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* PoliceAreUseless: Lassiter and Juliet are oddly unhelpful this episode, generally telling Shawn and Gus to drop the case and leave everything to them. Justified near the end; it turns out they found that Shawn and Gus were getting very close to an undercover sting operation being conducted by the narcotics department, and didn’t want them interfering with their usual shenanigans.

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* PoliceAreUseless: Lassiter and Juliet are oddly unhelpful this episode, episode (Lassiter in particular is a complete jerk to Shawn and Gus, even more than usual), generally telling Shawn and Gus to drop the case and leave everything to them. Justified near the end; it turns out they found that Shawn and Gus were getting very close to an undercover sting operation being conducted by the narcotics department, and didn’t want them interfering with their usual shenanigans. Ironically, when Shawn and Gus are finally allowed to participate in the case, Shawn solves it almost immediately.
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This episode introduces Dr. Woodrow "Woody" Strode, the quirky coroner for the [=SBPD=].
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Diddle told Ms. Patterson about the workaround in some software he was looking through, and she exploited it to get a list of seemingly-abandoned warehouses where confiscated drugs were kept, then sold it to a drug kingpin. Diddle recorded the entire exchange, and was about to turn it in when he was killed. At the end, Ms. Patterson bursts into tears when she’s confronted about it, admitting to everything but insisting she didn’t intend for anyone to get hurt.]]
* NotSoAbandonedBuilding: [[spoiler: The security software Diddle was working on was designed for the SBPD; it protected a list of seemingly-abandoned warehouses where confiscated drugs were kept.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: Lassiter and Juliet are oddly unhelpful this episode, generally telling Shawn and Gus to drop the case and leave everything to them. [[spoiler: justified near the end; it turns out they found that Shawn and Gus were getting very close to an undercover sting operation being conducted by the narcotics department, and didn’t want them interfering with their usual shenanigans.]]

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Diddle told Ms. Patterson about the workaround in some software he was looking through, and she exploited it to get a list of seemingly-abandoned warehouses where confiscated drugs were kept, then sold it to a drug kingpin. Diddle recorded the entire exchange, and was about to turn it in when he was killed. At the end, Ms. Patterson bursts into tears when she’s confronted about it, admitting to everything but insisting she didn’t intend for anyone to get hurt.]]
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* NotSoAbandonedBuilding: [[spoiler: The security software Diddle was working on was designed for the SBPD; it protected a list of seemingly-abandoned warehouses where confiscated drugs were kept.]]
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* PoliceAreUseless: Lassiter and Juliet are oddly unhelpful this episode, generally telling Shawn and Gus to drop the case and leave everything to them. [[spoiler: justified Justified near the end; it turns out they found that Shawn and Gus were getting very close to an undercover sting operation being conducted by the narcotics department, and didn’t want them interfering with their usual shenanigans.]]



* ScaryBlackMan: One of these keeps turning up wherever Shawn and Gus are, and is a serious suspect in the case. [[spoiler: At the end, it turns out he was GoodAllAlong; Detective Moses Johnson, a narcotics officer working an undercover sting operation.]]

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* ScaryBlackMan: One of these keeps turning up wherever Shawn and Gus are, and is a serious suspect in the case. [[spoiler: At the end, it turns out he was GoodAllAlong; Detective Moses Johnson, a narcotics officer working an undercover sting operation.]]



* StalkerWithACrush: Downplayed. Diddle was apparently sweet on Chelsea Patterson, one of his coworkers, and deliberately made a small gap in a pile of books to watch her. [[spoiler: Except he also suspected her of foul play, and was keeping an eye on her.]]

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* StalkerWithACrush: Downplayed. Diddle was apparently sweet on Chelsea Patterson, one of his coworkers, and deliberately made a small gap in a pile of books to watch her. [[spoiler: Except he also suspected her of foul play, and was keeping an eye on her.]]
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-> Written by Saladin K. Patterson and Creator/JamesRoday

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-> Written by Saladin K. Patterson and Creator/JamesRodayCreator/JamesRodayRodriguez
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* ActorAllusion: Henry's dismissive comment about ''Series/LALaw'' being a passing fad. ''L.A. Law'', of course, starred Corbin Bernsen and made him famous.
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-> Written by Saladin K. Patterson and James Roday

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-> Written by Saladin K. Patterson and James RodayCreator/JamesRoday
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* ACapella: Gus was a member of a quartet in college named “Blackapella”, along with Tony, Joon, and Diddle.

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* ACapella: ACappella: Gus was a member of a quartet in college named “Blackapella”, “Blackappella”, along with Tony, Joon, and Diddle.



* VariationsOnAThemeSong: “I Know You Know” is performed by Music/BoyzIIMen, another Acapella group.

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* VariationsOnAThemeSong: “I Know You Know” is performed by Music/BoyzIIMen, another Acapella Acappella group.
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!High Top Fade-Out
-> Directed by Stephen Surjik
-> Written by Saladin K. Patterson and James Roday
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Swing low... sweet chariot... coming for to carry me home..."]]
Leonard “Diddle” Callahan, a member of Gus’ old singing quartet in college, dies under mysterious circumstances. Seconds before his death, he sent an E-Mail containing a large encrypted file labeled “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye”. The others believe it was murder, and ask Shawn if he can help solve it. It seems Diddle worked for a major cybersecurity firm, and he may have uncovered something he wasn’t supposed to see. Unfortunately, there’s been a rift between Gus, and the other two surviving members, Tony and Joon, for years. Between the usual squabbling now extended to two more people, and someone else apparently gunning for the remaining members of the quartet, the group has their work cut out for them…
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* ACapella: Gus was a member of a quartet in college named “Blackapella”, along with Tony, Joon, and Diddle.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Chelsea Patterson, Diddle’s boss’s assistant. He basically foists anything he doesn’t want to deal with onto her… and he’s always busy with other things.
* DeadManWriting: Diddle sent an E-mail to Tony, Joon, and Gus in the seconds before his death, he’s already dead by the time any of them see it.
* ExternalCombustion: Someone rigs Joon’s car to explode, but it goes off when he tries to unlock it from a distance, sparing his life.
* FatAndSkinny: Tony and Joon.
* TheHeart: Diddle was this for Blackapella; he remained the only one on good terms with the other three members even after they’d split up. After his death, Gus agrees to work with Tony and Joon for the sake of his memory.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: In the ColdOpen, young Shawn asks Henry for a home computer. Henry dismisses them as a passing fad “Like rap music, {{Music/Madonna}}, and Series/LALaw.”
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Diddle told Ms. Patterson about the workaround in some software he was looking through, and she exploited it to get a list of seemingly-abandoned warehouses where confiscated drugs were kept, then sold it to a drug kingpin. Diddle recorded the entire exchange, and was about to turn it in when he was killed. At the end, Ms. Patterson bursts into tears when she’s confronted about it, admitting to everything but insisting she didn’t intend for anyone to get hurt.]]
* NotSoAbandonedBuilding: [[spoiler: The security software Diddle was working on was designed for the SBPD; it protected a list of seemingly-abandoned warehouses where confiscated drugs were kept.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: Lassiter and Juliet are oddly unhelpful this episode, generally telling Shawn and Gus to drop the case and leave everything to them. [[spoiler: justified near the end; it turns out they found that Shawn and Gus were getting very close to an undercover sting operation being conducted by the narcotics department, and didn’t want them interfering with their usual shenanigans.]]
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Deliberately invoked by Diddle, who sent the E-Mail to Tony, Joon, and Gus to try and get them to at least reconcile long enough to get the problem solved.
* ScaryBlackMan: One of these keeps turning up wherever Shawn and Gus are, and is a serious suspect in the case. [[spoiler: At the end, it turns out he was GoodAllAlong; Detective Moses Johnson, a narcotics officer working an undercover sting operation.]]
* SongsInTheKeyOfLock: It turns out that the only way to unencrypt the file is for Gus, Tony, Joon, and someone else (Shawn volunteers) to sing “It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday” in unison into a computer mic.
* StalkerWithACrush: Downplayed. Diddle was apparently sweet on Chelsea Patterson, one of his coworkers, and deliberately made a small gap in a pile of books to watch her. [[spoiler: Except he also suspected her of foul play, and was keeping an eye on her.]]
* {{Technobabble}}: Diddle’s boss explains what Diddle was working on using this; he admits it was so advanced even he doesn’t know everything about it.
* VariationsOnAThemeSong: “I Know You Know” is performed by Music/BoyzIIMen, another Acapella group.

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