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Monk Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 2004 - 2005
Episode 1
Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan
Fri, Jun 18, 200443 mins
Monk and his friends arrive in New York to locate the man whom they were told has information about Trudy's murder. When they arrive at the hotel, the Latvian ambassador who is also staying there is killed. Monk saw the killer but only his ear. So he tries to help the NYPD solve the case hoping they will help them find the man. When Monk goes downtown, he gets lost and gets swept up in all the chaos. In the meantime, Stottelmeyer learns the NYPD knows where the man is and is not letting them see him.
Episode 2
Mr. Monk and the Panic Room
Fri, Jun 25, 200443 mins
When a man is found shot to death inside his panic room and the only one in the room with him is his pet chimpanzee, it is assumed that the chimp did it. It is decided to put the chimp down until Sharona, sensing that the chimp didn't do it, decides to liberate him. While under suspicion for abetting the alleged killer ape, she leaves Monk the maddening task of simultaneously harboring the chimp while trying to establish his innocence.
Episode 3
Mr. Monk and the Blackout
Fri, Jul 9, 200444 mins
When the power goes out for a few moments. The authorities get a letter from the one claiming responsibility, a radical who supposedly died a few years ago. Monk goes to the power plant to investigate and catches the eye of the P.R. woman. She asks him out and when they go to where she chose to take them his phobias become a problem. Later a former associate of the radical after being visited by the police calls someone and threatens to go to the police cause someone was hurt because of the blackout. Later he's killed.
Episode 4
Mr. Monk Gets Fired
Fri, Jul 16, 200443 mins
Karen Stottlemeyer has decided to film a "cinema verite" documentary about her husband's work, but her timing couldn't be worse. The police commissioner shouts at the captain (on camera) for focusing on a routine arson fire in a wig factory and relying on Monk to solve a more newsworthy case involving a female victim whose body was cut up with a chainsaw. Monk is in even worse trouble. After presenting some useful leads involving the chainsaw victim's age and nationality, he accidentally erases several years' worth of crucial computer files, and the enraged commissioner revokes Monk's private practice license despite Stottlemeyer's protests that doing so will destroy him. With Sharona forced to return to her old job as a nurse, the devastated Monk sits in the hospital hallway all day waiting for her until, at her exasperated insistence, he finds a job with a magazine as a fact checker. Meanwhile, having identified the victim based on Monk's information, the captain and Disher zero in on a suspect but are stymied by the absence of matching DNA and somewhat sidetracked by a more amusing case--someone keeps stealing the commissioner's hat. When Monk figures out that the murderer, the arsonist, and the hat snatcher are all the same person, Stottlemeyer risks his job by asking Monk to prove that the victim's hair was used to make the commissioner's toupee. When the commissioner denies that his hair is not his own, Stottlemeyer dares the unthinkable and attempts to pull off the toupee as his wife's camera rolls--but the hair remains attached. After the commissioner tells Stottlemeyer he's "finished, in every sense of the word," Sharona takes things into her own hands, jumping on him from behind and literally snatching him bald. When the humiliated commissioner asks if there's anything he can do to get that scene edited out, Stottlemeyer triumphantly puts his arm around Monk and presents him to the commissioner. Monk gets his license back, the perpetrator is arrested, and the documentary has a happy ending.
Episode 5
Mr. Monk Meets the Godfather
Fri, Jul 23, 200444 mins
In a barbershop in San Francisco that belongs to the mafia, the barber and four mobsters are shot dead, and the press calls "The Barbershop Massacre". Sharona is in a garage with Monk discussing the repair of her car. When they leave the shop, the mobsters "Fat" Tony Lucarelli and his associate Vince "invite" Monk and Sharona to visit his uncle, the mob boss Salvatore Lucarelli. He wants to hire Monk to find who killed his friends at the barbershop. Monk refuses in principle, but soon FBI Agent Colmes invites Monk to work infiltrated in the mafia. In return, he would help him to join the police force again. Monk begins his investigation going to the crime scene with Sharona, Stottlemeyer and Randy, and then he interviews the witness of the massacre, Phil Bedard, who works at the U.S. Mint. Phil discloses the symbol of a Chinese gang on the jacket of one of the killers, and they become suspects. Meanwhile, Sharona flirts with "Fat" Tony and they have dinner in a date.
Episode 6
Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf
Fri, Jul 30, 200443 mins
Sharona takes a break from Monk so that she can concentrate on her creative writing class, but gets caught up in a twisted murder plot that causes her to question her sanity. Meanwhile, Monk is distracted by Sharona's replacement, who is determined to fix him.
Episode 7
Mr. Monk and the Employee of the Month
Fri, Aug 6, 200442 mins
An outlet store's highly industrious employee is killed when a TV falls on her. Monk and the police show up, they learn that they were called by the store's head of security, who was once Monk's partner on the force who was fired because he was suspected of stealing evidence which led to a criminal's release who would later kill some cops. He claims he didn't do it. He tells them that the woman had been getting death threats which he shows them. Monk decides not to pursue it any further. But some time later Monk takes another look at the letters and notices something odd about so he decides that his partner might be right so he gives Monk a job at the store. But Monk still doesn't believe his claim of his innocence. When Monk gets in line to be the store's employee of the month, he is attacked. He learns that the victim was the previous constant employee of the month. He thinks her death might have to do with someone wanting to be the employee of the month.
Episode 8
Mr. Monk and the Game Show
Fri, Aug 13, 200443 mins
Trudy's father, a game show producer, invites Monk to Hollywood to determine if the host is helping a contestant cheat. Monk has to become a contestant himself in order to clinch the case, as well as to confirm his suspicions about the death of the host's assistant.
Episode 9
Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine
Fri, Aug 20, 200442 mins
While looking for someone Stottlemeyer is shot. They try to find the person and Monk has him but because of his condition he lets him go. He goes to Kroeger, who suggests that he try a new medication. He tries and his phobias are no more but he is no longer as observant as he was which makes him useless as a detective. Sharona tries to get him to stop taking them but he can't.
Episode 10
Mr. Monk and the Red Herring
Fri, Jan 21, 200543 mins
Monk is in denial about Sharona leaving him. But Kroeger convinces him to accept the fact that she is gone and that he needs to find a new assistant. So he tries to interview candidates but none are to his liking. Natalie Teeger, a single mom shows up. She says a man broke into her home and she killed him. While the police choose not to arrest her, they think that it was just a random act. But she doesn't think so, that's why she came to Monk. Monk looks around and thinks the man was trying to steal her daughter's goldfish. That's when she joins him and helps him.
Episode 11
Mr. Monk vs. the Cobra
Fri, Jan 28, 200543 mins
When an author of a book debunking the career of a popular martial-arts movie star is killed, the evidence points to the star himself, despite the fact that he has been dead for years! Monk takes the case and also gets a chance to prove to Natalie that he is not as selfish as he seems.
Episode 12
Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever
Fri, Feb 4, 200543 mins
While waiting for Julie in Natalie's car, Monk witnesses a criminal killing a man in an alley. The FBI sends him to the Witness Protection Program with Agent Grooms, Stottlemeyer and Natalies in a cabin in the woods since he will testify in court against the killer. They stop at a shop to buy supplies and Monk meets Martin Willowby, who will fish in a lake, and his wife Kathy, who loves country music. During the night, Monk listens a cry for help and is sure that Kathy killed Martin. Meanwhile, Randy meets the gorgeous Hailey and they have lunch in a Chinese restaurant where Hailey used to go with her grandfather. Their fortune cookies seem to be correct, and they return on the next day to check. Again, their fortune cookies are right, and they return to the restaurant again. When Randy reads that a friend is in danger, he drives to the secret FBI cabin to see Monk but is followed by the hitmen, endangering all his friends.
Episode 13
Mr. Monk Gets Stuck in Traffic
Fri, Feb 11, 200543 mins
The environmentalist Steve Marriot is summoned by the constructor Ray Galardi to discuss about the lawsuit opened by Steve. Out of the blue, Ray kills Steve with a bar, puts him inside his Beetle and stages a car accident in the highway with his truck. Meanwhile, Monk, Natalie and Julie are returning to San Francisco in the same highway after watching Julie's game of hockey. There is a traffic jam caused by the accident and when Monk sees the scene, he realizes that Steve Marriot was murdered. Monk tells the highway patrol officer Parnell to keep the crime scene, but he doesn't listen to Monk. Meanwhile, Ray notes that has mistakenly switched cellphones with Steve and returns to the place where the accident happened. He kills one paramedic to assume his identity and reach the Beetle to replace the cellphone. Monk notes that he is the killer but is cuffed to the police car by Parnell. How will Monk convince the officer that he is right?
Episode 14
Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas
Fri, Feb 18, 200543 mins
Stollemeyer who's in Las Vegas for a bachelor party calls Monk while he's drunk and tells him he knows how he did it. Monk goes to Vegas to find what he's talking about. Now it appears that the wife of the owner of the hotel he was staying at was killed in a freak accident. But they think he killed her but Stollemeyer doesn't remember anything. So they try to retrace his steps.
Episode 15
Mr. Monk and the Election
Fri, Feb 25, 200543 mins
Julie's school will close, and Natalie decides to run for the board to avoid. She buys a photocopy and a fax machine is a police auction, but the photocopy is not working. The technician is trying to repair the machine, but the compartment is locked and Natalie does not have the key to open it. Out of the blue, a sniper shoots fourteen times at her committee and when the police check the roof of the building, they find a security guard murdered and Monk finds a shell. Natalie does not give up her campaign and Stottlemeyer assigns Randy to be her bodyguard. While at home, a grenade is thrown inside, and Monk puts it inside the refrigerator. There is a debate between Natalie and her opponent Harold Krenshaw, and Monk identifies the sniper leaving the audience. While voting, Monk solves the case, finding the motive.
Episode 16
Mr. Monk and the Kid
Fri, Mar 4, 200543 mins
When the two-year-old boy Tommy Grazer disappears in a park, he is found holding a little finger in his hand. Stottlemeyer calls Monk to help the police to search the body in the park, and Monk fells connected to Tommy. The social assistant Theresa Crane takes Tommy from his foster mother Janet Novak, since she neglected with the boy, and Monk decides to temporarily adopt him. Meanwhile, in the morgue, Monk notes that the little finger belongs to a violinist, and the coroner says that his age is about twenty-five years old. Monk, Natalie, Stottlemeyr and Randy visits people with this profile in San Francisco and Monk finds that the violinist is Daniel Carlyle was kidnapped. Now Monk helps his mother Abigail and his brother Jacob to rescue Daniel.
