Regardless, Lie to Me: The Complete Third and Final Season is still full of great episodes showcasing Dr. Lightman and company's amazing ability to read people. The FBI plays a very small role this season and Agent Ben Reynolds (Mekhi Phifer) is nowhere to be found. Instead, the Lightman Group is more often working with the local police department. Accordingly, Cal seems to grow closer to Detective Sharon Wolowski throughout the season; however, she becomes an invaluable police resource that the entire team uses. Eli Loker (Brendan Hines) appears to be searching for a new position outside of the Lightman Group, yet Cal finds ways to both abuse him and use him in the field more, which make Loker happy. Ria Torres (Monica Raymund) goes out into her old neighborhood on a case and finds herself mugged of Lightman's camera by a young thug named Key (Michael B. Jordan). When she later returns to the neighborhood to confront him, she thinks she's found another "natural" like herself and invites him to come check out the Lightman Group. After some friendly but caustic banter, we are to assume that Cal accepts him into the fold, after having Key spy on Emily's (Hayley McFarland) new boyfriend, Liam, and prove his worth to the team.
Dr. Gillian Foster (Kelli Williams) has a personal trauma in the season finale when a dear friend of hers and a former patient comes to the Lightman Group with a problem when she finds herself being edged out of the social networking company she helped create. When the young woman is later murdered and Gillian finds her, she has a hard time coping, which draws her closer to Cal. Meanwhile, Cal has a difficult time proving that the brilliant computer programmer who heads the network could actually be the very killer they are hunting.
Although all 13 episodes are a treat, my favorites include one where Annette O'Toole brilliantly plays an Alzheimer's victim who unwittingly uncovers a murderer at the nursing home where she lives and another where Annabeth Gish portrays an adrenaline junkie paramedic who finds herself the first responder at an unusual number of car accidents. Could she be more than the hero she appears? Another one I really enjoyed was the aforementioned social network episode starring Ashton Holmes (Nikita: The Complete First Season). In ways, it reminded me a lot of the film The Social Network, only juicier, because of the murder, and watching Cal go toe-to-toe with the killer is fun.
Special features are incredibly slim, including only a handful of deleted scenes and a small featurette on Tim Roth on his role as Dr. Lightman. I would have really enjoyed a retrospective on the series by the cast, but again, perhaps the cancellation was too close to the manufacture of the DVD sets.
Overall, I am really sad to see Lie to Me go. Tim Roth is amazing and his supporting cast members really work well as a diverse, yet interesting group. I would have enjoyed seeing how they continue to grow as a team and was hoping, at the very least, that the show would go out with a bang, but it didn't. It simply ended. However, if you have been following the series, you'll want to see how it all plays out.
