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Obsessive. Compulsive. Detective.

Monk Aired From July 12, 2002 - December 04, 2009 On USA

The Plot:
Adrian Monk grew up with obsessive-compulsive disorder, including a variety of quirks and tics. He has a full brother, Ambrose, and a half-brother, Jack, Jr.

Monk was a brilliant homicide detective working for the San Francisco Police Department until his wife Trudy died in a car bomb attack in 1997 while picking up cough medicine for Ambrose. Monk suffered a nervous breakdown and became a shut-in, refusing to leave his house for three years. With the help of practical nurse Sharona Fleming, he was finally able to leave the house. He began to perform consulting work for the police on particularly difficult cases.

Captain Leland Stottlemeyer and Lieutenant Randall "Randy" Disher call on Monk when they can't crack a case. Stottlemeyer is often infuriated by Monk's disorder, but respects his friend and former partner's amazing observational abilities, as does Disher. Monk's obsessive attention to detail allows him to spot tiny discrepancies, find patterns, and make connections that everyone else in an investigation misses. Monk continues to search for information about his wife's death, the one case he has been unable to solve.

In the third season, Sharona decides to re-marry her ex-husband and moves to New Jersey. Natalie Teeger, a single mother with a daughter eleven years old, is soon hired as Monk's new assistant.

Monk is almost never described as having OCD. Sometimes the characters go out of their way not to mention it, even to avoid an inconvenient misunderstanding. For example, in one episode, Monk shakes the hand of two white women, then a black man, then wipes his hands. Monk and Sharona allow this to be taken as evidence of racism rather than explain his disorder. Natalie has referred to him as "particular" and "persnickety" rather than explaining the true extent of his problems.

Main Cast:

Tony Shalhoub	Adrian Monk
Ted Levine	Cpt. Leland Stottlemeyer
Jason Gray-Stanford	Lt. Randall Disher
Traylor Howard	Natalie Teeger
Stanley Kamel	Dr. Charles Kroger
Bitty Schram	Sharona Fleming

Descriptions adapted from: wikipedia & IMDb
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Episode 1x01 - Mr. Monk and the Candidate (1) [Series Premiere]
Former police inspector Adrian Monk is called in as a private consultant to investigate the murder of a young woman and then the assassination of a mayoral candidate.

Episode 1x02 - Mr. Monk and the Candidate (2)
(Continued from Part One) The police get a lead on the would-be assassin, but he manages to escape, in part because of Monk's fear of heights. Sharona convinces the deputy mayor to let Monk continue his investigation despite Captain Stottlemeyer's objections. After Monk has gathered the suspects together to recreate the crime scene, the hitman takes a shot at his accomplice and Sharona, playing Lois Lane, follows him into a sewer. Overcoming his revulsion, Monk goes in after them, placing Kleenex on the rungs of the ladder to protect his hands and feet on the way down. But Kleenex won't protect his shoes or the cuffs of his pants from the filthy, six-inch deep water. This novel act of courage moves Monk one step closer to recovering his emotional stability--and getting his old job back.

Episode 1x03 - Mr. Monk and the Psychic
A panicky woman driver goes off the road thanks to a skid block placed by her husband, former police commissioner Harry Ashcombe. The next morning Dolly Flint, a psychic on first name terms with Captain Stottlemeyer (who has arrested her three times on bunko charges) wakes up in her car next to the site of the staged accident. Dolly insists that she was led to the site by the dead woman's "aura," but Monk is suspicious. At the memorial service held in the dead woman's expensive home, Monk figures out what the audience already knows--that Ashcombe is the murderer. With the aid of Ashcombe's mistress, Monk, the captain, and Dolly stage a psychic "reading" to catch the killer. Eight out of ten.

Episode 1x04 - Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale
A 911 call from a judge identifies the man who is about to murder her as rich and obscenely fat financier Dale Biederbeck. But "Dale the Whale" weighs over 800 pounds and can't get up from his bed, making it impossible for him to have commited the murder, despite the 911 call and the testimony of a ten-year-old witness who saw an extremely fat man through the window of the judge's house. The fact that Biederbeck sued Monk's wife for libel after she criticized his ethics in a newspaper article gives Monk added incentive to find him guilty. While Monk and Captain Stottlemeyer try to figure out how Dale could have committed the murder, Sharona gets her chance to play Lois Lane, or rather Florence Nightingale, by briefly serving as Biederbeck's nurse instead of Monk's. She also finds herself attracted to Dale's private physician, Christian (kristy AN) Vezza.

Episode 1x05 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival
A police officer and friend of Stottlemeyer is framed for a crime he didn't commit involving a ferris wheel. Meanwhile Monk tries to convince Stottlemeyer to get him reinstated.

Episode 1x06 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Asylum
After attempting to prepare his dead wife's favorite dinner in her old house to celebrate the anniversary of the day they met, Monk is arrested for unlawful entry and is taken to Medford Psychiatric Institute for forty-eight hours of psychiatric observation. His roommate, overly empathic John Wurster ("I'm a detective, too!"), informs him of an unsolved murder four years earlier, while another inmate, Manny, involves him in a quest to discover Santa Claus on the asylum roof. In addition to Dr. Lancaster's orders not to play detective during his stay at Medford, Monk finds his quest to solve the two "cases" thwarted by apparent slips of memory--a picture he doesn't remember drawing and another patient's necklace that has found its way into his pocket. After the necklace incident, Monk finds himself strait-jacketed in the "choir room" as the doctor's sinister aide goes upstairs for four cc's of Thorazine. Meanwhile, Sharona, who hears about the murder on a visit to Monk, examines the murdered doctor's journal to confirm Monk's suspicions regarding the perpetrator. The climactic scene on the roof outside Manny's room reveals Santa Claus and the murderer to be one and the same. Seven out of ten.

Episode 1x07 - 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. Not only is the idea of a billionaire turning mugger hard to swallow, the circumstances of the mugging are suspicious. Why, for example, would a mugger wear knee and elbow pads? Meanwhile, Sharona threatens to quit (this time for sure) when her paycheck bounces, and Stottlemeyer is hounded by reporters demanding information on "Fraidy Cop." Unable to continue the investigation without Sharona's help, Monk returns to the seemingly unsolvable mystery of his wife's murder only to find that his "new" clue isn't new; he's already talked to writer Kelly Street three times. Sharona finds that selling lamps isn't nearly as much fun as working for Monk (with or without money) and comes to the rescue with a new clue involving Teal and Modine.

Episode 1x08 - Mr. Monk and the Other Woman
When a lawyer and his assistant are murdered, suspicion falls on a disgruntled client whose burnt file is found in the wastebasket. When the suspect, Grayson, is also murdered, Stottlemeyer is certain that Grayson's neighbor, a pretty blonde named Monica Waters who has been feuding with Grayson for two years about her garage, is guilty of all three murders. But Monk is attracted to Monica, who bears a slight resemblance to Trudy. Because Monica's absent husband had OCD, she understands Monk in a way that Sharona can't, which of course adds to the attraction. Even her garage is perfect, exactly the way Monk would want his garage to be organized if he ever had one. A touching bond forms between them until a call from Stottlemeyer leads him to suspect that Monica may really be the murderer.


Episode 1x09 - Mr. Monk and the Marathon Man
A woman is murdered during the San Francisco marathon and Monk suspects her married lover, Trevor McDowell, even though he was running in the race. Although McDowell disappears from the video tape of the race less than halfway through and reappears only at the end, the data from a computer chip indicates that he was present at all checkpoints during the race. After interrogating the murdered woman's ex-husband as a possible suspect only to find that his alibi is probably credible, a frustrated Stottlemeyer provides Monk with a brilliant suggestion--that the computer chip was passed off to someone else during the race. Monk meanwhile has the chance to visit his hero, an aging runner from Nigeria whom Sharona briefly suspects may be the murderer's accomplice--a theory Monk refuses even to consider. When Monk figures out what really happened, he must catch the murderer himself to prove his theory.

Episode 1x10 - Mr. Monk Takes a Vacation
Monk's beach resort vacation with Sharona and Benjy turns into work when Benjy witnesses a murder. But with no body to be found and "the cleanest crime scene in the history of crime," Benjy can't convince anyone except Monk and the hotel's kooky security chief that he's telling the truth. Believing that Benjy's imagination is working overtime and determined to enjoy her vacation, Sharona takes unneeded tennis lessons from yet another Mr. Wrong while Monk and his new assistant follow what turns out to be a false lead. Benjy spots the body only to have it disappear again, and the security chief reveals Monk's own room to be contaminated with some of the "fourteen bodily fluids" detected by her sonar machine. When Monk figures out who stole four bags of lime from the grounds supervisor's shed, he solves the case. Unfortunately, his time at the hotel is almost up and the body still has not been found.

Episode 1x11 - Mr. Monk and the Earthquake
Monk is traumatized by an earthquake and meets Sharona's sister, but worse of all he has to deal with a murderer who uses the disaster as cover for his killing.

Episode 1x12 - Mr. Monk and the Red-Headed Stranger
Country singer Willie Nelson, who portrays himself, becomes the prime suspect when his manager is murdered, but the only witness is a blind woman who claims to have overheard a scuffle and can identify Willie as the murderer by his voice. At first Stottlemeyer (who is on the case despite a broken arm) is reluctant to arrest the famous singer on such shaky evidence, but a video tape convinces him that Willie must indeed be guilty. But for Monk, the fact that a note used to lure the victim to his death refers to him as "J. Cross" while Willie refers to him as "Sonny" casts doubt on the blind woman's story. Determined for the sake of his dead wife, Trudy, a devoted fan, to prove the singer innocent, Monk interviews the blind woman and investigates the manager's less than reputable background, searching for the clue he needs to clear the singer's name.

Episode 1x13 - Mr. Monk and the Airplane [Season Finale]
Thinking that he's just accompanying Sharona to the airport to pick up her aunt, Monk discovers to his dismay that she's the one making the flight. The choice between being on his own without Sharona or flying cross-country to New Jersey is a tough one, but he overcomes his fears and boards the plane. After annoying the passengers and crew with his first-time-flyer questions, he becomes even more unsettled after small anomalies convince him that the Frenchman sitting across the aisle has murdered his wife and the woman accompanying him is an imposter. He calls Captain Stottlemeyer only to find that it's the captain's day off but manages to persuade Lt. Disher to search the airport for a body. With on-and-off help from Sharona (who would rather be "helping" Tim Daly decide whether to accept a role in an upcoming film) and from the extension cord salesman in the seat next to him, Monk tries to provide the evidence Disher needs to order the arrest. Meanwhile another murder is committed while Monk is trapped in the bathroom. Sharona rescues him, but the co-pilot refuses to believe his story and orders him back to his seat. The angry flight attendant (played by Tony Shalhoub's wife, Brooke Adams) disables the call button and destroys a piece of key evidence, but Monk still has the phone to call Disher, and the race is on to find the body before the murderous couple board their plane for Paris.

Episode descriptions adapted from:  tv.com
contributed by janenjab

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Episode 2x01 - Mr. Monk Goes Back to School [Season Premiere]
When English teacher Beth Landow falls from the clock tower at Trudy's former high school, Monk is called in and quickly disproves the police theory of suicide. The trail of clues leads to a science teacher but he has an iron-clad alibi. Monk becomes a substitute teacher in the hopes of solving the case.

Episode 2x02 - Mr. Monk Goes to Mexico
Monk is sent to Mexico to investigate the strange case of a young man who drowned...in mid-air during a parachute drop. Monk is more concerned that he can't get hsi favorite spring water, and distracted by the fact someone is trying to kill him.

Episode 2x03 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Ballgame
When tyrannical CEO Lawrence Hammond and his pretty young wife are murdered at night in a deserted parking lot, Stottlemeyer suspects the CEO's many enemies, but Monk notes that the wife was shot four times and the husband only once, meaning that she was the primary target and the husband "an afterthought." The only clues are the CEO's last words, obsessively repeated: "Girls can't eat fifteen pizzas"--and a computerized navigation system that apparently malfunctioned. During a visit to the lawyer of a rival baseball player who may be connected with the murder, Monk finds the clue he needs to put all the pieces together.

Episode 2x04 - 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 (he's the former lover of the ringmaster's dinner date) but also owns the murder weapon. Monk, however, suspects the ringmaster's ex-wife, a trapeze artist billed as "the Queen of the Sky" who is also a sharpshooter. Unfortunately for Monk's theory, the trapeze artist, Natasia Lovara, has a broken foot, confirmed by X-rays. The mystery, as in "Billionaire Mugger" and "Dale the Whale," is not who did it but how it was done.

Episode 2x05 - Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man
Stottlemeyer's wife suspects foul play in the death of one of his documentary subjects--the world's oldest man. He dismisses her concerns but has Monk check things out... and Monk suspects a murder really was committed.

Episode 2x06 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater
Sharona's 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 Sharona's mother (who thinks that Sharona is Monk's 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, Gail's 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 man's 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 searches Jenna's dressing room to discover the clue they need to solve the case and set Gail free.

Episode 2x07 - Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect  
In a new twist on the "how could he (or she) possibly have done it" theme that we saw first in "Dale the Whale," Monk suspects that the man responsible for the mail bombing murder of rich and beautiful Amanda Babbage is the victim's 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 victim's other brother, Ricky. Monk, meanwhile, has other problems. Dr. Kroger is leaving for a three-week vacation, Sharona's ex-husband wants her to come back to him and leave her job, and he temporarily loses most of his hearing after being caught in the explosion of another bomb. Depressed and lonely, Monk confides his woes to the comatose suspect--and makes a near-fatal blunder which, ironically, leads to the solution of the case.

Episode 2x08 - Mr. Monk Meets the Playboy
Monk is hired to investigate the "accidental" death of a playboy/publisher but must make a tough decision when the primary suspect threatens to publish nude photos of Sharona taken during he shady past.

Episode 2x09 - Mr. Monk and the 12th Man
]Monk helps the police investigate a brutal string of nine murders but he is unable tos top two more killings and before figuring out the pattern behind the killings.

Episode 2x10 - Mr. Monk and the Paperboy
When his paperboy, Nestor Alverez, is murdered on his front doorstep by a newspaper thief, Monk searches the newspaper for clues, all the while assuming that the murderer is really after him. Meanwhile, he has to put up with policemen examining every inch of his apartment, which is now a crime scene, and wiping their feet on his clean doormat. Worse, his nerdy upstairs neighbor, Kevin, can't stop talking about his affair with a pretty woman who suddenly finds him irresistible. The search through the newspaper leads Monk to solve two unrelated crimes, including one in France, but takes him no nearer to solving Nestor's murder until a second murder is committed near his home. This time it's a convenience store clerk killed with a broken soft drink bottle near an ATM. A sharp-eyed Sharona spots a smudge of lipstick on the bottle, leading them to suspect that this time the killer is a woman. As Monk, returning to the paper one last time, tosses it in the trash in frustration, he sees the clue that leads him to put the two murders together and solve the case--the winning lottery numbers. But his work isn't over and neither is Sharona's: They still have to prevent a third murder.

Episode 2x11 - Mr. Monk and the Three Pies
When Monk's older brother Ambrose calls him about a "life-or-death matter," Monk accepts the call grudgingly and agrees to meet the brother from whom he's been estranged since Ambrose refused to attend Trudy's 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 Ambrose's 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. It's 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 Monk's family background and the reasons for his estrangement from his brother, whose unwillingness to let go of his clutter conflicts with Adrian's obsessive neatness. The climax tests the courage of the newly reconciled brothers and cements the bond between them.

Episode 2x12 - 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 show's star, Brad Terry, of murdering his ex-wife so he won't have to share his huge new paychecks with her. But the actor's alibi seems solid--he was with photographers when the victim's 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 Marci's confession, Monk's doubts shift to Marci's story. When she tells him that Terry's ex-wife was once an actress who made a single B movie, Monk has the clue he needs to solve the crime.

Episode 2x13 - Mr. Monk and the Missing Granny  
Unable to pay for Monk's services as a private detective, middle-aged law student Julie Parlo offers him a trade--she'll help Monk become reinstated as a policeman with the SFPD if he'll 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 grandmother's house, leading Stottlemeyer and Disher to suspect the former leader of an anti-Vietnam War group from the Seventies. But when the captain, anticipating Monk's reinstatement, invites Monk to help him with interrogation, Monk accidentally discovers that the suspect's tattoo doesn't match the symbol on the note--it has three humps instead of two.


Episode 2x14 - Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife
On her way to film a documentary (apparently about a union dispute), Captain Stottlemeyer's 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 doesn't fit well with this scenario--both the assailant and the murdered truck driver were barefoot. Empathizing with the captain's 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 neighbor's off-kilter sundial. Meanwhile, the captain, fearing that his wife will die, becomes increasingly violent, taking out his anger on everything from candy machines to suspects, and Disher worries that he'll lose his badge. Fortunately for the captain's career and sanity, Karen begins to recover, and Monk finds himself taking Stottlemeyer's sons to lunch at her request. A jostled table at the restaurant reminds him of the misadjusted sundial and he solves the case just in time to prevent a full-scale assault on the union leader by the captain and his men.

Episode 2x15 - Mr. Monk Gets Married
Monk and Sharona are forced to go undercover as a married couple to help out Disher when his mother marries a suspected con man.

Episode 2x16 - Mr. Monk Goes to Jail [Season Finale]
Monk must go undercover at the big house to investigate the mystery of a death-row inmate's murder.

Episode descriptions adapted from:  tv.com
contributed by janenjab

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Episode 3x01 - Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan [Season Premiere]
Monk and his friends go to New York to track down a man who has information on Trudy's murder, but Adrian becomes involved with another murder.

Episode 3x02 - 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 there's a further twist: the dead man's 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 he's 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 him in. A reluctant Stottlemeyer is forced to arrest Sharona, and a severely distressed Monk has a "monkey" on his hands. Fortunately for everyone, Darwin himself provides the clue that solves the case and the real murderer is trapped into revealing his identity.

Episode 3x03 - Mr. Monk and the Blackout  
Three deaths during a blackout lead Monk to a killer who was a '90s radical... and has been dead for a decade.

Episode 3x04 - Mr. Monk Gets Fired
Karen Stottlemeyer has decided to film a "cinema verite" documentary about her husband's work, but her timing couldn't 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 victim's age and nationality, he accidentally erases several years' worth of crucial computer files, and the enraged commissioner revokes Monk's private practice license despite Stottlemeyer's 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.

Episode 3x05 - Mr. Monk Meets the Godfather
The Mafia and the FBI both pressure Monk into taking on the case of five mobsters gunned down in a barbershop.

Episode 3x06 - Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf
It's Sharona's 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 Sharona's: everything from Monk's 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 instructor's husband dies of a heart attack after eating tomato soup, Sharona recognizes the plot of her missing story and realizes that she's not crazy. All she and Monk have to do now is tie together the boot tip and the tomato soup to prove that the death is murder and solve the mystery of the bloody man.

Episode 3x07 - Mr. Monk and the Employee of the Month
Monk takes a job at a department store to solve the murder of one of the store's employees.

Episode 3x08 - 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 Trudy's 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 Birch's house--and that Birch visited the site of the accident that killed Lankman's assistant, Lizzie Talvo. To discover exactly how Lankman and his crooked contestant are communicating--and possibly prove that they're involved in something much worse than cheating--Monk becomes a contestant on the game show. His knowledge of trivia is not much help, though, since Birch keeps shouting out the answers (A, B, C, or D) before Lankman has finished asking the questions. With a little help from Dwight, Monk discovers a novel way to expose the guilty parties--an onscreen phone call to Birch.

Episode 3x09 - Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine
After Captain Stottlemeyer is shot in the shoulder by an unknown assailant, a somewhat rattled and very angry Disher is left in charge of the investigation. Although Monk is almost as distressed as Disher, he provides very little help with the investigation, even allowing a suspect to get away. Feeling depressed and helpless, Monk decides to try a new medication that controls his OCD and eliminates his phobias but also makes him insufferably egotistical, unempathetic, and oblivious to the details that are so vivid to the "normal" Monk. Meanwhile, the suspect Disher has been pursuing is proven innocent, and the bullet taken from the captain's shoulder is traced to a gun belonging to a dead woman. Stottlemeyer impatiently checks himself out of the hospital with his arm in a sling and arranges to interview the new suspect with the help of Monk, Sharona, and Disher. Monk arrives late, dressed in a loud Hawaiian shirt and talking like a "cool cat" from the 1950s. "The Monk," as he calls himself, contributes nothing useful to the interview and discovers nothing when he does his Zen routine in the dead woman's apartment. Undeterred by Sharona's insistence that the medication is making him sicker, he drives off in his new red Mustang. Only when he's made a fool of by some college kids does he realize that "the Monk" is no more normal--and a lot less competent and compassionate--than his usual self. Returning to the dead woman's apartment, he figures out what was wrong and how to prove the suspect guilty of more than one crime, and Sharona triumphantly throws the pills in the dumpster.

Episode 3x10 - Mr. Monk and the Red Herring  
Monk ends up hiring a new assistant, Natalie, but she has been the subject of a brutal attack involving the attempted theft of...her daughter's beloved pet fish.

Episode 3x11 - Mr. Monk vs. the Cobra
Monk investigates the murder of an author who wrote a biography of a famous deceased martial arts movie star, Sonny Chow. It begins to look like Chow to commit murder against the man who maligned him.

Episode 3x12 - Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever
Monk witnesses a gangland killing and has to go into protective custody in a cabin in the woods. But he notices suspicious activity at a nearby cabin and suspects a murder has occurred there.

Episode 3x13 - 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 Natalie's car, where he finds Julie in need of a bathroom and Natalie nursing an injured wrist. Unfortunately for them, Monk's mind is on the fatality, and he returns to the Volkswagen. The angry officer gives him the victim's name and occupation (environmental activist), but he still refuses to listen to Monk's evidence. Meanwhile, the murderer, realizing that he has accidentally switched cell phones with the victim, is also trying to get back to the Volkswagen--and he kills again in order to do so. Monk's suspicions turn to a paramedic wearing mud-spattered construction boots, but the highway patrolman still refuses to listen. Furious at Monk's continued interference, he arrests him and handcuffs him in the backseat of a police car. Natalie finds Monk and, after a bit of good-humored teasing, decides to help him by checking the back of the suspect's dump truck for evidence. The suspect drives away with Natalie still in the back of the truck and the cops ignore Monk's pleas for help until the discovery of a second body proves Monk right. At that point, the patrolman joins forces with Monk and the chase is on to rescue Natalie and catch the murderer.

Episode 3x14 - Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas
Stottlemeyer is in Las Vegas and drunkenly figures out how a wealthy casino owner secretly murdered, but calls in the Monk the next day when he can't remember how he solved the murder.

Episode 3x15 - Mr. Monk and the Election
With her daughter's school about to be closed as a cost-cutting measure, Natalie becomes a candidate in the upcoming school board election despite Monk's fears that she'll desert him if she wins. Natalie's 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 Natalie's opponent in the election, Harold Krenshaw, whom Monk knows as a fellow patient of Dr. Kroger's. 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 wouldn't misspell Natalie's name. When Krenshaw passes a polygraph test that eliminates him as a suspect, Stottlemeyer concentrates on protecting Natalie, assigning Disher the role of full-time bodyguard, only to have the perp throw a hand grenade through a window in an attempt to kill Monk. A fragment of the grenade reveals that it was made in Chechnya, solidifying the Russian connection. At a debate between Natalie and Krenshaw, one of Natalie's campaign workers hands Monk a flyer folded exactly the same way as the note, and Monk informs Disher that "he's the guy." Following this new lead, Stottlemeyer discovers that the man is suspected by the FBI of being a major arms dealer and decides to go after him, but it's only when Monk is suffering from claustrophobia in a voting booth that he figures out the man's motive and anticipates his next move. The perp is arrested and Stottlemeyer finds the evidence he needs to convict him. The outcome for Natalie and Monk is bittersweet; she loses the election and he learns that Krenshaw was telling the truth (or something close to it) about Dr. Kroger.

Episode 3x16 - Mr. Monk and the Kid [Season Finale]
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 child's 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 Monk's 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 Daniel's 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 tow, Monk and Natalie follow the Carlyles. After seeing them waiting for a pay phone to ring and Mrs. Carlyle crying on her son's shoulder, Monk arrives at a new conclusion, which is verified when he again talks to the Carlyles--Daniel has been kidnapped. Monk agrees to follow the kidnapper's bizarre instructions, which include delivering the $500,000 ransom fee in a garbage bag onto a rooftop while wearing only a bathrobe (and his shoes and socks). Unfortunately, Monk is distracted by a phone call from Julie, who is babysitting Tommy, and delivers the money to the wrong man. While Captain Stottlemeyer and Lieutenant Disher straighten out the mix-up, Monk resumes caring for Tommy. Controlled chaos and dirty diapers give way to more urgent matters when Monk realizes that Tommy has taken a tube of lipstick out of Natalie's purse--and inadvertently given Monk the clue that solves the case. After reading Tommy to sleep with a fairy tale about a heroic little prince who solves a mystery, Monk realizes that Tommy will never live happily ever after with Mr. Monk and sadly decides to give him up to his adoptive parents.

Episode descriptions adapted from:  tv.com
contributed by janenjab

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Episode 4x01 - Mr. Monk and the Other Detective [Season Premiere]
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 "He's cheating" and "That's impossible," Eels locates robbers' ski masks, Gumbal's car, and Gumbal's body. Using the dead man's 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 "yesterday's 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 who's 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.

Episode 4x02 - Mr. Monk Goes Home Again
On Halloween, an armored car driver is shot several times with his own gun. Monk is called from the crime scene by Ambrose, who says that their father is coming to visit, but not before Captain Stottlemeyer shoos away a pigeon and Monk finds a clove cigarette on the ground. While the captain interviews a witness and discovers that the killer was not after money, the Monk brothers wait for their father and Ambrose hands out carefully counted treats. Meanwhile, a man dressed as Frankenstein's monster snatches candy from some of the children trick-or-treating with Julie. Leaving Ambrose alone with Natalie, whom he seems to be developing a crush on, Adrian investigates the candy theft and discovers that all of the victims received candy from "the special man" (Ambrose). He also finds a clove cigarette linking the two crimes. When Julie convinces Monk to take her out trick-or-treating again because she hardly got any candy, he comes across another clue: a dead pigeon he believes is the same one the captain shooed away. He convinces a reluctant and skeptical Stottlemeyer to have the pigeon autopsied and the pieces of the puzzle fall together.

Episode 4x03 - Mr. Monk Stays in Bed
When a pizza delivery man accidentally gives her a fifty-dollar bill as change, Natalie follows him to return the money, only to discover that he's been murdered. Or has he? The photo of the victim in the case folder doesn't match the man who delivered the pizza. But with Stottlemeyer and Disher concentrating on a high-profile case involving the murder of a judge and Monk suffering from the flu (and, worse, from an annoying get-well card that incessantly plays "Polly Wolly Doodle"), Natalie can't get anyone to investigate the delivery man's murder. Leaving Julie the unenviable task of watching Monk, she decides to solve the case herself--even if it means entering the murderer's house. Meanwhile, between nose-blowings and annoying demands, Monk deduces from the evidence the captain presents him that the man the judge was seeing is not married, an important step toward solving her murder.

Episode 4x04 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Office  
A parking garage attendant is inadvertently killed when a murderer targets a financier, and Monk must go undercover as an office worker to solve the case.

Episode 4x05 - Mr. Monk Gets Drunk
Monk goes to a hotel in California wine country to revisit the place where he and Trudy spent their honeymoon. But he soon becomes involved in a strange situation when a guest disappears... and no one remembers him except Monk.

Episode 4x06 - Mr. Monk and Mrs. Monk
Just as Monk thinks he's getting better and Captain Stottlemeyer is ready to let him back on the force on a trial basis, Natalie overhears a conversation between an elderly man named Zach Ellinghouse and a woman named Trudy, who looks exactly like Monk's late wife. Natalie follows the pair to photograph them, only to be confronted by Trudy, who rips the film out of Natalie's camera and tells her that she faked her own death. Natalie confides in Stottlemeyer, who tries to keep Monk from following when he's called to investigate the death of Zach Ellinghouse. They determine that the murder was unpremeditated, but the clues--a cinnamon stick used to stir coffee, a woman's small footprints, the scent of Shalimar--remind Monk of Trudy. When Disher blurts out that a neighbor heard Ellerbach address the woman as "Trudy," Monk is devastated. Could his beloved wife be alive and guilty of second-degree murder? A visit to her grave reassures him that Trudy is really dead and innocent of the crime, but the only evidence he has is the impression of a storage shed key in the pages of a magazine in the old man's house.

Episode 4x07 - Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding
Needing a date for her brother's rehearsal dinner, Natalie resorts to asking Lt. Disher. Soon after their arrival at the hotel, Disher is run down and seriously injured by a car belonging to one of Natalie's relatives, saved from death only by the suitcases he had been hauling. The only clues to the driver's identity are the red baseball cap Disher saw as the car came toward him and a bit of greenish mud on the car floor. The wedding photographer, meanwhile, has disappeared, and Captain Stottlemeyer goes undercover as his replacement, ordering Monk to come with him. Concerned that someone in her family may have attempted murder, Natalie convinces him to be her new date. When a man's body is discovered in one of the hotel's mud baths, Monk identifies the man as the photographer based on his stained fingers, and Stottlemeyer joins forces with the local police chief to obtain a search warrant and search the victim's home for clues. Meanwhile, Monk catches the bride-to-be in a lie about her parents' death in a plane crash in 1995. Could she be "the guy," or is the falsehood unconnected to the crimes? And what can be the link between the dead photographer and Disher?

Episode 4x08 - Mr. Monk and Little Monk
An old classmate comes to Monk for help with a break-in at her house that goes wrong and results in the murder of her housekeeper

Episode 4x09 - 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 they're intended to convey. To solve the case, Monk is forced to go undercover... as Santa Claus.

Episode 4x10 - Mr. Monk Goes to a Fashion Show
Monk ends up helping his shirt inspector solve a mystery involving her son, who is in prison for a crime he claims he didn't commit. The investigation leads to a fashion show and the real killer.

Episode 4x11 - Mr. Monk Bumps His Head  
While investigating a lead to his wife's death, Monk is struck over the head, gets a case in amnesia, and wakes up in a small town in Wyoming where he finds he has a new wife.

Episode 4x12 - Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage
Stottlemeyer blows up at another cop while investigating a murder at a junkyard. He believes that his wife is having an affair and asks Monk and Natalie to follow her, while working on the junkyard murder.

Episode 4x13 - Mr. Monk and the Big Reward
Monk needs money and works to solve a jewel theft for the reward money, and becomes involved with rival investigators.

Episode 4x14 - Mr. Monk and the Astronaut  
Monk must solve an impossible murder when the author of an upcoming tell-all autobiography about a famous astronaut is found dead. The astronaut is the prime suspect...but he was in orbit above the Earth at the time of the murder.

Episode 4x15 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist
Randy Disher goes to the dentist and witnesses a crime while under anesthesia. When Stottlemeyer won't believe him, a furious Disher resigns and hires Monk to solve the mystery.

Episode 4x16 - Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty [Season Finale]
Monk is summoned to jury duty against his wishes and must solve two crimes: he has to convince the jury the defendant is not guilty, and solve the mystery of a corpse outside the jury room's window.

Episode descriptions adapted from:  tv.com
contributed by janenjab

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Episode 5x01 - Mr. Monk and the Actor[Season Premiere]
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.

Episode 5x02 - 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.

Episode 5x03 - Mr. Monk and the Big Game
Julie and her basketball teammates hire Monk to investigate the death of their coach.

Episode 5x04 - Mr. Monk Can't See a Thing
While visiting a firehouse, Monk is blinded by the killer of an elderly fireman.

Episode 5x05 - Mr. Monk, Private Eye
Monk and Natalie decide that Adrian should become a private detective when his police employment doesn't work out. But Monk's first case is more than it seems.

Episode 5x06 - Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion
Going to his 25-year college reunion, Monk deals with his memories of Trudy while trying to keep one of his former classmates from being murdered.

Episode 5x07 - Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink
When Dr. Kroger's cleaning lady gets murdered, he decides to retire. When Monk can't bear to find a new therapist, he decides to solve the crime.

Episode 5x08 - Mr. Monk Goes to a Rock Concert
Monk goes to a rock concert to look for Captain Stottlemeyer's son. While there Monk investigates a murder.

Episode 5x09 - Mr. Monk Meets His Dad
Monk ends up going on a cross-country road trip with his long-missing dad, a truck driver.

Episode 5x10 - Mr. Monk and the Leper
Monk becomes involved in a murder plot when a reclusive millionnaire suffering from leprosy hires him to do a job.

Episode 5x11 - Mr. Monk Makes A Friend
]Monk is surprised to find he's made a friend with a normal everyday guy named Hal. Monk is overwhelmed by having an actual friend, but Natalie has her suspicions that Hal is up to something.

Episode 5x12 - Mr. Monk Is At Your Service  
When a wealthy couple is killed, Monk poses as a butler to investigate. Along the way, Monk discovers a fear of frogs and realizes that his obsessive-compulsiveness serves him well as a manservant.

Episode 5x13 - Mr. Monk Is On The Air
A radio host is suspected of murder, but Monk is confronted with a perfect alibi: the man was on the air when the murder occurred.

Episode 5x14 - Mr. Monk Visits a Farm
Disher retires to run a farm that he inherits from a dead uncle. But when he suspect foul play in his relative's death, he calls in Monk.

Episode 5x15 - Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy
Monk must catch a mysterious serial killer, but he may have more trouble with a federal agent who prefers technology to deduction

Episode 5x16 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Hospital [Season Finale]
Monk must go to the hospital but soon becomes involved in a murder investigation.

Episode descriptions adapted from:  tv.com
contributed by janenjab

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Episode 6x01 - Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan [Season Premiere]
Marci Maven, an obsessed fan of Monk, asks for his help as her dog has been implicated in the murder of her neighbor, though it died several days prior.

Episode 6x02 - Mr. Monk and the Rapper
Monk helps a famous rapper clear his name after the rapper is accused of murder.

Episode 6x03 - Mr. Monk and the Naked Man   
Monk visits a nudist beach to investigate a murder, and is forced to confront a prejudice of his own.

Episode 6x04 - Mr. Monk and the Bad Girlfriend   
Monk suspects that Linda, Captain Stottlemeyer's girlfriend, is a murderer.

Episode 6x05 - Mr. Monk and the Birds and the Bees  
Julie receives help from Monk regarding her love life, while he investigates a homicide.

Episode 6x06 - Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure  
Monk digs up trouble after following a treasure map brought to him by Dr. Kroger's son Troy.

Episode 6x07 - Mr. Monk and the Daredevil
Monk has trouble coping with new information that he finds out about his arch-rival, Harold Krenshaw.

Episode 6x08 - 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.

Episode 6x09 - Mr. Monk Is Up All Night  
Mr. Monk takes a walk when he can't sleep, but ends up running into a murder.

Episode 6x10 - Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa
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.

Episode 6x11 - Mr. Monk Joins a Cult
Monk joins a cult to solve a murder case, but becomes entranced by the cult's charismatic leader.

Episode 6x12 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Bank
One of Monk's treasured possessions is stolen from a safety deposit box, and he'll go to any length to solve the case.

Episode 6x13 - Mr. Monk and the Three Julies  
Monk searches for a killer who is apparently targeting women with the name Julie, a name which Natalie's daughter shares.

Episode 6x14 - 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.

Episode 6x15 - 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.

Episode 6x16 - 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.

Episode descriptions adapted from: tv.com
contributed by janenjab

spratt89

Episode 7x01 - Mr. Monk Buys A House
Monk finds himself forced to move into what he hopes will be his dream house... which is anything but.

Episode 7x02 - Mr. Monk Gets Lotto Fever
Monk has to help out Natalie when she becomes involved in a lotto scandal.

Episode 7x03 - Mr. Monk Takes a Punch
Monk finds a new lease on life after giving up his hope of reinstatement to the SFPD.

Episode 7x04 - Mr. Monk Is Underwater
A friend of Natalie's 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.

Episode 7x05 - Mr. Monk and the Genius
Monk must match wits against a grandmaster chess player that he suspects of murder.

Episode 7x06 - Mr. Monk and the Pretty Face
Monk takes on the case of an attractive model... despite the fact she's confessed to murder.

Episode 7x07 - Mr. Monk's 100th Case
As Monk and his friends watch a TV newsmagazine piece on the solution of his hundredth case, he realizes that one of the victims was murdered by a different killer.

Episode 7x08 - Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized
Monk agrees to undergo hypnotic therapy as treatment for his OCD and reverts to a different persona.

Episode 7x09 - Mr. Monk and the Miracle
It's Christmas, and three homeless men ask Monk to solve the case of their dead friend. The trail leads to a monastery where a fountain has the miraculous power to cure anyone who drinks from it.

Episode 7x10 - Mr. Monk's Other Brother
Monk gets an unexpected guest: his half-brother, who has broken out of prison and needs Monk to help prove him innocent of a crime he didn't commit.

Episode 7x11 - Mr. Monk On Wheels
While investigating the theft of a bicycle from a biotech CEO, Monk is shot and ends up in a wheelchair... with Natalie as the person forced to wheel him around.

Episode 7x12 - Mr. Monk and the Lady Next Door
Monk befriends a neighbor lady during his investigation of a museum murder, but begins to wonder why she wants to be his friend.

Episode 7x13 - Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs
When Monk receives a gift of tickets to the playoff, Stottlemeyer is eager to go with him. However, Monk is more interested in a mystery outside the stadium: who tried to kill a fan?

Episode 7x14 - Mr. Monk and the Bully
Monk's childhood nemesis hires him to trail his wife, who he suspects of cheating on him.

Episode 7x15 - Mr. Monk and the Magician
It's murder meets magic when Monk takes on an elusive magician who has crafted the perfect murder.

Episode 7x16 - Mr. Monk Fights City Hall
Monk becomes involved in the disappearance of a city official that could have ramifications concerning Trudy's murder.

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Episode 8x01. Mr. Monk's Favorite Show
After the attempted murder of a former child star from Monk's favorite show, Monk accept the job as her bodyguard.

Episode 8x02. Mr. Monk and the Foreign Man
While investigating the case of a murdered maid with an unusual solicitous killer, Monk meets an African widower looking for the killer of his wife.

Episode 8x03. 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.

Episode 8x04. Mr. Monk is Someone Else
Monk assumes a dead hitman's identity in order to foil an assassination plot.

Episode 8x05. Mr. Monk Takes the Stand
Monk's phobias prove a liability when he must testify against a killer in court.

Episode 8x06. 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 Julie's play at the same time the victim died.

Episode 8x07. Mr. Monk and the Voodoo Curse
Monk is called in to unravel a case involving voodoo dolls sent to individuals who soon die... and Natalie is the next target.

Episode 8x08. Mr. Monk Goes to Group Therapy
Monk is forced to attend Dr. Bell's group therapy sessions, and he begins to suspect that a murderer in the group might be going after the other patients.

Episode 8x09. 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.

Episode 8x10. Mr. Monk and Sharona
Sharona Fleming stops by to visit her former employer while dealing with the legal matters involving her uncle's accidental death, but Monk soon begins to suspect that the accident was anything but.

Episode 8x11. Mr. Monk and the Dog
Monk adopts a dog while trying to find its missing owner.

Episode 8x12. Mr. Monk Goes Camping
To get reinstated, Monk must go camping with the son of a committee member... and try to solve a crime.

Episode 8x13. Mr. Monk is the Best Man
Monk must determine who is trying to ruin a friend's wedding.

Episode 8x14. Mr. Monk and the Badge
Upon being reinstated, Monk hopes to help track down a serial killer. However, he discovers that he is instead assigned to desk duty to ease himself back into his position. However, when the serial killer is caught, Monk begins to realize something is amiss.

Episode 8x15. Mr. Monk and the End - Part I
While investigating the murder of a doctor who may be connected to Trudy's death 12 years ago, Monk soon discovers that his own life is in danger.

Episode 8x16. Mr. Monk and the End - Part II (SERIES FINALE)
After listening to Trudy's last message, Monk finally discovers who killed his wife. Racing against time before he dies of poison, he must make a fateful decision.

**Please note some episode titles on viptv site are wrong**

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