2022.08.24 WednesdayWhile investigating the death of a man found shot and burned beyond recognition, things begin to go horribly wrong for Stottlemeyer and his bride-to-be, causing her to have second thoughts. Jack also makes an appearance (albeit an unseen one) in the season four episode, "Mr. Monk Goes Home Again" at Ambrose's door. He goes back to prison, though Randy's handcuff key "went missing". Linda Salvato Fusco (Sharon Lawrence) is Captain Stottlemeyer's girlfriend and a real estate dealer during season five and the beginning of the season six. Later, Vicki kills the accomplice by stabbing him with a cream soda bottle while he is making the store's night deposit. In real life, Emmy Clarke studied Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. When her husband Douglas died, she was left to raise her daughters alone. Sparks fly between the two, and by the end, she has set him up with a new apartment across the street from her own. Troy calls his parents by their first names and it turns out that Randy has arrested him at least once before (as Randy asks Troy if he's staying out of trouble, to which Troy says "No"). Whereas Devlin wills herself to tolerate Fellows getting on their backs, Julie doubts that Fellows is even qualified for the job, believing that no deputy chief could be so thick-headed as to immediately suspect that Stottlemeyer is on the take despite all the evidence to the contrary without being very incompetent. Kevin first appears in "Mr. Monk and the Paperboy", where he wins a $43 million lottery, although his "girlfriend" Vicki Salinas (Nicole DeHuff), a clerk at the nearby Stop-N-Go convenience store, tries to hide it from him with the objective of eventually getting it all. Copyright Fandango. Mr. Monk Is the Best Man Release Date November 13, 2009 Running Time 40+ mins Credits Written by Joe Toplyn, Josh Siegal, and Dylan Morgan Directed by Michael Zinberg Episode Guide Previous Episode Next Episode Mr. Monk Goes Camping Mr. Monk and the Badge Mr. Monk Is the Best Man is the thirteenth episode of the eighth season of Monk . Fuming, he tells them "I'm gonna do you a favor and pretend that this conversation never happened." The kicker: everyone is asking where Skinner hid it. Locking them inside a closet at gunpoint, he loads the journals into the trunk of his car, and starts to pull away from the retreat, but is halted by Disher, who has parked across the driveway. At the end of the episode, Jared and Leland stop at a photo booth so that Leland will have updated photos for the next time he takes off. A woman, Amanda Castle wakes up in bed and bids an affectionate good morning to a dog - an Australian Shepherd - belonging to her boyfriend, Steve DeWitt, who is sleeping beside her. Though Monk is initially skeptical, Dr. Bell wins his confidence through several small gestures: he begins the appointment at the exact second it is scheduled, supplies Monk with his favorite bottled water, Sierra Springs, wipes during their introductory handshake, and displays a painting in his office which previously belonged to the late Dr. Kroger. stands for, but when he finds out that her first name is Trudy, he suggests that they stick with calling her T.K. In the pilot, Randy is not only skeptical of Monk, but he seems to find Monk a joke, even calling Monk "the defective detective" to Stottlemeyer. While danger closes in on him, Monk is faced with the choice of retrieving the moonrock, or Julie's fish. The relationship between Leland and Jared was a little difficult after the events of "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage", with Karen divorcing Leland, leaving Leland estranged from their sons. They find Dalton breaking one of the grandfather clocks after being led here by another one of the journals. The answer is, 'in the journals'.". After the ride, Monk is about to feel relieved that Linda could not have done it.until they find a small hibiscus flower lodged in a bush outside the house, one that Monk remembers Linda wearing in her hair on the night of the shooting. 409 multiplied by 30 is $12,270 per thirty ounces of gold. The answer is in my journals." For one thing, Padron is insisting on taking his new bride to a marriage therapy clinic that very weekend for their honeymoon. He writes a personal ad fitting Sharona in the episode "Mr. Monk and the Paperboy", which he unsuccessfully tries to hide from her. Adrian (in "Mr. Monk Is Up All Night") sees a Brazilian woman named Maria Cordova, whom he chases for several blocks for no apparent reason. Harold also (thanks to an inadvertent slip from Natalie) learns the name of Monk's new therapist, Dr. Bell, and announces that he will also be seeing Dr. Bell in the future. Adrian Monk is the only character to appear in all 125 episodes. Mr. Monk Gets Married is the fifteenth episode of the second season of Monk. To demonstrate, Monk tears out a handful of pages, sets them alight, and lets them burn in a small pot leaving behind ashes and rivulets of molten gold. Joshua Skinner had mixed the gold with black ink in a cauldron, then spent the next 15 years filling one thousand journals with "golden" prose. In the season seven episode "Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized", Harold has tried out hypnotic regression therapy with Dr. Lawrence Climan (Richard Schiff) which at first seems to cure him of his OCD. At one point in "Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan", she stated, "I'm not crazy, just a fan". Coincidentally, Nash is earlier questioned by Monk and Stottlemeyer when they got the call that Trudy had been killed. They're never gonna believe we're really married. Among other things, she is less tolerable of Monk's eccentricities and less flexible to accommodating his needs than Randy ever was. Ambrose is also shown to have learned Pig Latin and the Dratch constructed language of Beyond Earth. Monk comes to the conclusion that there is a chance that evidence incriminating Linda might be at her house. Karen first appeared in "Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man", where she begs Leland to investigate the death of Miles Holling, the oldest man in the world. overall No. In that episode, Julie is 11 years old. When Monk decodes the message as saying "247 Marshall Avenue, Angel, California", he goes there alone, taking along his old police-issue pistol. Rickover first appeared in "Mr. Monk and the End - Part I" and later in "Mr. Monk and the End - Part II". He also saves the two from being drowned by Commander Nathan Whitaker, the person who killed Pierce. The investigation eventually leads them to a local doctor named Jay Bennett (Fred Weller), who had hit Linda's car while driving from the marina after killing his girlfriend Anna Pollard out in the bay. Monk tells Sharona that the only people who move to Ecuador are those who don't plan to come back, owing to the difficulties in extraditing fugitives back to the United States. Ambrose has left the house three times: the first two times are in "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies", the first being when his next-door neighbor Pat van Ranken sets the house on fire, and the second to visit Trudy's grave, and the third one mentioned above in "Mr. Monk Goes Home Again". Monk feels that Biederbeck stole one of the last years of Trudy's life, resulting in him having a hatred of the man. Gail Fleming (Amy Sedaris) is Sharona's younger sister and an actress. Every episode has a purpose other than the central mystery, which often is underplayed to the point that, when it's solved, the viewer forgets what it's about and there's no urgency, like happens here about gold buried in or around a house. After Monk finds that prison librarian Sylvia Fairborn killed Kaspo, Dale reveals that Trudy was, contrary to Monk's belief, the intended victim of the car bomb. He retires out of guilt as the police believe that one of his patients is responsible. Hence, starting with season seven, Monk gets a new therapist, Dr. Neven Bell, who remained for the final two seasons. Ellen Morse: Monk's new girlfriend. 's name, believing that everyone should have a Trudy in their life. And if that's not true, it's also disappointing the way he did his business this way. Monk and Sharona soon arrive at the Waterford Institute for Marital Therapy posing as husband and wife. In the season five episode "Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy", Julie teaches Monk how to use her computer. However, their father shows up at Ambrose's doorstep to leave a note. To make sure this happened, he had set up arrangements so that the doctor who did his surgery was sent away to Hawaii right after the operation, and a new doctor who had never met Dale, McCabe, or Cannon, would oversee his recovery. [citation needed] Benjy eventually returns to New Jersey with his mother to reunite with his father, Trevor. Unbeknownst to him, the day before Trudy was killed, she made a video message to Adrian, explaining how Rickover wanted to meet her in that parking garage, and also mentioning the secret affair. The episode gives Julie an integral role. In "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail" (season 2), Dale the Whale tells Monk that Tennyson was involved in the murder and that he can be found in New York. While having a temporary relapse (in "Mr. Monk Can't See a Thing"), Adrian mentions that Trudy lived for 20 minutes after the bomb went off. After condemned prisoner Ray Kaspo is poisoned less than an hour before his execution, suspicion falls on Biederbeck, to whom Kaspo owed $1,200. He explains that Randy is able to solve so many cases because he is a "people person" who gets people to say things they would not have said otherwise. Julie bonds with Monk after he rescues her pet fish. While investigating the death of a man found shot and burned beyond recognition, things begin to go horribly wrong for Stottlemeyer and his bride-to-be, causing her to have second thoughts. However, just before they leave for Hawaii, Linda's former business partner Sean Corcoran is shot dead by a shotgun-wielding intruder in front of a married couple during an open house tour. Monk decides to meet Molly, and the two of them quickly start bonding and forming a friendship. He tells them that he has a problem:his mother, Maria, has just gotten married, to none other than Dalton Padron. Benjy reassures her that he can handle it. Disher now knows something that Monk, up until now, has merely suspected: his mom has married a killer. However, Natalie opens the window to reveal that the music is still playing. He escapes from prison but is framed for murdering Lindsey Bishop, one of the social workers at the prison, right afterwards. For the first three seasons Sharona Fleming was Monk's assistant. Trouble is, the journals seem far from holding the secret to a hidden fortune - in fact, they appear to contain nothing but gibberish, and make no sense whatsoever. They question Stella at her house, and Monk determines from the fact that she has a Band-Aid on her from an IV injection that she is the accomplice who staged the truck accident. Leland and Karen have recurring marital problems and have separated twice. Milan Cheylov. Monk S 2 E 14 Mr Monk And The Captains Wife. "Something's definitely wrong," slurs Disher. director of photography (as Hugo P. Cortina) Film Editing by Michael Matzdorff Casting By Sandi Logan . When he brings it to the station while the FBI is trying to trace a call from a killer, he plugs it in along with the other computers. Monk discovers that he ordered Vezza to murder the judge and implicate Biederbeck. Still believing Monk to be wrong about his suspicions toward Linda, he asks her about whether she has seen Monk. Not much is known of Stottlemeyer's life before he joined the SFPD in the series, though in an interview, Ted Levine stated it was his own belief that Stottlemeyer had served in the military and was later discharged, lived on the East Coast, then moved to California as a young man, joining the police force. When Kazarinski gets hit by a train and dies while being chased by Stottlemeyer through a yard, Rickover thinks himself to be cleared of any suspicion. Joey burned Grajna's car to torch any evidence that Grajna was the Frisco Fly, and stole Grajna's outfit. As revealed in the season five episode "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink", Charles has taken three paternity tests at the "request" of his son. Another golden caper cracked by that most platinum of detectives, Adrian Monk! (Echoing the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and his more cerebral but sedentary brother Mycroft). Cora: Hey, there's no such thing as a perfect marriage! In the episode "Mr. Monk is the Best Man", she is proposed to by Stottlemeyer after they have been dating for six months. Trevor Howe (Frank John Hughes and David Lee Russek) is Sharona's ex-husband and Benjy's father from New Jersey. Biederbeck sued Trudy and her newspaper for libel after her article profiled him as "the Genghis Khan of world finance". Despite these tensions, however, Stottlemeyer also has a great deal of sympathy and respect for Monk; even Stottlemeyer cannot deny Monk's abilities. In "Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs", it is mentioned that he has not lived in Los Angeles for almost 30 years. Harold is married and has a son, Jimmy. As stated by Adrian in "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies", Ambrose has not left his house for 32 years, having last set foot outside in 1972. At the end of the episode, Randy picks up Sharona to go to the airport, sharing a kiss as they load her bags. [about the "police officer" at a bachelorette party]. Monk knows that Biederbeck would not kill anyone over such a petty sum. Also inherent in this hostility is a certain degree of jealousy; Stottlemeyer appears only too aware that he is not nearly the detective that Monk is. Jack Jr. makes repeated efforts to ingratiate himself to his older half-brother by stammering and sniveling helplessly, even going so far as to stage a phony phone call from his girlfriend who pretends to be his mother, who bawls sappily, begging Adrian to help her little "Jackie". Biederbeck goes to extreme lengths to avoid publicity, buying newspaper companies just so that they won't print his name. While fleeing the scene, a police car pulled her over for speeding and Stephanie was forced to hide the pistol she used inside Leland's tuxedo bag. Kevin steals a pencil that the host had been chewing on, claiming it as a "collectible"; later in the episode, he and Monk find a pencil with identical chew marks at the reigning champion's house and conclude that he and the host have colluded to rig the game. In "Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure", Monk agrees to help Dr. Kroger's son Troy decipher what appears to be a treasure map (actually a map to a dead bank robber's body) in an attempt to once more outdo Harold, who has just given Dr. Kroger a wristwatch. That's the question Captain Stottlemeyer asks Monk--but Monk's response is to ask why it matters. The lieutenant governor, who is on Dale's payroll board, would then pardon Dale, completing his revenge by him going free and returning to his comfortable lifestyle while Monk goes to prison for Nunn's murder. Director Stephen Surjik Writer Andy Breckman (head writer) Stars Tony Shalhoub Traylor Howard Jason Gray-Stanford Jack goes to Adrian in hopes that Adrian can clear his name. Molly appeared only in "Mr. Monk and the End - Part II". When Monk and Sharona wander inside (Monk only goes into the cave so he can escape a staredown with a coyote), Dalton removes one of the bracing timbers, causing the entrance to cave in. Discovering that Trudy was the true target, Adrian is seen to be visibly affected by this piece of news. Sharona proposes an ingenious way of finding out. [6] Ambrose blames himself for Trudy's death, and his guilt led to a seven-year rift between the brothers. 13. When Natalie later sees Paris in that novel, she claims it is a different Paris from the one to which she and Mitch had gone. When they go to some kind of couples retreat, he asks Monk and Sharona to go and keep an eye on her. As a result, all of Dale's privileges are revoked: his furniture, custom bed, telephone, and laptop are confiscated, his window is blocked up, his special meal deliveries and manicure appointments are cancelled, and he is reduced to eating in the prison cafeteria, and sleeping in a cramped bunk bed. Monk, Julie, Stottlemeyer and Devlin rush to the hospital, but in the chaos, it seems Dale has escaped by being snuck out in a body bag by an accomplice driving a stolen hearse. 100th episode cast party. She also tells her she is dating a stockbroker and that Benjy is on the honor roll. [1] Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding Episode aired Aug 19, 2005 TV-14 44 m IMDb RATING 8.2 /10 1.1K YOUR RATING Rate Comedy Crime Drama Natalie asks Randy to be her date to her brother's wedding. Trevor admits to her that his reason for wanting to get back together with her was because his rich uncle had cut him off when he got divorced, and he wanted to get back together so that he would have access to his fortune. In the novel Mr. Monk is Miserable, "I Don't Need a Badge" has become a cult phenomenon in Paris. | Countries - Canada , United States | He topped out at 927 pounds about 11 years before the events of the episode and has been bedridden ever since. However, the gold made Skinner greedy. Monk prefers the magazines to be arranged in two vertical rows of three. In the end, after Monk captures Dale, Julie discovers that Fellows never had a criminology degree at all, and his whole career is based on a lie. Latest Casadas Tragando Semen updates. In April 2008, Stanley Kamel died of a heart attack during a production hiatus between seasons 6 and 7. Eventually, Monk finds an article, dated the same day that Trudy's illegitimate child was born, detailing how Wendy Stroud saved a child. Trying to become an actress during the season eight episode "Mr. Monk and the Critic", Julie's beautiful voice is the key to proving that theater critic John Hannigan snuck out and killed his girlfriend Callie Esterhaus during a theater performance. The police show up, asking if Marci owns a dog named Otto, who apparently attacked and mauled to death Debbie Ringel, the wife of Marci's neighbor John Ringel. He offers Monk a deal: find the killer, and Biederbeck will share what he knows about Trudy's murder. Lieutenant Steven Albright (Casper Van Dien) is a lieutenant in the United States Navy and Mitch Teeger's oldest friend. While Dalton is distracted by Sharona, Monk peeks at his desk and sees a visa application: Dalton plans on moving to Ecuador in two weeks' time, and he is claiming to be unmarried. Stottlemeyer then pushes up the rear door to find Monk sitting in a recreation of Linda's bedroom, that she had used for her alibi. Mr. Monk Gets Married Episode aired Feb 27, 2004 TV-PG 43 m IMDb RATING 8.0 /10 1.1K YOUR RATING Rate Comedy Crime Drama When Randy's mother marries a guy much younger than she, he gets worried. Randy's lack of luck getting dates is so notorious that when he actually does land a girlfriend, in the episode "Mr. Monk and the Employee of the Month", no one believes him. They use this to knock Tong out, steal his wallet and car keys, and plant pig's blood on his car to make it look like Tong was killed by Rico Ramirez, an ex-con who has knifed three people in Natalie's neighborhood looking for these very diamonds. A few nights later, Marci shows up at Monk's door convincing him that if he ever gets his own show, he should never change the theme song. Observing the rescue efforts from afar, Monk belatedly realizes Dale arranged it and has made his move. Because he is the only person left to know that Trudy's child is still alive, no one is able to figure out what exactly he meant by his final statement. Movies. It is mentioned in Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse, and elaborated upon in Mr. Monk is Miserable, that Natalie and Mitch eloped to Paris. In the middle of the meeting, Monk intercepts an email from one of Julie's friends, and responds to it. They married on August 8, 1990. Trudy "T. K." Jensen Stottlemeyer (Virginia Madsen) is Captain Stottlemeyer's love interest (and then wife) in season eight. During that time, he fathered yet another son, 31yearold Jack Jr. whom Jack proudly brags about to his co-workers as a genius doctor. Later, when talking to some Frisco Fly fans, Monk claims that Harold was a bed wetter until he was 34 and he has to be hypnotized just to get a haircut). Troy later appears in the season six episode "Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure". In addition to his services to the Navy, the episode shows that what Natalie admires and remembers most about Mitch was his selflessness and strength of character. Fourteen years later, in 1997, Rickover is nominated as an appellate court judge. Clay later reveals that he was paid by Julie's (fictitious) Aunt Karen to go out with her. In the season 5 episode "Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy", Disher is placed as a decoy to attract the attention of a serial, playing "I Don't Need a Badge" as a one-man band while forgetting most of the lyrics. Movies In Theaters; New Movies This Weekend; Kids Movies In Theaters . When you work in a macho world like the police force, you need to have a bit of resilience, even if things are said that are unfair. Marci Maven (Sarah Silverman) is Monk's biggest fan and has made three appearances on the series. The police discovered some old letters in which Nunn talked about killing Trudy and also mentioned that he was hired by a man named "The Judge". He first appears in the novel Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse when Monk and Natalie are hired by Julie to investigate the death of Joe's pet Dalmatian, a dog named Sparky, killed while Joe and his crew are away responding to a fatal house fire. "Where is the gold?" Tony Shalhoub, Bitty Schram, Ted Levine, and Jason Gray-Stanford were introduced as portraying the main characters. Karen Stottlemeyer (Glenne Headly) is Leland's environmentally conscious wife during the first four seasons and the mother of their two children, Jared and Max. The novel Mr. Monk and the New Lieutenant reveals that Stottlemeyer's father was a bartender named Hamish. The two men realize that they share many of the same problems, and even overcome their claustrophobia together when Monk convinces Harold to see the trunk as a protective space rather than a trap. According to Monk, Molly seems to be similar to Trudy not only in appearance but also in her mannerisms. She was born January 2, 1983, but was taken from her mother immediately after birth by Wendy Stroud, the midwife, at the behest of Rickover; Trudy was told that the baby had died nine minutes after birth. Benjamin "Benjy" Fleming is Sharona's son. This comes in handy later in the episode: when Monk and Natalie are taken hostage by "Honest" Jake Phillips, Natalie sends up smoke signals in Morse code through the fireplace to call for help, due to a lack of other forms of communication. Unknown to Monk, Nunn is also a pawn in a related scheme to frame him for murder and incapacitate him. Karen's documentary about Miles Holling, Miles Holling: The Human Time Machine, provides several clues for Monk and Leland about the man's death. In "Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike", when the city stops collecting garbage, Monk mails his garbage to Dr. Kroger's house. Then Marci explains the problem she is dealing with: she knows Otto died three days before Mrs. Ringel was apparently "mauled", and the teeth marks on her body match Otto. 'Monk' has always been one of my most watched shows when needing comfort, to relax after a hard day, a good laugh or a way to spend a lazy weekend. While investigating a murder, Stottlemeyer gets into an argument with a cop at the scene who snidely tells him he has been seeing his wife. However, in the novel, Benjy's first name is misspelled as "Benji" whenever he is mentioned. Kevin Dorfman (Jarrad Paul) is Monk's talkative upstairs neighbor. This six-fingered man detonated the bomb from a distance with a cellular phone. Harold has a cameo appearance in the season eight episode, "Mr. Monk is Someone Else", when Monk goes to Los Angeles masquerading as a mob hit man by the name of Frank DePalma. Except for two changes, the principal cast of the series remained consistent. In the two-part episode "Mr. Monk Is on the Run", Monk is framed for the murder of Frank Nunn, the six-fingered man who hired Tennyson. "The answer is in my journals." Now Monk and Sharona also know the mysterious clue, "Where is the gold? The house is cluttered with his work, piles of newspapers (every single day since he last left the house), and filing cabinets that are stuffed with his father's mail spanning the entirety of his father's absence. There is no Audience Score because there are not enough user ratings at this time. Harold prefers the horizontal top row to have three, the middle row have two, and the bottom row have one (in an arrangement similar to the style of bowling pins), and wants them arranged by type, instead of in alphabetical order. Stottlemeyer's attitude toward Randy Disher, his immediate subordinate in the SFPD frequently shifts between amused tolerance and frustration.
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