It seems like any time Psych comes to the end of the season (or, in this case, the end of the fall portion of the season, like mid-terms), everything gets deadly serious. Well, slightly more serious than the show's normal, constantly mocking tone, anyway. Last season, things ended with a serial killer kidnapping Shawn's mom and putting a bomb in her lap. And now someone's kidnapped Shawn himself, while he and Gus are investigating a crime involving an ice cream truck. It may be because he makes a joke about the main suspect's name, and said suspect is played by the always-scary Michael Rooker, but c'mon -- the guy's name is "Hungwell." (Or "Longhorn"? The teaser clip seems to have it both ways.) To not point out that it's a good porn name would have been nearly impossible for Shawn. Anyway, he ends up in somebody's trunk, and accidentally calls a girl he went on one date with and never called again for help. That goes about as well as you'd expect. He may be in that trunk until next season.

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