He was a chemist as well. Joe later appears in Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants when he approaches Natalie, asking Monk to investigate the theft of some firefighting equipment from his firehouse, including a Jaws of Life. Adrian Monk: We have nothing in common. 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. The following is a list of characters of Monk, an American comedy-drama detective mystery television series, created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the titular character, Adrian Monk. 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. Wires get crossed, resulting in the SWAT team storming a slumber party of innocent teens, including Julie, near to death. 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. Due to her obsession with Monk, Marci is well-educated on just about every aspect of Monk's life and career. 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. "Monk" Mr. Monk Gets Married (TV Episode 2004) - IMDb 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. However, their date is interrupted when Stottlemeyer realizes that John Ringel is a murder suspect and framed Marci's dead dog. Although Monk and Natalie believe Linda is the shooter, there is just one problem: they and Stottlemeyer happen to be Linda's alibi for the murder, and Linda was chatting to them via webcam up until 20 minutes before the shooting. In "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage", Sergeant Ryan Sharkey Jr. claims to Leland that he is having an affair with Karen, provoking Leland into punching him. Trudy Monk | Monk Wiki | Fandom 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. Stottlemeyer is also skeptical of Monk's ability to perform as a police officer, aware that Monk's psychological problems are a very serious handicap; in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival", he reveals his misgivings about allowing Monk back into the police department to the panel evaluating Monk's request. 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. 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). Cheryl Fleming (Betty Buckley) is Sharona's and Gail's mother. 13. Even more bizarre, Dalton told Maria that they were having problems..only the day after their wedding, and they need counseling. Trudy Anne Ellison Monk is Adrian's beloved deceased wife, played by Stellina Rusich in the first two seasons and Melora Hardin after the third season. The note ends with Jack's congratulations to Ambrose for leaving the house. He has a biting and sarcastic personality, often insulting his employees and the police without fear of repercussion. He writes a personal ad fitting Sharona in the episode "Mr. Monk and the Paperboy", which he unsuccessfully tries to hide from her. Adrian establishes in the above-mentioned episode that Jack wrote school textbooks as his career of choice (although in the episode "Mr. Monk's 100th Case" he is referred to as "a frustrated linen salesman"), similar to Ambrose, and indicating some level of education. When Randy asks him what he just threw, Stottlemeyer replies "It's just a rock," suggesting that he was going to propose to Linda while in Hawaii. Mr. Monk and the Airplane. Sheriff Mathis arrives, slaps the cuffs on Padron, and frees Maria. At the end of the episode, Sharona trips and breaks her arm on one of the country club's steps, meaning she will get the money after all. The affair resulted in Trudy becoming pregnant with his child. Like her mother, Julie is introduced during the season three episode "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring". Twelve years later, in 2009, Rickover has come far in his career, having been recently nominated for the California Supreme Court. In "Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs", it is mentioned that he has not lived in Los Angeles for almost 30 years. When "Part 2" aired, it set a series high and a new viewership record for the most watched episode of a regular drama series ever in basic cable with 9.4 million viewers. 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. Alerted by Disher over the phone, Sheriff Mathis joins up with Monk and Sharona and they go to arrest Dalton, freeing Maria after he has tied her up in a bathroom. In this episode, she has started a website about Monk, and we see her digitally replacing Natalie's head with her own. Reasoning that they can't expose him without risking him doing something violent, Monk and Sharona are determined to comb through the journals and find the gold themselves. Stottlemeyer's second-in-command, Lieutenant Randy Disher, is a source of much comedic strife. The novel Mr. Monk in Outer Space reveals that Jack stopped to visit Ambrose after coming back to San Francisco. Her career in Vice was ended, though, when a judge refused to let her testify at the trial for her last case without showing her face. Especially in the early episodes of the show, there is a certain degree of tension between Stottlemeyer and Monk. In the episode "Mr. Monk is the Best Man", she is proposed to by Stottlemeyer after they have been dating for six months. He makes a brief appearance in "Mr. Monk Is the Best Man", played by Matthew Scott Hill.[8]. When Sharona sees T.K. However, Monk determines that it was a murder and uses the body to solve the case. 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. He has every right to date, have sex, get married, and have a family. Devlin is different from Randy in many ways. The melting point of gold is 1948 degrees Fahrenheit, far above the ignition point of paper (451 degrees), so there is no way that burning some book pages would cause gold to melt. He successfully frees the others, thanks Monk, and leads Padron away to prison. In that episode, Julie is 11 years old. By creating an account, you agree to the He is interrupted when he receives a call on his cell phone from a mysterious person. The intense guilt contributed to and intensified his nervous breakdown, his obsessive-compulsive manifestations, and his bizarre phobias. Despite sharing the same disorder, Monk and Harold are constantly at odds, mostly over which of them is liked better by Dr. Kroger or Dr. Bell, or which of them have made more progress in overcoming their various problems. She pays to have a local pizzeria called Sorrento's advertise on it. He phones his mother and tells her to get the hell away from Padron but Padron is standing mere inches behind Maria and hears everything. In "Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike", when the city stops collecting garbage, Monk mails his garbage to Dr. Kroger's house. Guilt-ridden, Ambrose avoided all contact with Adrian for seven years after the incident. 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. 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 shuts off Tennyson's morphine drip, watches his face contort in pain for a moment, then turns it back on, saying that Trudy would not have wanted him to suffer. Mr. Monk Gets Married is the fifteenth episode of the second season of Monk. She confesses, knowing Benjy would be open to ridicule and perhaps lose respect for her. Thanks to the job opening caused by Randy's departure from the Homicide division, Devlin was reassigned to the Robbery-Homicide Division. 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. 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. Technically, you are also better at Polymorph, in the sense that you get a . He allegedly abandoned his men and took their supplies, but Natalie does not believe the reports, as revealed by Natalie in "Mr. Monk and the Election. Much of what is known about Mitch is known through the Monk novel series by Lee Goldberg. Stottlemeyer's attitude toward Randy Disher, his immediate subordinate in the SFPD frequently shifts between amused tolerance and frustration. Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage Release Date 27 January 2006 Running Time 43 minutes Credits Written by Jack Bernstein Directed by Phillip Casnoff Episode Guide Previous Episode Next Episode Mr. Monk Bumps His Head Mr. Monk and the Big Reward Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of Monk . 11. oktber 2002. 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. Minutes later, he is clubbed over the head with a rock and dumped into a mud bath. He then finds an application for a visa on Padron's desk for a trip he is planning to Ecuador - and notes that under 'marital status,' Padron has checked 'single.' The advertising on her cast is a clue Monk utilizes to prove that mystery writer Ian Ludlow killed a local shoe salesman and tried to frame Natalie for it. By continuing, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Meanwhile, Monk drops a few of the journal pages into the fireplace, and explains that the clue "Where is the gold? Stroud says she will reveal the truth about his and Trudy's illegitimate child, which would ruin his confirmation chances. 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. Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk Ted Levine as Captain Leland Stottlemeyer Jason Gray-Stanford as Lt. Randall Disher Traylor Howard as Natalie Teeger Stanley Kamel Additional Cast Michael Ensign. 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. The show's main stars included, at some point, Tony Shalhoub, Bitty Schram, Traylor Howard, Ted Levine, and Jason Gray-Stanford. Once Monk closes the case, the group visits Tennyson, who admits his involvement and says that he was hired by a man whose identity he never learned. Adrian does not know what this may mean until he mentions this to Dr. Bell. Trevor also reappears in the novel Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants, having been framed for murder by the Los Angeles Police Department's private consultant Ian Ludlow, who frames five other people in addition to Natalie and Sharona for the murders he commits so that he can write his novels and meet his deadlines. The expanded universe novels written by Lee Goldberg, and later by Hy Conrad, introduce an additional cast of characters. Dalton becomes wise to his tormentors and tries to kill them by luring them up to Skinner's old mine. In "Mr. Monk Buys a House", Natalie describes Dr. Bell as a psychiatric genius, and mentions that he has written five books and teaches at Stanford University. Ambrose has both more severe problems than Adrian and more acute powers of observation. Except for two changes, the principal cast of the series remained consistent. Dale consents to undergo a gastric bypass operation so that he can be integrated into the regular prison system. Monk finds many clues that suggest that Otto was framed, and so Monk, Natalie, and Marci go to several lumber yards in the area. However, Monk thinks that Howard's death was foul play, irritating cash-strapped Sharona. 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. 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. A note is also left behind which reads: "To Force Heaven Mars Shall Have A New Angel". As a result the crime scene was deemed contaminated. While skateboarding and ditching school with his friends Ridley and Pez, one of their skateboards hits the side of a parked car. The worst sin for Transmutation wizards is that unlike the other PHB wizards, it isn't any better at its chosen school of magic. Ambrose blames himself for Trudy's death. Be the first! Monk, however, later discovers that he has been tricked when he learns about Gamelobo's true identity. Adrian Monk: I thought he'd lost his wallet. In the season five episode "Mr. Monk and the Big Game", Julie and her friends on the high school basketball team hire Monk to investigate the death of their basketball coach, Lynn Hayden, after she is found electrocuted and killed in the locker room. ", a statement that has more truth to it than Stottlemeyer realizes. Adrian was only eight years old, and this abandonment is seemingly the catalyst for both his and Ambrose's psychological illnesses. The police hypothesize it has to do with a union dispute, but the detective isn't sure. In the novel Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii, Natalie reveals that Mitch died two days before his 27th birthday, which would place his birth date in 1971. Nevertheless, until the killer is caught, the prison refuses to install a window in Dale's cell. Cast. Despite being family, Adrian is thoroughly repulsed by Jack's display of complete immaturity, and at one point, he deems him "the most selfish human being he's ever met." "Where is the gold? Monk is confused: he now knows Padron is after the gold, and that Padron's marriage to Maria was a pretext to allow him to come here and examine the journals. As Toliver ponders aloud how anyone could murder their partner for a cache of gold, his own partner, Dalton Padron, bludgeons him to death with a sewing machine. When he and Troy return to the quarry in question, a bulldozer driven by crooked bank manager Steven Connolly (who masterminded the robbery) buries them alive, and Monk and Troy nearly suffocate. Julie is seventeen years old by the time of the season seven episode "Mr. Monk Is Underwater". Benjamin "Benjy" Fleming is Sharona's son. 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. I annoy you all the time. He calls his mother, telling her to get out of the house immediately, but Dalton is listening on the other line. Unlike Karen, Linda unashamedly presents herself to Stottlemeyer, Monk and Natalie as a very confident and calculating woman who will not be intimidated by anyone. Having just found out about the video, Monk confronts Rickover and informs him that he knows he was behind Trudy's death, although he has no other evidence to back this up. When Trudy is subsequently killed, it is impossible to connect either her death or Stroud's death to Rickover, allowing him to have a prosperous career as a judge. Kevin also makes a short appearance in the season four episode, "Mr. Monk and Mrs. Monk", where he and Monk are shown in the kitchen, preparing food and happily chatting together, while Natalie broods over the impossible notion that Trudy might still be alive. 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. Sharona Fleming - EverybodyWiki Bios & Wiki Ellen Morse: Monk's new girlfriend. Monk explains that he discovered how Linda forged her alibi when he remembered that during their video call just before the shooting, she put a pen down on the table next to her chair and it rolled away, but when he was in her real bedroom searching her house, he tried the same thing with his own pen, but it did not roll, leading him to conclude that Linda parked the truck on a hill. Adrian Monk: The truth is I'm - I'm not so attracted to you. Discovering that Trudy was the true target, Adrian is seen to be visibly affected by this piece of news. Tap "Sign me up" below to receive our weekly newsletter By his third appearance in "Mr. Monk Is on the Run (Part Two)", he has lost just enough weight to get around in a wheelchair. She moves in with Ambrose after Dub dies from terminal cancer. Monk knows that Biederbeck would not kill anyone over such a petty sum. Bitty Schram. Mr. Monk Gets Fired is the fourth episode of the third season of Monk. 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. 409 multiplied by 30 is $12,270 per thirty ounces of gold. In the end, Ambrose buys the RV that Adrian and Natalie rented for the trip. Home; About Us; Services; Sustainability; Contact us; 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. 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.