When the Santa Barbara police department hit a wall on a high profile kidnapping case, they reluctantly hire Shawn Spencer, the town's newest psychic detective, to help solve the crime.

The favorite to win this year's Regional Spelling Bee passes out under mysterious circumstances in the middle of a word. As Shawn and Gus investigate, the Spellmaster falls over a railing to his death. Lassiter thinks it's obviously an accident but Shawn is sure it's murder.

The Attorney General's son is getting married this weekend and someone has stolen the $5 million antique engagement ring from the hotel safe. Lassiter wants to do this by the book, but after Shawn finagles his way into an invitation to the festivities from the bride and groom, he quickly "divines" that this was an inside job.

A widow of a notorious bank robber comes to Shawn and Gus for help. Her husband's dangerous accomplices have just been released from prison and will come after her with the false assumption she knows where the money is hidden. She now needs Shawn to contact her husband's spirit to find the cash before the robbers find her.

When Shawn is the only one to realize a suicide is in fact a murder, he keeps himself on the case by insisting he's getting information from the sole witness: the victim's cat. It soon becomes apparent that a string of recent suicides may in fact all be murders, and Shawn must "channel" the cat and catch the killer before he can strike again.

For this year's Policeman's Benevolent Association's big fundraiser, Lassiter is running a reenactment of a famous Civil War battle. But when, during rehearsal, a carefully choreographed "death" turns out to be real, Shawn and Gus join the regiment to uncover the truth -- this was no accident, it was murder.

A man comes to Shawn and Gus with a huge problem: he's being haunted by a ghost that wants to kill him. Shawn takes the case, sure he can solve it quickly since there's no such things as ghosts, but as the investigation progresses, they come to realize they might be dealing with something even more strange.

A teenager goes missing, and to Gus' delight, he and Shawn must spend the entire weekend at the boy's last known location -- the Santa Barbara Comic Book Convention -- investigating his disappearance. To gain access to the sold out event, Shawn and Gus become George Takei's personal assistants and soon learn the missing teenager has a secret identity, which might be the reason for his kidnapping.

When Henry's former boss Capt. Connors, now suffering from early on-set Alzheimer's, knows he's solved a crime but can't remember it, he comes to Shawn for help.

When a drunken and depressed Lassiter confesses to Shawn that he has doubts about the death by "natural causes" of an astronomer, Shawn sets out to secretly prove the detective right in order to boost his morale..

As a joke, Lassiter sticks Shawn with a case where a man shows up naked at the police station claiming to have been abducted by aliens, but Shawn's investigation soon takes in him into an even stranger universe: speed dating.

When a woman sleeps with a beloved local weatherman but wakes up to find him dead, she is charged with his murder. Shawn finds a way into the case by becoming a consultant to the defense.

Before the Psych Agency can begin to investigate the disappearance of an up-and-coming tennis star, Shawn must first retrieve Gus from a corporate retreat, and they soon realize things are not always as they appear.

Henry’s old friend Bill Peterson refuses to call the police after his wayward son steals from him and then goes missing, which forces Henry to go find help in the last place he ever wanted to visit --- the Psych office.

Shawn and Gus step into a real-life urban legend, as they investigate a death suspiciously like the tale of "Scary Sherry," who met her untimely end at the now haunted Wispy Sunny Pines mental institution.