Psych: Pilot

On friday in English we watched the pilot episode of Pysch. Psych is a mystery show with some comedy tossed in though it still had the elements of mystery. The element that every mystery that every mystery must have is the problem to solve.

In Psych it was the kidnapping of Camden McCallum, who was kidnapped for ransom. Another mystery element you must have is the person who solves the problem. In Psych it was Shawn and Gus. Shawn is the real main character and is posing as a psychic in front of the police. Gus is his best friend and has been since pre-school. Every mystery also has to have a person who started the problem. The weird thing in Psych was the kidnapper of Camden was Camden's friend Ourso and Camden was letting him kidnap him! The entire thing was planned out by Camden and his motivation was to steal some of his father's money. Lots of mysterys also have a twist or a surprise ending. The surprise ending in psych was that Camden's father accidentally killed his son and killed Ourso when he saw. Then Mr. McCallum covered his tracks to make it look like a murder/suicide. Camden's dog saw this all, making it the witness. When Camden's dog saw though it realized that Mr. McCallum was not a good man and so it bit him. The cast on Mr. McCallum's arm covered the wounds from the dog bites which served as evidence.

6 Elements of Mystery Represented by Pictures

This picture represents the person who solves the mystery because obviously this person is a detective. The footsteps indicate she's looking for someone and probably the person who might have started the crime.

This image represents the suspect. The image shows a man being interrogated by a policeman. This image fits because suspects are always interrogated for their alibi and such.

This image represents the witness. The little girl represents the witness and she witnessed a person murdering another person by gun.

This image represents evidence. You can see an evidence bag in the image above. In a mystery evidence is what will help the detective prove that he/she is right.

This image represents the victim because the woman with the gun pointed at her forehead will probably end up dead and make her the victim in the investigation following her death.

All good mystery stories have suspense. And that's what this image represents. You can add suspense to a story in many ways. Including a car chase which, as you can see, is my picture.

Mr. Monk and the Voodoo Doll Curse

In class today we watched the last 10 minutes of an episode of monk. Yesterday the rest of the class watched the beginning but I wasn't there so my report is all on what I think happened and the elements of a mystery in that episode.

Monk had many elements that make up a mystery and one of them was the problem, crime, wrong-doing, whatever you want to call it. In this case it was the death of Robert Boyd ,who had been set to look like he had a heart attack even though it was murder. His death was in a series with 2 other people though the other 2 weren't murdered.(Or at least the 2nd one, the 1st one was a homicide) The next element was the person who solves the crime. This of course was the obsessive detective Adrian Monk. Then all crimes begin with a villain. The true villain in this episode turned out to be Robert Boyds neice, Angeline Doerth though she had the alibi of he's my uncle, why would I kill him and I was upstairs when I heard a scream. The suspect was the voodoo shop keeper because all the dead people were found with a voodoo doll. The other 2 deaths acted as a red herring towards Monk. He struggled to find how these 3 people were connected, they weren't. Another red herring was when Angeline sent Monk's sidekick, Natalie a voodoo doll with a head cut off. This freaked Natalie out because each voodoo doll of each victim had the death of the person symbolized on it. For example the first person who died was hit on the head with a baseball. The little voodoo doll had a little voodoo baseball attached to it's little voodoo head. So Natalie's doll told her her head was going to be cut off. This is a red herring because it becomes Monk's priority to keep Natalie under control, safe and un-cursed. There was suspense in this story when Monk was chasing Angeline who was trying to kill Natalie. The twist in the end was when Monk put the story together gathering information like the evidence-which is Angeline was in the newspaper with the second victim who got zapped by lightning-and the motive-which was was money. Angeline's uncle had a fortune and she intended to get it. When Monk put this all together he saw the truth.