[tomkat]

That's the look on a deer's face when it sees that 70mph semi @ 50' and closing.

No fight OR flight response whatsoever .. pure frozen fear.

[STARLIT]

Split-second seizures? Quite possibly because “Bart”, had to tell her several times to keep talking.

[firebasecody]

I have seen folks freeze like that in combat. Their mind cannot process what is going on and they get stuck, like a deer in the headlights. Not someone you want in your foxhole, or covering you, let alone President. Lordy.