Positively Positive Review – Lie To Me: Grievous Bodily Harm

by Mokibobolink on Oct.27, 2009, under Crime, Drama, Television

Tim Roth and Lennie James in Lie To Me, season 2, episode 5 “Grievous Bodily Harm”. Image from www.daemonstv.com Lie to Me Harm

In last night’s episode of Lie To Me, Cal is visited by an old friend who needs his help. I got a big kick out of watching Tim’s British side come out in full force as he worked with Lennie James. The two of them made a great little duo and there was no doubting that these two characters got up to a lot of mischief when they were younger.

We find out that Cal owes his life to Terry and he has come to collect. He forces Cal into using his skills to win a poker match so that Terry can repay a debt to a pretty scary Russian mobster. Then Terry draws Cal in further as the mobster decides he wants to use Cal’s talents for his own use. In the end though, it is the mobster who is caught by surprise as Cal has been working undercover for Agent Reynolds the whole time.

This episode had a lot of funny moments thanks to the great interaction between Cal and Terry. As an NCIS fan I especially enjoyed the fact that Cal slapped Terry on the back of the head when he was frustrated with him, not once, but twice. Looks like someone’s been going to the Gibbs school of dealing with partners.

There were some serious moments as well, provided by the rest of the team as they worked to solve the mystery of a threatening video being sent to a public school. The young girls who turn out to both be victims (one for being teased and the other for being forced to do it by a sadistic teacher) did fantastic work drawing me into that storyline as well.

Overall a strong episode of the series that gave us a little more insight into Cal’s past and let us see that he started out as a bit of a “bad boy”.

More Lie To Me….

Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 1 “The Core Of It”

Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 2 “Truth Or Consequences”

Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 3 “Control Factor”

Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 4 “Honey”

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