Episode 1: Pilot
Flashback scene: Young Shawn is in a restaurant with his dad (Corben Bernsen) wanting a piece of cake. His dad asks him to close his eyes and answer various questions about the restaurant. In this we get to see how he was "taught" his photographic memory and observation skills by his dad.
After calling in a tip about a robbery from watching the news, Shawn goes down to the police station to get his reward, only to be questioned by detectives as a suspect. We meet Detective Lassiter (Lassie!) and when Shawn is forced into a corner about how he knew certain details, he proclaims that he is psychic. He then backs it up by revealing details he noticed about all the officers when entering the station.
After collecting his reward, he is stopped by the interim (and pregnant) police chief Karen Vick who asks him for his help in a kidnapping case, though she is very skeptical and warns him he better not be a fraud.
He heads right over to his best friend Gus (Dule Hill), a pharmaceutical rep and tells him the story and that he wants to open his own detective agency. Gus leaves work and they both head to the house of the kidnap victim. Shawn goes through the trash and wanders around the mansion until Gus gets fed up with his antics and leaves without him.
The next morning Shawn breaks into Gus's house waking him up. After explaining his theory about a "fake" kidnapping Gus buys into it and they prepare to head out.
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Before getting to their destination, they are pulled over for speeding. While talking himself out of a ticket, he learns from the officer that his dad Henry is apparently back in town and living at his old house. Neither of them seemed to happy about that.
When spying out the kidnapping victim's summer cabin, they see the family dog which shows the guy has been hiding out there. Instead of calling the police, Shawn decides to later have a fake vision and draw everyone there, proving his psychic abilities. All goes to plan until entering the cabin where two dead bodies are found in an apparent murder/suicide. Gus calmly excuses himself and then runs out, screaming like a little girl.
Shawn doesn't buy it at all, so he sucks up his courage and goes to see his dad for advice. Totally non-supportive, Henry tells him that he has been lucky so far and is going to get caught. He also tells him that he has missed something.
Shawn figures out that there actually was a ransom drop even though they were told otherwise. He confronts the dad over it and is convinced that he found the missing people in the cabin and accidentally shot his own son, then killed his friend to cover it up. An excited Gus returns from the restroom and says they need to leave asap.
Gus explains to Shawn that he found a medicine prescribed recently for dog bites, proving the dad had been at the cabin. They then called the police to the house so he could have another fake vision with an audience. When confronted with all this, the dad broke down and confessed.
When getting his payment for the case, Shawn interrupts the police chief talking with his dad, who surprisingly backed up his story. She then proceeds to hand him a new case.
On the drive out, Shawn takes Gus to the place of their new office:
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