Leland's and Jared's relationship is evidently strained, since the only photo Leland has for the bouncer at the main entrance to the grounds is a photo from a trip to Cabo San Lucas that obviously is several years old. 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. In "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage," Monk explains to Natalie that the couple has practically nothing in common (case in point: he recalls one weekend when Leland went on a hunting trip, while Karen stayed behind to organize a rally for stronger gun control). She spends much of her time filming unscripted documentaries. See production, box office & company info, Piru Mansion - 829 & 837 Park Road, Piru, California, USA. Jack also makes an appearance (albeit an unseen one) in the season four episode, "Mr. Monk Goes Home Again" at Ambrose's door. Another golden caper cracked by that most platinum of detectives, Adrian Monk! In "Mr. Monk Meets the Playboy", Sharona tells him of her less than reputable past. Jared Stottlemeyer is Leland's older son who appears in four episodes, always played by different actors to show his aging. It was changed to Disher for the rest of the series. Later, in "Mr. Monk Gets Lotto Fever", when Monk confides how he loathes Natalie for getting more attention than him, Dr. Bell is forced to admit to being a diva after writing an unsuccessful book on body language. However, Monk discovers that the cleaning lady was killed by drug trafficker Francis Merrigan, who also owns an office in Dr. Kroger's building. Mr. Monk Gets Fired is the fourth episode of the third season of Monk. However, any chance of figuring out where Dale is through her ends when she tries to kill the three by suicide-bombing her house (the three survive, though Stottlemeyer breaks his right arm when the resulting fireball throws him through the air and he lands the wrong way). The season six finale "Mr. Monk Is on the Run" continues the investigation when Monk and Natalie are called to the scene of an electronics store robbery. In "Mr. Monk Gets Fired", Karen is seen filming a documentary of life in the San Francisco Police Department's Homicide Division, including many moments of Commissioner Brooks' anger and Paul Harley's arrest. 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. 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. This is a wild story that begins with an obnoxious cameraman assigned to photograph a wedding threatening someone on the phone. Dale is a rich and well-connected financier, who is arrogant, brilliant, and ruthless. "My spidey sense is tingling.". In real life, Emmy Clarke studied Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. 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. While he engages in routine talk therapy, he does not prescribe medication, since Monk reacts badly whenever he takes medicine. Dr. Malcolm Nash (Ed Begley Jr.), the director of the clinic where Stroud worked, discovers the truth about Trudy's child while digitizing the records from old paper records to computer files. She is eventually adopted by a family and becomes a movie critic for the fictional East Bay Chronicle. The line suddenly goes dead, and a horrified Disher contacts Sheriff Mathis and then rushes to Waterford as the race for the gold continues. A few days later, Monk, Natalie and Devlin find a dead body floating in the water, apparently ripped up by boat propellers. She has a sister. This makes Marci a primary suspect, and she is finally cornered by Stottlemeyer and Disher at the Crime Lab S.F. Leland states that they have known each other since their childhood in "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife". At once, Linda confesses plainly about Monk searching her house for evidence, but then she tells him in a nervously hushed voice that Monk made an advance at her and threatened to sleep with her. Ever since their father left, Ambrose has been obsessed with the idea of his return, even to the point of preparing a dinner plate for him every night, just in case. He tells them that he has a problem:his mother, Maria, has just gotten married, to none other than Dalton Padron. In 1993, Trudy was involved in a lawsuit with the financier Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck because she referred to him as the "Genghis Khan of Finance". and the Monk and Natalie investigate the murder with help from Stork's girlfriend Kendra Frank (Tamara Feldman), eventually coming to the conclusion that Trafalgar's lead singer Kris Kedder (Brad Hunt) is the killer after Jared identifies a guitar string found at the crime scene as coming from a 12-string guitar, of which Kedder is the only person on the property to own one. It is also revealed that he is a good lip-reader, as he can read what a shooter on a surveillance tape is saying. She is introduced in Mr. Monk on Patrol, where she runs a store in Summit called Poop, which (as the store's name suggests) sells dung and other objects made from fecal material. "This is Mr. Orm, the celebrated poet, I understand," said Father Brown, as calmly as if he were introducing two people in a drawing-room. 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. The actor who plays the minister is Tony Shalhoub's brother. Despite these tensions, however, Stottlemeyer also has a great deal of sympathy and respect for Monk; even Stottlemeyer cannot deny Monk's abilities. Troy later appears in the season six episode "Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure". Stemple's letter asks. He finds an old letter in a concealed compartment, and, after reading it, excitedly shares its contents with Dalton. He also did not appear in "Mr. Monk and the Airplane.". 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. Stottlemeyer also looked up Sharona Fleming and hired her as Monk's practical nurse, which helped Monk to recover from a state of near-catatonia caused by Trudy's death. 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. 12. spiritualRyan 8 mo. By the end of the episode, Adrian confronts Dale, telling him that the police searched Nunn's house after he died. Comedy Crime Drama After a vicious truck stop attack, Monk awakens with amnesia in a desert hamlet, married to a domineering loon, and suspicious of the circumstances surrounding the hasty departure of a waitress. 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. Yes if you are a Buddhist monk then you need to avoid sexual relations with others. Sharona has a bold plan: she and Adrian go to the Waterford Institute, posing as another couple with problems. Stottlemeyer was later promoted past Monk. Adrian Monk ( Tony Shalhoub) finally discovers his wife Trudy's ( Melora Hardin) murderer after twelve years of searching, concluding a seven-year, eight-season long arc. At a luxury resort hotel in Pebble Beach, photographer Frank Ruttle is taking shots of a wedding party. Around the same time, Rickover hires bomber Frank Nunn to plant a bomb in Trudy's car. wasn't meant to be cryptic at all: Skinner had, quite literally, hidden the gold IN all of the journals - or, more precisely, in the ink that covered the pages. We need to remember that Leland is a Captain and knows the score. Panicking, Rickover hires a different professional hit man, Joey Kazarinski, to kill Dr. Nash. When Natalie asks where he got the suit, Monk reveals that Kevin lent it to him. In the novel Mr. Monk Gets Even, Julie becomes a principal character, as she temporarily becomes Monk's assistant while Natalie is temporarily serving on the police force in Summit, New Jersey. When she was killed by the bomb planted under her car, she had gone on an errand to buy him some cough medicine at his request. Mr. Monk Gets Married is the fifteenth episode of the second season of Monk. 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. as long as it isn't adultery and is not illegal. 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 Stottlemeyer tells Monk he's already apologized twice and asks how many times he needs to apologize, Monk says "six." In "Mr. Monk and the Bad Girlfriend", Stottlemeyer's duties and the fact that Linda has moved uptown to Richmond means that she can only talk to him at 6:30p.m. each night on webcam dates. 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." Later, when Monk and Dr. Kroger are being held hostage in the back of Francis Merrigan's truck, Harold, who has followed the truck, is the one who alerts the police to their whereabouts. He is interrupted when he receives a call on his cell phone from a mysterious person. Stroud then claimed to have found Molly abandoned at a playground and took her to an orphanage. He was portrayed by Cameron Cush in this episode. 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. Adrian harbors an intense hatred for Dale because of the pain he caused Trudy, saying that he stole a year of her life. In his first and second appearances, he weighs about 800 pounds (363 kilograms), and is unable to leave his bed. The episode gives Julie an integral role. 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. 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. During a coughing fit brought on by the poisoned wipes, Monk decides not to kill Rickover and puts the gun down on the sundial in Rickover's yard, which Rickover then picks up and holds to his own head, yelling "You take care of her!," before pulling the trigger. Julie plays another critical role in season six episode "Mr. Monk and the Birds and the Bees", in which Monk gives her "the talk" after she starts dating Clay Bridges. They ultimately find that Karen is not seeing someone, as first suspected, but is meeting with a divorce lawyer. In Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants, Natalie mentions that she and Monk actually have a lot in common. The note ends with Jack's congratulations to Ambrose for leaving the house. Meanwhile, back in San Francisco, the police have received a missing persons report for Raymond Toliver. In the final season, Stottlemeyer meets and starts dating journalist Trudy Jensen who is normally called "T.K", beginning in the episode "Happy Birthday, Mr. Monk". Adrian Monk: The truth is, you sort of terrify me. 's picture in Stottlemeyer's office in the season 8 episode "Mr. Monk and Sharona", she says Stottlemeyer must feel like he won the lottery, and he heartily agrees. Jack Monk Sr. left him and his mother Darlene after ten years of marriage. He is one of three patients operated on that day, the others being men named Frank Cannon and Jason McCabe. Over the first half of the story, Julie's behavior assisting Monk is different from Natalie's when it comes to helping him focus. Kill someone? (casting by) Marci firmly lays various 'ground rules' of what the man can and cannot say to Monk before permitting the man to talk to him. 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. The band breaks up, and Randy returns to the SFPD shortly afterwards. The episode also establishes that their marriage is not necessarily stable, to such an extent that when Randy informs Leland that Karen wants to see him, Leland panics and has Randy keep her occupied while he gets his office reorganized (hanging a dreamcatcher from his lamp, hiding some of his personal junk, and installing a waterfall (that he fills with coffee). He puts up with Disher's idiosyncrasies and even barely resists laughing at some of his outlandish theories and quirks. He visits Padron's store, where he learns that Padron's partner, Raymond Toliver, has recently gone missing. At John Ringel's lumberyard, they find clues that explain Otto's day-long disappearance of about two weeks earlier, the simple explanation being that Ringel made a pruning-type device that could make dog tooth marks on his wife's body after he murdered her. 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". Adrian becomes furious when he learns that Jack's obsession with Paraguay is because its new extradition laws do not allow for extraditing individuals indicted for crimes other than murder. Over the course of the novel, Benjy develops a friendship with Julie Teeger. 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. Additionally, she is under the impression that Leland never uses a gun (forcing Leland to hide his pistol in a desk drawer whenever she visits him at the office). What's going on? Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater: Gail Fleming: Mr. Monk Gets Married: Dr. Julie Waterford (marriage counselor) Mr. Monk and the Missing Granny: Julie Parlo: Mr. Monk and the TV Star, Mr. Monk and his Biggest Fan, Mr. Monk's 100th Case: Marcie Maven: Mr. Monk and the Panic Room: Chloe: Mr. Monk and the Other Detective: Marty Eels: Mr. Monk Bumps . He and his family lived in a shanty on a lonely barren patch nigh the railroad track, where it passed close to the base of the mountain. 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. That's the question Captain Stottlemeyer asks Monk--but Monk's response is to ask why it matters. Mr. Monk Gets Married Fri, Feb 27, 2004 45 mins Disher's suspicions about his mother's new husband inspire Monk and Sharona to pose as a couple to uncover why the newlyweds are. Stottlemeyer says "sorry, sorry, sorry" and then Monk is satisfied. 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 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. 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. In "Mr. Monk and the Magician," Monk recalls a time when Kevin had a sore throat, then "talked for two and a half hours about how much it hurt him to talk". His wife was become a perfect invalid; one child had the white-swelling and the rest were rickety. Monk opens the door to the dressing room minutes later to find Kevin's dead body. Adrian is then able to locate his stepdaughter. From the time of Trudy's death until the end of season two, Monk believes all along that he was the intended target, with Trudy being an innocent victim. Natalie has a photo of Kevin on display, which she at first claims took over two hours to take because she wanted one where he was not talking, but upon noticing a skeptical look from Monk, admits to having used Photoshop. In the same episode, it is revealed that Julie was named for Mitch's aunt, who was one of the first female war correspondents in Vietnam. Randy's mother gets remarried to a much younger man, and they're honeymooning at a marriage retreat. In his final appearance, "Mr. Monk Goes to Group Therapy", Monk finds himself sharing group therapy sessions with Harold when his HMO refuses to compensate him for any more individual sessions with Dr. Bell. Adrian believes Dale knows the identity of "The Judge", but so far, Dale had not revealed any further information. 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. "Bread and Butter"- Trudy Monk, December 14th, 1997 Trudy Anne Monk (ne Ellison) was the wife of Adrian Monk. Julie Teeger (played by Emmy Clarke) is Natalie's teenage daughter. In the season six episode "Mr. Monk and the Three Julies", Julie receives her driver's license. After the baby was born, Rickover covered up the illegitimate child by telling Wendy Stroud, the midwife, to tell Trudy that her baby died about nine minutes after birth and to then put the child up for adoption. Knowing he couldn't win, Biederbeck did everything possible to draw the lawsuit out to torment her. It took over a year to resolve, and the legal costs forced the Monks to sell their first home, which Biederbeck then purchased and used to store his collection of pornography. She appears in many episodes of the show, usually in minor roles. After leaving, Jack is not heard from for over forty years. When she is sunbathing by his pool, he blindfolds her and leads her to his garage - she's thinking it's a new . 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. This leaves Monk and Natalie in a compromising position, as they need more evidence against Linda to secure an arrest. 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"). He melted down the gold, mixed it with black ink, and inscribed it into the journals. It is a 2.5 hour drive between the two locations and Randy would have been taken to the hospital by then. Trudy Monk was murdered on a snowy[3] December 14, 1997[4] with a car bomb, made of approximately three pounds of plastic explosives, powered by ten 20 volt magnesium batteries, that was planted under the front seat and remotely detonated by a cell phone. After finding evidence to suggest otherwise, Monk discovers that she is still alive. During the season six finale ("Mr. Monk Is on the Run"), Adrian finds the six-fingered man, named Frank Nunn, but unfortunately, he is shot and killed by John Rollins, a corrupt Angel County sheriff recruited by Dale in a plot to incriminate Adrian. 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. Monk and Sharona soon arrive at the Waterford Institute for Marital Therapy posing as husband and wife. 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 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. 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. Gail Fleming (Amy Sedaris) is Sharona's younger sister and an actress. 's maid of honor and best friend Stephanie Briggs, who happens to be an accomplice of Kettering's and killed him after he blackmailed her for money. Monk decides to meet Molly, and the two of them quickly start bonding and forming a friendship. 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. Torini and Tanya both feign innocence when Monk and Natalie question them at their loft apartment. 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. 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. Padron's interest in the books is quickly explained when they lift an ancient yellowed letter from Padron's pocket, telling of how Skinner murdered his prospecting partner and hid his share of the gold somewhere on the premises. However, he does remember that the man had six fingers on his right hand. Who would murder a death-row inmate forty-five minutes before his execution--and why? Even though Ambrose's last television appearance was in 2008, he continued to appear in the Monk novel series by Lee Goldberg. In reality, Harold was dropped into the role by his cousin Joey who was trying to kill him over an inheritance from their dying uncle. Similarly, Dr. Kroger also (usually unintentionally) helps Monk find something that solves his current case. 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. "Vezza" is revealed to be Glen Q. Syndell, a doctor who skipped bail on a manslaughter charge for killing a tender-aged patient while intoxicated; Biederbeck discovered this and blackmailed the doctor into his employ. Privacy Policy Like her mother, Julie is introduced during the season three episode "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring". Sharona proposes an ingenious way of finding out. 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. The choice of Mitch as the first name of Natalie's late husband is a possible in-joke reference to the 1998 film Dirty Work; in that film, Traylor Howard plays the love interest of protagonist Mitch Weaver. He also saves the two from being drowned by Commander Nathan Whitaker, the person who killed Pierce. Home; About Us; Services; Sustainability; Contact us; In the season five episode "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink", Dr. Kroger finds his cleaning lady Teresa Mueller stabbed and killed in his office. She also tells her she is dating a stockbroker and that Benjy is on the honor roll. He is just loading the last of Skinner's journals into his SUV when Disher comes roaring up with his gun drawn. The whole plot is weak and cliched. See production, box office & company info, Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA. 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. Monk agrees to investigate. He later asks Monk to follow his wife to see if it's true. In Monk's case, he hires Sharona and Stottlemeyer hires him as a consultant; in Natalie's case, Julie saved her.