"Monk" Mr. Monk and the Other Detective (2005)

User Rating:

8.7/10   

Director:

Eric Laneuville

Writers:

Andy Breckman (creator)
Hy Conrad (written by)

TV Series:

"Monk" (2002)

Original Air Date:

8 July 2005 (Season 4, Episode 1)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Crime

Plot:

Monk has stiff competition solving the case of a murdered jewelry store owner from a second-rate PI with a loser reputation who suddenly displays skills even more amazing than Monk's. |

Plot Keywords:

Detective | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder | Murder | Widower | Multiple Actors For One Character

Cast

Tony Shalhoub	...	Adrian Monk
Traylor Howard	...	Natalie Teeger
Jason Gray-Stanford	...	Lt. Randall Disher
Ted Levine	...	Captain Leland Stottlemeyer
Jason Alexander	...	Marty Eels
Dana Ivey	...	Mrs. Eels
Rossif Sutherland	...	Vic Blanchard
Alan Wilder	...	Harold Gumbal
Emmy Clarke	...	Julie Teeger
Reynaldo Gallegos	...	Eddie Dial (as Rey Gallegos)
Stanley Kamel	...	Dr. Charles Kroger
Jerry Kernion	...	Security Guard
Kasi Brown	...	Reporter
Rob Swanson	...	Uniform Cop
Tom Ohmer	...	Second Uniform Cop

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

Portugal:M/12

Company:

Mandeville Films

Goofs:

Continuity: When Stottlemeyer and Eels finish questioning Eddie Dial, an officer hands a paper to Stottlemeyer that he signs with a pen, and drops it (the pen) on a desk after he is done. When the desk is next shown, the pen is gone.

Quotes:

Adrian Monk: [Marty Eels, a screw-up, is solving a case more efficiently than Monk] I think he's cheating. He's a cheater!
Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: This isn't the fourth grade, Monk.
Adrian Monk: He's cheating!

Nothing Super, But Decent Start To New Season

A jewelry store owner is a little early in opening his shop and looks harried. It turns out "Peggy" is being held hostage and the owner cleans out a good bit of his store and then meets the perps at their waiting car outside. The owner demands to see "Peggy," who turns out to be his dog! A mall security guards senses something is wrong, sees a man with a hooded face mask on and orders him out of his car. The man does so, calmly takes his mask off and then shoots the cop. He then gets back in the car, rolls down the window and shoots the store owner and his partner drives off.

Minutes later, we see Capt. Stoltemyer, Monk, Natalie and a bunch of cops all around the crime scene. Monk won't go near the dead body because there is so dog poo nearby. A disheveled little guy drives up in a beat-up car, says he's a detective (he is but a poor one and nothing but a pain in the ass," according to the captain.) However, within minutes he (Jason Alexander of "Seinfeld" fame) begins making these incredible observations, deductions and looks like a genius, much to the befuddlement of the onlooking Mr. Monk. What's going on here?

It gets worse as the mousy detective, with his mom cheering him on, just about solves the whole thing. "He's cheating," repeats Monk, over and over, but even Monk is having his confidence ruined as this fake keeps impressing everyone. How does he figure out how the man is cheating?

In all, nothing super but a good episode and a solid start to the fourth season.