The Best Episodes of Psych Season 4

A serial killer targets Shawn using scenarios from classic Hitchcock films.

Director: James Roday Rodriguez

Writer: Andy Berman, James Roday Rodriguez

While investigating a possible crime, Shawn stumbles upon one of a pair of criminals, gets shot, and is dumped in the trunk of a car.

Director: Mel Damski

Writer: Andy Berman

Shawn and Gus spot an art thief whom Lassiter has been trying to arrest for years. So, although they are on a skiing vacation in Canada, they appeal to the local constabulary with mixed results: someone gets axed, another finds himself interrogated and Pierre Despereaux may get away scot-free, once again.

Director: Steve Franks

Writer: Steve Franks, Andy Berman

Shawn and Gus investigate the death of Leonald Callahan, aka Diddle, a computer cryptologist who was the baritone in Gus’s old college a capella group.

Director: Stephen Surjik

Writer: James Roday Rodriguez, Saladin K. Patterson

Shawn and Gus must recover a deadly pathogen before a thief releases it into the city.

Director: Stephen Surjik

Writer: Bill Callahan, Anupam Nigam

After a cop bar is shot up in an apparent robbery during Officer McNab's birthday celebration, Shawn realizes the shooter was actually targeting Lassiter.

Director: Tawnia McKiernan

Writer: Bill Callahan, Kell Cahoon

In 2003, Juliet made a pact with her boyfriend Scott Seaver to meet up in seven years. After he fails to show up, Shawn finds him, and by extension endangers his life since he was a key witness against mobster JT Waring, who was convicted for the murder of a US Marshall. When Waring denies killing the Marshall, Shawn must prove him right in order to protect Scott.

Director: Steve Franks

Writer: Steve Franks, Tim Meltreger

When a college girl at a Catholic university commits suicide, Gus and Shawn are brought in because one of the professors at the school believes the girl was demon-possessed.

Director: John Badham

Writer: Bill Callahan

Raj, a young East Indian man whose serious girlfriends have all met with suspicious accidents, is convinced that he is the victim of a curse, but Shawn and Gus aren't buying the supernatural explanation. They are convinced that a mysterious assailant is actually responsible and they're out to catch the culprit.

Director: Jay Chandrasekhar

Writer: Steve Franks, Anupam Nigam

When Shawn and Gus join Gus’ new girlfriend on a rafting trip, a member of the group goes overboard, but Shawn quickly realizes it was no accident.

Director: Mel Damski

Writer: Saladin K. Patterson, Kell Cahoon

Lassiter reluctantly asks Shawn and Gus for help when his surrogate father, sheriff of Sonora, thinks a ghost is wreaking havoc in his town. And even though this Wild West re-creation town is bigger on show than facts, it turns out a real crime is being planned and the murder of the Sheriff's business rival is only the beginning.

Director: Mel Damski

Writer: Kell Cahoon

Shawn and Gus attempt to protect Stewart Grumbley from himself because the poor man believes he may be a sheep-killing werewolf who may soon enough begin killing humans.

Director: Andrew Bernstein

Writer: James Roday Rodriguez, Todd Harthan

Abigail is disappointed when Shawn accepts a case at the Army base instead of going on a date with her, but he and Gus are intrigued by a death they believe shouldn't have been ruled a suicide and the thought of working with Juliet's brother.

Director: Mel Damski

Writer: Andy Berman

After Lassiter takes a page out of Shawn's book and claims a shark attack victim was actually murdered, the guys must then scramble to find the fish and prove him right.

Director: Matt Shakman

Writer: Steve Franks, Tim Meltreger

A billionaire hedge fund manager asks Shawn and Gus to find his murderer – a last request Shawn can't resist. So he and Gus step into a world of privilege that's rivaled only by the depths of betrayal it contains.

Director: Michael McMurray

Writer: Saladin K. Patterson

Shawn and Gus are recruited into a think tank to help prevent the murder of a business tycoon, but once the group has disbanded, they realize that one of the members plans to use the assassination ideas to kill the client instead of save him.

Director: Stephen Surjik

Writer: Steve Franks, Andy Berman