"KILLER APP"

"KILLER APP"

The final show of the 2010 season of “Lie to Me” was disturbing and disappointing to me.

Briefly, the plot was that three young college entrepreneurs join up to create a social networking site. It turns out that the most brilliant of the three murders is the one female partner out of a mixture of jealousy and greed. He lands in prison.

One woman has been in therapy prior to her fame with Foster but is still a friend and comes to the Lightman group for help but ends up dead. During the investigation, the murderer hacks into the center's computers.

The disappointment? The last scene is Cal Lightman visiting our "villain" in jail and telling him he has convinced the judge to transfer him to a mental hospital. He asks Cal why he would do him that "favor." Cal's affect changes abruptly and becomes severe and essential rattles off a list of the personal harm he has done him and his friends and says essentially he has done him no favor as in the hospital they will take his brilliant mind. Revenge?

End of the episode and the end of the season.

This is distributing and disappointing. True enough, as the show has progressed the idea has been to show Cal as a more and more "doggie" and complex man. He uses violence although he says he is theoretically opposed to it. Situations "get the better of him." Usually, I like the way it is handled as it makes him human and it demonstrates how affect gets ahead of "reason." He is also constantly being irrational about the actions of his daughter. Perfectly understandable.

Here, though, it seems to go over the edge. It doesn't fit with someone who in their calmer frame of mind is anti-violence. Here the bad guy has been caught he is behind bars and he is now going to seek revenge? I don't buy it. It takes away any respect I have for him. Just the week prior to this I liked so much the ending note of the show "GONE" where he turns to the father who is a cop and tells him to "go easy" a family.

My only hope is that this is some setup for next season and some "redemption?"

References

Dr. Lynch