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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. In the season five episode "Mr. Monk Is On the Air", Kevin and Natalie are shown one of Monk's old home videos, where Kevin lightheartedly comments that seeing his friends' old home videos 'always makes him feel better about his own family', and later that night, when Monk is preparing to face Max Hudson on the radio, Kevin gives him some of his uncle's jokes for use as Monk prepares to accuse Max of murdering his wife Jeanette. The season six finale "Mr. Monk Is on the Run" continues the investigation when Monk and Natalie are called to the scene of an electronics store robbery. Panicking, Rickover hires a different professional hit man, Joey Kazarinski, to kill Dr. Nash. 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. 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. Monk ignores his paying case for another case that involves a dead wife, victim of a hit-and-run accident, who was visiting from Nigeria. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. The choice of Mitch as the first name of Natalie's late husband is a possible in-joke reference to the 1998 film Dirty Work; in that film, Traylor Howard plays the love interest of protagonist Mitch Weaver. Trevor Howe (Frank John Hughes and David Lee Russek) is Sharona's ex-husband and Benjy's father from New Jersey. Around the same time, Rickover hires bomber Frank Nunn to plant a bomb in Trudy's car. He greatly respects his brother's ability to cope with the outside world. [citation needed] Benjy eventually returns to New Jersey with his mother to reunite with his father, Trevor. (Played for comic effect.) Jason The picture turns out to be doctored, leading to Teddy Mulligan, the seller, knocking Monk unconscious and sending him to a town in Wyoming, in turn causing Monk to uncover the murder of a waitress while forgetting his own name. Yuki Nakamura: Ambrose's live-in assistant, then later girlfriend, and eventual wife. Below is a list of actors and actresses that were part of the cast of the Trying to become an actress during the season eight episode "Mr. Monk and the Critic", Julie's beautiful voice is the key to proving that theater critic John Hannigan snuck out and killed his girlfriend Callie Esterhaus during a theater performance. Vicki then tries killing Kevin by stopping their car at a certain point in the road and drugging him - which happens to be on a grade crossing right as the lights begin to flash and the gates begin to lower. Ambrose Monk, played by John Turturro, is Adrian's older agoraphobic brother. It is also revealed that he had an uncle who was a comedian that knew Uncle Miltie. She pays to have a local pizzeria called Sorrento's advertise on it. But when Monk sees the renowned TV star lie to one of his scriptwriters about her script, he is convinced that Brad Terry is guilty. Natalie crashes the party, sneaks into Stottlemeyer's office, and turns on the webcam. He appears in the episodes "Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect" and "Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf". Unaware of the murder plot, Harold plays along with the charade because he loves the public attention, getting a golden opportunity to infuriate Monk, and gaining new respect and admiration from his own son, Jimmy. Marci first appears in "Mr. Monk and the TV Star" as a fan of Brad Terry, the star of the crime drama television series Crime Lab S.F.. As Monk and Sharona are first investigating the murder of Brad Terry's ex-wife Susan Malloy, Marci hands an envelope to Sharona, saying that it is a petition to get the old theme song back, since quite a lot of people hate the new theme song of Crime Lab S.F. Once convinced of the validity of one of Monk's theories, Stottlemeyer always proves a staunch ally in apprehending Monk's primary suspects. 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". 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. When Monk, Natalie, Stottlemeyer, and Disher visit Cassie Drake's house and Stottlemeyer and Disher start tapping messages to each other in Morse code on the door, Natalie chastises them, hinting that Mitch taught her Morse code. Lieutenant Amy Devlin: Stottlemeyer's replacement right-hand following Randy's departure. Monk knows that Biederbeck would not kill anyone over such a petty sum. After finding evidence to suggest otherwise, Monk discovers that she is still alive. During that time, he fathered yet another son, 31yearold Jack Jr. whom Jack proudly brags about to his co-workers as a genius doctor. Monk eventually finds out that these acts were the work of T.K. ", He played the father of Rebbeca Gayheart's character in an eight-episode arc of "Beverly Hills 90210" in 1995. Shalhoub Pays Tribute To "Monk" Co-Star - CBS News He is one of three patients operated on that day, the others being men named Frank Cannon and Jason McCabe. In the season five episode "Mr. Monk Goes to a Rock Concert", Jared skips school to attend the local San Francisco Band Jam concert, forcing Leland to miss work to find him, accompanied by Monk and Natalie. Monk The novel also reveals that Ambrose became agoraphobic after he caught Hong Kong flu. [2] Trudy and Adrian met during his senior year at UC Berkeley (episode "Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion"). Menu. Adrian establishes in the above-mentioned episode that Jack wrote school textbooks as his career of choice (although in the episode "Mr. Monk's 100th Case" he is referred to as "a frustrated linen salesman"), similar to Ambrose, and indicating some level of education. How 11 TV shows dealt with the death of a main cast member. 'Monk' Star Jason Gray-Stanford Shares Heart Transplant Story Gaspard Ulliel: Moon Knight actor dies aged 37 after ski accident Stanley Kamel succumbed to heart failure on April 8, 2008. The novel Mr. Monk and the New Lieutenant reveals that Stottlemeyer's father was a bartender named Hamish. Later, in "Mr. Monk Gets Lotto Fever", when Monk confides how he loathes Natalie for getting more attention than him, Dr. Bell is forced to admit to being a diva after writing an unsuccessful book on body language. Then Monk shows himself off as a "tough guy" by shoving Harold away, who then apologizes. Adrian offers a glimpse into her mindset (in "Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan") by turning Warrick Tennyson's morphine back on after he had turned it off claiming Trudy would have wanted him to. A few episodes later, in "Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever", he dates a woman named Hayley, only for her to turn out to be part of a Triad hit crew sent to eliminate Monk. 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. Marci Maven (Sarah Silverman) is Monk's biggest fan and has made three appearances on the series. Unknown to Monk, Nunn is also a pawn in a related scheme to frame him for murder and incapacitate him. Jack is able to overcome Reese by running him over with Natalie's car. Early life Meat Loaf Dead at 74 - People Dale is a rich and well-connected financier who is arrogant, brilliant, and ruthless. However, he does remember that the man had six fingers on his right hand. His first appearance in any Monk-related material after he and Sharona left the television show is in the Lee Goldberg novel Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants, where Sharona returns to San Francisco because Trevor has been accused of murder. When Natalie later sees Paris in that novel, she claims it is a different Paris from the one to which she and Mitch had gone. Stottlemeyer then pushes up the rear door to find Monk sitting in a recreation of Linda's bedroom, that she had used for her alibi. 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. Linda is arrested, and Stottlemeyer is left asking himself if the relationship was real or merely something that she had planned from the beginning so she could have a perfect alibi for the murder. 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. In the season 6 episode "Mr. Monk and the Bad Girlfriend", when Natalie tells Randy that she and Monk have news, he guesses that she wants to say she is in love with him, leaving Natalie in a dumbstruck and annoyed state. 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. He is in little league in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Ballgame". 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 "Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding", Coolidge attempts to run Randy down in the parking lot of a hotel to prevent him from identifying her. "Vezza" is revealed to be Glen Q. Syndell, a doctor who skipped bail on a manslaughter charge for killing a tender-aged patient while intoxicated; Biederbeck discovered this and blackmailed the doctor into his employ. In "Mr. Monk and the Game Show", he accompanies Monk on a trip to Los Angeles when Trudy's father, Dwight Ellison, asks Monk to investigate possible cheating on a game show that he produces. It is also revealed that he is a good lip-reader, as he can read what a shooter on a surveillance tape is saying. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Not much explanation is provided for how he ends up in the state explored in "Mr. Monk Meets His Dad". 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. In the season two finale, "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail", Biederbeck is in prison due to his part in Catherine Lavinio's murder. At one point in "Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan", she stated, "I'm not crazy, just a fan". The next day, in a surprise turn of events, Stottlemeyer is ordered suspended by deputy chief Harlan Fellows after it is revealed that $100,000 from an offshore account was deposited into Stottlemeyer's bank account hours after the escape. Hence, he plays a big part in helping Adrian's investigation into the murder of Beyond Earth creator Conrad Stipe and later executive producer Kingston Mills. What Happened To The Monk Cast? - Screen Rant Steven Weber: Now After "Wings," Weber went on to his own short-lived series, "Cursed." Unbeknownst to Jack, the brothers had left because Ambrose was being rushed to the hospital in an ambulance after having eaten what he thought was a poisoned candy bar. He has an inmate as his personal servant, luxurious furniture, and a TV but no cell window. Ever since their father left, Ambrose has been obsessed with the idea of his return, even to the point of preparing a dinner plate for him every night, just in case. In the first season, he is played by Adam Arkin, in the second by Tim Curry, and in the sixth by Ray Porter, all of them wearing fat suits. Hence, starting with Dale's escape did not involve an actual escape but would involve him changing his identity. French actor Gaspard Ulliel, who is set to appear in Marvel's forthcoming TV series Moon Knight, has died aged 37. Randy seems to harbor crushes on Sharona Fleming and Natalie. 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. This is nearly revealed by playboy Dexter Larsen if Monk had persisted in his current homicide investigation. Kamel died of a heart attack midway through Monks run, passing away at age 65. At the end of the episode, Randy picks up Sharona to go to the airport, sharing a kiss as they load her bags. Monk is shown to have been fine with T.K. In Philadelphia, one of Randy's cases was Darlene Coolidge, a black widow who murders her husbands. 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. He later appeared in the novel Mr. Monk Is Cleaned Out when Adrian briefly moves in after he gets evicted from his apartment. Stottlemeyer is immediately impressed by Linda's crisp, cool demeanor. In one scene, Marci actually performs Monk's obsessive-compulsive tendencies for him, where she straightens a man's hat and evens out his sleeves in a perfect imitation of Monk's behavior, and all Monk has to do is stand and wait. He also saves the two from being drowned by Commander Nathan Whitaker, the person who killed Pierce. 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. Twelve years later, in 2009, Rickover has come far in his career, having been recently nominated for the California Supreme Court.