- Shawn and Gus infiltrate a ring of street racing car thieves to catch a killer.
- "Psych"- "Shawn and Gus in Drag (Racing)" - August 11, 2010
It's 1990 and we see a young Shawn and Gus riding in a truck, even though they're too young. Shawn's dad arrives and stops them from having a calamity.
In present day a masked man carjacks a high end ride, a Lamborghini.
Lassie and Juliet get a call on a stolen car, he tells her about his recent investigation into street racers who finance their lives with carjackings. He knows it's them. They catch up and give chase. They lose him. He doesn't want to give up since he's worked so hard. They then get the call that the car is nearby, stopped. They tear off again.
The car is simply in the middle of the road. The driver is dead, with a gunshot wound to the head.
Gus and Shawn arrive at the scene and Shawn notices the driver's skull ring, a Vin number and some interesting stuff on the curb and in the tread marks on the road. They argue about whether he'll be on the case. Lassie of course says no and the guys say they'll race him for it and peel out.
The next day Lassie figures out that the driver was going 90 miles an hour so they can extrapolate the location of the shooting from how far the driver went after he was shot. There was an illegal tracking device under the hood. They watch video from his cruiser. The guys arrive and banter "Back to the Future" style. Spencer gives his info about street racing, wide treads, the altered VIN number- showing the car had been stolen before. Lassie claims he knows all this.
The victim was Max Contreras a street racer and big time gambler who owed a lot of money to a wealthy dude named Logan Paget, exotic car collector and loan shark. Lassie and Juliet visit Paget, while Shawn and Gus go to investigate street racers. Lassie doesn't like the group approach and claims he's in charge. Shawn's dad tells him to play by the rules.
Paget is fancy, wiping down one of his fancy cars, as Lassie and Juliet ask him about Contreras and the money he owed them. He wonders if he's a suspect in the murder. They say no. He says it's been a few weeks since he talked to Contreras. Lassie says he was the owner of the stolen Lamborghini Contreras was driving but they wonder why he didn't report it stolen. He says it slipped his mind. They think he's hiding something. He says maybe he just has that kind of face.
Shawn and Gus go to check out the street racers with predictably funny yet disastrous yet helpful results. They ask a female mechanic for some info on street racing. She says she's got no info. Shawn notices a few details and realizes she's lying. A badass dude rolls up in a sweet car, Gus and Shawn banter, and then they ask him about street racing. The girl flips out but the guy indulges them. And then says if they need to ask they don't belong there, so if they can find the race he'll be happy to see them there. On their way out Shawn pushes Gus into some stuff so he can grab a cell phone and peruse some of the numbers and pictures on it. He figures out from the photos- including pictures of Lincoln and a Cardinal- the cross streets that will be used for the race. Shawn says they just need wheels.
They go to a street race with Shawn's dad's dilapidated truck. Shawn tries to bluff his way around to the real street racers. They don't like that he's asking about Contreras. Their friend from the garage keeps him from getting his ass kicked. He's impressed that Shawn didn't back down and that he found he race. He shows off his ride. He says it looks bad but it's fast. They decide to race. Gus does not care for this idea. The badass guy's ride is amazing of course but Shawn installed nitrous in the truck, without knowing how to do it. They take off and the badass is killing them until Shawn hits the nitrous. They end up losing by just a little bit. But then the brakes won't work, because he cut the line by accident when installing the nitrous. They bust through a fence but are okay.
The badass arrives and gives them credit for having a lot of balls. The girl mechanic is in the backseat and still hating on them. Shawn notices she has a skull ring like Contreras did. The badass, who is named Tommy, thinks Shawn and Gus are funny and invites them to a party the following night to entertain him.
Shawn's dad goes to start his truck in the morning and takes off like a rocket. At the station he yells at Gus and Shawn and threatens to take them off the case. They plead that they are making in-roads with Contreras' old crew.
In interrogation Lassie and Juliet are giving Paget the once-over for lying about not speaking to Contreras in a while his phone records say he spoke to him right after Max stole his Lamborghini. They hypothesize that Max knew where his car was an offered to get it back to him for a clean slate on his debt, then changed his mind, and then Paget went to kill him. Paget admits that he hired Max to get the car but there was no change of heart, he said someone was after him and his voice was scared. He never heard who it was.
Shawn and Gus share their crew information with Lassie and Karen and that they think it was someone on the crew. Lassie wants to go after them and Shawn slows their roll saying they need to act cool and they will get the info at the party tonight. They banter. They get the go ahead from Shawn's dad.
Shawn and Gus arrive at the party and get the mi casa su casa tip from Tommy. It's a swinging shindig and as it gets down to just the core group talking about their worst crashes. Tommy's was the time he tried to go 200 miles an hour, he got to 187 flipped and ended up in a coma for a month. He says he'd do it again because it's all about the adrenaline which is god's greatest gift and symbolizes freedom. Gina says her worst crash was in Vegas with Max in the car. She lost the use of two of the fingers on her right hand while Max walked away without a scratch. The other two racer dudes think Max was a jerk for this and note he didn't even apologize. One is in love with Gina and the other says he's glad Max is dead. Tommy admonishes them saying that Max was their friend.
Gina pulls Shawn out into another room and even though he thinks he's getting lucky she's patting him down looking for a wire. He swears he's not a cop and says he's just a car guy. She opens the hood of her car and asks him to ID the parts in her engine. He fails. She pulls out a gun and asks him what's up. He banters until Shawn sneaks in and disarms her. Lassie and Juliet arrive and snatch Gina, Shawn makes them pretend to arrest him too.
Back at the station everyone seems convinced that Gina's the shooter and the case is closed. Shawn isn't buying it though, especially when he realizes that Gina was holding the gun with her left hand because of her injury and the shooter shot with his right hand. Now he thinks Tommy did it and convinces Gus of the same. It's too late though because Tommy and his boys are on to him now. They show up at Gus and Shawn's and Tommy monologues that he did indeed kill Max and the cops will probably figure it out. But it doesn't matter because all he wants is a head start. He wants Shawn to steal the Lamborghini from the police impound so he can take off in it and hit the 200. To make him do it, he kidnaps Gus.
Shawn brings him the car. Tommy inspects it for trackers and discards one. His boys take off and he jumps in the car. He invites Shawn to come with quoting "Point Break" back to him saying he can smell the kamikaze in him. Shawn says that's CK1 and Tommy takes off. He's making his way up to 200 when the police catch up to him. He keeps revving and looks like he's going to make it, and subsequently crash into a police car barrier with Juliet and Lassie in front of him. But just as he's about to hit 200 the car conks out. He comes to a feeble stop. Turns out Shawn put a zucchinin the tailpipe.
Tommy is arrested, Lassie compliments Shawn on the collar but says he's going to have to write him up anyway since he stole a car and negotiated with a kidnapper. Shawn points out he was saving Gus. Lassie says he's not so sure that Gus is actually essential. Those two go off to bicker and Shawn tries to hit on Juliet to no avail. She's never seen "Point Break."
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