

This compelling new drama series stars Tim Roth as Dr. Cal Lightman, the world's leading deception expert who studies facial expressions and involuntary body language to discover not only if someone is lying, but why. Based on the real-life scientific discoveries of Dr. Paul Ekman, the series follows Lightman and his team of deception experts as they assist law enforcement and government agencies to expose the truth behind the lies.
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60mA woman with multiple personalities could be either a witness to a murder---or the killer. Meanwhile, the government hires the Lightman Group to question a possible Supreme Court nominee.
60mZoe enlists the Lightman Group to probe a college-football star accused of statutory rape; Foster and Loker visit a religious compound to determine if it's a dangerous cult.
60mWhile vacationing in Mexico, Cal and Emily get involved in the case of a missing American woman. Back in D.C., Foster and Cal's rival, Jack Rader, investigates tainted blood in area hospitals.
60mA man is determined to prove that he didn't murder his wife, and his effort to do so puts the Lightman Group in danger.
60mAn old friend of Cal's attempts to pull him into a criminal conspiracy. Meanwhile, the Lightman Group probes a high-school student's murderous threats.
60mCal and Gillian probe the murder of a witness in a government case and discover that Agent Reynolds, the star witness in the case, is hiding something in his past.
60mA troubled teen who believes he was abducted as a baby wants to learn about his past. Meanwhile, Loker investigates a deadly stampede at a megastore the day after Thanksgiving.
60mCal spends the holidays in Afghanistan, where he relies solely on an American expatriate to help a mission to find a pair of missing Marines.
60mCal, Foster and Reynolds go all in to find a missing finalist from the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, where Cal must determine if the other players are being straight with him about the disappearance. Meanwhile, an analysis of Loker's latest relationship allows him and Torres to get better acquainted in the process.
60mA protesting farmer parks his explosives-packed tractor near the U.S. Treasury building. Meanwhile, Loker plays babysitter to third-graders stuck in the Lightman Group offices.
60mCal suspects that a charming psychology graduate student is a murderous psychopath, but the young man's teacher (who has a history with Cal) is protecting him. Meanwhile, Loker and Torres probe a claim by a teacher that he saw a UFO .
60mCal and Gillian look back over events in their lives---including the therapy session at which they met---after a former colleague of Cal's at the Pentagon is killed in a car bombing.
60mCal is a witness at the trial of a woman accused of murdering her much-older husband, a business tycoon.
60mCal confronts unsettling truths in his past as he and his team try to save the lives of an Iraq War vet and his family.
60mAfter a housing-project shooting, the D.C. police ask Cal to read the face of a paralyzed victim, who can move only his eyes.
60mTorres recalls a difficult childhood and shares an uneasy reunion with her incarcerated half sister after the latter's fellow inmate disappears from a juvenile corrections facility.
60mWhen a gubernatorial race in Virginia turns deadly following the death of a young woman at a campaign event, the Lightman Group is tapped to explore conflicting scenarios of foul play.
60mCal risks being exposed as a gambler when a fighter is found dead in an underground fight club. Meanwhile, Foster's romance with Burns is threatened when she discovers a secret.
60mCal and Zoe are called to witness the execution of a man they helped send to death row 17 years before---and face the possibility that he's innocent.
60mFoster's boyfriend, Dave Burns, is kidnapped, and Cal must track him down with the help of Burns' mysterious ex-partner.






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This compelling new drama series stars Tim Roth as Dr. Cal Lightman, the world's leading deception expert who studies facial expressions and involuntary body language to discover not only if someone is lying, but why. Based on the real-life scientific discoveries of Dr. Paul Ekman, the series follows Lightman and his team of deception experts as they assist law enforcement and government agencies to expose the truth behind the lies.
Tim Roth, Kelli Williams, Monica Raymund, Brendan Hines, Hayley McFarland, Mekhi Phifer.
The catalogue lists an episode length of 60 minutes; individual episodes may vary.
The listed premiere date is 21 January 2009.