TV Recap: Lie To Me's "Sacrifice" - Page 4

But his moral position will soon be stressed again. Foster wants to tell Torres about Dupree, now that Torres knows she didn’t miss anything at the mosque that could have prevented the second bombing. Lightman refuses, as he thinks the most useful thing she can do for her boyfriend is exactly what she is doing. His position pays off: Torres watches the mosque interviews again and notices the Imam looks very anxious. Lightman and Reynolds investigate and find the Imam is worried about just how far the FBI will throw out the Muslims’ civil liberties now that a terrorist threat has actually come true. After 9/11, as a concerned American, he had contacted the FBI with some information about a potential problem and cooperated with gathering information at the mosque. To his horror, he found that the FBI had gone further and without telling him, bugged the place of worship to hear private conversations. He is angry and cynical at how these latest suspicions will impact the Muslim community.

Reynolds finds the former agent who illegally bugged the mosque and forces him to handle over the tapes. The man is far from penitent about his activities, saying the bombings have the silver lining of showing everyone that the terrorist threat is far more important “whining about civil liberties.” Reynolds dismisses him by calling him a cowboy, but Cal is really torn about the ethics of using the illegally obtained tapes because using them will give the way they were obtained legitimacy. He’s still the same man who championed personal rights in "Undercover." But this time there is no way to satisfy those rights and stop the threat at the same time. A talk with Zoe confirms the tapes would be inadmissible in court, but she reminds him they may contain the clue they need to stop more attacks. Lightman points out Al Qaeda will use the outrage over the illegal activities to help it fuel more terrorism, but finally decides he has to use the tapes to solve the current situation. Unlike Reynolds, he’s aware the tapes come with a very high cost.

His other moral issue returns as Zoe tells him she’s found Dupree. He was indeed at the mall and lay for four hours in an elevator shaft, badly injured. Now that he has firm information, Cal tells Torres and gives her his car keys to help her get to the hospital faster. But it doesn’t take Torres long to figure out he withheld information about her boyfriend to keep her focused on her work. Angrily, she tells Foster, “Lightman plays God and you make excuses for him.” The conversation echoes an earlier one in “Better Half” when Zoe accused Cal of playing God. Zoe and Cal’s relationship suffered from his ability to see more than others, and it looks very much like his and Torres’ will as well.

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