Back at the police station, Lassiter and Juliet are questioning Anita, one of the actresses, who tells them that Lance and the writers have brilliant minds for coming up with creative deaths.  When Lassiter gets to the set, Shawn is just finishing up a scene with Quintessa, where he has just nabbed one of her hairs.  Lassiter is stunned as Shawn is brought special food by Kelly, who calls him Chad.  Shawn gives him Quintessa's hair, but he blows it into the wind, telling him that the hair on the knife was synthetic from a wig.  Lassiter continues to the writers' room and confiscates all scripts and written material as evidence.    Back at the station, he gets a call that Jorge tried to kill himself and left a note confessing to the murder.  They rush to the hospital, they find Shawn and Gus already there, listed as friends and family.  As the cops get kicked out, Shawn notices a synthetic hair on Jorge.  This wasn't suicide.  The same person tried to kill him, too.

Meanwhile, the cops discover that the note wasn't a suicide note either.  It came directly from a script written by Lance nine years ago.  The cops arrest Lance but Shawn knows he has no motive.  Henry comes to visit Shawn at the one of the few real jobs he's ever had.  It turns out Henry is a fan of the show as well, and starts berating Shawn for all the bad things his character has done on the show.  Shawn realizes that if his dad can blur the lines of reality, someone else could too, like a crazed fan.  Shawn has an idea.  He and Gus visit Lance in jail and tell him that the murderer is targeting actors whose characters have wronged Corrine in some way, and a fan is killing to protect her.  He needs Lance to write a scene where Chad goes after Corrine in order to draw the killer out, then Corrine should try to kill Chad so they can catch the culprit as he tries to switch the weapons again.  The only problem is, they are running behind on the show because of all the behind the scenes drama and they will have to shoot everything live for Friday's show.  But when the time comes to shoot the scene, Quintessa starts improvising and there is no time to check the weapon before it goes in front of the camera.  Luckily, before she can fire off a shot, Shawn sees Kelly off-screen and notices indentations on her hairline made from wig clips and realizes she's the killer.  She had access to the props and the scripts, she poisoned Jorge's meatballs and is obsessed with the character Corrine.  Kelly is arrested and Chad is killed off the show, but as everyone who watches a soap opera knows, that doesn't means he's gone for good.

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