LOGLINE:
After the zoo's polar bear trainer is murdered unexpectedly, officials are quick to point the finger at the polar bear, but Shawn believes the animal to be innocent, resulting in Shawn becoming an advocate for the bear and embarking on a desperate search for the real murderer.

SYNOPSIS:
Lassiter shows up to work one morning with his kid sister Lauren in tow. He explains that Lauren is a film student there to do a police documentary. Lassiter plays to the camera, trying to impress his sister with his "large and in charge" demeanor. Suddenly they get the call that there's been a murder at the zoo. Lauren films as officers prepare to leave for the crime scene.

SBPD shows up at the zoo. Shawn and Gus are already there and are shocked to see how normal-looking Lassie's sister is. They soon find out that the murder victim is the zoo's polar bear trainer. Zoo officials immediately point fingers at the polar bear, saying that the bear turned on his trainer suddenly. The trainer's fiancé steps up and claims that he devoted his life to raising the polar bear, so much so that they had to hold off on getting married for 6 years. She wants the bear to pay. Shawn examines the scene more closely and determines that the polar bear did not murder the trainer.... She was framed. Much to Lassiter's dismay, everyone's attention, including Lauren's camera, is now trained on Shawn.

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