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. Kroger eventually died of a heart attack, mirroring the real death of the actor that portrayed the character. 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. 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. As a result, all of Dale's privileges are revoked: his furniture, custom bed, telephone, and laptop are confiscated, his window is blocked up, his special meal deliveries and manicure appointments are cancelled, and he is reduced to eating in the prison cafeteria and sleeping in a cramped bunk bed. Jack is able to overcome Reese by running him over with Natalie's car. Jack Monk Jr. (Steve Zahn) is Adrian's half-brother. 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. However, just before they leave for Hawaii, Linda's former business partner Sean Corcoran is shot dead by a shotgun-wielding intruder in front of a married couple during an open house tour. 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. Police told The Las Vegas Review Journal that part-time actor Aaron Biederbeck sued Trudy and her newspaper for libel after her article profiled him as "the Genghis Khan of world finance". April 9, 2008 5:00am Stanley Kamel, a veteran TV actor who played Adrian Monks long-suffering psychiatrist on the TV detective show Monk, died April 8 of a Dale plays an important part of the second of two intertwined plotlines in the novel Mr. Monk Gets Even, released in late 2012. The lieutenant governor, who is on Dale's payroll board, would then pardon Dale, completing Dale's revenge by going free and returning to his comfortable lifestyle while Monk goes to prison for Nunn's murder. 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. Stroud then claimed to have found Molly abandoned at a playground and took her to an orphanage. 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. Eventually, Monk realizes why Rickover refused to move away from his longtime house and confronts Rickover again in his yard as he is returning home, forcing Rickover at gunpoint to dig up Wendy Stroud's body. Jack abandoned his young family while running to pick up an order of Chinese food. 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. 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. While fleeing the scene, a police car pulled her over for speeding and Stephanie was forced to hide the pistol she used inside Leland's tuxedo bag. 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. }, First published on April 10, 2008 / 4:10 PM. Over the course of the novel, Benjy develops a friendship with Julie Teeger. Monk initially believes Molly to be dead, based on the information given to him by Trudy in her video to him. 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 does not know what this may mean until he mentions this to Dr. Bell. "That woman is as obsessive and compulsive as you are." 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. When Natalie asks where he got the suit, Monk reveals that Kevin lent it to him. Adrian feels differently, believing his father will never return. 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"). Kevin steals a pencil that the host had been chewing on, claiming it as a "collectible"; later in the episode, he and Monk find a pencil with identical chew marks at the reigning champion's house and conclude that he and the host have colluded to rig the game. The relationship between Leland and Jared was a little difficult after the events of "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage", with Karen divorcing Leland, leaving Leland estranged from their sons. Natalie tries to help convince him, but Stottlemeyer refuses to listen to another word. 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. 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. Dr. Bell's character has a considerably constructed background, in sharp contrast to Dr. Kroger. After checking into their hotel in Reno, Nevada, Torini drives back to the Magic Castle Theater and sneaks in posing as a repairman. 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. In "Mr. Monk Meets the Playboy", Sharona tells him of her less than reputable past. They married on August 8, 1990. At the end of the episode, Randy picks up Sharona to go to the airport, sharing a kiss as they load her bags. 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. She met a voodoo priestess who predicted Mitch's death a few days before it actually happened. Starting in Mr. Monk On the Couch, Ambrose has a live-in assistant, Yuki Nakamura, introduced in Mr. Monk on the Road. Troy Kroger (portrayed by Cody McMains) is the son of Dr. Kroger, with whom he has a stormy relationship. 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. She left to remarry her ex-husband in the middle of season three. Thanks to the job opening caused by Randy's departure from the Homicide division, Devlin was reassigned to the Robbery-Homicide Division. 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. 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. Benjamin "Benjy" Fleming is Sharona's son. Adrian was only eight years old, and this abandonment is seemingly the catalyst for both his and Ambrose's psychological illnesses. 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. With Molly filling the void that Trudy's death left in his life, Monk initially decides to retire from detective work. Prior to his appointment as a judge and Trudy meeting Adrian, Rickover has an extramarital affair with Trudy. As difficult as it is for Monk to take upon the case of a victim he knows, he accepts it with the determination of seeing to it that Torini is caught. Unbeknownst to him, the day before Trudy was killed, she made a video message to Adrian, explaining how Rickover wanted to meet her in that parking garage, and also mentioning the secret affair. (The theme song controversy surrounding Crime Lab S.F. 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. It is understood Imahara, 49, died suddenly following a brain aneurysm. As they move to capture an incriminating beachball with air from Kedder's asthma inhaler, the ball lands in the scaffolding for one of the loudspeakers. While danger closes in on him, Monk is faced with the choice of retrieving the moonrock, or Julie's fish. Dr. Kroger serves as a critical pillar of emotional support for Monk. Additionally, before the first session, Natalie points out that Dr. Bell's first name is a palindrome as a comfort to Monk. Luke Perry played Fred Andrews on "Riverdale." 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". 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. The series was produced by In the novel Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu, Natalie describes Dr. Kroger as relaxed towards everything, to an unnatural extent. After the baby was born, Rickover covered up the illegitimate child by telling Wendy Stroud, the midwife, to tell Trudy that her baby died about nine minutes after birth and to then put the child up for adoption. 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. 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. The end credits to the first episode aired after Kamel's death, "Mr. Monk Buys a House," begin with a dedication to Kamel's memory. Dr. Kroger instructs the cab driver to keep driving and keeps his head low to avoid Monk. However, Marci also dislikes the now-deceased Susan Malloy, since Susan only made one movie, called Frat Party Massacre, which Marci has watched several times. Jason In "Earthquake" she remarks to Sharona that she thinks Sharona copies her by moving to San Francisco, buying the same purse, etc. Mitch is introduced in the season three episode "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring". 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. For the first three seasons Sharona Fleming was Monk's assistant. Yuki Nakamura: Ambrose's live-in assistant, then later girlfriend, and eventual wife. When Disher loses heavily at the blackjack tables in "Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas," Stottlemeyer persuades Monk to help win the money back; later, in "Mr. Monk Gets Lotto Fever," he offers to pay off Disher's student loans after believing he has won the lottery. Monk eventually finds out that these acts were the work of T.K. Jack also makes an appearance (albeit an unseen one) in the season four episode, "Mr. Monk Goes Home Again" at Ambrose's door. Once convinced of the validity of one of Monk's theories, Stottlemeyer always proves a staunch ally in apprehending Monk's primary suspects. The expanded universe novels written by Lee Goldberg, and later by Hy Conrad, introduce an additional cast of characters. After Torini's arrest, Monk and Natalie watch a video will that Kevin had made, and despite his tendency to ramble about various things, Monk lets the video play. When they go to apologize to Tony Gamelobo, the driver, they find him dead from a heart attack, and find a map in the back of his car plus satchels from a bank that was recently robbed. She then begs Monk to take the case, which he eventually does, though reluctantly. He is arrested and placed in jail because he shoved a cop and resisted arrest. In the book Mr. Monk Gets Even, they get married. 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. Stanley Kamel, who portrayed Monk's therapist, Dr. Charles Kroger, died in April 2008, during the production hiatus in between seasons six and seven. Hence, starting with season seven, Monk gets a new therapist, Dr. Neven Bell, who remained for the final two seasons. Adrian Monk is the only character to appear in all 125 episodes. Since the events of "Mr. Monk Is on the Run", all of Dale's assets have been tied up in various lawsuits, thus forcing the state of California to front the bill for his medical costs. 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. Monk.". By a strange coincidence, Monk says the exact line to actress Christine Rapp (of The Cooper Clan) in "Mr. Monk's Favorite Show". After the show, Torini strangles and kills Kevin in his dressing room with a piece of piano wire, then leaves the building disguised as a repairman. 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). Natalie temporarily coaches the team with Monk as her assistant. As revealed in the season five episode "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink", Charles has taken three paternity tests at the "request" of his son. After his mother died, he started bingeing. 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. Rickover finds out about this when Stottlemeyer comes over to his house to sign a warrant to search Kazarinski's premises. She has even written fan-fiction centered around Monk, including one story entitled "Mr. Monk and the Dragon's Lair". 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. Randall Disher, portrayed by Jason Gray-Stanford, is Captain Stottlemeyer's second-in-command and employed at the SFPD. He died in 1998 in the Kosovo War. He makes a brief appearance in "Mr. Monk Is the Best Man", played by Matthew Scott Hill.[8]. It is mentioned in Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse, and elaborated upon in Mr. Monk is Miserable, that Natalie and Mitch eloped to Paris. 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. 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. Stanley Kamel, who played Adrian Monk's long-suffering psychiatrist on the TV detective show "Monk," has died. Adrian is then able to locate his stepdaughter. 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. In the season five episode "Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion", a younger Trudy is portrayed in a flashback by Lindy Newton. WebElizabeth Natalie Schram (born July 17, 1968) is an American actress best known for playing Sharona Fleming in the television series Monk and for playing Evelyn Gardner, mother of Stillwell "Angel," in the film A League of Their Own (1992). 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. This implies that at one point Jared had to repeat a grade. Ambrose blames himself for Trudy's death. Julie bonds with Monk after he rescues her pet fish. Still believing Monk to be wrong about his suspicions toward Linda, he asks her about whether she has seen Monk. March 11, 2005, 10:47 AM PST / Source: The Associated Press. To find the truth, Leland sends Monk and Natalie to follow Karen. Dr. Kroger is the subject of an ongoing feud between Monk and Harold Krenshaw, a patient with similar problems. 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. Gordon Lightfoot, "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" singer, dies at age 84 His final performance credit was Harrison Marlowe in "Enter Laughing the Musical" with the York Theatre Company in 2019. She also tells her she is dating a stockbroker and that Benjy is on the honor roll. She pays to have a local pizzeria called Sorrento's advertise on it. Below is a list of actors and actresses that were part of the cast of the 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. 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. 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. Fourteen years later, in 1997, Rickover is nominated as an appellate court judge. Kevin Dorfman (Jarrad Paul) is Monk's talkative upstairs neighbor. He is usually portrayed as loyal and tenacious but with a comical lack of insight and given to far-fetched theories, which are a running gag of the series. When her husband Douglas died, she was left to raise her daughters alone. After a few tense moments, he throws the ball to Leland, and Randy arrests Kedder. As a result, he deludes himself that everyone is out to get him, either because of his importance in the scheme of things or because he inspires outrageous jealousy in everyone else. 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. The note ends with Jack's congratulations to Ambrose for leaving the house. In "Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan", he goes with Monk to New York City to follow up on a lead on Trudy's murder, and harshly confronts New York City police captain Walter Cage for concealing information about Warrick Tennyson that is essential to Monk to solving the murder, remarking that that was the only thing he cared about at the time. In "Mr. Monk and the Election", Harold defeats Natalie Teeger in an election to become a member of Julie Teeger's school board. To make sure this happened, he had set up arrangements so that the doctor who did his surgery was sent away to Hawaii right after the operation, and a new doctor who had never met Dale, McCabe, or Cannon, would oversee his recovery. 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. In the episode "Mr. Monk and Sharona," Randy and Sharona have a fond reunion. WebMichael W. Watkins 4 Episodes 2008 Lawrence Trilling 3 Episodes 2003 Dean Parisot 3 Episodes 2009 David Breckman 3 Episodes 2009 Anthony R. Palmieri 3 Episodes 2007 The song is also featured in the season 8 episode "Mr. Monk Goes Camping" as the ringtone on Randy's cell phone. [6] Ambrose blames himself for Trudy's death, and his guilt led to a seven-year rift between the brothers. It was necessary to have two actors play the role because Ritchotte lives on the West Coast, while the pilot was filmed in Vancouver and seasons two and three in Los Angeles. Later, when talking to some Frisco Fly fans, Monk claims that Harold was a bed wetter until he was 34 and he has to be hypnotized just to get a haircut). Kazarinski poisons Monk's wipes with a ricin-based synthetic poison that will kill him in a period of two or three days. Then, Monk learns that, in fact, Rickover had saved the baby girl who is now a 26-year-old movie critic named Molly with whom he connects and grows to love. He is also revealed to be an amateur magician himself. The intense guilt contributed to and intensified his nervous breakdown, his obsessive-compulsive manifestations, and his bizarre phobias. Natalie overhears a woman (in "Mr. Monk and Mrs. Monk") who looks like Trudy say that she faked her own death to protect Adrian. Karen's documentary about Miles Holling, Miles Holling: The Human Time Machine, provides several clues for Monk and Leland about the man's death. This makes Marci a primary suspect, and she is finally cornered by Stottlemeyer and Disher at the Crime Lab S.F. Initially, Adrian's reception to his father is icy and uninviting, but the two later reconcile over a road trip, where they suspiciously travel by the longer back roads. Even though Ambrose's last television appearance was in 2008, he continued to appear in the Monk novel series by Lee Goldberg. Dale is a rich and well-connected financier who is arrogant, brilliant, and ruthless. 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. 100th episode cast party. Trudy Monk was born in Los Angeles in 1962[1] to Dwight and Marcia Ellison. In "Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure", Monk agrees to help Dr. Kroger's son Troy decipher what appears to be a treasure map (actually a map to a dead bank robber's body) in an attempt to once more outdo Harold, who has just given Dr. Kroger a wristwatch. 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. [5] She was on an errand to get cough medicine for Adrian's brother, Ambrose. Adrian believes Dale knows the identity of "The Judge", but so far, Dale had not revealed any further information. The novel also reveals that Ambrose became agoraphobic after he caught Hong Kong flu.

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