Lying Game... Over Exposed

Not only is Emma going to her first Homecoming dance, she’s also running for Homecoming Queen against Sutton’s main rival Nisha. Emma convinces Kristin and Ted to un-ground Laurel for a night and let her go to the dance in order to support Justin, who is running for Homecoming King. Meanwhile, Nisha exposes Mads and Eduardo to Alec but Mads attempts play it off.

At the dance Emma wins Queen and Justin wins King! As Emma and Justin begin their victory dance, Ethan (all dressed up in a tux!) arrives out of the blue and cuts in. Ethan and Emma kiss for the first time in front of the entire student body. In L.A., Sutton sees pictures of Emma and Ethan kissing at the dance, and in turn starts kissing Thayer.

Later, Emma finds a picture in the Mercer family album of her birth mother, Annie Hobbs, and realizes that she went to Arroyo High School back in the day with Ted and Alec.

The Lying Game... Twinsense and sensibility

Alec is worried what will happen if Sutton finds out that her birth mother isn’t really dead. Something really bad happened a long time ago and both Alec and Ted have been covering it up ever since.

Emma has an intense recurring nightmare (in which she can’t breathe) that she discovers her and Sutton have both been having since childhood. Using the photo of Emma with her birth mother at age three, Sutton and Thayer are able to locate the burned down shell of a house where Emma grew up as a baby. They realize that the dream Emma was having was her being trapped in the house when it burned down all those years ago, and that through “twinsense” Sutton was experiencing the same nightmare. In the house they discover a mural that their birth mother signed, so now they know her name, Annie Hobbs.

Meanwhile, Justin takes Laurel on a first date where they randomly bump into Char and Mads. In order to save Ethan from being charged as an adult for stealing Sutton’s laptop, Laurel falsely confesses that she was the one who stole it and framed Ethan. And Mads tries to seduce Eduardo at the dance studio.

Lying Game Sneak Peeks

Lying Game...Double Dibs

Alec gives Sutton's stolen laptop back to Derek (the teenager he hired to steal it). Alec has revenge on his mind. Meanwhile, Sutton apologizes to Ethan for keeping him in the dark about switching with Emma and going to LA to search for their biological mother. Dan tells Ethan to stay away from Sutton. She's bad news and he'll end up in trouble again. But Emma confesses to her parents that Ethan is really her boyfriend, not Luke. They decide to invite Ethan over for a family dinner.

While Laurel is practicing violin by herself in the outdoor amphitheater, a new hot guy Justin jogs by and introduces himself. She's instantly smitten. At Arroyo High School, Char is all over Justin and calls "dibs" on him. Too bad for Laurel, the "dibs" code was invented by Sutton to keep the girls from stealing each other's boyfriends. Later that night at the Mercer household where Ethan is having dinner with Emma's family, his brother Dan, the cop, interrupts to say that he found Sutton's stolen laptop in Ethan's truck. Ethan says he was framed, that somebody else stole it and planted it on him.

Meanwhile, Thayer and Sutton track down Ruth Peterson (the woman whose name is on both Emma and Sutton's birth certificates) where she works at the local library. Ruth attempts to run away but they catch her. She confesses that she is not their real mother, and that she was paid by a baby broker for the use of her name because their real mother wanted her true identity kept a secret.

The Lying Game...

Ted Mercer (Emma’s new dad while she’s pretending to be Sutton) invites Emma to the annual father-daughter dance at the Country Club, and Emma is terrified because she possesses no ballroom dancing skills whatsoever – unlike Sutton. Ethan works at the club and gives Emma dance lessons in order to help prepare her for the big night. Meanwhile they attempt to figure out where Sutton disappeared to in LA and also who broke into her bedroom and stole her laptop.

Alex Rybak, Mads’ father and Sutton’s god father, grills Emma to see if she’s had any contact with his son, Thayer (Mads’ older brother), who recently moved to LA. Speaking of brothers, Ethan’s older brother (the cop) catches Ethan using his work computer at the police station to see if anyone matching Sutton’s description has been arrested or admitted to a hospital in LA. Dan warns Ethan to stay away from Sutton, that she is nothing but trouble.

After several days of dance lessons, dress shopping, and learning how to impersonate Sutton, the big day is finally upon Emma, who is extremely nervous that everyone will figure out she is a fraud when they realize she can’t dance. But Emma is able to pull it off without too many missteps.

Later, Sutton finally contacts Emma and Ethan. She tells them that the trail in LA has run a little cold, but that she’ll call them shortly once she has new info regarding the whereabouts of their biological mother.

Lying Game... Pilot

The pilot starts with Emma, a sporty and independent teen who is in foster care. She's obviously unhappy about her situation, especially since the son of her foster parent is trying to take advantage of her.
Cut to Sutton, her identical twin who lives with her rich adopted family. Alexandra Chando plays both twins - a hard role to handle but one that she tackles well. Sutton and Emma have just found out about each other and are trying to find their biological parents.
When Emma's foster-brother sets her up as a thief, she takes off and makes a run to the only place she knows - Sutton's home. From there, things get crazy as Sutton tells Emma that they need to trade places so that Sutton can go follow a lead on their real parents. Sutton takes off to Los Angeles, leaving Emma to pretend that she's her twin.
Emma tries to fit in with Sutton's friends and family but everyone is surprised at how different Sutton is. The first day of school is especially tricky, as Emma tries to navigate this new social scene and has to play a tennis match against Sutton's rival. At the end of the match she catches Sutton's boyfriend making out with her rival.

Meanwhile, there's someone creepy hanging around Emma. It's the brooding guy from school, Ethan. When she confronts him though she finds out the truth - that Sutton has been secretly dating him this summer. Ethan's on to her and knows that she's not really Sutton.

At the end of the episode of The Lying Game the mystery grows as Emma is supposed to go meet Sutton in a mysterious cabin but Sutton doesn't turn up. A panicked Emma returns to the house to find that her bedroom has been broken into and her computer's been stolen. The pilot ends on the real Sutton in Los Angeles. She sits in a car waiting for someone; but when the door opens, she screams in fear. Quite a suspenseful ending.

The Lying Game series is worth the watch. The show is fun, suspenseful and dramatic. Plus, the wardrobe they have on all the girls is great! This should be a perfect match for fans of Pretty Little Liars. Especially because the books were both written by Sara Shepard. I've read all 9 of the Pretty Little Liars books. And I'm currently in the middle of The Lying Game. So far, it seems like a hit.