"Lie to Me" Moral Waiver (2009)

Director:

Adam Davidson

Writers:

Samuel Baum (creator)
Josh Singer (written by)

TV Series:

"Lie to Me" (2009)

Original Air Date:

28 January 2009 (Season 1, Episode 2)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Lightman's team investigates cases involving a staff sergeant accused of raping a soldier, and a star college basketball player accused of taking a bribe from a wealthy booster.

Plot Keywords:

Record | Rifle | Brother Brother Relationship | Military Police | Arsonist

Cast

Tim Roth	...	Dr. Cal Lightman
Kelli Williams	...	Dr. Gillian Foster
Brendan Hines	...	Eli Loker
Monica Raymund	...	Ria Torres
Charles Parnell	...	Major Harris
David Anders	...	Staff Sgt. Russell Scott
Rob Brownstein	...	Secretary Adam Miller
Vince Corazza	...	Deputy Whitmore
Alicia Lagano	...	Sheila Lake
Scott Alan Smith	...	Jeremy Levine
Amy Rosoff	...	Private Rebecca Metz
Rance Howard	...	Joe Metz
Scott Atkinson	...	Howard Taft
Theodore Perkins	...	Earl White
Byrne Offutt	...	DHS Deputy

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby (as Dolby Surround)

Certification:

Netherlands:9

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Imagine Television

Quotes:

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!

Guess I know what show I WON'T be tuning into

Wow!!! Apparently the person who wrote this episode has a serious beef with the military because the anti-military, anti-soldier portrayal in this episode is pretty blatant. It's kind of like – we get it already, you don't like the wars were engaged in now (nice little jab at the AWOL rate increasing because soldiers didn't want to return to Iraq, which is misleading by the way – during any military campaign involving combat the AWOL rate increases, funny how you didn't point out that AWOL rates were actually higher under the Clinton administration when we had operations in Serbia and in Somalia), you don't like the Army or the new policies that they've had to use to recruit soldiers- I guess if it were up to you NO ONE would be in the armed forces, huh? And you apparently believe that ALL women in the army are some sort of victims. It's because of this show any it's obvious left-leaning slant, especially when it comes to the negative representation of our men and women in uniform that I won't continue to watch it. If your "message" was a little more subtle than maybe I could have swallowed it but really simply amounted to just one attack after another with Tim Roth, et al sanctimoniously parading around. And by the way, if this woman soldier was too "scared" to be in combat than maybe she should've sought out another profession, I guess that never equated to this perma-victim mentality that the writer had. Oh, wait let me guess; maybe she didn't have any other options, or some standard B.S. victim response. Somebody had to "ride lead" and if this were the real world rather than some lame show I would be glad it wasn't her. And by the way, if this were a true case then she was a guilty as he was for sleeping with a superior officer to get preferential treatment. But instead all you made it was a case of who is the bigger victim and yet another typical insipid anti-war commentary. Also if the writers of this show had done an ounce of research they would know that the military never shops these types of cases out to civilians. All matters, especially ones involving sexual assault or abuse of power are handled internally. All this show amounted to was another hit job against our military. Almost forgot, nice little dig on Republicans too – wouldn't be a complete without a little Palin, Nixon and Bush bashing. I see you tried to incorporate Clinton, I guess in a way to show how "even handed" you are but then you come right back from the break showing a picture of Bush and Rice. Pathetic liberal mush.