React to Contact

Episode aired Jun 28, 2010
TV-14
1h

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

799

YOUR RATING

Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

A decorated war hero who is suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder claims that someone is trying to kill him, and Dr. Lightman is brought in to investigate.A decorated war hero who is suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder claims that someone is trying to kill him, and Dr. Lightman is brought in to investigate.A decorated war hero who is suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder claims that someone is trying to kill him, and Dr. Lightman is brought in to investigate.

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

799

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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8bsfraser2003

Very Gripping!

A most excellent episode from start to finish, the war scenes were beautifully filmed and the storyline superb. Eight stars from me.

6claudio_carvalho

Behind the Red Door

When a paranoid man almost shoots his six-year-old son at home, Dr. Lightman is hired by the army to check him. He is the decorated Sgt. Jeff Turley, who is suffering from PTSD, and Cal and his team bring him to their office to use augmented reality to find what happened with him. Soon they learn that something affected Jeff when his convoy was attacked by the enemy and he opened a red door. They seek our his superior, Cpt. Stan Renshaw, who gives the official report of the mission. But Cal and Gillian see that the report does not tell the truth and investigate the subject further.

"React to Contact" is one of the weakest episodes of "Lie to Me". The plot about Dr. Lightman and Dr. Foster finding what happened to the decorated soldier is unrealistic. The veteran of war seems to be abandoned by the army when they return home (at least, this is what we see in American movies), and the army reconstituting the war scene does not seem to be so fast and easy. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "React to Contact"

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Trivia
In this episode, Enver Gjokai plays an Iraqi war veteran. In the show Dollhouse, which earned him a lot of exposure, he portrayed an Afghanistan vet suffering from PTSD.

Goofs
When looking at the brain image scans for the soldier, they show the parts of the brain lighting up explaining that those parts are the fight or flight brain parts. Later, when Cal shows Emily his own brain, he states that the parts that lit up are love, but they match the soldier's brain activity. The fight or flight area that he associates with his ex-wife is different.