Psych Recap With Spoilers: Cog Blocked

The episode opens on Gus, in his apartment, getting ready for his day and then making his way to the elevator at work. Once inside, he closes his eyes. A man behind him in the elevator attempts to get his attention and after a stern rebuke from Gus for interrupting his “23 seconds of peace,” tells him that he has something on the seat of his pants.Gus’s boss at Gulf Coast Pharmaceuticals is on his case the minute he steps out of the elevator.Back at the Psych office, the phone rings and wakes Shawn, but he doesn’t get up to get it.At his office, Gus is asked to get a bunch of data together for his boss by the end of the day.At the Psych office, Henry comes in and wakes Shawn, who falls out of the hammock that he’s for some reason got set up in the office. He tells Shawn that he’s been paying for his (Shawn’s) motorcycle insurance for years, since the bill keeps coming to Henry’s house, and he starts to chastise him about mooching off everyone. Shawn tells him he’ll pay the bill.Cut to Shawn, standing over the motorcycle in the garage and calling Lassiter for help getting a job so he can pay the bill. Lassiter turns him down and tells him that he’s on the way to a suicide, and don’t come.Shawn goes to see Gus at Central Coast and pulls him away for a lunch break visit to the crime scene to try and see whether there’s any chance the guy was murdered. When they get there, the victim’s house, clothes and everything else is eerily reminiscent of Gus’s. He even finds a pair of tap shoes in th eman’s closet, and begins to panic when he realizes just how many similarities he has to the dead man—and insists that the man couldn’t have committed a suicide.Eventually, Shawn and Gus convince Lassiter to let them look into it—but he’s not going to pay them.They head to John “Russ” Russell’s workplace and find that nobody much misses him, but nobody had a problem with him, either. They talk to Russell’s boss, who reinforces all of Lassiter’s feelings that the man was just bored and lifeless and killed himself. Before they leave, they head to Russell’s office to look for clues, but when another employee comes in to lay claim to the man’s computer, Gus goes and makes a scene and gets them kicked out. During the process, he steals a key card from the janitor’s cart and uses it to break back into his office.When they look at his computer, they find an e-mail that’s written in code, using character names from The Net. He accepts the e-mail’s request for a meeting with the stranger, who shows up and turns out to be a blind woman who hits both Shawn and Gus with her cane and makes an escape when they realize they aren’t Russell.Next, they head to see Woody, who confirms Gus’s suspicions that the suicide was staged.The pair follow clues on the corpse’s person to a Russian nightclub, where they arrive and find the proprietor is a violent Russian gangster.