Finally picking up on the events of last year’s season finale (we’ve had a musical episode and a theme episode in the last month, so it seems like it’s been a long while since the Chief was suspended, Lassiter was demoted and Psych stopped being hired), the episode opens with Anthony Michael Hall’s Harris Trout rallying the troops in front of police headquarters.Fun fact: Hall is the fifth principal cast member of John Hughes’s The Breakfast Club to appear on Psych. The film featured only seven named characters, and all of them except for Emilio Estevez and Paul Gleason have appeared on the show. Gleason passed away on May 27, 2006, about six weeks before Psych debuted on USA. When I spoke with him in 2010, series star James Roday said that the show would likely never be able to get Estevez.“We sort of had a wish list of people that we want to have on the show that we’ve been checking names off of for the last four years,” said Roday. “Getting the entire Breakfast Club is, I think, un-doable, but it’s still up there as one of the goals. I think that having Molly on is probably going to happen; I think with a little finesse and arm-twisting we can probably get Anthony Michael Hall to do something fun. But I think getting Emilio is going to be what keeps it from happening. He just doesn’t really act much anymore. I think he’s going to be the one that got away.”
