Natalie Teeger: Mr. Monk, he's not a real cop. 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". 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). The truth, Skinner says in the note, is that it's always been right in his house. He retires out of guilt as the police believe that one of his patients is responsible. Their father leaves a note, congratulating Ambrose on leaving the house. Torini and Tanya both feign innocence when Monk and Natalie question them at their loft apartment. She visits Sharona in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater", just when Gail is framed for murder. Since he is being questioned in connection with a federal racketeering case, the district attorney is not allowing any visitors. He also says that he thinks his new therapist is better than Monk's. 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. In his first appearance, in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Ballgame", Sharona gets angry at Leland because Jared is too old to be in little league baseball, something Leland is forced to admit. 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. They're never gonna believe we're really married. Both have lost spouses to violent deaths (Trudy to a car bomb, Mitch to a plane crash), and in both cases they were affected heavily and only saved thanks to someone else. In a letter dated September 13th, from Mr. Broderick, M.P., to Lord Chancellor Middleton, and published in Coxe's Walpole, the former says: "Various are the conjectures why the South-Sea directors have suffered the cloud to break so early. When Monk and Natalie talk to Linda at her office, they come to the shocking conclusion that she is the killer, after Monk realizes that Linda has a strong motive (her victim was planning on starting his own real estate agency and taking many of their clients with him), she knows how to use a shotgun (as he notices a photo of a younger Linda with her deceased grandfather on a hunting trip, carrying a 12 gauge shotgun), she is 5'7" (the killer's height as described by the two eyewitnesses), she has a house key, and she wears the very shade of lipstick one witness remembered the shooter as wearing. Terms and Policies 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. I made no doubt but they would do so when they found it to their advantage. 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. Torini and Tanya then stage a phone call to make it seem like they are both in Reno at the time (when Torini is actually hiding in the basement of the theater). See production, box office & company info, Trump National Golf Club - 1 Ocean Trails Drive, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA. Marci shows them Otto's grave. 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. Around the same time, Rickover hires bomber Frank Nunn to plant a bomb in Trudy's car. 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. 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. Milan Cheylov. Eventually,Monk and Sharona get a signal andare rescued by thelocal sheriff, Ronald Mathis, who reluctantly tells them that there is noway that theycan prove Dalton guilty of sabotage, as the bracing timbers were over 150 years old and were bound to fail eventually. Jack Jr. meets Adrian after he is arrested and imprisoned for attempting to sell cars that are not his own. In the episode "Mr. Monk Is the Best Man", Leland marries T.K. He tells them that he has a problem:his mother, Maria, has just gotten married, to none other than Dalton Padron. Adrian feels differently, believing his father will never return. When she shows up at Monk's apartment the next day, Natalie is able to shoo Marci out. Adrian Monk . 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. "Something's definitely wrong," slurs Disher. The line suddenly goes dead, and a horrified Disher contacts Sheriff Mathis and then rushes to Waterford as the race for the gold continues. When they go to some kind of couples retreat, he asks Monk and Sharona to go and keep an eye on her. He escapes from prison but is framed for murdering Lindsey Bishop, one of the social workers at the prison, right afterwards. 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. It was necessary to have two actors play the role because Ritchotte lives on the West Coast, while the pilot was filmed in Vancouver and seasons two and three in Los Angeles. 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. 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. In rage, Monk lunges at him and the two engage in a violent brawl, during which Monk repeatedly kicks and punches Nunn before drawing his pistol and demanding to know who hired him. The two butt heads constantly, even to the point that when two of their other group members are killed under mysterious circumstances, Harold accuses Monk of being the killer. Now serving on the San Francisco City Council, Harold initially votes against Adrian's motion to preserve the parking garage where Trudy was murdered, instead of demolishing it to build a children's playground. In Monk's case, he hires Sharona and Stottlemeyer hires him as a consultant; in Natalie's case, Julie saved her. Unfortunately, he is spotted by Monk (who is looking for Kevin) and accidentally gives himself away when he gestures in the direction of the dressing rooms with his middle two fingers together (Monk concludes that Torini was the so-called "maintenance man" when Torini makes a similar gesture at Kevin's funeral). 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. When Sharona sees T.K. Dale consents to undergo a gastric bypass operation so that he can be integrated into the regular prison system. Ambrose is also shown to have learned Pig Latin and the Dratch constructed language of Beyond Earth. Sharona Fleming: We're never gonna get away with this. Adrian and Ambrose miss their father's appearance while in an ambulance because they think he has been poisoned by a Neptune candy bar. Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: Monk, the guy's got dollar bills sticking out of his belt. 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. Later, Monk and Natalie watch the videotape, which reveals that Trudy had a child with her professor, Ethan Rickover, who is now a judge. In that episode, Julie is 11 years old. He is interrupted when he receives a call on his cell phone from a mysterious person. 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. 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. He was played by Jon Kyle Hansen in this episode. Trudy has curly, blonde, shoulder-length hair, and blue eyes. Adrian was only eight years old, and this abandonment is seemingly the catalyst for both his and Ambrose's psychological illnesses. He first appears in the novel Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse when Monk and Natalie are hired by Julie to investigate the death of Joe's pet Dalmatian, a dog named Sparky, killed while Joe and his crew are away responding to a fatal house fire. However, if you are a lay Buddhist (like me) you are allowed to have sexual relations with anyone whether they're lgbt or straight etc. 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. 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. Benjy and his mother are mentioned in "Mr. Monk Is on the Run (Part Two)", having sent flowers for the "deceased" Monk and flying in to attend his "funeral". This novel reveals that Ambrose wrote the instruction manual for the Triax tracking device that is utilized by alleged Ponzi schemer Bob Sebes, whom Adrian suspects as having killed three government witnesses about to testify against him for their parts in the scheme. 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. Here there is fight picked and he falls for it. In "Mr. Monk's 100th Case", he appears in a documentary about Adrian and says his brother held the family together after Jack Monk left them. In Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse, when a firehouse dog named Sparky is murdered, Julie hires Monk to investigate pro bono. Inflamed by greed, Padron manages to escape. Indeed, the next day, there is a major accident when a moving truck driving down Powell Street loses its brakes, careens down the hill into Union Square, and smashes into a MUNI bus and a cable car, leaving four people dead and dozens critically injured. Monk and Natalie are sent to Marin County to investigate, where Monk determines that the shooter had a house key. He did provide for the child and the mother. Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink (2006) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Writing Credits Cast (in credits order) Produced by Music by Cinematography by Film Editing by Casting By Production Design by Art Direction by Set Decoration by Costume Design by Makeup Department Production Management 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. However, Monk discovers that the cleaning lady was killed by drug trafficker Francis Merrigan, who also owns an office in Dr. Kroger's building. When he brings it to the station while the FBI is trying to trace a call from a killer, he plugs it in along with the other computers. This becomes admiration as their relationship develops. It was changed to Disher for the rest of the series. 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". Stemple's letter asks. A few days later, Monk and Sharona are recording a new message for Monk's answering machine when they get a late-night call from Randy Disher, asking for their help with a personal matter. Afterwards, Devlin poses as Corinne as part of the second sting, which is to draw Ramirez out of hiding. Contents Harold also appears in the season seven finale, "Mr. Monk Fights City Hall". Ambrose Monk, played by John Turturro, is Adrian's older agoraphobic brother. "That woman is as obsessive and compulsive as you are." Benjy reassures her that he can handle it. (The theme song controversy surrounding Crime Lab S.F. So to join the group, Monk and Sharona pretend to be married. 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. The police consider Dale a suspect in the inmate's murder (the . Among other things, she is less tolerable of Monk's eccentricities and less flexible to accommodating his needs than Randy ever was. 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. Dale's escape did not involve an actual escape but would involve him changing his identity. This leaves Monk and Natalie in a compromising position, as they need more evidence against Linda to secure an arrest. Benjamin "Benjy" Fleming is Sharona's son. 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. The show's main stars included, at some point, Tony Shalhoub, Bitty Schram, Traylor Howard, Ted Levine, and Jason Gray-Stanford. 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. Dr. Kroger is the subject of an ongoing feud between Monk and Harold Krenshaw, a patient with similar problems. 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. Julie bonds with Monk after he rescues her pet fish. When Randy's mother marries a guy much younger than she, he gets worried. 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. Monk.". 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. Adrian loved her dearly, and after she was killed in a car bomb, Monk was left "emotionally paralyzed". When they go to some kind of couples retreat, he asks Monk and Sharona to go and keep an eye on her. In the season six episode "Mr. Monk and the Three Julies", Julie receives her driver's license. 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. As a result the crime scene was deemed contaminate Read allWhile investigating a murder, Stottlemeyer gets into an argument with a cop at the scene who snidely tells him he has been seeing his wife. Thinking the map will lead them to where the bank robbers hid their loot, they ask Monk to help them, saying it is a school project. 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"). Even more bizarre, Dalton told Maria that they were having problems..only the day after their wedding, and they need counseling. Therefore, they are actually spending their honeymoon at the Waterford Institute, a therapy retreat. Now Monk and Sharona also know the mysterious clue, "Where is the gold? However, their father shows up at Ambrose's doorstep to leave a note. Monk is shown to have been fine with T.K. Monk decides to meet Molly, and the two of them quickly start bonding and forming a friendship. While buried alive, Troy also keeps Monk calm while they wait for help. She first appeared in "Mr. Monk and the Earthquake", where Sharona, Benjy, and Monk stay at her house after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake. 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. 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. 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. She spent numerous years working undercover to infiltrate and shut down drug operations. Padron later lures his tormentors into an old, abandoned mineshaft near the clinic and stages a cave-in with Monk and Sharona inside. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Monk_cast_members&oldid=1103081774, This page was last edited on 8 August 2022, at 07:44. Julie plays a key role in the season four episode "Mr. Monk Goes to a Fashion Show", when Julian Hodge (Malcolm McDowell) invites her to participate in his fashion show, despite her young age. Harold is married and has a son, Jimmy. This implies that at one point Jared had to repeat a grade. He attended Temple University and lived in Philadelphia briefly, where he was a sergeant in that city's police. Due to the fact that "Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized" is the episode that aired immediately after this one, it is implied that Harold is referring to Dr. Climan. He arranges to meet the caller in the hotel . In the season seven episode "Mr. Monk is Underwater", where he is introduced, he asks for Monk's help with the murder of Lieutenant Commander Jason Pierce while serving aboard USS Seattle, a Los Angeles-class submarine. Nevertheless, until the killer is caught, the prison refuses to install a window in Dale's cell. She left to remarry her ex-husband in the middle of season three. Randy seems to harbor crushes on Sharona Fleming and Natalie. 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. After they are rescued, it becomes clear that Troy has a better relationship with his father, and is planning to follow his father and study psychology in college. Trevor Howe (Frank John Hughes and David Lee Russek) is Sharona's ex-husband and Benjy's father from New Jersey. In fact, Ambrose did not even leave his room for an unspecified amount of time. Mr. Monk and the Airplane. Dale remains an important adversary of Adrian's, especially when it is revealed that he was hiding something he knew about Trudy's death. Dr. Kroger is instrumental in trying to get Monk reinstated as a detective, all while discussing his problems and progress as a person. 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. Even before the operation, Monk believes Dale will try to use this as an opportunity to escape. Who would murder a death-row inmate forty-five minutes before his execution--and why? 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. Monk feels that Biederbeck stole one of the last years of Trudy's life, resulting in him having a hatred of the man. To find the truth, Leland sends Monk and Natalie to follow Karen. Knowing he couldn't win, Biederbeck did everything possible to draw the lawsuit out to torment her. Monk manages to steal Skinner's letter by having Sharona fake an argument and get close enough to snatch it, and realizes what Dalton is up to. Dr. Kroger . Biederbeck makes a brief appearance in the 2008 novel Mr. Monk Goes to Germany by Lee Goldberg. In the end, after Monk captures Dale, Julie discovers that Fellows never had a criminology degree at all, and his whole career is based on a lie. When Natalie grabs biotechnician Sarah Longson's pistol to force her to surrender, she whirls around so quickly that she accidentally discharges a bullet into Monk's right leg. Trudy Monk was born in Los Angeles in 1962[1] to Dwight and Marcia Ellison. It is also revealed that he had an uncle who was a comedian that knew Uncle Miltie. Joey burned Grajna's car to torch any evidence that Grajna was the Frisco Fly, and stole Grajna's outfit. Also, McCabe was a homeless person, as Monk has deduced from the state of his teeth, whose surgery had been paid for by Dale and represented by Stella Chaze, who had been posing as an outreach person.