"Last Night Gus" is the second episode of Season Six. Shawn, Gus, Lassiter, and Woody wake up in the Psych office with no recollection of the previous night. When a body is then found, the quartet have to retrace their steps to exonerate themselves and find the killer.
Plot Summary[]
The whole SBPD crew is at a local bar celebrating the retirement of a fellow officer. Shawn makes a toast to Jim Dubois, the retiree, and then calls for a round of shots. Juliet heads out early, leaving Shawn and the boys alone for a night out.
The next morning at the Psych office, we see Shawn and Gus passed out. They finally awake and have absolutely no idea what happened the previous night. They are clueless as to why Shawn is wearing a shower cap, a gold chain, and sandals that are not his, why Lassiter is sporting a black eye, and why Woody is sharing the couch with him - none of the four have any recollection about the night before. There is strange debris everywhere, seemingly all clues to what happened last night.
Shawn tries to recall visions from last night, but every image is distorted. They search the room for clues and discover Lassiter's gun is missing three bullets, his car keys are missing, there is a huge dent in the The Blueberry, and there is a disjointed cell phone video from the night before. They watch the video and see they were very chummy with a man in a Hawaiian shirt.
Just then, Woody gets a call from his office. They all head to the morgue where they are horrified to discover that the same man in the Hawaiian shirt is now dead on the slab, shot three times – which immediately leads Lassiter to believe his gun could have been the murder weapon. Shawn then realizes that the sandals he is wearing belong to the dead man. When Shawn texts Gus, the phone goes off in the victim's pocket, leading to the realization that Gus and the dead man had swapped phones at some point.
Concerned, Juliet pulls Shawn aside and asks him about the "strange, game-changing" phone call he made to her last night. Shawn doesn't remember it at all, and Juliet needs to leave before she can get into any details.
Lassiter, Shawn, Gus, and Woody all determine that they must have been drugged. Woody gives a drug test to all of them and confirms it... but who drugged them and why? The guys find more clues on the dead man's phone – numerous pictures of a woman. Since they remember absolutely nothing, they head back to the bar they were at to get some answers.
Shawn theorizes that they may have been the unintended recipients of a round of drugged drinks meant for some women from a man they saw at the bar. But, the bartender squelches that theory the second he reveals that the man Shawn thinks drugged them is his partner, as in, his lover. Just then, an attractive woman enters the bar, walks over to Gus, and kisses him. Gus thinks this might be a girl he hooked up with from the night before. The woman tries to get Gus to go with her, but Gus reluctantly stays to finish the investigation. Just as the woman is giving Gus her number, Shawn remembers a few clues from the Psych office that lead him to believe they went to Bobo's Donuts after they left the bar.
They arrive at Bobo's Donuts and discover they had been there last night questioning the shop owner about the woman in the photos. It turns out their Hawaiian-shirted friend was hired to find the woman in the pictures because she was suspected of cheating. They take a look at the security camera footage from Bobo's: a man punches Lassiter in the face, and the expended bullets from Lassiter's gun were used to shoot at the giant Bobo's Donuts statue that fell on the Blueberry, causing the dent.
Just then, Lassiter gets a call – another dead body. The body belongs to the same man who punched Lassiter in the security footage. The man is identified as Scott Williams. Shawn figures it out that Scott and the Hawaiian-shirted P.I. knew each other and were in contact because the P.I. had Williams' number in his "recently dialed" call history.
The guys and the SBPD head to Williams' home investigating the murder. Shawn realizes from a photo in the house that the pictures of the woman the P.I. had on his phone are of the same woman who lives there, and is Scott's wife. They then determine that the P.I. was hired by Scott to investigate his cheating wife. They theorize it was the wife that killed both of them.
Just then, Shawn gets a call from Henry, who is at a motel room and has no idea how he got there and why. From this, Shawn puts it together that they must have gone to this same motel last night thinking the wife was going to show up there. They get confirmation of this by checking out her vacated room. But, the room is rigged to blow up via gas leak, so everyone quickly escapes by jumping off the balcony and into the unkempt pool.
Back at the SBPD, while Chief Vick is lecturing everyone about their recent behavior, a fictionalized Ed Lover shows up to retrieve the gold chain that Shawn apparently stole off of him at a club the night before. Just then, Gus gets a call from the woman. Having had enough of all this and believing he has to live the life he was meant to live, he leaves to meet up with the hot woman.
Next, they all analyze the photos from the P.I.'s phone. Shawn takes a closer look at a picture and recognizes the face of a man the wife is eating lunch with. From there, Shawn gets SBPD's tech guy to alter the face in the picture to look like the mug shot of a man on the Most Wanted List – a man named Leroy Jenkins, who looks just like the man the wife is eating lunch with in the photo. After a few adjustments to the photo, Shawn's theory is proven right. Leroy had been keeping a low profile for years, and when he found out he was being followed by a P.I., he had both Scott and the P.I. killed. Then, they all realize that Leroy wasn't working alone, and that his partner was Leroy's next of kin, Lily Jenkins. She is the same girl who approached Gus and kissed him at the bar. She was actually at the bar that night tracking the P.I. to get his phone to wipe any evidence he may have recorded of her dad, Leroy Jenkins. But, when she saw there were cops, she drugged them to make sure they wouldn't remember any of the events surrounding Leroy's whereabouts. Shawn puts it together quickly that Lily is the same woman who was all over Gus, and that she was only after Gus to get the P.I.'s phone, which is also the same phone Gus still has in his possession.
SBPD immediately heads over to Gus's apartment to save him from being killed by Lily. When they arrive, Lily has already drugged Gus, and Leroy is there with a gun pointed on a woozy Gus. Lassiter and Juliet show up just in time to take down Leroy and arrest him once and for all.
We end with Shawn and Juliet discussing the fact that Shawn, in his drugged state the night before, called Juliet suggesting they move in together. Surprisingly, in the end, Shawn is the one who suggests that they actually do move in together. Shawn is shocked when Juliet tells him she isn't quite ready to make that next step.
Trivia[]
- This episode is inspired by the 2009 comedy The Hangover.
- This was the first of seven episodes to air during USA Network's "Psych Slumber Party" event on February 15, 2013.
- Timothy Omundson chose this as his favorite episode for USA Network's "Psych All-Night" event on March 21, 2014. It aired as sixth of six.
- When the gang walk back into the bar to discover who they were drugged by, they are in slow-motion and the song "Little Green Bag" starts playing. This is a reference to Quentin Tarantino's 1992 cult classic Reservoir Dogs.
- In keeping with his tendency of appropriating pop culture images, Shawn says, in discussing his absence of memory, "I've got stugots." This is a Neapolitan obscenity much used, sometimes with slight variants, on The Sopranos.
- Gus tells Donald (Whit Hertford), the clerk at Bobo's Donuts, that maybe women recognize him from Children of the Corn, implying a resemblance between him and death cult leader Isaac (portrayed by John Franklin). Donald responds by comparing Gus to Bud from The Cosby Show, like several others before him.
- Killer Leroy Jenkins is named after Leeroy Jenkins, a character from a famous "World of Warcraft" YouTube video who yells his own name before hastily rushing into battle, dooming his guildmates. It's a meme which has been riffed on by How I Met Your Mother among other shows.
- The website that Shawn mentions, "Glazed4Life.com", is an actual (albeit now defunct) website.
- When Shawn mentions Teri Hatcher's house, it's because the house they attend is on the same set as Desperate Housewives, Wisteria Lane.
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