

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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60mTim tries to stop a man bent on revenge from robbing a bank and in the process holds a guilty man accountable for his actions.
60mLightman defends a falsely accused man from an angry mob. In the course of proving his innocence, Lightman unearths a secret that allows a mother and daughter to begin to heal.
60mThe Lightman Group is hired to look into police profiling following an incident involving Wallowski, and it turns out that Internal Affairs want Cal to incriminate her.
60mThe Lightman Group's expertise is called into question when a woman plays cat-and-mouse with Cal while he's checking for security leaks at an art museum prior to a major exhibition.
60mCal investigates a coal-mine explosion that killed six miners, and he suspects foul play. So to prove it he goes into the mine. Meanwhile, the FBI seeks the Lightman Group's aid again, and Foster and Torres offer to work pro bono.
60mCal goes head-to-head with a self-help guru to free a wealthy woman who might be under his control. Cal also suspects the group of threatening him and Emily.
60mCal helps a woman with early-onset Alzheimer's reconstruct a memory, and unearths a secret that could prove deadly in the process.
60mA terminally ill restaurateur hires Cal to track down his murdered daughter's killer. She had been first in line to inherit her father's successful restaurant chain, and Cal discovers that this fact could have something to do with her death.
60mCal commits himself to a mental hospital to investigate whether a patient is being held there legitimately and comes to question his own sanity as well. He also confronts his past in hallucinations in which he reminisces with his late mother and confronts his father.
60mA wealthy woman wants Cal to conduct a background check on her new boyfriend, who turns out to be quite a "social chameleon."
60mCal probes a fatal traffic accident caused by three teens.
60mCal investigates the abduction of a baby and comes to believe that the child's mother is hiding something.
60mCal probes the death of a social-network cofounder who had feared that she was being squeezed out by her 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.