'Psych' Season Six, Episode Two 'Last Night Gus' Recap

Welcome to the second episode of the sixth season of “Psych” on USA. If it’s cool with everybody, let’s get this party started.

Speaking of, that’s how it all started this week: with Shawn (James Roday) trying to spice up a retirement party for the Santa Barbara Police Department desk jockey Jim Dubois before it died a slow death and consumed him and Gus (Dule Hill.) One second, he’s making a probably ill-advised – and awkward – toast.

One second that’s exactly what he was doing: commending Dubois on his years of service and mistaking Dubois’s for his mother.

The next, Shawn is waking up in the Psych office – a shower cap on his head, a stranger’s sandals on his feet, Lassiter (Timothy Omundson) with the mother of all black-eyes and crashed on the couch with Coroner Woody, Gus freaking out a little, a video on his iPhone showing the other three with a stranger in a printed shirt, and his famous eidetic memory too on the fritz to put everything together and recall what happened.

Hey, buck up, kid: for me, that’s a Tuesday.

Lassie retrieves his gun from the fish tank, and claims he can tell by the wait that it’s missing three shells.

Yes. Really.

He and Woody are both summoned to the SBPD ASAP. Lassie can’t find his keys or his car, so the Four Horsemen of the Drunkocalypse go to pile into the Blueberry – which Gus apparently drove the night before in a manner that would’ve made Hulk Hogan’s progeny cringe.

Upon arriving at the SBPD, Chief Vick lets them know they’ve got a John Doe on their hands. He’s been shot three times. And looks an awful lot like the fellow on Shawn’s mysterious iPhone video . . .

As the group – now also joined by Juliet (Maggie Lawson), who ducked out of the party early to prepare for a court appearance – is told by Vick that the case is now a top priority and that the victim was found only with a watch, wallet and pair of shoes that suspiciously resemble Shawn’s missing Nikes, they also start wondering if Lassiter pulled a 187 the night before. After Lassie begs off going to court so that he can willingly work with Shawn and Gus on the case, Juliet requests a word with Shawn before she goes seeking Pod-Lassie’s cocoon.

Not only does she want to know what happened last night, but she apparently got no sleep at all after a late-night drunk dial from Shawn that’s apparently pretty urgent in her mind. Shawn reads it and agrees that it’s huge for them – whatever it was – but that they should talk about it later.

Shawn returns and shows he thinks admirably quickly for a man wearing a dead man’s sandals. He rallies the four and agrees with Woody that it might be pee-in-a-cup time to see if they were all downing something a little harder than mojitos the night before. While they wait and Lassie puts out an APB to McNabb on his Fusion, Shawn sneaks a peek at the dead man’s cell phone and find pictures of a gray-haired man entering what looks like a motel room with a blonde soccer mom-looking woman.

Woody comes back with the results, and they’re enlightening: he apparently still has peyote in his system from years ago, Gus has horrible cholesterol and they all apparently took in a whole lot of salvia the previous night. The victim, though? He had nothing. Shawn’s convinced they were given the drugs by mistake by somebody looking to take an express route to Booty Town.

Shawn has a “psychic” vision that the bartender’s long-haired “Swedish version of Jon Cryer” was trying to slip someone a fast one, but the bartender hints that the fairer sex isn’t exactly the game he hunts. They’re a little sidetracked by Lassie continuing to try and track down his Fusion and Gus having an unexpected run-in  with last night’s conclusive “Gus Got Game” evidence, but Shawn takes the opportunity to figure out just where they ended up: Bobo’s Donuts.

With a little thought, Shawn is able to piece things a little more together: their John Doe was a private eye trailing the blonde, and the four all agreed to help him trail her while they were all intoxicated. Then a large black-haired, barbarian-looking man in a striped shirt emerged with a shotgun pointed at them and screamed “You killed Bobo!” at Lassie.

Yep. That just happened.

Lassiter just had to play the “You’d better have some serious evidence!” card, so they all go watch the tape. Sure enough, it wasn’t exactly Lassie that killed the giant robot statue. By the time he pumped three slugs into it, Gus had already hit it with the Blueberry and it was toppling onto the vehicle’s roof. Lassie did, however, get socked by a passerby afterward. Suddenly, they’re summoned back to the station by Vick. It’s another body.

This one, a fellow named Scott Williams found dead in his car blocks from the Bobo’s. Disconcerting enough, he also looks like the guy that socked Lassie. They take a quick powder from investigating, and Shawn gets a chance to talk to Jules. Suddenly, it’s a double-shock: she’s shocked at the apparent implication Lassie may have offed someone; Shawn’s shocked that he apparently drunkenly asked Juliet to move in with him last night. A little dancing around and some off-camera exposition later, they’re checking out a crime scene, Jules knows they were drunk last night but Shawn apparently still wants to live with her.

While investigating the home of Williams, everybody learns who the blonde being tailed was: Williams’ wife. The theory then becomes that it was the wife that did in Williams. Also, we learn that Henry (Corbin Bernsen) is holed up in a strange motel room without his pants. He has a donut hat, powdered sugar smeared on his face and a notepad reading “Blonde, 5’7”, 125 pounds.” J

Picking up Henry from the hotel, the group runs across another face from last night: the gentleman that in the photos is apparently letting the woman into a room – and it’s the motel manager. He tells them the woman “they” were allegedly waiting – later identified as Gloria Williams – for last night showed up the morning after and as far as he knew, was still in her room. Everything in the room tells Shawn she wasn’t alone, either. Suddenly, Shawn clears everybody from the room, the crew jumping a guardrail and into the swimming pool below just as the room explodes in flames.

Later, as the team cycles through the men with whom Gloria had been photographed, Shawn pieces it together. With a little help from sketch artist Duane, Shawn identifies their likely accomplice as . . . you know what? I can’t resist a meme. YouTube, if you will do the honors . . .

And yes. Shawn did in fact go there with it.

Jenkins, they theorize, didn’t care about getting caught with a married woman. He cared about the P.I.’s photos being matched up with the notorious armed robber’s mug-shot. Oh, and it turns out that his only known living relative is the woman who’s been blowing up Gus’ phone all day.

And who happens to be with him at that very moment. Alone. In Gus’ apartment.

Bat at Gus’ apartment, Lilly slips a little something sleepy into Gus’ drink. But before she and her dad – Leroy – can take Gus out and take back the P.I.’s phone, the cavalry arrives, a shootout destroys Gus’ apartment, and Gus knocks out Leroy with a candy dish.

That, also, just happened.

With everything else wrapped up, it’s time for Shawn and Juliet to make a decision. Juliet tells Shawn she’s been thinking, and she doesn’t want their future selves to be determined by something “last night” Shawn said. But if “today” Shawn can say the same thing and mean it, then she’ll move in with him. It turns out that the subject is still open, but not today. And she’s fine with that; she finds it romantic that any version of Shawn would be ready to say it.