Ria Torres quotes from Lie to Me

Ria Torres

We should go hear her speak.

Eli Loker

Yeah, she wanted to sign my book. I think we had a connection.

Ria Torres

Oh, yeah, 'cause Ugandan woman can't resist a guy with a girly drink.

Ria Torres

She got nervous when you told her what we do here. She touched her face. That's a manipulator.

Eli Loker

Oh, now you're an expert on manipulators. (Ria huffs in disgust) Because six weeks ago, you didn't even know what that was!

Ria Torres

I'm bringing this to Foster.

Eli Loker

You do whatever the hell you want.

Ria Torres

I haven't talked to Foster yet.

Eli Loker

Well, I did.

Eli Loker

And the funny thing is, she went out with me even after she found out what I do for a living. I think on some level she wanted to get caught.

Ria Torres

Or maybe she just liked you.

Eli Loker

Well, I don't really care.

Ria Torres

Hey, Loker. (Eli turns around) You just lied.

Eli Loker

Yeah.

Dr. Jeffrey Buchanan

How many times has he lied to you?

Ria Torres

Excuse me?

Dr. Jeffrey Buchanan

Well, he said you were a natural, so you must have caught him in some big, fat ones.

Ria Torres

(laughing) Yeah, maybe one or two.

Dr. Jeffrey Buchanan

One or two? Oh, he's mellowed out. Back in the day, he was pathological.

Ria Torres

(sighs) Man, I don't get you.

Cal Lightman

Good. Stop trying.

Ria Torres

Fine, pretend like you don't give a damn what's going on with her. I know you do.

Cal Lightman

Look, in case you haven't figured it out yet, it's different when you're one of us. Everybody has things they don't wish to share

Ria Torres

She's your friend.

Cal Lightman

You're not listening to me. In this workplace, with everything that we see, we have to be very clear on the rules.

Ria Torres

You and Foster have rules?

Cal Lightman

If there's something she wants to tell me, she will. Everything else, everything else I see, I ignore. I trust her to take care of herself.

Cal Lightman

Okay. How many people in this is world do you trust? How many?

Ria Torres

I don't know, ten.

Ria Torres

Six.

Cal Lightman

Right. Well, when you get to my age, it'll be three.

Ria Torres

'Jeffery encouraged me to come see you?'

Cal Lightman

The walls of the FDA have ears.

Ria Torres

Yeah, well, then I'm sure they could tell that you were lying, too.

Ria Torres

Yesterday he was watching some video of an old British woman when I walked into his office.

Eli Loker

Brown hair? About 40?

Ria Torres

Yeah.

Eli Loker

Lightman probably spent about a thousand hours watching that film. Her name was Louise Mason. She was a patient of one of Lightman's professors when he was in grad school. She had been in the psych ward about a month when that was recorded. She told the professor she was fine. No one could see she was actually in agony. Lightman finally got the idea to slow down the film and that's when he saw the agony on her face. That's what led him to discover microexpressions in the first place.

Ria Torres

Well, I hope they didn't let that woman off the psych ward.

Eli Loker

Well, she got a pass home for the weekend and killed herself. They didn't know to look for microexpressions then. Nobody knew they existed.

Ria Torres

Yeah, what is it?

Eli Loker

It's about the case I'm working on with Foster.

Ria Torres

I heard the Feds found out about the daughter.

Eli Loker

I called Justice and told them about Carolyn Holland.

Ria Torres

What? No, no, no. No, no, no. You're not telling me this. (Eli nods) You lied to Foster? You stopped those people from getting their money back, their retirements?

Eli Loker

We cannot let people like Carolyn Holland get away with this.

Ria Torres

Are you out of your mind?! Why did you tell me this?

Eli Loker

(looking away) I had to tell somebody.

Ria Torres

Why me?

Eli Loker

I don't trust anybody else.

Ria Torres

You shouldn't trust me, either. They didn't catch you?

Eli Loker

I took a sedative to relax my face. And I know--

Ria Torres

I don't believe this. You gotta tell them. It's the only chance you have of not getting fired.

Eli Loker

What? No! They won't find out.

Ria Torres

(leans in to stress) Lightmen will.

Cal Lightman

(hold up the film of Louise Mason) Hey, you saw this earlier, right?

Ria Torres

The psych patient?

Cal Lightman

Yeah.

Ria Torres

Yeah, just for a second.

Cal Lightman

Yeah.

Cal Lightman

Did you see the agony she was hiding?

Ria Torres

Yeah. I'm sorry.

Cal Lightman

Never be sorry for something you see.

Ria Torres

(she moves closer to Cal) Did you know her well? (she looks at his face) She wasn't a patient, was she? She was something... more. Who was she?

Cal Lightman

Get some sleep, all right?

Gillian Foster

I've got an early meeting tomorrow that I need you and Loker to take on your own.

Ria Torres

Did you find Dr. Lightman?

Gillian Foster

FEMA confirmed he's at the disaster site. I'm heading out there now while there's still one or two people he hasn't had time to alienate. (She walks off)

Ria Torres

Better drive fast.

Ria Torres

Yeah, well, it's not always so easy to be open about money.

Eli Loker

I always tell women exactly how much money I have in the bank on the first date.

And you wonder why you never get a second.

But she lied to me.

Eli Loker

Well, why are you in love with Nadia? She's charming, she's intelligent, and, oh, wait for it, she's beautiful. How is her beauty any different from your money?

I don't know.

Ria Torres

Exactly. Just be honest with her.

Eli Loker

And yourself. (pauses) And get a pre-nup.