Always behind the trends, this week’s convoluted episode
takes our heroes into the sorted world of Food Trucks. Okay, seriously Psych? Food trucks were hot
2 to 3 years ago, now they are just manned by culinary hipsters with inflated egos. I understand that some people really enjoy
truck food, but if I have to spend 10 bucks on a plate I’d rather do it
indoors, call me crazy but I’m just like that.
Not to mention everyone has gone way out to left field looking for that
next big indie bite. I mean, I think I
saw a truck that advertised soy bison, or maybe I just stayed up to late
watching Bob’s Burgers again…. That happens
a lot.
Back to the episode, Shawn and Gus stumble into a murder
of a Mexican themed food truck owner who has become known for his secret
sauce. Both our boys are consumed with
grief over losing their favorite taco set up and remember back to the good old
days of “Taco massages,” that was a bit disturbing and convince a stressed Chief
Lassiter to allow them to work the case from the shelter of their very own
truck, a strange collection of mash up foods.
What is a food mash up? Well an
example would be the fruit loop quesadilla, you’re welcome. Why is our Lassie
so stressed? Marlow is at 8 months now,
and as anyone who has dealt with pregnancy could tell you, the woman isn’t the
only one at their wits end with being pregnant.
The pressure of looming fatherhood and his personal vendetta against
food trucking (gosh didn’t see that coming :P) has left the frazzled chief only
the option of working with Shawn and Gus.
Have I mentioned that I love how Lassie hates food trucks; I get that
same feeling after an hour at the farmers market. Once again I guess I’m just not hip enough.
In return the boys mention how prepared she should be to
Marlow, who had admittedly not prepared anything for the new baby. Okay, I’ll interject again where they are
portraying Marlow is where I started getting ready too. I don’t remember taking any classes, or doing
anything more than reading a few blogs and small books. Maybe I did it wrong, but for all intensive
purposes I was the working mom/ bread winner in my relationship and after my
son was born I was a working single mom.
In that life there isn’t time for classes and massive prep, I managed, I
built furniture and washed and put away clothes, and I stocked a diaper station
that was about all I did. My son is now
an active toddler with a thriving intellect and normal life, guess I didn’t
screw it all up. Marlow on the other
hand goes off the reservation, signing up for classes and making Lassie carry
around a dummy baby doll to get practice, I could only imagine what I would
have done with that.
The boys get their truck started and pull into an
investigation of all the local trucks that the victim traveled around with. Each one gives a little more information as
they go, telling them about a local restaurant that was suing the truck over
the secret sauce. The victim, Mauricio,
had worked for the restaurant owner and after making off with the sauce recipe
started the competing food truck. While
the sauce theft turns out to be true, the murder motive is not. The owner explains that he was in small
claims court when the victim died fighting for the rights to his sauce back.
During the course of the investigation there is a surprise
inspection from the city health inspector and the two are given orders to clean
up or close the doors. Now who can they
turn to? Who could set them into order
and sanitary conditions with a do it right the first time through hard work
attitude? Henry! Who is consequently unavailable do to his
recent venture of trying to sell the family house and begin moving on with his
life somewhere else. This is a huge blow
to Shawn who is going to be losing both his father and his safe haven; it’s as
if all of the roots to Santa Barbara are being uprooted under Shawn feet. Shawn’s chosen path to dealing with the
problem is strict avoidance, no surprise there.
Focusing on the truck again the two decide to get a head
start and snoop out the industrial park the trucks meet up at. Waiting for them is your classic thug
mugger. Threatening them with a gun he
demands all the money from the day.
Having just opened they obviously have nothing, to add insult to that
injury the little punk mocks their food.
Turns out there is a gang that demands money from the food trucks
through an enforcer named “Smokey.”
Smokey turns out to be a music theater major who is fronting as a
gangster, but he gives them a tip that the he witnessed a fight between the
health inspector and Mauricio.
The next day the health inspector returns to check on the
truck and is greeted with an interrogation that includes Shawn needing the Heimlich
maneuver. The inspector explains that
the fight was over a tip that the truck was contaminated and he was only
defending himself. The dead end seems to
be final until they get a call from Henry to come and get his stuff because the
house closed escrow. It’s here that he
discovered a local gym owner had been bothering the trucks because they blocked
access to his gym and were serving 2000 cal meals to his costumers. The confrontation does not go well as they
find a dead owner crushed under a weight set.
Always get a spotter!
The body and scene are being processed when Lassiter gets
a call about two local banks being robbed in the same locations on the truck
route leaving the odds on favorite for who the killer is to be someone in the
fleet… But who? The Psych team ponders
this as Buzz explains the truck used to belong to another Mexican fusion rolling
restaurant. Further investigation
reveals that the old owner lost his company, and that folding truck companies
happen all the time. He cites a local
vegan truck as an example, but the vegan truck is still around. In fact he works their route. Now it all comes together, the vegan truck
and the gym worked together to rob the banks but were discovered by Mauricio
and that is why they killed him.
Marlow’s craving for fat, sugar, and salt has her chasing
a fruit loop quesadilla and consequently into the truck with Henry who has come
to talk through his moving on with Shawn, who has this kind of timing. In the end it’s discovered that Henry has
sold the house to Lassie and Marlow is in labor. Little Lilly is welcomed into the world as
Shawn tells Henry it’s okay to leave, and that all he wants is Henry’s
happiness. It’s a bitter sweet moment as
Shawn learns that life is moving on and he needs to move with it on his
own. The cycle seems to begin again on
Psych as only 3 episodes remain.
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