Psych’s back! Well
to finish out the series, wow that was an emotional roller coaster, kind of
like the opening of this episode. We get
our chief back, only to have her announce that she is leaving for San
Francisco. I can honestly say I was about
to cry when Lassie ruined the moment by trying to figure out if he could be
considered for the chief’s job. Freaking
Lassie. The part that was really sad is
that this quick ride only sets up the fortunately – unfortunately that seems to
run through this episode.
So Lassie heads over to the mayor’s office and proceeds
to completely botch his interview, but in exchange gets offered a very personal
cold case. The mayor’s uncle, Archie a hardnosed
crime reporter, was supposedly killed and the SBPD had covered it up to protect
a corrupt police chief and mobster.
So what makes this episode awesome? Well we are all going back in time and
everyone gets to be someone from 1967.
Kicking us off is Harry in a wig as the old coroner… I don’t know, I
wasn’t too impressed at all. Still the
casting goes forward when they are lead to the remains of an old mob hang out
and lounge. Shawn taking on the role of
the mobster king pin, Woody as the chief, Gus as a lounge act, Juliet as the
mob girlfriend and Lassie taking up the horn-rimmed glasses as Archie we are
thrown into 1967.
First off, I think Shawn is being far too much Columbian drug
lord to Gus really wanting to be James Brown…. Both are a little lack
luster. It’s like the cast is phoning it
in now that the series is almost finished.
They discover that the only person still alive to discuss
the case with is an aging song bird from the lounge act who admits that the
lounge singer was a bit of a gambler, and the chief was actually looking to put
the cuffs on the mobster. Putting these
things together he tries to make a case against the singer, but he was arrested
the night of the murder in another state across the country. So that’s obviously a no go.
Next they look into whether or not the mob girlfriend was
still alive, surprise! She is. So they
drag the played out whore down town who is flouncing around like a played out …
well whore. She tells another story of
Archie as a complete drunk obsessed with a young black lesbian lounge singer. This is of course not true, however it makes
Lassie rethink the case and almost give up.
Cue Archie the ghost, to demand Lassie avenge him!
We know that Juliet was hiding something from Shawn after
a closed door meeting with Chief Vick, and the writers tend to dangle it out in
front of you for a little bit before they blow the tension completely. Juliet has been offered the opportunity to go
with Vick to San Francisco and she has been looking into taking the opportunity.
Another analysis of Archie’s liver proves that he was not
a drunk but was in fact drugged. So now,
who drugged him and why. For that they
go back to the club and discover a wiretap.
The recordings had been hidden in with Archie’s personal belongings at
the mayor’s house the whole time and reveal that it was the mom girlfriend Scarlet
who was having an affair with the lounge singer.
After solving the case and being named chief of police,
Lassie decides to smack us all right in the feels. Turns out a condition of his being chief is
that Juliet cannot go with him at all.
At first, he decides he wants to turn it down because Juliet has become
so very special to him. However, she
assures him that it’s okay; she has decided to go with Vick. So where does that leave Shawn? Alone in his bed as Juliet drives away… Yep
kicked me right in the feels…
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