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After one of Shawn's tips lead police back to him, he claims to be psychic to avoid jail time after being wrongly accused of being an inside man.
When he uses his observational skills to convince them of his special abilities, the department is slightly impressed, hiring him on as "psychic consultant". He and his best friend Gus open up their own "psychic detective agency" called ' Psych '.
Shawn uses a set of unique skills to solve crimes for the SBPD and sometimes for private clients who hire him on the side. His eye for detail, outside-the-box thinking, and throw-caution-to-the-wind-to-follow-a-hunch attitude make him excellent at following and solving cases. He often enjoys playing up the part of a "psychic" and has many "visions" as long as he has an audience. More than once, he has been in trouble with the SBPD due to his lack of care for police protocol. Shawn is above all else attention-seeking.
All of his "episodes" need to have an audience, although this may be due to the fact that an audience acts as a witness for his psychic abilities, in order to prove that he is not lying. He is usually never seen alone. Eccentric and outgoing, Shawn also seems to be able to draw people to him, leading to fast friendships, such as in " Lights, Camera Homicidio ", when he befriends one of the actors in a matter of hours, to which Juliet questions how he can make friends so fast.
Sometimes this trait saves his life while he stalls for time, and other times jeopardize it. He also has a very high opinion of his hair. Using his "gift," Shawn has no problem with being slightly manipulative, frequently lying to others about who he is or telling people what they want to hear based off of his observations of them.
This often leads to trouble, especially when his ruse is found out. He also displays an almost unnatural lack of fear in the face of danger, rushing into situations that most people especially Gus would think twice about. Paradoxically, he is irrationally fearful of relatively harmless 'phenomena' - such as ghosts or dead bodies.
He has been shown to be uncomfortable at funerals and this trait was seen since boyhood when he was hesitant and stalling to bury his pet lizard as well as a prior experience with a hamster. Encounters with these generally end with Shawn and Gus comically fleeing. In addition, Shawn professes a "distaste" for pointy things, despite his obsessive love for pineapples. In the very first episode, we see that Shawn is good at shooting. Even though he is not the most athletic or fit person, Shawn has also displayed certain physical skills at different times.
While not being much of a fighter, Shawn will resort to physical combat. However, when next forced to fight, he proved to be a very incapable fighter, as well as being inept at karate. Shawn was able to knock out criminal Dane Northcut by hitting him over the head with a book Ferry Tale. Shawn also did not fare very well when forced into a street fight with several troublemaking men The Tao of Gus.
Shawn proved just how incapable he was again, when he and Gus got into a physical fight over an artifact Indiana Shawn and the Temple of the Kinda Crappy, Rusty Old Dagger. Shawn is always accompanied by his best friend, Burton "Gus" Guster , who plays along with the charade, and the two are typically engaged in some type of humorous witty banter. They have been best friends since childhood. Despite this, Shawn often disapproves of Gus's relationships, sometimes because he feels threatened, as was shown when Shawn got upset that Rachael Gus' current girlfriend and she were spending so much time together.
Shawn also sometimes believes Gus's girlfriends to be a murderer. The main reason for his disapproval appears to be worry since Gus has grown increasingly forward and possibly mildly desperate to find a significant other, resulting in impulsive decisions which Shawn often comments on.
Shawn has also thought that he needed to be included in things that Gus does with his girlfriends, as shown in multiple episodes, even in " Cirque du Soul " where he wanted to be included when Rachael and Gus were going to talk to each other after she came back when it was revealed that Maximus missed Gus. Shawn has been shown to be reckless in many ways, even with Gus's relationships, when he brought Rachel's son on a murder investigation.
Shawn typically introduces Gus to potential clients or suspects using a wide array of creative and often humorous aliases and has even pretended to be in a homosexual relationship with him in order to annoy him, or just to see his reaction. Gus is the "straight man" in the duo and keeps Shawn from losing sight of where he is going, despite following along with many of his crazy antics.
Gus is also one of the few people who know that Shawn is not actually a psychic. This enables him to better help Shawn keep up his ruse, and also ensures that he is not duped by any of Shawn's antics. They often are distracted by the same things, usually food and old movies, and stop investigations in order to eat.
Gus occasionally assists Shawn in his psychic revelations. It was shown how much Shawn cares for Gus in the episode, "Cirque du Soul" where Henry tells Gus that he was Shawn's only constant in his life when Henry used the example of how Shawn stole the car in high school on the day that his mother moved out.
Gus was previously mad at Shawn, but upon realizing that Shawn really needed him, Gus came back to help Shawn in a case, thus, resuming their friendship. Shawn often conveys his brilliant observations in the form of obscure movie references, typically from the eighties. His seemingly random and disparate comments often lead people, most notably Detective Carlton Lassiter , to dismiss him as immature and scatterbrained.
Shawn has enjoyed making Lassiter mad, by constantly calling him "Lassie," as well as other nicknames. Shawn has also often one-upped Lassiter at crime scenes, and given Lassiter leads.
Despite all of this, Shawn has shown that he actually does care for Lassiter as a friend, by helping him recover from his depression over his divorce, and the like.
However, it is often Shawn's unconventional way of investigating a case, and his unique perspective on evidence, that allows him to see things that other people miss. Shawn is also sometimes aided in his cases by his father Henry , an ex-cop who raised him with the incredible skills that make him so observant as an adult. Shawn's relationship with his father was strained before Shawn began working for the Santa Barbara Police Department but gradually improves as the series continues.
In the season 6 finale , Shawn and Gus along with Henry investigate the body of Veronica Towne, Henry discovers that his fellow cop friends were corrupt. In the end, he decides to quit the SBPD which comes as a shock for Shawn as it is shown that he loves working with his father and finally has respect for him, Henry tells Shawn that it is not his game anymore and offers to get a beer. Shawn says they should go now, but Henry tells him he has to break news to a friend.
Shawn sees the name of Jerry Carp as one of the corrupt officers and goes running to find Henry, but it is too late as Henry has been shot at point blank. In the season 7 premiere , he rushes down to the beach only to find his dad laying on the beach. Shawn calls an ambulance and goes with his father to the hospital. When Shawn finds Henry lying on the beach he refuses to leave him and tells him "I got you, I got you".
At the hospital, Shawn tries admitting to his father that he loves him, but his pride gets the best of him and ends up making him say "I love you Later Shawn gets a call from the hospital, the doctor tells him that Henry is doing fine and that he is writing. Shawn finally comes face to face with the man who shot his father. Jerry tells him to back off and quit, but Shawn tells him he'll quit when he Jerry is behind bars.
Jerry dies and Shawn gets a call from the hospital. The doctor takes the tubes off Henry and Henry and Shawn finally share a sweet special moment with Henry telling Shawn that he was an idiot for going after Jerry like that but tells him that he is immensely proud of him. Shawn's relationship with his father is one of his most complicated.
In his youth, Shawn very much looked up to Henry and aspired to be a cop like him, but was often at ends because of his father's controlling demeanor as well as persistence in having Shawn be a cop. After the divorce, this hero view was destoryed and the dream of being a cop along with it, resulting in Shawn performing a felony solely so he wouldnt be a cop and to spite his father.
His father expressed in Pilot that when he was on the force, his two least favorite kinds of people were private investigators and psychics. Despite this, the relationship begins to improve once Shawn returns to Santa Barbara, especially when Shawn learns the truth about the divorce. While both men are hesitant to talk about their feelings outside of anger, their actions show how much they care. Henry became deeply involved in the Yin-Yang cases out of concern for Shawn and his ex-wife.
When Henry was shot, Shawn undergoes a breakdown and proceeds to hunt his shooter in a reckless and sleep-deprived manner, having stayed up for at least 36 hours straight.
Shawn and Henry's relationship improves in Season Seven , where they share many moments and realize how much they need each other in their lives.
In " Nip and Suck It ", Shawn and Henry work together in a case where they engage in a classic 'I-will-finish-this-case-before-you-can' battle. When the two first meet, they hit it off very well and become good friends. Woody will often divulge information regarding the current case to Shawn and Gus, even though he really shouldn't. Occasionally, when he attempts to resist, they will bribe him with gifts or compliments, causing him to cave and give them information.
Shawn also had a short-lived relationship with high school sweetheart Abigail Lytar. With her, he has shown his more sensitive and serious side, stating that he liked her too much, and was so nervous about their first date after he repeatedly asked her out and she said no that he could not even bring himself to show himself to her, and let her go home alone. They kissed in the second episode of Season Three , where he states after looking over at Juliet that the kiss represented the closure to the feelings that they had for each other in high school.
They start dating in the last episode of the third season and continue dating until the tenth episode of Season Four , in which she informs Shawn that she is traveling to Uganda for six months and that she wants to put their relationship on hold until she came back. Shawn agrees to this, and they continue a long distance relationship until the season four finale , where Abigail visits, gets kidnapped and almost killed by the psychopathic killer Mr. Yin , and ultimately decides that she cannot handle the stress of Shawn's lifestyle.
For five seasons, Shawn and Detective Juliet O'Hara engaged in a classic will-they-or-won't-they relationship. It was clear Shawn had feelings for Juliet, but she had sent mixed signals throughout the show. Juliet finally confirmed her feelings for Shawn in the last episode of the third season.
They begin dating in season five, though in the season seven episode " Deez Nups " they temporarily break up due to Juliet finding out that Shawn is not a psychic.
In an effort to save their relationship Shawn attempts to tell the Chief the truth in " Santa Barbarian Candidate " but Juliet prevents him from doing so at the last minute. By " Dead Air " They are dating again though there hasn't yet been an on screen resolution of the trust issues between them.
He crashes a crime scene that she's working on, and when she, Gus, and Shawn leave, he proposes to her, and she says yes. Fortunately for Shules fans, by Season 5, the two had gotten together. And, although there were several rough patches between Season 5 and Season 8, the two ultimately remained together until the end.
But her engagement ring was snatched by a passing thief and the final moments of the show have her, Shawn, and forever-third-wheel Gus chasing the thief by car. We need them together right now! There's much more to do before that happens. But, although they ended the series engaged, in the three years since their engagement, things haven't necessarily all gone well for the pair. Franks isn't the only one to hint at some potential conflict between the two.
While the true culprit ended up being her father Camden, Katarina didn't take kindly to Shawn's wild accusation. Sally, sweet Sally.
Shawn cozied up to the insurance agent, who was an innocent victim of Carlton Lassiter's Civil War reenactment. In the end, she wasn't as innocent as she appeared to be, but that didn't stop Shawn from shooting his shot even though she was the one who shot the episode's casualty.
Shawn and Sally did have undeniable chemistry and a bit of a fling. Maybe they could have gone the way of Lassiter and his wife, Marlowe—reunite after a stint in prison, that is. In season two, Shawn met his match in the form of fellow psychic Lindsay Leikin.
Could she also have been a long-term romantic match? They got flirty right away, despite her relationship status. She called him out for being a fake, but he kept the compliments coming. There was no doubt they had chemistry. While she was behind the episode's money laundering scheme in the end, every Psych fan knows that Shawn can't resist a villain.
They could have gone the distance, or at the very least made for an interesting plot line. Gina was the only other stop-and-start relationship Shawn had besides Juliet, technically.
That's saying something. She appeared in two episodes and hilariously got on his nerves by talking about herself in the third person. She could have kept viewers guessing as an on-again, off-again girlfriend. She did have a habit of popping back up at unexpected times.
Sure, Gina was a weirdo, but the same could easily be said of Shawn. The assistant curator in season two's supernatural finale, Sophie caught Shawn's eye right away. One could even guess she was interested in Shawn before meeting him; she specifically requested the "paleo-sleuth" based on his photo in the museum. There's no denying this was a cute pair.
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