Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
Writer: Andy Breckman
Air date: 2008-07-18
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: When his neighbor's child plays the piano too loud, Monk decides it's time to move.
Writer: Joe Toplyn
Air date: 2008-07-25
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Monk goes up against a Bobby Fisher-type chess genius who always appears to be two steps ahead of Monk.
Writer: Hy Conrad
Air date: 2008-08-01
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Monk has to help out Natalie when she becomes involved in a lotto scandal.
Air date: 2008-08-08
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Monk finds a new lease on life after giving up his hope of reinstatement to the SFPD.
Writer: Jack Bernstein
Air date: 2008-08-15
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: A former friend of Mitch's dies in a locked room aboard a submarine and everyone cries suicide. When Monk and the crew investigate, the ship suddenly descends and Monk finds himself trapped on-board, underwater.
Air date: 2008-08-22
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: When Monk develops a crush on a model who is accused of murder, he is determined to prove her innocence, even though she confessed.
Writer: Tom Scharpling
Air date: 2008-09-05
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: As Monk and his friends watch a TV news magazine piece on the solution of his hundredth case, he realizes that one of the victims was murdered by a different killer.
Air date: 2008-09-12
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: After Monk seeks a new form of therapy (hypnosis), he finds himself reverting to his 9-year old personality.
Writer: Peter Wolk
Air date: 2008-11-28
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: When three homeless men seek out Monk's services at the holidays, Natalie convinces him to investigate the death of their friend.
Writer: David Breckman
Air date: 2009-01-09
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: When Monk's delinquent half-brother, Jack Jr., escapes from prison and breaks into Monk's apartment, he manipulates Monk into helping him find the person he claims framed him for murder.
Writer: Nell Scovell
Air date: 2009-01-16
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: When Natalie unwittingly helps a thief steal the bicycle of a biotech CEO, she ropes Monk into solving a crime straight out of "Encyclopedia Brown" -- until Monk learns the hard way how dangerous this thief really is.
Writer: Hy Conrad
Air date: 2009-01-23
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: While investigating a murder at a museum of oddities, Monk befriends a warm older woman, but he has trouble believing the friendship comes without a catch.
Writer: Dylan Morgan
Air date: 2009-01-30
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: Monk has scored tickets to the biggest football game of the year, but he and Captain Stottlemeyer can't go inside until they figure out who tried to blow up a fan in the parking lot.
Air date: 2009-02-06
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: When a childhood bully who terrorized Monk hires the detective to trail his wife, whom he suspects of infidelity, Monk relishes the opportunity to prove him right — and things get even sweeter when the bully is accused of murder.
Writer: Andy Breckman
Air date: 2009-02-13
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Monk goes head-to-head with a magician he suspects of murder.
Writer: Tom Scharpling
Air date: 2009-02-20
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Monk becomes involved in the disappearance of a city official that could have ramifications concerning Trudy's murder.
