He has a biting and sarcastic personality, often insulting his employees and the police without fear of repercussion. Monk and Natalie are sent to Marin County to investigate, where Monk determines that the shooter had a house key. Natalie Teeger: That's not the old saying. Starring: Tony Shalhoub, Bitty Schram, Jason Gray-Stanford, Ted Levine Summary: Monk and Sharona are forced to go undercover as a married couple to help out Disher when his mother marries a suspected con man. If it is a code, neither Monk nor Dalton can make sense of it. When Randy is hit by a car in Monterey, Stottlemeyer is in Monk's apartment in San Francisco. Molly Evans (Alona Tal) is the illegitimate daughter that Trudy had in her affair with Rickover. In this episode, she is framed by her understudy Jenna Ryan for stabbing actor Hal Duncan in a performance of the play Blood on the Moon during a preview performance prior to it heading to New York City. Ambrose Monk, played by John Turturro, is Adrian's older agoraphobic brother. Stroud then claimed to have found Molly abandoned at a playground and took her to an orphanage. Monk, however, later discovers that he has been tricked when he learns about Gamelobo's true identity. She also tells her she is dating a stockbroker and that Benjy is on the honor roll. [5] She was on an errand to get cough medicine for Adrian's brother, Ambrose. Stottlemeyer was later promoted past Monk. Director Michael Zinberg Writers Andy Breckman (head writer) Joe Toplyn Josh Siegal Stars Tony Shalhoub Traylor Howard Jason Gray-Stanford He did provide for the child and the mother. Several items have been stolen that when combined, can be used to build a bomb, and a crowbar dropped by the thief bears fingerprints from a man with six fingers on his right hand. The note ends with Jack's congratulations to Ambrose for leaving the house. In the opening scene, a picture of Mitch with Julie is shown on one of the tables. In the novel Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop, he starts to feel a little hostile towards Monk after taking a lot of ribbing from Paul Braddock (and at one time, Braddock actually insults Stottlemeyer, accusing him of using Monk as a metaphorical crutch). Adrian Monk: The truth is, you sort of terrify me. In "Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan", he goes with Monk to New York City to follow up on a lead on Trudy's murder, and harshly confronts New York City police captain Walter Cage for concealing information about Warrick Tennyson that is essential to Monk to solving the murder, remarking that that was the only thing he cared about at the time. Monk points out that it is not a "perfect" palindrome, since the first "N" is capitalized. This is quite a weak episode. He greatly respects his brother's ability to cope with the outside world. Monk finds many clues that suggest that Otto was framed, and so Monk, Natalie, and Marci go to several lumber yards in the area. For one thing, Padron is insisting on taking his new bride to a marriage therapy clinic that very weekend for their honeymoon. Dale reveals (in "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail") that the car bomb was actually intended for her, not him. Even though Ambrose's last television appearance was in 2008, he continued to appear in the Monk novel series by Lee Goldberg. Dr. Kroger . As a result, later in the story, upon learning that Monk's consultancy contract has been ripped up, Sharona takes her anger out on Stottlemeyer, accusing him of using the latest round of budget cuts as an excuse to cut Monk (and her) loose as a result of Braddock attacking his abilities. To an assembled crowd, including a handcuffed Dalton, Monk explains what happened: Skinner didn'ttrust the banks, so he hid his illegitimate fortune in plain sight. Randy is a hero to his mother, though she declines his offer of a ride in favor of going home with her new beau, the Sheriff. Even for a fake marriage, theirs is probably the worst union in history. He has a romantic interest in Natalie Teeger, Adrian's second assistant. Below is a list of actors and actresses that were part of the cast of the American comedy-drama television series Monk. Monk realizes that Joshua Skinner left out a telltale comma: "Where is the gold? In the episode "Mr. Monk is the Best Man", she is proposed to by Stottlemeyer after they have been dating for six months. Aside from his ridiculous theories, which often defy the laws of physics (for instance astral projection), he is competent within his own range of abilities. 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. His first appearance in any Monk-related material after he and Sharona left the television show is in the Lee Goldberg novel Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants, where Sharona returns to San Francisco because Trevor has been accused of murder. 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. Finally, the sheer weight of one of the journals, which he notices while resting one atop a wobbly bookshelf, gives Monk the key to the mystery. He appears in the 2006 Christmas special of season five, "Mr. Monk Meets His Dad." Trudy has curly, blonde, shoulder-length hair, and blue eyes. At the end of the episode, he tosses something into the ocean. A turning point for the character came in the second season episode "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife", when Stottlemeyer's own wife Karen is seriously injured in a car accident and put in a coma. Julie also initially helps Monk out when Dale "the Whale" Biederbeck apparently escapes from police custody while at SF General Hospital undergoing a bypass surgery. "The answer is in my journals." She then begs Monk to take the case, which he eventually does, though reluctantly. Monk telephones Biederbeck from Germany when he suspects that one of Dr. Kroger's colleagues, a psychiatrist with a six-fingered hand named Dr. Martin Rahner, is the man who killed Trudy. 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. Hence, starting with season seven, Monk gets a new therapist, Dr. Neven Bell, who remained for the final two seasons. Benjamin "Benjy" Fleming is Sharona's son. The incident took place on Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley shortly before 4:30 p.m. and both patients were taken to the hospital. However, she also has obsessive-compulsive disorder and takes a liking to Monk after a couple of encounters. 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. 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. The band records a song, "I Don't Need a Badge". Dale consents to undergo a gastric bypass operation so that he can be integrated into the regular prison system. It is mentioned in "Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine" that Stottlemeyer was Monk's fourth partner on the force, and this came two weeks after Monk made detective (Monk says that his first three partners were good enough guys but their professional chemistry did not work). Prior to his appointment as a judge and Trudy meeting Adrian, Rickover has an extramarital affair with Trudy. When Sharona sees T.K. Monk and Sharona return to Waterford, more determined than ever to unmask Padron as the liar and con man they know him to be. ", a statement that has more truth to it than Stottlemeyer realizes. 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. The intense guilt contributed to and intensified his nervous breakdown, his obsessive-compulsive manifestations, and his bizarre phobias. The police hypothesize it has to do with a union dispute, but the detective isn't sure. Adrian loved her dearly, and after she was killed in a car bomb, Monk was left "emotionally paralyzed". She has a sister. '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. For instance, in the episode "Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan", Linda resorts to bidding on a date with Stottlemeyer at a bachelor auction just to get him alone as Marci Maven resorts to bidding on a date with Monk. Meanwhile, Monk drops a few of the journal pages into the fireplace, and explains that the clue "Where is the gold? Joey burned Grajna's car to torch any evidence that Grajna was the Frisco Fly, and stole Grajna's outfit. Inside, he opens an armoire and finds a trash sack stuffed with Toliver's bloody remains. After handcuffing him, Randy runs to the closet and releases the prisoners. He is in little league in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Ballgame". 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. He goes back to prison, though Randy's handcuff key "went missing". 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. By a stroke of luck, Monk manages to avoid breaking character and tells Harold that he has made a mistake, and threatens to kill him if he does not back away. When Disher loses heavily at the blackjack tables in "Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas," Stottlemeyer persuades Monk to help win the money back; later, in "Mr. Monk Gets Lotto Fever," he offers to pay off Disher's student loans after believing he has won the lottery. Monk frequently comments that Harold has more psychological problems than does Monk himself; while Monk suffers from just OCD, Harold also suffers from acute paranoia and narcissism (in "Mr. Monk and the Daredevil," for example, Monk recalls that Harold was stricken by an attack of vertigo when Dr. Kroger reupholstered his office with thicker carpet. Making the link with Dalton,Randy goes to the antiques store, alone. By the end of the episode, Adrian confronts Dale, telling him that the police searched Nunn's house after he died. Here there is fight picked and he falls for it. Over the course of the novel, Benjy develops a friendship with Julie Teeger. Monk is shown to have been fine with T.K. Sure enough, when Monk and the others go to the hospital and pull back "McCabe's" curtain, they find Dale, who is arrested and stopped, presumably for good now. He also saves the two from being drowned by Commander Nathan Whitaker, the person who killed Pierce. Morrow lives on the East Coast, where the remainder of season one was filmed (in Toronto). 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. 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. In his first appearance, "Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale", Biederbeck is the primary suspect in the slaying of Catherine Lavinio, a superior court judge who issued a costly antitrust ruling against him. He died in 1998 in the Kosovo War. There, he meets Frank Nunn, who recognizes Monk as "the cop with the wife". Lieutenant Amy Devlin: Stottlemeyer's replacement right-hand following Randy's departure. She spends much of her time filming unscripted documentaries. The next day, Marci shows Monk how much she loves him, wearing his old pants, serving his drink in his old glass, even showing him a diorama of them based on the season two episode "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies", while singing him a song on her guitar about him. Mr. Monk and the Red-Headed Stranger. During the radio broadcast, Kevin calls in as a fan to compliment Hudson, but he actually called in just to support Monk. When Randy's mother marries a guy much younger than she, he gets worried. At a luxury resort hotel in Pebble Beach, photographer Frank Ruttle is taking shots of a wedding party. Kazarinski poisons Monk's wipes with a ricin-based synthetic poison that will kill him in a period of two or three days. Eventually, Monk finds an article, dated the same day that Trudy's illegitimate child was born, detailing how Wendy Stroud saved a child. In Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants, Julie breaks her wrist during a soccer game and subsequently spends most of the novel with her arm in a cast. So he can search it, he has Natalie lure Linda away from her house on the pretense of looking at an apartment, while he searches it. Sharona has a bold plan: she and Adrian go to the Waterford Institute, posing as another couple with problems. As Monk is hurrying to leave the prison, however, he gets a phone call from his old nemesis, Dale ""the Whale"" Biederbeck, that changes his plans. Not much explanation is provided for how he ends up in the state explored in "Mr. Monk Meets His Dad". | Countries - Canada , United States | Find movie and film cast and crew information for Monk : Mr. Monk Gets Fired (2004) - Andre Belgrader, Randall Zisk, Randy Zisk, Jerry Levine, . On a tour of the retreat, leased from Skinner's estate, Dr. Waterford shows the guests pictures of Joshua Skinner, and the collection of his journals in the library. Panicking, Rickover hires a different professional hit man, Joey Kazarinski, to kill Dr. Nash. In the end, Ambrose buys the RV that Adrian and Natalie rented for the trip. The next day, the Sherifftells the othersthat the gold will go to Gully's living relatives. Natalie begins dating Joe during the investigation, but she dumps him when she realizes she is becoming way too attracted to him. Who would murder a death-row inmate forty-five minutes before his execution--and why? 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. See production, box office & company info, Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA. Fearing he might be caught, Torini and his assistant Tanya Adams come up with a plot to kill Kevin on the night of his debut. She was replaced by Natalie Teeger in the episode "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring", and Teeger remained Monk's assistant for the remainder of the series. By the beginning of the penultimate season seven episode, "Mr. Monk and the Magician," Kevin is working as an accountant for professional magician, mentor, and 'supposedly' close friend, Karl Torini (Steve Valentine). 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. She confesses, knowing Benjy would be open to ridicule and perhaps lose respect for her.