When pilot Chesley Sully Sullenberger lands his damaged plane on the Hudson River in order to save the flight's passengers and crew, some consider him a hero while others think he was reckless.

Shawn, Gus and Juliet have relocated to San Francisco. After Juliet's partner Sam is shot, the Psych team attempts to find out who did it and why. Additionally, while a mysterious organization is blackmailing Juliet (by insinuating she has done something illegal), Shawn refuses to get married until he can locate his grandmother's stolen engagement ring, Chief Vick's daughter Iris has fallen in with a bad crowd, and Gus is being pursued by an attractive woman who uses all the best moves in his own playbook.

Nine years after the events of Veronica Mars, former teenage sleuth Veronica Mars has left the fictional town of Neptune, California, and moved to New York City, where she is in a relationship with Stosh "Piz" Piznarski and has a job offer from the prestigious law firm Truman-Mann and Associates. She is contacted by her ex-boyfriend Logan Echolls, now a Lieutenant in the United States Navy, who has been accused of murdering his girlfriend Carrie Bishop, a fellow Neptune High student who became a self-destructive pop star under the stage name "Bonnie DeVille". He is being bombarded for offers of representation from lawyers, and Veronica agrees to return to Neptune and help Logan find one who will best represent him. She reunites with her father Keith Mars, Neptune's former sheriff-turned-private investigator, who shows her how corruption and classism are rife under Sheriff Dan Lamb.