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Psych 2: Lassie Come Home is the second Psych film and was released on NBCU streamer Peacock on July 15, 2020. The movie focuses on Lassiter, who was ambushed on the job and left for dead.

Plot[]

In a vintage Psych-style Hitchcockian nod, Lassie begins to see impossible happenings around his recovery clinic. Shawn and Gus return to the Chief's side in Santa Barbara and are forced to navigate the personal, the professional, and possibly the supernatural. Separated from their new lives in San Francisco, our heroes find themselves unwelcome in their old stomping grounds as they secretly untangle a twisted case without the benefit of the police, their loved ones, or the quality sourdough bakeries of the Bay Area. What they uncover will change the course of their relationships forever.

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Scene-by-scene synopsis[]

A young Lassiter (Nicholas Holmes) is sharing a bonding experience with his father (Joel McHale) while hiking, but when he looks away his father suddenly disappears. Lassiter starts yelling for him in panic, but then the image distorts and we learn that adult Lassiter is having a flashback on the brink of death after suffering several gunshot wounds. He is approached by a silhouetted man (Gianni Ceraldi) and begs for his life. After hallucinating his father beside him, he is shot once more and passes out.

After being operated on and suffering a stroke during the surgery, Lassiter wakes up in the Herschel House recovery home only to see Shawn and Gus standing over him. The duo brought Morrissey with them as a gift, who is no longer Karen's because he apparently kept biting Iris. Lassiter's nurse, Dolores O'Riordan (Sarah Chalke), comes in and asks to speak to Shawn and Gus privately. She reveals that she knows the duo have other motives in visiting Lassiter, and they admit that Lassiter has told them about mysterious goings-on at the home and wants them to investigate. Although she feels very attracted to Gus, Dolores says that it is only natural for someone in Lassiter's drugged-up state to be seeing things and orders the duo not to feed into his fantasies.

Shawn and Gus visit Lassiter once more later in the day, telling him that he's imagining things and that they feel uncomfortable with keeping their investigation a secret from Juliet and Selene. However, when Morrissey suddenly enters the room with a human hand the duo realize that Lassiter's brain might not be as unreliable as Dolores thinks.

Shawn and Gus ship the hand over to Woody and decide to go to their old Psych office to grab some hidden gear they will need for the investigation.

When they arrive at the office, they discover that it has been turned into a cat café called Le Litière. They tell owner Maisie (Allison Miller) that they need to make some holes to retrieve their detective tools, but she says they will have to take that up with the landlord in the other room. This turns out to be Henry, who kept paying the office's rent when Shawn moved without breaking his lease in order to sublet it to ill-conceived start-ups like Le Litière. He agrees to help them out of loyalty to Lassiter.

Lassiter wakes up staring right into Juliet's face. She shows him the photo of one Reese Kessler (Sean Owen Roberts), who was picked up by the SBPD for Lassiter's shooting and made a full confession. However, the dubious look on Lassiter's face as he examines the picture confirms her own suspicions that Kessler is not his shooter, and she theorizes that the bullet missing from the crime scene must be the key to break the case wide open. Even though Lassiter insists Juliet stop jeopardizing her career by investigating a case out of her jurisdiction, she refuses to abandon the pursuit.

Shawn and Gus are outside of the Herschel House and want Morrissey to lead them to the body the hand belongs to, but as soon as Shawn takes off the leash Morrissey simply makes a break for it.

As Juliet is about to leave Lassiter's room after expressing the love and admiration she feels for him, she notices Morrissey's dish and realizes to her dismay that Shawn has been going to Santa Barbara behind her back.

Shawn and Gus have been trying to find Morrissey for an hour when Shawn receives a call from Juliet. She conveys her disappointment in him, and Shawn feels genuinely sorry. However, Juliet then tells a lie of her own by claiming to be stuck at the airport when she is really at the scene of Lassiter's shooting. There she finds a homeless woman (Skylar Radzion) with a gunshot wound in her leg, which finally solves the mystery of the missing bullet.

Shawn and Gus arrive back in San Francisco and start preparing a romantic dinner for Juliet. Gus hides when Juliet comes home to leave the two love birds alone, but only a short time later Woody calls him with the hand results. Shawn distracts Juliet and joins the call. The duo learn that the hand belongs to Devon Tileback (Antonio Cayonne), the CEO of a technology company who apparently committed suicide by jumping into the Santa Ynez river. Shawn tells Gus that they need to go back to Santa Barbara to solve the case before Juliet finds out about the hand and gets involved even further.

Lassiter wakes up in the middle of the night with Morrissey lying on top of him. He tells Morrissey that he is afraid he will become a burden to Marlowe and Lily, as the SBPD will probably retire him and he might never even be able to walk again. Suddenly the two hear a sound outside, and when they look out of the window they see a bleeding man stumbling for the home's equine therapy stables. Lassiter fears his nightmares are causing him to go insane, but his father appears beside him in a hallucination to reassure him.

Shawn and Gus are back in Lassiter's room and tell him that whatever he saw last night cannot have anything to do with the hand, but he convinces them to take a look in the stables anyway.

Juliet is back at the SFPD when Selene suddenly appears. She wants to file a missing-persons report for Gus because he hasn't answered his phone or appeared at work in a while, but Juliet tells her that he is safe and sound in Santa Barbara together with Shawn. However, Selene suspects he's hiding something from her and becomes upset when Juliet accidentally lets it slip that Dolores has a little crush on him. Juliet then discovers that Kessler had contradicted his own alibi in his confession and leaves the office, telling Selene she has to go to Santa Barbara to have Kessler recant his confession.

Shawn and Gus are inside the stables and find no trace of the man Lassiter saw the previous night, but they do find a host of medical paraphernalia, including a freezer containing ice chips for patients that cannot hold down solid food. They start eating the chips but are discovered by Dr. Emile Herschel, the founder, namesake and head doctor of the recovery home. The duo accidentally reveal their intentions by telling Herschel what Lassiter saw, but he informs them that he knows Lassiter has been seeing things and has already arranged for renowned homeoneurotraumatist Amerigo Catalon (Seth Ranaweera) to fly in from Cuba and help Lassiter through these hard times. He also repeats Dolores' statement that Lassiter's experiences are perfectly normal for someone in his condition and that they should not fuel his fantasies.

Karen accosts Juliet before she leaves the station, and Juliet asks her excitedly whether she got the California police commissioner role she was being considered for. Karen says that there is still a final interview to get through, and then reminds Juliet that she should be honest about her secret investigation of Lassiter's case. As Juliet is about to leave, Selene joins her on her trip to Santa Barbara because she wants to scope out the Dolores situation.

Shawn and Gus are back at Le Litière after deciding to use it as a headquarters to solve Tileback's mysterious death. Shawn uses his hyperobservancy skills on some of Tileback's old documents and discovers that he frequented the Viking's Den Ice Bar, which is strange because it is quite far away and as CEO of his company he could not have had much spare time. The duo decide to pay the bar a visit.

Juliet and Selene are visiting Kessler in prison. Before Juliet can convince him to recant his confession, however, Selene drives him away by criticizing him for choosing to go to prison for something he didn't do even though he has a wife and kid to care for.

Shawn and Gus arrive at the Viking's Den, where bartender Alina (Clare Filipow) tells them that Tileback had dark secrets which were being exposed. The duo then meet Ova Asblorn (Christopher Heyerdahl), who owns the bar and considers it his second chapter after his first business back in Norway. Shawn notices a fellow patron eyeing them threateningly and Ova explains that this is his son Per (Nils Hognestad), who is not pleased with his father's career choices. Gus excuses himself to go to the bathroom.

As Gus is standing at a urinal, Per comes into the restroom and takes the one next to Gus's. Gus suddenly receives a call and tries to answer it, but his phone has started acting up recently and instead he accidentally takes and tweets a few pictures of Per's genitals. Per is out for revenge and gets his gang together, but Gus and Shawn manage to escape unseen. However, Tileback suddenly appears and begs them to stop investigating his alleged death before being killed from a distance by a hidden shooter.

The SBPD come in to investigate the crime scene, with Buzz the lead detective. He is surprised to see Shawn and Gus, who theorize that Tileback most likely faked his death because he owed the wrong people money but was then shot when they found him anyway. Suddenly Juliet and Selene show up, causing Shawn and Gus to hide in panic. Juliet walks up to Buzz and hands him the case file on Lassiter's shooter, explaining that the ballistics report shows that there was a second gun involved. Selene now joins the two, and Juliet introduces her as Gus's girlfriend. Buzz misunderstands the situation and thinks Selene must be the nurse he has heard about. Selene is enraged and decides to go to the Herschel House on her own. As she walks towards Juliet's car, Shawn and Gus have to make a quick escape across the front seats to remain unseen, and in the process Shawn finds a positive pregnancy test he concludes to be Juliet's. Juliet takes Buzz's car and follows Selene.

Shawn and Gus are back at Le Litière, where they receive several text messages from Lassiter. He wants the duo to visit the Herschel House as soon as possible because he saw fellow patient Wilkerson (Kadeem Hardison), said to be in a catatonic coma, run down the hallway. Shawn and Gus suspect Lassiter is only being paranoid and visit Henry for assistance.

Shawn wants to go undercover and starts pressing Henry to reveal where he has hidden his mustache collection. Henry insults Shawn for his immaturity, and Shawn is visibly hurt. Henry then reasons that Lassiter isn't the type to go crazy and convinces them to take him seriously.

Shawn and Gus go back to the Herschel House and confront Wilkerson, who is sitting in his wheelchair and is seemingly unresponsive to all external stimuli. Gus tries to make him give up the act by tickling him, but to no avail. Dr. Herschel enters the room and gets angry with Shawn and Gus for harassing Wilkerson. The duo try to explain that Wilkerson might be faking it, but Herschel is having none of it and wants Dolores to escort the two out of the building. They try to convince her that Herschel might not be the good guy she thinks he is, but she expresses her admiration for him and kicks the duo out.

Back at Le Litière, Shawn reveals his plan B: he is going to use one of his fake mustaches to go undercover as Dr. Catalon. However, since the dress rehearsal on Maisie is an abject failure the duo have no choice but to introduce an unknown face into the equation: Woody.

Shawn and Gus receive Woody at the Herschel House. Woody has studied everything about Catalon on the plane to Santa Barbara and is brimming with confidence. He enters the home and is allowed in by receptionist Shannon (Jess Brown), despite not being able to spell Catalon's name.

Karen has just entered her police commissioner interview. Police clerk A. Chipera (Sasha Hayden) wishes her good luck and hands her some urgent files. Karen sits down and the interview commences, but she cannot resist the urge to look at the documents and discovers that Juliet really is onto something. To the puzzlement of the committee chair (Judith Maxie), Karen excuses herself from the room and recommends another candidate for the role.

Shawn, Gus and Woody meet up in the Herschel House stables, but due to an unfortunate misunderstanding Woody has not only stolen Lassiter's medication but also ingested it. As he tries to cough up a pill still stuck in his throat, Shawn discovers a bag full of bloody bandages under a skip. This corresponds to Lassiter's report of the bloody man entering the stables, and Gus remembers that Herschel was the doctor on duty that day.

As Shawn and Gus are walking to Lassiter's room, they try to convince Dolores that Dr. Herschel is a villain and that Lassiter might be his next victim. She doesn't know what to think, but does allow them to keep watch over Lassiter. As Gus leaves the room to snatch some of the home's snacks, Shawn expresses his concern over Juliet's pregnancy to a sleeping Lassiter.

Gus runs into Henry in the hallway. Henry demands to know why Shawn was so sensitive during their talk earlier, and Gus tells him that Juliet is pregnant.

Henry enters Lassiter's room and apologizes to Shawn for hurting his feelings earlier. The two share a bonding experience when Henry tells Shawn how great it feels to be a father and how Shawn will be a better father than he ever was. To defuse the awkward moment, Henry asks what he can do to help. Shawn informs him of Lassiter's list of errands, and accidentally discovers an indentation mark that says 'silent partner' alongside the date of the shooting. Henry leaves to analyze this lead and Gus returns with the snacks.

Everyone is fast asleep, but Shawn suddenly wakes up to the sounds of a bumbling baby. He walks into the hallway and discovers Mary as a baby in a jumper chair. Mary expresses the joy of being a baby to Shawn, who sings him asleep with a lullaby. Gus has followed Shawn into the hallway and can also see Mary, who disappears when Wilkerson comes sneaking past and distracts the duo. Alarmed, the duo chase him down and confront him about his fake coma. Wilkerson admits that he has been able to function more or less normally for quite a while but decided to hide it for his own protection. He also says the patients at the home are somehow fed psychotropes, which causes them to hallucinate and confess their secrets more readily. Shawn remembers his and Gus's accidental confessions to Herschel in the stables and realizes the psychotropes are inside of the ice chips. He also realizes that Wilkerson and Tileback were in business together, and Gus understands that this must mean Wilkerson is the silent partner. Wilkerson reveals that he and Tileback had an IPO coming up and had to cover up their cooking of the books. He got panic attacks from the stress of hiding it and suffered a stroke. He was brought to the Herschel House, where he admitted the crime to Dr. Herschel under the influence of the psychotropes. Some days later, the silhouetted man that would go on to shoot Lassiter went to Tileback's office and blackmailed him. This worked until Tileback wanted to meet up with Lassiter. Lassiter was shot and Tileback fled but was eventually found and killed as well. Shawn and Gus now know that Dr. Herschel must be working together with an outside man who shakes down the home's patients using the information extracted by Herschel.

Shawn and Gus walk out into the hallway, where they meet Woody. He has found one more bag of bloody bandages, and Shawn spots some earmuffs in them as well. He now knows that the outside man is associated with the Viking's Den Ice Bar.

Shawn and Gus arrive at the Viking's Den and are led into a window by Morrissey. There they find Juliet and Karen, who came to the bar after discovering that the bullet found in the homeless woman's leg was fired from a Norwegian-made pistol registered to Ova. Juliet says that Ova ran a major crime syndicate back in Norway (the business he referred to in his conversation with Shawn and Gus), from which he only retired when he almost died. Shawn remembers Ova's scar and deduces from the similarity of his scar to Wilkerson's that Ova also suffered a stroke and was also treated at the Herschel House. They now believe Ova to be Herschel's outside man, but those suspicions are dispelled when Morrissey draws their attention to the freezer and they find Ova's corpse inside. When Morrissey suddenly flees and they hear a sound coming from the other room, they decide to move towards it cautiously.

They encounter Per, who is armed with two guns. He explains that Ova's decision to better his life after suffering a stroke dashed his hopes of succeeding his father as head of the crime syndicate. To make matters worse, Ova's stay at the Herschel House also made him a target for blackmail. However, Per made the best of the situation by becoming a partner in the scheme and working as the outside man. When Lassiter got too close to the truth Per riddled him with bullet holes, and when that didn't turn out to be enough, Per ensured Lassiter was put in the Herschel House so that he could find out how much Lassiter still remembered. Suddenly Selene enters the room and reveals she visited Dolores. Still convinced that Gus likes Dolores back, she tells him she can live with his choice to date Dolores instead. Per is getting impatient and threatens to shoot Juliet, but Shawn jumps in front of her while mentioning the baby. A confused Juliet reveals she isn't pregnant at all. Selene explains that the test is hers and Gus faints from joy. Selene then stabs Per in the eye with the pregnancy test, incapacitating him and allowing the gang to overpower him.

Dolores is putting Lassiter to bed and reveals that the pills he normally takes have been replaced with some that will kill him instead. Instead of committing suicide, Lassiter allows her to poison his drip. He asks her why she would let herself be mixed up in Dr. Herschel's scheme, but she reveals that it was entirely her idea and Dr. Herschel knows nothing about it. Lassiter settles back for a painless death, but then his father appears in a hallucination once more. Lassiter tells him that he felt betrayed by him because he wasn't able to say goodbye as a result of his unexpected death during a routine bypass surgery. His father reveals that despite his death he never left his son's side. Lassiter is able to forgive him and finds the strength to fight back against Dolores. He pulls out a gun and shoots his drip bag before taking aim at Dolores.

While Per is being taken into custody, Selene asks Gus to marry her. Gus happily accepts and convinces Selene to move in next to Shawn and Juliet. Selene then casually mentions one tiny problem: she is still married at the moment. The others come over to congratulate the happy couple, and all five hug and jump for joy.

Back at the Herschel House, Woody reveals to Shawn and Gus that he has decided to stay at the home and pretend to be Dr. Catalon for a while longer. However, he quickly flees when Dr. Herschel informs him that the real Catalon has just arrived.

Juliet and Henry are packing Lassiter's things to move him out of the Herschel House. They have also brought Marlowe along with them. When Lassiter meets her in the hallway, he gets up out of his wheelchair and walks for the first time in a long while. He shuffles over to her and they share an emotional kiss. Lassiter looks away to see his father standing in a doorway, and is finally ready to say goodbye. His father smiles and disappears.

Meanwhile, Woody is escaping the home while being chased by some orderlies. He encounters the real Dr. Catalon and quickly takes off his hat to greet him before resuming flight.

Trivia[]

  • There is a 1943 film called Lassie Come Home about a dog that goes missing, a remake of which was released in 2020.
  • In November 2019, Timothy Omundson spilled the beans during a Larry King interview that Lassiter suffers a stroke in the movie, just like Omundson himself.
  • When Jazmyn Simon's Selene reveals to Gus that she is pregnant, Simon herself was actually more than eight months pregnant with her and Dulé Hill's son Levi, which is why her abdomen is often hidden behind objects.
  • Dr. Emile Herschel's name is a reference to actor Emile Hirsch. Dolores's name is an homage to legendary Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan, who died in 2018.
  • Police clerk A. Chipera was most likely named after Matthew Chipera, a Psych co-producer and production manager.
  • A pineapple appears in Henry's room when Shawn and Gus are there to ask his advice on how to deal with the Lassie situation. Shawn grabs it and is about to say "Shall I slice this up for the road?" when he decides not to bother. This is a call-back to the pilot episode, where James Roday Rodriguez improvised the line and thus created Psych's pineapple tradition.
  • Ova Asblorn is Christopher Heyerdahl's second role in the Psychverse after playing Long Hair way back in the pilot.
  • Ova was born in Norway and speaks with a distinctive Norwegian accent, which is a clear reference to Heyerdahl's character Thor Gundersen from Hell on Wheels. Shawn's question "Aren't you Swedish or something?" is another reference to that character, who (despite being Norwegian) is nicknamed "The Swede".
  • When Ova serves Shawn and Gus alcohol he sings part of "Skål kamerater", a Norwegian student drinking song. Shawn and Gus had earlier drunk to a Scandinavian drinking song when Oskar served them aquavit and sang part of the Swedish "Helan går" during S7E8 "Right Turn or Left for Dead".
  • At one point Dolores says to Shawn and Gus "Now, I know this goofy little white guy, sexy black dude routine the two of you have going like the back of my scrubs." This is a reference to Sarah Chalke's starring role as Elliot Reid in Scrubs alongside Zach Braff and Donald Faison, who play a "goofy little white guy" (J.D.) and a "sexy black dude" (Turk) respectively.
  • The last line of "Mon Chat", the song over the end credits, goes "I will not throw away mon chat!" This is a direct reference to the repeated line "I am not throwing away my shot" from the Hamilton song "My Shot".
  • At one point Shawn says about Herschel "Maybe the good doctor isn't so good." This is a reference to Richard Schiff's role on the series The Good Doctor.
  • Dulé Hill and Richard Schiff were castmates on The West Wing.
  • At one point Henry says to Shawn "You nearly "This Is Us'd" the entire block." This is a reference to This Is Us, a show on USA Network's sister channel NBC which featured Timothy Omundson (7 episodes), Kirsten Nelson (2 episodes) and Dulé Hill (1 episode). Shawn's line "They have the same show on ABC, but newer" refers to A Million Little Things, which stars James Roday Rodriguez himself alongside movie co-star Allison Miller (Maisie).
  • Gus says that his cousin "partnered with Greg Grunberg on an app called 'Jamaica Me Alla Way'." Greg Grunberg appeared as Jay Gianukos in S6E12 "Shawn and the Real Girl" and is one of the creators of the Yowza!! Android and iPhone application, a GPS-aware coupon-referring program.
  • One of the items on Lassiter's long list of 93 errands says "tape galavant", a reference to Timothy Omundson's role as King Richard on Galavant. Another item says "support basic cable", a likely reference to S3E4 "The Greatest Adventure in the History of Basic Cable". Another says "tap class?" in reference to Lassiter's tap dance lessons in S5E2 "Feet Don't Kill Me Now". Another says "eliminate hippies", which is a call-back to his outspoken resentment towards hippies in S6E8 "The Tao of Gus". Another says "S.E.I.Z.E.", a reference to Shawn's nonsensical acronym in S8E2 "S.E.I.Z.E. the Day". Another says "find lauren", which probably refers to Lassiter's sister Lauren. Another says "erase big daddy", a reference to the 1999 comedy Big Daddy that was co-written by Steve Franks. The full list is available in the film's IMDb Trivia section.
  • Omundson's role on Galavant as a bearded king is also referenced when Lassiter's father tells a young Carlton that the Lassiter beard is "a king's beard born in your blood."
  • When Ova asks Shawn and Gus whether they've ever been to Norway, Shawn tells him "Just once, with my brother-in-law." This is a reference to the ending of Psych: The Movie, where Ewan explains he's on his way to Oslo for a secret mission right before having to escape a SWAT team together with the duo.
  • When Shawn and Gus arrive at the landlord's office and ask whose voice he is trying to imitate, one of Gus's suggestions is Diedrich Bader, who appeared in S6E8 "The Tao of Gus" as commune leader Eli.
  • We learn in the bar's bathroom that Gus's ringtone is "Mr. Bootyman", which was also used as Henry's ringtone in S7E13 "Nip and Suck It".
  • The idea of connecting swimming pools across Shawn and Gus's backyards is a call-back to S4E11 "Thrill Seekers and Hell Raisers" and S8E10 "The Break-Up".
  • Gus's line "Ova? The bar owner?" is remarkably similar to his line "Eris? The dwarf planet?" from Psych: The Movie in syllable count, intonation and his trademark incredulous chuckle afterwards.
  • This is the first Psych episode/movie that did not premiere on USA Network.

Quotes[]

Shawn: Meet Morrissey the rescue dog, here to rescue you from your own handsomeness.
Lassiter: That dog's Chief Vick's.
Shawn: He was.
Gus: He kept biting her daughter.
Shawn: "Affection gnawing" is what the vet called it.
Gus: He called it rabies, Shawn.
Shawn: Either way, the Chief, Gus, and I have come to a little agreement.
Gus: She set him loose in my office and sped away in her car.
Shawn: Then you called us to come down here and the whole thing just felt like a win-win.
Lassiter: That dog is eating my foot.

Shawn: [about Morrissey] He's a therapy dog.
Dolores: Does he have a vest?
Shawn: He does, though he prefers to call it a "waistcoat". [hands over a shirt] I think you'll find it all checks out.
Dolores: Hmmm. This an old Theraflu T-shirt with tape over the "flu" and "py" in Sharpie.
Shawn: You're good. One point for you, Dolores.

Shawn: We can't just stop doing bits we've been doing for ten years. We have fans; they have expectations. There'll be a huge backlash.
Gus: Shawn, we are two dumbasses. We do not have fans.

Gus: [to Dolores about Lassiter] He's a tough man with the thick skin of a northern white rhino, but the heart of a smaller, less-white rhino.

Juliet: Don't tell anyone how you got this, you understand?
Buzz: I'm not sure I understand anything right now.
Juliet: That's the Buzz I know and love.

Shawn: I guess it's not ove'.
Gus: It's Ova.
Shawn: Yeah, but it's not ove'.
Gus: Shawn, it's Ova.
Shawn: Gus, this is nowhere near ove'.
Gus: It's Ova right there, Shawn.
Juliet: Guys.

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