“The Lying Game” returns Jan. 2

SUMMER PRESS TOUR - August 7, 2011 - "The Lying Game" Session - Alexandra Chando at the Disney/ABC Television Group 2011 Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hills Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. (ABC FAMILY/RICK ROWELL)

ABC Family’s original series “The Lying Game,” which stars Alexandra Chando as twins Emma and Sutton and features Moore native Randy Wayne as Justin, returns with new episodes at 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 2.

The January premiere of “The Lying Game” picks up on the twins’ seventeenth birthday. Emma (Alexandra Chando) and Ethan (Blair Redford) return to Emma’s birthday party after a huge quarrel with Sutton (Chando) and anxiously wait for her to show up, according to a news release.

The summary for the “O Twin, Where Art Thou?” episode, provided by ABC Family, is as follows:

It’s been a tough night for Emma and Ethan, and things are about to get tougher when they find Sutton has disappeared after their argument and the Mercer family car is missing from the garage. When the police find the car at the bottom of the lake, Emma and Ethan look to each other for support, but Thayer (Christian Alexander) threatens to tear them apart with his accusations against Ethan. Meanwhile, Char’s aunt, Rebecca (guest star Charisma Carpenter, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), has returned to town and Char (Kirsten Prout) is the only one happy about it.