Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Piece: Season 1, Episode 3
In which I refrain from making a dirty joke re: the episode title.
So I took a different approach to this episode review. Instead of writing and doing screencaps at the same time, I drank wine and wrote notes (on my iPhone, no less) while watching this episode last night, and then screencapped today. I think it's more work this way, but hey, wine. Also, I really gotta find something to occupy my time on the weekends. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ARE OLD AND YOUR RELATIONSHIP OF A BILLION YEARS GOES DOWN IN FLAMES.
We start with a flashback as usual. Henry is teaching Shawn how to properly sneak around. It's not critically important, other than showing us that apparently Henry liked to inflict his taste for god-awful Hawaiian shirts on his hapless child:
Maybe it's because the damn kid keeps changing so often, Henry figures this is the easiest way to identify his offspring.
We travel to the present, where there's a jewel heist case that Shawn is desperate to work on. This is the third episode, and only the second for Jules. So Lassie and Jules are still getting used to each other, and their early dynamic is entertaining.
Poor Jules. I wouldn't be thrilled either if my new partner made this face every time I dared to make a suggestion.
In other news, look at Shawn's hair.
Hello? Mulder? Is that you? Let's talk hair products.
Look at the hair. LOOK AT IT.
I'm pretty sure that wine and iPhone notes are not the way to go when writing episode reviews, because all my notes are about Shawn's hair, and Lassie's tie.
Don't give me that look, Lassie. It's bad. It looks like Christmas wrapping paper.
Anyway, what's going on with this jewel heist is that the District Attorney's son is getting married, and the $5 million dollar ring he gave to his son's bride-to-be has been stolen. Shawn sneaks into the fancy hotel where the wedding guests are staying to do some snooping around. He convinces the security guard he's some kind of...spore expert?
NOT SPORES. ANYTHING BUT SPORES!
At this stage, I wrote in my notes "maybe it's the wine but the spores bit is making me wheeze from laughter." OR FROM SPORES. Shawn sneaks into the air vents, where he can observe Lassie's rundown meeting with the rest of the Force. The next caption is also a direct quote from my iPhone notes:
BUZZ!!! I love you forever. Like you for always.
Lassie's theories in regards to the heist leave a lot to be desired. He thinks someone built a replica of the safe room? And rigged the camera? I dunno. Come on, Lassafrass. You're not bringing your A-game. Let's go to my drunk notes:
Lassie's pants are high and his hair is bad. He gets better with age. Like a fine cheese. You thought I was gonna say wine but YOU THOUGHT WRONG!
I appreciate the fact that even in my wine-soaked state, I took the time to employ gratuitous use of CAPSLOCK.
Lassie suspects a hotel employee who was hostile when questioned, and then didn't show up for work. Jules, as we know, is a smart cookie, and thinks Lassie's theory is weak. She questions him about the hotel employee, which leads to this great exchange:
'Use my tone now as a guide.'
From my notes: "Lol. This bit made me think Lassie was a jerk when I first saw it but now? Just LOL."
There's a cute scene where Jules is having breakfast in the hotel, and Shawn joins her. He's trying to get more info out of her, but also does a 'psychic' reading of her where he mentions how she feels she's not being taken seriously as a detective.
No commentary, I just want to bask in the loveliness that is Jules's face.
He also tells her that he's going to the wedding, and says this about the bride and groom: "he grounds her in ways he needed grounding." FORESHADOWING, you guys. WHAT OTHER COUPLE COULD THIS POSSIBLY APPLY TO?!
'I dunno, Mulder and Scully?' Wrong, Shawn.
Shawn then manages to get Gus out of work by calling the office and telling his co-workers that Gus's cat is at the vet's with a broken leg. His officemates are extremely concerned and Gus has no choice but to leave. Two great things happen in this scene. One:
Gus's co-worker's reaction when he rushes off to his cat's rescue
Two: Shawn tells Gus that his fictional cat is a girl named Mrs. Pickles, and Gus says, 'great, I can't even have a Boy Cat?" All true Psych-os will know what that's so amazing.
Back at the hotel, Shawn and Gus do some investigating. Who should they find, but the 'hostile' employee that Lassie suspected? Unfortunately, he's dead and stuffed in a dumbwaiter.
Hold it together, Guster. You can do it.
Of course, Shawn can't just tell the cops about the body, so he leads Lassie and Jules to the dumbwaiter through an especially frenetic psychic vision...
...which results in Shawn and Lassie doing this.
So, the plot thickens. It's the night before the wedding, and Shawn and Gus try to get more information from the wedding party. Things get a bit dodgy when Shawn abandons Gus to chat up the maid of honor, and Gus gets a lap dance from Patrick Swayze (may he rest in peace!).
He's like the wind...through my trees...but Gus is having none of it.
Shawn solves the case DURING the actual ceremony, which is going to make for some interesting wedding photos. Turns out the maid of honor (also the groom's sister), stole the ring and hid it in her bouquet. She also bashed the (now dead) hotel employee on the head with a fire extinguisher when he tried to blackmail her for a piece of the action. Bummer. At least she's super pretty!
Just a fool to believe...she's like the wind...
Did you know that Patrick himself co-wrote that song? Multi-talented, you guys.
Lassie's just like, 'another case solved by these jackalopes. Sigh.'
The maid of honor is arrested and back at the police station, Shawn and Gus banter about whether or not Shawn would be Gus's best man. PLEASE. Of course he would be! You must be outta your damn mind, Guster. Oh, and what would be a police station wrap-up without...
Wacky extra alert! That is a SALMON suit, my friends. SALMON. Loves it.
Speaking of wacky extras, I didn't give the goofy hotel staff their due. Shawn convinced them he was with INTERPOL, and you know, wackiness ensued.
Wackiness, hijinks, AND tomfoolery! Everything we like about Psych, amirite?!
I actually drunk-watched Episode 4, too, but my notes on that episode are even more sporadic. And then I fell asleep on the couch.
My feelings precisely, wacky hotel employee. My feelings precisely.
