Nonetheless, when the team analyses the footage on George, they decide he's such a good liar, he's possibly a sociopath. Cal springs the trap by wearing a wire while George describes how he'll entice Gillian into marrying him if Cal ponies up the cash. Wallowsky is waiting in the wings to drag George off to The Lightman Group, so they can lean on him hard to confess. He's steady as a rock, though, knowing Dobson will come and rescue him because of all those well connected names in his journal. He's a little less steady when Cal tells him and the now present Dobson he has that book—and George doesn't like at all that Dobson is angry with him for letting the journal out of his hands. He's less upset when Cal shows him all his ex-wives were listening to his confession; the conman apparently sincerely tells them he really loved each of them. George is a cipher Cal is determined to break.
Unfortunately, those pesky well connected names in George's little book do not want Cal anywhere near George and Wallowsky comes to warn Cal off the case, as well as indulge in a bit of flirting. While I don't dislike the character, at this point, she's starting to seem a bit pointless, because I don't believe the flirting will go anywhere—and it shouldn't, since past events make it very unlikely Cal would be seriously pursuing both Foster and Wallowsky at the same time. Therefore, Wallowsky seems more like an obvious diversion from exploring Foster and Cal and that's not interesting. Time to move on, I say.
Cal, of course, has no intention of dropping the case, which is a good thing, because it takes a turn for the worse when George's house burns down with George in it. Cal gathers the ex-wives back for a chat about their feelings about George, in case one of them took matters in her own hands and got some pretty serious payback. Again, each of the wives describes George completely differently, telling us he could be whatever each woman wanted. But only one is extremely angry at George and that's Lily, because George would have hurt her son.
Lily denies having killed George, but she is troubled about something, which Noah picks up on. He's so scared his mom killed her boyfriend, he falsely confesses himself to save her. Cal easily gets Lily to admit she did visit George the previous night, but she didn't kill him. Rather, he was furious with her and threatened her by putting his hands around her neck. Lily says she's never seen George like that before, but Cal knows he's seen a flash of that man.
Article comments
1 - Latitude24
I was struck by Cal saying at the end of "Rebound" that [their] science is open to interpretation, since that's what everyone in the episode was doing.
We see from the beginning how interpretation affects beliefs and decisions. Lily wants to interpret all that cash in the brief case as related to George's work. While watching Gillian on her "date," Cal interprets her comments as thinking he's sexy, Loker interprets the scene as Gillian acting. Cal (in a kind lie) interprets the photo that George truly cared for Noah. Cal interprets Gillian's look at the end as saying that he's sexy. And the final scene with Emily basically spells out the differences in Zoe and Cal interpreting Cal.
All in all, I enjoyed both episodes. I also noticed in "Funhouse" that when Cal was speaking to his parents in his hallucinations, that he communicated to them not as a child but as himself now. I think he has coped much more effectively than he thinks he has.
Oh, and there are 3 more episodes in the truncated Season 3. I wish FOX would stop with the ADD programming and commit, maybe do a little more advertising. 2 People's Choice awards means that something is working!
As always, love your reviews!
2 - Gerry
Latitude24, thanks for such an interesting comment! I think the idea of the role of interpretation in Cal's science has been a big theme this season and you're right, "Rebound" had many examples of people interpreting what actions mean.
My interpretation (hah!) of Cal's talk with his dad is that he's still pushing that issue as far away as he can and has only just admitted to himself he's scared of what he may have inherited from him. I think he's coped more with his mother's death--the theme there seems to be recognising it's time to let his guilt go. I think having to talk to Emily about her grandmother opened up a lot of those feelings for processing. He's not talking to Emily about his dad, yet.
And thanks for catching my slip with how many episodes are left--I've corrected it.
Here's crossed fingers for Lie To Me getting a season four.
3 - JakeG
This is a wonderful show. The audience loves it, why doesn't Fox see that?
4 - Anon
Not exactly: "Sure enough, Wayne gets the homemade muffins every day, specially made by his daughter."
The muffins are made by his sister (his daughter is eating them as well, hence her struggle with feeling crazy as well.)
5 - Andrew
Latitude24 > I was struck by Cal saying at the end of "Rebound" that [their] science is open to interpretation, since that's what everyone in the episode was doing.
Don't take that too seriously.
I remember once Cal was talking about science is open to interpretation, just when he was making bad excuse to upset publisher. and he got a hefty advance on the book. and he even hasn't started to write it. That's why Gil said "Oh, please. Not that AGAIN." :-)
btw:sorry for poor english.
6 - Carol
Gerry, any chance you'll be reviewing the remaining episodes for the season? Really looking forward to your take, especially on the finale!
7 - Gerry
Carol, I have been thinking of doing a season wrap up, since I wasn't able to do the reviews for the last three. Thanks for the note!
8 - Todd Kinney
I've scanned the comments quickly so my apologies if this is a repeat question. I was curious to find out the name of the band playing the music in this episode. I've noticed that this happens a lot with many series. Love it if they'd just add a linked section to displayed featured artist. Cheers
9 - Gerry
Hi Todd, I'll try and help. I looked it up and the music was by The Jam. I found links to the two songs, Going Underground and Mr. Clean
10 - amerirish
I am so P.O.'ed that Lie to Me has been cancelled. I loved this show! :-(