Chapter One
It was a warm spring day in the town of Santa Barbra. Shawn Spencer and Burton Guster were walking into the local police department. "You want another fry?" Shawn asked as he turned the corner where Chief Karen Vick was standing.
"You two, "she said, "in my office now." When they got into her office Detectives Carlton Lassitor and Juliet O'Hara were standing there. Chief Vick marched over to her computer saying "We have a big case on our hands. Last night a thief crept into the Santa Barbra Art Museum and stole this."
She pointed to her laptop and continued. "At 1:17 A.M last ni-"
"Dude," Shawn whispered to Gus, "this guy can stay up late. Wonder what kind of parties he has."
"Your attention boys would be nice, it you would like a paycheck at the end of this case." Chief Vick said, rolling her eyes.
"Gus, stop talking." Shawn said slapping Gus's chest.
"I wasn't talking Shawn, you were. Now if you could pay attention to Chief, she might have something important to say. "
"Thank you, Guster," she continued, "as I was saying, somebody broke into the art museum last night as stole the original manuscript of the play Othello. It is valued at around $2 million and it is urgent that we figure out who did this and get the script back."
"I don't know who would want to steal that chicken scratch, but since somebody does, I guess I better turn on the psychicness, and get going. My first vibe is that I should head over to the museum and get a good lay of the land, and then the spirits will start talking to me. Anyway I got to get going, because Gus will need his naptime soon, and trust me you don't want to miss that. "Shawn said. With that Shawn and Gus ran to the Blueberry, and hopped in with Lassitor and O'Hara at their heels. It was a short ride to the museum and when they arrived Shawn discovered he needed a milkshake so he went to the nearest McDonalds. When Gus and he got back to the museum, the area where the object had been stolen was closed off.
"Shawn, are you getting anything." Juliet asked him. Shawn quickly scanned the room, and saw a few blond hairs under one of the chairs. He put his finger to his head and said "The chair. Check it. I think there is something there. I scene it could really help our case.
Carlton picked up the chair, where the hairs were, and Juliet saw the hair. "Nice work," she said, "There are hairs under here. Call Woody and have him run these as soon as he can, to see if they can get a name off of them. "
Shawn quickly glanced up and saw security cameras. "Did you guys check the footage from the cameras yet?"
"Yes Spencer we did. But if you want to go up and check them out feel free, so you can leave the real officers and deceives to do some work. "Lassitor said in an annoyed voice.
"Sweet" Shawn said slapping Lassitor on the back. He quickly sprinted up the stairs with Gus trying to follow him. "Shawn, I just had a milkshake, do you think you slow down just a liitle bit?"
When they got to the top of the steps they made a right and entered the room, with all of the monitors in it. There was also a police officer, with a name tag reading MCNABB, on it.
"Buzz, my good friend, would you mind showing us the tapes from the robbery last night," Shawn asking in a kid voice. Buzz nodded and played the film. The robber came in the room grabbed the script from its place, and placed it on the chair. He then put a sticker of Lightning McQueen on the camera, and the footage ended. "All of the cameras show him putting in on the chair, and then he went around to each camera and put some Cars sticker over each one. We have no clue what happened after that. "
"That's it! He wanted us to see him by the chair, so we would look there. And then Jules found those hairs under it, and he was wearing a mask so they didn't just fall off his head and onto the carpet. He probably wanted us to find the hairs for some reason, "Shawn said as pulled out his phone. He dialed up O'Hara and explained to her what was going on.
"Shawn," Gus said, "We have to start heading. I have to get to work so I can finish a sales report." With that Shawn and Gus headed back to their Psych office, where they spend most of their time. When they got there Shawn flipped on the T.V and watched a Harry Potter movie. Around 7:00, Gus got back to the office and asked "You heard anything else on the case?"
"Yeah, I have. Woody ran the tests and they came out to be koala hair. So then they looked up the term Koala in the database, but got nothing. They are at a roadblock right now, and they are trying hard for the FBI to not get involved, because they really want to and if we can't get an answer soon they will. They said they will call us in the morning if they had something. You want to go grab some hotdogs? I'm getting hungry. "
The rest of the night was calm in Santa Barbra, but the next morning when Shawn and Gus got into the office, Chief Vick was taping her foot angrily. "Chief, did I do something, because if I did, it was because Gus put too much soymilk in my oatmeal this morning. I don't know why he wouldn't use regular milk, but he bought the soy stuff." Shawn said looking between Gus and the chief.
"No Spencer, your oatmeal isn't what is making me upset right now. Last night as 11:17 our time, somebody broke into an art museum in Atlanta, and stole another Shakespearean original play. Since this happened outside of our jurisdiction, and we can't do anything about the other crime, this is turning not a national issue, and you know what that means.
"I do, because I don't recall anything about that." Shawn said very confused.
Chief Vick sighed and said, "Spencer, it means the FBI is getting involved."
