Shawn agree to help Gus attempt to gain his ever-belittling parents' respect by defending his father William Guster, the prime suspect in the murder of an old, nosy neighbor. They find the coot was a blackmailer spying on the whole neighborhood, but the next arrested suspect is Burton's intemperate mother Winnie, whose secret is bad enough. Shawn also takes a closer interest in the spy's house now being for sale.
—KGF Vissers