LOGLINE:
Shawn and Gus help a prison guard locate his escaped inmates while on a ferry boat headed to the Channel Islands.

SYNOPSIS:
Shawn and Gus board a ferry bound for The Channel Islands. They’re volunteering for environmental clean-up, along with other nature lovers and a group of four prisoners on work detail. After Gus gets seasick, he and Shawn take a wrong turn, then run into CRAIG, the prison guard, who has been tied up and gagged. Craig tells them that the prisoners he was guarding escaped and are loose on the ferry. Shawn calls Henry and tells him the news. Craig, Gus, and Shawn find themselves in a standoff with the prisoners, who are demanding to be let go on the life raft. NORTHCUTT, one of the prisoners, then ups the stakes: If they are not able to safely escape the ferry, then they will start shooting hostages. SBPD surrounds the ferry and assesses the massive hostage situation they now have on their hands. A tense countdown ensues, and just as we think Northcutt has carried out his threat and shot two innocent hostages, tear gas is launched onto the boat. SBPD storms the ferry, apprehends the inmates and rushes the injured hostages to safety. But Shawn then swiftly points out that the injured “hostages” they took were actually inmates in disguise. So now they have two prisoners on the loose, one of which is Northcutt.

Back at SBPD, we learn that Craig has been fired and that Shawn believes there was a 3rd accomplice, in addition to the two escaped prisoners. Shawn remembers a tattoo on one of the inmates -- “Tres Diablos” -- which they learn is a gang run by Northcutt’s former cellmate, Percy Dunn… but Craig tells them that Percy has actually been dead for 5 years. They then realize it wasn’t Percy they need to talk to, but rather Percy’s mother… Lorraine Dunn. She’s been in regular contact with Northcutt since his death, and they learn that Northcutt had paid Lorraine a visit earlier that day. They ask to see something in her late son’s room. Shawn searches the room and discovers that Northcutt had taken a hidden key. They investigate further and discover that Percy hid a stash of money for Northcutt to find once he broke out of prison (which was what the key was for.) Shawn then gets a clue to go visit Northcutt’s girlfriend and son.

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