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The protagonist, Sean Spencer, grew up in a police family. From a young age, his father, Henry, trained him to possess extraordinary observational and memory skills—the ability to quickly deduce the truth of a case from the smallest clues.
As an adult, Sean accidentally assists the police in solving a case, but because he cannot explain how he knows the details, he becomes a suspect. In desperation, he claims to be a \"psychic.\"
To maintain this lie, Sean partners with his friend Gus to open a detective agency called \"Psych,\" officially becoming a consultant for the Santa Barbara Police Department as a \"psychic detective.\" He uses his exceptional observational skills to solve case after case, while engaging in countless hilarious interactions with his partner Gus, all while constantly trying to avoid being exposed as a \"fake psychic\" by the police detective.