After last night’s episode we won’t be getting another Psych fix until December so I decided that this was the perfect opportunity to discuss what I thought of the first half of the third season of Psych. In the third season Psych is really starting to try some new things. They are actually making the show a little more serious which makes some sense. I liked this idea since it helped grow the characters. What I didn’t like though is that the show has become too much of a drama. Psych has always been a comedy and for good reason since it has been better as a comedy. I hope the show continues the character development that it started in the first half of the season but I hope it also returns to some of the wackiness of the first two seasons. So for those of you who missed the fall finale read on for the recap of the episode.
Gus and Shawn stop by their bank in order to drop off a deposit for Psych. Shawn refuses to go inside since he hates the bank since it denied his loan application for a food zipline to be installed in the office. Shawn immediately regrets not going into the bank when the bank is held up and Gus is stuck inside. The cops quickly show up. Shawn tries to get into the bank but he isn’t allowed to go in. SWAT leader Luntz shows up and takes over the standoff. Shawn quickly realizes that Lassiter hates him and Juliet is actually dating him. Shawn decides to step in to help out Gus. He actually calls Gus’ cellphone which really angers the bank robber.
Shawn actually gets his wish to get inside the bank when he is chosen to bring some food into the bank for the hostages. Shawn quickly realizes that there is something more to the bank robbery than first thought since the bank robber actually has the safety on his gun (no real bank robber would do that). Shawn gets the bank robber (Phil) to trust him and he finds out that some men kidnapped his wife and forced him to steal some diamonds from the bank or his wife would be killed. Shawn tries to call Luntz and tell him the truth but he won’t listen. Shawn ends up having to call Lassiter and he agrees to help since he hates Luntz.
Shawn proceeds to help Phil with his hostage situation in order to buy time so he can find who is the mole in the bank that is watching Phil to make sure he steals the diamonds. Shawn sees the bank security footage and realizes that the bank manager is responsible since he knew the robbery was coming. Shawn then figures out that the bank manager must be hiding Phil’s wife at a house the bank recently seized. Luntz is sick of waiting though so he orders his snipers to take down Phil. Shawn saves Phil by knocking him to the ground.
Phil lets Shawn go so he is able to find Phil’s wife. Shawn gets Lassiter and Juliet to help him find Phil’s wife. They find her but whoever was watching her gets away. Phil is sick of waiting in the bank. He pulls the bank manager aside and pulls his gun on him and demands to know where he is keeping his wife. Phil is knocked out by another man who turns out to be another accomplice to the robber. Shawn and the police rush back to the bank and Shawn tells them that the bank mamager and his accomplice planned the whole thing from the beginning and actually set up Phil because of his financial troubles. The bank manager and his accomplice are caught trying to escape the bank.
Juliet stops by Psych since her date with Luntz was cancelled (he smelled of sewer since Shawn tricked him into going into the sewer). Shawn and Juliet end up eating together at the office courtesy of Shawn’s new food zipline.
