Mitch is portrayed by Monk co-producer Doug Nabors, and can be seen in Natalie's pictures in her house and her car. There, he meets Frank Nunn, who recognizes Monk as "the cop with the wife". Prior to his appointment as a judge and Trudy meeting Adrian, Rickover has an extramarital affair with Trudy. 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. 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. As the story unfolds, it is established that he always wanted to be an astronaut and that he had received a letter from NASA about being accepted into their training program a few days after he died. Randall Disher, portrayed by Jason Gray-Stanford, is Captain Stottlemeyer's second-in-command and employed at the San Francisco Police Department. Karen's documentary about Miles Holling, Miles Holling: The Human Time Machine, provides several clues for Monk and Leland about the man's death. And as they were loading up the mules, Skinner promptly turned on his partner andbludgeoned him with a shovel. He explains that Randy is able to solve so many cases because he is a "people person" who gets people to say things they would not have said otherwise. According to Monk, Molly seems to be similar to Trudy not only in appearance but also in her mannerisms. See what the cast of Monk is up to now! They find himsitting in Stottlemeyer'soffice, drinking heavily (something that is made very clear that it was an exceptionally unusual action for him to do) and a nervous wreck. 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. 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. Marci shows them Otto's grave. Dalton becomes wise to his tormentors and tries to kill them by luring them up to Skinner's old mine. 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". Karen is also strongly against the use of guns. Julie bonds with Monk after he rescues her pet fish. Sharona has a bold plan: she and Adrian go to the Waterford Institute, posing as another couple with problems. In the season two finale "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail" Biederbeck is in prison due to his part in Catherine Lavinio's murder. 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. Kill someone? He also states that Monk should look for a man named Warrick Tennyson in Manhattan, New York. After finding evidence to suggest otherwise, Monk discovers that she is still alive. The episode also establishes that their marriage is not necessarily stable, to such an extent that when Randy informs Leland that Karen wants to see him, Leland panics and has Randy keep her occupied while he gets his office reorganized (hanging a dreamcatcher from his lamp, hiding some of his personal junk, and installing a waterfall (that he fills with coffee). At once, Linda confesses plainly about Monk searching her house for evidence, but then she tells him in a nervously hushed voice that Monk made an advance at her and threatened to sleep with her. Before Nunn can answer, he is shot dead by a corrupt local sheriff, John Rollins. Cast. 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. 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. Nine years back he had married a wife, and now had four children. He appears in the 2006 Christmas special of season five, "Mr. Monk Meets His Dad." 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. Fourteen years later, in 1997, Rickover is nominated as an appellate court judge. While investigating a murder, Stottlemeyer gets into an argument with a cop at the scene who snidely tells him he has been seeing his wife. Additionally, she is under the impression that Leland never uses a gun (forcing Leland to hide his pistol in a desk drawer whenever she visits him at the office). Eventually, by Mr. Monk Gets Even, she moves her business to San Francisco. Tennyson mentions (in "Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan") that he did not recognize the man who hired him, but remembers that there were six fingers on his right hand. In "Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs", it is mentioned that he has not lived in Los Angeles for almost 30 years. In between therapy sessions, "Mr. and Mrs. Monk" observe Padron closely, noting his inordinate interest in the thousand or so leather-bound journals lining the shelves of the Waterford library - journals which, like the rest of the Institute, once belonged to a millionaire gold prospector named Joshua Skinner. Ambrose is also shown to have learned Pig Latin and the Dratch constructed language of Beyond Earth. 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. Jack abandoned his young family while running to pick up an order of Chinese food. He often takes great pleasure in "getting" other people before they get him, especially Monk. When Stottlemeyer is later suspended on suspicion of helping Dale escape (due to offshore money being wired into his account within hours of his escape), Julie grows a dislike of SFPD deputy chief Harlan Fellows, the one ordering Stottlemeyer's suspension. Molly appeared only in "Mr. Monk and the End - Part II". "Karen" is revealed to be the girlfriend of sports agent Rob Sherman, who killed his wife and career burglar Dewey Jordan in a staged break-in. Adrian confronts Jack in front of Natalie, just as Jack is conning her into signing a check for an orphanage in Quebec. He and his family lived in a shanty on a lonely barren patch nigh the railroad track, where it passed close to the base of the mountain. Natalie brings this up in Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop when holding crooked Intertect CEO Nick Slade up at gunpoint. The episode "Mr. Monk and the Three Julies" and the novel Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop establish that Mitch taught Natalie how to shoot a gun, though Natalie's firearms skill are called into question in "Mr. Monk on Wheels". While buried alive, Troy also keeps Monk calm while they wait for help. 4. 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). Stottlemeyer's second-in-command, Lieutenant Randy Disher, is a source of much comedic strife. During the first few novels, Julie's role is minimal, but she occasionally, knowingly or not, gives Monk crucial information that is key to solving a murder case. He topped out at 927 pounds about 11 years before the events of the episode and has been bedridden ever since. Dale was unable to win the lawsuit, but the Monks were forced to sell their house paying for their lawyer. Rickover hid the baby from Trudy by claiming that she died nine minutes after birth. Adrian feels differently, believing his father will never return. After his mother died, he started bingeing. Leland states that they have known each other since their childhood in "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife". After handcuffing him, Randy runs to the closet and releases the prisoners. 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. Tony Shalhoub portrayed Adrian Monk, the title character, an OCD homicide detective from San Francisco, who was removed from the force . In "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage", Sergeant Ryan Sharkey Jr. claims to Leland that he is having an affair with Karen, provoking Leland into punching him. An NYPD police captain makes a deal with Monk and his party: if they can solve the recent murder of a foreign ambassador, he will arrange for them to visit Tennyson. At the end of the episode, he tosses something into the ocean. She was born January 2, 1983, but was taken from her mother immediately after birth by Wendy Stroud, the midwife, at the behest of Rickover; Trudy was told that the baby had died nine minutes after birth. Stottlemeyer mentions in "Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever" that he was the youngest officer in the history of the SFPD to make detective, giving him at least a few years of seniority on Monk. Dale is revealed to be the mastermind of the plot and of a simultaneous plot to assassinate the governor of California, who had previously refused to commute his sentence. Monk and Sharona soon arrive at the Waterford Institute for Marital Therapy posing as husband and wife. After a miraculous rescue, Sharona and a nearly catatonic Monk meet the benign Sheriff Mathis, a sixty-ish, small town peacemaker who can find no evidence that Padron sabotaged the mine. However, later, Dalton snatches the letter back and burns it. Monk tells Sharona that the only people who move to Ecuador are those who don't plan to come back, owing to the difficulties in extraditing fugitives back to the United States. This is nearly revealed by playboy Dexter Larsen if Monk had persisted in his current homicide investigation. He was played by Jon Kyle Hansen in this episode. At first, Monk sways the majority of the council to vote in his favor, but inadvertently tips the vote when he insults one of the other council members while exposing reporter Paul Crawford as a murderer. 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. When Randy asks him what he just threw, Stottlemeyer replies "It's just a rock," suggesting that he was going to propose to Linda while in Hawaii. West Virginia actually became a state in 1863, during the Civil War. The answer is in my journals." 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. [We see a view of the "stripper" and the wad of bills]. Dr. Waterford catches Monk and Sharona as they are leaving the retreat, preparing a long speech about how, no matter what the difficulties, she believes they could have a happy marriage. However, the gold made Skinner greedy. While doing Torini's books, Kevin notices that the airlines are probably overcharging Torini, as for whatever reason, his receipts show that his equipment seems to weigh more when he comes back to the United States than it does when he leaves. Monk points out that it is not a "perfect" palindrome, since the first "N" is capitalized. At John Ringel's lumberyard, they find clues that explain Otto's day-long disappearance of about two weeks earlier, the simple explanation being that Ringel made a pruning-type device that could make dog tooth marks on his wife's body after he murdered her. 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. Jack Monk Sr. left him and his mother Darlene after ten years of marriage. Mr. Monk Gets Fired is the fourth episode of the third season of Monk. He retires out of guilt as the police believe that one of his patients is responsible. A woman, Amanda Castle wakes up in bed and bids an affectionate good morning to a dog - an Australian Shepherd - belonging to her boyfriend, Steve DeWitt, who is sleeping beside her. "This is Mr. Orm, the celebrated poet, I understand," said Father Brown, as calmly as if he were introducing two people in a drawing-room. Reasoning that they can't expose him without risking him doing something violent, Monk and Sharona are determined to comb through the journals and find the gold themselves. Adrian believes Dale knows the identity of "The Judge", but so far, Dale had not revealed any further information. When Monk discovers that Hodge murdered models Clea Vance and Natasia Zorelle, Natalie forbids her daughter to participate in the show, causing Julie to run away from home to be in the show. Adrian Monk: I thought he'd lost his wallet. In the season six episode "Mr. Monk Joins a Cult", Dr. Kroger mentions that the Siblings of the Sun cult tried to recruit Harold a few years prior, but he was too smart for them. Leland and Karen have recurring marital problems and have separated twice. Biederbeck sued Trudy and her newspaper for libel after her article profiled him as "the Genghis Khan of world finance". After Brad is arrested, Marci is released from jail. He later asks Monk to follow his wife to see if it's true. Cast [ edit] = Starring = Recurring/Guest 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. When Sharona sees T.K. "The answer is in my journals." When Monk has to retrieve a stolen moonrock from a thief in a science museum, Julie's pet fish ends up out of its tank, where it flops its way down one of the corridors, slowly dying. Adrian and Ambrose miss their father's appearance while in an ambulance because they think he has been poisoned by a Neptune candy bar. Knowing he couldn't win, Biederbeck did everything possible to draw the lawsuit out to torment her. Monk gets involved in the investigation following Dr. Nash's death and is able to uncover evidence at the crime scene linking back to Kazarinski. Privacy Policy 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. Adrian Monk is the only character to appear in all 125 episodes. wasn't meant to be cryptic at all: Skinner had, quite literally, hidden the gold IN all of the journals - or, more precisely, in the ink that covered the pages. Additionally, before the first session, Natalie points out that Dr. Bell's first name is a palindrome as a comfort to Monk. The answer is in my journals.". 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. During the season six finale ("Mr. Monk Is on the Run"), Adrian finds the six-fingered man, named Frank Nunn, but unfortunately, he is shot and killed by John Rollins, a corrupt Angel County sheriff recruited by Dale in a plot to incriminate Adrian. In "Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion", it is implied that he has lived in the Bay Area since at least the 1970s, as when he is trying to get information from reunion guests about a homicide investigation, he is booed off the stage when the projectionist displays some embarrassing pictures of him wearing riot gear and attacking protesters at an anti-nuclear warfare demonstration at UC Berkeley. Jack goes to Adrian in hopes that Adrian can clear his name. Stottlemeyer's temper has betrayed him before. They visit the antiques store, which Dalton is managing alone. Monk must find evidence to put away a grisly murderer and regain his detective's license from the grouchy new police commissioner. Adrian Monk: Oh, sure! 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. Not much explanation is provided for how he ends up in the state explored in "Mr. Monk Meets His Dad". 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"). For instance, in the episode "Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan", Linda resorts to bidding on a date with Stottlemeyer at a bachelor auction just to get him alone as Marci Maven resorts to bidding on a date with Monk. Except for two changes, the principal cast of the series remained consistent. When they go to some kind of couples retreat, he asks Monk and Sharona to go and keep an eye on her. 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. 13. She spends much of her time filming unscripted documentaries. He also did not appear in "Mr. Monk and the Airplane.". Karen later appears in "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife", where she is temporarily put in a coma when Evan Coker, trying to recover a pistol stashed in his repossessed car, shoots the driver of the tow truck carrying the car, causing the truck to swerve into Karen's van.