#lassie is actually a little meaner in the first half of s4 i think?

[incomingalbatross]

At the end of the a capella group episode, Lassie's parting dig is "You're not a cop. And you never will be." And that... that's below the belt, actually. Which I might not register if I hadn't spent this much time talking about how Lassie clearly registers Shawn as a Cop's Son and (in good moments) a comrade in arms. But I HAVE, and so I AM bothered by that, and think Shawn probably is too, even though Lassie is almost certainly lacking a lot of the specific context about why and how Shawn isn't a cop. He knows enough to know it's an unfair thing to say!

The plus side, however, is that Gus's almost-immediate response as Lassie walks off is to murmur "Thank God for that," and offer a fist bump. This is much sweeter when taking Shawn's history (which Gus does know, obviously) into account, and is also very effective as a reminder of the ways it is a good thing that Shawn is Shawn and Psych is Psych, irregularities and all.

#lassie is actually a little meaner in the first half of s4 i think? #not all of the time but sometimes #which is interesting because you also have things like high noon-ish where he absolutely relies on them as his friends #but eh he's allowed to show varying behaviors i guess #and next ep is shawn takes a shot in the dark! nice shooting detective! #so that's a good time #placeholder psych tag