This year, gang was mostly all here in San Diego, but the panel was more low-key. Psych-Os on Twitter already knew a two-hour TV movie was on the way as a Christmas special.

The panel (which I was unable to attend) and the subsequent press round tables left Psych-Os with plenty to ponder. Executive producer Chris Henze assured that you don’t need to be a certified Psych-O to understand the movie: Freeze frames will set up the relationships in the first few moments. The TV series focused on Shawn Spencer (James Roday) who was trained by his police officer father Henry Spencer (Corbin Bernsen) to be extremely observant amongst other things (e.g. how to escape from the trunk of a car). Shawn had been earning reward money instead of working a 9-to-5 job, but the Detective Carlton Lassiter (Timothy Omundson) suspected Shawn had actually committed the crimes. Shawn then pretended he was psychic. As a psychic, he becomes a consultant for the Santa Barbara Police Department along with his childhood friend Burton “Gus” Buster (Dulé Hill) with occasional help from Shawn’s father Henry, now retired from the SBPD. Shawn also romances Lassiter’s partner, junior detective Juliet O’Hara (Maggie Lawson).

At the end of the series, the SBPD chief Karen Vick (Kirsten Nelson) had accepted a job in San Francisco and takes O’Hara with her. Shawn follows her and, after some second and third thoughts, Gus also quits his dream job and joins him. Lassiter remains in Santa Barbara as the new chief of police.

In the first eight minutes (shown during the panel) of the movie, we learn that Gus has a new job in San Francisco and that Shawn is still taking cases. Henze describe the clip as Shawn being chased while on a case, but we don’t know who has hired him and who’s chasing him.

What we do know is that Ralph Macchio will make an appearance, Curt Smith of Tears for Fears will not (“Shawn 2.0,” “100 Clues” and “A Nightmare on State Street”) and the main villain will be portrayed by Zach Levi. Henze said, “We’ve known Zach from Comic-Con. We knew that he sang and that there’s a crossover audience between Chuckster’s and ‘Psych.’”Levi’s series, “Chuck,” ran five seasons with 91 episodes on NBC from 2007 to 2012. “Psych” ran for eight season from 2006 to 2014 with 121 episodes.