Natalie and Monk are waiting to meet actress Christine Rapp. He’s a real fan, her show was really important to him. She doesn’t come because someone tried to kill her. She started her car with the remote and there was a bomb in it. Monk is hired as her bodyguard. She was a child when she did the show, but Monk knows nothing about her real life after that. Everybody keeps telling him to read her book, and finally the captain orders him to. He’s shocked as everyone else :-p
Apparently she grew up to have an interesting life :p Natalie eats page 73 to avoid him reading that! :p He feels betrayed and can’t enjoy the show anymore... (yeah, that happens with actors, some of them shouldn’t be allowed to speak without a PR consultant, it ruins movies for you).
Christine set it all up because she wanted to kill him: he had rigged an award show to make her win and then blackmailed her.
2- Mr Monk and the foreign man
Monk is bothered by a man making music and burning incense on the street corner near his house, but then he learns the reason why the man doesn’t go away: his wife was killed there :’( Monk can certainly relate to that, now. As soon as I saw the woman I just knew she’d be a victim: she was so joyful, kind, happy, pretty and colourful, such a character always ends up dead in this type of movies, so the audience can fell for her and the investigation.
Monk wants to help him find the guy who hit her with his van and ran away. The captain wants him to work on a more recent homicide, but Monk identifies with Samuel and wants to help him. No surprise Monk finds a connection between the two murders, the same murderer. Instead of helping the woman he hit, he went to kill the only person who knew what he had done. The guy takes them prisoner. Monk cries a lot but Samuel doesn’t; they free themselves and overpower the guy, then Samuel leaves, telling Monk to not give up.
3- Mr Monk and the UFO
Natalie is angry because Monk insisted to go with her to some friends and then said nothing all night, just rearranged stuff :p when their car breaks down, Monk sees a UFO in the sky. Natalie takes the car to a mechanic, but then Monk is very rude, implying that the man is stupid, so he takes offence - of course, he had every reason - and triples the price :p She asks if he has no empathy at all... is she noticing that now? ...
He sees it again, along with Natalie and a hotel clerk. The next day a lot of UFO enthusiasts come. Monk thinks he’s the only smart person because he doesn’t believe aliens exist (which is actually not smart at all, I’ve heard that the universe is quite big actually...) and people start thinking he’s an alien :p
The sheriff asks him to help when a woman is found dead. Her brother killed her but since nobody found her body he couldn’t inherit, so he built a remote-controlled ufo-model so that people would come and look around and find her.
Monk tells the truth but the ufo-people don’t believe him so Monk tells them that he’s an alien and then they’re happy...
At the end, Monk hides in his bathroom because Natalie wants to see his bellybutton, to see if he’s really human :p
4- Mr Monk is someone else
A dangerous hitman is killed and the FBI asks Monk to go to LA and take his place because this Frankie DePalma looks exactly like him :p to stop a pretty girl from kissing him he says he has a girlfriend so Natalie has to join him :p everyone acts scared upon hearing his name - although he died in a very stupid way to be the man they said he was: he crossed the street reading a newspaper and got hit by a truck...
While on the job he meets Harold! Monk very quickly gets too deep in , enjoying acting like Frankie. He goes back to them but when Lola kisses him he turns back to himself and solves the case.
5- Mr Monk takes the stand
It starts with the “here’s what happened” scene this time, but Monk gets interrupted by the guy’s lawyer who plans to take it to court. Harrison Powell, nicknamed ‘the prince of darkness’ :p (the actor is Payne from GhostWhisperer), has never lost a case and now he questions them in court. Monk is sure that his client is the guy, and is sure of himself, but Powell tears him apart. The guy is a sculptor who killed his wife. Monk makes a strange noise when talking of the sculpture of a naked woman, and can’t bring himself to look at it. He has troubles with the microphone, says his nurse left five years ago, objects to himself, has to talk of his breakdown and his psychiatric discharge, and we’re spared the rest. No surprise the verdict is not guilty...
Randy’s upset because of a kid accused of murder. He cares about Rudy and Rudy admits to stealing but not to the murder.
Monk tells Dr Bell that he wants to quit but then Randy asks his help to save the kid. Monk is a wreck, but he smiles when he realizes that the store owner was killed by the sculptor too. They question him, then Powell comes in to free him, but the guy ruins himself with his own words saying something he could only know if he say it himself. Still, Monk is terrified of meeting Powell in court again so they give him some advice, like: don’t shout mayday out loud! :p
We don’t see the trial but we hear the verdict: guilty :)
6- Mr Monk and the critic
Julie acts in a little play and Monk goes to the theatre with Natalie and he’s very satisfied with the spotless men’s restroom :p Julie sings well :-) and yet a critic that was at the theatre gives Julie a terrible review.
A girl is thrown off the balcony after a guy proposed to her.
Natalie goes to complain to the critic himself and solves the case, smelling on him the same cologne she smelled in the girl’s room. Her proof for the captain: she has Julie sing for them to prove that he didn’t hear her sing, that he wasn’t there, but the men don’t believe her.
Monk doesn’t even pay her sometimes and now he doesn’t believe her, why does she keep babysitting him is beyond me. I mean, he’s a good man I know, but still....
Anyway, she goes on and on until he agrees to work her case. The critic had the bathroom attendant take his place for a while while he killed the girl. To prove it, they have Julie make false accusations about him, and have him take a good look at her, and when he says that he’s never seen her before in his life they have him :-)
7- Mr Monk and the voodoo curse
Monk’s upset because at the station they rearranged the squad room *rollingeyes* so the captain orders to put everything back the way it was...
A voodoo doll is found at a dead woman’s home - hit by a baseball. Natalie is scared by voodoo. These dolls reproduce the way people die, sent before their deaths. A golfer dies struck by lightning, a sick man dies of a heart attack. When Natalie receives a doll too she’s terrified. The captain calls a voodoo reverend to release her from her curse but then Natalie drinks the potion instead of just touching it like perfume.
As I thought it was all just a scheme to make the wealthy man’s death look like a heart attack due to superstition.
8- Mr Monk goes to group therapy
Monk’s insurance won’t pay for Monk’s therapy anymore and he won’t pay for it himself (in ten years he hasn’t made any progress, hasn’t overcome any fear..) so Dr Bell suggests a way around it: join his therapy group. Harold’s there too... two people from the group die in two months! Now there’s only Monk, Harold and Rhonda left, until she’s found dead too. After Harold’s rant Monk starts questioning if he really did it! But only for a while, then he gets kidnapped by the killer, along with Harold. Monk can’t even panic because Harold panics more. Monk confesses that he actually admires him because they have the same problems but Harold is out there in the world, with a family! Working together they manage to get out of the car trunk and go to save the doctor, but the guy was actually there to confess the murders, and they talk together and Harold calls him ‘his friend’. The doctor is proud that they beat claustrophobia together, and Harold finds another doctor so that Monk could have dr Bell all to himself! wow..
9- Happy birthday, Mr Monk
It’s Monk’s 50th birthday and everyone at the station was planning a surprise party but he figures it out and leaves, telling Natalie that he hates birthdays. Natalie tries again and fails again, so he tells her why he hates birthday parties, his big big secret: he had a bad birthday party when he was ten... :-/ Natalie swears she’ll surprise him with a party sooner or later, so now he expects a party any place he goes during the investigation :-/
Monk is very very happy with the new invention of a self-cleaning vacuum, but then he breaks his borrowed vacuum by cleaning the filter ignoring all the writings saying not to, so he takes it to the inventor’s home. After that, they hide from a car that’s following them, only it was all a plan to surprise him with a party :p I knew it and it worked :p
A guy is thrown alive in a trash-compact. Monk solves the case right before his fake-inventor killed him too, then the party goes on well :) The captain finds out that the woman he was trying to ask out on a date is called Trudy ! so he thinks it’d be better to stick to her initials T.K. :p
At the end, Monk admits that this was the best birthday party he ever had adding “don’t do it again”, and then he feeds her a bite of cake :)
10- Mr Monk and Sharona
Sharona comes back! She’s separated again. She calls him ‘Ebenizer Monk’ :p Sharona and Natalie talk and she learns that he paid Sharona more :p She’s in town because her uncle died and she’s getting a lot of money by suing somebody over it, and she gets upset when Monk starts looking at it and thinks it is suspicious. Monk thinks that the man was a conman, that he fell on purpose to sue the country-club. Then he thinks that a man killed him because he was having an affair with his wife.
Sharona goes to say hi to the captain and Randy.
After a while Sharona and Natalie start arguing because Sharona says that she’s treating him like a child (true, actually). Later they make peace, sharing their love for him, and agree on trying to nail the guy, and Sharona and Natalie fight the man together.
At the end Sharona falls on that same step so she’ll get some money after all :)
When saying goodbye Sharona says that she was worried about him but now she knows he’s in good hands, then says “get ready, here comes the hug” and then she hugs him, and he hugs her back and it was a really sweet scene, very nice :) He lowered his face towards her and really hugged her, with a lovely expression of affection on his face :)
The last scene : Monk and Natalie see Sharona and Randy kiss...
11- Mr Monk and the dog
Natalie takes Monk to her family reunion.
Artist Amanda is missing - we know she’s dead. Amanda’s dog likes him so much he takes her home, but he wants her to stay in a corner, on an open umbrella, not licking and not scratching.. seriously? Only a moment and she’s drinking from the toilet and running around :p Still, he takes a liking to her :)
The murderer tries to kill the dog Shelby because while he was having an affair with Amanda his dog got her pregnant, living proof that they knew each other...
Shelby has four puppies and Monk gives the five of them to someone in Natalie’s family - saying that he’ll visit everyday at 2 o’clock *rollingeyes*
12- Mr Monk goes camping
It’s “Adrian Monk reinstatement hearing” at 1pm and he’s there at 7.15... They even arrive late.
Only captain Willis is against him and Monk can’t concentrate on a case because he thinks of Willis all the time, so Monk decides to join Randy in his camping trip because Willis’ son Brian will be there. Monk is not the camping-type, and he asks Randy how he can take it and go on, everything, everybody teasing him, and Randy says that he read somewhere that “happiness is a choice” and he chose to be happy :)
The two robbers are after them because one of the kids found one of their shells. Monk saves Brian from a bear by talking to him really slowly and boring him... while Randy catches the robbers :)
Result: Willis now says yes but the other two say no, but Monk doesn’t hear them and thinks he’s back in...
13- Mr Monk is the best man
TK is meeting the captain for their six-months anniversary and Monk tells her that he figured out that the captain wants to propose to her. They’ll get married in nine days. The captain asks Monk if he’s ok with her and her name and he replies “I think it’s great, everybody should have a Trudy in their life” :) and then the captain asks him to be his best man and Monk is very excited and now he won’t open his right hand anymore for fear he’d lose the captain’s ring...
Natalie will bring Steven, the navy medical officer :-)
There was a break-in at the captain’s house and now she’s all scared. The bachelor’s party is at Monk’s house, and he planned it... I think the words “extra-plain pizza” says it all :/ they all want to leave early, when they see that the captain’s car is on fire! and then at the marriage rehearsal in the church there’s a little bomb too that scares TK so much she runs away. She wants to call it off :/
No surprise it was all TK’s bridesmaid Stephanie’s doing. She had been a fugitive a long time; she killed a man who knew about her and hid the gun in the captain’s tuxedo bag. The captain stops her and Natalie talks to TK and the wedding is on again :) They get married on the beach and it’s beautiful :) Only Monk, Natalie and the captain’s sons are there.
14- Mr Monk and the badge
Monk is reinstated, back a detective! Natalie hugs him on his first day of work and he doesn’t pull back :) Monk is on desk duty for a while, then he’ll be working with someone else, not with the captain. He doesn’t know how to use the technical equipment and can’t take part in the action..
Natalie now has a new job, a concert-planner assistant, and is going to have dinner with the Coldplay :)
A young cop is shot dead and Monk questions his widow at the wake, and almost gets beaten by the other cops. He tells dr Bell “it’s my dream job and it’s making me miserable” and “I can’t believe I was happy before, why didn’t you tell me?”
Later Monk tries to arrest the killer alone and almost gets killed himself, but he overpowers the guy. He resigns and he finds Natalie waiting for him because she knows he needs her.
15- Mr Monk and the end: part 1
Twelve years before, Monk was happy with Trudy, smiling and kissing her, with the house all decorated for Christmas, and Trudy had him promise that he won’t open her present until Christmas. She was very nervous, and we see when she died, and when the captain got the call and told Monk :’(
Now, there’s a murder that could lead Monk to Trudy’s killer, although he doesn’t know it yet, so a guy tries to poison him. Monk feels sick while having dinner with Natalie and Julie and Steven. They take him to a hospital and they need a room full of people to hold him down to take his blood for a test. The doctor says “Someone is trying to kill you, and they may have succeeded” with some kind of poison. The doctor says that he might be dead in three days. The captain is desperate to catch the guy who poisoned him to find out what he used, so that Monk might be saved, but after a long chase the guy gets hit by a train. When he thinks that he’s about to die Monk finally opens Trudy’s gift, and he finds a videotape with a message from Trudy - I always said he should have opened it sooner!!!
16- Mr Monk and the end: part 2
It’s very painful for Monk, Trudy tells him that before meeting him she had an affair with a married man, her law teacher, and she got pregnant, and she had a daughter that died a few minutes after she was born. She tells him that the judge is the father and that he just called her and she’s afraid.
Twelve years without opening that present, and he could have solved the case back then!! I knew it!!
Monk assaults the judge but the guards stop him. Monk escapes from the hospital and goes to him again and finds proof and the judge shoots himself when caught. Monk is cured after Natalie found out where the poison was. The judge said: “take care of her” before dying so Monk finds out that Trudy’s daughter is still alive and they find her and he meets her and he hugs her and cries...
Randy leaves to be chief of police in New Jersey because he’s moving in with Sharona...
Molly is a lot like Trudy and they spend a lot of time together and she likes it and tells him she won’t go anywhere and that he can’t quit his job because he has a gift - and a curse, he says as usual - but she replies that no, it’s a gift, like Trudy said. He takes lots of pictures of her and smiles a lot !
He has someone to love now, Trudy’s daughter ! So he doesn’t quit.
The ending is a collage of old scenes, ending with now, Randy settling in his new office, the captain at home with his Trudy, Monk and Natalie working another case, and Monk has a t-shirt under the jacket, not his usual shirt !
It was a lovely ending.
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