When Natalie asks where he got the suit, Monk reveals that Kevin lent it to him. 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. 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. By a strange coincidence, Monk says the exact line to actress Christine Rapp (of The Cooper Clan) in "Mr. Monk's Favorite Show". Throughout the episode, Leland tries to figure out what her nickname T.K. Mitch is portrayed by Monk co-producer Doug Nabors, and can be seen in Natalie's pictures in her house and her car. Monk claims that Biederbeck owns "half the city" of San Francisco and has an option on the other half. [5] She was on an errand to get cough medicine for Adrian's brother, Ambrose. Jack Monk Sr. left him and his mother Darlene after ten years of marriage. 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. Trying to impress her, Sharona tells her that she is Monk's partner, not his assistant/nurse. Jack Jr. also has an unusual obsession with the country of Paraguay. 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. Dr. Bell's character has a considerably constructed background, in sharp contrast to Dr. Kroger. Julie bonds with Monk after he rescues her pet fish. 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. stands for, but when he finds out that her first name is Trudy, he suggests that they stick with calling her T.K. Frank Nunn was a career criminal who was hired by a mysterious figure known as "The Judge" to assassinate Trudy Monk. Unknown to Monk, Nunn is also a pawn in a related scheme to frame him for murder and incapacitate him. WebSeason 8. This is mentioned in the season 4 episode "Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding". He also saves the two from being drowned by Commander Nathan Whitaker, the person who killed Pierce. Around the same time, Rickover hires bomber Frank Nunn to plant a bomb in Trudy's car. 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. He offers Monk a deal: find the killer and Biederbeck will share what he knows about Trudy's murder. He was the perfect patsy because Dale needed to switch places with someone who had no family or friends who would visit or miss him. 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. 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 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. He writes a personal ad fitting Sharona in the episode "Mr. Monk and the Paperboy", which he unsuccessfully tries to hide from her. Her career, as revealed in her first appearance in Mr. Monk on the Road, began in the Vice Division. 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. 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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. 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. 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. Below is a list of actors and actresses that were part of the cast of the Observing the rescue efforts from afar, Monk belatedly realizes Dale arranged it and has made his move. Dale reveals (in "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail") that the car bomb was actually intended for her, not him. WebCory Monteith (Finn Hudson on Glee) The most recent shock on this list was Monteiths death at the age of 31 from a heroin and alcohol overdose. However, Monk thinks that Howard's death was foul play, irritating cash-strapped Sharona. Twelve years later, he was hired to build another bomb, as part of a scheme by Dale Biederbeck, and plant it in the back of a car meant to be ridden by the Governor of California and his wife during his hometown's bicentennial parade. She spends much of her time filming unscripted documentaries. 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. When Merrigan shoots at Dr. Kroger with a pistol, Harold takes a bullet in the chest to save Dr. Kroger's life, telling Adrian to "beat that.". He topped out at 927 pounds about 11 years before the events of the episode and has been bedridden ever since. 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). Kevin Dorfman (Jarrad Paul) is Monk's talkative upstairs neighbor. Stanley Kamel succumbed to heart failure on April 8, 2008. BoJack Horseman: Still Broken (2015; animated) [ Herb Kazzaz ]: Dies (off-screen) from an allergic reaction to peanuts, after surviving a car crash with a peanut truck; his death is revealed as Henry Winkler speaks at his funeral. 100th episode cast party. 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. Dr. Neven Bell (portrayed by Hctor Elizondo) becomes Monk's therapist in the season seven premiere "Mr. Monk Buys a House", replacing Dr. Kroger. 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. On February 27, 2015, Nimoy passed away at the age of 83 due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (via The New York Times ). What Happened To The Monk Cast? - Screen Rant Later, Vicki kills the accomplice by stabbing him with a cream soda bottle while he is making the store's night deposit. Indeed, the next day, there is a major accident when a moving truck driving down Powell Street loses its brakes, careens down the hill into Union Square, and smashes into a MUNI bus and a cable car, leaving four people dead and dozens critically injured. Kamel has appeared in numerous TV roles over the past three decades, including "The West Wing," "Six Feet Under," "Melrose Place," "The Golden Girls," "Days of Our Lives" and "Murder One. During that time, he fathered yet another son, 31yearold Jack Jr. whom Jack proudly brags about to his co-workers as a genius doctor. Kamel played Dr. Kroger Clay later reveals that he was paid by Julie's (fictitious) Aunt Karen to go out with her. To Adrian's surprise, he later admits that Jack Jr. is an unemployed buffoon who smokes marijuana all day and steals money from his wallet. Ambrose blames himself for Trudy's death. Once Monk closes the case, the group visits Tennyson, who admits his involvement and says that he was hired by a man whose identity he never learned. Adrian is then able to locate his stepdaughter. WebHe dies while talking to Richard Dormer. Fearing he might be caught, Torini and his assistant Tanya Adams come up with a plot to kill Kevin on the night of his debut. '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. Harold is married and has a son, Jimmy. At the end of the episode, Sharona trips and breaks her arm on one of the country club's steps, meaning she will get the money after all. In "Mr. Monk Makes a Friend", Monk apparently makes a friend out of Hal Tucker, who is revealed later to have just been using him, but Stottlemeyer saves him, identifying Monk as his friend when he stops Hal. In "Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan", Warrick Tennyson tells Monk that he was hired to build the bomb which killed Trudy, by a six-fingered man. Similarly, Dr. Kroger also (usually unintentionally) helps Monk find something that solves his current case. She met a voodoo priestess who predicted Mitch's death a few days before it actually happened. 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. In "Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale", Dr. Christiaan Vezza, Dale's physician, reveals that when Dale moved into his apartment, he weighed 422 pounds (191 kilograms) and could occasionally see his toes. Despite sharing the same disorder, Monk and Harold are constantly at odds, mostly over which of them is liked better by Dr. Kroger or Dr. Bell, or which of them have made more progress in overcoming their various problems. Before he leaves, however, Linda off-handedly remarks: "What's a girl gotta do to get your attention? 's picture in Stottlemeyer's office in the season 8 episode "Mr. Monk and Sharona", she says Stottlemeyer must feel like he won the lottery, and he heartily agrees. He confronts Marci about the matter, stating that she is protecting Brad because she knows he killed his ex-wife. 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. Steven Weber: Now After "Wings," Weber went on to his own short-lived series, "Cursed." In Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants, Natalie mentions that she and Monk actually have a lot in common. 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. 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. In "Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike", when the city stops collecting garbage, Monk mails his garbage to Dr. Kroger's house. Gordon Lightfoot, "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" singer, dies at age 84 Ken Monkhouse, also known as Monkey on Highway Thru Hell, died on May 24, 2020 from a heart attack, according to Jamie Davis Towing. Stottlemeyer's attitude toward Randy Disher, his immediate subordinate in the SFPD frequently shifts between amused tolerance and frustration. The episode gives Julie an integral role. Rickover hid the baby from Trudy by claiming that she died nine minutes after birth. Twelve years later, in 2009, Rickover has come far in his career, having been recently nominated for the California Supreme Court. Monk knows that Biederbeck would not kill anyone over such a petty sum. Scarlett Pomers (Kyra Hart) Pomers dropped off the Hollywood radar after Reba ended, telling StarTrek.com in 2014 that she was pretty much done with acting. Vicki then tries killing Kevin by stopping their car at a certain point in the road and drugging him - which happens to be on a grade crossing right as the lights begin to flash and the gates begin to lower. Jared Stottlemeyer is Leland's older son who appears in four episodes, always played by different actors to show his aging. Natalie temporarily coaches the team with Monk as her assistant. After condemned prisoner Ray Kaspo is poisoned less than an hour before his execution, suspicion falls on Biederbeck, to whom Kaspo owed $1,200. Their father leaves a note, congratulating Ambrose on leaving the house. When Monk is having lunch at an outdoor cafe with Lenny Barlowe and Tommy G., a rollerblading Harold calls out to "Adrian". Sure enough, when Monk and the others go to the hospital and pull back "McCabe's" curtain, they find Dale, who is arrested and stopped, presumably for good now. 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). After checking into their hotel in Reno, Nevada, Torini drives back to the Magic Castle Theater and sneaks in posing as a repairman. 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. The note ends with Jack's congratulations to Ambrose for leaving the house. However, Monk determines that it was a murder and uses the body to solve the case. 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. Following the death of Luke Perry earlier this week, "Riverdale" has shut down production, and it's unknown how the show will proceed without him from here. 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. He appears in five episodes, his last appearance being the season seven episode, "Mr. Monk and the Magician". Monk feels that Biederbeck stole one of the last years of Trudy's life, resulting in him having a hatred of the man. From the time of Trudy's death until the end of season two, Monk believes all along that he was the intended target, with Trudy being an innocent victim. 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". Marci returns in "Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan". #inline-recirc-item--id-9e9fe31c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child(5) { 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. Meat Loaf Dead at 74 - People Discovering that Trudy was the true target, Adrian is seen to be visibly affected by this piece of news. He is played by Kane Ritchotte in the pilot, season two, and the first half of season three, and by Max Morrow in the rest of season one. The novel serves to allow Adrian to help Ambrose get over his agoraphobia. } 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. Then/Now: The cast of 'Wings Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa Claus, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Monk_cast_members&oldid=1103081774, Lists of actors by comedy television series, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 8 August 2022, at 07:44. In the episode "Mr. Monk and Sharona," Randy and Sharona have a fond reunion. Stottlemeyer then pushes up the rear door to find Monk sitting in a recreation of Linda's bedroom, that she had used for her alibi. Trending News Ambrose has left the house three times: the first two times are in "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies", the first being when his next-door neighbor Pat van Ranken sets the house on fire, and the second to visit Trudy's grave, and the third one mentioned above in "Mr. Monk Goes Home Again". Seeing Harold so happy, Monk cannot concentrate on the case, so he decides to ignore the risks, goes to Dr. Climan and comes out acting like a six-year-old. In "Mr. Monk Gets Fired", Karen is seen filming a documentary of life in the San Francisco Police Department's Homicide Division, including many moments of Commissioner Brooks' anger and Paul Harley's arrest. 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 novel Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu, Natalie describes Dr. Kroger as relaxed towards everything, to an unnatural extent. Adrian's attempt to solve the case of her murder is the show's longest-running plot arc. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Monk eventually discovers that the attacks are the work of T.K. She is introduced in Mr. Monk on Patrol, where she runs a store in Summit called Poop, which (as the store's name suggests) sells dung and other objects made from fecal material. She helps Monk investigate a series of murders that are made to look like accidents, which Monk ties to computer magnate Cleve Dobbs. Below is a list of actors and actresses that were part of the cast of the American comedy-drama television series Monk. The show's main stars included, at some point, Tony Shalhoub, Bitty Schram, Traylor Howard, Ted Levine, and Jason Gray-Stanford. She has even written fan-fiction centered around Monk, including one story entitled "Mr. Monk and the Dragon's Lair". In real life, Emmy Clarke studied communication and media studies at Fordham University. Kroger eventually died of a heart attack, mirroring the real death of the actor that portrayed the character. Before Nunn can answer, he is shot dead by a corrupt local sheriff, John Rollins. However, Stottlemeyer appreciates Disher's abilities and even harbors a degree of affection for him, especially in situations of personal peril. He also says that he thinks his new therapist is better than Monk's. 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. Eventually, Monk, Julie and Stottlemeyer discover that Dale has a girlfriend, a graphic designer named Stella Chaze. 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. This leaves Monk and Natalie in a compromising position, as they need more evidence against Linda to secure an arrest. Not much explanation is provided for how he ends up in the state explored in "Mr. Monk Meets His Dad". In "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage", Sergeant Ryan Sharkey Jr. claims to Leland that he is having an affair with Karen, provoking Leland into punching him. 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. 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). Natalie begins dating Joe during the investigation, but she dumps him when she realizes she is becoming way too attracted to him. 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. In his first appearance, "Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale", Biederbeck is the primary suspect in the slaying of Catherine Lavinio, a superior court judge who issued a costly antitrust ruling against him. Monk.". Karen's documentary about Miles Holling, Miles Holling: The Human Time Machine, provides several clues for Monk and Leland about the man's death. Like her mother, Julie is introduced during the season three episode "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring". Shalhoub Pays Tribute To "Monk" Co-Star - CBS News Sparks fly between the two, and by the end, she has set him up with a new apartment across the street from her own. Stottlemeyer is immediately impressed by Linda's crisp, cool demeanor. While skateboarding and ditching school with his friends Ridley and Pez, one of their skateboards hits the side of a parked car. In that episode, Julie is 11 years old. 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. However, Natalie opens the window to reveal that the music is still playing. According to "Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan", Randy was born in San Diego. She first appears "Mr. Monk, Private Eye", when she hires Monk and Natalie to investigate damages done to her signature Buick Lucerne at the marina done by someone who left a threatening note on the car afterwards. At the time Trudy was murdered, Stottlemeyer reluctantly suspended Monk from duty, though the two remained friends. Troy later appears in the season six episode "Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure". Below is a list of actors and actresses that were part of the cast of the American comedy-drama television series Monk. Joey burned Grajna's car to torch any evidence that Grajna was the Frisco Fly, and stole Grajna's outfit. In the season two finale, "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail", Biederbeck is in prison due to his part in Catherine Lavinio'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. Biederbeck sued Trudy and her newspaper for libel after her article profiled him as "the Genghis Khan of world finance". (The theme song controversy surrounding Crime Lab S.F. In this episode, she has started a website about Monk, and we see her digitally replacing Natalie's head with her own. In Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu, Julie's attention to brands and fashion designs gives Monk a crucial clue to the Golden Gate Strangler's profile. 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. 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. Stottlemeyer was later promoted past Monk. In "Mr. Monk and the Very Very Old Man", she gasps and is visibly uncomfortable when Randy tries distracting her by showing her his pistol. However, when Molly reminds Monk that there are other people out there who are going through the same things that he has gone through and that they need his help, he decides to resume his career as a detective. 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. Monk and Sharona arrive, having followed him thanks to a travel brochure, and after a struggle with Vicki, throw the switch at the crossover to shift the approaching train to the other track, just in the nick of time, sparing Kevin. Monk discovers (in "Mr. Monk and the End Part 1") that Trudy had left him a videotape, containing a message stating that she wanted him to watch in case harm were to befall her.