Jennifer Marsala

After Lightman's former Pentagon colleague is killed in a car bomb, Lightman and Foster are forced to revisit a series of events from their past.

Lightman is called to testify in the trial of Clara, a young widow accused of murdering her much older billionaire husband.

Secrets are spilled; bringing his daughter Emily along for company, the human lie detector takes on the case of a runaway teen.

When a journalist friend of Cal Lightman is murdered, the investigation tests his relationship with the FBI; Emily's interest in dating makes Cal uncomfortable.

In the process of exonerating a man from a hostile mob, Lightman uncovers a dark secret which aids a damaged mother and her daughter.

When a baby abduction is mentioned on the news, Lightman and Foster study the faces of the parents; Lightman thinks that there is foul play from one of them; they dig further into the case to help out with the police investigation of the abduction.