PSYCH Recap: Someone’s Got A Woody

The lack of assignments is becoming a problem for Shawn and Gus. They are now considering inventing their own cases to solve, just to appear busy. Fortunately it won’t come to that, because even as their imaginations are running wild, their friend Woody is being taken hostage in his own morgue across town.

An ex-con named Cyrus Polk is desperate to stop Woody from conducting an autopsy on his old cellmate Greer Wilson. He found the body in his home, and he’s certain there will be evidence on the body that incriminates him, because somebody is obviously setting him up. Woody contracts quick onset Stockholm Syndrome, and wants to help his captor. They’re in this together, after all. He has a plan to get Cyrus out of the precinct without being arrested, and Cyrus is keen to hear it. He has a wife now, something worth living for.

Trout has his own plan to get Cyrus out of the precinct, and it would probably require a number of body bags. He doesn’t want Shawn and Gus anywhere near the situation, so when they persist in trying to sneak in he has them arrested. Trout wants a sniper, despite Juliet’s pleas to try a tactic that won’t likely result in Woody’s death.

Woody’s plan includes Shawn and Gus’s particular skill set, so he has Cyrus request they be sent to see him. Trout grudgingly goes along with it, but it still doesn’t change his plan. He meets with a parole officer named Tripp, who worked with both Cyrus and Wilson, to get more information about them.

After meeting with Cyrus, Shawn believes in his innocence. He shares his belief with Juliet, but tells Trout nothing when he calls him to his office to find out what Cyrus had to tell him. Juliet is concerned that Woody doesn’t have his anxiety medications, but Trout couldn’t care less….until he comes to the conclusion that it’s a perfect cover to slip a camera into the morgue and find out what’s going on so he can put his sniper in place.

Shawn and Gus go to the halfway house where Wilson was living, Shawn posing as a new resident and Gus as his parole officer. The house manager, Maurice, is nowhere to be found, but a very tough looking resident named Rocco is more than happy to show them around and take Shawn’s shoes. Shawn didn’t willingly give them up, Rocco is hard to say no to. They snoop through Wilson’s things and learn that he was not only regularly breaking curfew, but he was also straying much farther from the house than he was allowed. Oh, and he was also seeing Cyrus’ wife. They also find Maurice, and he’s dead. Some lottery tickets among Wilson’s belongings lead them to a small country store in a very remote area.

Juliet wants to stop Trout’s plan, because it isn’t likely to end well for anyone. A previous similar situation Trout keeps referring to turned out to have resulted in four deaths. She and Lassiter put a plan in motion, and she pretends to be Woody’s daughter in order to convince Cyrus to let her inside. She and Woody have some awkward father-daughter moments, and Woody appeals to Cyrus to let him perform an autopsy so he can find proof that Cyrus is innocent. With Juliet assisting, the autopsy begins. Unfortunately, while they are working, Cyrus browses the room and spots a photo of Woody with his real daughter. He’s angry, realizing Juliet is a cop, but before he can do anything rash Woody has a breakthrough. There are traces of sulfuric acid in the wounds, there is no way Wilson was killed in Cyrus’ living room.

At the country store, Shawn and Gus investigate and discover a large abandoned warehouse. Only, it’s not so abandoned. There are stacks of electronics, stolen most likely. There are also stacks of fertilizer…Woody called to tell them about the sulfuric acid, and it is one of the ingredients in fertilizer. They have found the location where Wilson was killed. When Gus tells Shawn the killer would likely have gotten the substance on him as well, and the injuries it can cause, Shawn realizes they met the killer at the police station.

As Trout and his snipers move in to the morgue to take Cyrus out once and for all, Woody jumps in front of him to save him, and Juliet jumps in front of Woody. As they explain the findings to Trout, elsewhere in the building Lassiter apprehends Tripp, the parole officer. Well, technically Lassiter apprehends him, but Shawn and Gus arrive just in time to shove Lassie out of the way and pretend to the crowd of officers returning from the morgue that they were the ones to apprehend him. Lassiter walks away in disgust. Wilson had returned to stealing and fencing stolen goods, and was paying off Maurice to relax his restrictions. Tripp wanted in on the action, but Wilson wanted to clean up his act and make things right. Tripp killed him to keep him from ruining things for a good thing for him.

Trout is not impressed with Shawn and Gus, nor is he impressed with his officers going against his orders. He fires Juliet and Lassiter. Before they can even leave his office, though, he learns that due to his recklessly endangering officers and hostage, he has also been fired. After a brief but volatile tenure, Trout picks up his things and leaves.

Psych airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on USA.