Disclaimer: I don't own Psych. I'm too tired to try and steal it.
"The lab results came back."
Juliet looked up from her desk and at Lassiter who handed over the results. She flipped over to the numbers and skimmed them over. The numbers frightened her.
"This amount of element antimony could have killed Ginny within minutes." Lassiter nodded.
"We are dealing with something serious. And you saw the wine results,"
"No I didn't." A voice chimed in. Shawn smiled as he leaned over Juliet's shoulder and Gus learned over Juliet's other shoulder to read the results.
After skimming the results, Shawn looked at Lassiter. "Aren't you glad Jules didn't get you a bottle of wine for Christmas?"
Lassiter frowned. "O'Hara? You got me a present? I thought we weren't doing gift exchange."
Juliet glared at Shawn. "Thanks Shawn." She turned to Lassiter. "I just got you a little something. I like to get gifts for my co-workers."
"Oh and Gus, she got you something too. I can sense it." Shawn held his fingers up to his temple as he recollected the day at the mall yesterday.
Gus looked up from the case file. "Really, Juliet? You didn't have to do that."
Juliet pushed her chair out, bumping into Shawn and Gus. "Excuse me Gus, I need to speak to your partner for a minute." She dragged Shawn to the other side of the room.
"What's the deal Shawn? It's Christmas and I liked to do nice things. Why are you spoiling the fun?"
"Jules. I just couldn't contain my excitement for them. You know how I get."
"Shawn." Juliet sighed.
Shawn frowned. Normally Juliet would smile to encourage him to continue his fun, but not this time. She was frowning. "If guessing what my gift is bothering or stressing you out because you know it's awesome, I can give you a hint if you want."
"It's not that, Shawn. It's this case. It could have destroyed the Richards family. Why would someone try to destroy the Christmas spirit? Trying to poison the wine? Try to mess up a toy for a child… a child?" Her tone was angry, Shawn could feel it emanating off her.
"Jules, don't worry. It's my top priority right after watching a Santa Clause Marathon tonight with Gus." Shawn smiled, trying to see if it would ease Juliet, but Juliet just rolled her eyes and walked back towards Lassiter. Shawn ran to catch up.
"Gus, new plan. No Santa Clause Marathon tonight. Tonight we're gonna find a killer."
Gus looked at Juliet who was staring at the case file on the desk. He didn't have Shawn's superior photographic memory, but he could tell Juliet was upset. He could also tell it was something more than just Shawn spoiling them that she had gotten them gifts. "I hear that."
"All right. O'Hara let's move to one of the conference room and you let me know what info you got at the stores."
"What I found…" Shawn coughed.
"What Shawn and I found at the mall." Another cough. Juliet looked up at Gus who was glaring at Shawn.
"Shawn. You didn't invite me?"
"Uh… Gus… I was getting you a Christmas gift and ran into Juliet." Shawn looked to Juliet for confirmation.
Juliet nodded. "Anyway, I brought the Id numbers that belonged with the Zhu Zhu Hamster and the mixer and after some searching, a store manager at JCPENNY'S told me that the card number belonged to a Ms. Sara Evans."
Lassiter nodded. "Good. So it's clear that someone was setting up Chris Cryer. Now this Ms. Sara Evans…" Lassiter looked among the papers, searching for something. "Who is it?"
Juliet looked at Shawn then to Gus and then to Lassiter. "It's their neighbor."
"Clearly someone isn't getting a Christmas Card from the Richards." Piped in Shawn trying to break the silence.
