Monk season 6

One of those shows that are ok to watch the first time, even funny or enjoyable, but that are not so for long. The more you watch it, the more the characters sort of lose their appeal because one (me) starts to focus more on those things that are annoying.

1- Mr Monk and his biggest fan

Marci has put on a fan site about Monk ( I remember her, she was a crazy fan of that actor that killed his wife and then she became obsessed with Monk). Her neighbour is killed and she wants Monk’s help.

At a bachelor’s auction for charity, after the captain and Randy it was Monk’s turn and Marci bids 800$ to have him :p  There’s a restraining order against her but now he has to go to her place. She has her house full of his pictures, and paintings she made. She kept everything he threw away and is even wearing his pants. 

The woman who bid on Randy did it because her son wants to be a policeman and she wants Randy to keep Sam with him for the six hours she won, but Sam doesn’t look interested, he wanted it like six months before but not now: “who wants to be a cop, you don’t make any money and everybody hates you”. 

The captain’s girlfriend bid 2000$ for him.

Marci names many of his cases with the episodes titles, she tells him she’d work for free and he actually considered replacing Natalie for a moment, and she leaves him alone with her to see how it is like to work with someone as obsessive as he is :p She gives him clue-hugs :p He solves the case, Marci was right, her neighbour killed his wife, not her dog. Marci is so loud he hears them and goes after them with a gun, but luckily the captain solved the case too and calls Natalie and Randy to go save him. She’s now cured from her obsession and mails to him the stuff she had of him :p

2- Mr Monk and the rapper

The theme song sang rapper-style for the occasion :p

Snoop Dog plays Murderous, a rapper that comes to Monk’s house after a rap star is killed with a bomb. He did a son about how he wanted to kill him, and he hires Monk. His men are called Mr Assassin and Silent killer :p  Natalie’s feelings are hurt because Monk thinks secretary and assistant are the same thing, and she thinks he doesn’t respect her. 

Monk thinks he did it, just because his name is murderous. Natalie’s hunch is that he’s innocent and Monk laughs at her. She has a hunch on who did it too, and he laughs again. The captain goes with Monk when he wants to get out of his contract, but once there he starts crying and ends up being his head of security. He wants to run away but finally Natalie gets through to him and Snoop sings the “here’s what happened” part :p Extralarge’s manager wanted to kill his partner but didn’t set the clock right and killed him instead.

Snoop tells Monk he’s lucky to have Natalie.

3- Mr Monk and the naked man

A young woman is found dead on a beach for nudists. There are nudists everywhere and the captain, Randy and Natalie try to attract all his attention so he wouldn’t see them :p  but then he sees a witness all nude and Monk goes all… well, Monk-y. He hates nudists and wants that man to be guilty. Monk sneaks into the nudist’s house at night (why does he even have a closet if he has no clothes to put in it?) Monk is so angry at him, so full of hate, calling him a pervert, he tries his best to break his alibi, but he was in jail! so no luck there. “He’s a nudist, they are not like us” :/

Why do they try to reason with Monk? I know he’s a friend and a good person, all in all, but in a moment like this they should just sedate him!  The captain finally intervenes, because the cops should defend all citizens, not only those they like. He tells him: “I’ve spent a lot of time, too much of my time, trying to keep bigotry and racism out of this department” - Monk: “I’m not a bigot” - “well, I don’t know what else to call it Monk. You wanna put this guy in jail for the rest of his life because he made you uncomfortable!” and he sends him home to figure out why he’s so upset.

Talking to Dr Kroger, Monk remembers when he was born, he was naked and the doctor hit him and made him cry… but he didn’t know what memory it was. Now that he can think straight, he realises what happened. The Vicky girl’s roommate kept a secret on the real conditions of a rich man’s health investing against him so that she’d be rich when he died. Vicky found out and she killed her. The nudist helped save the rich man’s life so he bought him and his friends a little island… He hugs Monk while naked and I suppose Natalie will have to save him because he starts walking and won’t stop and risks drowning…

Randy can’t use his ipod or other stuff like that.

4- Mr Monk and the bad girlfriend

Linda and the captain are videochatting and planning to go to Hawaii together. Her old partner is killed in front of witnesses in a house he was showing. Monk starts suspecting Linda after talking to her, so they talk to Randy. Natalie borrows a motorbike and Monk goes with her to check if Linda could have done it, but as fast as she goes the time is not even close and they’re both happy: “I’ve never been happier to be wrong”, only, a moment later he finds something that brings him back to suspecting her. It’s very hard for them both to tell the captain, and when they do he laughs at first and then gets angry and won’t even consider it. He loves Linda. “I’m 51 years old, she’s the last chance I have”, poor captain. 

Linda catches Monk in her house and she tries to seduce him but of course she’s wasting her time. She then tells the captain that Monk touched her and blackmailed her into sleeping with him… which makes him suspicious because he knows Monk! When Monk explains what happened, he’s heartbroken. The captain takes Randy along on his vacation, and then he throws a ring in the water. I suppose he wanted to propose to her :’(

5- Mr Monk and the birds and the bees

A man shoots a man and his own wife, to make it look like a burglar killed his wife and he shot him in self defence. 

Julie has a boyfriend Natalie knows about, Tim, but another kid, Clay, school sport star, shows interest in her. Natalie doesn’t like this, with good reasons. She’s almost 16, and fights with her mom wanting to live her life, and go out with Clay. Natalie has Monk talk to her. 

Clay was hired by a woman to take Julie away from Tim. This time it’s up to Julie to do the ‘here’s what happened’ to explain everything to Tim. When he had his picture taken with Julie, the murderer and the dead guy were right there behind them, proof that they knew each other. The guy throws the proof in the water but Tim, who is on the swim team, retrieves it. He’s back with Julie now.

6- Mr Monk and the buried treasure

Monk goes crazy when he sees a new watch on Dr Kroger, one that Harold gave him. The doc is also having troubles with his son Troi. Troy and two friends find a dead man who they think buried stolen money and also find a treasure map and go to Monk for help in deciphering it. So they have to spend time with three teenagers, while Troy drives them all in his car with loud music playing. The captain works the case of the dead man not knowing about the map. The kids told Monk it was a school project, and Monk acts all mysterious and proud of himself with Dr Kroger… Next day they talk about the case with the captain and Monk understands :p and he goes to Troy alone, to try to keep him out of it. The two of them get sort of buried alive in his car and Monk goes crazy. Natalie calls the captain and goes looking for him. They save them, and Dr Kroger thanks him because now Troy says he wants to go to college.

7- Mr Monk and the daredevil

Monk’s rivalry with Harold is becoming more annoying than funny. After falling down a building and surviving Harold is believed to be the ‘Frisco fly’, a man doing incredible stuns around. Many people saw him fall, but Monk can’t believe it because Harold was always very afraid of heights. Harold says he’s cured. Monk’s afraid of 312 things, and Natalie wants him to try and get over some of them (like the milk one) but he can’t. He feels lower than ever because Harold was the only one he thought was worse than him, so Natalie and Dr Kroger stand suicide watch, but finally Randy uncovers the real Frisco fly. Harold’s cousin planned to kill him because their uncle’s dying and he doesn’t want to share the inheritance. Natalie runs to the roof to stop him from killing him for good, and Monk ran to help her :) Good Monk. 

Harold kept lying because his son was proud of him now, no more ashamed. The real Fly died in a car accident.

8- Mr Monk and the wrong man

Monk testifies at the parole hearing of Max, a man he arrested 14 years ago, but new dna results make it look like he made a mistake and put in jail the wrong man. He’s devastated by knowing he sent an innocent man to jail for 14 years. He tells him he’s sorry and even asks Natalie to make out with him! He’s impossible. Max is not so innocent after all, though, we see him killing a man.

Monk stops Max’s ex-wife from remarrying, telling her he’s a good man, and convinces her and she goes back to him. The witness that saw Max 14 years ago has a perfect memory and talks to Monk, and they realise Max really did it, but he had an accomplice. Then Monk stops Sherry’s wedding again when she wants to marry Max again.

So luckily her other fiancee comes back and I guess she’ll marry him like she should have.

They get Max arrested for killing his accomplice.

9- Mr Monk is up all night

Monk is upset because he didn’t find his usual barber Sebastian and feels his hair uneven now. Natalie convinces him to move on, but then he bumps into a woman, and he chases after her, not knowing why, but he loses her. He can’t sleep for days thinking about her. He gos for a walk late at night and finds her driving a taxi. While chasing after her on foot, he hears people fighting and witnesses a drug dealer shooting an undercover cop (Tim Kang) and then drive away (and he does nothing!) He runs to a phone booth but when the captain arrives there is no body and no sign there ever was a fight there. He meets a con-man at a bar who steals his money and wallet, then waits for Maria (the taxidriver) to end her turn and sees again that ‘cop’ that he saw being shot. Once he’s waiting again at the train, he sees that man’s body, definitely dead.

Three people had put a con on a rare coins dealer to rob him, and when he found out he killed one and tried to kill the other two but is stopped. 

At the end, the mystery of Maria is solved: She had a cornea transplant the day Trudy died (12-14-97). She has Trudy’s eyes. Now Monk can finally sleep. Nice ep, touching end, lovely.

10- Mr Monk and the man who shot Santa Claus

Monk is very upset, more than usual, because it’s almost Christmas and it’s ten years since Trudy died. Monk shoots a man dressed as Santa Claus, giving away stuffed animals, and Monk shoots him. Monk’s lawyer is the guy he met on that street, that highway or something, of some episodes ago. Monk says it was Santa’s gun and he defended himself. He goes on a tv show to say his side of the story, and starts by saying to all the children watching that there is no such thing as Santa Claus.

It was obviously a diversion, the man dressed as Santa was the diversion for some man stealing a precious diamond from the McMillan museum. Monk fights Santa again in front of a lot of people, and retrieves the diamond. Only this time it wasn’t a joyful one, but a nasty, knife-holding one. 

Natalie and Julie try to get him into the Christmas spirit. You know, he said that Trudy loved Christmas very much, so that’s what he should think of! Well, positive thinking is not very Monk, I know.

11- Mr Monk joins a cult

Monk’s big surprise for Natalie is that he wants her to buy a beeper so he can beep her when she’s away… she’s not happy.

Monk takes the case of a daughter murdered. He was so upset thinking of the parents weeping and begging, he accepted the case before they even spoke a word. The girl was part of a cult, and Natalie wants to go in undercover, but they find out she has a family and don’t want her, so Monk steps in and goes with them instead…

Monk starts liking it there very quickly, and even tells the cult leader: “I can’t leave… I was working on the case… I love it here… please just please” and the father ‘lets him stay’. He gives them his money, but then the captain and Natalie take him away by force. They try to talk to him, make him see reason, but he’s off, doesn’t eat, chants, wipes his mouth on his sleeve, repeats “t wasn’t him”, protecting the Father. Only the doctor can get through to him, with Trudy. It turns out the Father really didn’t do it, the murderer is the guy who accused him in the first place, he did it to hide from his wife that he had been with a prostitute. Monk had Natalie call the bank to stop the check he gave them, then told the members of the cult that Father is not the Eternal one they believe him to be but he’s been secretly treated by a doctor for a long time.

12- Mr Monk goes to the bank

Monk’s bank is robbed, and his safe deposit box opened. Monk goes to work there as a security guard to investigate and find who stole Trudy’s bracelet! 

(He hands out money of his own wallet to make the figures neat :/ and then he shows such a short sleeve with Natalie! so unfair…)

They almost die locked in the vault, but it all ends well :p

(Randy plays statue, he’s such a little child :/ )

13- Mr Monk and the three Julies

A woman called Julie Teeger is murdered. Then another with the same name, and both times Natalie is so crazy worried she jumps into the captain’s new car and drives away, kind of destroying it in the process. Julie is now under surveillance, and guess what? Julie’s all “I’m a prisoner” and “it’s not fair”, about wanting to go out and take her driver test. 

There was no serial killer out to get all the Julie Teegers of the world, just an unfaithful husband who fought and killed his wife and the other Julia who witnessed the fight (because of mail delivered to the wrong Julia). At the end, Jule passes and gets a car. Natalie was not happy :p

14- Mr Monk paints his masterpiece

Two bodies in the same junkyard in two days. 

Dr Kroger tells Monk to get a hobby. He takes up painting because Natalie paid for the material, but I can’t imagine what she was thinking, it’s like she never met him :/  Soon he gets convinced he’s a great artist and puts Natalie’s house upside down, after a guy buys all his paintings (just to retrieve the canvases of course). Finally the captain suggests collecting stamps! That’s something that might work… or maybe not…

15- Mr Monk is on the run: part 1

The captain finds evidence that the man who killed Trudy is back, and calls Monk. When he finds out where to find him he tells no one and goes there alone, with his gun. He gets arrested for his murder and sent to prison (bail 1million$) and he escapes during transport. He goes to Natalie’s home, and she helps him get free of the cuffs and gives him Mitch’s uniform to wear. He starts investigating on his own. It looks like the captain arranged a meeting with Monk, they had a confrontation, the captain shot him twice and Monk fell in the water…

16- Mr Monk is on the run: part 2

Obviously he’s not dead, that goes without saying. They just let everybody believe he is. Natalie is destroyed and can’t forgive the captain. Monk goes to Nevada and when he solves a case, Natalie finds out he’s alive and goes straight to him, with the dirty sheriff following her. How stupid, I can’t believe it.

They find out that sheriff Rollins is on Dale the Whale’s payroll and they plan to assassinate a governor, so the new one will let him out of jail. Natalie and Monk go there and tell everything to a man in uniform who turns out to be Italian and doesn’t understand a word (‘from Amalfi, Italy, our sister city, welcome Police auxiliary’ is written on a banner), and the guy might actually really be Italian :p

Monk saves the governor and the captain and Randy arrest the sheriff. They also find letters that someone ordered that Frank to kill Trudy, someone he called ‘the judge’.