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. 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. He has a biting and sarcastic personality, often insulting his employees and the police without fear of repercussion. In that episode, Julie is 11 years old. 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. Later, as Linda Fusco bids for Stottlemeyer at the San Francisco Police Department's Bachelor Auction, Marci bids for Monk, resulting in a bidding match between her and Natalie that Marci wins after Natalie runs out of money. Adrian becomes furious when he learns that Jack's obsession with Paraguay is because its new extradition laws do not allow for extraditing individuals indicted for crimes other than murder. Directed By: Craig Zisk Written By: David Breckman Where to watch Buy Subscription Subscription Buy Cast & Crew Tony Shalhoub Adrian Monk Ted Levine Capt. He later appeared in the novel Mr. Monk Is Cleaned Out when Adrian briefly moves in after he gets evicted from his apartment. Randy is a hero to his mother, though she declines his offer of a ride in favor of going home with her new beau, the Sheriff. While very forgiving, even he gets fed up with Monk from time to time, most heavily demonstrated in "Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect", when Dr. Kroger returns from vacationing in Costa Rica and sees Monk standing outside his home. Monk telephones Biederbeck from Germany when he suspects that one of Dr. Kroger's colleagues, a psychiatrist with a six-fingered hand named Dr. Martin Rahner, is the man who killed Trudy. He has a romantic interest in Natalie Teeger, Adrian's second assistant. Although Mitch is said to have died in the Kosovo War, in reality, the United States did not have any fatalities at all, either as the result of military combat or accidents. Below is a list of actors and actresses that were part of the cast of the American comedy-drama television series Monk. As a result the crime scene was deemed contaminated. At a luxury resort hotel in Pebble Beach, photographer Frank Ruttle is taking shots of a wedding party. While Stottlemeyer is initially concerned that Trudy's name would upset Monk, Monk is enthused, saying that everyone should have a Trudy in their life. After finding evidence to suggest otherwise, Monk discovers that she is still alive. The actor who plays the minister is Tony Shalhoub's brother. Monk feels that Biederbeck stole one of the last years of Trudy's life, resulting in him having a hatred of the man. He is mentioned in "Mr. Monk Meets His Dad". Also inherent in this hostility is a certain degree of jealousy; Stottlemeyer appears only too aware that he is not nearly the detective that Monk is. 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. In the novel Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu, Natalie describes Dr. Kroger as relaxed towards everything, to an unnatural extent. Movies. 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). Also, McCabe was a homeless person, as Monk has deduced from the state of his teeth, whose surgery had been paid for by Dale and represented by Stella Chaze, who had been posing as an outreach person. Adrian also reveals that Ambrose and their mother were in a state of catatonia after their father left. Harold also appears in the season seven finale, "Mr. Monk Fights City Hall". She has even written fan-fiction centered around Monk, including one story entitled "Mr. Monk and the Dragon's Lair". The novel Mr. Monk and the New Lieutenant reveals that Stottlemeyer's father was a bartender named Hamish. He allegedly abandoned his men and took their supplies, but Natalie does not believe the reports, as revealed by Natalie in "Mr. Monk and the Election. Much of what is known about Mitch is known through the Monk novel series by Lee Goldberg. 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. 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. She confesses, knowing Benjy would be open to ridicule and perhaps lose respect for her. Stroud comes forward claiming she has "found Jesus" and can no longer live with her guilty conscience over what she did. 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. The house is cluttered with his work, piles of newspapers (every single day since he last left the house), and filing cabinets that are stuffed with his father's mail spanning the entirety of his father's absence. 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. This is a wild story that begins with an obnoxious cameraman assigned to photograph a wedding threatening someone on the phone. ", a statement that has more truth to it than Stottlemeyer realizes. 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. Monk opens the door to the dressing room minutes later to find Kevin's dead body. Adrian and Ambrose miss their father's appearance while in an ambulance because they think he has been poisoned by a Neptune candy bar. However, in "Mr. Monk Goes to a Farm", Captain Stottlemeyer calls Randy "Son", implying that he feels like a father to Randy. He greatly respects his brother's ability to cope with the outside world. Kevin first appears in "Mr. Monk and the Paperboy", where he wins a $43 million lottery, although his "girlfriend" Vicki Salinas (Nicole DeHuff), a clerk at the nearby Stop-N-Go convenience store, tries to hide it from him with the objective of eventually getting it all. However, she reappears in "Mr. Monk's 100th Case", interviewed in a television show, reverting once again to her obsession with Monk. Creator: Andy Breckman and David Hoberman Genre (s): Comedy, Drama, Suspense Watch Now Stream On Buy on Stream On Stream On Stream On However, any chance of figuring out where Dale is through her ends when she tries to kill the three by suicide-bombing her house (the three survive, though Stottlemeyer breaks his right arm when the resulting fireball throws him through the air and he lands the wrong way). 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. 's name, believing that everyone should have a Trudy in their life. The two of them once traveled to Mexico to elope, much to the horror of Natalie's parents. Although he denied having an uncle in the season 3 episode "Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever", in the season 5 episode "Mr. Monk Visits a Farm", Randy inherits his uncle's farm after Harvey Disher supposedly commits suicide. Although Kevin gets his money back, by the time he makes his next appearance in "Mr. Monk and the Game Show," he has lost it all to a number of serious misfortunes, including gambling losses, two greedy wives, and a dishonest accountant. He has every right to date, have sex, get married, and have a family. Twelve years later, in 2009, Rickover has come far in his career, having been recently nominated for the California Supreme Court. Monk decides to meet Molly, and the two of them quickly start bonding and forming a friendship. Movies In Theaters; New Movies This Weekend; Kids Movies In Theaters . However, Monk discovers that the cleaning lady was killed by drug trafficker Francis Merrigan, who also owns an office in Dr. Kroger's building. Natalie Teeger: Mr. Monk, he's not a real cop. A CPA, he has two sisters, can recall every time he has eaten an egg salad sandwich in his life (eight altogether), and once worked for two non-consecutive summers at a coffee shop in Aspen, Colorado. Mr. Monk Gets Married (2004) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Craig Zisk Writing Credits Cast (in credits order) Produced by Music by Jeff Beal Cinematography by Hugo Cortina . One of the funniest of all Monk episodes. Sharona has a bold plan: she and Adrian go to the Waterford Institute, posing as another couple with problems. She met a voodoo priestess who predicted Mitch's death a few days before it actually happened. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! as long as it isn't adultery and is not illegal. Alerted by Disher over the phone, Sheriff Mathis joins up with Monk and Sharona and they go to arrest Dalton, freeing Maria after he has tied her up in a bathroom. 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. Dr. Malcolm Nash (Ed Begley Jr.), the director of the clinic where Stroud worked, discovers the truth about Trudy's child while digitizing the records from old paper records to computer files. When Jack finally shows up in person, he is working for the Midland, Texas-based Tiger Bay Trucking Company and had been stopped in San Francisco for running a red light. They have two sons, Jared and Max. Leland's and Jared's relationship is evidently strained, since the only photo Leland has for the bouncer at the main entrance to the grounds is a photo from a trip to Cabo San Lucas that obviously is several years old. Later, Monk and Natalie watch the videotape, which reveals that Trudy had a child with her professor, Ethan Rickover, who is now a judge. His wife was become a perfect invalid; one child had the white-swelling and the rest were rickety. When Randy is hit by a car in Monterey, Stottlemeyer is in Monk's apartment in San Francisco. In "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife", Monk is forced to take Jared and his brother to lunch because Karen is hospitalized after a tow truck driver is shot and killed by a sniper, causing the truck to veer into Karen's oncoming van, and because Leland is working the homicide case. While investigating the death of a man found shot and burned beyond recognition, things begin to go horribly wrong for Stottlemeyer and his bride-to-be, causing her to have second thoughts. with updates on movies, TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes podcast and more. In the first episode of season five, "Mr. Monk and the Actor", Monk wants to take up the entire week with therapy, but Dr. Kroger says he does not like working on the weekends so he can spend time with family. Trudy Anne Ellison Monk is Adrian's beloved deceased wife, played by Stellina Rusich in the first two seasons and Melora Hardin after the third season. In the end, after Monk captures Dale, Julie discovers that Fellows never had a criminology degree at all, and his whole career is based on a lie. 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. The answer is in the journals.". He melted down the gold, mixed it with black ink, and inscribed it into the journals. See production, box office & company info, Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA. When they go to some kind of couples retreat, he asks Monk and Sharona to go and keep an eye on her. 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. 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. According to "Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan", Randy was born in San Diego. 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. Lee Goldberg's novel Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants has Sharona returning to San Francisco after Trevor is arrested for allegedly murdering a UCLA professor. 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. At first, she confesses to murdering Brad's ex-wife, and Monk is convinced. He jumps into his car and speeds toward the retreat. 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. 4. 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. She is very beautiful . Over the first half of the story, Julie's behavior assisting Monk is different from Natalie's when it comes to helping him focus. Technically, you are also better at Polymorph, in the sense that you get a . Throughout the episode, Leland tries to figure out what her nickname T.K. In Philadelphia, one of Randy's cases was Darlene Coolidge, a black widow who murders her husbands. Cheryl Fleming (Betty Buckley) is Sharona's and Gail's mother. Eventually, Adrian finds that Jack was framed by Daniel Reese, a guard at the prison who was Lindsey's boyfriend and the real killer, and his feelings about Jack start to change. He later asks Monk to follow his wife to see if it's true. 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. She spent numerous years working undercover to infiltrate and shut down drug operations. It's also beyond belief. Mr. Monk and the Red-Headed Stranger. We need to remember that Leland is a Captain and knows the score. 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. Randy loves his mother, but she is not a prize in marriage, either physically or financially, so he wantsMonk and Sharona to investigate. 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. The intense guilt contributed to and intensified his nervous breakdown, his obsessive-compulsive manifestations, and his bizarre phobias. Terms and Policies Jack Monk Jr. (Steve Zahn) is Adrian's half-brother. Natalie is reluctant at first but then gives in. He has an inmate as his personal servant, luxurious furniture, and a TV, but no cell window. 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. By his third appearance in "Mr. Monk Is on the Run (Part Two)", he has lost just enough weight to get around in a wheelchair. 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. When Natalie asks where he got the suit, Monk reveals that Kevin lent it to him. The police discovered some old letters in which Nunn talked about killing Trudy and also mentioned that he was hired by a man named "The Judge". Leland Stottlemeyer Bitty Schram. When he brings it to the station while the FBI is trying to trace a call from a killer, he plugs it in along with the other computers. 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. 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. "The answer is in my journals." Dale was unable to win the lawsuit, but the Monks were forced to sell their house paying for their lawyer. Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: Monk, the guy's got dollar bills sticking out of his belt. Nunn hired Warrick Tennyson, an explosives expert, to build and plant the bomb, while Nunn detonated it with a cellular phone. The percentage of approved Tomatometer critics who have given this title a positive review. When Monk and Sharona wander inside (Monk only goes into the cave so he can escape a staredown with a coyote), Dalton removes one of the bracing timbers, causing the entrance to cave in. In "Mr. Monk and the End, Part One", Julie moves away from home to enter the University of California at Berkeley to study Theatre Arts. This is later revealed to be because of Jack's boss, Ben Glazer, who was trying to destroy evidence that would link him to the death of his partner, Kenneth Woods. In the season five episode "Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion", a younger Trudy is portrayed in a flashback by Lindy Newton. Why wouldn't they believe it? At one point in "Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan", she stated, "I'm not crazy, just a fan". 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). Padron, who has now bound and gagged Maria, is chopping apart a grandfather clock he is convinced contains Skinner's treasure while Monk and Sharona groggily pour through still more of the journals. Milan Cheylov. In a letter dated September 13th, from Mr. Broderick, M.P., to Lord Chancellor Middleton, and published in Coxe's Walpole, the former says: "Various are the conjectures why the South-Sea directors have suffered the cloud to break so early. Glenne Headly. Julie plays a key role in the season four episode "Mr. Monk Goes to a Fashion Show", when Julian Hodge (Malcolm McDowell) invites her to participate in his fashion show, despite her young age. He also says that he thinks his new therapist is better than Monk's. Cast Appearances Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk Bitty Schram as Sharona Fleming Jason Gray-Stanford as Lt. Randall Disher Ted Levine as Captain Leland Stottlemeyer View full appearance list Episode Discussion No comments yet. They meet the institute's no-nonsense director, Dr. Julie Waterford, and then meet the two other couples who are there: Dalton and Maria Padron, and thirtysomethings Jeff and Rachel Sweeney. For one thing, Padron is insisting on taking his new bride to a marriage therapy clinic that very weekend for their honeymoon. Aside from his ridiculous theories, which often defy the laws of physics (for instance astral projection), he is competent within his own range of abilities. Dalton takes advantage of their distraction to seize Mathis's gun. Rickover hid the baby from Trudy by claiming that she died nine minutes after birth. The incident took place on Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley shortly before 4:30 p.m. and both patients were taken to the hospital. After two other women with the name 'Julie Teeger' are killed, Natalie's Julie becomes the only person with this name within 1,000 miles. Though she recovers, Stottlemeyer is left with a taste of the kind of pain Monk bears from Trudy and becomes far more sympathetic and respectful to him, if still exasperated by Monk's more extreme idiosyncrasies. Several clues point to him, but his involvement is thought to be impossible because he is incapable of leaving his bedroom. Dr. Bell also uses his past baseball experiences when talking with Monk in "Mr. Monk Takes the Stand". The episode gives Julie an integral role. This is quite a weak episode. Adrian Monk: We have nothing in common. urban dictionary pop Rickover finds out about this when Stottlemeyer comes over to his house to sign a warrant to search Kazarinski's premises. 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. Though he and Natalie are strongly attracted to each other, she is hesitant because of her lingering feelings for Mitch. 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. Except for two changes, the principal cast of the series remained consistent. 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. Monk : Mr. Monk Gets Married (2004) Directed by Craig Zisk/ Randall Zisk / Andre Belgrader / Randy Zisk / Jerry Levine Genres - Comedy Drama, Mystery | Sub-Genres - Detective Show [TV], Prime-Time Drama [TV], Procedural Show [TV] | Run Time - 45 min. Dale is a rich and well-connected financier, who is arrogant, brilliant, and ruthless. Karen Stottlemeyer . The first season of Monk originally aired in the United States on USA Network from July 12 to October 18, 2002, which consisted of 13 episodes. 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. In this episode, he was portrayed by Jesse James. "Something's definitely wrong," slurs Disher. Stay up-to-date on all the latest Rotten Tomatoes news! That's the question Captain Stottlemeyer asks Monk--but Monk's response is to ask why it matters. Stottlemeyer is immediately impressed by Linda's crisp, cool demeanor. In "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail" (season 2), Dale the Whale tells Monk that Tennyson was involved in the murder and that he can be found in New York. Now Monk and Sharona also know the mysterious clue, "Where is the gold? Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage Episode aired Jan 27, 2006 TV-14 1 h IMDb RATING 7.7 /10 1.1K YOUR RATING Rate Comedy Crime Drama 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. Having just found out about the video, Monk confronts Rickover and informs him that he knows he was behind Trudy's death, although he has no other evidence to back this up. 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. However, Stottlemeyer appreciates Disher's abilities and even harbors a degree of affection for him, especially in situations of personal peril.