100th episode cast party. In the end, Ambrose buys the RV that Adrian and Natalie rented for the trip. Their father leaves a note, congratulating Ambrose on leaving the house. Some of this is played for laughs. Monk discovers that he ordered Vezza to murder the judge and implicate Biederbeck. 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. American comedy-drama detective mystery television series created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the title character, Adrian Monk. The first twenty numbers on his speed-dial are lawyers. In April 2008, Stanley Kamel died of a heart attack during a production hiatus between seasons 6 and 7. At first, she confesses to murdering Brad's ex-wife, and Monk is convinced. Played by: Stanley Kamel. However, Steven reappears in the series finale, "Mr. Monk and the End", in which he and Natalie have been dating for a long time, and Natalie introduces him to Julie. 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. stands for, but when he finds out that her first name is Trudy, he suggests that they stick with calling her T.K. Among other things, she is less tolerable of Monk's eccentricities and less flexible to accommodating his needs than Randy ever was. 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). Ambrose writes owner's manuals for many different consumer products in multiple languages which he taught himself (seven and a half, as of "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies"; the half is for his ongoing study of Mandarin Chinese). Stottlemeyer uses this as his leverage to get Fellows to resign and erase his own suspension from the record book. In the season six episode "Mr. Monk and the Daredevil", Harold eclipses a jealous Monk in fame when the public at large believes him to be a notorious human fly known only as the Frisco Fly. 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. Kathryn Joosten Guest Star. Jack abandoned his young family while running to pick up an order of Chinese food. 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, wipes during their introductory handshake, and displays a painting in his office which previously belonged to the late Dr. Kroger. Morrow lives on the East Coast, where the remainder of season one was filmed (in Toronto). In "Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale", Dr. Christiaan Vezza, Dale's physician, reveals that when Dale first moved into his apartment, he weighed 422 pounds and could occasionally see his toes. Jason Gray-Stanford. Season 2, Episode 11 Mr. Monk and the Three Pies First Aired: January 23, 2004 Monk's agoraphobic brother Ambrose (John Turturro) calls, for the … In Adrian's words, Trudy "enjoyed poetry, was often barefoot, and kept every promise she ever made". In "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife", Monk is forced to take Jared and his brother to lunch because Karen is hospitalized after a tow truck driver is shot and killed by a sniper, causing the truck to veer into Karen's oncoming van, and because Leland is working the homicide case. In "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage," Monk recalls to Natalie a weekend where Leland went on a hunting trip, while Karen stayed behind to organize a gun control rally. Since Sharona is working as a nurse, Benjy is living with her sister Gail. He is in little league in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Ballgame". She is introduced in Mr. Monk on the Road, when Adrian, Ambrose, and Natalie encounter her accompanying her longtime boss, journalist Dub Clements, on a cross-country RV trip. Adrian Monk has to solve the murders of three people: a struggling student, a security guard, and a beautiful woman. 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. AR. As a result, he is clueless in giving Benjy a pep talk about baseball in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Ballgame", as Benjy has to show him how to hold a bat. 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 knows that Biederbeck would not kill anyone over such a petty sum: Biederbeck laughs, "I wouldn't bend down to pick up $1,200, even if I could". It happened to be her third speeding offense, meaning that she got arrested and the car was impounded, so the threats against Leland were Stephanie getting increasingly desperate, trying to get the pistol back before Leland found it. She then summons everyone into the office, to show Monk apparently talking to them from Linda's bedroom. At one point during the investigation, Linda drops by Monk and Natalie's new office while they are talking with Stottlemeyer and Disher. 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. Below is a list of actors and actresses that were part of the cast of the American comedy-drama television series Monk. In "Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan" (season 3 premiere), Monk finds Tennyson, who confesses to being hired to kill Trudy, and identifies the man who hired him as having a six-fingered hand. Stanley Kamel. Biederbeck reappears in the season two finale "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail". When Monk, Natalie, Stottlemeyer, and Disher visit Cassie Drake's house and Stottlemeyer and Disher start tapping messages to each other in Morse code on the door, Natalie chastises them, hinting that Mitch taught her Morse code. Harold also appears in the season seven finale, "Mr. Monk Fights City Hall". Plot summary []. "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies" was generally well received by critics, with most of the praise regarding … Little is known about Jack Monk's personal history. Due to the fiscal crisis, the state of California has no money left to pay for Dale's medical treatment. Twelve years later, in 2009, Rickover has come far in his career, having been recently nominated for the California Supreme Court. The expanded universe novels written by Lee Goldberg, and later by Hy Conrad, introduce an additional cast of characters. The staged crime scene allows Devlin to pressure Tong's co-conspirators Corinne Witt and Gene Tiflin into confessing to their part in the Hewson shooting. 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. Purple Haze. The real Frisco Fly was a man named Victor Grajna, who died several days earlier in a car accident which Joey discovered. 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. It is also revealed in this episode that Monk harbors a severe hatred of Biederbeck, who sued Trudy and her newspaper after her article profiled him as "the Genghis Khan of world finance". In the season five episode "Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy", Julie teaches Monk how to use her computer. Electric Kool-Aid. 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 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. Like her mother, Julie is introduced during the season three episode "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring". A CPA, he has two sisters, can recall every time he has eaten an egg salad sandwich in his life (eight altogether), and once worked for two non-consecutive summers at a coffee shop in Aspen, Colorado. 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. Dale reveals (in "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail") that the car bomb was actually intended for her, not him. In the season five episode "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink", Harold again plays a very prominent role, as he is with Monk and Dr. Kroger when they find the body of Dr. Kroger's cleaning lady Teresa Mueller in Dr. Kroger's office. 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. 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". She pays to have a local pizzeria called Sorrento's advertise on it. He works out of Fire Station 28, based in North Beach. Dr. Bell also uses his past baseball experiences when talking with Monk in "Mr. Monk Takes the Stand". In the novel Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu, Natalie describes Dr. Kroger as relaxed towards everything, to such an extent that she notes that she could easily walk into his office with a monkey on her head and a hatchet in her chest, and he would not be the least bit disturbed. Note: An actor's name appearing in italics denotes that only archive footage or voiceover was used for that particular season. 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. Although Monk is mostly annoyed by her, he becomes momentarily flattered when Marci starts acting as his buffer in relation to his personal quirks and social dealings with people. 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. Over the course of the novel, Benjy develops a friendship with Julie Teeger. 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. 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. 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". 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. Over Benjy's tenure, Monk bonds with him but has his problems in relating since he never did most of the things that kids do while growing up. Observing the rescue efforts from afar, Monk belatedly realizes Dale arranged it and has made his move. The only common element between these three people is a couch. In "Mr. Monk and the Election", Harold defeats Natalie Teeger in an election to become a member of Julie Teeger's school board. 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). 107 Episodes 2009. This makes Marci a primary suspect, and she is finally cornered by Stottlemeyer and Disher at the Crime Lab S.F. According to Jack, he never planned on leaving, but rather did so on impulse. She is eventually adopted by a family and becomes a movie critic for the fictional East Bay Chronicle. 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. Prove it now with our quiz! On ''Monk,'' the USA Network's series about an obsessive-compulsive detective played by Tony Shalhoub, sanity is the dividing line. Adrian and Ambrose miss their father's appearance when while in an ambulance because they think he has been poisoned by a Neptune candy bar. 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. 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 "Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine", Dr. Kroger prescribes "Dioxynl", which successfully relieves Monk's phobias while also impairing his detective skills. A note is also left behind which reads: "To Force Heaven Mars Shall Have A New Angel". Stanley Kamel, who portrayed Monk's therapist, Dr. Charles Kroger, died in April 2008, during the production hiatus in between seasons six and seven. He was the perfect patsy because Dale needed to switch places with someone who had no family or friends who would visit or miss him. The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter by Ambrose Bierce Adol Danziger De Castro. For the first three seasons Sharona Fleming was Monk's assistant. Beware the Nice Ones: While very forgiving, even Kroger gets fed up with Monk from time to time, most heavily demonstrated in one episode ("Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect") where Kroger came back from vacation and saw Monk standing outside his home. Jack Monk Sr., played by Dan Hedaya, is the father of Ambrose and Adrian Monk. The next day, in a surprise turn of events, Stottlemeyer is ordered suspended by deputy chief Harlan Fellows after it is revealed that $100,000 from an offshore account was deposited into Stottlemeyer's bank account hours after the escape. He topped out at 927 pounds about 11 years before the events of the episode and has been bedridden ever since. 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. In "Mr. Monk and the Game Show", he accompanies Monk on a trip to Los Angeles when Trudy's father, Dwight Ellison, asks Monk to investigate possible cheating on a game show that he produces. 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. Then, Monk learns that, in fact, Rickover had saved the baby girl who is now a 26-year-old movie critic named Molly who he re-connects with and grows to love. 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. She left to remarry her ex-husband in the middle of season three. Trying to impress her, Sharona tells her that she is Monk's partner, not his assistant/nurse. It is revealed in the season three episode "Mr. Monk and the Election" that Dr. Kroger is married, had a first wife, has children, and is Jewish. Detective." Unknown to Monk, Nunn is also a pawn in a related scheme to frame him for murder and incapacitate him. Monk and Natalie are sent to Marin County to investigate, where Monk determines that the shooter had a house key. John Turturro Ambrose Monk. Ambrose has a great command of the English language. Before Nunn can answer, he is shot dead by a corrupt local sheriff, John Rollins. 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. 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. Select from premium Ambrose Monk of the highest quality. In "Earthquake" she remarks to Sharona that she thinks Sharona copies her by moving to San Francisco, buying the same purse, etc. Monk turns on some Hawaiian music on the stereo, at which point Linda turns off the camera, exasperated. During that time, he fathered yet another son, 31‑year‑old Jack Jr. whom Jack proudly brags about to his co-workers as a genius doctor. He goes back to prison, though Randy's handcuff key "went missing". He is also revealed to be an amateur magician himself. 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. With Molly filling the void that Trudy's death left in his life, Monk initially decides to retire from detective work. For instance, when Monk finds himself unable to go up to the apartment of a man who fell off his balcony, Julie solves the situation by using her iPad and FaceTime while having Devlin use the application to give Monk a virtual tour of the apartment. Ambrose Monk: Monk's older brother, played on the series by John Turturro Randy Disher : The acting mayor of Summit, New Jersey, played on the series by Jason Gray-Stanford Leland Stottlemeyer : Homicide Captain on the San Francisco Police force, played in the series by Ted Levine She helps Monk investigate a series of murders that are made to look like accidents, which Monk ties to computer magnate Cleve Dobbs. However, Leland's efforts to find Jared are sidetracked when roadie Greg "Stork" Murray turns up dead in a port-a-potty, discovered by Monk and Natalie. When Monk and Natalie try approaching Randy for an idea, Randy is skeptical because there is no reasonable way for Linda to go 32.2 miles from her house to the crime scene in 20 minutes at that time of day. 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 discovers (in "Mr. Monk and the End Part 1") that Trudy had left him a videotape, containing a message stating that she wanted him to watch in case harm were to befall her. He has a biting and sarcastic personality, often insulting his employees and the police without fear of repercussion. Since he is being questioned in connection with a federal racketeering case, the district attorney is not allowing any visitors. Yellow Sunshine. Torini and Tanya both feign innocence when Monk and Natalie question them at their loft apartment. Frank Nunn was a career criminal who was hired by a mysterious figure known as "The Judge" to assassinate Trudy Monk. Until the killer is caught, the prison refuses to install a window in Dale's cell. KJ. Nash calls Rickover, blackmailing him for information. The episode gives Julie an integral role. Gail also makes an appearance in the novel Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants, where it is revealed that she is dating an accountant. Despite the fact that Monk is always shown to be annoyed by Kevin, he is seen crying after Kevin's murder, hinting at a possible friendship they had.