'Psych' Recap: Season 5, Episode 3: "Not Even Close... Encounters"
It's all about alien abduction on Psych this week. When prominent lawyer Roy Kessler (Charles Martin Smith) declares his aide, Toby, has been snatched by little green men, only Shawn and Gus can crack the case. To do so, they need the help of their childhood friend and UFO expert, Dennis. Dennis, it turns out, has shed his nerddom in adulthood, and is now a jock. He is also Freddy Prinze Jr. in a charming guest spot.
But all is not what it seems. When not posturing in front of his gorgeous jock wife, Dennis is hiding out in his secret nerd lab he keeps hidden behind a wall in his closet. That's right... Dennis is literally a closet nerd. In the nerd lab, Dennis is able to hack into the Government's Secret Weather Computer Or Something and snatch a screenshot of the sky activity above Roy's house on the night of the supposed abduction. WHOA, what's that? Something flew overhead for sure.
Word of Shawn and Gus's case gets out and they get their picture in the paper, prompting Shawn to utter the episode's funniest line - "Oh my God, I look like K.D. Lang." Back at the station, our heroes discover that Toby is just fine and in police custody. It seems that Kessler is on anxiety meds and is prone to making wild claims when he misses a dose. Shawn posits that Toby was tampering with Kessler's meds in hopes that he'd inherit all of Kessler's cases and become a major player at the firm. However, Toby refutes this by insisting that Kessler was telling the truth.
Not long after, Toby falls to his death, having suspiciously wired half a million dollars to charity. Suicide? Shawn doesn't think so. The coroner's report reveals a flash drive in Toby's stomach. On the flash drive are files from a case Kessler was working on concerning the Budding Textiles chemical spill, which Kessler thinks was no accident. Shawn and Gus travel to the small town where the spill occurred - now owned by Budding Textiles - and discover a truck outfitted with a machine that checks for oil in the ground. All of a sudden - lights in the sky. It turns out to be Budding himself in a souped-up helicopter equipped with tons of lights and an EMP device. There's your UFO, gentlemen.
Budding and his goons grab hold of our heroes and take them to... a warehouse somewhere. It doesn't matter. Shawn cracks the case, revealing that Budding paid Toby to set up Kessler, but Toby had a last minute change of heart before the goons offed him. It looks like it's curtains for our heroes, but luckily Dennis shows up with nun-chucks. Saved! Later, while chilling in Dennis's nerd lab, everyone gets busted by Dennis's wife. But it turns out she's a closet nerd, too! Yay! I love happy endings.
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