PSYCH

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A novice sleuth (James Roday) is hired by the police after he cons them into thinking he has psychic powers that help solve crimes. With the assistance of his reluctant best friend (Dule Hill) the duo take on a series of complicated cases.

Psych continues the USA’s tradition of original scripted programming centering on quirky, intelligent characters. The series mixes comedy with its crime and features a somewhat eccentric lead character – Shawn, a police psychic with absolutely no psychic abilities. What troubles will he find himself in this season?

9:40pm Friday, February 17 on Prime

Drama

Shawn arrives late to meet Gus at a screening of Psycho, and has to squeeze down the row past other theatregoers to take his seat. On their way out of the theatre, they are surprised to meet Mary Lightly, who helped them track serial killer Mr. Yang. Mary takes them to a diner, where they discuss Yang’s new book that has just been released. Mary points out that, according to the book, Yang could not have been working alone. She had an accomplice. Shawn and Gus don’t believe it, and leave the diner – and the Yang case – behind. But later they are called to a crime scene to find the waitress from the diner murdered and her body arranged into a Yin/Yang symbol.

9:40pm Friday, February 10 on Prime

Drama

A man is seen throwing berley in the waters off of a boat at night, when a shark jumps out and latches onto his arm, dragging him into the sea. The next morning, Lassiter and Juliet are at the beach where the body of what appears to be a shark attack victim has washed ashore. Lassiter thinks he sees what might be a knife wound among the shark bites. He sees Shawn and Gus approach, and determined not to be outdone this time, beats Shawn to the punch, claiming to the press that the victim was murdered. The reporters crucify him, but Shawn is on board with his theory, having spotted the possible knife wound himself. They all go to the coroner, who says he can’t identify the victim off of fingerprints since the fingers are still in the shark, along with the victim’s wallet. Lassiter is determined to find the shark in order to ID the victim and start tracking down his killer.

9:40pm Friday, February 3 on Prime

Drama

Think Tank

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 saving him.

9:40pm Friday, January 27 on Prime

Drama

Donny Lieberman, a courier for a service that caters to biomedical companies, comes to Shawn and Gus for help. He got very drunk the night before and when he woke up this morning, a cooler he was transporting for GenuTech was missing. It contained the deadly Thornburg virus, whose symptoms include headache, weakness and bleeding from the eyes. He also says he is missing an antique gold watch. At that same time, a blonde woman stumbles around a convenience store, and then starts bleeding from the eyes before she falls down dead. Can Shawn and Gus track down the missing vial before it becomes a public health threat?

9:40pm Friday, January 20 on Prime

Drama

A Very Juliet Episode

Juliet goes to the train station to meet Scott Seaver, her college boyfriend. They had planned to meet there exactly seven years after they said goodbye, but he never shows up. At first dejected, she quickly becomes curious as to why he didn’t show. She starts to use police resources to track him down, but Vick puts a stop to that before she can find anything. She sees Gus in the station, and asks for his help – but he must keep Shawn out of it. With everything that’s happened between them, it would be weird. Gus agrees and goes back to the Psych office, where Shawn immediately figures out he’s doing something behind his back. Gus has to admit he’s finding someone for Juliet, but doesn’t let him know Scott was Juliet’s ex-boyfriend. The next day, Shawn tells Juliet what he has learnt about Scott… but it is not the result Juliet was after.

Friday 13th January 10.00pm

Drama

Gus has a secret girlfriend that he has been keeping from Shawn but if finally ready to introduce him to Ruby. Shawn’s first impression of her is a good one, but he insists on meeting her friends to vet her further. So he forces Gus to crash what he thinks is a picnic with Ruby and her friends Jessica, Derek and Stu. But the guys soon learn they have walked into a river-rafting trip instead. Ruby is thrown at first, saying there is not enough room, but then relents and hooks them up with gear.

Shawn thinks Ruby might be hiding something, and uses his ‘psychic’ abilities to break the ice with her friends by ‘divining’ Stu is the most experienced of the group. Gus uses a more direct approach and asks how they all met. He learns that they are all bound together by their interest in extreme sports. Shawn and Gus soon realise they are on a white water trip just before they hit the rapids, and they hold on for dear life. When they come out the other side, they realise Stu is missing… did he drown in an accident or was it something more sinister?

9:30pm Friday, January 6 on Prime

Drama

You Can’t Handle This Episode

Lassiter and Juliet are at the scene of a possible suicide with Gus, Shawn and Abigail. It appears that the victim hung himself, but Shawn sees signs of murder and discovers dog tags stuffed down the dead man’s throat. This is not just a murder; it’s a military crime, which poses jurisdictional problems. But Juliet says she knows someone who might be able to help with that, and she calls her brother, Ewan, an ex-military man who is now hired out by the government for covert missions. He is in the middle of finishing up a job, but he is able to tell Juliet that swallowing dog tags is a sign of shame.

9:40pm Friday, December 30 on Prime

Drama

Shawn Takes A Shot

Juliet and Lassiter meet Gus at a vehicle storage yard in the middle of the night. Gus received a message from Shawn telling him that he’d solved the case and to meet him there but Shawn has not shown up and Gus is worried, and he should be, as Shawn is currently bound and stuffed into the trunk of a moving car. Shawn remembers a lesson Henry taught him as a child, and kicks out the rear light of the vehicle. Through the hole in the trunk, he’s able to spot some landmark, and manages to text Gus cryptic descriptions of what he sees. Back at the storage yard, Gus is puzzled by the message. Lassiter finds blood on the ground and they realize Shawn’s been shot and kidnapped.

9:35pm Friday, December 23 on Prime

Drama

Let’s Get Hairy

Stewart Gimbley burst into the Psych office looking for help. He went to the police first but was referred to Shawn and Gus instead. Stewart wants the guys to lock him up and observe him overnight. He gives them a gun with silver bullets for their protection, because Stewart believes he’s a werewolf. He thinks he killed a lamb last night and is worried that tonight he’ll do worse. He offers them three times their rate, which they readily accept, thinking this will be easy money. They tie Stewart up but then fall asleep themselves, only to wake up to the sound of the window shattering. Stewart is gone and a tuft of grey animal hair dangles from a shard of glass. Later that night, two hunters are brutally attacked in the woods.