LOGLINE:
When Shabby the Sea Lion is found dead after being released into the wild, Shawn sets out to prove it was murder and stumbles onto a bigger conspiracy.

SYNOPSIS:
Shawn is annoyed when he learns Gus tricked him into attending a funeral for a sea lion.  But Gus protests that Shabby isn't any sea lion.  His story of being rescued and rehabilitated is famous, so much so that Randy Labayda of Animal Planet fame, who just released Shabby back into the wild, is giving the eulogy.  When Shawn goes up to pay his respects to Shabby's open casket, he notices a strange hole in his flipper and tells Gus he thinks Shabby was murdered.  April McCarthur, an official looking woman wearing an aquarium pin, overhears Shawn and promptly asks them both to follow her out of the funeral.  Gus is annoyed with Shawn for getting them kicked out, but April tells them she has had similar suspicions regarding the circumstances of Shabby's death.  Labayda's cameraman slows as he hears them talking, so April asks if she can meet them somewhere later.

At the Psych office, April tells Shawn and Gus that Shabby's release was supposed to be a quiet local affair, but Labayda, who wanted to do a segment on it, took over and insisted on moving up the release date.  April says Shabby wasn't ready but that didn't matter to Labayda, and when they came back from releasing the sea lion, they were late and upset, quickly locking the ship's log in Labayda's office at the aquarium.  Shawn says they need to get into that office and April claims she can help, but when they get outside the aquarium that night, it turns out she can only show them the best way to sneak inside.  She confesses she was fired recently for asking too many questions, but she is able to give them the security code.  Once inside Labayda's office, Shawn finds the ship's log but more interestingly, he discovers Labayda has two laptops, one in a metal case.  They turn on that one to reveal a GPS screen displaying latitude and longitude numbers.  Gus then checks the ship's log and realizes that Labayda released Shabby in the wrong place, but before they can get anything else, they hear a security guard coming.  They take off but are not fast enough, and the two of them are arrested for breaking and entering.

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