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May 15, 2013 · Dead Air: Directed by Saladin K. Patterson. With James Roday Rodriguez, Dulé Hill, Timothy Omundson, Maggie Lawson. A radio DJ is killed while on the air, and Shawn and Gus help the police with the crime.
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"Dead Air" is the twelfth episode of Season Seven. Shawn and Gus go undercover as radio personalities to find out who murdered their favorite DJ.
Right before Rachael is about to tell Gus she is headed back to England for six months, Shawn and Gus learn that their favorite radio DJ, Crock Daniels, has been shot and killed. They rush over to his studio to investigate. There, they discover that Syd the sound engineer got knocked out by Crock's attacker, but is still alive. They then meet Miranda Sherrod, the station's attractive manager who immediately takes a liking to Gus. She leads them to their first suspect: a man named Dean Ballou, Crock's old morning show partner.
Upon investigation of Dean, they learn that he's not their guy. Dean leads them to a few possible suspects: Crock's co-workers at the new station. Dean explains that they had to take a huge pay cut when Crock was hired. Shawn and Gus head back to the radio station, but before they can get to questioning a few of Crock's former co-workers, Miranda tells them that she is shutting down the station. She explains that Crock was her only moneymaker and without him the station is going to tank. Shawn and Gus get an idea: to keep the station open by hosting their own show.
Shawn starts out as the host of the show, but after only seven minutes of being on-air he's already run out of material. So in a desperate move, Shawn asks Gus, live on-air, how he feels about his girlfriend leaving him for six months. Gus, not knowing this fact, freaks out, and a juicy, on-air drama starts to unfold. Suddenly, they start to get callers and people interested in what they have to say. Their show is actually starting to become successful and as a result, Miranda decides to keep the station open.
Later that day, Shawn and Gus question some employees at the station about Crock's murder. Everyone appears to be clean, and they learn that the only person who had money to lose from Crock was Miranda. Shawn and Gus know they need to interrogate Miranda, but knowing she's probably ten steps ahead of them, Shawn suggests that Gus go on a date with her to get some answers. Miranda ends up manipulating Gus into having more of a romantic date than Gus had originally planned. Miranda lays the seductive flirting on thick, but Gus manages to keep it together and stay focused on getting case-related answers from her. By the end of the date, Gus learns that Miranda wasn't hurting for money at all and that there is no way that she is Crock's murderer.
Miranda sees a lot of potential in Gus and suggests that he host the show instead of Shawn. The next day, during Gus's radio show, "The Smooth Storm with 'A Player Named Gus,'" he gets a caller named Laura. Laura loves Gus's suave, understated DJ persona, so much so that she continues to call into the show throughout the day. After the show, Gus walks back to his car, feeling good. Then out of nowhere, gunshots ring out and Gus's passenger window gets hit. Gus believes that the shooter is the same person that killed Crock. Shawn theorizes that it may have been a caller - a caller that appeared on both Crock's caller‐log and Gus's caller‐log. Shawn checks it out and sees that Laura is the only common caller between Crock and Gus.
Lassiter, Juliet, and Shawn go to question Laura and discover that she is a total fan-girl for radio shows, and that she has a stalker named Bob. She describes Bob, and they have a sketch artist do a rendering of what Bob looks like.
•The actor that plays "Bob", Ken Kirzinger, also plays the bartender from "Bar 13" (or "Barb" as originally deciphered by Gus as a tattoo) in season 2, episode 9, "Bounty Hunters!". As a bartender, he had a mustache and goatee.
•The title refers to the 'cardinal sin' of broadcasting, the failure to have any content (sound or pictures) which is termed 'dead air', although there is obviously the morbid pun concerning the DJ's death.
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Psych – Season 7, Episode 12 Dead Air Aired May 15, 2013 Comedy Crime Mystery & Thriller. Reviews Shawn and Gus go under cover as radio personalities to find out who murdered their favorite DJ. ...
May 16, 2013 · Besides setting up some romantic tension, "Dead Air" is also riff on shock radio, centering around the death of Crock Daniels (Brent Chapman) who, according to Shawn, is the "Howard Stern of radio". The list of people who would want him dead is fairly lengthy as Crock's MO was cracking jokes at other people's expense; a list that includes a ...
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May 16, 2013 · Garcelle Beauvais as Miranda provides the two funniest aspects of the episode. First, she’s thoroughly unimpressed by Shawn, unaffected by his attempts at charm or his “psychic visions ...
