EPISODE

8. Shawn vs. the Red Phantom

Interim Chief Vick and Detective Lassiter are out of town on their way to a seminar on non-lethal weaponry, which leaves only Juliet to deal with a mother who comes to the station claiming her son, Malone Breyfogle, is missing. However, since her son is 18, the police can't get involved for 48 hours. Juliet believes something has happened to him, and so she enlists Shawn's help to investigate immediately.

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Detective O'Hara asks Shawn and Gus to investigate a missing persons case for an 18-year-old boy. They visit the boy's house, where they discover a large amount of money hidden in his bedroom, and evidence suggesting he went to a comic book convention. They pose as assistants for George Takei to get in, where they discover that the boy ran a popular blog, and received the money as a bribe for writing a good review for a movie being produced. Two of the executives for the production company go missing. While this is happening, Chief Vick's water breaks, and she is taken to the hospital by Detective Lassiter. Gus realizes that the whole crime is based on a previous comic book, and Shawn "psychically" solves everything. Chief Vick gives birth to her daughter in the hospital.

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