the opposite of a wonderful life
or: the universe decides to pay shawn spencer back. by sending the most important people in his life into the universe where shawn spencer never came home. which, as it turns out, is a bad thing. they didn’t really realize how much shawn actually did for them until now
(what’s shawn up to while they experience Character Development? he is currently marathoning tv in the psych office while eating pineapple ice cream. he takes a nap afterwards. all around just having a great time)
at some point, the postcards collected by this universe’s gus stopped getting new ones. it means something, though no one will say it. (the last record of shawn spencer was at job #39, nowhere close to the supposed-to-be total of 57.) (this, of course, not accounting for the jobs that even gus doesn’t know. or the jobs that were never officially listed.) (but surely that couldn’t mean much?)
jules all the way in fucking miami calling lassie’s cell: what the HELL is going on, carlton?
lassie: o’hara?? where are you????
jules: MIAMI????? FOR SOME REASON????
lassie, his arm dropping in shock and accidentally pulling his phone away from his ear: sweet justice she’s in miami.
gus, riding shotgun in lassie’s car: she’s in miami??
(jules, to herself: oh my god i need to book a flight. like… NOW.)
gus calling henry to ask if he knows where shawn is only to have henry get highly aggressive and defensive and he just doesnt understand why. henry maybe never coming back to santa barbra because shawn never comes back to santa barbra.
a number of criminals walked because either the case went cold without shawn or the wrong person or people were convicted for it. what im saying is the group encounters a criminal who they caught in their timeline just walking on the street or smth. lassie tries to draw his gun on them and jules and gus scramble to stop him
perhaps. perhaps the way they get back to their universe is finding out what happened to shawn here. and if they learn a lesson or twelve along the way, well, thats just coincidence :)
(all three of them learn a lot about what shawn got up to between 1995 and 2006, or at least the parts he did manage to do this timeline)
btw this whole exploring shawn’s 10 years travelling thing opens up several opportunities for like. brief crossovers. mentioning such and such from whatever show that shawn helped out with something or other.