Shawn walked out of the Academy. He had done it! And without his father's knowledge, as well! He had proved his father wrong about his abilities. While he may be hyper-observant, he was not sure he had the ability to be a cop, but thanks to the conniving of Gus and various other people (including the Chief of one of the Police districts that he had visited – he was under a threat), he had done it.

He knew that those he had left in Santa Barbara when he left all those years ago (ten to be exact) would be shocked, and he knew that that was where he wanted to be placed to be a detective, maybe even chief, if he could manage it. Thankfully, his mentor at the Academy decided to go with his wishes and found him a job out at the Santa Barbara Police Department. He would be under Lassiter (wouldn't he be in for a shock?) for a few months, until he could either achieve detective status, or get transferred to another unit.

Two days later, after graduation, he set out to go to the SBPD. Walking in the first day singing about a pineapple and how it lost its way and how it needed to find its way back home to Shawn-ee. It was attracting a lot of attention from various people, including the chief and he who was supposed to be the head detective that Shawn would be "learning" under… if anything, the head detective would be learning from Shawn, if Shawn had anything to say about it.