Psych Episode 1

Every pilot needs a mystery, and delivers a solid one: the murder of a wealthy businessman named Lyin’ Ryan. The victim is found hanging from a tree near the Santa Barbara Mission, staged to look like a suicide.

Fast forward to the present. We meet adult Shawn (James Roday Rodriguez) as a slacker who calls in an anonymous tip to the Santa Barbara Police Department about a cabbie’s kidnapping. The problem? He was supposed to be at work. His tip is so accurate (down to the license plate) that the police, led by the skeptical and by-the-book Head Detective Carlton Lassiter (Timothy Omundson), assume he must be the kidnapper. psych episode 1