- A wealthy widow's young date is murdered, pitting Shawn and Gus against a dirty rotten scoundrel they are convinced trained the victim to be a con artist.
- Open with two young attractive men on dates with older women. One begins choking and eventually falls over a railing and falls two stories onto the dance floor.
The guys arrive at the murder scene and Lassie says the dead man, Lance, probably just fell. After being told to leave, Spencer whispers to Gus that Lance's body shows no signs of wrist or ankle fractures.
Back at the station Karen says the tox reports confirms Spencer was right, that Lance was poisoned. Lassie is sure the murderer is Lance's date, a woman named Jillian Tucker who wealthy husband killed himself several years back. Lassie never believed it was suicide. Henry suggests letting Lassie and Jules work the case along with Spencer and Gus, but with each duo working separately.
Lassie and Jules run into Spencer and Gus at Lance's place, which is very nice considering Lance was unemployed. Spencer notices a book on the art of seduction written by a Clive Prescott. Inside is a personal note where Prescott refers to Lance as one of his top students.
The guys show up at one of Prescott's seminars on attracting women. Prescott and Spencer immediately butt heads on attracting women.
Lassie and Jules interview Jillian at the station. Despite having just gotten out of bed Jillian looks fantastic and says she is on her way to a business meeting. Jillian admits to having been in a bad marriage and says she has her own way of mourning.
Jules brings Lassie into the hallway and tells him she thinks Jillian lied and is on her way to a date.
Prescott admits Lance was a good student with potential but wasn't "as good as he thought." At the end of the meeting Prescott gives the guys a hand-written thank you note.
Lassie and Jules stake out Jillian. Spencer and Gus jump in the back of their car. The detectives are watching Jillian while the guys are tailing Prescott. The two happen to be on a date together.
The next day a bartenders who worked the night of Lance's death tells them Lance was drinking a unique drink and Jillian had brought a special bottle of scotch for him to have.
Henry tells the guys that Prescott's last girlfriend died in a drowning accident during a vacation in South America. He thinks Prescott might be dangerous.
Spencer and Gus follow Prescott and Jillian into a bank. Spencer makes his presence known and hits on Jillian unmercifully. She seems to enjoy it, though Prescott does not like what's happening. Spencer asks Jillian out on a date. Prescott takes him aside and asks him to back out. Jillian says she'll go on the date as long as Spencer has someone to accompany her friend Eugenia. Spencer turns to Gus.
Jillian is friendly with Spencer during the double date but Eugenia is positively cold as ice towards Gus. They spot Gabe (the one Eugenia was with when Lance was killed) at another table with a new older woman. Prescott is also in the restaurant and sends over a bottle of wine. Jillian invites him to sit with them. Eventually the women leave and Prescott talks a little trash. Gabe stops by the table to say hello to Prescott and references the fact he was under the impression Jillian was "off limits." Jillian returns and Prescott talks about an upcoming business trip to Peru. Spencer suggests the four of them leave
They end up back at the Psych offices with pizz. Spencer is throwing game at Jillian while Eugenia couldn't care less about Gus. Spencer asks Jillian to stay away from Prescott and not to go to South America with him. Lassie and Jules show up to remind Spencer he's dating their prime suspect. Jillian had acess to Lance's bottle of scotch, but the drink Lance was drinking was an invention of Prescott, who also could have poisoned the scotch. After the women leave Gus is stunned he got no interest from Eugenia. Spencer starts to feel strange andt thinks his win may have been poisoned at the restaurant.
Spencer was only mildly poisoned and is fine. Henry shows up at the hospital and tell him to get over to the hospital where Jules is interviewing Prescott.
During the interview Lassie walks in and tells Prescott he is free to go. He also says Jillian has been let go. After Prescott leaves Henry tells Spencer that Prescott dated another wealthy woman who died. A month after her death her company went under. Henry wants Spencer to sit back and do nothing.
Spencer and Gus sit in on Prescott's seminar. He debunks several of the rumors of his having killed women (one had cancer and the other was killed by a stingray) and says the reason Jillian was off-limits was because he loves her. In another room Spencer apologizes to Prescott via letter. He tells the guys he's going to propose and because he is nervous plans to talk with Eugenia. He adds that Eugenia is broke and Jillian supports her. The guys recall that Gabe was dating Eugenia, realized that she was broke and poisoned Lance out of jealousy for scoring the rich one, Jillian. Gabe also had the opportunity to poison Spencer.
The guys, Lassie and Jules find Gabe dead in a steam room at his gym. He was apparently poisoned. Spencer notices cufflinks in Gabe's locker room. Jules learns that Gab was poisoned using naphthalene, the main ingredient in mothballs. Gus recalls that Eugenia smelled like mothballs. Realizing Prescott has gone to see Eugenia they race to find her.
They catch Prescott just before he was about to drink a cup of tea. Spencer confronts Eugenia about being in love with Jillian. She says she was protecting Jillian by killing men who weren't good for her.
Prescott tells his seminar that while on his honeymoon he's turning the class over to some guest speakers. One of them is Spencer, who tells the class he needs to change in order for his father to be proud.
Gus speaks with Eugenia in prison. He wants her to confirm that she spurned him because she is a lesbian. "You realize I'm being charged with a triple homicide, right?" she tells him.
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