red riding hood was the mysterious man in into the woods.
who is the mysterious man in into the woods?
red riding hood
the episode begins with a whimsical storybook opening, followed by the opening number. six years before the events of the episode, z's play about jack the ripper is abruptly cancelled and he is sent to a mental institution. before the premiere of his play, z had allegedly set the theater on fire and locked a critic in a back room. after six years, a similar play is in production at a different santa barbara theater by its womanizing owner armitage (barry bostwick). z escapes his mental institution and presumably murdered another man. psychic shawn spencer, his partner gus, and the santa barbara police department's juliet and lassiter go to the mental institution and elicit the help of serial killer mr. yang (ally sheedy). while shawn and gus are investigating armitage's new production, the producer falls from the catwalk and dies. at the coroner's office, woody labels the death a suicide. shawn suspects that z's next target is likely elisa (brooke lyons), his muse and a cast member of his original play. buzz mcnab (sage brocklebank) is put on guard at elisa's house, and he notifies lassiter when he sees a man running through the woods of her property. lassiter, juliet, shawn, gus, yang, and her guard rush to the house, where lassiter and juliet chase the mysterious man. the man is revealed to be the same man that was thought to have been killed by z upon his escape from the mental institution. shawn and gus see z inside elisa's house and break inside. shawn chases z out of the house, and upon seeing him face-to-face becomes convinced that z is innocent. upon returning to the car, mr. yang has escaped as well.
psych: the musical
at the london airport, mortimer, sarah and nastasia board for nairobi under the surveillance of the mysterious man. in the plane, sarah talks to them of artifacts engraved with the same enigmatic signs found in the four corners of the world, which could indicate the existence of a civilization at the time of the unique continent of gondwana. in london, the mysterious man enters blake's house during the night and threatens the captain with a pistol. he just asks him to listen to what he has to say and gives him his gun as a pledge of good faith. the next day, blake takes the plane and goes to antarctica with professor labrousse to take a delivery of a mysterious cargo. meanwhile, the mysterious man is handed a passport, a plane ticket to nairobi and cash by david honeychurch, who has received these instructions from his superior blake. arriving at his destination, he settles in the same hotel as mortimer and his two friends, and turns out to be colonel olrik in disguise. meanwhile, mortimer, sarah and nastasia are in the hospital to visit the delirious dr. heidegang. mortimer manages to make contact with heidegang by speaking german and learns that the guardians of gondwana demand that the ring be returned to them.
the gondwana shrine