The BEST episodes written by Steve Franks

#1 - The Break Up

Psych - Season 8 - Episode 10

Shawn, Gus and Juliet handle one last case in the series finale.

#2 - Santabarbaratown 2

Psych - Season 7 - Episode 1

After Henry takes a bullet to the chest and is rushed to the hospital, a spiteful Shawn seeks revenge on the shooter and everyone else involved in the scandal.

#3 - Lock, Stock, Some Smoking Barrels and Burton Guster's Goblet of Fire

Psych - Season 8 - Episode 1

Stylish art thief Pierre Despereaux summons Shawn to London to help on an undercover operation.

#4 - Extradition II: The Actual Extradition Part

Psych - 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.

#5 - Indiana Shawn and the Temple of the Kinda Crappy, Rusty Old Dagger

Psych - Season 6 - Episode 10

Shawn and Gus team up with Despereaux to locate a mythical dagger rumored to be the key to unlocking a dead billionaire's treasure.

#6 - Extradition: British Columbia

Psych - Season 4 - Episode 1

Shawn and Gus spot an art thief whom Lassiter has been trying to arrest for years. So, although they are on a skiing vacation in Canada, they appeal to the local constabulary with mixed results: someone gets axed, another finds himself interrogated and Pierre Despereaux may get away scot-free, once again.

#7 - Romeo and Juliet and Juliet

Psych - Season 5 - Episode 1

When the daughter of a Chinese Triad family disappears, Shawn and Gus take on the case.

#8 - In Plain Fright

Psych - Season 5 - Episode 11

While on the haunted house ride at Santa Barbara's Scare Fest, Shawn and Gus witness a murder and are soon led to believe the person who committed it is the ghost of a man who fell to his death at Scare Fest 13 years ago.

#9 - Badass Cop

Rush Hour (2016) - Season 1 - Episode 7

After thwarting an armored truck robbery on a busy highway, Detectives Carter and Lee discover it may have been a dry run for a bigger heist but disagree on who the suspects are.

#10 - Shawn Rescues Darth Vader

Psych - Season 6 - Episode 1

Shawn stumbles across a dead body at the British consulate's home while working a case to recover a stolen "Star Wars" collector's item. In order to get the police on the case, Shawn claims he had a vision of the murder and puts his reputation as a psychic on the line.

#11 - The Head, the Tail, the Whole Damn Episode

Psych - Season 4 - Episode 15

After Lassiter takes a page out of Shawn's book and claims a shark attack victim was actually murdered, the guys must then scramble to find the fish and prove him right.

#12 - Captain Cole's Playlist

Rush Hour (2016) - Season 1 - Episode 3

When a young graffiti artist witnesses the murder of an LAPD Detective, Carter and Lee must track him down so they can prove that a well-known criminal is responsible.

#13 - Pilot

Psych - Season 1 - Episode 1

When Shawn Spencer is arrested for calling in an accurate tip to the police because only the perpetrator would know the details, his only way out is pretending to be a psychic. It turns out Santa Barbara PD isn't done with him. They ask him to consult on a kidnapping case, and a business is born.

#14 - A Very Juliet Episode

Psych - Season 4 - Episode 12

In 2003, Juliet made a pact with her boyfriend Scott Seaver (Josh Braaten) to meet up in seven years. After he fails to show up, Shawn finds him, and by extension endangers his life since he was a key witness against mobster J.T. Waring (Arnold Vosloo), who was convicted for the murder of a U.S. Marshall. When Waring denies killing the Marshall, Shawn must prove him right in order to protect Scott.

#15 - Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead

Psych - Season 2 - Episode 16

Lassiter and Juliet get called to a museum to investigate the disappearance of a 3,000-year-old mummy. Lassiter insists it's just a prank that's not worth his time. He's busy working on another case involving the death of philanthropist William Wyles III. However, the assistant curator insists that something weird is going on, something possibly supernatural that requires special help. Shawn is then brought in on the case, and he declares that the mummy was not stolen, iit walked away on its own.

#16 - Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast

Psych - Season 1 - Episode 15

Juliet asks Shawn and Gus for assistance on her undercover assignment. They're only too glad to help, since it involves sorority sisters. Unfortunately, what's supposed to be an easy case turns out to have ties to their past and may endanger Juliet. Meanwhile, Lassiter locks horns with the oldest rookie the departments has ever trained.

#17 - Bollywood Homicide

Psych - Season 4 - Episode 6

Raj, a young East Indian man whose serious girlfriends have all met with suspicious accidents, is convinced that he is the victim of a curse, but Shawn and Gus aren't buying the supernatural explanation. They are convinced that a mysterious assailant is actually responsible and they're out to catch the culprit.

#18 - Ghosts

Psych - Season 3 - Episode 1

Gus' supervisor, Frankjim Ogletree, demands that he quit moonlighting at Psych, lest he face termination. The vice-president of Gus' pharmaceutical company, however, decides to hire the duo as his wife believes that their home is haunted.

#19 - The Spellingg Bee

Psych - Season 1 - Episode 2

When what begins as a little competitive sabotage in a regional spelling bee quickly escalates to murder. Shawn and Gus must investigate the mysterious death of the "Spellmaster" at the regional Spelling Bee.

#20 - Psych: The Musical (1)

Psych - Season 7 - Episode 15

This musical extravaganza follows Shawn and Gus' search for an escaped playwright who was declared criminally insane following a suspicious fire. Complicating matters, a person who may have important evidence is an enemy from Shawn's past.

#21 - Think Tank

Psych - Season 4 - Episode 14

Shawn and Gus are recruited into a think tank to help prevent the murder of a business tycoon, but once the group has disbanded, they realize that one of the members plans to use the assassination ideas to kill the client instead of save him.

#22 - From the Earth to Starbucks

Psych - Season 1 - Episode 10

When Lassiter doubts his own crime-solving ability, Shawn tries to boost his confidence by helping him solve an astronomer's mysterious death.

#23 - 65 Million Years Off

Psych - Season 2 - Episode 2

The discovery of a washed-up body sparks a debate between Shawn and the police, who both disagree as to how the man died. While Shawn believes that the man was killed by a Tyrannosaurus Rex, the police believe the killer is a little less... extinct.

#24 - Tuesday the 17th

Psych - Season 3 - Episode 15

Shawn and Gus are hired by a childhood friend to find a missing camp counselor who disappeared near their old sleep-away campgrounds. Upon their arrival, spooky activity abounds and they must uncover if the dark past of the abandoned camp has come back to life.

#25 - Black and Tan: A Crime of Fashion

Psych - Season 2 - Episode 15

It's Gus' birthday, so Shawn takes him to the launch party for Ciao clothing's new fall line. While Gus tries to make a move on his favorite model, one of the owners of Ciao is suddenly electrocuted via the stage's microphone. Shawn is certain that his death was no accident, so Shawn and Gus move in to the loft where the Ciao models live.

#26 - Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Piece

Psych - Season 1 - Episode 3

Shawn and Gus become wedding crashers at a posh ceremony in order to retrieve a stolen antique engagement ring inexplicably taken from an inpenetrable vault under surveillance. And theft turns to murder when things start to come unraveled.

#27 - Six Feet Under the Sea

Psych - Season 3 - Episode 10

When Shabby the sea lion is found dead after being released into the wild, Shawn sets out to prove it was murder and stumbles onto a bigger mystery.

#28 - Woman Seeking Dead Husband - Smokers Okay, No Pets

Psych - Season 1 - Episode 4

Shawn and Gus land their first non-SBPD case when a widow hires them to find some cash that her husband stole from a bank. Shawn is asked to talk to a spirit and help the widow of the thief.

#29 - American Duos

Psych - Season 2 - Episode 1

Shawn and Gus go undercover as talent show contestants to investigate a number of failed attempts to kill one of the judges.

#30 - Psych: The Musical (2)

Psych - Season 7 - Episode 16