Monk(2002)

1 - Mr. Monk's Favorite Show

After the attempted murder of a former child star from Monks favorite show, Monk accept the job as her bodyguard.

1 - Mr. Monk Buys a House

Monk finds himself forced to move into what he hopes will be his dream house... which is anything but.

1 - Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan

When Marci Maven is accused of a bizarre crime, she turns to the object of her obsession for help - Adrian Monk.

1 - Mr. Monk and the Actor

While working on a double murder, Monk finds that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery when he finds that an obsessive method actor has been cast to play...Adrian Monk in a new movie.

1 - Mr. Monk and the Other Detective

While Monk is immobilized by the presence of dog poo at a crime scene, slovenly private eye Marty Eels steps in, using the dog poo (and the dog) as clues in the murder of a security guard, the robbery of a jewelry store, and the disappearance of the store owner, Harold Gumbal. With Monk tailing helplessly behind, muttering Hes cheating and Thats impossible, Eels locates the stolen jewels, Gumbals car, and Gumbals body. Using Gumbals watch as a clue, he determines the identity of one of the killers, who is then arrested and interrogated. Just as Eels is becoming a local celebrity, with Monk as yesterdays news, Monk figures out Eels secret and confronts him. Eels challenges him to prove it, but moments later, he runs after Monk begging for his help: the killer whos still at large wants the jewels back and is holding Eels mother hostage. The shoe is on the other foot, and Monk must figure out where Mrs. Eels is and why she must be rescued before 8:20.

1 - Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan

Monk and his friends go to New York City to discover the connection between Trudys murder and Warrick Tennyson, whose name was given to Monk by Dale the Whale in last seasons cliffhanger, Mr. Monk Goes to Jail. As theyre checking into their hotel, mayhem breaks out in the lobby and three people are killed, including the Latvian ambassador to the United Nations. Monk quickly discovers that the ambassadors coat is wet--an odd detail because minutes earlier he was standing near Monk in a dry coat. Monk provides a police sketch artist with minute details about the perpetrators left ear--the only part of his face that wasnt covered--and Stottlemeyer pressures the New York police captain to allow them access to Tennyson in exchange for their help in the new case. However, the DA, for reasons of her own, is blocking their access to Tennyson, and only after Stottlemeyer borrows the keys to the captains office and pulls out the file that he saw Captain Cage hurriedly stuff into the b

1 - Mr. Monk Goes Back to School

When English teacher Beth Landow falls from the clock tower at Trudys former high school, the assistant principal doubts the police departments conclusion that the death was a suicide and invites Monk to investigate. Monk quickly concludes that the suicide note is a forgery: a highly respected English teacher wouldnt confuse its with its. A few words with the teachers in the lounge lead him to suspect that the murderer is a science teacher, Derek Philby. Unfortunately for Monk, Philby was proctoring an SAT exam when Ms. Landows body landed on Philbys car, setting off his car alarm and alerting the entire school to her death. Armed with a strong suspicion but no evidence, Monk becomes a substitute teacher in hopes of finding the information that will incriminate Philby, who arrogantly informs him that hes failing the class--he has no evidence to support his hypothesis. Faced with students who throw erasers at him, an irate father who is also the schools gym teacher threat

1 - Mr. Monk Meets the Candidate (1)

A former San Francisco police detective suffering from an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder is called in to investigate an apparent assassination attempt of a mayoral candidate in which one of his bodyguards is killed.

2 - Mr. Monk and the Foreign Man

Monk meets a visiting African widower whos determined to find the hit-and-run-driver who killed his wife near Monks apartment. Monk begins to identify with the man and confuses his wife with Trudy.

2 - Mr. Monk and the Genius

Monk must match wits against a grandmaster chess player that he suspects of murder.

2 - Mr. Monk and the Rapper

Monk is hired to clear the name of a famous rap star who is accused of murder.

2 - Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike

Monk finds himself adrift in an ocean of filth when a garbage strike brings San Francisco to a halt...and Adrian to near-paralysis.

2 - Mr. Monk Goes Home Again

Monk is reunited with his agoraphobic brother, Ambrose, after the murder of an armored car driver.

2 - Mr. Monk and the Panic Room

In yet another case of murder in a room locked from the inside, a music producer is found dead with bullets in his back, head. and chest, clearly neither an accident nor a suicide. But this time theres a further twist: the dead mans pet chimpanzee, Darwin, is caught with the murder weapon in his hand. Not wanting to make a monkey of himself by falsely accusing a chimpanzee of murder, Stottlemeyer takes the chimp into the interrogation room, tempting the animal to fire what he thinks is an empty gun. Meanwhile, Disher realizes that hes inadvertently given the captain a loaded gun and panic ensues. When the gun goes off, endangering not only Stottlemeyer but Disher, Monk, and Sharona as well, Stottlemeyer is persuaded that the chimp is guilty and is ready to allow animal control to put him to sleep. Sharona, however, is convinced that Darwin is innocent. In desperation, Sharona resorts to breaking and entering to rescue Darwin, persuading the most unlikely person imaginable to take hi

2 - Mr. Monk Goes to Mexico

When a friends college-age son dies mysteriously in Mexico, the mayor sends Monk to investigate. Doubting the coroners report that the young man drowned in mid-air, Monk nevertheless has difficulty concentrating on the case. His eighteen suitcases carrying not only his clothes and back-up pillowcases but a years supply of food and his favorite brand of bottled water are stolen, leaving him with nothing he considers safe to eat or drink. Even worse, someone is trying to kill him, first by running him down with a pick-up truck and then by planting an explosive device behind a picture that he compulsively straightens every time he enters his room. Neither the witnesses nor the police, a south-of-the-border caricature of Stottlemeyer and Disher, offer any helpful leads--except for the mention of another unsolved murder, this one a mauling by a wild lion, the previous year. The fact that both victims were from San Francisco offers Monk the clue that he needs to solve the case and e

2 - Mr. Monk Meets the Candidate (2)

With an introduction to Monks talent, his phobias, and need for an assistant, Monk investigates the murder of the candidate bodyguard and a political worker. He determines the candidate was not the intended target.

3 - Mr. Monk and the UFO

Monk and Natalie are stranded in a small desert town and the detective spots a UFO. He soon discovers himself the center of attention, and is called in to investigate a dead woman discovered in the desert.

3 - Mr. Monk Gets Lotto Fever

Monk has to help out Natalie when she becomes involved in a lotto scandal.

3 - Mr. Monk and the Naked Man

Monk must confront his prejudice against nudists when hes called to investigate a murder on a nude beach.

3 - Mr. Monk and the Big Game

Julie and her friends hire Monk to look into the suspicious death of their basketball coach.

3 - Mr. Monk Stays in Bed

Monk feels too sick to work until a case gets him out of bed.

3 - Mr. Monk and the Blackout

Three deaths during a city-wide blackout result in a joint investigation by Stottlemeyer, Monk, Sharona, and Disher, with the unprecedented cooperation of the FBI and the help of power company spokeswoman Michelle Rivas, an attractive brunette who is inexplicably attracted to Monk. While Sharona and Dr. Kroger pressure Monk to call Michelle, Disher follows up on Monks suggestion that the power outage is connected to a 90s radical named Winston Brenner. Everything fits--the handwriting in the note, the phrasing, even a pair of photographs. Everything except one small detail at the end of the report--Brenner died in 1995. When the FBI acknowledges the possibility that Brenner may have faked his own death to avoid a trial, Captain Stottlemeyer presents a tree-hugging former friend of Brenners with the evidence that Brenner is still alive and reminds him that this particular power outage is also a homicide. When the tree-hugger is murdered, it becomes clear that the killer is indeed Bre

3 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Ballgame

When a ruthless CEO and his wife are lured to an industrial park and are shot dead in their car, Monk connects their murders to a star baseball players quest for the single season home run record.

3 - Mr. Monk and the Psychic

When a woman drives off the road to her death, her body is mysteriously found the next morning by a psychic known for fudging the truth. Monk must discover if shes telling the truth this time, or else let a murderer go free.

4 - Mr. Monk is Someone Else

Monk assumes a dead hitmans identity in order to foil an assassination plot.

4 - Mr. Monk Takes A Punch

Monk finds a new lease on life after giving up his hope of reinstatement to the SFPD.

4 - Mr. Monk and the Bad Girlfriend

Monks friendship with Captain Stottlemeyer is put to the test when Monk suspects the captains girlfriend of murder.

4 - Mr. Monk Can't See a Thing

When Monk goes to his firehouse to get his smoke detectors inspected, the crew is quickly called away to a fatal house fire in which a young woman is killed. Minutes later, a mysterious intruder walks into the firehouse, lethally bludgeons a veteran fireman, blinds Monk with cleaning acid, then escapes. Despite Monk losing his eyesight, Stottlemeyer coaxes him to continue investigating, and Monk soon finds that the fire and his attack are connected.

4 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Office

Monk goes undercover as an office worker to solve a case.

4 - Mr. Monk Gets Fired

Karen Stottlemeyer has decided to film a cinema verite documentary about her husbands work, but her timing couldnt be worse. The police commissioner shouts at the captain (on camera) for focusing on a routine arson fire in a wig factory and relying on Monk to solve a more newsworthy case involving a female victim whose body was cut up with a chainsaw. Monk is in even worse trouble. After presenting some useful leads involving the chainsaw victims age and nationality, he accidentally erases several years worth of crucial computer files, and the enraged commissioner revokes Monks private practice license despite Stottlemeyers protests that doing so will destroy him. With Sharona forced to return to her old job as a nurse, the devastated Monk sits in the hospital hallway all day waiting for her until, at her exasperrated insistence, he finds a job with a magazine as a fact checker. Meanwhile, having identified the victim based on Monks information, the captain and Disher zero i

4 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Circus

When a sarcastic and unpopular ringmaster is murdered by an acrobat wearing a face mask and a Ninja-like costume, Stottlemeyer suspects an animal trainer who not only has a motive but also owns the murder weapon. Monk, however, suspects the ringmasters ex-wife, a trapeze artist billed as The Queen of the Sky who is also a sharpshooter. Meanwhile, the Monk alienates Sharona by telling her that her fear of elephants is irrational and advising her to suck it up.

4 - Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale

A judge is murdered while placing a 911 call, but before she dies she names her attacker - notorious criminal Dale Biederbeck. The problem is, Dale the Whale is over 800 pounds and hasnt left his bed in years.

5 - Mr. Monk Takes the Stand

Monk and the police have a killer right where they want him... until the case goes to court and a hotshot lawyer demolishes the prosecution as he uses Monks phobias against them

5 - Mr. Monk Is Underwater

A friend of Natalies ex-husband seemingly commits suicide aboard a locked cabin on a submarine. Monk agrees to investigate, despite his phobia about being on--and beneath--the water.

5 - Mr. Monk and the Birds and the Bees

Monk tries to prove a sports agent is guilty of murder while helping Natalies teenage daughter with her love life.

5 - Mr. Monk, Private Eye

When Natalie convinces Monk to go into business as a private eye, his first case is a seemingly innocuous fender bender that leads to a far more dangerous investigation.

5 - Mr. Monk Gets Drunk

Monk goes to a wine-tasting and finds it a bit more than he bargained for.

5 - Mr. Monk Meets the Godfather

When five members of the West Coast Mafia are shot down in a barbershop, Monk is pressured by mob godfather Salvatore Lucarelli and his nephew Fat Tony to solve the case. But the FBI in the person of Agent Colmes is pressuring him, too. Despite Captain Stottlemeyers insistence that Colmes is not to be trusted, Monk accepts his offer of reinstatement on the police force if he can bring down the whole gang. The only clues are a partially completed crossword puzzle and a gumball machine that was apparently used to break a back window so the killer could escape. With a Mafia bodyguard named Vince as their babysitter, Monk and Sharona interview the sole witness, Phil Bedard, a young U.S. mint employee who tells them that he saw three men running from the scene, one of them wearing a jacket with a strange-looking number 15 on the back. Bedard also explains the heightened security at the mint: someone has stolen five double-headed pennies. Associating the numbers on the jackets with a Ch

5 - Mr. Monk and the Very Very Old Man

In an attempt to stabilize his shaky marriage, Captain Stottlemeyer redecorates his office with the New Age artifacts that his hippie wife, Karen, has given him, but he cant bring himself to watch the documentary that she spent forty-five thousand dollars to film. When Karen thinks that her documentary subject--the worlds oldest man--was murdered, the captain rejects the suggestion as absurd but calls in Monk to pacify her. Unfortunately for the captain, Monk agrees with Karen, and Stottlemeyer finds himself on Monks front porch with two packed suitcases. Monk, glad for a chance to repay the captain for helping him through his three-and-a-half year slump, invites him to stay as long as he needs to. Predictably, they both end up with frazzled nerves and very little sleep. Depressed over his own slump and his inability to solve a five-year-old case involving the death of a seventeen-year-old boy, the captain becomes even more despondent when Monk finds a clue that he missed in

5 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival

A police officer and friend of Stottlemeyer is framed for a crime he didnt commit involving a ferris wheel. Meanwhile Monk tries to convince Stottlemeyer to get him reinstated.

6 - Mr. Monk and the Critic

Natalie suspects a theater critic is responsible for a murder, despite the fact that he was present to review her daughter Julies play at the same time the victim died.

6 - Mr. Monk Falls In Love

When Monk develops a crush on a model who is accused of murder, he is determined to prove her innocence, even though she confessed.

6 - Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure

Monk digs up trouble after following a treasure map brought to him by Dr. Krogers son Troy.

6 - Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion

Monk attends his college reunion and uncovers a complex murder plot against one of his former classmates.

6 - Mr. Monk and Mrs. Monk

Is Monk hallucinating or is he really seeing Trudy?

6 - Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf

Its Sharonas turn to be terrified. After several frightening and mysterious encounters with a blood-soaked man that no one else can see, she begins to doubt her own sanity, and Stottlemeyer advises Monk to give her time off to restore her nerves. Monk is left with an irritating substitute nurse whose philosophy is the opposite of Sharonas: everything from Monks requests for wipes to the obsessively systematic organization of his refrigerator has to go. Wanting Sharona back again, Monk goes to the garage where Sharona first saw the blood-soaked man and finds a clue--the silver tip from the toe of a cowboy boot. Meanwhile Sharona, who is attending a night class in creative writing, apparently forgets to turn in an assignment and seems to be misplacing objects. But when her writing instructors husband dies of a heart attack after eating tomato soup, Sharona recognizes the plot of her missing story and realizes that shes not crazy. All she and Monk have to do now is tie together the...

6 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater

Sharonas actress sister, Gail, is suspected of murdering Hal Duncan, a fellow actor who dies onstage after Gail stabs him with what she insists is a retractable knife. When Sharonas mother (who thinks that Sharona is Monks partner, not his assistant) arrives for a visit and Sharona tells her the bad news, Monk and Sharona promise to do whatever it takes to discover what really happened. Whatever it takes turns out to be a bit more than Monk bargained for, however. After talking with the props manager, he begins to suspect that Jenna Ryan, Gails understudy, somehow killed Duncan and framed Gail, even though she was at a party on the other side of town when Duncan died. In order to talk with and observe Jenna, he endures a painful half hour at a speed dating service and even agrees to take the dead mans part in the play for two days until a new actor arrives. While Monk is on stage battling stage fright and fully aware that one of the knives on the stage is real, Sharona searche

6 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Asylum

Monk is committed to an asylum, where he becomes convinced the chief psychiatrist committed a murder several years prior.

7 - Mr. Monk and the Voodoo Curse

Area residents receive unmarked dolls that seem to predict a series of strange deaths, leading many to suspect a voodoo curse is in play. The mystery hits close to home when Natalie becomes involved.

7 - Mr. Monk's 100th Case

As Monk and his friends watch a TV news magazine piece on the solution of his hundredth case, he realizes that one of the victims was murdered by a different killer.

7 - Mr. Monk and the Daredevil

Monk has trouble coping with new information that he finds out about his arch-rival, Harold Krenshaw.

7 - Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink

When Dr. Kroger retires after his cleaning lady is killed, its up to Monk to solve the case and get Dr. Kroger back to work.

7 - Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding

Needing a date for her brothers rehearsal dinner, Natalie resorts to asking Lt. Disher.

7 - Mr. Monk and the Employee of the Month

When Edna Coruthers, a model employee at a giant chain store called Mega-Mart, is killed by a falling television set, Monk is called in to investigate by the stores security chief--who turns out to be his disgraced ex-partner, Joe Christie. Neither Monk nor Stottlemeyer wants to work with Christie, whom they hold responsible for some missing cocaine and the death of two police officers, and both of them disregard the evidence that Edna might have been murdered--a broken shoe heel (suggesting that the victim ran from someone or something), her dust allergy (which normally kept her from entering the loading dock where the death occurred), and the three letters (in different handwriting but with similar stamps) complaining about the victim. Twenty-seven days later, realizing that the stamps were all from the same roll and therefore from the same person, Monk reluctantly agrees to help Christie discover a suspect and a motive by working undercover as a store clerk. But he still doesnt tr

7 - Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect

Monk suspects that the man responsible for the mail bombing murder of rich and beautiful Amanda Babbage is the victims brother, Brian – who has been in a coma for four months after attempting to lure Stottlemeyer and Disher into a car chase and crashing into two cars. Since the package was postmarked three days before the bombing, Stottlemeyer is naturally skeptical, but he prefers siding with Monk to tagging along behind Agent Grooms of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, who suspects the victims other brother, Ricky.

7 - Mr. Monk and the Billionaire Mugger

When billionaire software magnate Sidney Teal is shot dead by ex-cop Archie Modine after allegedly turning mugger and another policeman mysteriously flees the scene, Stottlemeyer calls in Monk to investigate. Meanwhile, Sharona threatens to quit (this time for sure) when her paycheck bounces, and Stottlemeyer is hounded by reporters demanding information on Fraidy Cop.

8 - Mr. Monk Goes to Group Therapy

After Monks insurance company refuses to pay for more private therapy sessions, he joins Dr. Bells therapy group, where it appears that someone is murdering fellow patients.

8 - Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized

Monk agrees to undergo hypnotic therapy as treatment for his OCD and reverts to a different persona.

8 - Mr. Monk and the Wrong Man

When a man he sent to prison years ago is cleared based on new evidence, a guilty Monk tries to help him adjust to life on the outside.

8 - Mr. Monk Goes to a Rock Concert

Monk goes to a rock concert to look for Captain Stottlemeyers son and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation.

8 - Mr. Monk and Little Monk

Monk flashes back to his early teenage years.

8 - Mr. Monk and the Game Show

With Sharona in New Jersey to visit her ailing mother, Monk is left in the very incompetent hands of his annoying upstairs neighbor, Kevin Dorfman, but the prospect of a week with Kevin is eased somewhat by a visit from Trudys father, Dwight Ellison. Dwight invites Monk (and Kevin) to spend the week with him and his wife, Marcia – and at the same time investigate gameshow host Roddy Lankman, who appears to be involved in a conspiracy to allow one of his contestants, Val Birch, to win every game. Despite the memories of Trudy aroused by spending time with her parents in her former home and the questionable help of Kevin, Monk discovers evidence that Lankman visited Birchs house – and that Birch visited the site of the accident that killed Lankmans assistant, Lizzie Talvo. To discover exactly how Lankman and his crooked contestant are communicating – and possibly prove that theyre involved in something much worse than cheating – Monk becomes a contestant on the game show. His knowledge o

8 - Mr. Monk Meets the Playboy

Suspecting that her boss, Elliott DSouza, has been murdered by playboy/publisher Dexter Larsen after withdrawing his financial backing for Larsens Sapphire magazine, DSouzas secretary hires Monk to investigate. After enlisting the help of the initially reluctant Stottlemeyer and Disher and convincing them that DSouzas death was no accident despite his being alone in a room locked from the inside, Monk suddenly tries to withdraw from the case. The reason? Larsen has obtained and is threatening to publish nude photographs of Sharona, relics of her past as a struggling single mother in Atlantic City. When Sharona discovers the reason for Monks strange behavior, her first reaction is shame and fear, but Benjys response to her partial confession arms her with fierce determination to retrieve the photos and nail the murderer. Through the common bond of motherhood, she persuades the Sapphire Girl who had provided Dexters alibi to confess the truth. Meanwhile, Monk puts together De

8 - Mr. Monk and the Other Woman

A very tidy woman who resembles Trudy turns Monks head while hes investigating a triple homicide. The only problem is, shes the prime suspect.

9 - Happy Birthday, Mr. Monk

Natalie tries to throw a surprise party for her surprise-hating boss, who is busy trying to solve the murder of a maintenance man.

9 - Mr. Monk and the Miracle

When three homeless men seek Monks services at the holidays, Natalie convinces him to investigate their friends death; Stottlemeyers faith is reawakened after a visit to a monastery fountain rids him of crippling pain.

9 - Mr. Monk Is Up All Night

Mr. Monk takes a walk when he cant sleep, but ends up running into a murder.

9 - Mr. Monk Meets His Dad

When Monks truck driving father rolls into town at Christmastime, Monk joins him on the road, where they stumble across a very peculiar mystery.

9 - Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa

When an officer dies after drinking poisoned wine sent to Captain Stottlemeyer as a Christmas gift, the captain suspects Frank Prager, who tried to shoot him outside a bar several months earlier. Searching the crime scene for clues, Monk notes that the bullet holes seem to form a pattern, but neither he nor Stottlemeyer can figure out the message theyre intended to convey. After trying unsuccessfully to talk with Pragers young daughter, Monk goes under cover as Santa Claus. This time he learns that Prager is hiding in a church with three ladies in front of it. But when Prager is caught and interrogated, its clear that he had nothing to do with the poisoned wine. With the other suspects on Dishers list also eliminated, Monk and the captain are back to square one. But when Monk opens the card accompanying his gift from the Christmas party, he finds the clue that solves the case.

9 - Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine

Captain Stottlemeyer and Lieutenant Disher are making a routine arrest when a mysterious man in a car drives up and shoots at them, wounding Stottlemeyer. When Monk and Disher try to apprehend their prime suspect, Monks obsessive-compulsive disorder allows the suspect to escape. Consumed with guilt, Monk goes to Dr. Kroger who gives him a drug to alleviate his obsessive-compulsiveness but impairs his sleuthing ability.

9 - Mr. Monk and the 12th Man

Faced with a string of nine brutal murders, all with different MOs and no apparent similarities among the victims, Captain Stottlemeyer calls in Monk to help him investigate. Suspicion falls at first on Henry Smalls, an insurance agent whose calendars appear in three of the victims photographs. But as Monk, accompanied by Sharona and her new boyfriend, Deputy Mayor Kenny Shale, waits in the dark for Smalls to return home, he helplessly witnesses a fatal stabbing in which the suspect becomes the victim. Rushing after the murderer, who is wearing a ski mask, Monk tries futilely to subdue him, but all hes able to discover is that the murderer bites his fingernails. As the number of victims rises to eleven, the diversity of the victims, combined with the fact that they all live in Marin County, suddenly causes both Monk and Stottlemeyer to realize that theyre all members of a jury. The ensuing investigation leads them to a six-year-old personal injury case, won by the plaintiff, who is

9 - Mr. Monk and the Marathon Man

A woman is murdered during the San Francisco marathon and Monk suspects her married lover. But he was running the race, and his tracking chip says he never left.

10 - Mr. Monk and Sharona

When Sharona returns to San Francisco to handle legal issues related to an uncles death, Monk suspects foul play and is torn between the differing styles of Sharona and Natalie.

10 - Mr. Monk's Other Brother

When Monks delinquent half-brother, Jack Jr., escapes from prison and breaks into Monks apartment, he manipulates Monk into helping him find the person he claims framed him for murder.

10 - Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa Claus

Monk becomes a social pariah when he shoots a man dressed as Santa Claus. Then he must clear his name and foil a larger criminal plot, all in time for Christmas.

10 - Mr. Monk and the Leper

A missing millionaire suffering from leprosy comes out of hiding to hire Monk, who soon finds himself in the midst of a shadowy murder plot worthy of a classic Hollywood film noir. Episode originally aired in black and white.

10 - Mr. Monk Goes to a Fashion Show

Monk is facing a crisis: hes down to five shirts. But Inspector No. 8, the only shirt inspector who can meet Monks criteria for perfection, is not up to her usual standards. Sensing that something is wrong, Monk visits No. 8 on the job. The inspector, Maria Ortiz, informs him that her son, Pablo, has been imprisoned for murdering a fashion model, but shes certain that hes innnocent. Monk is chiefly concerned about his shirts, but Natalie persuades him to talk to Pablo because its the right thing to do. The conversation uncovers just one clue: Pablo cant read English. When Monk realizes that the killer must have been able to read an emergency exit sign, hes convinced that Pablo is innocent despite the DNA evidence used to convict him. With Stottlemeyer and Disher in tow, Monk and Natalie attempt to talk to the models former roommate and the fashion designer she worked for, Julian Hodge. But now theres a new problem: Hodge wants thirteen-year-old Julie to model for him. Watching the rehearsal for a fashion show in which Julie will make her debut, Monk discovers a clue that points him to the real killer. When another supermodel is found dead, its imperative that Monk find new evidence to prove his suspect guilty of both murders and set Pablo free--and for Natalie to get Julie away from the person committing the murders.

10 - Mr. Monk and the Red Herring

With Sharona in New Jersey remarried to her ex-husband, Monk has been without an assistant for three months and its time to find a new one--if only he could find a suitable applicant. When Natalie Teeger, a thirty-something widow with an eleven-year-old daughter, arrives at his house, he thinks shes applying for the job, but shes really been sent by Captain Stottlemeyer to get Monks help--two men have broken into her apartment in the last few days and she had to kill the second one with scissors in self-defense. Examining Natalies apartment, Monk finds a single clue, an unused fish net caught between the sofa cushions, suggesting that the intruders were trying to steal Mr. Henry, Julies pet fish. But why would anyone want to steal a ninety-nine-cent red herring, er, crimson marblefish? A second clue surfaces when Lieutenant Disher finds a note in the dead perps pocket reading 2:30 Sea of Tranquility and Natalie identifies the Sea of Tranquility as an exhibit at the science mus

10 - Mr. Monk and the Paperboy

When Monks paperboy is murdered on his doorstep by a guy looking to steal his newspapers, Monk turns to the pages of the newspaper for clues to solve the baffling crime.

10 - Mr. Monk Takes a Vacation

While on vacation at a resort, Benjy claims he witnessed a murder. Monk believes him, but with no body and the cleanest crime scene Monk has ever seen, its going to be hard to convince everybody else.

11 - Mr. Monk and the Dog

Monk reluctantly adopts a dog while looking into the suspicious disappearance of its owner.

11 - Mr. Monk on Wheels

When Natalie unwittingly helps a thief steal the bicycle of a biotech CEO, she ropes Monk into solving a crime straight out of Encyclopedia Brown until Monk learns the hard way how dangerous this thief really is.

11 - Mr. Monk Joins a Cult

Monk joins a cult to solve a murder case, but becomes entranced by the cults charismatic leader.

11 - Mr. Monk Makes a Friend

A fun-loving everyman named Hal bumps into Monk, and the two become fast friends. For the first time in his life, Monk appears to have a buddy. But is Hal up to something?

11 - Mr. Monk Bumps His Head

Suffering from amnesia, Monk wakes up believing he is the husband of an eccentric resident of a small town.

11 - Mr. Monk vs. the Cobra

When John Ricca, author of a controversial and unfavorable biography of martial artist Sonny (the Cobra) Chow, is found dead in his home, all the evidence points to Chow as the murderer. Unfortunately for Captain Stottlemeyer, his chief suspect has been dead for six years. While Monk and Natalie (whos more interested in being reimbursed for her business expenses than in solving the case) visit Chows former teacher, Master Zee, who claims that Chow died in his arms, Stottlemeyer resorts to having the corpse dug up to prove that, despite rumors to the contrary, Chow is indeed dead. A dental X-ray proving that the corpse is Chow leaves Monk to figure out who tried to frame the dead man for murder. On an inadvertent tip from Disher, an avid Cobra fan, Monk and Natalie visit the Sonny Chow museum, where Monk finds two important clues--a hairbrush that has been stolen from its case and replaced with a lookalike and the stamp that the museum proprietor placed on Natalies hand so that she

11 - Mr. Monk and the Three Pies

When Monks older brother Ambrose calls him about a life-or-death matter, Monk accepts the call grudgingly and agrees to meet the brother from whom hes been estranged since Ambrose refused to attend Trudys funeral seven years before. In fact, Ambrose, an agoraphobic packrat whose house is full of bundled up newspapers, has not left the home he and Adrian grew up in for thirty-two years. Believing Ambroses claim that his next-door neighbor, Pat Van Ranken, has murdered his wife after a loud argument, Monk and Sharona visit Van Ranken and decide to follow him. Van Ranken, meanwhile, is behaving very strangely, entering a potato sack race and a bingo tournament in which the prizes include a cherry pie. Its not hard for the Monk brothers to tie Van Ranken to another murder involving a cherry pie--the challenge is finding a motive for Van Ranken and proving that he did it. The episode provides a glimpse of Monks family background and the reasons for his estrangement from his brother,

11 - Mr. Monk and the Earthquake

Renowned philanthropist Henry Rutherford is killed when a minor earthquake rocks the city and sends a display case falling on top of him. But when Monk examines the scene, he finds clues that suggest foul play.

12 - Mr. Monk Goes Camping

To get reinstated, Monk must go camping with the son of a committee member... and try to solve a crime.

12 - Mr. Monk and the Lady Next Door

While investigating a murder at a museum of oddities, Monk befriends a warm older woman, but he has trouble believing the friendship comes without a catch.

12 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Bank

One of Monks treasured possessions is stolen from a safety deposit box, and hell go to any length to solve the case.

12 - Mr. Monk is At Your Service

When Natalie suspects foul play in the deaths of her parents wealthy neighbors, Monk goes undercover as a butler to investigate.

12 - Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage

During the investigation of a murder in a junkyard, Captain Stottlemeyer punches a cop named Ryan Sharkey, who claims to be having an affair with the captains wife, Karen. The only witness to the murder, a homeless man named Gerald or Jerry, has disappeared, but Stottlemeyer suspects businessman Michael Karpov, who is facing charges for money laundering and had a motive for killing the victim, who was scheduled to testify against him. Removed from the case and ordered to take anger management classes, Stottlemeyer asks Monk and Natalie to follow his wife, whom he suspects of lying about her whereabouts. They discover Karen having lunch with a man but are only able to photograph him from the back before being interrupted. Meanwhile, the homeless witness has been stunned and thrown from the third floor of a building but survives the fall, thanks to a corrugated refrigerator carton. Disher places Karpov in a line-up otherwise composed of police officers, including Sharkey, but Stottlemeyer, still enraged at Sharkey, disrupts the line-up before the procedure has been completed. An apple provides the clue that Monk needs to solve the murder case, and Karen reveals the identity of the mystery man she had lunch with. Unfortunately for the captain, it isnt Sharkey.

12 - Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever

After witnessing a Chinese gangland murder, Monk has to stay in an FBI safe house--a cabin in the woods--in the protective custody of Agent Grooms, with Stottlemeyer and Natalie as company. Awakened by a mans scream, Monk convinces Stottlemeyer and Natalie that a woman in a nearby cabin has murdered her husband. Agent Grooms, however, remains skeptical. After Grooms disconnects their telephone, Stottlemeyer locks him in the bathroom and the three borrow Groomss car and set out in a rainstorm to investigate, only to get stuck in the mud on the way. Meanwhile, Disher and his new girlfriend Hayley are encountering a strange circumstance--the fortunes in their fortune cookies keep coming true. When a fortune informs Disher that an old friend is in trouble and only he can save him, Disher immediately sets out to save Monk, unaware that hes leading a pair of hitmen to the FBI cabin. After a rainy night in the car, Stottlemeyer leads Natalie and Monk through the woods toward the neighbor

12 - Mr. Monk and the T.V. Star

After visiting the set of the hit TV series Crime Lab S.F. during a celebration of its one hundredth episode, Monk suspects the shows star, Brad Terry, of murdering his ex-wife so he wont have to share his huge new paychecks with her. But the actors alibi seems solid--he was with photographers when the victims screams were heard. To complicate matters, a fan confesses to the crime and Terry passes a lie detector test. After Terry invites the captain, Disher, and Sharona--but not Monk--to a party, Monk realizes that Terry reminds him of a popular boy who treated him the same way in sixth grade and begins to doubt his own instincts. But when Stottlemeyer invites Monk to hear Marcis confession, Monks doubts shift to Marcis story. When she tells him that Terrys ex-wife was once an actress who made a single B movie, Monk has the clue he needs to solve the crime.

12 - Mr. Monk and the Red-Headed Stranger

When monks favorite singer, Willie Nelson, is suspected of murdering his tour manager, Monk steps in to clear his name.

13 - Mr. Monk Is the Best Man

Monk must determine who is trying to ruin a friends wedding.

13 - Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs

Monk has scored tickets to the biggest football game of the year, but he and Captain Stottlemeyer cant go inside until they figure out who tried to blow up a fan in the parking lot.

13 - Mr. Monk and the Three Julies

Monk searches for a killer who is apparently targeting women with the name Julie, a name which Natalies daughter shares.

13 - Mr. Monk is On the Air

Monk goes toe to toe with a popular radio shock jock who is suspected of killing his wife.

13 - Mr. Monk and the Big Reward

Low on cash because they havent had a homicide to investigate in three weeks, Monk and Natalie search for the stolen Alexander Diamond, hoping to win the million-dollar reward. Unfortunately, they have competition in the form of a retired Scotland Yard investigator, a bounty hunter, and a gadget-loving private detective, all of whom want the reward money for themselves. Monk quickly figures out that the heist was an inside job and that one of the robbers was under five feet tall, short enough to hide inside a roll-top desk. He also discovers a clue linking a perpetrator to a transcendental meditation retreat. With their competitors close behind them, Monk and Natalie head for the retreat, where they find the thief, who is unfortunately dead. Meanwhile, Disher is having to interrogate a strange young woman who keeps turning herself in for such crimes as stealing pens or murdering a hamster. Monk tells Natalie that hes solved the case and they race to the police station with the other detectives following. The only thing left is to find the diamond before their competitors do.

13 - Mr. Monk Gets Stuck in Traffic

When Monk, Natalie, and Julie get stuck in a traffic jam after a multi-car collision blocks the freeway, Monk gets out of the car to investigate. He soon deduces from the absence of skid marks and other clues that the young man in the overturned Volkswagen that caused the pile-up was murdered and his body placed in the car to make his death look like an accident. But the highway patrolman in charge of the accident scene wants nothing to do with Monk (or the not-very-successful lawyer who has latched onto him), and the mountains blocking the signal prevent Monk from calling Captain Stottlemeyer for an authorization to investigate. Monk briefly returns to Natalies car, where he finds Julie in need of a bathroom and Natalie nursing an injured wrist. Unfortunately for them, Monks mind is on the fatality, and he returns to the Volkswagen. The angry officer gives him the victims name and occupation (environmental activist), but he still refuses to listen to Monks evidence. Meanwhile, t

13 - Mr. Monk and the Missing Granny

Unable to pay for Monks services as a private detective, middle-aged law student Julie Parlo offers him a trade--shell help Monk become reinstated as a policeman with the SFPD if hell help her find her missing grandmother. The only clue to the identity of the kidnappers is a roughly drawn lightning bolt on a note left at the grandmothers house, leading Stottlemeyer and Disher to suspect the former leader of an anti-Vietnam War group from the Seventies. But when the captain, anticipating Monks reinstatement, invites Monk to help him with interrogation, Monk accidentally discovers that the suspects tattoo doesnt match the symbol on the note--it has three humps instead of two. Meanwhile, the kidnappers order Julie to provide turkey dinners to the homeless in exchange for the return of the grandmother. Julie complies and her grandmother is returned safely, leading Stottlemeyer to put the case on the back burner. True to her promise, Julie informs Monk of a loophole that will all

13 - Mr. Monk and the Airplane

Monks first flight proves to be harder than he anticipated when he begins to suspect that a fellow passenger murdered his wife.

14 - Mr. Monk and the Badge

Upon being reinstated, Monk is put in charge of tracking down a serial killer.

14 - Mr. Monk and the Bully

When a childhood bully who terrorized Monk hires the detective to trail his wife, whom he suspects of infidelity, Monk relishes the opportunity to prove him right — and things get even sweeter when the bully is accused of murder.

14 - Mr. Monk Paints His Masterpiece

Monk decides to take up painting as a hobby, and discovers an ardent admirer willing to buy anything he produces.

14 - Mr. Monk Visits a Farm

When Lt. Disher inherits a farm from an uncle who committed suicide, he decides to quit the police force and start a new life in the country. But Disher soon suspects that his uncle was murdered, so Monk joins him on the farm to investigate.

14 - Mr. Monk and the Astronaut

When Captain Stottlemeyer suspects that a suicide is really a murder, Monk confirms his suspicions by discovering that the victim, Joanne Raphelson, was too short to have used the stool she supposedly stood on to hang herself. But the next clue, the remains of an olive, a cherry, and a cocktail onion on a stirring stick, leads Monk to suspect that the murder was committed by an astronaut, Steve Wagner. A little research reveals a motive--Joanne was about to publish a book revealing that Wagner had abused her five years earlier. Now all Monk has to do is to prove that Wagner could commit the murder when he was in outer space.

14 - Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas

In the middle of the night, Monk receives a phone call from a drunken Stottlemeyer, who has gone to Las Vegas with Disher for a fellow officers bachelor party. Stottlemeyer believes that a wealthy casino owner has murdered his wife, but he needs Monks help to prove that the death wasnt an accident. Unfortunately, when Monk arrives in Vegas with Natalie the next morning, Stottlemeyer cant remember anything that happened the previous night--including how his pants happened to be thrown out the window. As Monk and Natalie explore the elevator where the woman died, interrogate witnesses, and reenact the death scene (with Monk in the role of victim), Stottlemeyer tries to retrace his steps and deal with Disher, who has become addicted to blackjack and fallen hopelessly deep into debt. When Monk, at Stottlemeyers insistence, takes Dishers place at the blackjack table to win back his money, he figures out how the murder occurred as he simultaneously places winning bets, but the casino o

14 - Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife

On her way to film a documentary (apparently about a union dispute), Captain Stottlemeyers wife, Karen, is badly injured when her car is struck by a tow truck whose nonunion driver has been killed by a sniper. Distraught and furious, the captain blames a sleazy union official and his thug, a theory that seems to be confirmed when a second tow truck driver is murdered. But Lieutenant Disher, in charge of the crime scene investigation, discovers an odd detail that doesnt fit well with this scenario – both the assailant and the murdered truck driver were barefoot. Empathizing with the captains anguish, Monk offers to do whatever he can to help and of course ends up investigating the case. A small dog that follows Sharona from the crime scene leads her to the home of a handsome man who seems attracted to her, but Monk is more interested in the next-door neighbors off-kilter sundial. Meanwhile, the captain, fearing that his wife will die, becomes increasingly violent, taking out his anger...

15 - Mr. Monk and the End (1)

Monk is called to a murder at the location where he first heard of his wifes murder, and while Monk figures out who the assassin is, he doesnt know that the one who ordered the hit is also responsible for the death of Trudy. Knowing that Monk will eventually put all the pieces together, he orders Monks death, and when all hope seems lost, Monk discovers something which could finally end his 12-year nightmare.

15 - Mr. Monk and the Magician

When a friend of Monks is killed, Monk believes that a magician is responsible and a battle of wits and sleight-of-hand ensue.

15 - Mr. Monk Is On The Run (1)

Monk is arrested for murder, and finds that he has to go on the lam to clear himself.

15 - Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy

When the mysterious “Six Way Killer” strikes in San Francisco, Monk matches his detective skills against the flashy forensic technology of a federal agent as they both pursue the murderer.

15 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist

During the investigation of an armored car heist involving the deaths of two drivers and the theft of valuable government bonds, Lt. Disher tries to convince Captain Stottlemeyer that he witnessed a murder while under anesthesia in the dentists office. When one of the highjackers, Denny Jardeen, is found murdered, Disher insists that Jardeen is the man he saw Dr. Bloom and his assistant kill while he was sedated. Stottlemeyer still thinks that Disher was hallucinating, and Disher angrily leaves the force, deciding to revive his high school rock band, the Randy Disher Project, as an alternate means of earning his living. Meanwhile, the only clue to Jardeens murder is two pairs of bruises each ten inches apart on the dead mans chest.

15 - Mr. Monk and the Election

With her daughters school about to be closed as a cost-cutting measure, Natalie becomes a candidate in the upcoming school board election despite Monks fears that shell desert him if she wins. Natalies frustrations with a jammed photocopier and other defective equipment bought at a police auction are dwarfed by fear for her life when a sniper fires into her campaign headquarters, further damaging the equipment and killing a security guard. The only clues to the identity of the sniper are an oddly folded note demanding that Natalie Teege withdraw from the election and a bullet from a semiautomatic rifle made in Russia. Suspicion falls on Natalies opponent in the election, Harold Krenshaw, whom Monk knows as a fellow patient of Dr. Krogers. Although Monk thinks that Krenshaw is lying about his friendship with Dr. Kroger and Krenshaw admits to being an excellent shot, Monk is sure that Krenshaw is innocent because he wouldnt misspell Natalies name. When Krenshaw passes a polygra

15 - Mr. Monk Gets Married

After a phone call from Lt. Disher, Monk and Sharona find him in Captain Stottlemeyers office, drinking Scotch to console himself because his 58-year-old mother has married a 37-year-old antique dealer hes sure is up to no good. The con man, Dalton Padron, has taken his aging bride to a marriage counseling clinic for their honeymoon, and Sharona persuades Monk that the best way to catch him is to pose as husband and wife and join him at the clinic. In a group therapy session, Sharona accuses Padron of winking at her and, in the scuffle that follows, snatches an old letter from his jacket pocket. The letter confirms their suspicions: Padron is after the gold that was stashed away 150 years earlier by the crazy old prospector who once owned the house. Padron later grabs the letter and burns it, but not before Monk and Sharona discover that the secret is somewhere in the hundreds of journals that the old man wrote before he died. Early the next morning, Sharona follows Padron into an ol

16 - Mr. Monk and the End (2)

After listening to Trudys last message, Monk finally discovers who killed his wife. Racing against time before he dies of poison, he must make a fateful decision.

16 - Mr. Monk Fights City Hall

Monk becomes involved in the disappearance of a city official that could have ramifications concerning Trudys murder.

16 - Mr. Monk Is On The Run (2)

Stottlemeyer must keep up the pretense that Monk is dead, while Adrian tries to determine who framed him for murder.

16 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Hospital

Monk goes to the emergency room for a bloody nose, but when a doctor in the hospital turns up dead, Monk joins the murder investigation, and soon his own life is in grave danger.

16 - Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty

Monk is summoned to jury duty against his wishes and must solve two crimes: he has to convince the jury the defendent is not guilty, and solve the mystery of a corpse outside the jury rooms window.

16 - Mr. Monk and the Kid

After twenty-two-month-old Tommy Graser finds a severed finger and gives it to a policeman, Monk walks through the park with Tommy trying to retrace the childs steps. He finds no body or other incriminating evidence, but he does discover a surprising affection for the placid and intelligent toddler, who constantly repeats Monks name and quietly submits to having his hands wiped when he touches nature. A lab technician identifies the finger as that of a twenty-five-year-old man, and Monk deduces from a callus that the young man played the violin. After visiting the home of Daniel Carlyle, a musician who fits this description, Monk concludes that Daniels mother and her other son, Jason, killed Daniel and that Jason is masquerading as his brother. Meanwhile, little Tommy is temporarily removed from the custody of his foster parents, and Monk surprises everyone, including himself, by volunteering to care for him for two weeks until his new adoptive parents can take him. With Tommy in

16 - Mr. Monk Goes to Jail

Who would murder a death-row inmate forty-five minutes before his execution--and why? Thats the question Captain Stottlemeyer asks Monk--but Monks response is to ask why it matters. As Monk is hurrying to leave the prison, however, he gets a phone call from his old nemesis, Dale the Whale Biederbeck, that changes his plans. The police consider Dale a suspect in the inmates murder (the young man owed him twelve hundred dollars) and refuse to give him a window in his cell until his name is cleared, so Dale strikes a bargain with Monk--solve the case and hell provide information about Trudys murder. After interviewing the cook who prepared the dead inmates last meal, Monk notices that another cook never clocked out the evening before. The missing cook is found dead in a freezer with a wad of bills in his apron pocket--clearly the person who bribed him to poison the inmate was afraid he would talk and killed him, too. On his way out of the prison, he receives another phone call, th