Season 1
7 episodes · 2011
1Faith Healers
Ling visits a faith healing revival in Fort Mill, S.C., run by controversial evangelist Todd Bentley. During the visit, Ling says she's challenged by what she thought she knew about faith.
2Transgender Lives
Five transgender people in various stages of transition are profiled.
3State of Sex Offenders
Lisa Ling explores the challenges of living life on a list of registered sex offenders as she meets with ex-cons in Florida. "They're America's pariahs, pushed into the shadows," she says. Or, as one man living in a swampy campground with other offenders calls it, "the leper colony." Ling also meets a real-estate agent who finds more substantial housing for offenders who can afford it; and follows authorities as they arrest an ex-con accused of failing to register an address change.
4Pray the Gay Away?
"Can prayer make you straight?" Host Lisa Ling explores that notion as she observes some 1100 participants at a Freedom Conference sponsored by the evangelical organization Exodus International, which offers advice on combating same-sex attractions. "I have chosen to live my life through the filter of my faith," says Exodus president Alan Chambers, "not through the filter of my sexuality.
5Online Brides
A Texas man travels to Colombia to meet women who advertise for husbands at a marriage website.
6Heroin in the Heartland
Lisa discusses the time she spent in a central Ohio town ravaged by heroin, and the connections that she made with the people along the way.
7A Closer Lookfinale
Updates on the people and situations shown in previous episodes.