Lives

Season 1 episode 5. Flashback 1985, Shawn is eating cereal and when he finishes the box the prize is missing. Henry tells him "Sometimes you don't have to dig so deep just turn something upside down to make it right side up. Present day, Shawn and Gus go to a crime scene. Shawn tells McNab that he is bringing Lassie's coffee to him, so McNab lets them in to the scene. Shawn notices that there is a marinating stake in the fridge, then he tells Gus that this wasn't suicide it was murder. Then he notices that the door latch was still intact. If someone were to kill themselves then they would probably want to lock the door, so no one could barge in on you in the middle. Then Lassie comes up behind Shawn and tells him to leave, but Shawn tries to tell him that it was murder. Lassie of course doesn't believe Shawn, when he tells him there are witnesses. While he is saying that he notices a little boy cat, and he wants to "Talk" to it. Shawn ends up taking the little boy cat, and it is the lead witness in a major murder investigation. Then he asks Gus if he would like to hold the cat. Gus says no, and tells Shawn that he doesn't like the idea of him having to carry that cat around everywhere, pretending that he can talk to it. Shawn gets mad at Gus for saying that about his little boy cat. Back at the office, Gus tells Shawn that Lassie might be right and that it might be a suicide. Then Shawn says that Gus is probably right, but how does he explain the second body they just found. When they get there Jules is already there but Lassie is a little late. When Lassie arrives he spills is coffee all over him. Then Jules is telling Lassie that it could be a suicide, and she died from Carbon monoxide poisoning then Shawn says that the little boy cat disagrees. Then Shawn "Accidentally" drops the cat in the car and the cat pees on the dry cleaning. Lassie takes the cat out of the car and gives it back to Shawn. During that Gus asks Jules what one of the guys is doing. She tells him they are testing how much Carbon monoxide went into the car. When one of the Police men turn on the car there is heavy medal playing. Shawn asks Lassie if she looks like the kind of person that would be listening to heavy medal. Lassie said she could have changed the station. While driving down the road Gus gives Shawn the paper to lay down for the cat, Shawn notices the lady in the paper and that she got her big break in Santa Barbra, why would she want to kill herself? So Shawn and Gus go to the chief where Shawn "Channels Gloria" and shows her and Lassie the paper about her big break. After Shawn finishes "Channeling Gloria" he sits on Lassie's lap and Lassie tells him to get off. Then Shawn looks at the phone records of the first dead guy and figures out that he called a stress line multiple times. Then Lassie tells Shawn that all of the victims called the stress line, and that the case was closed. Shawn pretended that he was giving up but he wasn't. Shawn got a closet next to the stress line place and pretended to start his own "1-800 thingy". Then he met all of the people who worked for the stress line and talked to them all trying to figure out which one is the killer. Shawn thinks the killer could be a kid named Rory but Shawn needs to see him in action so he has Gus call the line. So Gus calls the line pretending to be stressed while Shawn listens and watches Rory in action. He learns that Rory was only there for community service because he got into it with a guy who didn't like his poetry. While Gus and Rory were talking Rory asked Gus if he had been having dark thoughts, and Gus asked him how dark and Rory mentioned suicide. So now Shawn thinks Rory killed the people, and so do the cops. But after unplugging his iPod headphones Shawn realizes that the telephone guy is the murderer and that Rory was framed. Then Shawn finds evidence that Buzz McNab is going to be the next victim. Shawn and Gus go to McNab's and find the killer with his gun at McNab. Then the police come in and the little boy cat sneaks in too. Shawn has a plan for the little boy cat and the killer ends up getting arrested. And as a wedding gift Shawn gives McNab the little boy cat. Back at the office Shawn and Gus are eating cereal. The kind with the prize at the bottom. When the box is empty there is no ring, because Shawn had opened the box from the bottom and taken the prize.