Her accomplice, the store's night manager, kills paperboy Nestor Alvarez while trying to steal newspapers that they think are Kevin's (they are actually Monk's papers). 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. Everyone traces the sound of the music downstairs to an impounded rental truck that was towed from Linda's street the day after the murder. Over the first half of the story, Julie's behavior assisting Monk is different from Natalie's when it comes to helping him focus. Karen is also strongly against the use of guns. 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). In the season five episode "Mr. Monk Is On the Air", Kevin and Natalie are shown one of Monk's old home videos, where Kevin lightheartedly comments that seeing his friends' old home videos 'always makes him feel better about his own family', and later that night, when Monk is preparing to face Max Hudson on the radio, Kevin gives him some of his uncle's jokes for use as Monk prepares to accuse Max of murdering his wife Jeanette. Lieutenant Commander Mitch Teeger (197198) is Natalie's late husband and Julie's father, who was a fighter pilot in the United States Navy. He says that one night in the winter of 1849, he and Gully had just finished off the last of their ration ofbeef jerky, and Skinner was about to shoot one of the mules and skin its meat for supper, when Gully came running out of the mine, screaming with excitement and joy. As they move to capture an incriminating beachball with air from Kedder's asthma inhaler, the ball lands in the scaffolding for one of the loudspeakers. Mitch is portrayed by Monk co-producer Doug Nabors, and can be seen in Natalie's pictures in her house and her car. He's a stripper. The monk of Hildesheim, doubting how with God a thousand years could be as yesterday, listened to the melody of a bird in the green wood during three minutes, and found that in three minutes three hundred years had flown. In the novel, Mr. Monk On the Road, Adrian, having found a balance in the world, knocks Ambrose out by drugging him with a sleeping pill placed in his birthday cake, then (with aid from Natalie) puts Ambrose in an RV. Benjy is happy to have a father, which is one of the reasons Sharona decides to quit being Monk's assistant and move back to New Jersey with Trevor. 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. In "Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine", Dr. Kroger prescribes "Dioxynl", which successfully relieves Monk's phobias while also impairing his detective skills. He offers Monk a deal: find the killer, and Biederbeck will share what he knows about Trudy's murder. in season Title Directed by Written by Original air date U.S. viewers (millions) 110: 1 "Mr. Monk's Favorite Show" Randall Zisk: Jack Bernstein: August 7, 2009 (): 5.14: The wholesome child star of Monk's favorite childhood television show has grown into a very different woman (Elizabeth Perkins) who needs his helppartially as her undercover bodyguardafter her tell-all . For instance, in her breakout role in Mr. Monk on the Couch, Devlin uses herself in a pair of sting operations to catch two different related killers. The seven sleepers reposed in a cave, and centuries glided by like a watch in the night. Monk believes this to be the same man who murdered Trudy. At first, this seems a hopeless task for both parties there are several hundred volumes to Skinner's memoirs, but each one is filled with seeming gibberish. Below is a list of actors and actresses that were part of the cast of the American comedy-drama television series Monk. In the end, Ambrose buys the RV that Adrian and Natalie rented for the trip. Troy later appears in the season six episode "Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure". After Brad is arrested, Marci is released from jail. 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. The band records a song, "I Don't Need a Badge". This is mentioned in the season 4 episode "Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding". Rickover realizes any information regarding these events could be potentially damaging to his political career and has Stroud killed to keep her quiet, burying her body in his backyard. Dale was unable to win the lawsuit, but the Monks were forced to sell their house paying for their lawyer. Marci first appears in "Mr. Monk and the TV Star" as a fan of Brad Terry, the star of the crime drama television series Crime Lab S.F.. As Monk and Sharona are first investigating the murder of Brad Terry's ex-wife Susan Malloy, Marci hands an envelope to Sharona, saying that it is a petition to get the old theme song back, since quite a lot of people hate the new theme song of Crime Lab S.F. She accompanies Monk and Stottlemeyer to question Dale's girlfriend Stella Chaze, but considers quitting the job after Stella attempts to kill the three by suicide-bombing her house. Stottlemeyer mentions in "Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever" that he was the youngest officer in the history of the SFPD to make detective, giving him at least a few years of seniority on Monk. They ultimately find that Karen is not seeing someone, as first suspected, but is meeting with a divorce lawyer. Monk S 2 E 15 Mr Monk Gets Married. While Natalie's sexual attraction to Joe is re-sparked, Monk discovers that the person responsible for the theft was responsible for killing a local shoe salesman named Ronald Webster. Adrian feels differently, believing his father will never return. When they go to some kind of couples retreat, he asks Monk and Sharona to go and keep an eye on her. The whole plot is weak and cliched. This leaves Monk and Natalie in a compromising position, as they need more evidence against Linda to secure an arrest. Cast. He can be seen in person in three episodes: "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies", "Mr. Monk Goes Home Again" and "Mr. Monk's 100th Case", as well as in home movies he spliced together himself during "Mr. Monk Is on the Air". Dr. Kroger is the subject of an ongoing feud between Monk and Harold Krenshaw, a patient with similar problems. Mitch is introduced in the season three episode "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring". When Randy is hit by a car in Monterey, Stottlemeyer is in Monk's apartment in San Francisco. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! In that episode, the people at Tiger Bay happen to confuse Adrian for Jack Jr., because they do not know about Adrian and Ambrose, the other two sons of Jack Sr. Adrian enjoys bonding with Jack, and even goes so far as to protect him by giving him the phony name of Jack Gretzky and claiming that Jack is his penpal (despite the name, Adrian has to tell others that Jack is not related to Canadian hockey player Wayne Gretzky). Everybody should have a Trudy in their life. They visit the antiques store, which Dalton is managing alone. He melted down the gold, mixed it with black ink, and inscribed it into the journals. He appears in five episodes, his last appearance being the season seven episode, "Mr. Monk and the Magician". 's name, believing that everyone should have a Trudy in their life. Dr. Bell's character has a more considerably constructed background, in sharp contrast to Dr. Kroger. Trudy Monk was born in Los Angeles in 1962[1] to Dwight and Marcia Ellison. A few days later, Monk is entreated by a very drunk Lieutenant Disher to look into the whirlwind nuptials of his unglamorous, 50-something mother, Maria, to a dark, mysterious and much younger antique dealer named Dalton Padron - whom Disher doesn't trust. For the first three seasons Sharona Fleming was Monk's assistant. In the first episode of season five, "Mr. Monk and the Actor", Monk wants to take up the entire week with therapy, but Dr. Kroger says he does not like working on the weekends so he can spend time with family. He was a chemist as well. He visits Padron's store, where he learns that Padron's partner, Raymond Toliver, has recently gone missing. When Monk is having lunch at an outdoor cafe with Lenny Barlowe and Tommy G., a rollerblading Harold calls out to "Adrian". A few days later, Monk, Natalie and Devlin find a dead body floating in the water, apparently ripped up by boat propellers. Jack also makes an appearance (albeit an unseen one) in the season four episode, "Mr. Monk Goes Home Again" at Ambrose's door. He has a romantic interest in Natalie Teeger, Adrian's second assistant. During lunchbreak, Danny and the senior chemistry teacher, Mr. Erp (whose nickname I need hardly spell out), would always meet in the chemistry prep room for a game of chess. 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. See production, box office & company info, Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA. Dalton takes advantage of their distraction to seize Mathis's gun. Tony Shalhoub was the main star of the show, playing the title character, Adrian Monk. Once convinced of the validity of one of Monk's theories, Stottlemeyer always proves a staunch ally in apprehending Monk's primary suspects. [6] Ambrose blames himself for Trudy's death, and his guilt led to a seven-year rift between the brothers. In the season seven premiere "Mr. Monk Buys a House", it is presumed that Mitch also taught Natalie how to use Morse code. When Stottlemeyer tells Monk he's already apologized twice and asks how many times he needs to apologize, Monk says "six." She first appears "Mr. Monk, Private Eye", when she hires Monk and Natalie to investigate damages done to her signature Buick Lucerne at the marina done by someone who left a threatening note on the car afterwards. Unaware of the murder plot, Harold plays along with the charade because he loves the public attention, getting a golden opportunity to infuriate Monk, and gaining new respect and admiration from his own son, Jimmy. Except for two changes, the principal cast of the series remained consistent. In the first sting operation, she and Natalie wear mini-dresses to pose as hookers who seduce a crime scene cleaner named William Tong, suspected of assisting his partner Jerry Yermo in the murder of a train engineer named Stuart Hewson over stolen diamonds. Biederbeck smugly refuses to confirm or deny Monk's suspicions, but later Monk proves that the doctor is not Trudy's killer. Monk points out that it is not a "perfect" palindrome, since the first "N" is capitalized. In Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants, Natalie mentions that she and Monk actually have a lot in common. Adrian Monk: We have nothing in common. Dale reveals (in "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail") that the car bomb was actually intended for her, not him. A few episodes later, in "Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever", he dates a woman named Hayley, only for her to turn out to be part of a Triad hit crew sent to eliminate Monk. At the end of the episode, he tosses something into the ocean. Adrian attempts (in "Mr. Monk Bumps His Head") to find this six-fingered man by purchasing a picture of him. The episode "Mr. Monk and the Three Julies" and the novel Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop establish that Mitch taught Natalie how to shoot a gun, though Natalie's firearms skill are called into question in "Mr. Monk on Wheels". Dr. Charles Kroger (played by Stanley Kamel) is Monk's psychiatrist for the first six seasons. However, she reappears in "Mr. Monk's 100th Case", interviewed in a television show, reverting once again to her obsession with Monk. See production, box office & company info, Stage 5, Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. After a miraculous rescue, Sharona and a nearly catatonic Monk meet the benign Sheriff Mathis, a sixty-ish, small town peacemaker who can find no evidence that Padron sabotaged the mine. 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. The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth: Season 8, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 1, Link to Marvel Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer, Link to The Most Anticipated TV & Streaming Shows of March 2023. The two men have a deep respect for one another, as evidenced by Monk's description of Stottlemeyer as "the best cop I know" and Stottlemeyer's comment that Monk is "the best detective in the free world.". Unknown to Kevin, Torini is secretly trafficking heroin for an Asian drug cartel. When Jack finally shows up in person, he is working for the Midland, Texas-based Tiger Bay Trucking Company and had been stopped in San Francisco for running a red light. At times, Stottlemeyer prefers to discuss an ongoing case with Monk instead of Disher, such as when the lieutenant complains vociferously about a toothache in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist." '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. So to join the group, Monk and Sharona pretend to be married. Despite the millions of dollars the moonrock is worth, Monk hurriedly saves the fish, returning it to its tank because Julie believes it is the same one Mitch had given her before he died. Jack Monk Sr. left him and his mother Darlene after ten years of marriage. Jack Jr. appears to be a pathological liar and often swears "hand to God" that he is telling the truth when in actuality he is not. Benjy reassures her that he can handle it. Harold also appears in the season seven finale, "Mr. Monk Fights City Hall". "The answer is in my journals." 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. Eventually, Adrian finds that Jack was framed by Daniel Reese, a guard at the prison who was Lindsey's boyfriend and the real killer, and his feelings about Jack start to change. Later, as Linda Fusco bids for Stottlemeyer at the San Francisco Police Department's Bachelor Auction, Marci bids for Monk, resulting in a bidding match between her and Natalie that Marci wins after Natalie runs out of money. I mean, about her name? Stella had staged the truck crash, as Monk suspected, then infiltrated the hospital, but she did not take Dale out of the hospital. Natalie tries to help convince him, but Stottlemeyer refuses to listen to another word. This implies that at one point Jared had to repeat a grade. 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". He is arrested and placed in jail because he shoved a cop and resisted arrest. In "Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike", when the city stops collecting garbage, Monk mails his garbage to Dr. Kroger's house. Monk agrees, and they eventually find it at a quarry. The novel also reveals that Ambrose became agoraphobic after he caught Hong Kong flu. Adrian also reveals that Ambrose and their mother were in a state of catatonia after their father left. Mr. Monk and the Dog is the eleventh episode of the eighth season of Monk. The episode "Mr. Monk Fights City Hall" reveals that Dr. Bell served on the city council in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but he got bored with the job and started sending his secretary as his proxy. Due to her obsession with Monk, Marci is well-educated on just about every aspect of Monk's life and career. He concludes that the dead body is actually that of Jason McCabe, one of the other two patients operated on the day Dale's surgery was performed. Julie Teeger (played by Emmy Clarke) is Natalie's teenage daughter. They find Dalton breaking one of the grandfather clocks after being led here by another one of the journals. And as they were loading up the mules, Skinner promptly turned on his partner andbludgeoned him with a shovel. However, their father shows up at Ambrose's doorstep to leave a note. However, when Molly reminds Monk that there are other people out there who are going through the same things that he has gone through and that they need his help, he decides to resume his career as a detective. Padron, who has now bound and gagged Maria, is chopping apart a grandfather clock he is convinced contains Skinner's treasure while Monk and Sharona groggily pour through still more of the journals. In the episode "Mr. Monk and Sharona," Randy and Sharona have a fond reunion. Before Nunn can answer, he is shot dead by a corrupt local sheriff, John Rollins. However, this is a total of five "sorries" instead of six. There is no Audience Score because there are not enough user ratings at this time. is a parody of the controversy around the replacement of the original instrumental theme song for Monk with "It's a Jungle Out There".). During a luau-themed sendoff party at the police station, Stottlemeyer and Linda dance with each other. 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.