- Shawn and Gus receive a mysterious email inviting them to the Cinnamon Festival in Dual Spires, a quirky town that's nearly invisible on a map, in this homage to Twin Peaks.
- Open with Gus getting a mysterious email inviting him to the 90th Cinnamon Festival in a small town called Dual Spires.
The guys head to the remote town and find it to be very strange. They speak with Bob Barker who own the diner, as well as Sheriff Andrew Jackson. Dual Spires doesn't have cell service or the internet and Jackson tells them they don't get many visitors.
At the festival Shawn notices several empty seats. Jackson introduced his son, Randy, as the future leader of the town. One of the seats is right next to Barker and his wife. An upset Michelle Barker tells the guys their teenage niece Paula has been gone for a few days. The guys say they will help find Paula in exchange for pie and cider. Paula's best friend Jack rides up and says something has happened at the lake.
Jack found Paula's half-naked body near the lake. Shawn finds a strange one-foot area with cell service near the lake and gets another strange email. This one says: "WHO KILLED PAULA MERRAL?"
Jackson tells the Barkers he is going to rule the death an accident, as Paula had recently been sneaking out after curfew. Doc Gooden will perform the autopsy later. Shawn tells the Barkers their belief there might have been some foul play involved. Bob says Paula grew up in Santa Barker.
Shawn calls Jules and asks her to look up Paula. They get another strange email: "F796.32.
The guys go to see Donna "Doc" Gooden, pretending that Gus is ill. Shawn notices an earring in evidence and remembers that Randy wore similar ones. Gooden says there were no obvious signs of foul play and says Paula had a dangerous side.
Randy rides by in his bicycle and the guys follow him to his house. They knock on the door and offer Bob their services as grief counselors. Shawn spots pills on the table. Randy tells the guys he'd been dating Paula for six months and was at the library the night she died. He says the couple had been planning to see the world and begins weeping.
The guys go to library and meet librarian Maudette Hornsby. Since Bob never remarried after the death of Randy's mother, Maudette has been "filling a role." The guys find the book which has a Dewey decimal number to match the email. The book is called "Reincarnation and Rebirth."
Jules tells the guys that Paula drowned in Santa Barbara seven years ago.
Jules and Lassie arrive in town. They tell the guys Paula's body was never found seven years ago. Her sweater and bike were found, along with some sunflower seeds. Shawn recalls seeing Bob with seeds.
The guys go to the Barkers' home. Bob tells them Paula's drug-addicted mother had been abusing her and the plan had been to fake her death in order to get her out of the situation. Lassie and Jules head back to Santa Barbara to re-open the case.
Shawn and Gus are allowed to look at Paula's room. The find her diary, written in Latin.
Shawn calls Father Westley and asks for help translating the diary. He tells them she may have been seeing someone popular, 'R,' as well as someone else she calls 'J.' Shawn hangs up before he can finish giving them more translation and Jules shows up.
The guys go back to see Maudette and gets the most recent Dual Spires yearbook. Shawn notices her best friend Jack Smith, who was the photographer.
They go see Jack. He says Paula left him for Randy, but they'd become best friend. Shawn figures out that Jack is almost completely blind. The night Paula disappeared they were taking a walk in the forest. She talked about leaving the town and someone hit Jack over the head. In one of the pictures they spot Randy in the background, running towards them.
Cut to Jules going to the Jackson's place to see the sheriff. Randy is home by himself and she waits with him in the backyards. He starts acting strange and Jules makes a move for her gun as Shawn and Gus arrive. Randy admits being jealous of Jack. She then yelled at Randy for hanging out with his ex-girlfriend, but Randy won't tell them who that person is. Randy says at that point he left for the library.
While eating more pie Shawn figures out that Maudette and Randy were probably in a romantic relationship and he guesses a jealous Maudette killed Paula.
They go to the library and find Maudette hanging from a noose in the ceiling. Jackson and Gooden guess that the scandal must have been too much for Maudette to handle, which is why she took her own life. Shawn spots a wire running into the library and they find Maudette had internet access in a small back room. Maudette must have been the one emailing them. Shawn now thinks Maudette must have suspected foul play and emailed them because she was worried about being the prime suspect. The guys find themselves locked in the tiny room and see smoke coming from under the door.
They are saved by Father Westley, who came to town because Paula said in her diary she believed she was in danger. Bob pulls up and takes them to his cabin.
At the cabin Bob tells them his great-grandfather founded the town with two other soldiers. After a sawmill fire in the 1950s killed eight people the town became insulated. Bob and Michelle were therefore supportive of Paula's desire to leave town. We also learn that Bob was Paula's father and his wife doesn't know he had an affair with her sister.
At this point Jackson and Gooden bust in the door. The other two familes which settled the town were the Jacksons and the Goodens. Jackson and Gooden admit to being responsible for the murders, because they couldn't allow the town only remaining heir, Randy, to leave with Paula. Just before Jackson is going to shoot them Jules and Lassie burst through the door and put them under arrest.
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