The Best Episodes Written By Andy Berman

#1 - Shawn Takes a Shot in the Dark

Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 10/16/2009

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

#2 - Lights, Camera... Homicidio

Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/25/2008

The star of a Spanish telenovela has been murdered by another actor on the show. The murderer insists that it was an accident and claims that the prop knife was switched with a real knife without his knowledge. Shawn and Gus believe that he was framed and investigate the crime. Gus is especially excited to be working on the set of his favorite soap opera, but it's Shawn who gets a recurring role on the show.

Director: Matt Shakman

Writer: Andy Berman

#3 - Murder?... Anyone?... Anyone?... Bueller?

Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 7/25/2008

Shawn and Gus attend their high school reunion. Shawn sees a body fly past a window, but on further inspection the body has vanished. When Gus assumes the worst, and Lassiter refuses to help, Shawn seeks assistance from Juliet.

Director: Michael McMurray

Writer: Andy Berman

#4 - Yang 3 in 2D

Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 12/22/2010

The Yin/Yang trilogy comes to a thrilling close as Shawn and Gus race to save a woman kidnapped by Yin. Only this time, they are forced to use Yang's knowledge of Yin to solve the case by allowing her to accompany them on the investigation.

Director: Mel Damski

Writer: Andy Berman

#5 - Harley Wears A Wig

Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/25/2019

Harley Carter's first official case as a P.I. is a kidnapping with a surprising twist.

Director: Peter Wellington

Writer: Andy Berman

#6 - Harley Gets A Hole In One

Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/15/2019

Sam has to go undercover at a fancy country club to prevent a diamond heist.

Director: Kelly Makin

Writer: Andy Berman

#7 - Harley Gets to Be Best Man

Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/6/2019

Well-intentioned advice from Harley ends up with Dave as an unwilling bank robber.

Director: Mars Horodyski

Writer: Andy Berman

#8 - Gus Walks into a Bank

Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 9/12/2008

Gus is taken hostage at the Santa Barbara Savings and Loan Bank while making a deposit for Shawn. Shawn, still in the car and oblivious to the hostage situation, questions Lassiter and Juliet about the cops' sudden arrival. Learning that his best friend is in trouble, Shawn is desperate to help and realizes he needs to get inside the bank to question the gunman. However, the SWAT team soon shows up, and its negotiator will not easily satisfy Shawn's request.

Director: Eric Laneuville

Writer: Andy Berman

#9 - An Evening With Mr. Yang

Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/2009

After eluding capture and disappearing eight years ago, the famed Yin Yang serial killer is back, and he's set his sights on Shawn.

Director: Mel Damski

Writer: Andy Berman

#10 - Extradition: British Columbia

Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 8/7/2009

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: Andy Berman

#11 - Office Space

Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 5/8/2013

After Gus accidentally tampers with the crime where his boss was killed, Shawn helps him find the real murderer before Gus is arrested.

Director: Andrew Bernstein

Writer: Andy Berman

#12 - Cloudy... With a Chance of Murder

Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/9/2007

A local weatherman is found dead the morning after a tryst and his lover is charged with his murder despite her claims of innocence. Shawn is intrigued and becomes a defense consultant in order to gain access to the case.

Director: Lev L. Spiro

Writer: Andy Berman

#13 - Think Tank

Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/24/2010

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: Andy Berman

#14 - Bounty Hunters!

Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 9/14/2007

Shawn and Gus find themselves trying to outwit a bounty hunter when Juliet asks them to find a suspect who escaped from her custody. The problem is, once they find him, Shawn believes his claims of innocence, meaning they not only have to capture him, but prove he's been set up.

Director: John Badham

Writer: Andy Berman

#15 - Dead Bear Walking

Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 12/15/2010

When a polar bear trainer is found dead, Shawn works to prove the bear's innocence.

Director: Andy Berman

Writer: Andy Berman

#16 - Autopsy Turvy

Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 3/28/2012

The race is on to clear Woody's name and reputation when a mere mortician finds a mistake in the coroner's autopsy.

Director: Jennifer Lynch

Writer: Andy Berman

#17 - Mr. Yin Presents...

Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 3/10/2010

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

Director: James Roday Rodriguez

Writer: Andy Berman

#18 - Eddie & the Empire State of Mind

Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2016

Director: Eric Laneuville

Writer: Andy Berman

#19 - Bacterium & the Brothers Panitch

Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/6/2017

A hostage situation erupts at the East Miami Police Department, and Rosewood, Villa and Slade are trapped on the inside. Rosewood forms a strong bond with their captor and must solve his biggest medical mystery to date in order to keep his team alive.

Director: James Roday Rodriguez

Writer: Andy Berman

#20 - Psy vs. Psy

Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/27/2007

The FBI employs their own psychic in a search for a counterfeiter, causing the department to work together in an effort to prove that Shawn is the better psychic.

Director: Mel Damski

Writer: Andy Berman

#21 - Wooberite & The Women of Rosewood

Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/18/2016

An old flame of Rosewood's shakes up Rosewood's life when she returns to enlist his help in finding a wealthy patient of hers who's disappeared. But when the man's body surfaces, triggering a murder investigation, things are not what they appear to be. As the bizarre turns of this case come to a head, so does Rosewood's personal life as he is pushed to make decisions regarding all the women in his world.

Director: Eric Laneuville

Writer: Andy Berman

#22 - Last Night Gus

Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/19/2011

A night of partying which no one remembers that turned deadly sets Shawn, Gus, Woody and Lassiter on the trail of their deeds and a way to clear their names of suspected murder. Unfortunately, they may have to depend on Shawn's "psychic" memories of the night's events.

Director: Andy Berman

Writer: Andy Berman

#23 - Amparo & The American Dream

Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/21/2017

Rosewood and Villa are pulled into the world of human trafficking to investigate the death of a school teacher, and a surprising insight into Slade's past draws Rosie and Villa closer than ever before.

Director: Vahan Moosekian

Writer: Andy Berman

#24 - Have-Nots & Hematomas

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2015

A series of mysterious deaths pulls Rosewood off the glamorous promenades of South Beach when a troubled young genius stands accused of murder, and the only one who believes in his innocence is Rosewood. He must contend with a colorful new adversary, escalating health problems and a burgeoning romantic relationship, while Villa's inability to connect with people hampers her own ability to investigate the case.

Director: Milan Cheylov

Writer: Andy Berman

#25 - Bloodhunt and Beats

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/2015

A bounty hunter who happens to be Hornstock's former partner helps Rosewood and Villa track a murderer; Pippy receives an opportunity that could launch her music career; Villa attempts to reconnect with her mother.

Director: James Roday Rodriguez

Writer: Andy Berman