PSYCH Recap
Season 2 – Episode 6: “Meat Is Murder”
Recap by: Mel
It’s 1987, and Henry wakes to the smell of fresh banana nut muffins, which Mini-Shawn apparently made just for him. He’s trying to bribe Henry into un-grounding him so that he can go see RoboCop. Henry, of course, doesn’t fall for it, as there’s a trail of flour leading to the pantry where Mini-Gus is hiding, wearing a “Cook ‘Em, Dano!” apron and holding a flour-laden whisk. Hee! Henry chides Mini-Shawn for lying, and sends the boys out of the kitchen.
Present day, and hey! There’s John Amos!! James Evans, Sr., the dad on Good Times, is probably my favorite TV dad of all time, and I die a little inside every time I watch the episode when he bites it. If you’ve never seen Good Times, then that was definitely a spoiler. Anyway, he’s playing Burton, Gus’s uncle and namesake. He’s one-fourth crotchety, three-fourths snarky, and four-fourths awesome. Burton is pretty hard on Gus, as he doesn’t use his given first name- it’s a bit of a sore spot between the two. Anyway, they’re heading to dinner when Shawn interrupts, and tells Gus they have a case. Gus tries to subtly tell Shawn to take the it on his own, but no dice. He pulls Shawn aside and explains that his great aunt misunderstood him when he told her he worked for a psychic detective, so his mom’s entire side of the family thinks that HE’S a psychic detective, and Shawn’s his assistant. Shawn has a plan, though, and you’ll be surprised that it includes inviting Burton to accompany them to the crime scene to watch Gus “work his psychic magic”. And that, my friends, is a BURN.
At the crime scene, Gus brats to Shawn that the cops won’t let Burton on the premises, and when a cute policeman politely asks Burton to leave, John Amos awesomely gets his Intimidating Large Alpha Male on. “There’s no crime scene tape at the door. The forensics guys are not collecting any evidence, and it seems as though you guys don’t suspect foul play, so I got as much right to be here as you do. And don’t give me any of that fancy police talk, please. I’ve seen enough ‘Hill Street Blues’ to know what’s what.” Cute Cop is suitably cowed. Jules gives them the skinny: Vince Wagner, a Santa Barbara restaurant critic, died after eating his wife’s chicken soup. She says the wife is acting super weird, and wants Shawn to get a reading. Gus freaks, and pulls Shawn into the kitchen. He thinks there’s no way he can do it, but Shawn believes otherwise. “You make some observations, you form a conclusion, and reveal it to everybody in a ridiculous and/or roundabout way.” Easy peezy, lemon squeezy. In comes Burton before Gus can pee his pants in terror, and I can not express the total hilarity of Dule Hill’s facial expressions while he’s Psych-ing. He finally yells that the wife is a terrible cook, and she overhears him in the other room and agrees. She cooked her husband something healthy once a week, even though The Barefoot Contessa she is not. Shawn and Gus know she didn’t do it, but Shawn spies Wagner’s body as it’s being wheeled out- his tongue is black, which is definitely not a good thing.
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