65 Million Years Off By Steve Franks

"Psych" Created by Steve Franks 1987 CLASSROOM A child is walking around with a gigantic dinosaur diaroma on his skull

GIRL 1 Who is that? GIRL 2 What is that? GIRL 3 Ooh cool! LITTLE GUS (wearing the dinosaur head) Please don’t touch it. Excuse me. Little Gus walks through a hallway with a sign that says "Welcome to Stone Age Day: Kenneth J. Dusman Elementary". Little Gus walks through the classroom and is found by Little Shawn. LITTLE SHAWN Gus,Gus,Gus! LITTLE GUS Where’s your project, Shawn? Did you even do it? LITTLE SHAWN My project? Of course I did.

LITTLE GUS Uh-huh, when? LITTLE SHAWN When? Last night. It’s right here. (HOLDS UP A DINOSAUR TAPED TO A CAR) LITTLE GUS This head is to exact scale. It too me three months to make it. Yours took five minutes. LITTLE SHAWN No, Gus, you’re totally wrong. It took me a whole hour. Check this out. (PLACES DINOSAUR AND CONTROLS IT BY REMOTE CONTROL. TEACHER GIVES A SHAWN A THUMBS UP AS ALL THE CHILDREN EXCLAIM EXCITEDLY)

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LITTLE GUS I hate you, Shawn.

PRESENT DAY: INTERROGATION ROOM AT SBPD

Lassiter is staring down a criminal. Criminal is staring back. LASSITER Lompoc.

LOMPOC Okay, I did it. Lassiter turns to the mirror and gives a nod. Officers on the other side of the window cheer.

JULIET Seven in a row! BUZZ MCNAB Eight. The gas station guy confessed last week.

SBPD OFFICES LASSITER Oh, I wouldn’t call myself a hero. I’m just doing my job, just like all of you. Hey that’s enough goofing off. Let’s get back to work, huh? You, too.

Buzz finishes writing something on a white board. The total of arrests. BUZZ MCNAB Ladies and gentlemen, Detective Lassiter. LASSITER Oh, stop it. Camera pans moves through the crowd to show Shawn leaning against the wall, looking confused. SHAWN Jules.

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JULIET Shawn. SHAWN Is there a problem?

JULIET With what? SHAWN With you? With me? With the Chief? She hasn’t call in a month. Is she still mad about me requisitioning the Segway? JULIET You did that?

SHAWN No. JULIET Well, I don’t really have time right now, but the short answer is, we just haven’t really needed any outside help. Juliet starts walking through the station, Shawn starts to follow.

SHAWN Well, what’s the long answer? I mean throw a "but" in there, and add something about a dream, where you and I get thrown out of a mattress showroom. JULIET Detective Lassiter is literally on fire.

SHAWN What kind of fire are we talking about? Michael-Jackson-in-the-Pepsi commerical fire? Or misusing-the-word-"literally" fire?

JULIET He’s-solved-eight-cases-in-a-row fire.

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BUZZ MCNAB Nine. I just remembered the DeShano case. (TO SHAWN)Oh, hey, Shawn. What’s new? You still doing the psychic thing?

SHAWN Is this some sort of weird dream? JULIET On the last two cases, the first suspect Lassiter questioned confessed. It’s really magnificent. SHAWN We are talking about Carlton Lassiter, right? Yea high? (GESTURES TO A HEIGHT ABOVE HIS HEAD) Bats ninth for the deparment softball team? JULIET Tenth. We play with a rover.

Lassiter appears at Juliet’s desk. LASSITER Spencer, long time, no see. Or is that "no need"?

SHAWN I can’t believe this. LASSITER Oh, believe it. It’s real.

Buzz then comes to the desk and speaks to Lassiter. BUZZ MCNAB They’ve done a preliminary on the body down at the marina, Detective. They’re ready for you at the scene. LASSITER Well, I would love to stay and chat, but duty does call. (LOOKS TO SHAWN WHO LOOKS PUT OUT) Oh, Spencer, you look so sad. Come on, we’ll show you how real cops do it. Lassiter walks away and Juliet starts to follow, but turns to Shawn before leaving.

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JULET No comeback? Shawn, that’s slightly embarrassing.

SHAWN Where did you that toot...Suit...The toliet store?

MARINA MORNING/AFTERNOON Shawn joins Lassiter, Chief Vick and Juliet at the crime scene. The crime scene is at the marina, underneath the dock. The forencics are just finishing up while Vick, Lassiter, Juliet discuss the case behind the crime scene tape. CHIEF VICK Good luck with this one, Detective. There’s no identification.

Shawn arrives and has a Shawn vision. Shawn vision: the shoes on dead guy. CHIEF VICK Nobody’s been reported missing fitting this description. Oh, Mr. Spencer. Surprised you didn’t take the Segway. SHAWN (TO JULIET SOFTLY) She did know about that.

CHIEF VICK O’Hara just told me. SHAWN (TO JULIET) Traitor. CHIEF VICK (TO SHAWN) I’ll deal with you later.

Chief Vick, Lassiter and Juliet cross under the crime scene tape while Gus arrives at the crime scene. GUS So, what’s this new case we got?

Shawn looking over case notes. Shawn Vision: Words in notes light up, "Bite", "Radius", and "34 Inches".

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SHAWN Slight error in grammar there, buddy.

GUS Which part? SHAWN Got.

GUS I came all the way down from the office, Shawn. SHAWN Gus, don’t be a giant snapping turtle. We’ll have a case in five minutes. Lassiter at the crime scene realizes he doesn’t have the notes. Goes back over to Shawn and grabs them. Shawn motions to Gus and both go under the crime scene tape to follow Lassiter. CHIEF VICK Nobody can explain these puncture wounds. We can’t rule out animal attack. Shawn vision: Big bites on dead body. LASSITER No.No, there’s nothing in these waters with a bite radius that large. No, this maybe a boating accident, the wounds caused by some machinery. I can’t really be sure at this juncture.

SHAWN Completely stumped. Hmm. CHIEF VICK You’re getting something, Mr. Spencer? SHAWN (Holds his finger up) Yes. (Takes Lassiter’s notepad) Yes, yes I am. Shawn starts to draw on the notepad while Lassiter tries to figure out the cause of death before Shawn doodles it out.

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LASSITER No,no,no,no, no. Hold on, okay. I’ve got it. The wound no the head was caused by the edge of a boat. When he feel in the water, unconscious, and the... Shawn still sketches agressively. LASSITER The wounds on the back, they were caused by a large industrial crab trap. Or a whale. Definitely could have been a whale. I mean, lost from his pod, seperated, migrating north or south, and sees our man dead already, floating up above the surface. Thinks it’s a seal and then...Whale. GUS (To Juliet) A whale?

JULIET What’s your guy got? GUS Watch and learn, Jules. Watch and learn. Lassiter tries to get Chief Vick on his side. Shawn contiues to sketch.

LASSITER Or... CHIEF VICK Detective, if you don’t mind, I’d like to see what Mr. Spencer has to offer. SHAWN All right, look. This is gonna be a little rough, okay? I don’t have time for shading, there’s no forced perspective. If I’d really had my druthers, I would have done it in charcoal.(To Gus) You know what I’m talking about. (To All) Look, what I’m trying to say is, I’m not the artist I’d like to be...

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CHIEF VICK You know what? Mr. Spencer, enough. Can you or can you not tell us who’s responsible for this man’s death? SHAWN If I can present you with a semi-accurate sketch of the culprit, is that enough to get us on this case? CHIEF VICK Yes.

SHAWN All right. The puncture wounds, they’re the key, giving me the impression that this crime could have only been committed by this guy. (points to his picture) This guy here. Shawn’s picture is revealed to be a dinosaur. Juiet, Gus and Cheif Vick look disappointed. Lassiter on the other hand, is thrilled. He takes the clipboard back from Shawn.

LASSITER Excuse me. SHAWN What?

The Chief follows Lassiter as he leaves. SHAWN Chief, where you off to? So, what, that’s a no? Gus? This is not a boating accident.

PSYCH OFFICE Gus and Shawn are just returning from the crime scene. Gus is still annoyed at Shawn for believing a dinosaur caused the murder. SHAWN You’re mad.

GUS No, I’m not mad. I’m happy. I’m thrilled. I love looking like an idiot.

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SHAWN Well, that explains your shoes.

GUS You almost closed down our agency with that little act of yours, Shawn. SHAWN Me? You’re the one spending all your extra time at your little side project. GUS You mean my real job? Soon to be my only job? SHAWN Gus, you’re panicking. Don’t panic. Those bite marks are consistent with a Tyrannosaurus bite.

GUS You know that? SHAWN Yes, I know that. The hard way. (hands over a Polaroid to Gus) I was canned from the Wyoming Natural History Museum for that little shot.

On close inspection of the Polaroid, it appears to be Shawn sitting inside the skull of a Tyrannosaurus’ skull. SHAWN The bruises from the teeth didn’t go away for a year, but totally worth it. It was my best screensaver ever. Gus tosses the Polaroid back at Shawn and walks away. SHAWN Gus, please, connecting a dinosaur to this case is the least of our worries. Look, I can stash a toy dinosaur in the window of the killer. I can link him to a box of Dino-Bites or Fruity Pebbles. I can play Six Degrees of Dinosaur with you, right now. You’ve never been in a movie with Kevin Bacon or a Dilophosaurus, have you?

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GUS How about you play Six Degrees of Kiss My Ass? SHAWN First of all, that sounds like a totally disturbing game. What’s weird is that my guess on the jaw radius was actually spot on. It almost seems to make sense.

GUS So now you’re getting on board with your own joke theory? How are you gonna match your bite radius to the victim, Shawn? Drag the body to the Wyoming museum.

SHAWN Hmm. I can do you one better. GUS What?

SHAWN I need to borrow my Dad’s truck. You coming or not? (Hit by the frog a.k.a winky cutto) That’s clearly a no.

MORGUE Lassiter, Juliet and Chief Vick are in the Morgue, discussing with the Coroner the cause of death of the John Doe. CORONER The one thing we can be sure of is the cause of death was not drowning. Blunt force trauma to the head was sever enough to knock him unconscious. More than likely, he fell from some sort of platform after knocking himself on the head.

JULIET And this is how he ended up in the water? CORONER No, he landed on something hard. Dislocated a rib. He has bruises (MORE) (CONTINUED) CONTINUED: 11.

CORONER (cont’d) consistent with a six, seven or eight-foot fall. My guess is that he landed on something else and ultimately expired before tumbling into the water.

LASSITER You know, this might be a leap, but why don’t we check the offshore oil rigs? Juliet facing the doors, sees something walk past the doors.

LASSITER See if any of them are missing workers.

JULIET (still watching the doors) I’ll make some calls. KAREN Interesting theory, Detective

On closer inspection, the something appears to be the dinosaur head that Little Gus constructed in the flashback. LASSITER Thanks, Chief. This theory feels good. It just makes sense. The work boots, the odd configuration of the wounds. You know us, Ted, it’s worth a shot, right? We don’t go out on limbs to often at the SBPD...

The doors open to reveal Shawn wearing the dinosaur head. SHAWN Thank you, I just need to measure something. Oh, good, you’re all here. Get ready to be shocked. Can we get the sheet of the dead guy, please? (starts to walk toward the dead body, dinosaur jaw open wide) Confirming the bite radius.

As Shawn approaches the body, Chief Vick sticks her hand out to stop him.

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CHIEF VICK No, Mr. Spencer. SHAWN Whoa, whoa. Hey, hey, be careful. This isn’t mine.

CHIEF VICK Mr. Spencer, your antics have always been a little, let’s say, unorthodox. But let me be as frank as I can be with my assessment of your most recent behavior. Seek help. SHAWN Chief, sometimes you have to jump off a cliff. You have to close your eyes. You have to unhook you clip, chassis...(CHANGING PRONUNCIATION) Chassis? Juliet shakes her head to this pronunciation.

SHAWN Climbing thing. And you have to leap. Now, I ask you, Chief, will you leap with me?

CHIEF VICK Are you thinking about jumping off a cliff? SHAWN Maybe SHAWN closes his dinosaur head and leaves the morgue. JULIET watches him leave, still a little confused.

HENRY’S HOUSE Shawn knocks on the door and walks on through the house. SHAWN Yo. Dad? I brought the key back. Hello? Shawn walks into the kitchen where Henry is pacing and Gus is eating a cupcake.

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SHAWN Okay. This is creepy. Why is Gus here? HENRY What you think, Shawn? SHAWN He’s a hostage? DOUG DEVETTE Perhaps I can shed some light on that. A man walks out from the side of the kitchen SHAWN Two hostages? HENRY Doug Devette is a old colleague of mine from the force. The Chief ask him to drop by.

SHAWN Why? HENRY Doug is the department psychologist, Shawn. SHAWN What is this, some sort of intervention?

HENRY Yeah. Sort of. DOUG DEVETTE WE don’t like to use the term "intervention", Shawn. SHAWN (To Gus) Gus?

GUS Don’t look at me. I’m here for the cupcakes. SHAWN Dad, I’m not on drugs.

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DOUG DEVETTE Oh, nobody, thinks that Shawn. HENRY Well, I’m not completely sure about that, Doug.

DOUG DEVETTE We’re all just a little concerned that you might be stretching yourself a bit too thin.

HENRY Wasn’t my idea. But he’s right, Shawn. You’re acting like a nut job. Just because I take Gus’ giant dinosaur head down to a dead body does not make me a nut job. GUS What? (GETS UP TO LOOK OUT THE WINDOW TO SEE THE DINOSAUR HEAD IN HENRY’S TRUCK) You took my T-Rex? My mom gave it to you? SHAWN Gladly. She also gave me some pictures you can pay me to not show your next girlfriend.

GUS What pictures? SHAWN The ones that document your Terence Tent D’Arby phase. GUS Whatever, Shawn. You took Danny Dino to the police station.

SHAWN No. Gus, give me some credit. I took him to the morgue. Good news. Your specifications were spot on.

Gus shakes his head and sits back down. DOUG DEVETTE Your father tells me you have delusions of magical powers.

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SHAWN Delusions? Really? Doug, I’m employed as a psychic. I’ve solved eighteen cases this year. I have business cards and a personalized coffee mug that backs up the whole thing. I feel things about people. Shawn vision: Two different colored socks SHAWN You, for instance, are colorblind. That’s nothing to be ashamed of. Shawn vision: bitten fingernails. SHAWN You’re also really stressed about something. Shawn vision: Pepperdine University pamphlet in Doug’s things.

SHAWN (Raises hand to head) College. It can be very expensive, Doug. DOUG DEVETTE Oh, wow, that was good, Henry. HENRY Doug, do not be a stooge.

DOUG DEVETTE I’m not a stooge, but in this one case, he was right. Out of the corner of his eye, Shawn sees someone approaching the door.

SHAWN (hand to head) Knock at door. There’s a knock on the door as Cheif Vick and Lassiter come through the door. HENRY Karen, do you mind? We’re in the middel of an intervention here.

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CHIEF VICK We don’t have time for that. HENRY But you’re the one who asked for this!

CHIEF VICK And I thank you, Henry, but I’m afraid that this can’t wait. We just got a break in the case. We just found out the name of teh dead man. You wanna tell him who he is, Detective? LASSITER No.

CHIEF VICK His name was Christopher Franzen. He was a paleontologist. Shawn looks at them confused. He turns to Gus.

GUS A dinosaur hunter. SHAWN As expected. (Turns to Doug) Doug, pleasure was all mine. Shawn and Doug Devette shake hands. DOUG DEVETTE Oh, no, Shawn, mine.

SHAWN We should get together.

UNIVERSITY: OUTSIDE Shawn and Gus are walking toward the University where Christopher Franzen was a professor of the arhcaeology department.

GUS All, right, here’s what we know so far. A man, a paleontology professor, washes ashore with wounds specific to a dinosaur. I don’t think we can rule out the possibility of an island somewhere (MORE) (CONTINUED) CONTINUED: 17.

GUS (cont’d) in the Pacific where dinosaurs do exist. SHAWN And have an appetite for Jeff Goldblum. GUS I’m being serious, Shawn,

SHAWN Well, look who’s Mr. Onboard. And sounding like a whacked wombat. GUS Then what is it?

SHAWN I don’t know. It actually scares me that my wild dinosaur reach landed so close to the bull’s-eye. This guy was possibly killed by something dionsaur related, but it was probably a model or something form the archeology department. We’ll have to spend the beter part of the next 24 hours sifting through their entire collection of artifacts. And by we, I mean, mostly you.

UNIVERSITY ARCHEOLOGY DEPT. INSIDE

Shawn and Gus are looking at table full of small bones and fossils. SHAWN This is all there is?

STUDENT No. No, no,no, no. This just the big stuff. We got the trilobites in a shoe box, but the shelf is kind of high.

SHAWN Whoa,whoa,whoa,whoa. You’ve got Pinhead, Chatterbox, Surgeon and Stitch up there on a shelf?

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GUS Shawn, those are Cenobites.

SHAWN Huh, well what ar trilobites? GUS Fish fossils.

SHAWN Oh, Gus, for my sake, at least pretend like you don’t know this stuff off the top of your head. Do this move (raises hand to head) Tri...Trilo...

Gus hits Shawn SHAWN What? It’ll help you. I’m serious. (To Student) Look, Ethan, I can honestly say there were more historically significant items in the lost and found at the Taco John’s in Porterville. ETHAN Yeah. Yeah, it’s a little sad. Word is, the whole program is going under. GUS You sure about that? ETHAN Look, Professor Franzen, would never really give us a straight answer. In fact, most nights, he wasn’t around to give us any answers. He was a pretty crappy advisor. And when he did show up, he was late, tired, completely disheveled. All right? Nobody really trusted the guy. Look, do not ever take a class from him. SHAWN He’s dead. ETHAN Oh, yeah. Then, totally. Ethan leaves, leaving Shawn and Gus in the room.

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GUS Well, this sure was a dead end. SHAWN Yep. But at least we were the first ones to find the dead end.

Both go to the window. Lassiter and Juliet are seen walking into the building SHAWN Oh, come on. He really is on fire. Literally. Shawn and Gus leave.

FRANZEN’S HOUSE Shawn and Gus arrive at Franzen’s House to find the police already beat them there. GUS Look at this. The cops beat us to the dead guy’s house. SHAWN I don’t know how I feel about the police department being so proactive. GUS Feeling the heat? SHAWN What, you think I’m afraid of a little competition? GUS I know you’re afraid of competition. Why else would you have purposefully broken the Battlezone at Pizza Royale? SHAWN Dude, you beat me once and only because you first used the eyepiece and then you revealed you had pinkeye. GUS Ah.

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Shawn vision: Shawn notices a shed in the back with a high security lock. SHAWN Let’s venture off the beaten path.

Shawn and Gus both go to the shed. Shawn stops in front of it. GUS What’s wrong?

SHAWN I’m just trying to figure out what to do here, since, as a rule, we don’t break and enter.

GUS What do you mean, we don’t break and enter? The 2400 Motel, the Hotel de la Cruz, the Spellmaster’s box.

SHAWN Yeah, but we really shouldn’t pick this lock. GUS You know I wanna pick that lock.

SHAWN Yes, yes I do. GUS Watch out. Gus positions himself in front of the lock and starts to crack the code. SHAWN What are you, the lock whisperer? Gus ignores him and produces high pitched sounds while cracking the lock. SHAWN Channeling Michael Jackson? The lock clicked. GUS Ssh. Who heard the second click?

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SHAWN I heard the second click. Gus backs away and admires his work. SHAWN Really? Shawn goes to open the door. It proves to hard for him to open. Gus urges him on.

GUS Come on! SHAWN GETS IT OPEN, GUS GOES IN TO FOLLOW. GUS GOES TO CLOSE THE DOOR AND STRUGGLES CLOSING. EVENTUALLY HE CLOSES AND GOES INSIDE THE SHED.

SHED INSIDE Shawn and Gus are inside the shed. It’s very dark and cluttered.

SHAWN I can’t see anything. GUS Oh, I got it. I got it.

Gus pulls out a tiny flashlight and clicks it on. He starts to use it to look around. He ends up flashing it into Shawn’s eyes. SHAWN (Groans) Gus, that thing is brighter than the sun. I think you just gave me glaucoma. GUS You can’t give someone glaucoma. Gus uses his flashlight again to find the light switch. He turns on the light to the shed.

SHAWN Thank you. GUS Wow, this is better than the entire university department.

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SHAWN Sure is. GUS And his digging equipment is some heavy-duty stuff. Looks like some shovels are missing. Gus looks at a row of shovels where there is a vacant spot. He then looks to a rows of portable light kits where there is also a vacant spot.

GUS Part of a portable light kit. A lot of brushes. As Gus continues to talk, Shawn picks up a photo of the Franzen of the table. GUS And fine finishing equipment, which I would assume he was only using in the lab.

Shawn then picks up a sheet of paper with rows of x’s and o’s. SHAWN Dude, I got something.

GUS What? SHAWN He was the worst tic-tac-toe player in the history of the world. GUS I’m investigating and you’re analyzing his doodles?

SHAWN Doodles are the windows to the soul, Gus. Maybe that’s the epiglottis. Where’s the uvula?

Gus goes to the window and sees Lassiter and Juliet get out of Lassiter’s car. GUS Lassiter’s here.

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SHAWN That guy’s, like, five minutes behind us, everywhere we go. (places the doodles back into the crate) Don’t sleep in the nude tonight. SHAWN TURNS OFF THE LIGHTS AND HE AND GUS EXIT THE SHED.

SHED OUTSIDE Lassiter and Juliet approach the shed. Lassiter goes to open it, but he can’t. Shawn and Gus appear from the side.

LASSITER Spencer, enjoying your time riding my behind? SHAWN (To Gus) Definitely not in the nude LASSITER This lock is too high-tech for a backyard shed. We got to find somebody to crack the code.

SHAWN There’s already someone here who can do that.

Gus steps forward, but Shawn holds him back. SHAWN That person is me. LASSITER Well, make yourself useful. Shawn moves in front of the lock, rubbing his hands to begin. SHAWN (To Lassiter) I need you to step back, please. Give me some room to operate. Lassiter and Juliet step back to where Gus is standing.

SHAWN Further please. Lassiter and Juliet move back again.

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SHAWN Furhter. Jules, could you help me out here? Just get him back onto the cobblestone. That’s good. That’s good.

Lassiter and Juliet step onto the cobblestone. SHAWN Thank you. (clears his throat) I am sensing the first two digits. (softly to Gus) What is it, 31? Gus doesn’t answer and makes an annoyed sound with his lips. SHAWN Gus, help me out here. Come on, buddy. GUS Pfft! SHAWN You can have my Tony Gwynn rookie. GUS Twenty-five. SHAWN (announces to Lassiter and Juliet) Twenty-five.( to Gus) Eight? GUS Three.

SHAWN (To Lassiter and Juliet) Three. (To Gus) Four?

GUS Two. SHAWN (To Lassiter and Juliet) And two.

Lassiter and Juliet step forward. GUS There’s one more.

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SHAWN Wait. There’s one more. Lassiter and Juliet step back. GUS Nine. Shawn clicks in the final number and goes to open the door. Once again, he has difficult doing so. Lassiter and Juliet come forward.

JULIET That’s amazing. LASSITER I’ll give you that one.

FIRST JULIET ENTERS, THEN LASSITER. SHAWN’S ABOUT TO ENTER, BUT GUS PUSHES HIM TO THE WALL AND ENTERS INSTEAD.

SHED INSIDE

The shed is the same as the first time Gus and Shawn entered. Very dark and very cluttered. Lassiter and Juliet are in the front and Shawn and Gus remain in the back. LASSITER I can’t see a thing in here GUS Oh, I got it. SHAWN Wait, I’m sensing a light switch. Shawn turns the light on. Lassiter and Juliet look around while Gus shines his flashlight into Shawn’s eyes. LASSITER Tools are missing. SHAWN Good work, Detective

JULIET He had a blun t force trauma. That could be supplied by one of these missing items.

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LASSITER Maybe this rock hammer or this medium shovel? JULIET But where would they be? LASSITER In the bed of his pickup. It wasn’t parked out front or at the university. We find that truck, we find the murder weapon. Let’s go, O’Hara, burning daylight. (To Shawn and Gus) Excuse us. Lassiter and Juliet exit the shed. Shawn and Gus are left alone.

SHAWN Man, you missed the truck? GUS I’m not the psychic.

Shawn vision: Cartons of "OJAI: ROADSIDE FRUITS" GUS What?

SHAWN Why would someone frequent a fruit stand that’s over 50 miles away? GUS They like pomegrante? SHANW AND GUS EXIT THE SHED.

OJAI ROADSIDE FRUIT STAND

Shawn and Gus go to the roadside fruit stand and talk to the vendor to see if he knows Franzen. The fruit seller is looking at the picuter of Franzen that Shawn found in the shed.

VENDOR Yeah, I know him. He was my best customer. (hands the photo back to Shawn) Don’t know his name. But he comes by every night before closing.

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GUS Did you ever see which way he went? VENDOR Yeah. Always up the hill. That’s all I’d see. Although, every once in a while, I see him come back down the hill, early in the morning. SHAWN Hmm...well, thank you very much. Gus, you got anything else? GUS Yes. Is that peach pie in the back?

VENDOR Yeah. SHAWN AND GUS DRIVE TO WHERE THE VENDOR SAID FRANZEN WENT. THEY PASS A SIGN THAT SAYS "DEACON WALKER FARMS, NO TRESPASSING"

DEACON WALKER FARMS EXTERIOR Shawn and Gus drive to the edge of the road where it is blocked off by a gate. Past the gate is Deacon Walker Farms.

GUS Another dead-end. Let’s turn around. Shawn vision: The Gate isn’t hooked to its hinged. It had been moved. SHAWN Woah. Hold on a second. Both get out of the car to inspect the gate.

SHAWN This looks like a place someone’s been sneaking into.

SHAWN GOES TO OPEN THE GATE, BUT HAS DIFFICULT. GUS HELPS OUT AND THEY BOTH THOUGH WITH STILL DIFFICULTY,OPEN IT UP. 28.

DEACON WALKER FARMS INTERIOR Shawn and Gus walk on the area of land. There appears to hundreds of holes dugs and covered in the area. SHAWN What is this? GUS Looks like some kind of farm land or grazing plain. SHAWN (pointing at all the holes) Oh, look at that. This is like that movie, the one with Sigourney Weaver. GUS Aliens?

SHAWN No. GUS Alien?

SHAWN No. GUS Alien: Resurrection.

SHAWN Gus, the one with the holes and Shia LaBeouf. GUS They had holes in Shia LaBeouf? SHAWN The holes are in the ground, dude. (makes a circle shape) Like that. And John Voight was walking aound all crazy. GUS Oh, Anaconda. SHAWN Man, never mind. Shawn walks away, Gus still tries to think of the movie.

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GUS Gorillas in the Mist? Death and the Maiden? SHAWN No. GUS Half Moon Street? SHAWN Just let it go. They start walking around the field. SHAWN I’ll be damned.

Gun fire is sounded, both Shawn and Gus jump. GUS What? Somebody’s shooting at us!

Gun fire continues as Gus and Shawn run away, screaming in high pitches. SHAWN (while running) Oh, God. They’re shooting at us!

GUS (running) We’re gonna die! SHAWN (running) For sure! Rum, Gus! Gus, run like the wind! Gus and Shawn continue to run, but Gus trips.

SHAWN Get up! BOTH RUN BACK TO THE GATE

DEACON WALKER FARMS EXTERIOR Shawn and Gus run to escape the gunshots. They run to open the gate.

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GUS Okay. Hold the door. Gus gets out first and goes to back to the Echo. GUS Come on, get in the car! Hurry up, Shawn! Shawn hops in the car.

SHAWN Start it! Start it! Go! Go! Gus backs out of the driveway with his head low behind the seats, not even looking at the road.

SHAWN Dude! Look at the road when you’re driving! GUS I’m staying down for safety.

SHAWN He was shooting directy into the air, Gus. GUS Bullets go up, they have to come down! SHAWN Do you know what the trajectory would have to be for that to happen? GUS Don’t you dare argue physics with me. Not while in the process of almost being killed. On their way driving out, Gus notices a sign. Signs says, "Trespassers will be shot. Private Property" GUS Didn’t you see the "Trespassers will be shot" sign? SHAWN (Looks at sign) Oh, yeah, it totally said that. My bad. 31.

SBPD INTERIOR: CHIEF VICK’S OFFICE Shawn and Gus have return to inform Chief Vick about their findings. CHIEF VICK Mr. Spencer, if you have any substantial information concerning the Christopher Franzen case, please get on with it.

Shawn starts to inmitate a rooster with the whole clucking and arms to his chest like wings. SHAWN I’ve got something. It’s a cluck.

CHIEF VICK A cluck? Shawn clucks again and stops. SHAWN Actually, there’s two. CHIEF VICK Two clucks? SHAWN A cluck, cluck here. He moves to the other side of the room while still being a rooster, over to where Gus is standing. SHAWN A cluck, cluck there. He steps backward toward the door. SHAWN Here a cluck, there a... CHIEF VICK Cluck? SHAWN Everywhere a... (clucking) CHIEF VICK Let me guess. You have a name, Macdonald, perhaps?

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SHAWN No. No, it’s a farm. With a farmer. An old farmer. Farmer "Shootpants." That’s a nickname. I don’t think that’s his actual handle.

Lassiter opens the Chief’s doors. Juliet follows. LASSITER I got it!

JULIET Lassiter found the paleontologist’s truck. LASSITER You helped.

JULIET I did help. It was your hunch. LASSITER It was down at the Old Marina. I just had a feeling. I also found the prints of a certain grad studen named Ethan Robinson, along with a stack of letters from said grad student demanding the professor stop ruining his life.

JULIET We’re sending a car over to pick him up.

Behind Juliet and Lassiter, McNab and other officers are in the background with the whiteboard with all of Lassiter’s wins, waiting to congratulate him another closed case. LASSITER (Looks at Shawn who is sad looking) Oh, I’m sorry. Am I interrupting your trance? SHAWN I don’t buy it.

LASSITER Which part? The damning evidence or the murder weapon?

(CONTINUED) CONTINUED: 33.

SHAWN There’s more going on in this guy’s life. Chief, I’m sensing...(imitates someone shoveling) digging.

LASSITER Yeah, the archeology department was going under. He was trying to make a big discovery, put them on the map, get more funding.

SHAWN The farm, I can see the name of the farm. It’s Wa... Wal... LASSITER Walker Farms. Yeah, we got that lead off the phone records yesterday. Yesterday. Apparently our victim made a series of phone calls to the farmer, trying to buy some of his land, but it wasn’t for sale. JULIET The farmer was forthcoming, cooperative...

LASSITER Definitely not a suspect. (To Shawn) Anything else? Shawn does not answer.

CHIEF VICK I have to say, you have been very thorough. LASSITER We’re just doing what any good cops would do. Lassiter and Juliet fistbump. Shawn is horrified.

HENRY’S HOUSE INTERIOR Henry is relaxing in his house, reading a magazine. Shawn and Gus start walking through the house. It looks like they are on a mission to get something.

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HENRY Shawn, what are you doing? Shawn and Gus stop in their tracks. GUS Yeah, what are we doing, Shawn? SHAWN I need to borrow some tools.

HENRY What kind of tools? SHAWN Digging tools. A little excavation project we’ve got going on.

HENRY Are you still on that dinosaur thing? GUS We’re still on that dinosaur thing? SHAWN What, is there an echo in here? Yes, we’re still on the dinosaur thing. We stepped foot on the far end of this guy Walker’s farm in Ojai, and starts blasting us with Buckshot. We know our dead guy was there every night leading up to his death, digging around the periphery of this property.

HENRY No, Shawn. Wait. I don’t want you borrowing my tools.

SHAWN Oh, Gus will leave his class ring as collateral. GUS No, I won’t.

SHAWN Yes, you will. GUS No, I won’t.

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SHAWN Sure, you will. GUS No, I won’t.

HENRY I can’t support this. SHAWN Well, there’s a shocker, you not being supportive. HENRY Would shut up and listen? I’m saying I can’t support you going somewhere where you could get shot.

SHAWN What are you... Are you worried about me? HENRY Shawn, I’ve been worried about you since you were three years old and started eating your own toenails. SHAWN Well, Dad, I’ll be fine. Okay? We’re not gonna go anywhere near the house. And if it’ll make you feel any better, I will stand behind Gus the entire time.

GUS No, you won’t. SHAWN Yes, I will.

GUS No, you won’t. SHAWN Oh, yes, I will.

GUS You wanna bet? HENRY I don’t like it. IT doesn’t feel right.I know feelings.

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SHAWN Pardon me? Did you just say, "Iknow feelings"? Shawn pats his dad’s back and walks away.

DEACON WALKER FARMS INTERIOR Shawn and Gus have returned to the farm with digging gear in tow.

GUS Perfect. This will be easy. SHAWN No, there’s a pattern here. Those guys dig with a reason. GUS How do you know that?

SHAWN Because I worked at the museum for almost an entire weekend before I got canned. Flashback: Tic-tac-toe board of Franzens.

SHAWN (flashback) He was the worst tic-tac-toe player in the history of the world. (present) Wait a second. Those weren’t tic-tac-toe boards. Those were all the places he dug. GUS There were, like, twenty-five X’s. No way he scored that often.

SHAWN The X’s were misses. In this case, O marks the spot. Shawn Vision: Tic-tac-toe boards are overlaid with the all the holes. The one O lays on one specific hole. SHAWN And that’s the O.

Shawn and Gus walk up to the hole. Shawn notices something about the tracks.

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SHAWN This is the only hole filled by a bulldozer. GUS No self-respecting paleontologist would use a bulldozer. SHAWN Why do you know that?

GUS Because, Shawn, if you use... SHAWN Gus, I don’t actually wanna know.

GUS Then don’t ask. SHAWN Here. This shouldn’t take long. Grab a shovel.

Gus and Shawn each grab a shovel and start to dig. GUS And keep an eye out for that farmer.

Time has passed and Gus has dug a very deep hole. Shawn is nowhere to be seen. GUS How you doing on your side?

SHAWN Good! Solid! Holding up. Shawn is lying outside the hole. Gus jumps out of the hole to stare at him. GUS Shawn! SHAWN What? I’m keeping watch. That’s how the other guy died. What? You’re not concerned? Gus throws a shovel at Shawn.

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SHAWN All right. I get it. It’s my turn.

INSIDE THE HOLE

Shawn and Gus have dug a very deep hole now. They are both tired and have been dugging for awhile. GUS This is the end of the loose dirt. Be careful. Shawn starts to groan, complain about being tired. Gus is using a brush to get rid of the loose dirt. GUS This is weird. SHAWN What? That there’s rocks in the ground?

GUS These aren’t rocks. These are fossils. But they’ve been processed, finished off. Residue. Rocks chipped away. Stuff you wuld normally do in a lab.

SHAWN Franzen found something. Shawn and Gus brush away the dirt.

GUS Why wouldn’t he just take it out and do the work in the lab where it should be done? Unless...

SHAWN Unless it was too big to move. Dude I’m gonna get the leaf blower. GUS You brought a leaf blower? 39.

DEACON WALKER FARMS INTERIOR Shawn gets the leaf blower and Gus starts it. Shawn starts to blow away the dust.

INSIDE THE HOLE The dust that is blown away reveals a dinosaur skull. Shawn and Gus jump back into the hole. Their faces are dirty with dust. SHAWN You got to be kidding me.

GUS I just discovered a dinosaur.

PSYCH OFFICE INTERIOR

Tools are strewn on the floor. Gus and Shawn are lying down, panting, still dirty from their dig. GUS Filling that hole was the worst idea ever.

SHAWN Huh. It had to be done, Gus. We have to save it for when we unmask Franzen’s killer.

GUS I still don’t get it. SHAWN He was on the trail of a...Of a fossil graveyard. It led him right to Deacon Farms, the farmer wouldn’t let him dig on the land, so he takes matters into his own hands after hours.

GUS Why would wouldn’t the farmer let him dig? SHAWN Maybe he didn’t want his farm disturbed. Gus gets up while thinking still.

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GUS A dig like that is worth millions to a landowner. And the fossils I discovered weren’t even on crop land.

SHAWN You discovered? GUS Don’t try to take away my dinosaur discovery, Shawn. SHAWN I wouldn’t dream of it. I’m sorry, it was all you. I’m pretty proud of you.

GUS Don’t ou think once they unearth that thing, there would be a swarm of people crashing in from all over the world?

SHAWN Why didn’t he just lease the land? GUS I don’t get it

SHAWN (getting up) I’ve got an idea. GUS What? SHAWN Let’s ask him.

GUS What? We’re pretty sure we just found a cold-blooded murderer, and you wanna go to his house and ask him about it?

SHAWN We can ask nicely. GUS No.

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SHAWN All right, all right. We come up with a cover story. We’re vacuum salesmen. No. Traveling gypsies. No, no, no. We’ll do Of Mice and Men. I’m Lennie. GUS No. SHAWN (Child-like voice) George, you said that I could take care of thoe rabbits, George. GUS Shawn...

SHAWN And later on you’re going to cook those beans. GUS Shawn! SHAWN Beans make me go...

OJAI ROADSIDE FARM STAND GUS No Lennie.

SHAWN Gus, you know how long I’ve been waiting to pull out my Lennie? GUS No, Shawn. We do the National Paleontology Society thing, as agreed. And we keep it very, very simple. SHAWN It’s not as much fun as whipping out my Lennie. GUS And why are we stopping here?

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SHAWN Have you tried these peaches? Shawn and Gus approach the stand. The Vendor pops up from behind his stand.

VENDOR You’re back? SHAWN Yes, sir we are. We’re addicted to your citrus. GUS Peaches aren’t citrus, Shawn. They’re stone fruit.

SHAWN It’s the same thing. GUS No, not the same thing. They have pit, peaches, cherries, plums and apricots. SHAWN I can’t do this with you right now. (To Vendor) Does your fruit come from Walker Farms?

VENDOR Oh, no. We grow on our own little parcel of land. Deacon Walker Farms used to be a supplier of ours years ago, but they don’t grow nearly as much as they used to. SHAWN Thank you so much for your information. If you have a moment, my friend and I would like to buy every peach on that truck. GUS Including the one you’re eating.

DEACON WALKER FARM HOUSE EXTERIOR Shawn and Gus argue as the approach the house belonging to Deacon Walker.

(CONTINUED) CONTINUED: 43.

SHAWN You’re sure you don’t want to do Of Mice and Men? GUS You so much as slur one word, I’ll give you an Indian burn so hot, your socks will catch fire. SHAWN Indian Burn? Haven’t been threatened with that this millennium. GUS Take your shot if your ulna feels safe.

SHAWN I don’t think the ulna is in the forearm. GUS Trust me, it is. SHAWN How can you Indian burn a bone? GUS Stop analyzing my threat. SHAWN Get it right.

GUS I got it right. Shawn knocks on the door. The door opens to reveal an older man with white hair and pot belly in suspenders.

SHAWN Deacon Walker? SULLIVAN WALKER Sullivan Walker.

SHAWN Is Deacon Walker home? SULLIVAN WALKER There is no Deacon Walker.

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SHAWN That’s so confusing. I got nothing, Gus? GUS Then why name the farm Deacon Walker Farms? SULLIVAN WALKER It used to be called Deacon Walker. Roger Deacon was my partner. He’s not anymore. GUS Oh. SHAWN That cleans it up nicely. May we come in? SULLIVAN WALKER No. What do you want?

GUS We’re from the National Paleontological Society... SULLIVAN WALKER Not interested.

Door Slams. SHAWN Clearly, he’s not interested.

Shawn knocks again. Door opens. SHAWN We would like to make a very sizable offer on a very small portion of your... Door Slams. Shawn shrugs and knocks again. Door opens. Shawn has his face pressed against the screen of the door. SHAWN (CHILD-LIKE VOICE) Hello, my name is Lennie. I like to... Door slams. Gus looks at Shawn annoyed for doing the Lennie impersonation.

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SHAWN You think he’d open up if we knocked again? Gus storms off. Shawn follows back to the car.

GUS I’m glad it only took us an hour to get up here. SHAWN Not like I wasted the whole day. Shawn looks around and spots piles of dirt by Walker’s house. SHAWN Franzen dug up here, too? Shawn and Gus go up to investigate the piles of dirt. GUS No, he didn’t. These are all new and dug with a bulldozer. A real paleontologist... SHAWN Would never use such an indelicate tool, I got it.

GUS So, our farmer’s been digging, too? SHAWN Right, but if the goldmine’s out there, why is he digging over here? Walking back to the car, Shawn checks his phone. SHAWN It’s my Dad. Think he wants his leaf blower back? Shawn answers the phone. Henry is down at the pier. HENRY Shawn? Shawn, you’re not anywhere near that farmhouse, are you? SHAWN Dad, how dare you? Of course not.

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HENRY Good. Stay away, Shawn. I know I remember that farm. Deacon Walker Farm. I was up there about 20 years ago. A girl reported that her boyfriend went missing. Roger Deacon. He was a partner in the farm. He was never found, Shawn. SHAWN Never found?

HENRY That’s right, the farmer claimed he went back to England or some nonsense. The point is, we never found out where he went.

SHAWN I think I might know where he is. HENRY Where?

SHAWN I might be looking at him. HENRY Shawn?

SHAWN Got to go. Shawn hangs up. Henry is still on the other end.

HENRY Shawn? God.... SHAWN Dude.

GUS What? Shawn looks at Gus and Gus knows what they just found out.

SBPD INTERIOR: CHIEF VICK’S OFFICE LASSITER It now appears a lot of our evidence is circumstantial. I mean we’re checking the grad student’s (MORE) (CONTINUED) CONTINUED: 47.

LASSITER (cont’d) alibi, but I’m not as confident as I’d like to be. Juliet pops her head through the Chief’s door.

JULIET Shawn Spencer’s on line one. CHIEF VICK What does he want?

JULIET He wants us to go meet him in the Ojai Valley somewhere. CHIEF VICK We’re in the middle of the Franzen case. JULIET I told him that. He guarantees that in ten minutes, he can solve the case, nab the killer, close an additional unsolved murder and... (Pauses) CHIEF VICK And what?

JULIET Unearth a dinosaur. CHIEF VICK Well, I’m curious.

DEACON WALKER FARMS INTERIOR Sullivan Walker is showing Lassiter and Juliet his property. Shawn and Gus are nowhere in site. SULLIVAN WALKER This is as far as my property goes. That’s all there is. Well, I’ve answered all your questions, Detective. What more do you want from me? LASSITER I’m not entirely sure, sir.

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JULIET We just have one more person we need you to talk to. Shawn, Gus and Chief Vick appear from the other side of the field. Shawn is waving to Sullivan. SULLIVAN WALKER Lennie? CHIEF VICK Lennie? GUS Don’t even ask. SHAWN My name is not Lennie, Mr. Walker. Bit if it were, I would have been amazing. GUS No, you wouldn’t have.

SHAWN It would’ve have brought tears, Gus. JULIET Guys, the point? SHAWN The truth is I’m a psychic. I work for the SBPD. And the mystic vibrations of the sea have brought me here to solve not one, but two murders. SULLIVAN WALKER You’re a what?

SHAWN Christopher Franzen was a persistent annoyance, huh? He couldn’t help it. His department was going under.

As Shawn continues to talk, there is a flashback of Franzen working and finding the dinosaur. SHAWN He was desperate to find something significant to save his career. And (MORE) (CONTINUED) CONTINUED: 49.

SHAWN (cont’d) he knew that your property held the key. But you wouldn’t let him dig. You couldn’t let him dig.

Lassiter and Juliet start to position themselves behind Sullivan Walker. SHAWN So he did what any self-respecting paleontologist on the verge of a nervous breakdown would do. He dug anyway, secretly under the blanket of night, and into the early morning. Flashbacks go by of Franzen digging holes throughout the fields at night and in the morning. SHAWN And he dug, and he dug. And he found something. And that’s when you found him. You knew the magnitude of the find. Once word got out, you’d never be able to keep the rest of the world from digging here, too. And you couldn’t have the rest of the world digging here either, could you? HENRY Shawn! Henry jogs to meet up with Shawn and everyone else.

SHAWN Dad? What are you doing here? HENRY I was worried. (Pauses) About my tools. (Gestures to the shovels Shawn is holding) Chief Vick sighs. HENRY What? If I’d known that you’re finally smart enough to bring some back-up, I wouldn’t have come up here, Shawn.

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GUS Shawn, will you tell them why Walker wouldn’t let them dig? SHAWN Roger Deacon. HENRY Deacon is buried on the property! SHAWN Dad! Dad, you just blew the big reveal. HENRY You already mentioned his name, Shawn.

SHAWN They don’t know that Deacon was the partner Walker killed 20 years ago. SULLIVAN WALKER Hey, now, wait a minute here. LASSITER He what, now? SHAWN (now not caring, annoyed) Yeah, he killed Deacon and he buried him somewhere on the farm, and he can’t remember where. Isn’t that right? Farmer Shootypants?

SULLIVAN WALKER I don’t have to stand here and take this. LASSITER No, acutally, you do. (To Shawn) What does this have to do with Christopher Franzen? SHAWN He killed Franzen when he caught him standing above his dinosaur skully discovery, sending him flying right into the teeth of the dinosaur. But he couldn’t bury him here. No, no, no. He had called the farm, he had snooped around the farm, there was a trail to the (MORE) (CONTINUED) CONTINUED: 51.

SHAWN (cont’d) farm. No. He had to dump him somewhere where there would be no forensics. Like the ocean. Just let the saltwater clean the corpse and wash it ashore. And the murder scene? Well, he hoped on his handy bulldozer and filled the hole. JULIET I’m getting a bad feeling about your streak. LASSITER You, too, huh? SULLIVAN WALKER I think I need a lawyer. LASSITER I think you’re right. Put your hands behind your back.

SULLIVAN WALKER What? LASISTER You heard me.

HENRY You still haven’t answered the question why he dug all the holes around the house, Shawn.

SHAWN (whispering) Dad, that’s the finale. That’s why I don’t invite you to these things. He was looking for Deacon’s body, whatever.

CHIEF VICK Are we done here, Mr. Spencer? SHAWN No, we’re not done. For my final demonstration, I will now discover a dinosaur. GUS Shawn!

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SHAWN Actually, Gus will discover a dinosaur. Shawn hands over the shovel and Gus gets excited, but then freezes. GUS Wait a second. You just want me to dig this hole.

SHAWN I do not. GUS I’m not falling for that, Shawny boy. You dig it.

SHAWN Fine, I’ll take credit fo the discovery. GUS Oh, no, you won’t. Give me that shovel. They boht start to fight over the shovel. The others ignore them and walk away.

SHAWN Whoa, whoa, whoa. It’s too late. You blew it. And whoever discovers it get to name it. I’m naming him Zippy. Or Chompy. Zippy the Dinosaur discovered by... By psychic paleo-sleuth, Shawn Spencer. GUS Give me this shovel, Shawn!

SBPD OFFICES McNab is wiping the board clean of Lassiter’s records. Lasister and Juliet watch.

LASSITER Killed by a dinosaur. And he’s right. It was an actual dinosaur.

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JULIET Technically, it’s the fall that killed him. LASSITER Not helping. Oh, come on. Who am I kidding? I am doomed. I am never gonna suspect an extinct creature. How can I compete with that? JULIET You don’t have to compete. LASSITER O’Hara, I am physically incapable of poiting the finger at a dragon, or a leprechaun, or the Loch Ness monster. I quit. I’m gonna donate my badge to charity. JULIET It was a good run, Carlton. All streaks have to end. Lou Boudreau fielded the ball cleanly. You have to let it go. LASSITER Who the hell is Lou Boudreau?

JULIET He recorded the out that end DiMaggio’s hit streak. Don’t you watch baseball?

LASSITER Of course I watch baseball. I just don’t know meaningless facts from 75 years ago.

JULIET Sixty-six. LASSITER You disturb me.

JULIET Do you need a hug? LASSITER Oh, what do I look like?

Lassiter walks away. Juliet waits a few moments. Lassiter returns.

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LASSITER Yeah, I’ll take the hug. They both hug. JULIET Okay LASSITER Okay, that’s good.

HENRY’S HOUSE INTERIOR Shawn comes in the house with his motorcycle jacket and helmet. He sees his dad, Gus who is eating again and Doug Devette.

SHAWN Oh, come on, you guys. We’re still dong this intervention thing? HENRY Yes. Yesh, Shawn, we are. Son, you have no sense of responsiblity. And lately, you’ve been purposefully putting yourself in severe amount of unnecessary danger. On top of which, you are constantly belitting the good... DOUG DEVETTE Actually, Henry, I stretched the truth a bit. This isn’t about Shawn. This is about you.

HENRY What? DOUG DEVETTE Can we talk about your obsesssive need for control? HENRY You come into my house, Devette, you lie to me?

DOUG DEVETTE Let’s try to be rational. Did you really drive all the way up to Ojai just to crash Shawn’s crowning moment?

(CONTINUED) CONTINUED: 55.

HENRY Get out. DOUG DEVETTE Henry, we’re here foryou. At least listen...

HENRY Out, now. Get out! Out! Shawn and Gus start laughing as they and Doug Devette run to the door. SHAWN (running out) I’d like to start. When I was about seven...

Henry kicks them, closes the door and locks. Then he has a little freak out.