The Best Episodes of Psych
Last Updated: Feb 6, 2019
Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved. Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.
#1 - The Break Up
Season 8 - Episode 10
Shawn, Gus and Juliet handle one last case in the series finale.
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#2 - Last Night Gus
Season 6 - Episode 2
A night of partying which no one remembers that turned deadly sets Shawn, Gus, Woody and Lassiter on the trail of their deeds and a way to clear their names of suspected murder. Unfortunately, they may have to depend on Shawn's "psychic" memories of the night's events.
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#3 - Mr. Yin Presents...
Season 4 - Episode 16
A serial killer targets Shawn using scenarios from classic Hitchcock films. Has Mr. Yang returned? Will everyone make it out alive?
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#4 - An Evening with Mr. Yang
Season 3 - Episode 16
After eluding capture and disappearing eight years ago, the famed Yin Yang serial killer is back, and he's set his sights on Shawn.
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#5 - Santabarbaratown
Season 6 - Episode 16
A body relating to a 20-year-old case is finally found, and Shawn, Gus, and Henry revisit all the old suspects in order to solve the case
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#6 - Yang 3 in 2D
Season 5 - Episode 16
The Yin/Yang trilogy comes to a thrilling close as Shawn and Gus race to save a woman kidnapped by Yin. Only this time, they are forced to use Yang's knowledge of Yin to solve the case by allowing her to accompany them on the investigation.
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#7 - Office Space
Season 7 - Episode 11
After Gus accidentally tampers with the crime where his boss was killed, Shawn helps him find the real murderer before Gus is arrested.
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#8 - We'd Like to Thank the Academy
Season 5 - Episode 13
When they solve a case without following proper protocols, Shawn and Gus are ordered by the Chief to take a crash course at the police academy in order to learn the correct way to handle cases, but the two resort back to their old ways.
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#9 - Shawn Takes a Shot in the Dark
Season 4 - Episode 9
While investigating a possible crime, Shawn stumbles upon one of a pair of criminals, gets shot, and is dumped in the trunk of a car.
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#10 - Not Even Close... Encounters
Season 5 - Episode 3
Shawn and Gus get themselves hired onto the case when an unstable lawyer claims his assistant was abducted by aliens.
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#11 - Heeeeere's Lassie!
Season 6 - Episode 11
Lassiter hires Shawn and Gus to get to the bottom of strange occurrences at his new condo.
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#12 - Extradition II: The Actual Extradition Part
Season 5 - Episode 10
Shawn and Gus return to Vancouver to visit their old nemesis Despereaux in prison at the felon's request, who then uses them to escape and pull one last job before he is extradited to the United States. Only while he is out, he is framed for the murder of a Crown Attorney and now asks the guys for help clearing his name of this most recent – and frankly unseemly – charge.
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#13 - One, Maybe Two, Ways Out
Season 5 - Episode 9
When a spy is framed for a crime she didn't commit, she decides to use Shawn and Gus to prove her innocence.
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#14 - This Episode Sucks
Season 6 - Episode 3
A body is discovered, and appears to have been killed by a vampire. Meanwhile, Lassiter becomes romantically involved with a woman whom Shawn suspects is the murderer.
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#15 - Romeo and Juliet and Juliet
Season 5 - Episode 1
When the daughter of a Chinese Triad family disappears, Shawn and Gus take on the case.
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#16 - Dual Spires
Season 5 - Episode 12
Shawn and Gus receive a mysterious e-mail inviting them to the annual Cinnamon Festival in Dual Spires, a quirky Northern California town nearly invisible on the map. When they arrive the pair quickly find themselves embroiled in the mysterious death of local high school student Paula Merral.
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#17 - Any Given Friday Night at 10PM, 9PM Central
Season 3 - Episode 13
Shawn and Gus go undercover at a professional football training camp when the foot of the team's missing kicker is discovered.
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#18 - Murder?... Anyone?... Anyone?... Bueller?
Season 3 - Episode 2
Shawn and Gus attend their high school reunion. Shawn sees a body fly past a window, but on further inspection the body has vanished. When Gus assumes the worst, and Lassiter refuses to help, Shawn seeks assistance from Juliet.
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#19 - Shawn, Interrupted
Season 6 - Episode 6
After a billionaire murderer pleas insanity at his trial, Shawn and Gus go undercover at a mental hospital in order to prove that the man is, in fact, sane. While at the hospital, Shawn and Gus receive some hostility from one of the nurses.
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#20 - In for a Penny...
Season 6 - Episode 7
Juliet's con-man father travels to Santa Barbara to reunite with his daughter, but finds himself slipping back into his criminal past when confronted with a dream con.
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#21 - Deez Nups
Season 7 - Episode 7
The gang spends the weekend at a casino resort for a wedding and crosses paths with a local crime boss whose presence jeopardizes the impending nuptials.
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#22 - Death is in the Air
Season 4 - Episode 13
Shawn and Gus must recover a deadly pathogen before a thief releases it into the city.
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#23 - High Top Fade Out
Season 4 - Episode 7
Shawn and Gus investigate the death of Leonald Callahan, aka Diddle, a computer cryptologist who was the baritone in Gus’s old college a capella group.
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#24 - Viagra Falls
Season 5 - Episode 6
Shawn and Gus work with two retired police officers to solve the murder of a police chief.
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#25 - Neil Simon's Lover's Retreat
Season 6 - Episode 9
Shawn and Juliet's romantic getaway vacation to a spa gets interrupted by robberies and a dead body at a nearby winery.
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