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I don't usually have a big problem with creepy. I have a bit of a crush on Vincent D'Onofrio, as a kid I watched "In Search Of," and I've seen "The Silence of the Lambs" more times than I care to count. But tonight's "Lie to Me" -- while compelling, intelligently plotted, and very well acted, kind of freaked me out.
This week's "Lie to Me" seemed to take a page from the "24" playbook (minus the torture), with cops as suspects, FBI agents, CIA informers, and a rumored terrorist plot. But it all started like a good, old-fashioned crime procedural.
They say that marriage -- and divorce -- often comes down to a battle of wills. But tonight's "Lie to Me" also threw in in unresolved feelings, a tense relationship with a business partner, and an arson investigation -- and boy did that dynamic get interesting.
I would never have considered the possibility that microexpressions could be the key to a FEMA investigation, but tonight's "Lie to Me" convinced me that it's possible. Well, more or less. Of all the scenarios where The Lightman Group could've been useful, this one felt like bit of a stretch -- albeit a really dramatic one. And at least no one told Cal he was doing a heckuva job.
We begin tonight's "Lie to Me" with a mystery that's a whole lot different than The Lightman Group's typical case -- if such a thing exists. Cal and his daughter encounter a road block while on their way to school; a young Indian woman has thrown herself from a bridge -- and Cal can't let it go. And in a B story ripped from the headlines, we've got a major Madoff-style swindle and some populist anger from Eli.
To what lengths would you go to save a member of your family from being hurt? In their own ways, both of the cases on tonight's "Lie to Me" dealt with just that question. And we also got a heads-up that the bond between Cal and Gillian is going to turn out to be stronger than just professionalism.
I never would have considered all the reasons to hire a firm to find out if someone's lying -- which is probably why I find it pretty easy to get caught up in the scenarios on Lie to Me. This week they neatly managed a storyline about a missing 11-year-old girl and a potentially fraudulent author with a date with destiny, a.k.a. Oprah's Book Club.
This week's Lie to Me was probably the most predicable show yet. The killer is instantly recognized in one case; in the other, the twist wasn't as twisty and they were going for. But hey, it's fun to solve the riddle before the professionals do.
Every wedding creates a certain amount of stress in a family. In the words of Lie to Me's Cal Lightman: the bride's pretending to be a virgin, the groom's pretending he's found "The One," and the in-laws are pretending to like each other. But usually, no one has to worry about an attempted murder.
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