Lie to Me

[repeated line]

Dr. Cal Lightman:
That's a lie.

[repeated line]

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Now that's the truth.

[repeated line]

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Do me a favor.

Martin Walker:
Good chess players think five moves ahead.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Great chess players think one move ahead. But it's the right move.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
You owe me 200 bucks, you bastard!

Dr. Cal Lightman:
We follow the truth here, right? No matter the cost to our egos or our wallets.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Go on then.

[Cal finds a reporter friend of his dead and the FBI shows up when he calls the cops. They tell him they'd heard she'd been digging up dirt on a councilman]

Dr. Cal Lightman:
What about the councilman?

Agent Ben Reynolds:
Anslinger's not just anyone. He's an ex-cop and a shoe-in to be mayor. This may be a friend of yours but you can't just go barge into the man's office and accuse him of murder.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Did you tell him to say that?

Asac Dillon:
First and foremost Agent Reynolds works for me Dr. Lightman.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
So you're telling me I can't go look the man in the eye?

Asac Dillon:
And do what?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
You must be jokin'.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
They want me to have a man with a gun around, full time.

Agent Ben Reynolds:
To protect the valuables. Well, i guess I can't blame 'em, I mean, you guys are a bunch of scientist-nerds, running around, poking your nose in people's faces, calling 'em liars

Ria Torres:
I'm a natural, remember?

Eli Loker:
Oh, yeah, I'm sorry, so you're saying that you have accomplished nothing aside from just being born?

Ria Torres:
Here are the articles for Carolyn Hollin and her father.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
Thanks. Now get back to helping Lightman, whatever he needs.

Ria Torres:
Uh... this suicide thing...

Dr. Gillian Foster:
What about it?

Ria Torres:
Well, I saw him watching the film of that woman, Louise Mason, and Loker told me how she was a patient of Lightman's professor.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
Yeah.

Ria Torres:
I saw him looking at her and he showed guilt all over his face.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
Just because you can see everything doesn't mean you understand it.

Ria Torres:
I don't think she was his professor's patient. I think she was his patient. What if he's the one who didn't see it and let her off the psych ward?

Dr. Gillian Foster:
Leave it alone.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
There has to be some link between these girls. There has to be some reason why they killed themselves.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
I know you don't want to hear this again, but I'm gonna say it to you anyway. It doesn't matter how many you find a reason for, it wasn't your fault.

Eli Loker:
Her name was Louise Mason. She was a patient of one of Lightman's professors when he was in grad school. She had been in the psych ward about a month when that was recorded. She told the professor she was fine. No-one could see she was actually in agony. Lightman finally got the idea to slow down the film and that's when he saw the agony in her face. That's what led him to discover micro-expressions in the first place.

Ria Torres:
I hope they didn't let that woman off the psych ward.

Eli Loker:
She got a pass home for the weekend and killed herself.

Emily Lightman:
Do you remember... that girl at my school who took all those pills and killed herself? I didn't really know her very well, but she was in my art class. And she used to paint these really colorful oil paintings. Just shapes, really. I wonder sometimes if anyone could have stopped her.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
[Nods, very slightly]

Emily Lightman:
What?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Nothing. [Gives her a hug] You shouldn't think about that stuff.

Emily Lightman:
What am I supposed to think about?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Celibacy.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
What have we got?

Medical Examiner:
[Uncovers corpse's face] Your third suicide victim, Rajal Lamba. This is what you saw on the video tape. It's a ring of skin pigmentation called melasma.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
It's the mask of pregnancy, right?

Medical Examiner:
Exactly. It's a common hormonal side effect. The autopsy revealed that she gave birth approximately a month ago.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
What about the Ashraf sisters?

Medical Examiner:
We finished autopsies on both of them. Each gave birth in the last two months.

Gail:
All three of them? Why would they all give birth and then kill themselves?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
And where are all the babies?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
What if all three women were surrogates?

Gail:
It would explain why we haven't located any of their babies.

Mike Personick:
She worked for me, that's all. Why is it my responsibility what happens to her after that?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
This girl was two blocks from the subway. She calls you to tell you that she's gonna jump in front of a train and you did nothing!

Mike Personick:
Yeah! So what? That doesn't make me a murderer. I didn't threaten her.

Gail:
You didn't have to. You created the circumstances that led to her suicide. It was a depraved heart murder.

Mike Personick:
I didn't murder anyone.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
You did good in there, Rohit.

Sulman Lamba:
Been a long time since I spoke Hindi.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
I'll come by the University next week and we can catch up.

Sulman Lamba:
[They shake hands] Good to see you, Cal.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
And you.

Emily Lightman:
[They watch film of Louise Mason] You've never shown this to me before.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
No. Something I want to tell you, Em.

Farr:
Dr. Lightman. What do you want?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Every cop in the city to pass a fitness test.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
First off, he's not a man, so try "boy". See what I mean?

Jenkins:
You call this science?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Well, it sells books, you know?

Dr. Gillian Foster:
You adopted her five years ago?

Peter Burch:
Yeah. We waited so long for a child. She made us a family.

Lorraine Burch:
Do either of you have children?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Yeah, I do.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
[Shakes her head]

Peter Burch:
How anybody thinks that we could hurt her... I don't understand.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
I need to ask you a question... Did you kill your daughter? Did you? Did you kill her?

Lorraine Burch:
How can you even ask us that?

Peter Burch:
Are you serious?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
I know you want me to help you so answer the question.

Lorraine Burch:
I'm not going to answer that.

Peter Burch:
No, listen.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Did you kill Samantha?

Peter Burch:
Look, we didn't bring you here...

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Did you kill your daughter? Did you kill her?

Lorraine Burch:
No.

Peter Burch:
No! No, no, no.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Ok, I think we can help you.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
You going to be ok?

Dr. Gillian Foster:
Sure.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
'Cos I can do this one on my own.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
No, not a chance. I know what you're thinking and it's not going to be a problem.

Reporter #1:
Dr Lightman can we ask you a question? Anything from the Burches?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Off the record?

Reporter #1:
Yeah, go ahead... [turns to cameraman] turn it off.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
It's my understanding that Samantha Burch was seen with an unidentified male leaving a restaurant called The Happy Dragon. Right now police are searching Chinatown.

Reporter #1:
Ok, thank you. [She leaves]

Dr. Gillian Foster:
[Looks questioningly at Lightman]

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Well, Burches could use some privacy, and The Happy Dragon could definitely use the business.

Detective Hughs:
It's been two hours, you think we can trust that pervert?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Yes. In my experience self-castrating paedophiles are generally telling the truth.

Lorraine Burch:
You don't know what it's like, you're not a mother.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
No, but I was. My husband and I adopted a baby girl last year. We brought her home from Delaware. We bathed her and rocked her to sleep. Built a nursery. In Delaware the birth mother has 60 days to change her mind. We made it to day 57. I didn't get to keep my baby, but yours is right there. You need to talk to her.

Lorraine Burch:
What was your daughter's name?

Dr. Gillian Foster:
Sophie.

Samantha Burch:
Mom! I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

Lorraine Burch:
It's okay.

Samantha Burch:
I was worried about Heather.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
Who's Heather?

Samantha Burch:
She's the other girl.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
What other girl?

Samantha Burch:
The other girl who was taken.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
Hey. I just needed a minute before I went home.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Sure.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
Sophie is 13 months. She's probably walking now.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Emily started around that age, I think.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
She's probably changing so fast. Every now and then I'll see a little girl on the street and I... I think it's her. And I have to... fight so hard not to run up and hug some stranger's little girl. I'm sorry.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Don't be.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
It's just... Alec doesn't want to talk about it. He says he can't. So we don't. I'm okay. You can go.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
No, I'm alright.

Eli Loker:
Actually, I don't... I don't go out on many dates.

Farida Mugisha:
Why not?

Eli Loker:
People lie to you with polite conversation. Then, when they finally show themselves to you, you realize you've spent all that time with a stranger.

Naomi:
Are you hitting on me?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
What, in this place? That'd be a bit creepy, wouldn't it?

Eli Loker:
Old white people all look alike.

Ria Torres:
You just figured that out?

Michelle Russo:
He reads faces.

Gus:
They have a name for that where I come from - common sense.

[last lines]

Emily Lightman:
You don't trust people. That's why you'll always be alone.

Michelle Russo:
How do you know when I stop lying?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
You shut your mouth.

Mason Brock:
I never thought I'd see the day...

Amadeo Valadez:
What day is that?

Mason Brock:
The day they'd let Cal Lightman back in Vegas.

Asac Dillon:
You concealed a personal relationship with the victim.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Well, I was just trying to help, you know.

Asac Dillon:
And you thought I was the dirty one.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
No, I wasn't sure that you were dirty, per se. You know, I... I just couldn't be one hundred percent sure at the time.

Asac Dillon:
How sure were you? Ninety percent? Eighty percent?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
I didn't kill Raul, you know, if that's where this is headed.

Asac Dillon:
How can I be a hundred percent sure?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Find the real killer?

Asac Dillon:
How do you explain the fight outside the bar?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
He was drunk. I was getting his keys.

Asac Dillon:
Don't take me for a fool. Do you have any idea how overwhelming the evidence is against you?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Look, I'm not taking you for a tool.

Asac Dillon:
FOOL!

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Whatever, whatever.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
Only you would suggest canceling a wedding ten minutes before it starts.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
It was just a suggestion.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
The bride is pretending to be a virgin, the groom is pretending to have found The One, and the inlaws are pretending to like each other. It's Christmas for liars.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
You know, I wanted to...

Ria Torres:
Yeah, I know.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
What?

Ria Torres:
You had a slight gratitude smile. What, are you surprised? Really? You know, just because I don't know your science doesn't mean I don't know things.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
You know, when you DON'T know the science, you don't see the whole picture. People can get hurt.

Ria Torres:
What was that? What happened?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
What?

Ria Torres:
Shame. When you said people get hurt, you showed shame.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
I don't know what you're talking about.

Ria Torres:
You're lying.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Get used to it.

Ria Torres:
Hey, I thought we were done with this case.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
No, it's possible Sergeant Scott raped someone else who used to be in the platoon.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Oh, your buccinator's playing up again.

Ria Torres:
It's not... I didn't say...

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Oh, look. Now you're embarrassed. Well, you have every reason to be. You did get it wrong, didn't you? I mean, Sergeant Scott didn't rape Sheila Lake.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
Cal...

Dr. Cal Lightman:
What? She's the one making snide remarks! Look at her face!

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Unpleasant truths, human mortality, a mustache on a woman - three things we'd all prefer to ignore.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
[to co-workers after deliberately flirting with Staff Sgt. Russell Scott] I love a man in uniform.

Cal Lightman:
Well we all pay for sex one way or another. At least hookers are honest about the price.

Ria Torres:
What am I supposed to believe about you?

Cal Lightman:
[shrugging] You can believe whatever you want. It's what everybody else does.

Cal Lightman:
The average person lies 3 times for every 10 minutes of conversation.

Cal Lightman:
Truth or happiness, never both.

Emily Lightman:
No, we're not doing this. You just go let Dan in while I finish getting ready and you better not do some covert scientific technique to find out what we're doing or not doing tonight. Promise!

Cal Lightman:
No covert science, I promise.

[opens front door]

Cal Lightman:
Hi Dan!

Dan:
Hi Dr. Lightman!

Cal Lightman:
Are you going to try and have sex with my daughter tonight?

Cal Lightman:
What is that?

Dr. Gillian Foster:
Chocolate pudding.

Cal Lightman:
Who eats pudding at ten o'clock in the morning?

Dr. Gillian Foster:
People who like pudding.

Cal Lightman:
What is that?

Dr. Gillian Foster:
[Eating pudding] Chocolate pudding.

Cal Lightman:
Who eats pudding at 10 in the morning?

Dr. Gillian Foster:
People who like pudding.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
[Sucking a drink through a straw]

Cal Lightman:
What is that now?

Dr. Gillian Foster:
Orange Slushee.

Cal Lightman:
How old are you?

Dr. Gillian Foster:
I'm telling you: we cannot wait another day to hire someone. I found the one. This is the one.

Cal Lightman:
[shakes his head and grunts]

Dr. Gillian Foster:
Use your words.

Cal Lightman:
Why do we need to hire someone?

Dr. Gillian Foster:
We got a new request this morning from the DEA and Homeland Security. Someone from the Prime Minister's office in Uzbekistan called; they want us to give a talk to their senior police.

Cal Lightman:
Tell them to call back when they get a constitution - a real one.

Eli Loker:
Here's the analysis from the blinking experiment.

Cal Lightman:
Are you just getting in, Loker?

Eli Loker:
[Practicing Radical Honesty] Yeah, I got pissed drunk last night with my roommate, and I was just lying in bed this morning thinking about how nasty hot Nancy Grace is, and just trying to decide if I was going to come in at all, 'cause it's not like there's anyone here to fantasize about.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
No offense taken.

Eli Loker:
I don't go for married women.

Cal Lightman:
I guess we're all here, then: someone who wants the truth, someone who wants to be right, and us - the idiots in the middle.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
We'll need the crime-scene photos and the autopsy report.

AUSA Hutchinson:
I thought you could tell if somebody was lying just by looking at them.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
The question is never simply if someone is lying; it's why.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
Six years ago, Dr Lightman left the deception-detection program he founded for the Defense Department. Together, we started a private firm that works with police, corporations, and almost every Federal agency. We'd like you to come work for us, Ms Torres.

Ria Torres:
Why?

Dr. Gillian Foster:
You've made seven times more arrests than the average TSA agent, and you scored 97% on the TSA deception diagnostic, which Dr Lightman created.

Cal Lightman:
Have you ever had any specialized deception training?

Ria Torres:
I've dated a lot of men.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
You're one of the naturals. There's an infinitesmal percentage of the population, less than .001, that test nearly perfect without any advanced training.

Cal Lightman:
You're a terrible liar.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
Normal people think that's a good thing.

Cal Lightman:
Are you saying I'm not normal?

Cal Lightman:
Body language tells the truth, even from the grave.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Truth or happiness. Never both.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Truth or happiness, never both.

Emily Lightman:
Are you trying to be annoying, or does it just come naturally?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
It comes naturally.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
[to an old family friend of Wallowski's] Do your sons hate you as much as I think they do? 'Cause I've been led to believe that they killed your daughter.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
That's it, then? People just change and then they move on?

Zoe Landau:
Are you saying that I'm the one that changed?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
You left me. You left.

Zoe Landau:
Yeah, I left because of you.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Oh, it's my fault now?

Zoe Landau:
No, I'm saying that you should take a hard look at what happened before you start blaming me.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Hey, I saw what happened! I saw what was happening! I could see the doubt, I could see the doubt, when you were standing on the bloody altar!

Zoe Landau:
Everyone has doubts, Cal! Everyone!

Dr. Cal Lightman:
[to Foster] *This* your divorce present.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Oh, your husband likes to have unprotected sex with prostitutes, so now would be a good time to get yourself tested for... well... everything, really. Nice car Kyle!

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Now before I do this, I want you to know that I'm sorry.

Agent Ben Reynolds:
The president specifically asked for you.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
You know I can tell when you're lying don't you?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
[hands Gillian a bottle of champagne] Divorce present.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
I wasn't panning on toasting the demise of my marriage but thanks.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
How you feeling?

Dr. Gillian Foster:
Horrible. Depressed, like a loser.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
[pauses, studies her face] You're happy.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
[to Judge Simon] This is Ria Torres, she's gonna determine whether or not you're a lying son of a b*tch.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Testy ex-wife trumps testy FBI agent.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
You know push comes to shove I can always go to Vegas and win the money back.

Dr. Gillian Foster:
Don't even joke about that. Cal... promise me you'll never go back to Vegas!

Dr. Cal Lightman:
When you hear hooves...

Dr. Gillian Foster:
Think horses, not zebras.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Either way, it's a stampede.

Thomas Fletcher:
Y'know, you've got a big mouth.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Yep.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
You been drinking, detective?

Detective Sharon Wallowski:
It's called mouthwash, professor.

Candice McCallister:
Dr. Lightman, my pageant is about to go up in flames.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Down in flames, up in smoke.

Detective Sharon Wallowski:
Mr. Fletcher, if there's anything you're not telling us about this you'll make it a lot easier on yourself if you just come clean.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Bloody hell. You people really do talk like that.

Detective Sharon Wallowski:
Who? Latinos or Poles? Oh, you mean cops.

Detective Sharon Wallowski:
You called the wrong number. You need to call Child Protective Services.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
No, what I need is a dodgy cop, who'll keep this off the record till I say.

Detective Sharon Wallowski:
Yeah, when is that fool showing up?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Well, he didn't molest that girl.

Detective Sharon Wallowski:
You wanna walk me through your thinking on that?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
In a word, no.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Don't let him leave, all right? He's hiding something.

Detective Sharon Wallowski:
I can't guarantee his safety.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Oh, don't be such a girl.

Clara Musso (George, Melissa):
Seems there's a lot of chemistry there between you and your ex-wife.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Yeah, well there's a lot of chemistry in Chernobyl.

Zoe Landau (Beals, Jennifer):
[to Dr. Cal Lightman as he stands in a jail cell] You know, a room like this in our house could've saved our marriage.

Zoe Landau (Beals, Jennifer):
Permission to treat Dr. Lightman as a hostile witness.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
[instantly] Granted!

Ria Torres:
Studies show that the most successful marriages are the ones where husbands are at least 5 years older than their wives.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
What Torres is saying is that she needs to be stimulated and challenged by experience. So, who was this old fart then, eh?

Zoe Landau (Beals, Jennifer):
Control yourself or I will have the judge control you!

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Oh, what, her? Do me a favor, look at her. She's having a tough enough time controlling herself.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Well, to say you stopped loving someone you once loved More than anything else in the world, I mean that would be a lie.

Cal Lightman:
[to Emily after finding her Birth Control Pills] I hope for your sake these are Tic-Tacs.

Dr. Cal Lightman:
You've got your head up your ass.

Captain Hoopes:
Excuse me?

Dr. Cal Lightman:
YOU've got your HEAD, UP your ass. [gesturing up]

Captain Hoopes:
Right. Mayor brings in a guy to investigate and he's already on your side. [pointing to Mayoral advisor]

Dr. Cal Lightman:
Nah, he's got his head up his ass too. [pointing to Mayoral advisor]