Mystery

Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival

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Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival

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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Wicked Little Letters

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Wicked Little Letters

Inspired by true events, Wicked Little Letters takes us back to the seaside town of Littlehampton in West Sussex which was turned upside down in the 1920s by a barrage of hate mail to a local spinster (Olivia Colman) whose controlling father (Timothy Spall) blames on their Irish immigrant neighbor (Jessie Buckley) known for her bawdy behavior and near-constant swearing that is mirrored in the letters. While most are willing to believe the worst of Rose (Buckley), despite any real evidence, a few in the town, including the sole police woman (Anjana Vasan) and even some of the victim’s friends (who, like others in the town eventually become targets of the letters) dig a little deeper to discover the truth of the situation.

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Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale

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Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale

Monk Monday takes us back to San Francisco and the toils of the defective detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) attempting to solve a case where he knows the who but cannot fathom the how. The who in this case is excessively obese Dale the Whale (Adam Arkin) who all evidence points to murdering a local judge he had disagreements with. However, Dale Biederbeck is too large to leave his own apartment let alone travel across town and kill someone. Knowing they can’t possible tie him to the crime, Biederbeck taunts both Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) and Monk reopening old wounds for our detective.

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Mr. Monk and the Psychic

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Mr. Monk and the Psychic

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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Will Trent – Residente o Visitante

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Will Trent - Residente o Visitante

While a good chunk of the first-half of the episode features Will (Ramón Rodríguez) in Puerto Rico with Antonio (John Ortiz), his part in an investigation doesn’t begin until he’s back home and discovers one of the friends he met on the island has been killed in Atlanta. The episode works to play on Antonio’s distrust of the police, particularly the FBI whose past with Puerto Rico is far from stellar, as well as give a chance for Will, Antonio, and the recovering Angie (Erika Christensen) to all work together to solve a crime the current FBI agent in charge (Christy St. John) seems all too willing to sweep under the rug.

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