However, as the days count down until their wedding, someone starts making threats against Leland and T.K., including ransacking his house, blowing up his car, making threatening phone calls to T.K., and setting off a bomb at the wedding rehearsal. Police told The Las Vegas Review Journal that part-time actor Aaron Still believing Monk to be wrong about his suspicions toward Linda, he asks her about whether she has seen Monk. Despite being family, Adrian is thoroughly repulsed by Jack's display of complete immaturity, and at one point, he deems him "the most selfish human being he's ever met." 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. Trevor also reappears in the novel Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants, having been framed for murder by the Los Angeles Police Department's private consultant Ian Ludlow, who frames five other people in addition to Natalie and Sharona for the murders he commits so that he can write his novels and meet his deadlines. Stottlemeyer resents being forced (frequently by the higher-up characters, such as the mayor, the chiefs, or the commissioner) into calling on Monk's assistance, and he is frequently exasperated by Monk's many quirks. In the novel Mr. Monk is Miserable, "I Don't Need a Badge" has become a cult phenomenon in Paris. (Echoing the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and his more cerebral but sedentary brother Mycroft). In high school, Randy was part of a rock band, The Randy Disher Project, which he resurrects in the episode "Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist" after he quits the police force. Torini and Tanya both feign innocence when Monk and Natalie question them at their loft apartment. By a stroke of luck, Monk manages to avoid breaking character and tells Harold that he has made a mistake, and threatens to kill him if he does not back away. The novel Mr. Monk and the New Lieutenant reveals that Stottlemeyer's father was a bartender named Hamish. In the same scene, Monk is also forced to endure a blatant insult to Kevin's memory when Torini writes down a phony confession that he is responsible for Kevin's murder on a piece of paper, which he folds and places in Monk's hand. Stottlemeyer's second-in-command, Lieutenant Randy Disher, is a source of much comedic strife. Unknown to Monk, Nunn is also a pawn in a related scheme to frame him for murder and incapacitate him. Stottlemeyer is immediately impressed by Linda's crisp, cool demeanor. 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. Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa Claus, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Monk_cast_members&oldid=1103081774, Lists of actors by comedy television series, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 8 August 2022, at 07:44. 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. At first, she confesses to murdering Brad's ex-wife, and Monk is convinced. [6] Ambrose blames himself for Trudy's death, and his guilt led to a seven-year rift between the brothers. In his first appearance, "Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale", Biederbeck is the primary suspect in the slaying of Catherine Lavinio, a superior court judge who issued a costly antitrust ruling against him. Now serving on the San Francisco City Council, Harold initially votes against Adrian's motion to preserve the parking garage where Trudy was murdered, instead of demolishing it to build a children's playground. They married on August 8, 1990. It happened to be her third speeding offense, meaning that she got arrested and the car was impounded, so the threats against Leland were Stephanie getting increasingly desperate, trying to get the pistol back before Leland found it. When Kazarinski gets hit by a train and dies while being chased by Stottlemeyer through a yard, Rickover thinks himself to be cleared of any suspicion. Adrian's attempt to solve the case of her murder is the show's longest-running plot arc. Kamel played Dr. Kroger 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. While buried alive, Troy also keeps Monk calm while they wait for help. [citation needed] Benjy eventually returns to New Jersey with his mother to reunite with his father, Trevor. Although Monk and Natalie believe Linda is the shooter, there is just one problem: they and Stottlemeyer happen to be Linda's alibi for the murder, and Linda was chatting to them via webcam up until 20 minutes before the shooting. Additionally, before the first session, Natalie points out that Dr. Bell's first name is a palindrome as a comfort to Monk. At times, Stottlemeyer prefers to discuss an ongoing case with Monk instead of Disher, such as when the lieutenant complains vociferously about a toothache in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist." It is revealed in the season three episode "Mr. Monk and the Election" that Dr. Kroger is married, had a first wife, has children, and is Jewish. He is a sixth-grader and wants to be a writer in "Mr. Monk Takes a Vacation", in which he witnesses cleaning maids murdering one of their own while pulling off an insider trading scheme. Ambrose Monk, played by John Turturro, is Adrian's older agoraphobic brother. Stanley Kamel, who played Adrian Monk's long-suffering psychiatrist on the TV detective show "Monk," has died. He was 65. Kamel was found dead of a heart attack in his Hollywood Hills home on Tuesday by his agents, publicist Cynthia Snyder said in a statement. Prior to his appointment as a judge and Trudy meeting Adrian, Rickover has an extramarital affair with Trudy. Monk, however, later discovers that he has been tricked when he learns about Gamelobo's true identity. In the novel Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu, Natalie describes Dr. Kroger as relaxed towards everything, to an unnatural extent. In Mr. Monk in Outer Space, he is shown to be a fan of the science fiction series Beyond Earth, and has even written a number of books about the series itself. Then Monk shows himself off as a "tough guy" by shoving Harold away, who then apologizes. 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. The staged crime scene allows Devlin to pressure Tong's co-conspirators Corinne Witt and Gene Tiflin into confessing to their part in the Hewson shooting. Although Jack Sr. is portrayed as eccentric, unpleasant, and erratic, he is also apparently quite intelligent, possibly implying that Ambrose and Adrian inherited at least some of their prodigious mental abilities from their father. Lee appeared in Johnny Knoxville's 2010 reality comedy film Jackass 3D, and was known in the ring as Puppet. When he and Troy return to the quarry in question, a bulldozer driven by crooked bank manager Steven Connolly (who masterminded the robbery) buries them alive, and Monk and Troy nearly suffocate. In "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage," Monk recalls to Natalie a weekend where Leland went on a hunting trip, while Karen stayed behind to organize a gun control rally. Steven Weber: Now After "Wings," Weber went on to his own short-lived series, "Cursed." 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. Trudy Monk was murdered on a snowy[3] December 14, 1997[4] with a car bomb, made of approximately three pounds of plastic explosives, powered by ten 20 volt magnesium batteries, that was planted under the front seat and remotely detonated by a cell phone. Gail Fleming (Amy Sedaris) is Sharona's younger sister and an actress. At one point in "Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan", she stated, "I'm not crazy, just a fan". He first appears in the novel Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse when Monk and Natalie are hired by Julie to investigate the death of Joe's pet Dalmatian, a dog named Sparky, killed while Joe and his crew are away responding to a fatal house fire. Julie is seventeen years old by the time of the season seven episode "Mr. Monk Is Underwater". 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. to scare her, even setting Leland's car on fire and setting off a bomb at the wedding rehearsal. Dale J. Biederbeck III, better known as Dale "The Whale" because of his morbid obesity, his practice of working through both public avenues and the criminal underworld (much as a whale, being an aquatic mammal, must spend time both underwater and above water), and the convenient fact that "whale" rhymes with his first name, is a recurring villain, appearing in three episodes. In the season six episode "Mr. Monk and the Daredevil", Harold eclipses a jealous Monk in fame when the public at large believes him to be a notorious human fly known only as the Frisco Fly. After his mother died, he started bingeing. As Monk and Natalie observe at Kevin's wake, this trait actually appears to be genetic. Unfortunately, he is spotted by Monk (who is looking for Kevin) and accidentally gives himself away when he gestures in the direction of the dressing rooms with his middle two fingers together (Monk concludes that Torini was the so-called "maintenance man" when Torini makes a similar gesture at Kevin's funeral). While reminiscing over the cases that they've worked, Sharona apologizes to Randy for the amount of teasing that she gave him; he, in turn, states that he "missed" it. 100th episode cast party. Ambrose has both more severe problems than Adrian and more acute powers of observation. In the season five episode "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink", Harold again plays a very prominent role, as he is with Monk and Dr. Kroger when they find the body of Dr. Kroger's cleaning lady Teresa Mueller in Dr. Kroger's office. He still lives in the same house because he knows that Wendy Stroud's body is buried in the yard, marked by a sundial. In that episode, Julie is 11 years old. Trevor Howe (Frank John Hughes and David Lee Russek) is Sharona's ex-husband and Benjy's father from New Jersey. 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. This implies that at one point Jared had to repeat a grade. Stottlemeyer is also skeptical of Monk's ability to perform as a police officer, aware that Monk's psychological problems are a very serious handicap; in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival", he reveals his misgivings about allowing Monk back into the police department to the panel evaluating Monk's request. In "Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan", Warrick Tennyson tells Monk that he was hired to build the bomb which killed Trudy, by a six-fingered man. Harold prefers the horizontal top row to have three, the middle row have two, and the bottom row have one (in an arrangement similar to the style of bowling pins), and wants them arranged by type, instead of in alphabetical order. Frank Nunn shows no remorse. He concludes that the dead body is actually that of Jason McCabe, one of the other two patients operated on the day Dale's surgery was performed. Adrian also reveals that Ambrose and their mother were in a state of catatonia after their father left. Not much is known of Stottlemeyer's life before he joined the SFPD in the series, though in an interview, Ted Levine stated it was his own belief that Stottlemeyer had served in the military and was later discharged, lived on the East Coast, then moved to California as a young man, joining the police force. Jack Monk Jr. (Steve Zahn) is Adrian's half-brother. At the end of the episode, Jared and Leland stop at a photo booth so that Leland will have updated photos for the next time he takes off. 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. They were married for twenty years. He topped out at 927 pounds about 11 years before the events of the episode and has been bedridden ever since. In the end, Ambrose buys the RV that Adrian and Natalie rented for the trip. Before Nunn can answer, he is shot dead by a corrupt local sheriff, John Rollins. Early life He makes a brief appearance in "Mr. Monk Is the Best Man", played by Matthew Scott Hill.[8]. However, Steven reappears in the series finale, "Mr. Monk and the End", in which he and Natalie have been dating for a long time, and Natalie introduces him to Julie. 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. 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. 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 that their professional chemistry did not work). He is arrested and placed in jail because he shoved a cop and resisted arrest. Then Joey drugged Harold, took him up to the top of a high-rise building, outfitted him in the daredevil costume, and let Harold fall to what should have been his death had not an awning and a flagpole broken his fall. In the season seven episode "Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized", Harold has tried out hypnotic regression therapy with Dr. Lawrence Climan (Richard Schiff) which at first seems to cure him of his OCD. Troy later appears in the season six episode "Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure". Joey burned Grajna's car to torch any evidence that Grajna was the Frisco Fly, and stole Grajna's outfit. She has even written fan-fiction centered around Monk, including one story entitled "Mr. Monk and the Dragon's Lair". 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. In "Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs", it is mentioned that he has not lived in Los Angeles for almost 30 years. Due to her obsession with Monk, Marci is well-educated on just about every aspect of Monk's life and career. Throughout the episode, Leland tries to figure out what her nickname T.K. 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. Sure enough, when Monk and the others go to the hospital and pull back "McCabe's" curtain, they find Dale, who is arrested and stopped, presumably for good now. 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. Eventually, by Mr. Monk Gets Even, she moves her business to San Francisco. In his first and second appearances, he weighs about 800 pounds (363 kilograms) and is unable to leave his bed. In "Mr. Monk Meets the Playboy", Sharona tells him of her less than reputable past. Monk foils Dale's plan, and John Rollins, the Angel County sheriff whom Dale recruited to frame Monk, turns state's evidence in the hopes of lightening his own sentence. In "Mr. Monk and the Very Very Old Man", she gasps and is visibly uncomfortable when Randy tries distracting her by showing her his pistol. 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. He is also revealed to be an amateur magician himself. Observing the rescue efforts from afar, Monk belatedly realizes Dale arranged it and has made his move. It is later revealed that the reason he was drawn to her is that she received a cornea transplant from an organ donor, who turned out to be Trudy. Panicking, Rickover hires a different professional hit man, Joey Kazarinski, to kill Dr. Nash. Trudy has already suspected that Rickover was involved in Wendy Stroud's death after she read about it in the newspaper. In "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring", it is revealed that he has remarried Sharona. In "Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike", when the city stops collecting garbage, Monk mails his garbage to Dr. Kroger's house. Mitch is portrayed by Monk co-producer Doug Nabors, and can be seen in Natalie's pictures in her house and her car. In the season 5 episode "Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy", Disher is placed as a decoy to attract the attention of a serial, playing "I Don't Need a Badge" as a one-man band while forgetting most of the lyrics. Monk eventually finds out that these acts were the work of T.K. The note ends with Jack's congratulations to Ambrose for leaving the house. However, in "Mr. Monk Goes to a Farm", Captain Stottlemeyer calls Randy "Son", implying that he feels like a father to Randy. According to "Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan", Randy was born in San Diego. Marci firmly lays various 'ground rules' of what the man can and cannot say to Monk before permitting the man to talk to him. In "Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion", it is implied that he has lived in the Bay Area since at least the 1970s; 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. Gordon Lightfoot, "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" singer, dies at age 84 However, Natalie opens the window to reveal that the music is still playing. Dr. Kroger instructs the cab driver to keep driving and keeps his head low to avoid Monk. Dale is a rich and well-connected financier who is arrogant, brilliant, and ruthless. Monk points out that it is not a "perfect" palindrome because the first N is capitalized. Adrian believes Dale knows the identity of "The Judge", but so far, Dale had not revealed any further information. Robert Loggia. This novel reveals that Ambrose wrote the instruction manual for the Triax tracking device that is utilized by alleged Ponzi schemer Bob Sebes, whom Adrian suspects as having killed three government witnesses about to testify against him for their parts in the scheme. Her last words to a paramedic were "bread and butter", a message to Adrian meaning that she would never leave him, as this was something she always told her husband when they had to temporarily let go of each other for some reason or another. Thinking the map will lead them to where the bank robbers hid their loot, they ask Monk to help them, saying it is a school project. Jack is able to overcome Reese by running him over with Natalie's car. Unfortunately, Schramm died last March after suffering a heart attack. While skateboarding and ditching school with his friends Ridley and Pez, one of their skateboards hits the side of a parked car. He leaves Ambrose a handwritten note saying that he had stopped by the house only to find no one there, and that he does not blame him or Adrian for not waiting on him. 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. Trudy "T. K." Jensen Stottlemeyer (Virginia Madsen) is Captain Stottlemeyer's love interest (and then wife) in season eight. The advertising on her cast is a clue Monk utilizes to prove that mystery writer Ian Ludlow killed a local shoe salesman and tried to frame Natalie for it. He has a biting and sarcastic personality, often insulting his employees and the police without fear of repercussion. The band breaks up, and Randy returns to the SFPD shortly afterwards. A note is also left behind which reads: "To Force Heaven Mars Shall Have A New Angel". } Actor Stanley Kamel, who died of a heart attack Tuesday, had a special bond with his "Monk" co-star, Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub. 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. Biederbeck sued Trudy and her newspaper for libel after her article profiled him as "the Genghis Khan of world finance". Stanley Kamel succumbed to heart failure on April 8, 2008. When Sharona sees T.K. 's picture in Stottlemeyer's office in the season 8 episode "Mr. Monk and Sharona", she says Stottlemeyer must feel like he won the lottery, and he heartily agrees. Stanley Kamel, who portrayed Monk's therapist, Dr. Charles Kroger, died in April 2008 during the production hiatus in between seasons six and seven. In the episode "Mr. Monk is the Best Man", she is proposed to by Stottlemeyer after they have been dating for six months. The bomb was built by Warrick Tennyson. He escapes from prison but is framed for murdering Lindsey Bishop, one of the social workers at the prison, right afterwards. It is also revealed that he is a good lip-reader, as he can read what a shooter on a surveillance tape is saying. Monk and Natalie are sent to Marin County to investigate, where Monk determines that the shooter had a house key.
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