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| Title: | Lights, Camera...Homicidio |
| Episode Number: | 28 |
| Season: | 2 |
| Season Episode #.: | 13 |
| Production Number: | #2_2015 |
| Original Airdate: | Friday January 25th, 2008 |
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The star of a Spanish telenovela has been murdered by another actor on the show. Juliet and Lassiter believe it to be an open-and-shut case. The murderer, however, insists that it was an accident and claims that the prop knife was switched with a real knife without his knowledge. Shawn and Gus believe that he was framed and investigate the crime. Gus is especially excited to be working on the set of his favorite soap opera, but it's Shawn who gets a recurring role on the show.
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| Psych-Out: Lassiter lip-synchs to Dule Hill's rendition of "Super Freak" while treating us to a kinky striptease.
| Pineapple Watch: Kelly brings Shawn some pineapple Peking dumplings on the show's set.
| The Big Adventures of Little Shawn and Gus: Gus believes that aliens are among us and gives Shawn a camera to document suspicious alien activity.
| The opening theme song is performed in Spanish for this episode, presumably by show creator Steve Franks, who performs the original English version. The lyrics are as follows:
¡Uno, dos, tres, cuatro!
Todos saben que no digo la verdad
Todos saben que no tengo una prueba
Si es un engaño, conformate
Tus inhibiciones
Al final no podrás resaber
¡Arriba!
| Corbin Bernsen (Henry) is no stranger to soap operas. He appeared on Ryan's Hope from 1984-1985, and his mother, Jeanne Cooper, has been a cast member on The Young and the Restless for over thirty years.
| Shawn jokingly introduces Gus as Lavender Gooms. Lavender Gooms is more than just a silly nickname; it's actually the name of Dule Hill's great-aunt.
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| Lassiter: We don't need you. O'Hara jumped the gun. This thing's pretty much open and shut.
Shawn: Aw, Jules. If you wanna spend more time with me, you don't have to trump up some case. You just pick up the phone, gimme a call, say, "Shawn, I'm here. I've got Pudding Pops."
| Gus: Hurry up. Ask a question that proves there's more here than meets the eye.
Shawn: I have a question!
(Lassiter looks up)
Shawn: (to Kelly) Are those delicious-looking sandwiches for everybody?
Kelly: Yes, for everyone working on the stage here.
Shawn: Thank you.
Gus: That's it? That's your question?
Shawn: Follow up question! (to Kelly) Do you have salami?
| Shawn: Chief, you give us one day. One day! You have our word. We'll make sure this blatant departmental screw-up doesn't bring down the entire Santa Barbara police world … universe … galaxy.
| Gus: (about the head writer, Lance) He used to write on Blossom. Decided Spanish soap operas were a better reflection of the human condition.
Shawn: Obviously, he didn't write the Blossom where she adopted a chimp and hit the road in an eighteen-wheeler.
Gus: That was B.J. and the Bear, Shawn.
| Shawn: (introducing himself and Gus) Spencer, Shawn Spencer. This is my partner, Lavender Gooms.
| Lance: (to Shawn) Listen, are you sure that you are not an actor? Because you really do have a certain look.
Gus: What, a shallow look?
| Shawn: We think you were framed.
Jorge: Oh, this is music to my earlobes. Do you have a questions for me?
Gus: (cutting off Shawn) Yes, we do. Do you know if Serena's baby is yours?
| Shawn: (pointing inside the trash can) Are those meatballs from craft service?
Jorge: Yes, yes. Kelly knows they are my favorite. Usually I hunger for her meatballs the way a jackal salivates for an injured possum, but, uh, sadly I have no appetite for them now.
Shawn: (to Gus) Grab the one that doesn't have the fork in it.
Gus: Shawn!
Shawn: Dude, they're still steaming— (Gus nudges him away)
| Shawn: (looking at a photograph of Jorge's family) Your brother.
Jorge: It's my sister.
Gus: (laughs and points at the androgynous person) No, he means this person right here.
Jorge: Yes, yes. It's my sister.
Gus: (points with both hands) No, he means this one, right here. Where my finger is!
Jorge: Yes, yes. It's my sister.
Shawn: She is quite lovely. In a young Keith Hernandez sort of…
| Jorge: (about Quintessa) You don't know her wrath. She hates me. She is like the Latina Susan Lucci. She beat me up.
Gus: I hardly think there's a woman capable of that.
Shawn: Bea Arthur.
Gus: I stand corrected.
| (Quintessa has just had a fight with Lance, arguing and throwing things at him)
Shawn: Let's go after her.
Gus: Whoa, whoa. Maybe now isn't the best time to approach her.
Shawn: (sarcastically) You're right. We only have a day to solve the case. We should wait and hang out.
| Shawn: (about Nunez) Was he ever in your dressing room?
Quintessa: I should say not!
Shawn: That's strange. (he grabs her hands) I'm seeing him in your dressing room.
Quintessa: Are you a psychic or some kind of witch? OK, so maybe sometimes he came to my dressing room to rehearse lines or something.
Shawn: No, he's not running lines. He's holding a feather duster, dipping himself in pancake batter. And he's quite naked.
Quintessa: Tú eres un brujo!
| (Lassiter demands that Shawn and Gus leave Jorge's hospital room)
Nurse: Honey, the only people actually authorized to be in here are Mr. Spencer and Mr. Guster. They're on Mr. Gama-Lobo's friends and family list. Everyone else, out.
Lassiter: (to Shawn) You just met him a week ago!
Shawn: His whole family is back in México. His older brother misses him very much.
Gus: His sister.
Shawn: Right.
Juliet: (leaving) How does he make friends so fast?
| Gus: (about Jorge) I can't believe he would try to take his own life.
Shawn: (sees synthetic hair on Jorge's head) Unless he was wearing a wig, he didn't. Someone else did.
(dramatic music escalates)
Gus: What? I don't get it.
Shawn: Really? I thought I wrapped it up so nicely for you just now. You know, it felt really good. It was organic. It was … (clears throat and picks up the hair) Synthetic hair. Just like the one found on the knife.
(dramatic music escalates)
Gus: So?
Shawn: Dude, it means the same person was there. When Jorge tried "to kill himself." He wasn't alone.
(dramatic music escalates once more)
Gus: So wait, you're saying he didn't try to kill himself?
Shawn: I can't do this.
Gus: You're not being clear, Shawn.
Shawn: Come on, dude. I gave it to you three different ways.
| Lassiter: Lance Rothstein, you're under arrest.
Lance: For what?
Juliet: The murder of Rinaldo Nunez.
(Lance turns to Shawn)
Shawn: Don't worry. I can get you off on that one.
Lassiter: And … the attempted murder of Jorge Gama-Lobo.
(Lance turns to Shawn again)
Shawn: Ooh. (pauses) I don't know about that one.
| (Shawn and Henry walk around outside the studio)
Henry: Acting is not a real job, Shawn. I mean how much attention do you need?
Shawn: I'm not doing this for the attention!
(Shawn stops to stand in a photo that a family is taking)
| Lance: I could wallow in the harsh underbelly of prison life and shake it up a little bit with the riff-raff.
Gus: Uh, "the riff-raff"? This is the Santa Barbara jail, not San Quentin.
Shawn: It was written up in Fodor's last year as a nice spa alternative.
| Shawn: Dude, did anyone come near the prop table?
Gus: What prop table? I've been glued to the TV watching for anything suspicious to happen, like you said.
Shawn: Dude, you're just standing there eating a meatball, watching the show! You're supposed to be watching the prop table!
Gus: You never said anything about a prop table, Shawn. If you'd have said, "Watch the prop table," I would have been watching the prop table!
| Quintessa: (pointing to Kelly as Shawn instructed) She did it!
Director: Pan over. Pan over!
(the camera pans over)
Shawn: (to Quintessa) After all that you just—you just point at the murderer? Don't you have any sense of dramatic tension or build? Come on, what are we, on Blossom?
| Quintessa: (about Jorge) But he wrote a suicide note.
Shawn: (in Spanish accent) No, he didn't. You should have a degree in being wrong all the time.
| (as Lassiter arrests Kelly, he becomes aware of the cameras that are broadcasting the show live)
Lassiter: Uh, hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.
Juliet: Really? That's what you choose to say?
Lassiter: Well, I only took it for two years in junior high.
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| Episode Title: Lights, Camera...Homicidio
This references the phrase "Lights, camera, action!" which is often used when filming a movie. Homicidio is Spanish for homicide.
| Plot Point: The live soap opera
At the end of the episode, Shawn exposes the killer during a special live episode of the soap opera. The movie Tootsie culminates in a similar way. In the film, Dustin Hoffman plays an actor who cross-dresses in order to get a role as Dorothy Michaels on a soap opera. He finally reveals his true identity during a live broadcast of the show by stating that his character is actually Dorothy’s twin brother.
| Henry: (to Young Shawn) What, you think those goofballs on CHiPs are really cops?
CHiPs is a '70s television show focusing on the California Highway Patrol.
| Gus: I was having a poached egg with hollandaise sauce on an English muffin.
Shawn: Look, we'll solve it up quick. You'll be back home in no time. (pretending to answer his phone) Hello? (to Gus) Dame Judi Dench called. She wants her breakfast back.
Judi Dench is a notable English actress who has won numerous awards. In 1988, she became a Dame Commander of the British Empire.
| Shawn: I am sensing there was a long hair in the evidence bag. A woman's hair. Perhaps belonging to a Ted Nugent impersonator.
Ted Nugent is a very successful rock and heavy metal musician. Before going solo, he was a member of the Amboy Dukes.
| Gus: (about the head writer, Lance) He used to write on Blossom. Decided Spanish soap operas were a better reflection of the human condition.
Shawn: Obviously, he didn't write the Blossom where she adopted a chimp and hit the road in an eighteen-wheeler.
Gus: That was B.J. and the Bear, Shawn.
Blossom is a '90s television show about a teenager named Blossom Russo (Mayim Bialik) who lives with her father and two brothers.
B.J. and the Bear is an '80s television show about a trucker named B.J. McKay (Greg Evigan) who travels around the country with Bear, his pet monkey.
| Shawn: (about Jorge's sister) She is quite lovely. In a young Keith Hernandez sort of…
Keith Hernandez is a former Major League Baseball player who has played for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, and Cleveland Indians.
| Jorge: (about Quintessa) You don't know her wrath. She hates me. She is like the Latina Susan Lucci. She beat me up.
Gus: I hardly think there's a woman capable of that.
Shawn: Bea Arthur.
Gus: I stand corrected.
Susan Lucci is best known for her role on the soap opera All My Children as Erica Kane, a self-centered diva. Bea Arthur is also an actress, probably most well-known for her role as the wisecracking Dorothy Zbornak on the television series The Golden Girls.
| Shawn: (about Quintessa after she insults him) She's sweet. Sweet like Mariah Carey on a bender.
Mariah Carey is an accomplished musician and, to some extent, an actress. She later suffered from a physical and emotional breakdown due to personal issues and checked herself into a hospital.
| Shawn: And I'm getting by with the Spanish I learned from Charo on Love Boat.
Charo is a Spanish musician and actress. She guest starred as April Lopez on the television sitcom The Love Boat, a show about the people aboard a cruise ship.
| Henry: (putting down Shawn's accent) You sound like that El Pollo Loco guy.
El Pollo Loco is a Mexican fast-food restaurant. The "El Pollo Loco guy" in the commercials is known as El Caliente. He is actually played by Matt Cedeño, the actor who plays Jorge in this episode.
| Lance: (in prison) Shawn, this is so good for me. It's like Hemingway, like Ellroy, Steinbeck, Danielle Steel.
Shawn: Ethan Hawke.
Gus: Judy Blume.
All of these people are writers. The authors that Lance names drew inspiration from the harsh events in their lives.
Ernest Hemingway's works include For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea. James Ellroy is most well-known for his crime novels. John Steinbeck penned novels such as Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. Danielle Steel is most well-known for her romantic novels.
Ethan Hawke, also a famous actor, has currently written two novels. Judy Blume's books are aimed at children and young adults, such as Freckle Juice and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
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