Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 21, 2009
Dr. Cal Lightman, an expert in how facial expressions and body language betray emotions, solves cases for law-enforcement agencies and whoever else hires him in this whodunit. In the pilot, a high-school teacher is murdered, and one of her students is caught running from her house; and the chairman of the House Ethics Committee is accused of patronizing a prostitute.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jan 28, 2009
While Cal tries to determine the truthfulness of a female soldier's rape accusation against her sergeant, basketball fan Gillian probes a charge that an influential college alum bribed a promising inner-city prospect to attend his school.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Feb 4, 2009
The murder of a federal judge's teen daughter leads the Lightman Group to her highly competitive prep school. Meanwhile, a NASA test pilot is accused of intentionally crashing a plane.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Feb 18, 2009
The team is assigned to protect the South Korean ambassador, a presidential candidate in his country and the object of death threats, during his son's wedding. The ambassador isn't shot but his son is, and Cal doesn't think it was the result of bad aim. Besides, everyone in the wedding party seems to have something to hide.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Mar 4, 2009
A governor weighing a pardon for a reformed gang leader imprisoned for killing a cop hires Cal to determine if the guy has really reformed. Meanwhile, the death of a black probationary firefighter in a burning building might not have been accidental. Gillian must find out if it was murder and, if it was, who did it.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Mar 11, 2009
While Lightman and Foster probe the disappearance of an 11-year-old adopted girl, Loker and Torres must determine whether a Ugandan peace activist is who she claims to be. One problem: Loker is a fan of the woman, and they become attracted to each other when they meet.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Mar 18, 2009
Lightman is hired by an old friend to find a corporate spy at a pharmaceutical company, then gets mixed up in a conspiracy surrounding a new drug that could put thousands of lives at risk. Meanwhile, the State Department hires the team to assist with negotiations for the release of two U.S. citizens imprisoned in Yemen.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Apr 1, 2009
Cal becomes obsessed with the suicides of three young Indian-immigrant women, and Loker takes an unusual interest in the Ponzi scheme he and Foster are investigating. The scheme's operator, who's dying of cancer, insists that he is solely responsible for it, and that all the money is gone. But Foster---and especially Loker---aren't buying either assertion.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Apr 8, 2009
When a building under construction collapses, Cal and Gillian must determine if someone on the scene might have sabotaged it and how. The safety of workers still trapped inside could depend on it. Meanwhile, an Internet entrepreneur planning to propose to his girlfriend wants to know if she really loves him or if she's after his money.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Apr 22, 2009
Cal's ex-wife, an assistant U.S. attorney, hires him to get to the bottom of an arson case in which the victim accuses a childhood friend, who's now a famous TV reporter, of burning down his house. He bases the charge on the word of his 5-year-old son. Meanwhile, Foster and Torres investigate a drive-by shooting tied to a feud between rival rappers.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Apr 29, 2009
An undercover cop chasing a drug suspect mistakenly shoots an innocent teen, and Cal is hired to determine the man's intentions. Meanwhile, Loker's lie during a recent Ponzi-scheme investigation could come back to haunt him (and Torres as well) when Cal tells them that they'll be deposed in a lawsuit over the matter; and Cal's suspicions that Foster's husband is having an affair are raised anew when he sees him again with the woman he had seen her with before.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: May 6, 2009
An FBI agent enlists the Lightman Group in the hunt for a serial rapist. Cal's assignment: infiltrate a prison and befriend a convict whom the suspect appears to be copycatting.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: May 13, 2009
Following a terrorist attack outside Washington, D.C., FBI agent Reynolds enlists the Lightman Group to find the perpetrators. Then the case becomes personal for a member of the team. In addition, Cal and Zoe fear that their daughter could be in danger.
Season 2
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 28, 2009
A 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.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Oct 5, 2009
Zoe 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.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 12, 2009
While 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.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 19, 2009
A man is determined to prove that he didn't murder his wife, and his effort to do so puts the Lightman Group in danger.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 26, 2009
An 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.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Nov 9, 2009
Cal 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.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Nov 16, 2009
A 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.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Nov 23, 2009
Cal spends the holidays in Afghanistan, where he relies solely on an American expatriate to help a mission to find a pair of missing Marines.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 30, 2009
Cal, 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.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Dec 14, 2009
A 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.
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Jun 7, 2010
Cal 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 .
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Jun 14, 2010
Cal 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.
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Jun 21, 2010
Cal is a witness at the trial of a woman accused of murdering her much-older husband, a business tycoon.
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Jun 28, 2010
Cal confronts unsettling truths in his past as he and his team try to save the lives of an Iraq War vet and his family.
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Jul 12, 2010
After a housing-project shooting, the D.C. police ask Cal to read the face of a paralyzed victim, who can move only his eyes.
Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Jul 19, 2010
Torres 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.
Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Jul 26, 2010
When 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.
Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Aug 2, 2010
Cal 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.
Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Aug 16, 2010
Cal 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.
Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Aug 23, 2010
Foster's boyfriend, Dave Burns, is kidnapped, and Cal must track him down with the help of Burns' mysterious ex-partner.
Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Aug 30, 2010
A young woman's disappearance leads to an investigation of crime in the pornography industry.
Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: Sep 13, 2010
The probe of the murder of Cal's friend, a journalist who was investigating political corruption, tests Cal's relationship with Reynolds and the FBI. Meanwhile, Cal is uncomfortable with Emily's newfound interest in dating.
Season 3
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Oct 4, 2010
Tim tries to stop a man bent on revenge from robbing a bank and in the process holds a guilty man accountable for his actions.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Oct 11, 2010
Lightman 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.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 18, 2010
The 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.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 25, 2010
The 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.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Nov 8, 2010
Cal 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.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Nov 15, 2010
Cal 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.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 22, 2010
Cal helps a woman with early-onset Alzheimer's reconstruct a memory, and unearths a secret that could prove deadly in the process.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 29, 2010
A 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.
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Jan 10, 2011
Cal 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.
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Jan 10, 2011
A wealthy woman wants Cal to conduct a background check on her new boyfriend, who turns out to be quite a "social chameleon."
Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Jan 17, 2011
Cal probes a fatal traffic accident caused by three teens.
Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Jan 24, 2011
Cal investigates the abduction of a baby and comes to believe that the child's mother is hiding something.
Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Jan 31, 2011
Cal probes the death of a social-network cofounder who had feared that she was being squeezed out by her partner.