Lie to Me 1x3

A Perfect Score

Season 1, Episode 3

& Lightman: Now watch it with the sound off.
    FBI Agent: Well, her face doesn’t match the grief of her words.
    Lightman: Right, there’s no involvement in the forehead, nothing around the eyes. She could be reading from a grocery list.

& Lightman: You coming to the funeral?
    Gillian: I can’t. I’m meeting with the deputy chief of NASA. One of their experimental jets crashed and they think the pilot’s lying about what happened.
    Lightman: Oh, that’s not surprising since the whole space program is based on lies. Some of their top scientists were nazis recruited after the war.
    Gillian: They gave the world Tang.

& Torres: Well, that girl seems pretty popular.
    Lightman: Yeah. Foster did a study once... popularity and lies in schools. You know what she found? ... The more popular the kid, the better the liar. Which makes me wonder why the queen bee showed asymmetrical sadness when she was talking about her dead friend.
    Torres: Uh, “when a person’s facial expression is not symmetrical on both sides of the face, it is likely that they are pretending to feel the emotion.”

& Lightman: Studies show that popular kids are the most facile. They adapt quickly to hide their true feelings. That's what makes them popular.

& Torres: That’s it? We’re leaving?
    Lightman: Well, you can’t get the right answers if you haven’t got the right questions.

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& Torres: I thought she didn’t know about the drugs.
    Lightman: Yeah. Well, you brought up academic competition, she started caressing her own hand.
    Torres: “A self-comforting gesture. Trying to reassure yourself when you don’t really believe what you’re saying.”

& Eli: ... She started to say yes, but she said no.
    Gillian: Yeah, and the slip of the tongue when she was talking about the pressure.
    Hilary Markov: I mean, he’s been under a lot of pressure lately, but I... he’s handled it just fine.
    Eli: So, she’s been handling it.
    Gillian: But he hasn’t. What’s she hiding about him?
    Eli: Oh, sex, drugs or money... the holy trinity.

& Kirby: I... I do not have to listen to this!
    Lightman: Well, you might want to try that move again, love. Really. It was awful gestural timing.
    FBI Agent: What does that mean?
    Lightman: Well, she voiced outrage, and then she slammed her hand down. If she was truly outraged, it all would have happened at the same time.

& Lightman: I’m trying to prove that you didn’t kill Danielle Stark.
    Berenson: But I told you that I did!
    Lightman: Now, Mr. Berenson, there is no Stratton-Meyerhoff test. I just made that up. I wanted to get an honest reaction to this photograph, and what I got was... horror... and surprise. Now, the real killer, if confronted with his victim, would show disgust, contempt, even fear. But not surprise. Never surprise.


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