Primer: Lie to Me 2x13 "The Whole Truth"

(A snarky recap of this week’s episode)

The Premise: The Lightman Group is hired to bolster the prosecution’s case against Clara, a woman accused of killing her sugar daddy/husband. The widow’s defense lawyer just so happens to be Cal’s ex-wife and frequent bedmate, Zoe Landau.

The Personal: Cal shares sparks with kinky widow Clara and sleeps with Zoe—not bad for a mere forty-odd minutes. He also hurts the feelings of Lightman/Foster shippers by implying he doesn’t have romantic feelings for his partner. Loker and Torres flirt.

The Resolution: Realizing Clara’s husband’s death was euthanasia, Cal gets the dead man’s best friend to admit to assisting the procedure in open court. Clara is found innocent and inherits her husband’s billions. She hints that she’ll want Cal’s… uh, services at some point in the not-so-distant future.

What We Learned from this Episode:

• Cal Lightman is a manwhore. Tim Roth is such an amazing actor, he could create sexual tension with a bedpost, and the team behind LTM seems determined to prove it. Gillian, Zoe, Poppy, Helen, now Clara… If any more romantic interests get thrown into the mix, TPTB are going to have to give him a reality show spin-off on VH-1. (“Lie of Love”…?)

• The writers can’t decide if he’s a scientist or an action hero. The credibility of his science is called into question throughout the episode, and how does Cal react…? By provoking the judge, mocking lawyers, and prying into the private lives of the very jurors he’s supposedly trying to convince. Granted, Roth does cocky and confrontational like no other, but keep it in a more plausible context, please.

• Gillian Foster is a ninja. Not only does she figure out a key piece of this week’s puzzle, but she also breaks bad on some guy. It’s fun getting a glimpse of what might happen if the self-contained psychologist ever really lost her shit on someone, and hopefully Kelli Williams gets more material like this soon.

• Loker likes Torres, and Torres likes the ladies. Or at least she used to… Torres admits to a past relationship with an older woman when Eli questions her about his “competition.” If this doesn’t bring the Torres/Foster shippers out of the woodwork, nothing will.