Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved. Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.
Writer: Steve Franks
Air date: 2009-08-07
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Shawn and Gus spot an art thief whom Lassiter has been trying to arrest for years. So, although they are on a skiing vacation in Canada, they appeal to the local constabulary with mixed results: someone gets axed, another finds himself interrogated and Pierre Despereaux may get away scot-free, once again.
Writer: Saladin K. Patterson
Air date: 2009-08-14
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: A billionaire hedge fund manager asks Shawn and Gus to find his murderer – a last request Shawn can't resist. So he and Gus step into a world of privilege that's rivaled only by the depths of betrayal it contains.
Writer: Kell Cahoon
Air date: 2009-08-21
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Lassiter reluctantly asks Shawn and Gus for help when his surrogate father, sheriff of Sonora, thinks a ghost is wreaking havoc in his town. And even though this Wild West re-creation town is bigger on show than facts, it turns out a real crime is being planned and the murder of the Sheriff's business rival is only the beginning.
Writer: Bill Callahan
Air date: 2009-08-28
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: When a college girl at a Catholic university commits suicide, Gus and Shawn are brought in because one of the professors at the school believes the girl was demon-possessed.
Writer: Bill Callahan
Air date: 2009-09-11
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: After a cop bar is shot up in an apparent robbery during Officer McNab's birthday celebration, Shawn realizes the shooter was actually targeting Lassiter.
Writer: Steve Franks
Air date: 2009-09-18
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Raj, a young East Indian man whose serious girlfriends have all met with suspicious accidents, is convinced that he is the victim of a curse, but Shawn and Gus aren't buying the supernatural explanation. They are convinced that a mysterious assailant is actually responsible and they're out to catch the culprit.
Writer: James Roday Rodriguez
Air date: 2009-09-25
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Shawn and Gus investigate the death of Leonald Callahan, aka Diddle, a computer cryptologist who was the baritone in Gus’s old college a capella group.
Writer: James Roday Rodriguez
Air date: 2009-10-09
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Shawn and Gus attempt to protect Stewart Grumbley from himself because the poor man believes he may be a sheep-killing werewolf who may soon enough begin killing humans.
Writer: Andy Berman
Air date: 2009-10-16
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: While investigating a possible crime, Shawn stumbles upon one of a pair of criminals, gets shot, and is dumped in the trunk of a car.
Writer: Andy Berman
Air date: 2010-01-27
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Abigail is disappointed when Shawn accepts a case at the Army base instead of going on a date with her, but he and Gus are intrigued by a death they believe shouldn't have been ruled a suicide and the thought of working with Juliet's brother.
Writer: Kell Cahoon
Air date: 2010-02-03
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: When Shawn and Gus join Gus’ new girlfriend on a rafting trip, a member of the group goes overboard, but Shawn quickly realizes it was no accident.
Writer: Steve Franks
Air date: 2010-02-10
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: In 2003, Juliet made a pact with her boyfriend Scott Seaver to meet up in seven years. After he fails to show up, Shawn finds him, and by extension endangers his life since he was a key witness against mobster JT Waring, who was convicted for the murder of a US Marshall. When Waring denies killing the Marshall, Shawn must prove him right in order to protect Scott.
Writer: Bill Callahan
Air date: 2010-02-17
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Shawn and Gus must recover a deadly pathogen before a thief releases it into the city.
Writer: Steve Franks
Air date: 2010-02-24
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Shawn and Gus are recruited into a think tank to help prevent the murder of a business tycoon, but once the group has disbanded, they realize that one of the members plans to use the assassination ideas to kill the client instead of save him.
Writer: Steve Franks
Air date: 2010-03-03
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: After Lassiter takes a page out of Shawn's book and claims a shark attack victim was actually murdered, the guys must then scramble to find the fish and prove him right.
Writer: James Roday Rodriguez
Air date: 2010-03-10
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: A serial killer targets Shawn using scenarios from classic Hitchcock films.
