Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Piece

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“Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Piece”
Psych episode
Shawn and Gus at the wedding.
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 3
Guest stars	Christine Chatelain Gina Holden
Written by	Andy Berman & Steve Franks
Directed by	Michael Engler
Production no.	1003
Original airdate	July 21, 2006
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Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Piece is the third episode of Season 1 of the USA network television dramedy Psych.

[edit] Plot Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

In 1984, Shawn plays hide-and-seek, but winds up learning the fine art of tracking from his father, who tells him to "play right, or don't play at all."

In 2006, Shawn tails Lassiter and O'Hara, who are investigating the theft of a $5-million heirloom ring that was to be given by Dylan Maxwell, the son of the Attorney General, in his wedding. Instead of the case that interests him, however, Shawn has been saddled with solving a case of computers being stolen from a high school; Shawn looks over the casefile for a few seconds, and deduces that the school secretary is the perpetrator.

With Gus and Vick gone, Shawn sneaks into the interview room with Dylan Maxwell and his fiancée Bethany (Gina Holden), along with Lacey (Christine Chatelain), who is Dylan's sister, Bethany's maid-of-honor, and the wedding-planner. He gets only a few moments with the family before Lassiter and O'Hara arrive, but Shawn acquires a wealth of information as well as an invitation to the wedding in his short interview. Lassiter quickly ushers Shawn away from the family and threatens him off of the case.

When Gus refuses to take part in an off-the-books investigation, Shawn heads to the Hotel De La Cruz, where Lassiter has set up a command-post in a suite. He overhears Lassiter giving Attorney General Maxwell empty assurances before Shawn gets caught by hotel security, and quickly pretends to be an agent of the state inspector's office in order to exploit the guard's obvious mysophobia. He convinces the guard to hurry the police out of the safe-room in order to check it for spores.

Lassiter briefs a unit of officers on the details of the locked-room mystery; at 13 minutes after midnight, the heirloom ring was locked by the Maxwell family in a safe-deposit box; the time-lock was then set, and the sensors indicated that neither the vault door, nor the safe-deposit box, was opened until the morning that the ring was discovered missing. Lassiter further points out nine “glitches” in the video-feed, positing that he believes that whoever stole the ring did so by building a scale replica of the safe-room and switching the video-feed from the actual safe-room to the model.

A few of the officers disagree with Lassiter’s theory, which Shawn overhears from an airduct overhead. Lassiter goes on to explain that the alibis of all of the hotel staff checked out except for Dietrich Manheim, the facilities manager who locked the heirloom ring in the safe-deposit box; Manheim had been nervous, evasive, and contradictory during questioning, and had apparently been looking up boats and expensive cars on the Internet. Finally, Manheim did not show up for work that morning.

Shawn finds Detective O’Hara in a diner and offers his help, “reading her palm” to discern that she feels unappreciated by her coworkers. Later, Shawn tricks Gus out of work and catches his interest by revealing that the ring was stolen from a monitored safe. They return to the Hotel De La Cruz where they encounter Vick; she informs them that the high school secretary confessed to the computer thefts, but insists that their conversation at the hotel remain secret. It becomes clear, however, that Vick trusts Shawn’s judgment more than Lassiter’s when she asks Shawn to call if they find anything.

Later, Shawn and Gus posing as Interpol agents to gain access to the hotel rooms of the suspects, all of which Shawn has determined are in the wedding party. They enter the main suite where the wedding party is convened, and Shawn converses with Lacey until Attorney General Maxwell returns and escorts Shawn and Gus from the room. They also visit Lassiter’s headquarters suite to go over the witnesses statements, but are interrupted by a hotel employee who mistakes Shawn for Lassiter.

Gus tells Shawn that it is impossible to tamper with a Hydra 700 safe without leaving a mark, but when they try to use the dumb-waiter lift in the kitchen to access the airducts, they instead find the dead body of Dietrich Manheim. While Shawn examines the body, his father calls to find out when Shawn will be by to pick up a box of trophies that Henry brought down from the attic. On the way out of the hotel, Shawn and Gus are intercepted by Lassiter and O’Hara, and Shawn fakes a psychic vision that leads them to Manheim.

Later, Shawn and Gus watch the video-feed from the safe-room in Lassiter’s headquarters suite. Soon after, Dylan arrives with a six-pack, and Shawn informs Gus that they’re hosting the bachelor party. Once Dylan is drunk, he tells Shawn and Gus that he doesn’t even care about the heirloom ring, but his father had made a production of giving it as a gift; Dylan doesn’t even care if the ring is found. Before Dylan can provide any more information, he passes out drunk.

After eliminating the men’s side of the bridal party from the suspect pool, Shawn and Gus head down the hall to Bethany’s bachelorette party. They share drinks with the bride’s maids, and Lacey leads Shawn on a walk to show him the bouquets, which are in a locked case; Lacey wants to fix hers and tries to talk Shawn into opening the case, but they are interrupted by Gus, who seems upset that he may have gotten a lap dance from Patrick Swayze.

The next morning, Shawn arrives at Bethany’s suite in time for the delivery of the bouquets, and sees Lacey throw a minor tantrum until she finds her own bouquet; he also sees her perform a bit of prestidigitation for the flower-girl. Lassiter is irate when he gets a hotel bill for $1,600; when the hotel employee claims that Lassiter is not “Lassiter,” the detective realizes that Shawn has been in his room, and that he is now at the Maxwell wedding.

At the wedding, Shawn uses the moment when the priest announces “speak now or forever hold your peace” to publicly unravel the crime. Despite Lacey’s protestations, Shawn explains that Lacey is both the thief and the killer; she used sleight of hand of the safe-room to slip out the heirloom before the box was replaced in the vault. Dietrich Manheim had known, but intended to blackmail her instead of turning her in; when the florist called to cancel, the bride’s maids were forced to pull an all-nighter to finish the bouquets themselves.

Shawn describes how Lacey hid the heirloom ring in her own bouquet, which was then locked in the case overnight; but when Manheim tried to strongarm her into cutting him into the theft, Lacey killed him and hid his body in the dumb-waiter. When Shawn asks to see Lacey’s bouquet, Lacey runs instead; unfortunately, she trips over a sleeping usher outside the chapel and loses the bouquet, which Gus catches, and inside of which he finds the heirloom ring.

After the wedding, Lassiter drags Shawn back to the front-desk at the Hotel De La Cruz to ask the hotel employee if Shawn is the man who had been in his headquarters suite. The receptionist, believing that Shawn is an Interpol agent, coaches the employee to deny it, and Lassiter leaves in a snit; Shawn tells the receptionist and employee — in his best British accent — that Interpol thanks them.