History Recap / PsychS02E16ShawnAndGusOfTheDead

When an alarm goes off at the Santa Barbara History Museum, the police arrive to find that a mummy from an Egypt exhibit that opened yesterday is missing, along with the night guard. Lassiter initially sees it as an open-and-shut case. He’s much more interested in his own case, involving the mysterious death of a wealthy philanthropist named William Wyles III. Assistant Curator Sophie Bridgewell isn’t so sure, though, and she hires Shawn and Gus to figure out what happened. Gus is creeped out by the missing mummy, but Shawn isn’t so quick to worry about ancient curses and walking corpses. He’s far more interested in finding concrete evidence, and a culprit who’s very much alive. There’s just one problem – the concrete evidence he finds, that the police missed, all points to someone coming out of the ancient sarcophagus and walking out of the museum…

* ChekhovsGun: Shawn’s pictures of someone cheating on his wife at a sleazy hotel in an unrelated case at the beginning. They come in very handy when he uses them as leverage to get the mayor to reinstate Vick as permanent chief of police.

* TapOnTheHead: How Wyles III really died.

* ScoobyDooHoax: Sort of. The “Mummy” was actually the killer from Lassiter’s case, dressed in bandages to sneak into the museum inside the real mummy’s sarcophagus. The lid was closed, but had a small crack in it, so the bandages were needed. He intended to steal a Civil War pistol that he’d used to kill Wyles, but it didn’t work out, and he was forced to flee when the night guard interrupted him.

* CallBack: Turns out the Tyrannosaur fossil from “65 Million Years Off” ended up at the museum, and Shawn got credit for finding it. They even named it "Zippy", after Shawn's suggestion.

* {{Mummy}}: Vanished from the museum on the day his ancient Egypt exhibit opened, and apparently killed the night guard. [[spoiler: The real, very dead mummy was actually just used as a cover for the real villain.]]

** Later, Shawn and Gus [[spoiler: Find the actual mummy in the driver’s seat of a car that just went off the road. A terrified Gus turns to see Shawn sprinting back towards the Blueberry.]]

* TenMinuteRetirement: Chief Vick is resigning as the department’s interim chief of police, since the mayor won’t get back to her about making her permanent. [[spoiler: Shawn, fortunately, has some dirt on the mayor's choice for the job, and she’s back by the end of the episode.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Shawn’s pictures of someone cheating on his wife at a sleazy hotel in an unrelated case at the beginning. [[spoiler: They come in very handy when he uses them as leverage to get the mayor to reinstate Vick as permanent chief of police.]]

* PistolWhipping: [[spoiler: Wyles IV killed his father like this with an antique civil war pistol, then put the pistol back in its display case… right before it was due to be donated to the museum.]]
* ScoobyDooHoax: [[spoiler: Sort of. The “Mummy” was actually the killer from Lassiter’s case, dressed in bandages to sneak into the museum inside the real mummy’s sarcophagus. The lid was closed, but had a small crack in it, so the bandages were needed. He intended to steal a Civil War pistol that he’d used to kill Wyles, but it didn’t work out, and he was forced to flee when the night guard interrupted him.]]

* PeekABooCorpse: Shawn and Gus find the body of Douglas Hastings, the missing night guard, stuffed into a 1950s fridge. However, it doesn’t actually count as StuffedIntoTheFridge.

* TenMinuteRetirement: Chief Vick is resigning as the department’s interim chief of police, since the mayor won’t get back to her about making her permanent. [[spoiler: Shawn, fortunately, has some dirt on said mayor, and she’s back by the end of the episode.]]

* TheMummy: Vanished from the museum on the day his ancient Egypt exhibit opened, and apparently killed the night guard. [[spoiler: The real, very dead mummy was actually just used as a cover for the real villain.]]

--> '''Shawn''': “Mom?...”
* YourCheatingHeart: At the beginning, Shawn is working on an unrelated case getting photographic proof of an older man’s indiscretions.

* AgentScully: Gus is one here. He won’t even go into the mummy’s room at the museum, as he’s afraid of getting cursed.

WhamLine: At the very end.

* CallBack: Sophie Bridgewell is the one who gets Shawn on the case. Turns out the Tyrannosaur fossil from “65 Million Years Off” ended up at the museum, and Shawn got credit for finding it.

* {{Montage}}: Shawn tries to beat the museum’s camera system to find holes in the security system, while Gus watches the monitors.

* Chekhov’sGun: Shawn’s pictures of someone cheating on his wife at a sleazy hotel in an unrelated case at the beginning. [[spoiler: They come in very handy when he uses them as leverage to get the mayor to reinstate Vick as permanent chief of police.]]

* 10MinuteRetirement: Chief Vick is resigning as the department’s interim chief of police, since the mayor won’t get back to her about making her permanent. [[spoiler: Shawn, fortunately, has some dirt on said mayor, and she’s back by the end of the episode.]]