Lie To Me Review

I watched the first episode in the second season of lie to me. This episode opened up with a murder scene being seen as a 'vision' by a woman, Terisha. She seeks out Dr. Lightman and pleads for his help, for she is terrified. She describes her 'psychic vision' to Dr. Lightman and he takes it very seriously for he can tell that she was not lying at all. At this point I was skeptical because of the word choice, 'psychic vision'. I learned in psychology class that psychics are pseudopsychologists and are not to be trusted due to their harmful effects on people's lives and minds. Yet Dr. Lightman continues listening intently and attempts to help her. He leaves his laboratory in search of something else in the episode and when he returns Terisha has gone. He asks of her whereabouts and his friend tells him that she left, she wasn't a prisoner so she was free to go. Dr. Lightman investigates and rents the room out at the hotel Terisha said this happened at. After searching the room he hears the door start to unlock so he jumps into the closet. He awaits and who does he see.... Terisha, but she does not recognize him. He asks her her name and she replies, Jess. Now Dr. Lightman is very interested, he asks her to spend some time with him and she says only if she gets paid well. When the return to the laboratory Dr. Lightman and his right hand woman discuss and study the film of the interrogation of Terisha. At one point Terisha's posture, facial expressions and whole mood change almost instantly, Dr. Lightman concludes Multiple Personality Disorder, or more specifically, Dissociative Personality Disorder. Dr. Lightman's associate hypnotizes Jess and asks her questions, gathering information about two other egos, R.J. and Garrett. She then asks to see Terisha and she confirms these two other egos, but when she tells her to wake up 'Terisha' starts to freak out because she doesnt know where she is and attempts to run away, due to her fear of the unknown. She says she is the central person, the one who all of the personalities branch off of. When Terisha and Jess were talking about R.J. they referred to him as 'The Protector' and Dr. Lightman concluded that he was the male personality that arose within Sophie (original personality) when there was danger or she was threatened. He inferred that due to their shared conscious R.J. had shared what he saw with Terisha and due to her being scared she went to Dr. Lightman for help. Dr. Lightman finds out from Sophie that Garrett was her brother, not another ego. They go to find him and he gives us insight into the happenings of how Sophie became like this, it was due to her grandfather, he 'touched' her and it was evil Garrett said, I don't know why he did this. It was probably something to do with a lack of sexual activity for that man at the time and therefore he was attracted to his granddaughter, this would be the Freudian theory. When they return , Dr. Lightman threatens and demeans Sophie when they are alone and throws her to the ground, all of a sudden she changes, and beats the living daylights out of Dr. Lightman. When R.J. is subdued Dr. Lightman talks to him/her about what he saw and tells him/her to share the memory through her shared conscious with Terisha again. Terisha then relays all of what happened back to Dr. Lightman and he devises a plan to get a confession. Sophie walks into Jess' whorehouse dressed as Jess with an ear piece through which Dr. Lightman is providing emotional support and telling her what to say. He then confesses to killing one of Jess' friends out of being scared and confused by Sophie's aggressive advances. Then the police intervene and take him under arrest. What I found to be very interesting about this episode was the concept of the ' shared conscious' between the multiple personalities. I love studying the brain and the happenings within it, and the dissociative personality disorder just added to the depth and complexity of the brain and its functions. The shared consciousness was very important to finding out what happened and proving her innocence but I am not quite sure that it is a true thing or if they used poetic licence. I would like to believe it to be true but I am not quite sure.