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| By Morayo Sayles |
What was going to happen next?
This week, the episode was shot in a clever and intriguing fashion that gave us a glimpse of a parallel universe where Juliet did not get Shawn’s coat and thus never found out that he wasn’t psychic.
Juliet gets Coat | Juliet does not get Coat |
In the universe where Juliet realizes that Shawn’s a phony, she storms out of the wedding and Shawn leaves on his own, despondently feeling like wet schoolhouse toilet paper (ew!). At the top of the street, his cab takes a right and Shawn literally slams into his next case. A dazed blonde woman crosses in front of the cab, causing the car to stop abruptly and Shawn banging his head rather violently against the cab’s divider window. He is effectively concussed and for the rest of the investigation walks around with a raging headache and some slight problems with his working memory. This reality is cold, grim and gray. Every one’s uber serious and there’s not much smiling happening. Shawn walks around with a bloodied shirt for most of the episode, Juliet is cold and distant, while Gus (Dule Hill) is supportive but unable to help his friend bridge the gap with Juliet. Henry shows up in this reality on a grown-up play date with Lloyd (Jeffrey Tambor), Juliet’s step dad and when Henry finds out about Shawn’s predicament, he’s furious. | In the universe where Juliet is none the wiser, the happy couple leaves hand in hand from the wedding, bang a left on the way home and make it safely home together. Shawn shows up the next day with a puppy for Carlton Lassiter (Timothy Omundson) and his new wife, which he aptly names “Lassie Jr.” Shawn stumbles on his new case in the morgue where Woody (Kurt Fuller) is conducting an autopsy on a blonde woman who was found dead on the side of the highway. I deemed the Oblivious Juliet reality as Shawn’s happy go lucky reality. The sun was warm, everyone laughed and everything was cute and funny. Even Lassiter is uncharacteristically loving, as he warms up to his new dog rather rapidly and ends up cradling the hound by the end of the investigation. Gus comes in contact with “gold dust” biscotti and spends the rest of the investigation developing some rather alarming and disgusting allergic symptoms to the dust. |
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