Tony Shalhoub

• Title: Monk – Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival
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Monk Monday takes us back to San Francisco and the toils of the defective detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub). “Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival” offers another unusual murder for Monk to solve. While working through his reinstatement hearing, Monk agrees to help Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) with a death at the local carnival involving a cop (Stephen McHattie) known to shade outside the lines. The pro quo assumes Stottlemeyer will recommend Adrian for reinstatement, something he struggles with in front of the committee and eventually balks under the justification Monk isn’t ready to carry a gun (this will be an argument suggested against Monk’s reinstatement over the series, although the possibility of reinstatement and giving him desk duty, effectively solving the problem, is never discussed).

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• Title: Monk – Mr. Monk and the Psychic
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Monk Monday takes us back to San Francisco and the toils of the defective detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub). The first single-hour episode of the series following the two-hour pilot episode, “Mr. Monk and the Psychic” sees Monk volunteer his services to the former police commissioner (John Bourgeois) whose wife (Kate Trotter) goes missing and is later found dead by a psychic (Linda Kash). Given the loss of his own wife, the case hits close to home, but seeing discrepancies that can’t be explained, and not believing in psychics in general (or this specific psychic specifically), Monk begins to suspect the woman was murdered by her husband.

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