Watch Psych Season Finale Online

It’s a week of finales for USA Network, but tonight’s Psych isn’t your normal run-of-the-mill episode. The season four swan song pays homage to classic Alfred Hitchcock films and still manages to mostly keep the humor intact. Not easy by any stretch of the imagination.
Ally Sheedy, who made her first guest appearance last season as the memorable serial killer Mr. Yang, returns in the episode. The last time we saw her, she held Shawn’s mom hostage, played cat-and-mouse with the cops and committed a bunch of heinous crimes. This time she finds her character locked up in the psych ward of the prison, but is approached by Shawn and Gus once they realize there’s a Yin to Sheedy’s Yang once again terrorizing Santa Barbara.
The episode is both written and directed by series star James Roday, a multi-talented fella currently starring in the Off-Broadway show Extinction. (Haven’t seen it? Go see it. It’s playing at Cherry Lane Theatre for a very limited time!) What’s fun about the episode is that Roday and his colleagues play the parts in some of Hitchcock’s masterpieces, including “Psycho”, “Vertigo”, “Rear Window” and “North by Northwest.” As they follow clues it’s like the characters – and the audience – are transported into these films, racing against time to solve the mystery of just who is Mr. Yin.

“We as the cast dig those (dramatic episodes),” Roday said in a conference call last week. “We don’t get to do them very often. As much as we love our show and as lucky as we are to do it and still be doing it, any time we can mix things up it’s fun for us because we get to work different muscles and even if it’s just for a week it’s fun to mix things up.”
Sheedy also chimed in by adding, “I just told myself not to get – just to not plan anything ahead of time (in regard to the character). It was so funny and wacky so I decided to completely dispense with the creepy dark, very serious and brooding serial killer thing just like I thought the whole thing was hysterically funny.”