Psych: Season 5

2010 · 16 episodes · ★ 8.1

What Season 5 of Psych

Season 5 of Psych has 16 episodes and premiered on July 14, 2010. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

16episodes

Jul 14, 2010premiered

Dec 22, 2010final episode

11.7 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 Romeo and Juliet and Juliet
Jul 14, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 8.6
When the daughter of a Chinese Triad family disappears, Shawn and Gus take on the case.
Directed by: Steve Franks · Written by: Steve Franks · Starring: Sage Brocklebank, Carlos McCullers II, Curtis Lum, Jennifer Liu
5x02 Feet Don't Kill Me Now
Jul 21, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 8.7
When a woman is found dead with a bottle of pills that are lab trial samples, Lassiter and Gus, who are taking the same tap class, team up to dance their way to catching a murderer
Directing: Mel Damski · Writing: Saladin K. Patterson · Starring: Sage Brocklebank, Carlos McCullers II, Brad Raider, Lauren Lee Smith
5x03 Not Even Close... Encounters
Jul 28, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 8.5
Shawn and Gus get themselves hired onto the case when an unstable lawyer claims his assistant was abducted by aliens.
Directed by: John Badham · Written by: Bill Callahan · Starring: Carlos McCullers II, Freddie Prinze Jr., Charles Martin Smith, Adam Greydon Reid
5x04 Chivalry Is Not Dead... But Someone Is
Aug 4, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 6.5
A wealthy widow's young date is murdered, pitting Shawn and Gus against a dirty rotten scoundrel they are convinced trained the victim to be a con artist.
Directed by: Jay Chandrasekhar · Written by: Andy Berman · Starring: Sage Brocklebank, Jean Smart, Lee Garlington, John Michael Higgins
5x05 Shawn and Gus in Drag (Racing)
Aug 11, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 8.1
When a member of a gang of car thieves turns up dead, Shawn and Gus must infiltrate a drag racing ring to find the killer. Shawn soon finds himself enjoying the fast lane too much, which not only endangers the investigation but also their lives.
Directing: Mel Damski · Writing: Tim Meltreger, Kell Cahoon · Starring: Sage Brocklebank, Carlos McCullers II, Angus Macfadyen, Adam Rodriguez
5x06 Viagra Falls
Aug 18, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 8.6
Shawn and Gus work with two retired police officers to solve the murder of a police chief.
Directed by: Andrew Bernstein · Written by: Todd Harthan · Starring: Sage Brocklebank, Carl Weathers, William Devane, Brent Stait
5x07 Ferry Tale
Aug 25, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 8.0
Shawn and Gus help a prison guard locate his escaped inmates while on a ferry boat headed to the Channel Islands.
Directed by: Reginald Hudlin · Written by: Kell Cahoon, Saladin K. Patterson · Starring: Carlos McCullers II, Kevin Alejandro, Chi McBride, Devielle Johnson
5x08 Shawn 2.0
Sep 1, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 8.4
Shawn has to face serious competition when a talented criminal profiler named Declan Rand comes to Santa Barbara to help solve the murders of donors on a liver-transplant list.
Directed by: David Crabtree · Written by: Bill Callahan · Starring: Sarah Edmondson, Carlos McCullers II, Meredith Monroe, Katie Findlay
5x09 One, Maybe Two, Ways Out
Sep 8, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 7.4
When a spy is framed for a crime she didn't commit, she decides to use Shawn and Gus to prove her innocence.
Directed by: Mel Damski · Written by: Andy Berman, Todd Harthan · Starring: June B. Wilde, Emanuel Fappas, Terry Chen, Franka Potente
5x10 Extradition II: The Actual Extradition Part
Nov 10, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 8.8
Shawn and Gus return to Vancouver to visit their old nemesis Despereaux in prison at the felon's request, who then uses them to escape and pull one last job before he is extradited to the United States. Only while he is out, he is framed for the murder of a Crown Attorney and now asks the guys for help clearing his name of this most recent – and frankly unseemly – charge.
Directed by: Steve Franks · Written by: Steve Franks · Starring: Sage Brocklebank, Cary Elwes, Venus Terzo, Catherine Lough Haggquist
5x11 In Plain Fright
Nov 17, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 7.1
While on the haunted house ride at Santa Barbara's Scare Fest, Shawn and Gus witness a murder and are soon led to believe the person who committed it is the ghost of a man who fell to his death at Scare Fest 13 years ago.
Directed by: Stephen Surjik · Written by: Steve Franks, Tim Meltreger · Starring: Carlos McCullers II, Jerry Ray Shea, Peter Hanlon, Nicholas Carey
5x12 Dual Spires
Dec 1, 2010 · 54 min · ★ 8.5
The episode kicks off with Shawn and Gus receiving a mysterious e-mail inviting them to the annual Cinnamon Festival in Dual Spires, a quirky Northern California town nearly invisible on the map. When they arrive the pair quickly find themselves embroiled in the mysterious death of local high school student Paula Merral. As Shawn and Gus unravel the many secrets of the town, they meet several local residents including town doctor/lawyer/veterinarian Donna Gooden, Sheriff Andrew Jackson, proprietors of the local diner Robert and Michelle Barker, the mysterious Woman with Wood and enigmatic bookish beauty Maudette Hornsby. The pool of suspects proves to be deeper than suspected as Shawn and Gus must work to figure out who killed Paula Merral.
Directed by: Matt Shakman · Written by: James Roday Rodriguez, Bill Callahan · Starring: Sheryl Lee, Peter MacRae, John DeSantis, Kiara LeBlanc
5x13 We'd Like to Thank the Academy
Dec 8, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 7.5
When they solve a case without following proper protocols, Shawn and Gus are ordered by the Chief to take a crash course at the police academy in order to learn the correct way to handle cases, but the two resort back to their old ways.
Directed by: Tawnia McKiernan · Written by: Bill Callahan, Todd Harthan · Starring: Sage Brocklebank, Doron Bell, Ralph Macchio, Andrew Francis
5x14 The Polarizing Express
Dec 15, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 8.3
Due to an unlawful entry into a criminals property, Shawn gets suspended from his consultant postition and gets Henry fired from his position at the SBPD at the same time. Shawn has a series of Scrooge type dreams where Tony Cox is his 'spirit guide'.
Directed by: James Roday Rodriguez · Written by: James Roday Rodriguez, Saladin K. Patterson · Starring: Sage Brocklebank, Tony Cox, Skyler Gisondo, Jacob Vargas
5x15 Dead Bear Walking
Dec 15, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 8.2
When a polar bear trainer is found dead, Shawn works to prove the bear's innocence.
Directed by: Andy Berman · Written by: Andy Berman · Starring: Sage Brocklebank, April Bowlby, Brian Klugman, Michael Gross
5x16 Yang 3 in 2D Season Finale
Dec 22, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 8.9
The Yin/Yang trilogy comes to a thrilling close as Shawn and Gus race to save a woman kidnapped by Yin. Only this time, they are forced to use Yang's knowledge of Yin to solve the case by allowing her to accompany them on the investigation.
Directed by: Mel Damski · Written by: James Roday Rodriguez, Andy Berman · Starring: Sage Brocklebank, Ally Sheedy, Jimmi Simpson, Cybill Shepherd