#NIGHTMARE TEACHER EPISODE 9 PRO#

Derek is ready to see them, so they head into his office and find out Derek used to play pro ball. While they wait in the dimly lit gym to talk to Derek, they spot a creepy-looking janitor mopping the floor and see a tracksuited man ( Brad Kelly) leave Derek's office. With nothing else to do, Shawn and Gus agree to further assist Zach even though he can't afford to pay them upfront. Lassiter doesn't have a case for Shawn and Gus to work on. Lassiter says things have become uncharacteristically quiet around the SBPD since he's become chief and Brannigan has become his head detective. Shawn tells him to stop, and they approach Lassiter asking for work on a case because Zach the cable guy can't afford to pay them for their services. Later at the police station, Gus is desperately trying to get a hold of Emmanuelle on the phone. Simpson then reveals a recording of Gus talking in his sleep, shouting Shawn's name in fear. He tells Gus that he's having these nightmares because Gus thinks that working with Shawn is eventually going to get him killed. Gus, again, thinks this is a ridiculous theory. Simpson points out that Gus started to have the nightmare when Shawn left him alone in the van. Gus wakes to find himself in the dream therapy office again. Suddenly, a giant man in a mask comes in and grabs a screaming Gus. The inside of the house resembles the house in 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' and Shawn and Zach are nowhere to be found. After a mysterious man comes to the van asking for a ride, Gus frantically runs into the creepy-looking house to get away. Gus is left alone, and he slips into another nightmare. Zach goes inside to do his job and Shawn leaves to take a pee. Zach drives them to a creepy-looking house and Gus is immediately freaked out by it. Zach has to take care of a cable installation appointment first, and Shawn and Gus are there to tag along. Gus immediately identifies with him because he believes he's facing similar troubles in his relationship with Emmanuelle, and agrees to help him out.

Just then, a cable installation worker named Zach Eikleberry ( Dean Cameron) pops in asking Shawn and Gus to help find out whether his wife Gretchen ( Sutton Foster) is having an affair with her colleague Derek Bagg ( William Zabka). Gus lies and says the nightmares are being fueled by Emmanuelle. Gus enters the Psych office and Shawn asks him how dream therapy went. The therapist believes Gus needs Shawn to feel whole. After Shawn left Gus in the car at the gas station, the nightmare started and everyone within it died or was dead already. The therapist agrees that Gus's fear of abandonment is the beating heart of his anxiety, but he believes Shawn is the one causing it, not Emmanuelle. Gus thinks it was fueled by his relationship with Emmanuelle ending. Gus recounts his zombie nightmare and the therapist asks him what he thinks it means. He instructs Gus to lie back down and to tell him all about the nightmares he's been having. Gus awakes to find himself in an office belonging to a dream therapist named Dr. While Shawn is in the convenience store, Gus falls asleep in the car and has a nightmare about zombies attacking him, one of them being Curt Smith from Tears for Fears. They arrive at a gas station and Shawn goes in to get some snacks. In the car, Shawn and Gus pass by a group of people participating in the 'Zombie Fun Run'. She won't return his calls and he's totally distressed. Gus and Emmanuelle's relationship recently ended and Gus starts to have trouble sleeping because of it.

Nightmare teacher episode 9