This week's episode was satisfying for its emphasis on motive over lying. This is mainly about the team protecting a diplomat against possible assassination.
We got more education on reading faces which was good but my interest was in the final scenes where Dr. Lightman ferrets outs the shooter talking about how one is made to feel “like nothing.”
The camera tricks us once by showing us the man next to the shooter. This takes place at 36:37 on the website version of the show. Here we see a good rendition of “shame” affect. Why this man is demonstrating it we do not know. It must be that Lightman is triggering a painful memory in him. Then the camera moves to the shooter and Lightman pushes him until he demonstrates anger and the characteristic face we were taught at the beginning of the show. But first, there is some demonstration of shame at 36:58 then the full expression of the anger at 37:02 when he attacks. Once he is settled down and confesses there is a slight demonstration of shame again at 37:20 when he is talking about breaking the marriage vows.
Shame and humiliation are much emphasized in the body of Tomkin’s work.
If you analyze most lies, you will eventually find some remnant of shame or of an attempt to avoid shame or a reaction to a sense of humiliation as its motivation. Here you see it in the shooter and with the lies about the gambling and with the brother as a bodyguard. One emotional sequence that has not been made clear, I believe, is our tendency to move from shame to anger. Many believe that most of our anger rests in shame and if we would pay attention to our shame there would be a lot less anger in the world.
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