History Recap / PsychS02E11TheresSomethingAboutMira

!There’s Something About Mira

After being followed by a fairly inept P.I. for a couple hours, Shawn and Gus confront the man. He admits that he was hired by Gus’s wife, Mira, astonishing Shawn. Gus admits that he’s married, but has been separated from Mira for a long time. He goes to meet Mira at her family’s winery, and she reveals she’s engaged to someone else – she just wants Gus to sign some papers to make their divorce official. Unfortunately, at the wedding the next day, the groom – a man named Jan – never shows up. Things get weirder when Mira’s family reveals they never met Jan before the wedding, and quite a bit of Mira’s relationship with him seems to have been fabricated. Jan shows up a couple days later and apologizes to Mira – claiming his work took him away - but when Jan turns up dead, the case takes a disturbing turn…

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Lassiter is hit with this when he learns that Juliet got a better score than him on the detective's exam. Then ''both'' of them are hit with it when Shawn, unaware of their rivalry, blithely reveals he also took the exam once, and scored 100% on it.
* AmicableExes: A surprisingly unhealthy version. Gus left Mira after their marriage when he realized he couldn’t ever say “no” to her, and she was leading him down a road he probably couldn’t afford to follow. She threatened to burn down his apartment. When they meet again, she’s sweet and affectionate, and Gus still can’t say no to her. Fortunately, this extends to her asking for him to sign the divorce papers.
* BatmanGrabsAGun: Shawn repeatedly demands a gun, because Gus is in trouble.
-->'''Shawn:''' SOMEONE GIVE ME A GUN!\\
'''Ohara/Lassiter:''' NO.\\
'''Shawn:''' THEN DRIVE FASTER, THAT'S MY BEST FRIEND IN THERE.

* TheDitz: Mira is a bubbly girl.
* GilliganCut: When Gus is explaining to Shawn that he got together with Mira in 1997, Shawn asks if Gus was still “rocking the sweater-vest”. Gus denies it… and then goes into a flashback showing that indeed, he was.

* GoodCopBadCop: Lassie and Jules try interrogating a suspect using this – except they’re competing to see who can make him crack first, resulting in “Good Cop VERSUS Bad Cop”.

* InSeriesNickname: “Hurricane Mira” tends to suck people into her life and spin them out of control.

* LoveAtFirstSight: Gus’s reaction to meeting Mira in 1997. It did not end well.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Gus’s brain tends to shut down and restart at random moments when Mira’s around.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Mira was this to Gus, getting him to come out of his shell somewhat in college. She hasn’t changed much since then.
* MistakenForBadass: At the end, Mira’s family and the police come across Mira and Mace Rhoden unconscious, the sprinkler system on, and Gus standing over both of them. Shawn immediately concocts a story where Gus came up with a clever plan to take out the thief, but Rhoden knocked Mira out before he finished. However, it turns out Rhoden’s lighter turned the sprinklers on, Rhoden slipped and fell, and Gus shoved Mira out of the way while trying to run, but she hit her head on the way down and doesn’t remember it.
* MrsRobinson: Mira’s mother takes the time to hit on Shawn while he’s investigating. Shawn is visibly uncomfortable.

* ObnoxiousInLaws: Mira’s parents aren’t exactly fond of Gus, since she told them he tricked her into marriage.

* SpoiledSweet: Mira's parents own multiple wineries, and she's never really had to face consequences, but she's not an AlphaBitch or anything.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The episode’s B-plot has Lassiter getting bent out of shape when he learns that Juliet got a better score than him on the detective’s exam. He winds up using a new case – a missing refrigeration truck – to challenge her to a duel of detectives, with the first one to solve it being the better detective. It eventually ties into the Mira storyline, and Shawn solves it before either of them.
* WineIsClassy: Mira’s family runs a winery with such high-quality products that they’re being put on display at another winery in Napa.

* InLoveWithTheMark: [[spoiler: Jan and Rhoden were attempting to con Mira into a wedding, so that they could empty out the winery and steal over a million dollars of rare wine while everyone was distracted. However, Jan actually fell for Mira, complicating the plan. When he threatened to spill the beans, Rhoden shot him.]]

* MistakenForBadass: [[spoiler: At the end, Mira’s family and the police come across Mira and Mace Rhoden unconscious, the sprinkler system on, and Gus standing over both of them. Shawn immediately concocts a story where Gus came up with a clever plan to take out the thief, but Rhoden knocked Mira out before he finished. However, it turns out Rhoden’s lighter turned the sprinklers on, Rhoden slipped and fell, and Gus shoved Mira out of the way while trying to run, but she hit her head on the way down and doesn’t remember it.]]

* SmileOfApproval: Moments after Chief Vick learns that Ohara and Lassiter have been having a childish competition over their detective exam scores, rendering her furious, their competition gets ''completely'' shut down when Shawn naively cuts them off at the knees by announcing he got a perfect score ''when he was fifteen''. She quietly smiles and lets it play out.

** [=McNab=] gets one, too, what with them having stolen his watch for their stupid games. His is a [[SmugSmile a little more smug]], though.

* WineIsClassy: Mira’s family runs a winery with such high-quality products that they’re being put on display at another winery in Napa.
* YesButNo:
-->'''Gus:''' Shawn, I've been there before with Mira. He's telling the truth.\\
'''Shawn:''' Yeah, but he's definitely lying.

* WineIsClassy: Mira’s family runs a winery with such high-quality products that they’re being put on display at another winery in Napa.

* NoodleIncident: Apparently Mira is prevented from visiting her family's vineyard in Spain because she once punched the bull at Pamplona This was presumably during the Bull Run, but no further elaboration is provided.

-> Directed by Joanna Kerns

* InLoveWithTheMark: [[spoiler: Jan and Rhoden were attempting to con Mira into a wedding, so that they could empty out the winery and steal over a million dollars of rare wine while everyone was distracted. However, Jan actually fell for Mira, complicating the plan. When he threatened to spill the beans, Rhoden shot him.

'''Season 2, Episode 11''