Lie to Me (TV series)/Trivia

• Hey, It's That Guy!:
  • Obviously, Tim Roth. Watching Reservoir Dogs or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead on the same day as watching an episode of Lie to Me can be kind of uncanny.
  • Gillian is Lindsay Dole.
  • Andy Goode is still alive and calling himself Eli Loker.
    • Or maybe Tyler Ford has gone on a deep-cover mission for Fatboy Inc.
  • Cal sometimes compares the facial expressions of suspects or other people to the expression of celebrities, like George W. Bush, Simon Cowell, and Barack Obama.
  • In "Moral Waiver", a rape suspect is Adam from Heroes (or Sark from Alias, if you prefer).
  • Daniel Sunjata of Rescue Me fame appears in the penultimate episode of season one as the nemesis of Cal.
    • And Sofie / Audrey Hanson was his first victim.
  • There's three actors who are Jossverse villains in the 8th episode of season 1. Spotted were Knox, Rance Burgess and Jubal Early.
    • Spike appeared in the second season and seems to have joined Wolfram and Hart and started working as a prosecutor. That is until he died. Again.
  • Rene, the psychotic, fangbanger-hatin' serial killer makes an appearance in "The Core of It" as Caroline Wakefield's brother.
  • Cal's ex-wife once got soaking wet in a nightclub.
    • For others she's recognizable as Bette.
  • It appears Logan Echolls has stepped up from "obligatory psychotic jackass" to "serial killer".
  • Victor and his wife Jo Harvelle/Meg Manning needed Lightman's help with Victor's PTSD in "React to Contact".
  • Mrs. Evans / Nan Flanagan as the head of a juvie facility and blackmailing ringleader of a robbery crew in "Delinquent".
  • "Pied Piper" features half the cast of The Shield.
  • Gillian dated Mack Gerhardt.
  • Jimmy Barrett has moved from bad comedy to adult entertainment.
  • Tobias Beecher is Steven Cook in "Black and White".
  • Cyd/Codex / Penny is now a primary school teacher by "Tractor Man".
  • Jordan Todd tried to pick up Cal in a bar in "Honey".
  • Number Six is an art thief who gets up-close-and-personal with Cal in "Double Blind".
    • And Nate Westen is a Mook who gets shot in the same episode.
  • Martha Kent has early-onset Alzheimer's in "Veronica", and Bobby Singer is her brother-in-law.
  • Burt is a man trying to clear his name of the murder of his wife in one episode.
  • Admiral Fitzwallace is the dying father of a murder victim in "Smoked", although he might be better known for playing James Evans on Good Times.
  • Monica Reyes plays a paramedic Angel of Death in "Saved".
    • And Eugene Victor Tooms shows up one episode later in "Gone Baby Gone" playing an alcoholic cop and father of a missing baby.
  • "Killer App" has Thom as a Mark Zuckerberg Expy.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Ben Reynolds switched to the CIA, then joined Torchwood.

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