In the season two finale, "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail", Biederbeck is in prison due to his part in Catherine Lavinio's murder. Judge Ethan Rickover (Craig T. Nelson) is a respected former college professor turned state judge. 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 next day, Marci shows Monk how much she loves him, wearing his old pants, serving his drink in his old glass, even showing him a diorama of them based on the season two episode "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies", while singing him a song on her guitar about him. After they are rescued, it becomes clear that Troy has a better relationship with his father, and is planning to follow his father and study psychology in college. The body is eventually found, with both Monk and the police present at the scene, and Rickover confesses to the murders of Wendy Stroud and Trudy. Lee appeared in Johnny Knoxville's 2010 reality comedy film Jackass 3D, and was known in the ring as Puppet. 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. A turning point for the character came in the second season episode "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife", when Stottlemeyer's own wife Karen is seriously injured in a car accident and put in a coma. 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. Jared Stottlemeyer is Leland's older son who appears in four episodes, always played by different actors to show his aging. 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. It was changed to Disher for the rest of the series. Stottlemeyer's second-in-command, Lieutenant Randy Disher, is a source of much comedic strife. 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". 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. Trudy "T. K." Jensen Stottlemeyer (Virginia Madsen) is Captain Stottlemeyer's love interest (and then wife) in season eight. The two butt heads constantly, even to the point that when two of their other group members are killed under mysterious circumstances, Harold accuses Monk of being the killer. She then summons everyone into the office, to show Monk apparently talking to them from Linda's bedroom. Stanley Kamel, who played Adrian Monk's long-suffering psychiatrist on the TV detective show "Monk," has died. 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"). 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). 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. At the time Trudy was murdered, Stottlemeyer reluctantly suspended Monk from duty, though the two remained friends. 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. She appears in many episodes of the show, usually in minor roles. Stottlemeyer was later promoted past Monk. Adrian (in "Mr. Monk Is Up All Night") sees a Brazilian woman named Maria Cordova, whom he chases for several blocks for no apparent reason. 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. 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). Coincidentally, Nash is earlier questioned by Monk and Stottlemeyer when they got the call that Trudy had been killed. Prior to his appointment as a judge and Trudy meeting Adrian, Rickover has an extramarital affair with Trudy. He topped out at 927 pounds about 11 years before the events of the episode and has been bedridden ever since. Jack Monk Sr. left him and his mother Darlene after ten years of marriage. Stanley Kamel, Kane Ritchotte, and Stellina Rusich were credited as starring in the pilot episode, while Brooke Adams was credited as starring in "Mr. Monk and the Airplane". 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. #inline-recirc-item--id-9e9fe31c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child(5) { Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing, Recurring characters and special appearances, notability guideline for stand-alone lists, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa Claus, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Monk_characters&oldid=1151699885, Lists of American comedy-drama television series characters, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with topics of unclear notability from March 2022, All articles with topics of unclear notability, Articles to be expanded from December 2022, Articles with empty sections from December 2022, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2012, Articles needing additional references from May 2014, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Monk's former nurse and assistant (19982004), Technical writer of instruction manuals and language dictionaries, "Mr. Monk and the Magician" (flashback only: ", This page was last edited on 25 April 2023, at 17:49. Kamel died of a heart attack midway through Monks run, passing away at age 65. Monk must reconcile reality with his fan-boy feelings toward an actress who starred as a child in a Brady Bunch-style sitcom in his youth after an attempt on her life. Troy Kroger (portrayed by Cody McMains) is the son of Dr. Kroger, with whom he has a stormy relationship. Julie Teeger (played by Emmy Clarke) is Natalie's teenage daughter. Dr. Kroger serves as a critical pillar of emotional support for Monk. In "Mr. Monk and the Election", Harold defeats Natalie Teeger in an election to become a member of Julie Teeger's school board. By a strange coincidence, Monk says the exact line to actress Christine Rapp (of The Cooper Clan) in "Mr. Monk's Favorite Show". 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. In the series finale, "Mr. Monk and the End," Randy accepts a job as Chief of Police in the town of Summit in Sharona's native New Jersey, stating that he and Sharona are moving in together. 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. At first, she confesses to murdering Brad's ex-wife, and Monk is convinced. Trudy Monk was born in Los Angeles in 1962[1] to Dwight and Marcia Ellison. She confesses, knowing Benjy would be open to ridicule and perhaps lose respect for 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. However, Monk thinks that Howard's death was foul play, irritating cash-strapped Sharona. Linda Salvato Fusco (Sharon Lawrence) is Captain Stottlemeyer's girlfriend and a real estate dealer during season five and the beginning of the season six. Adrian believes Dale knows the identity of "The Judge", but so far, Dale had not revealed any further information. 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. Monk claims that Biederbeck owns "half the city" of San Francisco and has an option on the other half. "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. 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. Deep down inside, Monk is more flattered and delighted about the convenience of having Marci around than he cares to admit, and once Natalie notices this, she temporarily forces him to accept Marci's offer. She is introduced in Mr. Monk on the Road, when Adrian, Ambrose, and Natalie encounter her accompanying her longtime boss, journalist Dub Clements, on a cross-country RV trip. 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. Despite the millions of dollars the moonrock is worth, Monk hurriedly saves the fish, returning it to its tank because Julie believes it is the same one Mitch had given her before he died. She has a sister. As a championship fight nears, Stottlemeyer believes that there will be } 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. In the novel Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii, Natalie reveals that Mitch died two days before his 27th birthday, which would place his birth date in 1971. The novel Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu offers an explanation for the apparent contradiction between Randy's seeming ineptitude at solving cases and his continuing role as a ranked police officer: Stottlemeyer, in a covert meeting with Monk and Natalie, states that Randy in fact has a high clearance and conviction rate; the cases he solves are simply not high profile or unusual enough to be mentioned in the press (or covered in a Monk adventure). Adrian Monk is the only character to appear in all 125 episodes. Harold has a cameo appearance in the season eight episode, "Mr. Monk is Someone Else", when Monk goes to Los Angeles masquerading as a mob hit man by the name of Frank DePalma. He also states that Monk should look for a man named Warrick Tennyson in Manhattan, New York. Joe later appears in Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants when he approaches Natalie, asking Monk to investigate the theft of some firefighting equipment from his firehouse, including a Jaws of Life. Fuming, he tells them "I'm gonna do you a favor and pretend that this conversation never happened." He had a lead role in the '90s hit movie "Single White Female" and in the TV movie "The Shining." 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. This is mentioned in the season 4 episode "Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding". In the novel Mr. Monk Gets Even, Julie becomes a principal character, as she temporarily becomes Monk's assistant while Natalie is temporarily serving on the police force in Summit, New Jersey. to scare her, even setting Leland's car on fire and setting off a bomb at the wedding rehearsal. She also tells her she is dating a stockbroker and that Benjy is on the honor roll. She has even written fan-fiction centered around Monk, including one story entitled "Mr. Monk and the Dragon's Lair". Afterwards, Devlin poses as Corinne as part of the second sting, which is to draw Ramirez out of hiding. 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. 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. Once convinced of the validity of one of Monk's theories, Stottlemeyer always proves a staunch ally in apprehending Monk's primary suspects. WebStanley Kamel, who portrayed Monk's therapist, Dr. Charles Kroger, died in April 2008 during the production hiatus in between seasons six and seven. Monk turns on some Hawaiian music on the stereo, at which point Linda turns off the camera, exasperated. Monk shuts off Tennyson's morphine drip, watches his face contort in pain for a moment, then turns it back on, saying that Trudy would not have wanted him to suffer. According to Monk, Molly seems to be similar to Trudy not only in appearance but also in her mannerisms. She later discovers, however, that he got plane tickets to Detroit, where his rich uncle lives. Adrian attempts (in "Mr. Monk Bumps His Head") to find this six-fingered man by purchasing a picture of him. This is nearly revealed by playboy Dexter Larsen if Monk had persisted in his current homicide investigation. 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. 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). Nevertheless, until the killer is caught, the prison refuses to install a window in Dale's cell. Cate Cameron/The CW. Karen is also strongly against the use of guns. Ken Monkhouse, also known as Monkey on Highway Thru Hell, died on May 24, 2020 from a heart attack, according to Jamie Davis Towing. 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. 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. Linda and Stottlemeyer continue to see one another, but their dates are often interrupted, postponed, or canceled as a result of Stottlemeyer's duties. In rage, Monk lunges at him and the two engage in a violent brawl, during which Monk repeatedly kicks and punches Nunn before drawing his pistol and demanding to know who hired him. 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. Troy later appears in the season six episode "Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure". 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. Monk and Natalie are sent to Marin County to investigate, where Monk determines that the shooter had a house key. While buried alive, Troy also keeps Monk calm while they wait for help. In addition to his services to the Navy, the episode shows that what Natalie admires and remembers most about Mitch was his selflessness and strength of character. Jack goes to Adrian in hopes that Adrian can clear his name. Biederbeck sued Trudy and her newspaper for libel after her article profiled him as "the Genghis Khan of world finance". By the beginning of the penultimate season seven episode, "Mr. Monk and the Magician," Kevin is working as an accountant for professional magician, mentor, and 'supposedly' close friend, Karl Torini (Steve Valentine). 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. In the season five episode "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink", Dr. Kroger finds his cleaning lady Teresa Mueller stabbed and killed in his office. Still believing Monk to be wrong about his suspicions toward Linda, he asks her about whether she has seen Monk. A few days later, Monk, Natalie and Devlin find a dead body floating in the water, apparently ripped up by boat propellers. 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. 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. 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. 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. She left to remarry her ex-husband in the middle of season three. As stated by Adrian in "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies", Ambrose has not left his house for 32 years, having last set foot outside in 1972. After finding evidence to suggest otherwise, Monk discovers that she is still alive. After moving to Los Angeles in his 20s, the artist joined the original L.A. Roxy cast of The Rocky Horror Show in 1973, where he portrayed both Eddie and Dr. Everett Scott. Among other things, she is less tolerable of Monk's eccentricities and less flexible to accommodating his needs than Randy ever was. unsolved mysteries in ohio, celebrate recovery locations, bbc south east presenters,
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