He visits Padron's store, where he learns that Padron's partner, Raymond Toliver, has recently gone missing. Fourteen years later, in 1997, Rickover is nominated as an appellate court judge. 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. When her husband Douglas died, she was left to raise her daughters alone. There, he meets Frank Nunn, who recognizes Monk as "the cop with the wife". Over the course of the novel, Benjy develops a friendship with Julie Teeger. 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. Similarly, Dr. Kroger also (usually unintentionally) helps Monk find something that solves his current case. Creator: Andy Breckman and David Hoberman Genre (s): Comedy, Drama, Suspense Watch Now Stream On Buy on Stream On Stream On Stream On 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. Adrian begins to believe this might be true, but in the end, it turns out that this woman is an actress who has attempted to pass herself off as the real Trudy in order to get the key to Trudy's old storage unit.[7]. 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. In the tradition of superior officers in detective television shows, Stottlemeyer often punctuates comedic moment by shouting the protagonist's last name in an annoyed tone. Eventually,Monk and Sharona get a signal andare rescued by thelocal sheriff, Ronald Mathis, who reluctantly tells them that there is noway that theycan prove Dalton guilty of sabotage, as the bracing timbers were over 150 years old and were bound to fail eventually. Reasoning that they can't expose him without risking him doing something violent, Monk and Sharona are determined to comb through the journals and find the gold themselves. Stroud comes forward claiming she has "found Jesus" and can no longer live with her guilty conscience over what she did. Wires get crossed, resulting in the SWAT team storming a slumber party of innocent teens, including Julie, near to death. Except for two changes, the principal cast of the series remained consistent. Adrian Monk . 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. She then begs Monk to take the case, which he eventually does, though reluctantly. Jack abandoned his young family while running to pick up an order of Chinese food. "That woman is as obsessive and compulsive as you are." Torini and Tanya both feign innocence when Monk and Natalie question them at their loft apartment. She left to remarry her ex-husband in the middle of season three. Trudy "T. K." Jensen Stottlemeyer (Virginia Madsen) is Captain Stottlemeyer's love interest (and then wife) in season eight. 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. However, her life as a former Vice cop does give Devlin some advantages that Randy does not have. However, in "Mr. Monk Goes to a Farm", Captain Stottlemeyer calls Randy "Son", implying that he feels like a father to Randy. 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. The novel serves to allow Adrian to help Ambrose get over his agoraphobia. It's also beyond belief. She moves in with Ambrose after Dub dies from terminal cancer. with updates on movies, TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes podcast and more. 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. By continuing, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Stottlemeyer: sometimes He breaks your heart. Listed here are characters that exclusively appear in the novels and make multiple appearances: Joseph "Joe" Cochran: an SFFD firefighter to whom Natalie becomes attracted in a few of the novels. While buried alive, Troy also keeps Monk calm while they wait for help. 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Monk_cast_members&oldid=1103081774, This page was last edited on 8 August 2022, at 07:44. In the end, Ambrose buys the RV that Adrian and Natalie rented for the trip. In the episode "Mr. Monk is the Best Man", she is proposed to by Stottlemeyer after they have been dating for six months. Devlin is different from Randy in many ways. 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". In "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink", it is revealed that he has a wife, Madeline, and a rebellious adolescent son, Troy, who denies that he is their child and has been arrested by Randy on more than one previous occasion. He was joined by Bitty Schram as Sharona Fleming, Traylor Howard as Natalie Teeger, Jason Gray-Stanford as Lieutenant Randy Disher, and Ted Levine as Captain Leland Stottlemeyer. 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. 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. In April 2008, Stanley Kamel died of a heart attack during a production hiatus between seasons 6 and 7. Sharona proposes an ingenious way of finding out. Here there is fight picked and he falls for it. Her second appearance is in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater". Although Monk is mostly annoyed by her, he becomes momentarily flattered when Marci starts acting as his buffer in relation to his personal quirks and social dealings with people. "The answer is in my journals." 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. She was replaced by Natalie Teeger in the episode "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring", and Teeger remained Monk's assistant for the remainder of the series. While having a temporary relapse (in "Mr. Monk Can't See a Thing"), Adrian mentions that Trudy lived for 20 minutes after the bomb went off. Trudy has curly, blonde, shoulder-length hair, and blue eyes. Once convinced of the validity of one of Monk's theories, Stottlemeyer always proves a staunch ally in apprehending Monk's primary suspects. She also tells her she is dating a stockbroker and that Benjy is on the honor roll. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing, Recurring characters and special appearances, Last edited on 28 December 2022, at 01:31, notability guideline for stand-alone lists, Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Monk_characters&oldid=1129977660, 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 28 December 2022, at 01:31. So he can search it, he has Natalie lure Linda away from her house on the pretense of looking at an apartment, while he searches it. Harold makes a brief cameo appearance in "Mr. Monk's 100th Case", for a small interview on a television special commemorating Monk's solving of his 100th case, which Harold derides. Terms and Policies Copyright Fandango. 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. Sharona Fleming . 's name, believing that everyone should have a Trudy in their life. 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. Locking them inside a closet at gunpoint, he loads the journals into the trunk of his car, and starts to pull away from the retreat, but is halted by Disher, who has parked across the driveway. 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 Is On the Run", when Monk is framed for murder by corrupt sheriff John Rollins, Stottlemeyer proves his loyalty to Monk by helping him fake his own death, risking his own career and freedom. Stottlemeyer is immediately impressed by Linda's crisp, cool demeanor. 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. stands for, but when he finds out that her first name is Trudy, he suggests that they stick with calling her T.K. Rickover first appeared in "Mr. Monk and the End - Part I" and later in "Mr. Monk and the End - Part II". Ellen Morse: Monk's new girlfriend. Frank Nunn was a career criminal who was hired by a mysterious figure known as "The Judge" to assassinate Trudy Monk. 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. 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." Monk S 2 E 14 Mr Monk And The Captains Wife. At a luxury resort hotel in Pebble Beach, photographer Frank Ruttle is taking shots of a wedding party. He can be seen in person in three episodes: "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies", "Mr. Monk Goes Home Again" and "Mr. Monk's 100th Case", as well as in home movies he spliced together himself during "Mr. Monk Is on the Air". Dalton and Raymond agree that it is a hell of a story, and Raymond mocks at how the lure of gold can turn someone's partner and friend into a cold-blooded killer. 's maid of honor and best friend Stephanie Briggs, who happens to be an accomplice of Kettering's and killed him after he blackmailed her for money. Despite the fact that Monk is always shown to be annoyed by Kevin, he is seen crying after Kevin's murder, hinting at a possible friendship they had. 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. The bomb was built by Warrick Tennyson. Because he is the only person left to know that Trudy's child is still alive, no one is able to figure out what exactly he meant by his final statement. They have two sons, Jared and Max. Director Anthony R. Palmieri Writers Andy Breckman (head writer) See production, box office & company info, Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA.