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* StalkerWithACrush: Gus falls hard for a coworker with the middle name “Love”, and quietly stalks her to find out more about her without ever talking to her. Shawn calls Gus out for acting “A little creepy”. At the end, he decides to take a bold approach, introduces himself to her, and leans in for a kiss… [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome whereupon she leans back to avoid him and promptly maces him.]]
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* StalkerWithACrush: Gus falls hard for a coworker with the middle name “Love”, and quietly stalks her to find out more about her without ever talking to her. Shawn calls Gus out for acting “A little creepy”. At the end, he decides to take a bold approach, introduces himself to her, and leans in for a kiss… [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome whereupon she leans back to avoid him and promptly maces him.]]
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* CallBack: One of the ways Henry tries to teach the criminology students is to [[Recap/PsychS01E01Pilot ask one how many hats there are in the room.]]
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: Shawn’s largely ad-libbed WackyMarriageProposal to Juliet is interrupted by a thief grabbing the engagement ring and running off with it. Shawn, Gus, and Juliet pile into the stolen Drivers’ Ed car and the last shot of the show has them in pursuit down the street.]]
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: Shawn’s largely ad-libbed WackyMarriageProposal to Juliet is interrupted by a thief grabbing the engagement ring and running off with it. Shawn, Gus, and Juliet pile into the stolen Drivers’ Ed car and the last shot of the show has them in pursuit down the street.]]
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* DestroyTheEvidence: [[spoiler: In his farewell DVD to Lassiter at the end, it looks like Shawn is about to finally admit that he has no psychic powers… but before he can finish the sentence, Lassiter stops the recording, snaps the DVD in half, and throws it in the trash without a word.]]
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* DestroyTheEvidence: [[spoiler: In his farewell DVD to Lassiter at the end, it looks like Shawn is about to finally admit that he has no psychic powers… but before he can finish the sentence, Lassiter stops the recording, snaps the DVD in half, and throws it in the trash without a word.]]
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* HeroicSelfDeprecation: [[spoiler: Shawn almost bursts into tears on Gus’ farewell DVD, claiming Gus might have had greater advances in his own life were it not for Shawn bursting into his office eight years prior.]]
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* HeroicSelfDeprecation: [[spoiler: Shawn almost bursts into tears on Gus’ farewell DVD, claiming Gus might have had greater advances in his own life were it not for Shawn bursting into his office eight years prior.]]
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* IWorkAlone: Brannigan insists on doing this. Judging by her skill, Shawn doubts she needs a partner – or a police department. That said, [[spoiler: she eventually chooses [=McNab=] as her new partner, to everyone’s shock.]]
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* IWorkAlone: Brannigan insists on doing this. Judging by her skill, Shawn doubts she needs a partner – or a police department. That said, [[spoiler: she eventually chooses [=McNab=] as her new partner, to everyone’s shock.]]
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* StalkerWithACrush: Gus falls hard for a coworker with the middle name “Love”, and quietly stalks her to find out more about her without ever talking to her. Shawn calls Gus out for acting “A little creepy”. [[spoiler: At the end, he decides to take a bold approach, introduces himself to her, and leans in for a kiss… [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome whereupon she leans back to avoid him and promptly maces him.]]]]
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* StalkerWithACrush: Gus falls hard for a coworker with the middle name “Love”, and quietly stalks her to find out more about her without ever talking to her. Shawn calls Gus out for acting “A little creepy”. [[spoiler: At the end, he decides to take a bold approach, introduces himself to her, and leans in for a kiss… [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome whereupon she leans back to avoid him and promptly maces him.]]]]]]
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* WeWereYourTeam: [[spoiler: Shawn leaves for San Francisco, leaving Santa Barbara behind forever. He leaves everyone farewell [=DVDs=] with recordings of him saying goodbye. [[BestFriend Then Gus flatly defies the trope, quitting his job and driving to San Francisco to be with Shawn.]]]]
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* WeWereYourTeam: [[spoiler: Shawn leaves for San Francisco, leaving Santa Barbara behind forever. He leaves everyone farewell [=DVDs=] with recordings of him saying goodbye. [[BestFriend Then Gus flatly defies the trope, quitting his job and driving to San Francisco to be with Shawn.]]]]]]
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* IWorkAlone: Brannigan insists on doing this. Judging by her skill, Shawn doubts she needs a partner – or a police department. That said, [[spoiler: she eventually chooses <=McNab=> as her new partner, to everyone’s shock.]]
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* IWorkAlone: Brannigan insists on doing this. Judging by her skill, Shawn doubts she needs a partner – or a police department. That said, [[spoiler: she eventually chooses <=McNab=> [=McNab=] as her new partner, to everyone’s shock.]]
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* WeWereYourTeam: [[spoiler: Shawn leaves for San Francisco, leaving Santa Barbara behind forever. He leaves everyone farewell <=DVDs=> with recordings of him saying goodbye. [[BestFriend Then Gus flatly defies the trope, quitting his job and driving to San Francisco to be with Shawn.]]]]
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* WeWereYourTeam: [[spoiler: Shawn leaves for San Francisco, leaving Santa Barbara behind forever. He leaves everyone farewell <=DVDs=> [=DVDs=] with recordings of him saying goodbye. [[BestFriend Then Gus flatly defies the trope, quitting his job and driving to San Francisco to be with Shawn.]]]]
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* WeWereYourTeam: [[spoiler: Shawn leaves for San Francisco, leaving Santa Barbara behind forever. He leaves everyone farewell DVDs with recordings of him saying goodbye. [[BestFriend Then Gus flatly defies the trope, quitting his job and driving to San Francisco to be with Shawn.]]]]
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* WeWereYourTeam: [[spoiler: Shawn leaves for San Francisco, leaving Santa Barbara behind forever. He leaves everyone farewell DVDs <=DVDs=> with recordings of him saying goodbye. [[BestFriend Then Gus flatly defies the trope, quitting his job and driving to San Francisco to be with Shawn.]]]]
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: Shawn’s largely ad-libbed WackyMarriageProposal to Juliet is interrupted by a thief grabbing the engagement ring and running off with it. Shawn, Gus, and Juliet pile into the stolen Drivers’ Ed car and pursuing them down the street.]]
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: Shawn’s largely ad-libbed WackyMarriageProposal to Juliet is interrupted by a thief grabbing the engagement ring and running off with it. Shawn, Gus, and Juliet pile into the stolen Drivers’ Ed car and pursuing the last shot of the show has them in pursuit down the street.]]
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* AHandfulForAnEye: Shawn has stolen quite a bit of the spiced flaxseed from Gus’ office kitchen throughout the episode. It becomes a ChekovsGag when he throws some in the killer’s face to blind him so he and Gus can escape.
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* AHandfulForAnEye: Shawn has stolen quite a bit of the spiced flaxseed from Gus’ office kitchen throughout the episode. It becomes a ChekovsGag ChekhovsGag when he throws some in the killer’s face to blind him so he and Gus can escape.
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''Season 8, Episode 10''
!The Break-Up
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_break_up.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Shawn, let go of the wheel!"]]
-> Directed by Steve Franks
-> Written by Steve Franks
Gus has finally found a new job – a much better one, with incredible employee benefits and pay. He’s truly happy with his life for the first time in a long while. Shawn realizes he wants to close Psych for good and move north to be with Juliet in San Francisco. He starts recording a tape to send Gus explaining everything, but has a very hard time telling his best friend that he’s ending “Psych” and leaving Santa Barbara for good. However, before he can finish, Lassiter asks for help on one final murder mystery.
A man named Warren Dern has been found dead on his living room floor. While investigating, the hypercompetent new head Detective, Betsy Brannigan, keeps right up with Shawn, and finds that Dern had a mysterious and potentially dangerous partner named Klaus Godecke before Shawn can get a word in edgewise. Unfortunately, what looks like a simple case proves more complicated when Godecke is also found murdered.
Now, Shawn has to figure out a way to tell Gus everything, and wrap up one last case – preferably before Brannigan - before he can leave Santa Barbara for good.
!!Tropes:
* AHandfulForAnEye: Shawn has stolen quite a bit of the spiced flaxseed from Gus’ office kitchen throughout the episode. It becomes a ChekovsGag when he throws some in the killer’s face to blind him so he and Gus can escape.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: Shawn’s largely ad-libbed WackyMarriageProposal to Juliet is interrupted by a thief grabbing the engagement ring and running off with it. Shawn, Gus, and Juliet pile into the stolen Drivers’ Ed car and pursuing them down the street.]]
* BlatantLies: While trying to screw himself up to explain everything to Gus, Shawn claims that “someone” ate all the food in Gus’ barrel of emergency supplies and stole the blankets to make a fort. But it wasn’t him. Gus isn’t fooled for an instant, and we later see Shawn has stolen the entire restocked barrel.
* CrossoverPunchline: It seems the SFPD already has a special consultant of their own… [[{{Series/Monk}} He’s mentioned as currently alphabetizing a murder victim’s spice cabinet.]]
* DestroyTheEvidence: [[spoiler: In his farewell DVD to Lassiter at the end, it looks like Shawn is about to finally admit that he has no psychic powers… but before he can finish the sentence, Lassiter stops the recording, snaps the DVD in half, and throws it in the trash without a word.]]
* FramingDevice: The bulk of the episode is told in flashback, with Shawn explaining the case through his farewell video to Gus.
* GrandFinale: The series finally ends here, with everyone going their own ways… sort of.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: [[spoiler: Shawn almost bursts into tears on Gus’ farewell DVD, claiming Gus might have had greater advances in his own life were it not for Shawn bursting into his office eight years prior.]]
* HiddenDepths: Lassiter figures out why Shawn is acting belligerent and obnoxious at the crime scene in a matter of seconds, startling Shawn.
* ItGetsEasier: When Ian Collins threatens to kill Shawn and Gus if they don’t tell him where the gun is, Shawn tries appealing to his better nature. Collins responds that killing people is a lot easier than it used to be, for him.
* IWorkAlone: Brannigan insists on doing this. Judging by her skill, Shawn doubts she needs a partner – or a police department. That said, [[spoiler: she eventually chooses <=McNab=> as her new partner, to everyone’s shock.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Shawn starts acting jumpy and twitchy around Gus, because he has to break the news that he’s moving away. Everyone catches on surprisingly quickly – except Gus.
* ScreamingAtSquick: While searching for whatever the victims were looking for, Gus digs up a corpse. He flees into the woods, showing he still ScreamsLikeALittleGirl.
* StalkerWithACrush: Gus falls hard for a coworker with the middle name “Love”, and quietly stalks her to find out more about her without ever talking to her. Shawn calls Gus out for acting “A little creepy”. [[spoiler: At the end, he decides to take a bold approach, introduces himself to her, and leans in for a kiss… [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome whereupon she leans back to avoid him and promptly maces him.]]]]
* SternTeacher: Henry gets roped into teaching a law enforcement course at the local college, and quickly proves to be one to his grand total of three students.
* WeWereYourTeam: [[spoiler: Shawn leaves for San Francisco, leaving Santa Barbara behind forever. He leaves everyone farewell DVDs with recordings of him saying goodbye. [[BestFriend Then Gus flatly defies the trope, quitting his job and driving to San Francisco to be with Shawn.]]]]
* WhereItAllBegan: Shawn takes Gus to their old high school to break the news to him. While there, they’re confronted by the killer, and escape when Shawn steals the same Student Driver car that he had stolen back when he was a teenager.
* WithCatlikeTread: After sneaking into Gus’ workplace to pick him up for the case, Shawn spies on him a minute, learns that Gus is really getting his life in order lately… and then knocks an entire shelf of snack food over before casually walking out with an IMeantToDoThat attitude.
* XMarksTheSpot: Shawn and Gus find a topographic map of the area at one point, and sees an “X” on the map somewhere in the woods. Turns out it’s where a third body was buried.
!The Break-Up
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_break_up.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Shawn, let go of the wheel!"]]
-> Directed by Steve Franks
-> Written by Steve Franks
Gus has finally found a new job – a much better one, with incredible employee benefits and pay. He’s truly happy with his life for the first time in a long while. Shawn realizes he wants to close Psych for good and move north to be with Juliet in San Francisco. He starts recording a tape to send Gus explaining everything, but has a very hard time telling his best friend that he’s ending “Psych” and leaving Santa Barbara for good. However, before he can finish, Lassiter asks for help on one final murder mystery.
A man named Warren Dern has been found dead on his living room floor. While investigating, the hypercompetent new head Detective, Betsy Brannigan, keeps right up with Shawn, and finds that Dern had a mysterious and potentially dangerous partner named Klaus Godecke before Shawn can get a word in edgewise. Unfortunately, what looks like a simple case proves more complicated when Godecke is also found murdered.
Now, Shawn has to figure out a way to tell Gus everything, and wrap up one last case – preferably before Brannigan - before he can leave Santa Barbara for good.
!!Tropes:
* AHandfulForAnEye: Shawn has stolen quite a bit of the spiced flaxseed from Gus’ office kitchen throughout the episode. It becomes a ChekovsGag when he throws some in the killer’s face to blind him so he and Gus can escape.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: Shawn’s largely ad-libbed WackyMarriageProposal to Juliet is interrupted by a thief grabbing the engagement ring and running off with it. Shawn, Gus, and Juliet pile into the stolen Drivers’ Ed car and pursuing them down the street.]]
* BlatantLies: While trying to screw himself up to explain everything to Gus, Shawn claims that “someone” ate all the food in Gus’ barrel of emergency supplies and stole the blankets to make a fort. But it wasn’t him. Gus isn’t fooled for an instant, and we later see Shawn has stolen the entire restocked barrel.
* CrossoverPunchline: It seems the SFPD already has a special consultant of their own… [[{{Series/Monk}} He’s mentioned as currently alphabetizing a murder victim’s spice cabinet.]]
* DestroyTheEvidence: [[spoiler: In his farewell DVD to Lassiter at the end, it looks like Shawn is about to finally admit that he has no psychic powers… but before he can finish the sentence, Lassiter stops the recording, snaps the DVD in half, and throws it in the trash without a word.]]
* FramingDevice: The bulk of the episode is told in flashback, with Shawn explaining the case through his farewell video to Gus.
* GrandFinale: The series finally ends here, with everyone going their own ways… sort of.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: [[spoiler: Shawn almost bursts into tears on Gus’ farewell DVD, claiming Gus might have had greater advances in his own life were it not for Shawn bursting into his office eight years prior.]]
* HiddenDepths: Lassiter figures out why Shawn is acting belligerent and obnoxious at the crime scene in a matter of seconds, startling Shawn.
* ItGetsEasier: When Ian Collins threatens to kill Shawn and Gus if they don’t tell him where the gun is, Shawn tries appealing to his better nature. Collins responds that killing people is a lot easier than it used to be, for him.
* IWorkAlone: Brannigan insists on doing this. Judging by her skill, Shawn doubts she needs a partner – or a police department. That said, [[spoiler: she eventually chooses <=McNab=> as her new partner, to everyone’s shock.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Shawn starts acting jumpy and twitchy around Gus, because he has to break the news that he’s moving away. Everyone catches on surprisingly quickly – except Gus.
* ScreamingAtSquick: While searching for whatever the victims were looking for, Gus digs up a corpse. He flees into the woods, showing he still ScreamsLikeALittleGirl.
* StalkerWithACrush: Gus falls hard for a coworker with the middle name “Love”, and quietly stalks her to find out more about her without ever talking to her. Shawn calls Gus out for acting “A little creepy”. [[spoiler: At the end, he decides to take a bold approach, introduces himself to her, and leans in for a kiss… [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome whereupon she leans back to avoid him and promptly maces him.]]]]
* SternTeacher: Henry gets roped into teaching a law enforcement course at the local college, and quickly proves to be one to his grand total of three students.
* WeWereYourTeam: [[spoiler: Shawn leaves for San Francisco, leaving Santa Barbara behind forever. He leaves everyone farewell DVDs with recordings of him saying goodbye. [[BestFriend Then Gus flatly defies the trope, quitting his job and driving to San Francisco to be with Shawn.]]]]
* WhereItAllBegan: Shawn takes Gus to their old high school to break the news to him. While there, they’re confronted by the killer, and escape when Shawn steals the same Student Driver car that he had stolen back when he was a teenager.
* WithCatlikeTread: After sneaking into Gus’ workplace to pick him up for the case, Shawn spies on him a minute, learns that Gus is really getting his life in order lately… and then knocks an entire shelf of snack food over before casually walking out with an IMeantToDoThat attitude.
* XMarksTheSpot: Shawn and Gus find a topographic map of the area at one point, and sees an “X” on the map somewhere in the woods. Turns out it’s where a third body was buried.
