In the first major departure from the original (which starred one of the show’s various “young Shawn” actors, appearing in a flashback scene with Corbin Bernsen’s Henry Spencer), the episode starts with Henry explaining to Shawn how to read a jury. Here, though, young Shawn is an infant in a carrier.Cut to the present day, 2006 (they reiterate this a few times), where Shawn and Gus are at the courthouse to get Shawn’s motorcycle out of impound, while discussing the shortcomings of then-recent remakes of The Bad News Bears and Dukes of Hazzard. The idea of a remake, they say, is to take something that showed promise but failed to live up to expectations and improve upon it.In the courthouse lobby, they see a woman sitting on a bench. She’s pretty and attracts Shawn’s attention; they flirt with her a bit and then get directions from her to the ticket payment window before a man comes up to her and takes her away.In remake trivia news: Actress Lindsay Sloane, who plays the damsel in distress here, is one of a handful of previous Psych guest stars to pop up in the remake episode. She also appeared in the How I Met Your Mother episode “Double Date,” in which she and Ted inadvertently duplicate a blind date they had years before, because neither is memorable enough for the other to see that it’s happening until halfway through.Being given directions to the payment window didn’t make Shawn actually pay his tickets, though; the line was too long, and the next thing we know, the boys are back at the Psych office watching TV. The morning news program they’re watching tells the story of their former weatherman, who was killed recently–and then they cut to the trial, where the girl from the hallway is accused of stabbing the weatherman to death. After seeing how incapable her attorney is on TV, Shawn and Gus head to the courthouse, burst in and announce that they’re there to work as consultants for the defense.
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