Plot-bunny: Lie to Me / Highlander

[marbleglove]

So, I just recently watched the first disc of Season 1 of Lie To Me. And despite my initial qualms, I enjoyed it a great deal.

Of course, now I want the Lightman Group to come across Methos and MacLeod, and possibly Joe Dawson, too, of Highlander. Because really, they’re constantly around dead bodies, and they’re constantly lying.

First, there’s the simple character confrontations:

At some point, Eli Loker says something or another absolutely honestly which is against all social custom, as is his personal custom, and while Dawson and MacLeod look nonplussed, Methos only looks mildly and momentarily startled.

“You remind me of an old friend of mine, Thomas.”

All the Lightman Group people can see the flash of grief on Methos’ face as he mentioned his friend.

“And was he killed by his unhappy coworkers?”

Unhidden humor. “No, despite our doubts, all the evidence pointed to a natural cause of death.”

“Thomas?” Dawson asked doubtfully. He just knew that Methos was talking about Thomas the Rhymer, cursed by the Faerie Queen to never tell a lie. Thomas the Rhymer was a myth. Wasn’t he? “For real?”

Then there’s the actual meat of the matter:

“What’s odd is the group of them.  They are all extremely talented liars, however they differ on the extent of their lies. Dawson appears to have secrets just like any other man who may know that his friends are serial killers.”

“Oh yes, because there are so many such men that there’s a type.”

Lightman ignored that comment, in order to continue. “MacLeod appears to be lying about everything he does or thinks with the shining exception of what his name is. Meanwhile, Pierson appears to be telling the absolute truth about everything, with the shining exception of what his name is.”

“And did you catch the fact that both MacLeod and Dawson think that Pierson is lying?”

“Oh yes. Which begs the question: is he a good enough liar to fool us or a good enough truth-speaker to fool them?”

Comments

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

I had forgotten that quote from Angel but it is awesome. And exactly illustrates the point: communication does break down occasionally. Hee.

It would make an awesome parallel story as the interview is told from both perspectives.

MacLeod would have all of these interesting historical questions and, while he certainly wants to help solve whatever crime is being investigated, he'd still be almost completely focused on his own issues.

Lightman, on the other hand, would be getting all of these peculiar cues and trying to piece together what they said about the particular crime.

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

i wonder what the rest of Lightman's group would be getting from the exchange?


would be very confusing