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. A few nights later, Marci shows up at Monk's door convincing him that if he ever gets his own show, he should never change the theme song. She accompanies Monk and Stottlemeyer to question Dale's girlfriend Stella Chaze, but considers quitting the job after Stella attempts to kill the three by suicide-bombing her house. Natalie is reluctant at first but then gives in. Dr. Charles Kroger (played by Stanley Kamel) is Monk's psychiatrist for the first six seasons. Stanley Kamel succumbed to heart failure on April 8, 2008. 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. Knowing he couldn't win, Biederbeck did everything possible to draw the lawsuit out to torment her. Her career in Vice was ended, though, when a judge refused to let her testify at the trial for her last case without showing her face. 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. It took over a year to resolve, and the legal costs forced the Monks to sell their first home, which Biederbeck then purchased and used to store his collection of pornography. They were married for twenty years. Lieutenant Commander Mitch Teeger (197198) is Natalie's late husband and Julie's father, who was a fighter pilot in the United States Navy. Ambrose blames himself for Trudy's death. 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. Karen's documentary about Miles Holling, Miles Holling: The Human Time Machine, provides several clues for Monk and Leland about the man's death. 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. 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. Thanks to the job opening caused by Randy's departure from the Homicide division, Devlin was reassigned to the Robbery-Homicide Division. 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. Frank Nunn shows no remorse. Benjy is happy to have a father, which is one of the reasons Sharona decides to quit being Monk's assistant and move back to New Jersey with Trevor. She was born January 2, 1983, but was taken from her mother immediately after birth by Wendy Stroud, the midwife, at the behest of Rickover; Trudy was told that the baby had died nine minutes after birth. He is mentioned in "Mr. Monk Meets His Dad". For the first three seasons Sharona Fleming was Monk's assistant. 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. 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. 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. 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. Karen first appeared in "Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man", where she begs Leland to investigate the death of Miles Holling, the oldest man in the world. When Monk and Natalie try approaching Randy for an idea, Randy is skeptical because there is no reasonable way for Linda to go 32.2 miles from her house to the crime scene in 20 minutes at that time of day. 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". Jack Jr. makes repeated efforts to ingratiate himself to his older half-brother by stammering and sniveling helplessly, even going so far as to stage a phony phone call from his girlfriend who pretends to be his mother, who bawls sappily, begging Adrian to help her little "Jackie". He offers Monk a deal: find the killer and Biederbeck will share what he knows about Trudy's murder. The novel Mr. Monk and the New Lieutenant reveals that Stottlemeyer's father was a bartender named Hamish. Kevin also makes a short appearance in the season four episode, "Mr. Monk and Mrs. Monk", where he and Monk are shown in the kitchen, preparing food and happily chatting together, while Natalie broods over the impossible notion that Trudy might still be alive. 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. He is also revealed to be an amateur magician himself. Mitch is portrayed by Monk co-producer Doug Nabors, and can be seen in Natalie's pictures in her house and her car. 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. However, Monk determines that it was a murder and uses the body to solve the case. Prior to his appointment as a judge and Trudy meeting Adrian, Rickover has an extramarital affair with Trudy. However, Monk thinks that Howard's death was foul play, irritating cash-strapped Sharona. French actor Gaspard Ulliel, who is set to appear in Marvel's forthcoming TV series Moon Knight, has died aged 37. However, in "Mr. Monk Goes to a Farm", Captain Stottlemeyer calls Randy "Son", implying that he feels like a father to Randy. display: none; 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. 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. Monk.". During the radio broadcast, Kevin calls in as a fan to compliment Hudson, but he actually called in just to support Monk. Stella had staged the truck crash, as Monk suspected, then infiltrated the hospital, but she did not take Dale out of the hospital. 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. Hence, starting with The first twenty numbers on his speed-dial are lawyers. This implies that at one point Jared had to repeat a grade. Ambrose Monk, played by John Turturro, is Adrian's older agoraphobic brother. Monk and Natalie investigate the murder with help from Stork's girlfriend Kendra Frank (Tamara Feldman), eventually coming to the conclusion that Trafalgar's lead singer Kris Kedder (Brad Hunt) is the killer after Jared identifies a guitar string found at the crime scene as coming from a 12-string guitar, of which Kedder is the only person on the property to own one. 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. 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. 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. 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." Joey burned Grajna's car to torch any evidence that Grajna was the Frisco Fly, and stole Grajna's outfit. "That woman is as obsessive and compulsive as you are." 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. 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. The bomb was built by Warrick Tennyson. Twelve years later, in 2009, Rickover has come far in his career, having been recently nominated for the California Supreme Court. In Adrian's words, Trudy "enjoyed poetry, was often barefoot, and kept every promise she ever made". After his mother died, he started bingeing. He often takes great pleasure in "getting" other people before they get him, especially Monk. Later, when Monk and Dr. Kroger are being held hostage in the back of Francis Merrigan's truck, Harold, who has followed the truck, is the one who alerts the police to their whereabouts. 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 stalker first breaks into and ransacks Leland's apartment, then uses a voice scrambler and calls T.K. Throughout the episode, Leland tries to figure out what her nickname T.K. Frank Nunn was a career criminal who was hired by a mysterious figure known as "The Judge" to assassinate Trudy Monk. He also saves the two from being drowned by Commander Nathan Whitaker, the person who killed Pierce. 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). This is confirmed when Monk and Natalie time the route on a motorcycle and it takes them an hour to travel the route. Around the same time, Rickover hires bomber Frank Nunn to plant a bomb in Trudy's car. Stanley Kamel, who portrayed Monk's therapist, Dr. Charles Kroger, died in April 2008 during the production hiatus in between seasons six and seven. He also says that he thinks his new therapist is better than Monk's. Monk and Natalie catch Linda through a sting operation. Kamel died of a heart attack midway through Monks run, passing away at age 65. In "Mr. Monk and the Election", Harold defeats Natalie Teeger in an election to become a member of Julie Teeger's school board. display: none; Dale is a rich and well-connected financier who is arrogant, brilliant, and ruthless. He has a romantic interest in Natalie Teeger, Adrian's second assistant. 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. 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. She visits Sharona in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater", just when Gail is framed for murder. Monk, Julie, Stottlemeyer and Devlin rush to the hospital, but in the chaos, it seems Dale has escaped by being snuck out in a body bag by an accomplice driving a stolen hearse. 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). He goes back to prison, though Randy's handcuff key "went missing". Jack Monk Sr., played by Dan Hedaya, is the father of Ambrose and Adrian Monk. Paris police Inspector Guy Gadois knows the lyrics and music of the song by heart. Torini and Tanya then stage a phone call to make it seem like they are both in Reno at the time (when Torini is actually hiding in the basement of the theater). Lieutenant Amy Devlin: Stottlemeyer's replacement right-hand following Randy's departure. Lee appeared in Johnny Knoxville's 2010 reality comedy film Jackass 3D, and was known in the ring as Puppet. Jason In April 2008, Stanley Kamel died of a heart attack during a production hiatus between seasons 6 and 7. The episode gives Julie an integral role. 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.
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