Presents..." Season 4 Episode 16 airing Wednesday March 3 at 10pm on USA.
Episode Synopsis: Mr. Yang makes good on her promise to return, and this time she's in a cinematic frame of mind as she tests Shawn's knowledge of Hitchcock films and lore in return for clues to the puzzle she's set.It’s a week of finales for USA
Network, but tonight’s Psych isn’t your normal run-of-the-mill episode. The season four swan song pays homage to classic Alfred Hitchcock films and still manages to mostly keep the humor intact. Not easy by any stretch of the imagination.
Ally Sheedy, who made her first guest appearance last season as the memorable serial killer Mr. Yang, returns in the episode. The last time we saw her, she held Shawn’s mom hostage, played cat-and-mouse with the cops and committed a bunch of heinous crimes. This time she finds her character locked up in the psych ward of the prison, but is approached by Shawn and Gus once they realize there’s a Yin to Sheedy’s Yang once again terrorizing Santa Barbara.
The episode is both written and directed by series star James Roday, a multi-talented fella currently starring in the Off-Broadway show Extinction. (Haven’t seen it? Go see it. It’s playing at Cherry Lane Theatre for a very limited time!) What’s fun about the episode is that Roday and his colleagues play the parts in some of Hitchcock’s masterpieces, including “Psycho”, “Vertigo”, “Rear Window” and “North by Northwest.” As they follow clues it’s like the characters – and the audience – are transported into these films, racing against time to solve the mystery of just who is Mr. Yin.
“We as the cast dig those (dramatic episodes),” Roday said in a conference call last week. “We don’t get to do them very often. As much as we love our show and as lucky as we are to do it and still be doing it, any time we can mix things up it’s fun for us because we get to work different muscles and even if it’s just for a week it’s fun to mix things up.”
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