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Lie to Me on Fox

Lie to Me (Mondays, 8:00 p.m. ET) follows the exploits of the world’s leading detection expert and “human lie detector,” Cal Lightman (whose character is based on a real-life psychologist). Each week Cal and his team of specialists uncover the truth behind complex cases. Storylines can range from murder cases, to sexual impropriety, to extortion. The June 21^st episode contained all three, and it opened with a salacious sex scene that earned it the title of Worst TV Show of the Week.   

At the start of the show Clara, a woman with a sultry voice, beckons her husband to the bedroom.

CLARA: “Victor, I need your help with something.”

VICTOR: “Honey, I got water boiling.”

CLARA: “Dinner can wait.”

Victor, a wealthy older man clearly in his twilight years, enters the bedroom to find his blonde, young trophy wife dressed in lingerie. She takes her robe off and saunters toward him.

CLARA: “You want to help me out of this?”

He begins to undress her.

VICTOR: “You know, you really make it hard on an old man.”

CLARA: “I do, don’t I?”

The scene cuts to the couple having sex in bed; she is on top. They apparently climax and she rolls off of him.

VICTOR: “How did I get so lucky?”

CLARA: “You didn't. I'm using you for sex.”

As she leaves the bed, she tells him not to go anywhere. An hour later, Victor is dead.

At the subsequent murder trial, the prosecutor paints Clara as a cold-blooded, gold-digging, black-widow. The prosecution’s argument is bolstered by the claim that Clara slept with Victor’s step-son -- and the discovery that she was stealing $90,000 a month from Victor’s account. Lightman surmises that the step-son was lying and Clara was being extorted, yet she refuses to say who was blackmailing her, for fear of damaging Victor’s legacy. Eventually, Lightman identifies Clara’s best-friend Tanya as the blackmailer, simply by viewing her reactions in the courtroom. Lightman confronts her:

CAL: “I smell blackmail of the sexual variety. What is it? Was it you and Clara? Is it you and Victor? Wait a minute,…three's a crowd, right? You and Victor AND Clara. What you got on him? You got photos? You got video? You got dirty knickers?”

TANYA: “I had nothing to do with Victor's death.”

CAL: “My money's on video. I think you got a sex tape -- about 90 grand a month's worth.”

TANYA: “Clara met him through me. Her life was supposed to be mine! It's not like they were going to miss it.”

CAL: “Well, thanks for that. Now if you want to stay out of jail, I'm gonna need that sex tape.”

Photos of the ménage-a-trois surface. They depict Victor in bed with Tanya and Clara.

For a show that regularly airs at 7:00 p.m. in the Central/Mountain time zone, the tawdry content in this episode was wholly inappropriate for Family Hour viewing. The only truth worth knowing about this show is that parents should keep their kids well away.

For strong sexual content, Lie to Me has been named Worst TV Show of the Week.