houseguest, being questioned by Marcia Clark, the lead
prosecutor in the case. Kaelin sits in the witness box, with a
vacant look on his face. Clark asks a hostile question. Kaelin
leans forward and answers her softly. “Did you see that?”
Ekman asked me. I saw nothing, just Kato being Kato —
harmless and passive. Ekman stopped the tape, rewound it, and
played it back in slow motion. On the screen, Kaelin moved
forward to answer the question, and in that fraction of a
second, his face was utterly transformed. His nose wrinkled, as
he flexed his levator labii superioris alaeque nasi. His teeth
were bared, his brows lowered. “It was almost totally A.U.
nine,” Ekman said. “It’s disgust, with anger there as well, and
the clue to that is that when your eyebrows go down, typically
your eyes are not as open as they are here. The raised upper
eyelid is a component of anger, not disgust. It’s very quick.”
Ekman stopped the tape and played it again, peering at the
screen. “You know, he looks like a snarling dog.”
Ekman showed another clip, this one from a press
conference given by Harold “Kim” Philby in 1955. Philby had
not yet been revealed as a Soviet spy, but two of his colleagues,
Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, had just defected to the
Soviet Union. Philby is wearing a dark suit and a white shirt.