Al Mooney is the only mushroom farmer in the tri-county area and therefore the person Shawn and Gus go to talk to when they want to find out more about the death cap mushroom that was used to poison restaurant critic Vince Wagner. Al loves eating his own produce and as a result is often high. This means that when our duo ask him to describe the person who had visited him with questions about the death cap mushroom some weeks earlier, his description is full of drug-induced distortions: this person was nine feet tall, had sunshine coming out of his mouth, and had a hippopotamus for a hand. Shawn and Gus are disappointed and think their visit yielded nothing, but this description later turns out to be very helpful after all when they realize it describes culprit Nick, who is of above-average height, walks around with Cheetoh dust around his mouth, and wears a hippo logo on the cuffs of his shirt.