Lie to Me (2009–2011): Season 3, Episode 6 - Beyond Belief - full transcript

Oh, my God,
I can't believe this!

This is incredible.

Who we are, what we've done.

We are Scientific
Re-Patterning.

Ha ha ha. Thank you.
Thank you very much.

You know,
before I came out here today

I was backstage, I was
working on my speech

and I noticed that there
were no collisions.

Nobody was getting
in anyone else's way.

Everybody had
a sense of purpose...

Of direction.



They belonged.

And I realized that I was
watching this pattern

where everyone knew exactly
what to do and where to be

but without disrupting
anyone else's flow.

They were embraced
by the same energy.

They were connected.

Connected by the path that
the work needs in order

for it to get done
efficiently and comfortably.

Hey, Danny, it's mom.

Listen, honey...
All that stuff,

you know, that happened.

I never meant
to hurt you.

Everything's going
to be all right.

Good-bye, Danielle.



I love you...

No matter what happens.

We re-pattern...

Through the transitions
and the precepts.

We learn to live.

We crave life.

Would you guys stand up?

These guys
have re-patterned.

They've transitioned.

Thank you, guys, and welcome.

And now the precepts--

singularity, courage,

resolution, integrity,

pride, and, finally...
Transcendence.

The goal is transcendence.

Believe and be free.

I didn't mean to hurt you.

Everything's going
to be all right.

Good-bye, Danielle.

I love you...
No matter what happens.

John Stafford is responsible for
your mum's suicide attempt.

Are you asking or saying?

I'm just telling you what
you want to hear, love.

My mother placed this call from
John Stafford's office phone.

I came here prepared to pay
you whatever it takes

for you to take her away
from that man and S.R.P.

Why not start at
the hospital, Danielle?

I did go to
the hospital first.

She's not there.

Where is she?

Back at the
mother ship.

She won't speak to me.

Stafford won't let her.

How do you know that?

I know it.

Trust me.

I'm going to
expose John Stafford

for the scam artist
that he is.

All I care about
is my mother.

She says smiling.

I beg your pardon?

What hospital did
they send your mum to?

Stanton Park.

All right.

Loker, Torres, now.

Is he taking the case?

If he doesn't believe me,
why is he taking the case?

You had him at suicide.

Mr. Garret Sunderland?

Dr. Sunderland.

Can I help you?

Like you helped
Carol Ashland?

I'm sorry?

Carol Ashland,
last night, overdose.

Are you, uh...

Police?

Do we need to be?

We're from
the Lightman Group.

I'm Ria Torres,
this is Eli Loker.

Maybe you've heard
of Dr. Lightman?

Oh, you have? Good.

So, enough about us.

Carol Ashland or
do you need more time

to think of an answer
that sounds like the truth?

I'm not permitted
to discuss this.

Doctor/patient
confidentiality.

Gastric lavage would be
the standard treatment.

It's stomach pumping.

Batting a hundred so far, but
she's not at the hospital.

Isn't attempted suicide an
automatic 3-day hold, doctor?

You have a very
negative approach,

if you don't
mind my saying so.

It's a simple question.
Doesn't violate any laws.

I evaluated Mrs. Ashland.

She's not at risk
to herself or others.

She's receiving
the appropriate care.

Would that
appropriate care

be Scientific
Re-Patterning?

3 for 3, Loker, not bad.

Fear dilates the pupils,

limits visibility,
reaction times.

You might want
to take the bus.

It seems simple at first.

Identify the negative patterns
that are holding us back.

We have to break
down the problem.

Tap the infinite
energy within.

Can I get a little bit more
volume on my left monitor?

I can hardly hear myself.

What a load of old
bullocks, John!

Your name is John, right?

♪ Lie to Me 3x06 ♪
Beyond Belief
Brand New Day by Ryan Star

♪ dream ♪

♪ send me a sign ♪

♪ turn back the clock ♪

♪ give me some time ♪

♪ I need to break out ♪

♪ make a new name ♪

♪ let's open our eyes ♪

♪ to the brand-new day ♪

How you doing?
You all right?

Doctors Lightman and Foster,

from the Lightman
Group, good morning.

Good morning.
Dr. Sunderland called.

He's a friend of the Scientific
Re-Patterning community.

Oh, yeah.
Welcome.

We're actually in the same line
of work, doctor.

Oh.

We help people find
a positive truth.

I'll bet you do
and then some, eh?

Ha ha ha.
These are 2 of our initiates.

Well, our initiates
are back at the office

digging up crap
on you, mate.

How's Carol
Ashland doing?

She's doing very well.
Thanks for asking.

No, um, she's very
well considering--

that's what
you mean, right?

She's in a re-integration
session.

It's part of our program.

Oh.

Well, maybe we should
come back later.

Yeah, with some of
our police initiates.

We're here on behalf

of the concern of Carol's
daughter, Danielle.

Right, yes, Carol
mentioned her.

She wanted her
to leave S.R.P.

You really don't
like Danielle, do ya?

Well, Carol's been with
us for a couple of years

and she's come
a long way.

I'm not sure why her daughter
would want her to leave.

So, you have nothing
to hide at all?

Well, suppose I interrupt
Carol's session,

so you can see her and
decide for yourselves.

Think positive.
That's what I always say.

Carol?

This is Dr. Lightman
and Dr. Foster.

Hello.

I'm sorry, were you
talking to me?

Only you was looking
at God over there.

Carol, we're here on behalf
of your daughter, Danielle.

She's very worried
about you.

Oh, please tell
my daughter not to worry.

There's--
she's always worrying.

She's as bad as my mother,
always getting into my business.

You know...

You can leave with us
right now if you like.

I hear you, Carol.

I really do.

Are you sure you
didn't just hear

what you wanted
to hear from Carol?

Look, she's
trapped in there

with those
S.R.P. robots.

And you know this because
you read it on Stafford

when you told Carol she was
free to leave with us?

She's terrified of him.

She doesn't know if
she's coming or going.

No, I'm asking what you saw
in Stafford, not Carol.

Man's a snake.

You've got nothing on him.

When I've got
nothing, all right,

that is when I really
start to worry.

No, that's prejudice
talking, not science.

Hey, hey!

Where are you going?

We were just going to go out
and get some coffee.

Well, what's wrong
with our coffee?

I don't know, nothing.

Keep digging on Stafford.

You can go out
for coffee.

You don't have to do
everything he says.

He's right.

This coffee is...good.

Go get the coffee you like.

Now.

Hi, ya.

Dad, uh, this is Liam.

Liam.

No, I got nothing.
What happened to Rick?

Shut up, dad.

I know, it's whatever
you want, you're right.

You said you was
just leaving?

Are you asking me to leave?

Sorry.

Can I just call
you later?

Yeah.

It was nice to meet you.

I hear you're
writing another book.

Can't wait to read it.

Don't hold
your breath, son.

Dad, come on, he was
just being polite.

See you tomorrow.

He seems
like a nice boy.

Does everything have to be
a confrontation with you?

What?

I was being nice, you know,

considering, you know,
I just come home from work,

you know, hard day, nose to the
grindstone and that, you know.

I just want a little bit
of piece and quiet,

you know, maybe a touch of
the old telly, you know.

Just like any normal dad, you
know, with their normal daughter.

Well, you picked
the wrong house for that.

I know what
your game is.

What game?

You feel that you can
mess with me by getting

an 8-foot boyfriend, who's
built like a brick...

Oh, come on, he's a good guy.

Does he treat you well?

I think you'd really
like him, dad.

Liam, short for William?

Willy.

Is that
a work text, dad?

I think you
better get going.

Can I have my hug now?

These people all
share the same

essential characteristics--
a projection of certainty,

a sense of their
own infallibility,

a sense of being called to
a global mission and so on.

We need to find
S.R.P. members

to talk to
or ex-members.

Find out what's
going on over there.

Oh, yeah, I have been
looking and, uh...

I found Jane Prescott,
ex-member,

very prolific
on the blogosphere.

Let's see if she wants
to come out and play.

Carol?

Oh, I want some of what
she's smoking, please.

Ha ha.

Thank you for coming back,
Dr. Lightman, Dr. Foster.

I feel the last time we met I didn't
express myself clearly enough.

We understand.

You've been
through a lot

in the last couple
of days, Carol.

Oh, I get it.

Carol, I do, I get it.

It's shame, right?

Only you don't want
to talk about it.

I mean, not yet,
you know, obviously.

I can take a hint.

Right, I feel like going
for a nose about then.

Don't run. It panics
the initiates.

Whoa. I'm in
the wrong game, mate.

Oh, we're not
so different.

Well, paycheck for starters.

How did you get started
in this racket, then, eh?

It was a natural transition from
work I did earlier in my life.

Part of my personal journey.

What, a sort of fortune 500?

It's not about
the money, Dr. Lightman.

S.R.P. is a not-for-profit
organization.

All revenue goes
toward helping people.

If you hold down anger
like that, well,

that's like holding
down a sneeze.

Sooner or later you're going
to get hurt, mate.

You know, your negative view
of the work isn't uncommon.

One of your acolytes...

Tried to kill herself
the night before last.

Let's get one thing clear.

S.R.P. is not
a religion or a cult.

We don't have acolytes.

What do you call
them then, eh?

Do you ever wonder how people
see you, Dr. Lightman?

You're going to tell me?

You override people,
ignore them.

And then when you feel
threatened, you get mean.

You're a bully, Dr. Lightman.

I'm a bully...
without acolytes.

Ha ha ha.

Um, do you mind?

This is Joan.

It's ok, I'd like her here.

Thank you, Carol.

I'm pleased to meet you.

Why did you take
the pills, Carol?

I can't dwell on that.

It was a mistake and now I need
to re-direct my energies

to purging the negative
and focusing on the positive.

Are you happy here?

Yes, I am.

Can't you tell?

Danielle misses you.

She's very worried
about you.

Misses is such a negative term,
but I hear you.

My daughter loves me
and I love her.

Carol, can you
say her name?

Don't be so distant.

Danielle.

Thank you.

See, we all have something
that we can offer each other.

Hey, how are you getting along
with this lot then?

I'm moving into
the fourth transition.

Oh, the fourth transition.

What's that then? Become
nothing, embrace the void.

Well, that's better
than nothing, I suppose.

It's a process. That's
why we're all here.

Glad you could make it,
Dr. Lightman.

I would not have missed
this for the world.

Ready when you are.

Carol, let's begin
with you, ok?

Tell us about your
regression to transition 6.

I need the group
to help me.

You need help self-delivery.

Carol, could you
explain what you mean?

Self-delivering
is when we embrace

the positive realities

that we create
for ourselves.

What's that mean, then?

It means we
acknowledge our faults,

things holding us back,
and we re-pattern.

We self-deliver.

Re-Patterning is possible
for everyone.

Hey, Carol, wake up.

This is a nightmare.

Dr. Lightman, I invited
you here to see our work,

not be a negative
disruption.

Right then, well, I think I'll
self-deliver back to work.

There's room in the van, all,
if anyone needs a lift.

Will you send
my love to Danielle?

Tell her that I'm
where I want to be

and there's no need
to come back.

I'm happy.

If you stick around,
he's going to hurt you.

Emily?

Hey, what's
going on now?

How did this get here?

I don't know.

I've never
seen it before.

How long have you been up?

Since I last
saw you, why?

And you got absolutely
no idea how this got here?

None. What is it?

You do lock the doors and that
while I'm out, don't you?

Yeah. Why?

All right.
Get dressed.

Go on.

You know, I had plans
tonight with a friend.

All right, call your Willy,

all right? And tell him
you can't make it.

Why?

Because I want
you to proofread

some pages of my book.

I'll pay ya.

I'll make it up
to you, em, I promise.

Well, you can start by
dropping the Willy joke.

Done.

All right.

So, you actually
wrote some pages.

I've got a little
problem, em.

Semicolons.

I never understood them.

But you use them anyway.

Hey, em.

Hey, Gillian.

They snuck this into my house

while Emily was there
alone, doors locked.

That ex-S.R.P. member is
going to be here tomorrow.

Maybe she can help us.

These bastards
are going down.

You mark my words.

Cal.

Whatever people
may feel personally

about John Stafford
and S.R.P.,

it's been a great help
in my life.

And in a lot
of people's lives.

And John would
never hurt anyone.

But you left S.R.P.,

why?

You can leave
whenever you want.

When your course work is
finished, it's time to move on.

Broken eye contact,
hesitation.

That's a straight
up lie, Jane.

No, it's not.

I still embrace
the precepts,

but I choose to live
my own life now.

Precepts?

Defensive.

She feels attacked.

I'm not trying
to attack you,

but from the look
in your eye,

you got a story to tell.

He's in.

I knew John...
In the beginning.

S.R.P. started off as...
A beautiful thing,

just a few of us
exchanging ideas

on how we could
change our lives.

People got interested
and more people came.

We were doing
something special.

We were helping them.

And then what happened?

Money.

And more money, eh?

You hate the money,
don't ya?

Ruined everything.

It changed John.

He appointed himself
our leader.

My boyfriend at
the time, Martin,

he was the first
one to leave.

So, where's Martin now?

There was a fire.

The police said
it was an accident.

John said it was
Martin's own negativity

that lit the fire
that killed him.

You blame Stafford.

You blame mine.

Blame is a very
negative term.

You blame yourself.

I blame no one.

You blame everyone.

Head down, eyes down,

blocking the eyes
with the hand.

Shame.

Were you what they
call an initiate?

What are you suggesting?

You're the one who's
doing that, darling.

You still love him.

I will always love Martin.

I'm not talking about
Martin and you know that.

Stafford's done
with you though, right?

He's through.

How old are you?

I'm 37.

You're outraged at the fact

that you're being replaced
by younger women, right?

You ever thought of suicide?

Shame again.

Send this one on to Florida

before she goes running
back to Stafford.

Stafford's a narcissist.

He's his own weak spot

and we just have to wait
and he'll trip himself up.

There's no time for that.

He had his thugs break
into my house.

I called him a narcissist
and you make this about you?

Oh, that reminds me.

I want a big wanky picture of
myself to put up in my office.

Can you just wait
until I get my purse?

You know, it's easy
to be negative.

Everything around us is designed
to make us think negatively.

But guess what?

We ain't buying it.

We ain't buying it.

Go on, say it.

We ain't buying it.

We ain't buying
because we know the truth

that can't be
bought or sold.

Young lady, would
you come up here?

Ha ha ha. Welcome.

Mind your back.
That's it.

How long have you
been with us?

11 months.

11 months. And
how's that going?

Thank you.

I'm on the fourth
transition.

Where's Carol?

I don't know.
No one's seen her.

Right. Excuse me.

S.R.P. is the best
thing I've ever done.

Come on, you
can say it.

It's ok, you're
with family now.

S.R.P.'s. the best
thing I've ever done.

Ha ha ha.
Whoo!

She's disappeared?

Yeah. And he knows it.

Dr. John.

Carol Ashland?

Any news?

Would you excuse me?

Ahem.

Um...I don't know
where Carol Ashland is.

That's the truth
and you know it.

You want to know why
you get on my nerves?

I'm going
to tell you anyway.

Although I don't see
any lies on your face,

also, I can't
see any truth.

Look, I'm sure you thought
you were helping

Carol by coming here,
Dr. Lightman.

Any fear for her safety?

I can't even
see that, can you?

Maybe Danielle
knows something.

Carol's daughter,
Danielle?

It's just the way you said
Danielle's name just now,

you seem more familiar with
her than her own mother does.

See, you know, even though
I don't get sweet F.A.

from your face...Huh?

That's a classic, that is.

Ahem.

Were you ever
a member of S.R.P.?

Not really a question,
that one, love.

So...on you go.

How did you find out?

Stafford.

He told you?

In a manner
of speaking, yeah.

I was in S.R.P.
until a few months ago.

It just wasn't for me.

What did he do to you?

I was in the core group,
an initiate.

We had sex every day
for nearly a year.

I'd be in the middle
of something and someone

would say John wanted
to see me, so I'd go.

Anytime, night or day.

Sometimes you wouldn't even
know where you were going.

They'd send a jet and fly
you back in the morning.

At first I liked it.

I was proud of myself.

I felt like I was better
than the rest of the women.

But then I saw myself...

What I was really doing.

It got bad...really bad.

Some nights...I would
just...scratch myself.

My face.

I wanted to be ugly.

I didn't want him
to touch me.

But you didn't leave.

You couldn't.

It feels like there's
no world outside S.R.P.

So, you come
to see us about your mum?

But it's not just her.

I want to kill him.

Well, it could cost you
a little extra.

What are you
so excited about?

John Stafford
loves a close-up.

Everything's right here.

He's just hard to pin down,

all the distorted
micro expressions,

so I isolated
the most obvious examples.

Stop. Pan on the left.

Go back.

All right, there.

Subcutaneous
muscle damage.

No wonder we couldn't
get a read on him.

Do you care to take a guess?

Surgery.

I was already there.

All right,
well, calm down

because this is the first
time I've seen these.

Do you want to see what
he looked like before?

Yeah, fire away.

Blimey, no wonder we
couldn't get a read on him.

Meet Carl Weatherly
from Ontario.

Wanted by the R.C.N.P. since
1989 for vehicular manslaughter.

Leaving a wife and a kid.

John Stafford
is not John Stafford.

Thank you.

Thank you.

You are about to begin the
greatest journey of your life.

Look around you.

Meet your new family.

These people will
be with you forever.

Will be with me forever.

Well, by forever, all right,

what John means is for
as long as he needs a family,

you know or you
or whoever, really.

Excuse me, Dr. Lightman.

How you doing John?
You all right, mate?

Nice pants.

Ladies and gentlemen,
I'd like to introduce you

to John's wife Sandy and
his lovely daughter, Liz.

What do you think, girls?

Who've been kind enough
to join us from Toronto,

where they've been living...

Since he abandoned
them 14 years ago.

Whoo!

This is the Stafford family...

Or rather
the Weatherly family,

as Mr. Stafford was known
before he had to leave town.

Lovely family.

John...you were
very handsome.

Let's, uh...
Let's take a break.

Oh, I think we've been
invited backstage,

which rumor has it, is a rare
honor, you know what I mean?

Re-pattern
amongst yourselves.

Could you clear
this area, please?

Please, now.

Well, go on then...
say something.

You talk for
a living, don't ya?

They came all this way.

Sandy...Liz.

Dad.

I'm really sorry.

I was wrong to leave,

but I'm a different
person now.

Wrong to leave?

Just wrong?

So, everything's good now?

And young and stupid.

I thought you'd be better off
without me, I really did.

No, he believes that.

He's probably
standing there

trying to figure out how to
spin this into a positive.

I don't have
to listen to this.

She never stopped
waiting for you.

Even when she
went to college,

she'd call to ask
if you'd come home.

Not even a letter.

Nothing.

You just disappeared,
you son of a bitch.

I thought you were dead.

I hoped you were dead.

I told Liz you had died,
but she didn't believe it.

She always believed that she
was going to see you again.

You left us
with nothing, Carl.

Nothing.

You're seeing this
for the first time...

But I've been living
with it for 14 years.

Come on. Let's go.

No.

This, John Stafford,
is your life.

The only crime
I've committed,

the only wrong
I've done--

abandoning a woman
and her child,

was done out of youthful
ignorance and stupidity.

The only crime my ass.

You're wanted
by the Mounties, mate.

That matter
was resolved.

Oh, really?

Well, I'll get right
on that one, shall I?

No extra charge.

Look, I've got a new family
that I need to protect.

So, for all
their sakes, just go.

I'll take care
of my family and...

You take care
of your family.

Are you saying something
about my family, mate?

Emily?

Em!

The people who are
problems in our lives

will re-program also,
become less negative.

We change others
by changing ourselves.

We find ourselves placing
expectations on others,

which reflect our fears and
have nothing to do with...

Oy, get out here.
Now, both of ya.

We were just
experimenting, dad.

Did you bring her
in here with this bullocks?

We were trying to understand
the type of person

who would
be attracted to that.

Don't play with fire, all right?
Neither of ya, ever.

Dad, seriously.

All right, take her up to my
office and stay there, all right?

Both of ya.

I'll be back in
a couple of hours.

You got it?

Uhh!

Give me the keys,
give me the keys.

Give me the keys.
Uhh! Unh!

I don't need
anymore pamphlets, mate.

Unh!

Now, I'm keeping this,
huh? For the police.

Right, you can walk back
to the bloody mother ship.

Ok.

If I see you
in my neighborhood

or anywhere else for
that matter, ever again,

right, that tire iron is going
to have a mind of its own.

- You get me?
- I hear you, yes.

Now, you tell John
Stafford this is over.

Ok, it's over.

But not in
a negative way, ok?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Uhh!
Marvelous.

Now, sod off.

Aah!

You all right, mate?

The trouble with hubris,
Mr. Weatherly,

you know, we hold
on to stuff.

Things we shouldn't.

And we keep them in places

where if anyone knows
our original name,

they can find them.

Where's my property?

Where's
my private papers?

Cops took the lot, mate.

What was this
place for then?

Was it like a record
of your life history,

you know, for prosperity?

You plunker, you didn't
even divorce Sandy, did ya?

That's going to cost you
an arm and a leg, man.

S.R.P. was never
about the money.

Oh, what was it about then?

We helped thousands
of people.

What about all the other ones?

Did you find
Carol Ashland?

She ran away from you.

She was probably scared
that she'd have another go

at herself if
she stuck around you.

What, do you think I had something
to do with Carol's suicide attempt?

Taking an overdose in
your office, at your desk.

Saying good-bye
to her daughter on your phone,

what was that about then?

I don't know, I...

You ran away
from your family

and a manslaughter
charge in Canada.

Did you ever think
of just manning up?

Oh, well,
here's your chance.

We'll call this the
eighth transition to jail.

First precept, knife,

the nastiest bastards
you can find in there

within your first day.

After that, I heard
they leave you alone.

William?

Dr. Lightman.

Right well, then.

Dr. Emily?

Dad.

What should we talk
about next then?

Semicolons?

What about sport, eh?

Dad, come on.

Just because he
looks like a jock

doesn't mean that
that's all he is.

All right, Mr. not jock,
semicolons, go.

Well, you can use
a semicolon as a soft period.

By using a semicolon
instead of a period

between two sentences, you
show that those two sentences

have a closer relationship
to each other

than they do to
the sentences around them.

As in, Emily's my
daughter...

Semicolon...

And I'm having a hard time

adjusting to her
being a grown up.

Right.

I'll get tea, then.

Quit your garbage.

Well, some of
that S.R.P. stuff

actually
got me thinking.

I mean, some of it
makes sense.

It's common sense dressed up,
so people want to pay for it.

There's whole shelves at mall
bookstores dedicated to that.

Right, well, the trouble
is men like Stafford,

they prey on you,
they make you feel

like you're lacking something and
that only they have the answer.

Yeah, it sounds like Lightman.

You get a move on?

What's wrong
with the coffee here?

Nothing.

It's a lot to carry,
you know, to have to--

to have to work through.

I don't think I can do it.

I don't know
what to say to her.

What Stafford did
to you, to your mother,

to all those people,
it's horrifying.

But he's a sociopath.

But we push back.

And we hold on
and we push back.

And we get help from people
who really care about us.

So, take this step.

Take all the time
you need, love.