Psych: Who Ya Gonna Call?

Ed. Note: The premise of Psych is that a young man named Shawn has been trained by his policeman father to have a meticulous eye for detail. He reports a crime and is hauled in as a suspect because he 'knows too much'. When the authorities still refuse to believe that what he really has is a Sherlock Holmes-like skill at observation, he begins claiming psychic or clairvoyant powers, and offers to help the police solve more crimes.

This episode is about the investigation of the murder of a psychologist. The witnesses reported a man who called himself Martin Brody (Roy Schneider's character in Jaws). Shawn is hired by another man to get rid of a "ghost" that he says is trying to kill him. Shawn is taken up into the attic with his friend Gus, where using his stupendous powers of observation, he deduces that the man is a multiple.

Shawn and Gus decide to "trigger" the other member of the system. They take the man up into the attic, and in a moment of Complete and Utter Dreck^TM, by talking about feeling "pretty" and putting a dress on the man's shoulders, trigger Regina. Regina comes to the front, and she and the other characters talk about the visits to the doctor. Regina is all "I could never hurt that doctor, he was talking about a private matter" which Shawn deduces as gender reassignment surgery. After this, he, again by those marvelous observation powers realizes that there is a third system member, the Martin Brody at the beginning of the episode. He also realizes that Martin is going to murder the doctor they are seeing in ten minutes. Tra-la-laaa! The day is saved, and the multiple ends up in a mental institution.

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Overall? Out of 10 I would give the portrayal a 3.

How's that for a review?

Alan Christian^Crew.

pavilion @ karitas . net

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