Life is great for Shawn Spencer. He has a cool job, a smart, beautiful girlfriend, and gets to hang with his best friend all day. What more could a guy want? When he gets his next two cases, a dead chemistry professor and a girl looking for her father, it looks like business as usual. Too bad things never go that simply when Shawn is involved. REWRITE OF TWO DEAD GUYS AND A GIRL!

He came to this country with only a name and a few stories, holding tightly to the details that meant the most, to the ones he knew he could use.

The name led him to a face, mistakenly captioned in the local newspaper. But he didn't know that, didn't know how often these local American newspapers erred.

The face in the newspaper was Carlton Lassiter's, but the name on the man's tongue was Shawn Spencer's. It was proof enough, and nothing said otherwise could change his mind.

A case of mistaken identity puts Lassiter in the path of a dangerous, gravely calm and patient ex-con who arrives in Santa Barbara demanding a task impossible for even the most gifted local fake psychics. But he's desperate, he's been biding his time for the past decade, and he's determined to get what he wants.

Lassiter, unwillingly and reluctantly, is forced to play along—without the slightest inclination of how to be "psychic", let alone be Shawn Spencer.