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14. Poker? I Barely Know Her

Shawn and Gus are hanging out in the Psych office when Henry pays a visit. He criticizes everything about the place until Shawn stops him. They are waiting for an appointment. Henry says he is their appointment. A friend of his, Bill Peterson, called him and said he thinks his son Brandon is mixed up in something bad. He doesn't want to call the police and Henry inadvertently made him think Shawn could help. Henry leaves just as Peterson arrives. He tells them that Brandon used to work for him but he fired him in an attempt at tough love. He's been evicted from his apartment, had his cell phone turned off and forged a check of Peterson's for thirty thousand dollars. Now's he's missing. Shawn and Gus, deliberately against Henry's wishes, say they can help.

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Shawn and Gus are sitting in the Psych office when Henry enters, insults the office, and tells them he's their client, informing them that the son of his friend has gone missing. Henry's friend tells them that his son stole $30,000 from him, and disappeared. At the police station, Detective O'Hara talks to Chief Vick about throwing a birthday party for Detective Lassiter, which Vick tells her is a bad idea. Shawn and Gus visit the boy's former apartment, where they find a card leading them to an underground poker game at a plant nursery. While playing online poker, Gus finds the boy, and discovers that he owes large amounts of money to the man who owns the underground poker operation. He steals money from his father again, and enters a poker tournament. Shawn takes his place, and wins every match until he is against the underground operation leader. Shawn realizes the man is cheating, and busts him, winning the tournament and the money. Meanwhile, Juliet throws Lassiter's party, but accidentally invites several people who Lassiter arrested on multiple occasions, mistakenly assuming his notebook entries to refer to friends instead of suspects.

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