LOGLINE:
Shawn and Gus investigate the tasty world of gourmet cuisine when a restaurant critic is murdered.  Meanwhile, a misunderstanding with Gus' Uncle Burton forces Gus to play the part of psychic detective.

SYNOPSIS:
Gus' Uncle Burton is in town for a visit, and since Gus has spent all his life trying to live up to his namesake's expectations, he does not correct him when he mistakenly hears that it's Gus who is the psychic detective, for fear of disappointing him yet again.  That means that when Uncle Burton tags along on their investigation into the death of Vince Wagner, a prominent restaurant critic, Shawn must help Gus find clues while Gus pretends to be psychic.  Shawn looks around and sees leftover containers and evidence of bad cooking.  He leads Gus to a "vision," quickly disregarding the wife as a suspect.  She was a bad cook, but she was trying to get her husband to eat healthy, not kill him.

On the way out, Shawn sees that the critic's tongue was stained black.  Gus tells him it was probably a side effect of stomach medication.  Shawn's now sure he was murdered, but not by the wife.  He was complaining of a stomachache before he ate her food.  Shawn then leads Gus to explain to his uncle that the spirits told him Wagner was poisoned by some food he ate at a restaurant.  With Uncle Burton in tow, they go to the police station, where Gus tells them about their suspicions of murder, possibly by a chef who was unhappy with a bad review.  Interim Chief Vick says they will run a tox screen and double check.

Shawn then figures that the poison probably came from the last restaurant he visited and remembering the take out container at Wagner's house, they head to Antonio's to check it out.  Explaining they are there for a surprise health inspection, Chef Antonio is taken aback, saying he just had a surprise inspection a few days ago, but shows them around regardless.  As he is telling them that he hated Wagner for always giving him bad reviews, Lassiter and Juliet arrive to arrest him, telling Shawn and Gus that there were poisonous Death Cap mushrooms in the risotto he served Wagner.  As they take the chef away, Shawn notices that the mushrooms at the restaurant are cut differently than the ones in the take out container at Wagner's house.  They've got the wrong guy.

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