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Jul 28, 2010 · Not Even Close... Encounters: Directed by John Badham. With James Roday Rodriguez, Dulé Hill, Timothy Omundson, Maggie Lawson. Shawn and Gus help on a case involving a seemingly alien abduction. They ask their childhood friend, Dennis, to help them since he believes in aliens.
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- Comedy, Crime, Mystery
- John Badham
- 2010-07-28
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"Not Even Close... Encounters" is the third episode of Season Five. Shawn and Gus get themselves hired onto the case when an unstable lawyer claims his assistant was abducted by aliens.
Young Shawn, Young Gus and their super nerdy friend Dennis are visiting to SBPD to see Henry. They tell him they saw a weather balloon that could pass as a UFO. Henry does not believe them.
Present day, we see a lawyer, Kessler, doing some work in his home. Suddenly, the house begins to shake violently and the TV flickers. He goes for some pills but there aren't any. Just then, a co-worker named Toby arrives with more work and a refill on his pills. All of a sudden a light appears from the sky and a vessel of some sort lands on the lawn. A slender figure comes out and Toby walks towards the light as Kessler pleads with him to stay.
Lassiter, Juliet, and Henry arrive at Kessler's place the next day. The cops immediately dismiss his theory that a UFO abducted Toby. Shawn and Gus arrive and instantly intrigued by Kessler's theory and decide to take on the case. Henry warns them that it's a bad idea, but they decide to help Kessler anyway. The guys start to analyze the property and notice signs of possible UFO activity. Kessler tells them that Toby's car is still there and despite being brand-new will not start.
Shawn and Gus go to visit their old nerd friend Dennis who is now athletic and married to a gorgeous woman named Molly. But the second Molly leaves, Dennis brings Shawn and Gus to a hidden room that is complete with Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek memorabilia, along with a sci-fi style computer set-up to track UFO activity. After Shawn and Gus tell Dennis about Kessler and Toby, Dennis hacks into the national weather service's computer and pulls up the satellite image from the exact moment, place and time that Toby was supposedly abducted. After seeing a weird orb-like aircraft over Kessler's house, both Shawn and Gus admit they think Toby was abducted. Gus calls Kessler to tell him they believe his story.
Not long later, when Shawn and Gus are at their office, a news report comes on and Kessler is being interviewed. When Kessler points out that Shawn and Gus believe him, a picture of the two of them comes up on the broadcast. Shawn answers the phone when it suddenly rings and picks it up without even saying hello, automatically telling his dad that they are on their way to the station. When they get there, Henry tells them that Kessler has a history of psychotic episodes. He once claimed to see a giant panda in his kitchen, and several years ago claimed to have seen a UFO. When Shawn and Gus state that Toby is still missing, Henry points to Toby who is sitting in one of their conference rooms. He explains that when Toby's car wouldn't start he called a cab and went to stay at his parents place overnight. He overslept and that's why they couldn't find him that morning.
All of them go into the conference room to hear Toby's story. Toby's states that he was there the previous night when Kessler began ranting about strange lights and sounds. He explains that Kessler is acting crazy because he wasn't properly taking his meds. He wonders if the atmosphere is going to be weird on Monday when Kessler comes in. Juliet says that the firm has suspended him until he completes a month's stay at a psychiatric health facility. Toby asks who's going to be taking over Keller's cases and Shawn and Gus crack a few jokes. However, while they are listening to his story, Shawn notices a strange mark on Toby's arm.
•The seminal Steven Spielberg 1977 sci-fi film Close Encounters of the Third Kind is the source of the title.
•When Lassiter shows Henry Spencer his "crap list", Shawn's name is misspelled as "Sean".
•The newspaper shown at the end revealing Shawn and Gus' exploits, is just two paragraphs repeating itself.
•When Molly walks in to the secret room with her hand behind her, she is actually holding Dennis' inhaler, implying she originally wanted to ask him about it when she was walking into Dennis' office.
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Not Even Close... Encounters (2010) Charles Martin Smith: Roy Kessler. Showing all 3 items. Jump to: Photos (1) Quotes (2) Photos. Quotes. Roy Kessler : Listen, I know it sounds nuts, but I'm telling you, I saw it with my own eyes! An alien came down and snatched a young lawyer that works at my firm. Toby Shore.
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