Mr Holmes, who was present for the hearing, sat in red prison dress with a blank expression throughout the proceedings, witnesses said.

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He just looked at me with a blank expression.

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However, on television, a blank or flat expression does not look blank.

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Instead, he said, Holmes' blank, emotionless expression fits what happens in a psychotic breakdown that severs a person's ability to distinguish reality from fantasy.

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As he begins to backtrack, she jolts upright, stares back in shock, then in mock shock, shifting in subtle increments until she smiles, lets her face go blank again, and leans back into his arms with relaxed panic, a twenty-sided facial expression that should earn Lauren Graham a special Emmy.

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