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Monk Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 2005 - 2006
Episode 1
Mr. Monk and the Other Detective
Fri, Jul 8, 200543 mins
When a jewelry is robbed, the security guard is killed and the manager vanishes, Stottlemeyer calls Monk to help the investigation. Out of the blue, the loser and second-rate P.I. Marty Eels arrives at the crime scene and resolves the case using orthodox method. Monk says that Eels is a cheater, but he does not find how Eels has succeeded in the case. Until the day he decides to accept the professor position at a notorious college and needs to rent a car since Natalie will not drive him to the school.
Episode 2
Mr. Monk Goes Home Again
Fri, Jul 15, 200544 mins
On Halloween, an armored car driver is shot several times with his own gun. Monk is called from the crime scene by Ambrose, who says that their father is coming to visit, but not before Captain Stottlemeyer shoos away a pigeon and Monk finds a clove cigarette on the ground. While the captain interviews a witness and discovers that the killer was not after money, the Monk brothers wait for their father and Ambrose hands out carefully counted treats. Meanwhile, a man dressed as Frankenstein's monster snatches candy from some of the children trick-or-treating with Julie. Leaving Ambrose alone with Natalie, whom he seems to be developing a crush on, Adrian investigates the candy theft and discovers that all of the victims received candy from "the special man" (Ambrose). He also finds a clove cigarette linking the two crimes. When Julie convinces Monk to take her out trick-or-treating again because she hardly got any candy, he comes across another clue: a dead pigeon he believes is the same one the captain shooed away. He convinces a reluctant and skeptical Stottlemeyer to have the pigeon autopsied and the pieces of the puzzle fall together.
Episode 3
Mr. Monk Stays in Bed
Fri, Jul 22, 200544 mins
Natalie orders a pizza and when the deliver boy arrives, he makes a mistake in the change and gives 50 dollars to her. Natalie runs after him, and when she finds his car, he is dead. Stottlemeyer, Randy and Monk arrive at the crime scene, and Monk sneezes and says that he has flu. Out of the blue, a judge disappears, and the Major puts all the police force in her case, and the pizza boy case is forgotten. While Monk stays in bed, Natalie decides to investigate the case and finds the killer.
Episode 4
Mr. Monk Goes to the Office
Fri, Jul 29, 200544 mins
Monk goes undercover as an office worker and revels in the office routines and actually starts making friends and a possible romance as he tries to solve a murder that occurred in a parking garage next to the office building as well as who injured the hand of the man who hired him whose hand was slammed into a car door probably by the murderer. But Monk's new found popularity may come to a screeching halt if he won't put on the pair of rental (previously used by other people) bowling shoes for the showdown match between his office team and their rival team.
Episode 5
Mr. Monk Gets Drunk
Fri, Aug 5, 200543 mins
Monk goes to celebrate his anniversary in Wine country. One night, he meets a guy named Larry who annoys him. The next day, Larry's gone and none of the other guests claim there was a guy. Monk tries to prove that he is not crazy and later a man arrives claiming to be Larry's brother but what Monk doesn't know is that he is a mob hit man.
Episode 6
Mr. Monk and Mrs. Monk
Fri, Aug 12, 200544 mins
Monk has made progress in his therapy, so much so that his doctor is willing to recommend him for reinstatement back on the Police Force. Natalie finds someone who looks like Trudy, and follows her. She hears Trudy tell someone that she faked her death to go into hiding/witness protection, she needs some documents she left in the care of a friend. Natalie is afraid of what would happen if Monk finds out if his beloved wife is really alive, so she talks to the Captain about it. He tries to keep it from Monk, but a crime points to Trudy being present, when Monk finds out Trudy may be alive, he starts to unravel again. He must figure out if his wife is really alive and what she's after.
Episode 7
Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding
Fri, Aug 19, 200544 mins
Needing a date for her brother's rehearsal dinner, Natalie resorts to asking Lt. Disher. Soon after their arrival at the hotel, Disher is run down and seriously injured by a car belonging to one of Natalie's relatives, saved from death only by the suitcases he had been hauling. The only clues to the driver's identity are the red baseball cap Disher saw as the car came toward him and a bit of greenish mud on the car floor. The wedding photographer, meanwhile, has disappeared, and Captain Stottlemeyer goes undercover as his replacement, ordering Monk to come with him. Concerned that someone in her family may have attempted murder, Natalie convinces him to be her new date. When a man's body is discovered in one of the hotel's mud baths, Monk identifies the man as the photographer based on his stained fingers, and Stottlemeyer joins forces with the local police chief to obtain a search warrant and search the victim's home for clues. Meanwhile, Monk catches the bride-to-be in a lie about her parents' death in a plane crash in 1995.
Episode 8
Mr. Monk and Little Monk
Fri, Aug 26, 200543 mins
When a woman's housekeeper is killed when someone breaks into her house and spray paints a painting that has great sentimental value to her, she calls Adrian whom she knew when they were children. It seems that she's Adrian's first love but he was very shy when they knew each other to make a move. And we also look at when Adrian was a boy and they knew each other and how she was in trouble and how Adrian helped her.
Episode 9
Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa
Fri, Dec 2, 200543 mins
When an officer dies after drinking poisoned wine sent to Captain Stottlemeyer as a Christmas gift, the captain suspects Frank Prager, who tried to shoot him outside a bar several months earlier. Searching the crime scene for clues, Monk notes that the bullet holes seem to form a pattern, but neither he nor Stottlemeyer can figure out the message they're intended to convey. To solve the case, Monk is forced to go undercover... as Santa Claus.
Episode 10
Mr. Monk Goes to a Fashion Show
Fri, Jan 13, 200644 mins
While trying to buy a new shirt, Monk senses something is wrong with his preferred shirt inspector, #8, when he notices a flaw in one of her "shirts". Upset that her son has been jailed for the murder of a model and unable to concentrate on her work, Natalie agrees for Monk to help Maria (#8) and her son. Monk must figure out who killed the model and why or face never having another perfect shirt!
Episode 11
Mr. Monk Bumps His Head
Fri, Jan 20, 200644 mins
Monk is contacted by someone who says he has info on the man who killed Trudy. He goes to meet him at a truck stop. When Monk sees what he has, Monk realizes it's a flim flam so the man knocks Monk out and takes the money and puts him on a truck. The truck goes out. While Natalie tries to find Monk, he wakes up in a small town with no memory of who he is. A woman upon learning of his memory loss, tells him, he's her husband. Natalie calls Stottlemeyer who calls Kroger who upon learning that Monk suffered a concussion thinks Monk may have amnesia and he is wondering around trying to rediscover himself. Monk goes around the town and learns a girl is missing and he sets out to find out what happened to her but his "wife" tries to dissuade him.
Episode 12
Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage
Fri, Jan 27, 200643 mins
While investigating a murder, Stottlemeyer gets into an argument with a cop at the scene who snidely tells him he has been seeing his wife. As a result the crime scene was deemed contaminated. He later asks Monk to follow his wife to see if it's true.
Episode 13
Mr. Monk and the Big Reward
Fri, Feb 3, 200643 mins
Adrian is one of four detectives on the hunt for a priceless diamond that promises a handsome reward for its finder.
Episode 14
Mr. Monk and the Astronaut
Fri, Mar 3, 200644 mins
Despite everyone's disbelief that a hero making the news is actually a coldblooded killer, Adrian tries to prove that a celebrity astronaut is responsible, despite an airtight alibi.
Episode 15
Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist
Fri, Mar 10, 200643 mins
Monk must face his fear of dentists after Randy claims that he witnessed a murder while under sedation. The problem is that the case is connected to a recent armored car robbery.
Episode 16
Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty
Fri, Mar 17, 200644 mins
Lt. Disher and Captain Stottlemeyer capture a "Most Wanted", Colombian criminal, Miguel Escobar, who's wanted for drug trafficking crimes in multiple states, and arrest him for a local homicide. Escobar is notorious for escaping custody, so Stottlemeyer must take extra precautions to ensure that this does not happen while Escobar is in his custody. Captain Stottlemeyer learns that the US Attorney General is ordering him to turn over Escobar to the Federal Government, and is to do nothing more than detain their prisoner until the hand-off, following an extradition hearing. This takes place in the same courthouse where, much to his dismay, Mr. Monk is unable to talk his way out of jury duty, and finds himself forced to hear the case of a robbery/stabbing of a man out to make a bank deposit. During the course of deliberating the robbery case, however, Monk is inadvertently pulled into the Escobar saga.
