. No wonder we love him.
TMI-Boy can't keep his mouth shut. Evidently he is incensed by what has happened and feels the need to tell everyone there just how despicable he finds them. Foster finally sends him away, but not before he's made everyone distrust them. Foster eventually figures out that it's the daughter who was the evil-doer, and the dad is taking the fall for her. I mean, he's dying anyway, right? So he doesn't feel like it's even that much of a sacrifice. Gillian convinces him to tell her where the money is -- on the condition that his daughter stays out of it.
TMI-Boy can't believe she's made a compromise and is letting the daughter get away with the theft. After all, they were hired to investigate and find out the truth, not make deals. (Even though the Lightman Group does this every week, it seems like.) Anyway, he goes behind Foster's back and gets the daughter arrested, thus messing up the deal she made, and making the old man swear he'll never tell where the money is. Of course Foster realizes how this has happened and confronts TMI-Boy. He (of course) lies to her, saying he had nothing to do with the arrest. They must have found out some other way. He used one of Lightman's own tricks to pull it off -- took a sedative to keep from looking/sounding guilty. (I'm tired all the time myself, does that make me a good liar?)
So anyway, we're sure there will be repurcussions in future episodes. Poor TMI-Boy. Can't imagine he'll stay on as a regular if he gets himself fired. We'll miss him. He's kinda adorable.
But that's hardly the saddest part of this episode. After all, it starts off with a young woman jumping off a bridge. The next morning, Dr. Lightman drives by the spot with his daughter in the car, and traffic is all backed up. Lightman jumps out (with his daughter) to go find out what's going on. Thanks, dad. Apparently she's as curious as he is, though, so I guess it's okay that he's dragging her around a crime scene sweet-talking pretty blonde cops into letting him get involved. (Lightman's daughter explains at one point that her dad studies suicides as a hobby, so I guess she's used to this.)
So here's the story. Two sisters from India (with expired tourist visas) jump off the same bridge within a week of each other. As they're investigating, a third Indian woman commits suicide by stepping in front of a subway train. (Did we mention that this was a sad episode?) After tracking them to a strip club, then losing the trail, Dr. Lightman notices not a microexpression, but a skin condition on one of the women brought on by pregnancy. The autopsies show that the other two suicide victims were also pregnant. So the team (joined by the pretty cop) start trying to figure out where the babies are.
Soon it's discovered that all three were getting paid as surrogate mothers. So it's likely the women had post-partum depression. Dr. Lightman thinks this doesn't explain the suicides. (We've seen women with post-partum depression. It's horrible, and absolutely results in suicide way too many times. No one should ever minimize it. But we digress.) So they track down the last known address of one of the women and discover a whole group of young Indian women living in... shall we say... less than ideal circumstances. And they're all pregnant. One of them finally admits this was all the idea of the guy in immigration who helps extend their visas. He says he'll pay them $5,000 to be surrogates, and then charges them rent, etc. to live in this horrible place. So by the time they give birth, they're broke. At which point he tosses them out on the street. So yeah, they're ready to jump off a bridge.
We warned you! Heavy stuff! And this isn't even the saddest bit!
This whole time, Lightman has been brooding in his batcave -- oops, office -- watching over and over again this old home-movie of a woman telling a psychiatrist why she should be allowed to leave inpatient treatment to go home and visit her family. TMI-Boy explains to The New Girl that the woman was the patient of one of Dr. Lightman's professors when he was in graduate school. She was given permission to go home for the weekend because she seems fine in the film. But then when she got home, she killed herself.
So everyone was baffled about what happened. Lightman watched the film over and over, then figured out if he slowed down the movie he could see the microexpressions of agony the woman was hiding in her explanation of how she was well enough to go home for the weekend.
TMI-Boy explains that this is how Dr. Lightman discovered microexpressions. With this film of this woman. Though this doesn't really explain why he's continuing to obsess over this film. The New Girl thinks she sees guilt on his face at one point when she interrupts one of his private screenings. She guesses the woman wasn't his professor's patient, but his own patient somehow. Since The New Girl is a natural, and didn't have to learn how to see micro-expressions, she can see easily that the woman is in pain, in spite of her words. Near the end of the episode, The New Girl confronts Dr. Lightman about his relationship to the woman. They ALMOST have a moment. Like maybe The New Girl might be able to get closer to Lightman than Foster has. But then Dr. Lightman pushes her away (literally, with a hand on her chest) and tells her to go home and get some sleep.
Meanwhile (and here's the sad part) Dr. Lightman's daughter is still hanging around the episode, saying her father should open up to her more. So the very last scene has him setting up the sad film in his daughter's room at home. When she comes in, he sits her down saying he wants to show her something. He turns on the film and she asks, "Oh, is this Grandma? You've never shown this to me before." And he says, "I know. There's something I want to tell you now." (End of Scene.)
And we dove for the tissues. Sigh. What an actor. No wonder we love him.