故事发生在风景如诗如画的圣巴巴拉,肖恩(詹姆斯·罗德 James Roday 饰)出生于警察世家,毫不意外地,身为刑警的父亲亨瑞(柯宾·伯恩森 Corbin Bernsen 饰)将未来的希望全部寄托在了儿子的身上,希望他能够子承父业。从很小的时候起,亨瑞便开始有意识的训练肖恩的观察力和逻辑推理能力,所以,当肖恩逐渐长大成人之时,他依然具备了以生俱来的刑侦能力。 对于别人来说,肖恩所展现出的种种才华无异于是“特异功能”,但只有肖恩自己知道,这些才华给他带来了多少的压力和负担。然而,最终,在好友古斯(杜勒·希尔 Dulé Hill 饰)的影响和帮助之下,肖恩还是走上了刑侦的道路。Think you are psychic? Well so does Shawn Spencer. Shawn and his best friend Gus own a business called Psych. They are able to stay in business only because of the cases they work with Santa Barbara police department as psychics. Shawn and Gus go through many ups and downs trying to keep the ruse up. Can they pretend forever? Or is the world they built going to come crumbling down?