Ninja Please...

We open on our guys in a desperate situation of no work and bills piling up, like that’s anything new for Shawn and Gus.  So what do you think they spend their free time doing?  That’s right, coming up with ridiculous crimes to solve that haven’t really happened.  Between Shawn and Gus, they come up with plots based around puppets, competitive eating, and suggestive hot dogs… all around it ends in the phrase “Ninja please…”  Thanks for that Gus.

Meanwhile in the coroner’s office of beautiful, murderous Santa Barbara Woody works away at his latest “patient.”  In comes an imposing figure with a creepy Cajun accent and he attempts to roll out a body.  Woody explains that due to the body being a John Doe, he cannot allow the man to take it and then we get a gun.  Our dopey coroner is taken hostage by Cyrus, an ex con who was trying to make a life for himself.  It turns out the body is a murder victim “Wilson” who he had beef with in jail and Cyrus believes he is being set up.  Woody is quick to try to help Cyrus and begins an honest dialogue.

The precinct is swamped as Chief Trout rallies the officers for a standoff when Shawn and Gus arrive.  As true to his character Trout dismisses the two and assigns Lassie to a ridiculous detail far from the scene.  Trout is blowing the situation out of control as he readies for a hail of bullets, he intends to shot first, and you thought Han was bad.

With the dynamic dunderheads locked out of the police department we see the return of the half beard scheme.  I’m so disappointed in these two I expected way more by this season.  However it did get them into a holding cell which is a good start, at least they are inside right?

Woody talks Cyrus into asking for Shawn and Gus explaining they are not cops so he can trust them.  Of course he also talks him into asking for American cheese and seedless grapes so we know where his head is.  Cyrus explains to the creators of psych that he crossed paths with the deceased in a halfway house but, he didn’t kill him at all.  He explains he has a wife that loves him and doesn’t want to be railroaded back to jail.

Cyrus’s P.O. and wife arrive in the station and Trout makes it clear he is trigger happy and more than willing to shoot to kill.  Trout decides to let Woody have his pills delivered by Lassie, inside the bottles is a tiny camera and now it’s very real to Juliet that if she doesn’t slow Trout down they might lose Woody in the crossfire.  Seriously? How has Trout not been jailed before now?!

Shawn and Gus arrive at the halfway house under the guise of a Vato and his P.O., every one welcome Emilio Estevez Estavieez… Or Shawn in a bandana and grey plaid bottom up with only the collar button done.  They are let in and given a rundown of the facility by Rocko explaining the Maurice runs the house but he’s not in right now.  Leaving Shawn and Gus alone in the deceased room they find pictures of him and Cyrus’s wife.  Uh-oh.

Confronted with the evidence of the affair she cops to it and explains she had broken it off because he was hanging out with bad people (Like adulterers?).  Still the two decide that they need to go back to the half-way house to confront the man in charge, Maurice… Unfortunately, he’s not too talkative on account that he is deceased as well.  Bum bum bum…  In his room they find a lottery ticket which proves Maurice was looking the other way on letting Wilson break the house rules about going more than 10 miles away and later than 9pm.  

To slow down Trout Juliet decides to go in as Woody’s estranged daughter in an attempt to talk Cyrus into letting Woody go.  This ends in a disturbing “the birds and the bees” talk between the two that makes even me uncomfortable.  Woody convinces Cyrus to let him and Juliet autopsy the body to prove that he is innocent due to a large amount of sulfuric acid in the body’s wounds proving that Wilson was not killed in Cyrus’s home thus clearing him of circumstance evidence.  Meanwhile Trout moves in quickly forcing Juliet to place herself between Cyrus and Trout.

The acid leads Gus and Shawn to a fertilizer plant and ultimately the scene of the first murder.  It is here where Shawn using his acute sense of observation pulls it together and calls it into Lassie.  It was the P.O. who caught Wilson sneaking around and making money on his old life (what that was I’m not entirely sure) and demanded a cut, then in turn bribed Maurice to look the other way on the rules.  When Wilson tried to go straight the P.O. was already in too deep and so he killed the two coconspirators to keep the whole “stinking” thing quiet.  Now after all of that you’d assume they would get a hero’s accommodation right?  Oh no, they all get fired… Well kinda fired, Shawn and Gus were never really hired so it’s hard to fire them.  There is justice in Santa Barbra however when Trout in turn is fired for nearly killing Woody… so there’s that.

I cannot express my disappointment at this season enough.  Where did my fun cast of eccentrics go?  The first episode of the season was awesome, now it just feels like forced pseudo wit.  Come back to me psych!  I miss you!  Most of this show has turned into a grandiose idea of how to bend logic.  Hopefully we get chief Vick back and we can go back to our brave Shawn and Fashionably astute Gus solving crimes by placing a finger to their heads and bantering 80’s lyrics.