Around the same time, Rickover hires bomber Frank Nunn to plant a bomb in Trudy's car. Jack Jr. also has an unusual obsession with the country of Paraguay. Lieutenant Steven Albright (Casper Van Dien) is a lieutenant in the United States Navy and Mitch Teeger's oldest friend. By the end of the episode, Adrian confronts Dale, telling him that the police searched Nunn's house after he died. Leland and Karen have recurring marital problems and have separated twice. In his second appearance in the season three episode "Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf", Sharona asks Trevor to take Benjy when she becomes afraid she is losing her sanity, and hence crying wolf. After Monk finds that prison librarian Sylvia Fairborn killed Kaspo, Dale reveals that Trudy was, contrary to Monk's belief, the intended victim of the car bomb. Episodes 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. Trudy has already suspected that Rickover was involved in Wendy Stroud's death after she read about it in the newspaper. When her husband Douglas died, she was left to raise her daughters alone. Most of Dr. Kroger's scenes help move Monk's character forward. In 1997, Tennyson met Frank Nunn in a darkened parking garage, receiving $2,000 in cash to build a bomb to kill Trudy Monk. Jarrad Paul portrays Kevin Dorfman, Monk's annoying upstairs neighbor, while Glenne Headly continues to portray Karen Stottlemeyer, the captain's wife. While Natalie's sexual attraction to Joe is re-sparked, Monk discovers that the person responsible for the theft was responsible for killing a local shoe salesman named Ronald Webster. 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. One of my favorite shows is "Monk," about an obsessive, compulsive detective. In "Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine", Dr. Kroger prescribes "Dioxynl", which successfully relieves Monk's phobias while also impairing his detective skills. The novel also reveals that Ambrose became agoraphobic after he caught Hong Kong flu. In the season two finale "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail" Biederbeck is in prison due to his part in Catherine Lavinio's murder. Adrian Monk: Okay, Kevin, I think that's enough. As Stottlemeyer mentions in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival," when Monk was promoted to detective, he was partnered with Stottlemeyer, and right away, showed off his amazing abilities when he proved that a prostitute's apparent suicide was murder. Even though Ambrose's last television appearance was in 2008, he continued to appear in the Monk novel series by Lee Goldberg. 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. 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. Kevin Dorfman: Maybe four pinches. Stroud then claimed to have found Molly abandoned at a playground and took her to an orphanage. Eddie, Anticipating Sarah, 1997. 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. The problem is, he has a perfect alibi. Kevin Dorfman: have the salt. She strikes up an unusual friendship with Randy's replacement in the SFPD, Lieutenant Amy Devlin. Adrian feels differently, believing his father will never return. Kevin Dorfman reappears after his introduction in Season Two's " Mr. Monk and the Paperboy ." Adrian Monk is the only character to appear in all 125 episodes. He has his girlfriend pose as Julie's aunt because he saw a T-shirt with a photo of Julie and her previous boyfriend Tim Sussman, in which he and Dewey converse in the background. Stottlemeyer, having known Monk longer than Linda has and aware of Adrian's unwavering devotion to Trudy, instinctively realizes that she is lying. Follow. 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. At the end of the episode, she gives Monk a package holding all his stuff she took, saying her new obsession, F. Murray Abraham "wouldn't understand"--"May God have mercy on his soul," Monk tells Natalie. He was played by Jon Kyle Hansen in this episode. Like her mother, Julie is introduced during the season three episode "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring". Jared is about to throw it to his father when Kedder comes up, leaving Jared with the split-decision to either let a killer get away or standing up to his father. Monk initially believes Molly to be dead, based on the information given to him by Trudy in her video to him. This leaves Monk and Natalie in a compromising position, as they need more evidence against Linda to secure an arrest. Torini and Tanya both feign innocence when Monk and Natalie question them at their loft apartment. During the radio broadcast, Kevin calls in as a fan to compliment Hudson, but he actually called in just to support Monk. Harold also (thanks to an inadvertent slip from Natalie) learns the name of Monk's new therapist, Dr. Bell, and announces that he will also be seeing Dr. Bell in the future. The show's main stars included, at some point, Tony Shalhoub, Bitty Schram, Traylor Howard, Ted Levine, and Jason Gray-Stanford. She initially appears in a three-episode story arc beginning with "Happy Birthday, Mr. Monk". He retires out of guilt as the police believe that one of his patients is responsible. Little is known about Jack Monk's personal history. See also . The hit USA Network series "Monk" is losing Bitty Schram, the Golden Globe-nominated sidekick to series star Tony Shalhoub. Monk and Natalie attempt to break the bad news to Stottlemeyer, but he refuses to be convinced, thinking Monk is being motivated out of pure jealousy, forgetting that Monk is always right when it comes to accusing someone of murder. Paul co-created and executive produced the Fox comedy The Grinder starring Rob Lowe and Fred Savage. Throughout the episode, Leland tries to figure out what her nickname T.K. Rickover hid the baby from Trudy by claiming that she died nine minutes after birth. While investigating the "abduction" of actress Sally Larkin, Harold shows up at the crime scene and tells Monk about his new therapist, that he is over their feud, and also gives him Dr. Climan's business card. His nurse was kidnapped, gaslit, tortured, etc. Biederbeck smugly refuses to confirm or deny Monk's suspicions, but later Monk proves that the doctor is not Trudy's killer. However, her life as a former Vice cop does give Devlin some advantages that Randy does not have. Cheryl Fleming (Betty Buckley) is Sharona's and Gail's mother. During the 1990s Paul had a role on Seinfeld, Home Improvement as Jason and a recurring role in the 2000s on Monk. Duncan, 40 Days and 40 Nights (also known as 40 jours et 40 nuits), Miramax, 2001. 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). Certified Akashic Record Reader & Life Coach. 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. Karen Stottlemeyer (Glenne Headly) is Leland's environmentally conscious wife during the first four seasons and the mother of their two children, Jared and Max. Paris police Inspector Guy Gadois knows the lyrics and music of the song by heart. These servers include private, public, and hybrid servers. 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. In "Mr. Monk Buys a House", Natalie describes Dr. Bell as a psychiatric genius, and mentions that he has written five books and teaches at Stanford University. Dr. Neven Bell (portrayed by Hctor Elizondo) becomes Monk's therapist in the season seven premiere "Mr. Monk Buys a House", replacing Dr. Kroger. Natalie crashes the party, sneaks into Stottlemeyer's office, and turns on the webcam. His feelings towards Monk change from the pilot episode of the series. Gail Fleming (Amy Sedaris) is Sharona's younger sister and an actress. He has a biting and sarcastic personality, often insulting his employees and the police without fear of repercussion. Kevin Kilner Jack Bollinger Guest Star. Jack is able to overcome Reese by running him over with Natalie's car. 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. In "Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike", when the city stops collecting garbage, Monk mails his garbage to Dr. Kroger's house. 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). Plays. In the episode "Mr. Monk Is the Best Man", Leland marries T.K. When Monk's neighbor Kevin is found dead backstage at a magic show, Monk begins to suspect Kevin's old mentor, The Great Torini. The day of the operation, Monk, Julie and Stottlemeyer meet the motorcade bringing Dale to San Francisco General Hospital. Rickover finds out about this when Stottlemeyer comes over to his house to sign a warrant to search Kazarinski's premises. In the season five episode "Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion", when Monk is mentioning that he thinks he can handle his 25th college reunion on his own, Natalie offers to stay, knowing that he last met many of these students when he was with Trudy, and she remembers missing Mitch the most when going to parties or visiting friends after his death. She did not date very much while there, expecting to know who the right man would be once she found him. The following is a list of characters of Monk, an American comedy-drama detective mystery television series, created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the titular character, Adrian Monk. Randy's lack of luck getting dates is so notorious that when he actually does land a girlfriend, in the episode "Mr. Monk and the Employee of the Month", no one believes him. Thomas, Folle d'elle (also known as What I Did for Love), UGC-Fox Distribution, 1998. Monk frequently comments that Harold has more psychological problems than does Monk himself; while Monk suffers from just OCD, Harold also suffers from acute paranoia and narcissism (in "Mr. Monk and the Daredevil," for example, Monk recalls that Harold was stricken by an attack of vertigo when Dr. Kroger reupholstered his office with thicker carpet. Benjy reassures her that he can handle it. He works out of Fire Station 28, based in North Beach. Starting in Mr. Monk On the Couch, Ambrose has a live-in assistant, Yuki Nakamura, introduced in Mr. Monk on the Road. In Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants, Julie breaks her wrist during a soccer game and subsequently spends most of the novel with her arm in a cast. The two men have a deep respect for one another, as evidenced by Monk's description of Stottlemeyer as "the best cop I know" and Stottlemeyer's comment that Monk is "the best detective in the free world.". 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"). 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. That was our intention with this vi. The real Frisco Fly was a man named Victor Grajna, who died several days earlier in a car accident which Joey discovered. . Maybe two pinches. Jack Jr. meets Adrian after he is arrested and imprisoned for attempting to sell cars that are not his own. 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. Monk explains that he discovered how Linda forged her alibi when he remembered that during their video call just before the shooting, she put a pen down on the table next to her chair and it rolled away, but when he was in her real bedroom searching her house, he tried the same thing with his own pen, but it did not roll, leading him to conclude that Linda parked the truck on a hill. Kevin is mentioned once more in the season seven episode "Mr. Monk Takes a Punch", when Monk, after learning that he has to pass a physical fitness test to continue his work as a consultant for the police, shows up at a track field dressed in a purple jogging suit. Even before the operation, Monk believes Dale will try to use this as an opportunity to escape. During a luau-themed sendoff party at the police station, Stottlemeyer and Linda dance with each other. stands for, but when he finds out that her first name is Trudy, he suggests that they stick with calling her T.K. Adrian is then able to locate his stepdaughter. Movies. . It is mentioned in "Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine" that Stottlemeyer was Monk's fourth partner on the force, and this came two weeks after Monk made detective (Monk says that his first three partners were good enough guys but their professional chemistry did not work). In the season seven premiere "Mr. Monk Buys a House", it is presumed that Mitch also taught Natalie how to use Morse code. Especially in the early episodes of the show, there is a certain degree of tension between Stottlemeyer and Monk. 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. Fourteen years later, in 1997, Rickover is nominated as an appellate court judge. I guess they couldn't afford Ambrose who actually had talent. Over the first half of the story, Julie's behavior assisting Monk is different from Natalie's when it comes to helping him focus. 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. In the season eight episode "Mr. Monk and Sharona", Sharona mentions that Benjy is making plans to attend college, and he plans on using money from her lawsuit against a country club for the death of her uncle, Howard Fleming. Monk Wiki. His assistant is a woman he met when she killed a man during a break-in. Monk: Kevin Dorfman: 6 episodes 2007 The Singles Table: Adam Leventhal 2 episodes 2010 Important Things with Demetri Martin: Bill Episode: "2" 2011 Allen Gregory: Announcer/Brian (voice) 2 episodes 2015 The Grinder: Pincus Episode: "A Hero Has Fallen" 2021-present Chad: Charles 3 episodes Whereas Devlin wills herself to tolerate Fellows getting on their backs, Julie doubts that Fellows is even qualified for the job, believing that no deputy chief could be so thick-headed as to immediately suspect that Stottlemeyer is on the take despite all the evidence to the contrary without being very incompetent. Jack abandoned his young family while running to pick up an order of Chinese food. Though Monk eventually is able to snap himself out of his hypnotic state by looking at a reflection of himself, hypnotherapy backfires on Harold when his feelings of euphoria lead him to take off all of his clothes in public, causing him to get arrested for indecent exposure (which Monk happens to witness). 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). Kevin Dorfman: Oh, this is looking good. Toggle navigation. Email: customerservices@cmed.co.zw Tel: +263242 759 459/759517 She was one of the co-workers of a convenience store, where Adrian Monk's neighbor, Kevin Dorfman, buys a lottery ticket. [citation needed] Benjy eventually returns to New Jersey with his mother to reunite with his father, Trevor. Dr. Bell's character has a more considerably constructed background, in sharp contrast to Dr. Kroger. Adrian Monk: Excellent. 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. Another running gag in the series is the ceremonial way in which he delivers news to Stottlemeyer, asking him to guess what it is or sit down for it; this method mostly annoys others who would like him to get to the point. Except for two changes, the principal cast of the series remained consistent. It is also revealed that he had an uncle who was a comedian that knew Uncle Miltie. As Monk and Natalie observe at Kevin's wake, this trait actually appears to be genetic. Several episodes have featured his upstairs neighbor, Kevin Dorfman. She was replaced by Natalie Teeger in the episode "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring", and Teeger remained Monk's assistant for the remainder of the series. 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. David Dorfman, who played Aidan in both the original . Dale reveals (in "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail") that the car bomb was actually intended for her, not him. 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