PSYCH Recap
Season 2 - Episode 3: “Psy Vs Psy”
Recap by: Mel

In 1987, Henry is in Shawn Vice Principal’s office, who’s telling him that, yes, Shawn did have a signed permission slip to go on a field trip. They bitch back and forth, and it’s pretty boring, to be quite honest. So Shawn forged his Dad’s signature. Like everyone hasn’t done that a billion times. The VP does manage to mention Henry’s “N humps” which elicited quite an immature giggle from me.

Present day, where Gus and Shawn are called to the station where they run into Lou Diamond Phillips! Hi LDP! Call me!! His character’s name is Special Agent Lars (Hee!) Ewing, with the Federal Treasury Department. He’s super serious and sort of creepy and totally hot. On the way to Chief’s office, Shawn eyes a total hottie sitting on a bench, and tells Gus to go and save him a seat. His pick-up line to Total Hottie? “Waiting for Godot? Guffman? Waiting to exhale?” Heh. He introduces himself as the Station Psychic, and tries to impress said hottie, to no avail.In Chief’s office, everyone is introduced to Special Agent Lars Ewing, who seems to take quite a liking to Jules. Lassie obviously has a gigantic man crush on him, since he’s obviously everything Lassie aspires to in life. Agent Ewing apparently has his very own stenographer named Mildred. She’s a really cute little old lady who follows him everywhere and types everything he and anyone else he’s talking to says. I really want one of those. So does Lassie.

In comes Total Hottie, actual name Lindsay Leikin, who is apparently a Government Issue Psychic, and promises to out Shawn as a fake, as well as solve the case. Lord, Bianca Kajlich is pretty. Remember when she was on The Creek? Good times. Anyway, they go to Home Depot, where the counterfeiter apparently dropped some fake Benjamins, and Lindsay basically shames Shawn. She describes the scar and diamond earring that the perp was wearing to a T, which flabbergasts our favorite fake psychic. And Agent Horn Dog SNIFFS JULIET’S HAIR. Awesome.

Shawn and Gus head to Henry’s, who forces them to help him build a wet bar (Ha!) In his house. Shawn’s still steaming over Lindsay, and Gus takes much pleasure in teasing him. He tells Shawn that they’re gonna have to do some serious detective work, and lucky for them, Gus in well-versed in money, as he has 85 Buffalo nickels. Heeeee. They go to a high-end car dealership, and find Lindsay, Jules, Chief, Lassie, and Ewing already investigating. Instead of calling Lassie, Ewing called Jules, who swears she wasn’t happy that he called her at 2 A.M., and his voice was “Gravely and masculine. Probably called from the hotel. Maybe just got out of the shower. Finished with his swim. Dripping wet.” Aaand, I need a cold shower. The forger bought a car for $47,000 in fake bills, and returned it the next day for $26,000 in real ones, which I might try later next week.

Lassie admires the blackness of Agent Ardent’s suit, who calls it “Washington Black.” Lassie adorably mouths this back to the Chief, and it is seriously too cute for words. He’s so in love. Oh, and there’s Mildred! Hi Mildred! Shawn notices that one of the bill’s is subtly changing color, and Gus whispers that only real bills do that. Back at the station, Gus and Shawn are awkwardly kicked out of the conference room, but Shawn reveals that one of the bills is real, so suck on that, Lindsay. The forger, Shawn says, must have been short $100, and tossed in a real bill to cover the cost of the car. He had to have set up shop somewhere in town to print more money, so there’s a definite chance they can nab him.

Oh my God, Shawn is in the Psych office wearing a green, flowery apron and baking a Pineapple Upside Down Cake in an Easy Bake Oven. I am officially in love. Lindsay shows up and admits that Shawn impressed he, and tells his that she’d like to work together. They psychic-out where the forger is staying (a French hotel on Gus’s route) and head over there. Shawn, much to the chagrin of Agent Horn Dog and Lindsay, figures out which room he’s currently staying in, which has a printer, and a washer and dryer, which are used to make the bills look beat up and used. Lindsay swears that her “receptors” (seriously?) are telling her that the guy forged approximately $50,000, but Shawn reveals a 500 sheet ream in the closet that proves his $500,000 theory. Lindsay is stunned that she’s wrong, but Lassie finds a passport seal, so they have to get moving.

On their way out, Lindsay thanks Shawn, and ends up inviting him back to her hotel room. Cut to them both sitting intimately on a loveseat, with the sultry “Huh huh huh HUUUUH HAAA”s of Spandau Ballet’s “True” playing in the background. Cut to me, dying laughing. They kiss all cutely, then fall onto the bed to make sweet, sweet psychic lurve. Shawn wakes up the next morning and Lindsay is gone, but before he can get too embarrassed, Lassie calls him to a scene- the forger was found shot to death with his own gun. I guess Lindsay found him (she also got real psychic-touchy with the dead body, which: gross), so Chief begrudgingly offers her congratulations and they start to leave. Shawn stutters around Lindsay, and then gets totally burned when she walks away without a word, and OUCH, that hurts.

Magnum and Higgins Discuss & Walk, and Shawn realizes that something fishy is going on with Lindsay. They go to Mildred (Hi Mildred!)’s hotel room to look at her stenographer transcripts, and Shawn hones in on a conversation Lindsay and Agent Ewing had- she didn’t show up one morning because she had gone to get coffee. Shawn’s put it all together in his head, so they race to the airport to stop the plane. Agent Feel Good manages to ask Jules for her Myspace page (the hell?!) before our dubious duo show up to save the day. Lindsay found out who the forger was, but decided to go into business (and pleasure) with him instead of turning him in. When she found out that he printed all that cash, she realized he was screwing her over. She met up with him, shot him dead, then made sure to touch the body in front of everyone so that the forensics guys would be fooled.

Lindsay pulls a gun on Shawn, but Mildred! Saves him! By shoving her stenographer bag at them! Mildred rules. So, with the case all wrapped up, we head back up to the station where Jules is minding her own quiet business when, BAM. SHIRTLESS LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS. IN SLOW MOTION. WITH CHEAP PORN MUSIC. It’s a beautiful sight to see, y’all. Holy half-naked hottie, Batman- LDP is… he’s just… siiiiigh. Lassie spilled coffee on his shirt I think, but I wasn’t really paying attention, because SHIRTLESS. As he walks away, Jules and I both stare dreamily at his naked back. I vote the producers end every single episode exactly as they did this one. Do you agree? Of course you do.

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