PSYCH Recap: Nip and Suck It

While on a bird-watching expedition, Henry happens upon the body of a woman just off the nature trail.  She has been murdered. It might be the best thing that ever happened to Henry, though, it makes him feel alive to be investigating again.

Woody believes the victim to be about 27 years old, but Shawn notes the woman’s hands look much older. When Juliet shows up with the woman’s records, she reveals her name is Shelley Aronsohn and she is actually 48 years old. However, she looks nothing like her photos. She apparently has an affinity for plastic surgery. Woody diagnoses cause of death as basically a massive dose of Botox. Shawn goes to see her plastic surgeon, posing as a would-be patient.

Shelley was a wealthy woman and had a much younger husband named Brad Turner.  She had also filed a lawsuit against her plastic surgeon before she died. Dr. Diamond is the physician in question, and she’s beautiful….and also has a past with Henry. He and Shawn are quite competitive in this investigation, each trying to beat the other to the punch and prove they are the superior detective. Dr. Diamond is Shawn’s top suspect, but Henry doesn’t believe she could be involved.

Shawn and Gus call on Brad, the young husband, who is also a masseuse. He had only been married to Shelley for two weeks, but he insists it’s the only two weeks of his life that mattered. He tells them Shelley was insecure, and that drove her need for all the surgery that he didn’t believe she needed. He becomes irritable when Shawn suggests he had been after her money. He signed a prenup, and it was his idea. He does tell them she met someone for coffee the day she died.

At the coffee house in question, they learn Shelley had argued with someone who looked just like her. One of the women called the other a thief. As Shawn ponders what it all means, he remembers seeing photos of facial features in Dr. Diamond’s office and has an epiphany. Shelley did steal something from the other woman, her nose. She had a nose job and got the nose of a woman named Brianna Hicks.

When they arrive at Brianna’s house, they are too late. Lassiter is already arresting her, led to her by Henry who taunts Shawn about being there  first. Brianna admits being furious with Shelley for copying her look, but she was getting liposuction at the time Shelley was killed. Her alibi is solid, she couldn’t have dragged Shelley’s body off the trail. Shawn and Henry argue some more about who is right, until Henry receives a call from Dr. Diamond. He takes off to meet her, but Shawn saw her number on Henry’s phone and he and Gus follow to spy on them.

Dr. Diamond is still hurt that Henry never called her after their first date, and she’s very flirty. She gives him the address of someone who might have a grudge against her, and he leaves…with Shawn and Gus still following. Henry has tricked the boys, though, knowing they wouldn’t be able to resist the smell of food nearby the spot he parks his truck. While they load up on eats Henry makes a getaway.  Shawn has to call Dr. Diamond pretending to be Henry to get the address she had given him.

They arrive at the office of Dr. Ted Lomax at the same time as Henry, and try to question him together. He admits having treated Shelley after her falling out with Dr. Diamond. Henry notes that he doesn’t seem upset about Shelley’s death, he seems amused. As he looks around it’s obvious everyone else in the room has the same expression. They are all loaded up on botox. Henry browses while Shawn questions a young lady he met at Dr. Diamond’s office where she was applying for a job. Her name is Lacey, and she is leaving Dr. Lomax employment to start working for Dr. Diamond. Shawn learns that she knew Shelley, and had even been at her home the day she died. She hopes he isn’t suspicious of her, she’s just a nice girl from Bismarck, after all. She gives him information that suggests Dr. Diamond had been there also.

Gus, meanwhile, is doing research of a different sort. He has been suffering low self-esteem since Rachel has been in London, and he lets Dr. Lomax give him injections. Gus will spend the rest of the episode looking surprised.

Henry notices that Dr. Lomax’s diplomas have the same watermarks. They are fake. A little more investigation reveals that he’s actually a licensed appliance salesman. Gus is freaking, considering he just let an appliance salesman inject poison in his face.

Dr. Diamond, Joan to her friends, shows up at Henry’s with a bottle of wine. She’s ready to start that second date they never had. Henry accidentally knocks her purse off the table as he’s opening the bottle, and a vial of the same toxin that killed Shelley falls out, along with a syringe. Joan denies that it’s hers, but Henry has to report it. When she can’t stop him from calling Lassiter, she hits him from behind and knocks him out.

The vial and syringe were indeed used in the murder, and the syringe had the victim’s blood on it. Joan’s fingerprint was also on it, so she is arrested. Henry can’t believe he was so wrong about her. He’s done, he concedes to Shawn and makes a hasty retreat…possibly to pick out a nice rocking chair so he can just sit on his porch and rock the rest of his years away.  Shawn looks at the report, though, and soon realizes that it was Joan’s index finger found on the plunger. She wouldn’t have used that finger to hit the plunger. She may not have done it after all.

Shawn and Gus run into Lomax at the station. He’s just getting out of jail after his arrest. While they talk to him, Joan calls him wondering if he has any idea who would want to harm Shelley. That seals it for Shawn, he thinks she was framed, she wouldn’t be looking for suspects if she was the one that did it. She must have panicked to learn the murder weapon was planted on her, that’s why she hit Henry. They rush to tell Henry, who is wearing his robe and practicing his golf putt. He seems happy to hear Joan didn’t do it, and even happier to receive a note from her apologizing for hitting him. He strips off the robe and reveals he is fully dressed underneath. He knew Shawn and Gus would come up with something. He was just waiting.

They go back to square one in their investigation. Their first suspect was Brad, but he didn’t have a motive because he signed a prenup. Henry points out that means he gets nothing in a divorce…but if she’s dead, he gets it all. They go to Brad’s office, and find him dead on the massage table. Once his body is back at the morgue, Shawn notices the telltale sign of needle tracks on Brad’s neck, just like Shelley’s. Lassiter and Juliet head off to arrest Dr. Diamond, and after they leave Shawn notices Woody’s paperwork on Brad…it says he was from Bismarck, just like Lacey.

Shawn, Henry, and Gus arrive at Dr. Diamond’s office just in time to prevent her arrest. They reveal Lacey’s past connection with Brad. The two were high school sweethearts and had a history of scamming people for money. They planned to con Shelley as well, but Brad fell in love with her. In a jealous rage, Lacey killed Shelley, then planted the vials in Joan’s bag when she was there filling out her employment paperwork. Brad started suspecting her, so she killed him too. With the case solved, Lassiter arrests Lacey, and Henry winks at Joan. He’s not that old yet, he’s still got game.

At the Psych offices, Shawn reveals to Gus that he and Juliet are officially back together. Gus reveals that he can finally move his face again. Henry and Joan stop by to say hello and tell them they are going fishing. Henry reveals he’s thinking about coming out of retirement again. All seems right with the world…until a cookie basket and card are delivered, from Rachel. She tells Gus they have to talk. Gus is sure this is it, this is what he’s been afraid of. It’s the beginning of the end of his relationship.

Psych airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on USA.