History Recap / PsychS02E02SixtyFiveMillionYearsOff

* ActorAllusion: Shawn tries and fails to remember the name of a film with Creator/SigourneyWeaver, Creator/ShiaLaBeouf, and holes. He's referring to the 2003 film adaption of {{Literature/Holes}}, in which Dulé Hill played Sam.

* ApatheticTeacher: One of Dr. Franzen's students claims him to be this – constantly late, exhausted, and disheveled.

* BrickJoke: When Shawn and Gus first try interviewing the farmer Mr. Walker, he slams the door in their face before they can get much information out of him. Shawn gets annoyed, knocks again, and introduces himself as Lenny from Literature/OfMiceAndMen. Near the end of the episode, when Shawn shows up to summarize what happened, the farmer is very confused as to what "Lenny" is up to.
* ChekhovsGun: Shawn tries using Gus' old papier-mache dinosaur head to demonstrate that the marks on the body match a tyrannosaurus bite. Chief Vicks shuts him down before he can succeed, though.
* ColdOpen: This one has a young Gus walking into his classroom with his half of a group project with Shawn: a life-sized papier-mache Tyrannosaurus head that took him three months to make. Shawn's half of the project took him about an hour: he taped a plastic dinosaur to a racecar. Gus is not pleased.

* DisposingOfABody: Walker's motivation for killing Dr. Franzen is based around his troubles with this trope. He'd killed his partner Deacon twenty years before, and buried the body on his land… only he didn't quite remember exactly where he buried the remains. Twenty years later, Dr. Franzen wanted to hunt for fossils on the property. Walker refused, fearing he might find Deacon's body. Dr. Franzen, desperate for a major find, went ahead anyway, and found a large, well-preserved Tyrannosaurus after some time… but Walker, fearful of the attention this might bring to his property, killed Dr. Franzen and disposed of his body at sea.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: While poking around Walker Farms, where Dr. Franzen was apparently spending a lot of time, Shawn and Gus hear someone shooting at them from the woods nearby. They sprint back to the blueberry at top speed, and drive off as fast as possible.

** Shawn suggests questioning Walker by pretending to be George and Lennie from Literature/OfMiceAndMen

* ApatheticTeacher: One of Dr. Franzen’s students claims him to be this – constantly late, exhausted, and disheveled.

* BlatantLies: While digging in the Walker farm, Gus asks how Shawn’s progress is going. Shawn is taking a break, and claims to be digging while he’s lying down. Cue an annoyed Gus pitching his shovel at him.

* ChekhovsGun: Shawn tries using Gus’s old papier-mache dinosaur head to demonstrate that the marks on the body match a tyrannosaurus bite. Chief Vicks shuts him down before he can succeed, though.
* ColdOpen: This one has a young Gus walking into his classroom with his half of a group project with Shawn: a life-sized papier-mache Tyrannosaurus head that took him three months to make. Shawn’s half of the project took him about an hour: he taped a plastic dinosaur to a racecar. Gus is not pleased.
* CondescendingCompassion: Lassiter pokes Shawn with some of this when Lassiter’s streak of success means a dry spell in cases for Psych.
* DeathGlare: Lassiter’s ninth consecutive closed case ends with him simply ''glaring'' at the suspect until he confesses.
* DisposingOfABody: Walker’s motivation for killing Dr. Franzen is based around his troubles with this trope. He’d killed his partner Deacon twenty years before, and buried the body on his land… only he didn’t quite remember exactly where he buried the remains. Twenty years later, Dr. Franzen wanted to hunt for fossils on the property. Walker refused, fearing he might find Deacon’s body. Dr. Franzen, desperate for a major find, went ahead anyway, and found a large, well-preserved Tyrannosaurus after some time… but Walker, fearful of the attention this might bring to his property, killed Dr. Franzen and disposed of his body at sea.
* FailedASpotCheck: On the way into Walker Farms, Gus and Shawn both completely miss a buckshot-riddled sign reading “Private Property – Trespassers Will be Shot!”
* GilliganCut: Shawn grimly notes that he and Gus will probably have to go through a local university’s paleontology department’s entire collection to see if anything there might have been used as a murder weapon, and that the process will probably take hours. Cut to the two of them staring at the entire collection, a small handful of fossils on a table.

* LameComeback: Shawn is caught so flatfooted by how successful Lassiter’s been over the last month that he can’t even think of a good insult in response to his smug attitude. “Where did you get that suit, the toilet store?” is apparently the best he can think of.
* MasterOfUnlocking: Gus gets to demonstrate his skills again on a lock on Dr. Franzen’s shed.
* NoodleIncident: Some time before the episode starts, Shawn apparently requisitioned a Segway for “department business”.
* PapaWolf: When Henry learns that Shawn and Gus are up at the Walker farm, he tears up there at top speed.
* RevisitingTheColdCase: Not deliberately, but Shawn learns why Walker is so eager to keep everyone away from his farm when Henry calls, and explains he remembered where he heard of the farm before: twenty years prior, Walker’s partner Deacon went missing. Walker claimed he’d returned to England, but since no evidence was ever found, the case went cold… until Dr. Franzen started snooping around the property for totally unrelated reasons.

** Shawn notes the multiple holes all over Walker Farms remind him of the film version of "Holes". Also doubles as an ActorAllusion with Gus’s actor having played the deceased onion salesman Sam in the movie.

* StagingAnIntervention: Chief Vicks is so weirded out by Shawn’s assertion that the bite mark on the victim came from a Tyrannosaurus that she sends the department psychologist over to have a “talk” with Shawn, along with Henry and Gus. It ends with Shawn charming and impressing the psychologist, and Vicks and Lassiter showing up to admit that there might be some truth to his theory after all. A second one is held at the end of the episode, but this time, it's for Henry's control issues.
* XMarksTheSpot: Inverted on Dr. Franzen’s map. The “X” marks are where he didn’t find anything – here, it’s “O” that marks the spot.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Granted, only fossils are seen here, but…

** Shawn notes the multiple holes all over Walker Farms remind him of the film version of "Holes".

* DisposingOfABody: Walker’s motivation for killing Dr. Franzen is based around his troubles with this trope. He’d killed his partner Deacon ten years before, and buried the body on his land… only he didn’t quite remember exactly where he buried the remains. Ten years later, Dr. Franzen wanted to hunt for fossils on the property. Walker refused, fearing he might find Deacon’s body. Dr. Franzen, desperate for a major find, went ahead anyway, and found a large, well-preserved Tyrannosaurus after some time… but Walker, fearful of the attention this might bring to his property, killed Dr. Franzen and disposed of his body at sea.

* RevisitingTheColdCase: Not deliberately, but Shawn learns why Walker is so eager to keep everyone away from his farm when Henry calls, and explains he remembered where he heard of the farm before: ten years prior, Walker’s partner Deacon went missing. Walker claimed he’d returned to England, but since no evidence was ever found, the case went cold… until Dr. Franzen started snooping around the property for totally unrelated reasons.

* BadWithTheBone: [[spoiler: A rare accidental case of this happened when Walker killed Dr. Franzen. He knocked Franzen into the hole he was digging, where the teeth on the Tyrannosaurus skull impaled him, resulting in what looked like a huge bite mark.]]

* DisposingOfABody: [[spoiler: Walker’s motivation for killing Dr. Franzen is based around his troubles with this trope. He’d killed his partner Deacon ten years before, and buried the body on his land… only he didn’t quite remember exactly where he buried the remains. Ten years later, Dr. Franzen wanted to hunt for fossils on the property. Walker refused, fearing he might find Deacon’s body. Dr. Franzen, desperate for a major find, went ahead anyway, and found a large, well-preserved Tyrannosaurus after some time… but Walker, fearful of the attention this might bring to his property, killed Dr. Franzen and disposed of his body at sea.]]

* HillbillyHorrors: This episode has some overtones of this, with the shotgun-toting farmer in a remote area [[spoiler: who killed his business partner and then killed a paleontologist to cover it up.]]

* RevisitingTheColdCase: Not deliberately, but [[spoiler: Shawn learns why Walker is so eager to keep everyone away from his farm when Henry calls, and explains he remembered where he heard of the farm before: ten years prior, Walker’s partner Deacon went missing. Walker claimed he’d returned to England, but since no evidence was ever found, the case went cold… until Dr. Franzen started snooping around the property for totally unrelated reasons.]]

* StagingAnIntervention: Chief Vicks is so weirded out by Shawn’s assertion that the bite mark on the victim came from a Tyrannosaurus that she sends the department psychologist over to have a “talk” with Shawn, along with Henry and Gus. It ends with Shawn charming and impressing the psychologist, and Vicks and Lassiter showing up to admit that there might be some truth to his theory after all. [[spoiler: A second one is held at the end of the episode, but this time, it's for Henry's control issues.]]

** Shawn mistakes Trilobites for [[Film/HellRiser Cenobites]].

** Shawn mistakes Trilobites for [[Film/Hellriser Cenobites]].

** Shawn suggests questioning Walker by pretending to be George and Lennie from Literature/OfMiceAndMen.

--> '''Shawn:''' It's like that movie, the one with Sigourney Weaver... the one with the holes and Shia LaBeouf.\\
'''Gus:''' They had holes in Shia LaBeouf?

* TyrannosaurusRex: The murder victim seems to have been bitten by one. [[spoiler: It turns out he found a very good Tyrannosaurus fossil, only to get impaled on its teeth.]]

* ChekovsGun: Shawn tries using Gus’s old papier-mache dinosaur head to demonstrate that the marks on the body match a tyrannosaurus bite. Chief Vicks shuts him down before he can succeed, though.

* TyrannosaurusRex: Never seen in the episode, but the murder victim seems to have been bitten by one. [[spoiler: It turns out he found a very good Tyrannosaurus fossil, only to get impaled on its teeth.]]

* DeathGlare: Lassiter’s ninth consecutive closed case ends with him simply ‘’glaring’’ at the suspect until he confesses.

* StagingAnIntervention: Chief Vicks is so weirded out by Shawn’s assertion that the bite mark on the victim came from a Tyrannosaurus that she sends the department psychologist over to have a “talk” with Shawn, along with Henry and Gus. It ends with Shawn charming and impressing the psychologist, and Vicks and Lassiter showing up to admit that there might be some truth to his theory after all. [[spoiler: A second one is held at the end of the episode, but this time, it's for Henry.]]

* ChekovsGun: Shawn tries using Gus’s old papier-mache Tyrannosaurus head to demonstrate that the marks on the body match a tyrannosaurus bite. Chief Vicks shuts him down before he can succeed, though.

* TyrannosaurusRex: Never seen in the episode, but the murder victim seems to have been bitten by one. [[spoilers: It turns out he found a very good Tyrannosaurus fossil, only to get impaled on its teeth.]]

** Shawn notes the multiple holes all over Walker Farms remind him of Literature/{Holes}.

** Shawn notes the multiple holes all over Walker Farms remind him of Literature/Holes.

* BadWithTheBone: [[spoilers: A rare accidental case of this happened when Walker killed Dr. Franzen. He knocked Franzen into the hole he was digging, where the teeth on the Tyrannosaurus skull impaled him, resulting in what looked like a huge bite mark.]]

* Intervention: Chief Vicks is so weirded out by Shawn’s assertion that the bite mark on the victim came from a Tyrannosaurus that she sends the department psychologist over to have a “talk” with Shawn, along with Henry and Gus. It ends with Shawn charming and impressing the psychologist, and Vicks and Lassiter showing up to admit that there might be some truth to his theory after all.