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== Henry told Chief Vick the truth in the first episode ==
Henry has been pretty firmly established as ultra-careful. In one episode he even schools Shawn on the subject of lying believably. In light of this, it seems odd that Henry would offer a verifiable fact (Shawn got his powers at eighteen), without checking with Shawn first to see if he had said anything contradictory. Even if Vick asked him directly, Henry would be experienced enough to dodge the question or offer a less concrete answer.
Plus, in the early episodes Henry is openly hostile to the psychic detective idea. That seems inconsistent with lying to the Chief of Police so Shawn can continue.
In addition, there's a fair amount of evidence against Vick believing in Shawn's powers. Despite nominally believing all his information comes from psychic visions, she usually insists on evidence before acting or putting resources towards a theory. She has also witnessed him using deductive reasoning to solve a case without commenting.
In light of this, and what we know of the characters, it seems plausible that Henry simply laid the cards on the table- Shawn is a demonstrably brilliant detective, receiving a perfect score on the detectives exam. As Shawn refuses to join the police force, and has a criminal record, she can't use his skills unless she pretends that she buys the psychic routine. By this time she has seen him in action, and is less hostile towards his interference in the course of justice, and agrees. She then tells Shawn she believes him in order to retain plausible deniability if it all blows up in her face.
** Chances are, she asks for evidence because that's what they need to actually try the case. Yeah, Shawn may be right but that doesn't mean he can be used as evidence that a court will accept. A confession on the other hand or being caught in the act...
== Juliet's uniform fetish is why she joined the police ==
The episode that just aired as of this writing (1/30/08) suggests she is turned on by uniforms. And now she's in a job where she can spend hours staring at cops...
== Shawn was a Companion to the [[Doctor Who|Tenth Doctor]] ==
They're equally silly, cursed with curiosity and wanderlust, and have a habit of saving the day. Plus, they both have a fixation with a particular type of fruit - The Doctor with bananas, and Shawn with pineapples.
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** Seconded
*** ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6866931/1/Fake_Psychics_and_Psychic_Paper Fake Psychics and Psychic Paper]''
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== Psych and Reaper take place in the same universe ==
Ray Wise plays what appears to be a vicar in an upcoming episode called "The devil is in the details and upstairs bedroom". Ray wise... "the devil" in the name of the episode... there's no other explanation!
== Psych takes place in a [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]], complete with Psychics. ==
Think about it. Regardless of his record, in [[Real Life]] Shawn ought to be written off as a crackpot, and yet many people seek him out deliberately [[Infallible Babble|because they take his claim to be a psychic seriously]]. My guess is that the general populace knows that [[Suzumiya Haruhi|Espers, Psychics and Time Travelers]] exist, probably from watching the local equivalent of [[Superman]] rescue people on television.
* I can't help but laugh at the idea that of a Psych / [[The World of Darkness
* Real police departments do use psychics, though. They're just rather less reliable than Shawn.
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== Shawn has [[No Fourth Wall]] ==
That's why clues light up and he can hear the narrator in the commercial
* Given how most [[No Fourth Wall]] characters act * cough* [[Deadpool]]* cough* this might explain why he acts the way he does. Given how lazy Shawn is, you'd think by now he would've given up the whole routine. He's established his credibility after all.
** Wasn't it established in the first episode that if anyone ever proved he WASN'T a psychic, he'd be charged with interfering in police affairs, regardless of results?
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If you look over some of the more recent episodes there have been several hints that Lassiter has a child from his past that no one knows about.
* Yes. In "The head, the tail, the whole damn episode" Lassie says to Henry something like "I'm telling you this as a father!"
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** The Psychwrites twitter account [[Jossed|said]] that that line was just a joke that didn't land.
== Mr. Yang was an old girlfriend of Shawns ==
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== Henry was one of the cops challenged by Mr. Yang ==
During the third season finale, we are told that Mr. Yang had an initial killing spree, then went dark, only emerging to challenge a Worthy Opponent, and Henry is known to have been an amazing cop. Mr. Yang would have respected his skills and ethics. We know that the challengers failed, and the shame of an innocent's blood on Henry's hands would explain his early retirement, and his resistance to openly work on cases, since it would bring back that responsibility
== Yin is Yang's twin sister ==
First off, in the credits, "Mr. Yin" is a male actor, but due to the rules of [[Cast
** Status: {{spoiler|Jossed. She is his daughter.}}
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== Gus is the psychic one. ==
His "acute sense of smell" is a cover.
== Mr. Yang is both Shawn's and Mr Yin mother ==
For this Theory to work we have to assume that Shawn was adopted. Ms Yang was a brilliant but unstable genius with twins. Deemed unfit both her son and daughter were removed and the arresting officer Henry Spencer ended up adopting Shawn. His twin sister was retrived by Ms Yang who went on the run with him. In a twisted sense of Irony storywise she trained ''Mr Yins'' deductive and logistics skills to stay ahead of the law that would take her away from her mother .
She found her son again and took a picture with him but didn't retrive him. Instead starting the Gemini killings with her daughter to taunt the Police. Now running the End game in the new Season ''Mr Yin'' will begin to date Gus to get closer to her brother in a Dexter-like stand off.
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** Shawn's dad could have also been trying to raise him as a hunter, but not wanted to tell Shawn that monsters exist. He drilled him on survival skills, and got pretty extreme. It's true that Shawn has no real experience with guns, but his father could've decided that it wasn't worth trying to teach Shawn after a point, or that Shawn wouldn't be able to kill.
== Woody the coroner is Mr. Yin ==
Only because he's an all-of-a-sudden new recurring character, and in these kinds of plots the killer is always a "known" quantity.
* Or prehaps he gets killed by hir.
* Status: {{spoiler|Jossed.}}
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* "Draft us a couple cold ones and let's make a toast, to you falling head over heels for me." This is a clue to Juliet from Mr. Yin. Yes, it probably was referring to the trapdoor under her, but that doesn't rule out a double meaning. Also, how about Mr. Yin's last clue in "Mr. Yin Presents...", which starts out with "I'll drop by at half past four..." Declan first appears in the eight episode of a sixteen episode Season 5, which is halfway past the fourth season.
** Could be. The last scene in "Mr. Yin Presents" doesn't make sense, then. But then again, if it was my "sister" theory (like above), it would leave a few odd questions (like how Yin has a masculine build). Then again, wouldn't it make more sense for Juliet to break up with him and THEN have Declan try to kill both Shawn and Abigail? Then again, Yin did build the elaborate Hitchcock scenes, therefore, Yin has to have money.
*** If Declan is Yin then him dating Juliet wasn't out of attraction, it was all part of the game so the break up wouldn't particularly matter, unless Declan was planning on kidnapping Juliet on their trip. Imagine if you would, Declan and Juliet go off on a trip that is planned for a week, but suddenly Declan shows up at the Psych offices by himself, completely panicked, saying Juliet has been kidnapped and the only clue was a note "Dear Shawn, The Game has begun - Yin", and through the entire episode Yin himself is watching Shawn try to save Juliet while trying to hide his feelings so Declan would not find out about their feelings for each other. Sounds like a Yin/Yang style plot to me. - Ryuplaneswalker
**** This could still work! Juliet just derailed the whole thing, completely obliviously, by breaking it off before the trip.
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** OK, if Declan is Yin, the ending of "Mr. Yin Presents" just doesn't make sense, though.
****** How so? If Declan is Yin then "Declan" doesn't really exist persay and was all just a persona made up to infiltrate/screw with Team Psych.
****** Here's how: Yin is seen stroking a picture with what appears to be Yang and Shawn (both younger) in some sort of warehouse. The whole scene would make a bit more sense if the woman in the picture WAS Yin: Yang's identical twin. Unfortunately, the depiction of Yin with a muscular masculine build will be hard to write off as even [[Cast
******* Declan could just be Yang's younger brother, I don't recall anything about Yang having an identical twin.
******* That was one of my WMGs, about Yin being a twin to Yang. But younger brother...that's a new one.
******* Well, truth be told we know nothing of Yin, so anything is possible. The Photo was of Yang, and it was Yang monologuing during the last scene.
== Yin and Yang (the names, not the characters) an IRL reference to Shawn and Gus' relationship. ==
Pretty self explanatory; the whole Yin/Yang thing has been applied to Shawn and Gus several times in the show and by the creators. Shawn himself said to Gus "I am the Yin to your Yang." Coincidentally, that quote comes from the last episode before the whole Mr. Yin and Mr. Yang thing started.
* As it turns out, the reference may be more about the relationship between Shawn and {{spoiler|Henry}}.
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Sound familiar? The only one of that list that is arguable is aggressiveness and physical violence. Note that the diagnostic requirement mentions only ''three''. Out of the list, there's only ''one'' that Shawn hasn't really demonstrated. Additionally, Shawn's parenting seems like the sort of thing that would encourage the onset of this type of disorder, according to most research.
** No he has ADHD.
** Even if he didn't have ADHD, he has no history of Conduct Disorder.
*** Debatable, Henry states in multiple episodes that Shawn was a troublemaker as a child; and in one episode Shawn worries (in typical Shawn fashion) that Gus's family thinks Shawn was a bad influence on Gus.
== Shawn doesn't have a photographic memory ==
* bear with me on this Shawn forgets a lot of things so inside of having a photographic memory he has a very good memory.
** "Eidetic memory as observed in children is typified by the ability of an individual to study an image for approximately 30 seconds, and maintain a nearly perfect photographic memory of that image for a short time once it has been removed—indeed such eidetickers claim to "see" the image on the blank canvas as vividly and in as perfect detail as if it were still there. Much like any other memory, the intensity of the recall may be subject to several factors such as duration and frequency of exposure to the stimulus, conscious observation, relevance to the person, etc. This fact stands in contrast to the general misinterpretation of the term which assumes a constant and total recall of all events." Shawn forgetting events and things he's supposed to do doesn't mean he doesn't have an eidetic memory, just that he wasn't actively thinking about it when he needed to be. Him 'not remembering' things while solving a case is usually more just not seeing the relevance just then. Once he does, he recalls it perfectly.
== Shawn and Lassiter are half-brothers ==
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== Shawn is half-Q. ==
At some point, [[Star Trek:
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