Due to circumstances of your choosing, either:
a) Lassiter is desperate/frustrated/drunk enough to break down and ask (demand) that Shawn tell him how he does it

OR

b) Shawn feels sympathetic/guilty/magnanimous enough to offer Lassiter advice.

Thus, awkward detective lessons must ensue. This doesn’t have to be a reveal story by any means – this is about Shawn trying to re-teach someone else the lessons his dad taught him. How would Shawn do as a teacher? Would he have the patience for it? How would he explain his thoughts?

Bonus points if you can have Shawn teach while still being his hedgy and evasive self. Because, dude – just ‘cause he knows how to be a good detective doesn’t mean he’s not psychic, too!

We've all seen on the show how Lassiter barely tolerates Shawn's presence. Asking him for help is something he'd never think of on his own, not without prompting.

But even if Lassiter doesn't believe in Shawn's psychic powers, he has to admit that Spencer gets the job done.

I challenge you to write a story in which Lassiter can't help but to ask for Shawn's assistance. Something has come up which means trouble for our favourite head detective. And that's Trouble with a capital "T".

It can be an old case, an Internal Affairs investigation, evidence pointing to him having committed a crime, something from his personal life popping up, anything. He doesn't necessarily need to get arrested, but he needs to get into serious trouble. So serious that he doesn't see any chance but to ask Shawn for help.

Show me how our stickler for the rules gets into trouble, so serious that nobody sees an immediate chance to get him out of it again. Show me how he battles with himself but finally caves in and asks Shawn for help.

Other than that, you can basically do with the challenge what you want. Pick any genre you like, involve the characters you want to have, take the story to wherever you want to, just go ahead and have fun!

Any takers? I'm waiting! 

In "Dislodged", we got to know that Shawn had a pet as a child. And that poor little Chairman Meow (who in fact was Chairwoman Meow) ended up in a cat-retirement home somewhere because, according to Henry, it "got a little too familiar with the armrest of my sofa".

Dudes, I so want that story. How did Shawn end up with a cat in the first place? How did Chairman Meow end up with its name? Why didn't Shawn notice that it was no little boycat at all? And - most importantly - what exactly happened between the Chairman and the armrest?

Go crazy with it!