Normally I’m not a huge fan of legal dramas, but I have to admit that I did enjoy this episode of LIE TO ME, titled ‘The Whole Truth’ – even if most of it took place in a courtroom.
The Lightman Group is called in on a case where a woman has been accused of murdering her much older husband in order to inherit his fortune. The Prosecutor hires The Lightman Group to help them win the case, but then Cal starts to wonder if he’s on the wrong team. He discovers that the defendant is telling the truth and he and his team quickly jump sides, doing everything they can to help her. In the end it turns out not to be a murder at all, it was an assisted suicide.
Tim Roth is the reason I began watching Lie To Me in the first place. A fan of his for years, I recently counted it out and realized that I have seen no less than 24 of his films. I can’t help myself, he is downright mesmerizing when he’s on screen.
On the show, Cal runs into people all the time who don’t believe in his work so he’s used to arguing. In fact, he seems to get a big kick out of it. But watching him up against his ex Zoe was even better. He seemed to be having WAY too much fun being up on the stand in front of her, waiting for the fighting to begin. As I watched them I couldn’t help but to have the totally inappropriate thought of how they must have had lots of angry sex when they were married.
Another bit of fun was watching the usual background story as Ruiz and Eli were helping out with the jury, and a little gem from Ruiz’s past came to light. I laughed so hard when Cal asked who the “old fart” was that she must have had a relationship with. Then I laughed even harder as Eli started choking on his candy bar when he found out that Ruiz’s relationship wasn’t with an older man……it was with a woman. Poor guy, I thought he was gonna blow a gasket there for a second.
Recently I’ve been watching season one of Lie To Me and I can really see the difference from then and now. These characters have had enough time together on screen that we can enjoy how they interact and are unable to keep secrets from each other. Or should I say how none of them can hide anything from Cal, as proven by how easily he found out about Ruiz’s “experiment”.
Some of my other favorite bits…
Usually they have to find people lying, so it was interesting to watch Foster at one point coaching people in the art of telling the truth.
Cal making out with the wife to see what the son’s reaction would be. Classic.
Cal describing Foster as his “Leo” – I really like how these two are portrayed as true friends.
Aha! And I guess I wasn’t too far off when the two exes bickering brought to mind naughtiness as Cal and Zoe made plans to go off and spend the night together at the end.
Overall I really enjoyed this episode. It managed to give us a lot of drama even though there was only one case to be handled. But by having all the characters involved in it, there was still plenty of storyline to go around.
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