TV Recap: Lie To Me's "Sacrifice" - Page 5

Foster identifies an angry voice on the tape as Rashid Khan’s father, in a scene that nicely adds more details to Cal and Gillian’s relationship. Lightman notes Gillian never forgets a voice, to which Foster tartly replies, “Some of us are better at listening.” The banter both shows how well they know each other and that they don’t necessarily agree with each other’s methods all the time. But they are on the same page with tracking down the terrorist in time to stop another attack, and Cal pulls in Mr. Khan.

He shows he’s actually not a bad listener, as he realizes that though Khan is telling the truth about not being the terrorist, he knows who is. Khan takes one look at the charity can used to make the bombs and realizes his own nephew, whom he brought over from Jordan for a better life, is the perpetrator. The shame his nephew showed earlier was at Mr. Khan’s insistence Rashid loved America, and he had no qualms about using his cousin as a pawn in his war.

Khan gives up his nephew as a way to protect more young men from dying in other people’s wars—but Cal knows the way this case was solved will fuel as well hinder the terrorist cause. Reynolds feels the illegally obtained tapes are tomorrow’s problem, but Cal retorts, “How do you think they arrive at today?” The writers avoid wrapping up the moral dilemma in a tidy bow and instead make the case messy and the morality ambiguous, leaving the audience to decide where it stands.

The immediate danger solved, the more personal issues of the day resurface. Emily has a talk with Gillian and shows she’s well aware her parents are seeing each other again. And she’s not happy about it, telling Gillian, “They don’t even remember how bad it was.” She perhaps reveals a hope of her own when she adds, “He’s so much happier when he’s with you.” Gillian doesn’t react to this statement, but the audience certainly does as she later tells Cal she is separating from her husband. The two of them share an ambiguously charged moment, with each actually physically reaching out to the other, but Cal still has another more pressing issue he needs to address: Torres. Foster agrees and putting on a brave face, tells Lightman to go to her.

At the hospital, Torres is seething, waiting to give Lightman a piece of her mind. Cal allows her to unload her frustration and anger, know her feelings are very understandable. Torres winds up her tirade about her boss playing God with, “It doesn’t matter with Loker, who worships you, or Foster who indulges you, but not me.” She is so sure she is in the right she is caught by surprise when Lightman responds, “Time to find a different job, then? It’s not the last time I’m going to lie to you.”

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