A woman is murdered during the San Francisco marathon and Monk suspects her married lover. But he was running the race, and his tracking chip says he never left.
When Shawn is the only one to realize a suicide is in fact a murder, he keeps himself on the case by insisting he's getting information from the sole witness: the victim's cat.
While on vacation at a resort, Benjy claims he witnessed a murder. Monk believes him, but with no body and the cleanest crime scene Monk has ever seen, it's going to be hard to convince everybody else.
Renowned philanthropist Henry Rutherford is killed when a minor earthquake rocks the city and sends a display case falling on top of him. But when Monk examines the scene, he finds clues that suggest foul play.
When a drunken and depressed Lassiter confesses to Shawn that he has doubts about the death by "natural causes" of an astronomer, Shawn sets out to secretly prove the detective right in order to boost his morale.
As a joke, Lassiter sticks Shawn with a case where a man shows up naked at the police station claiming to have been abducted by aliens, but Shawn's investigation soon takes in him into an even stranger universe: speed dating.
When a woman sleeps with a beloved local weatherman but wakes up to find him dead, she is charged with his murder. Shawn finds a way into the case by becoming a consultant to the defense.
After teaming up to sue a drug company, Jane worries that her partner, a high-profile trial lawyer is mentally unsound. When someone claims the patent on the pake, Stacy has to find con artist Nikki LePree to back her up in court.
Jane works to persuade a friend to have a fatal brain tumor removed. Stacy helps Kim defend a country singer accused of trying to murder her ex-boyfriend. Jane struggles with her mother's help as she prepares for her wedding day.
Hannah is thrilled when she is chosen as a guest for the first Eden Lake Dessert Bake-Off, but when a fellow judge is found murdered, Hannah takes it upon herself to find the killer. Stars Alison Sweeney, Cameron Mathison.
As Hannah and Mike experience engaged life while balancing their busy careers, a murder at a 24-hour gym complicates their wedding planning. Stars Alison Sweeney, Cameron Mathison, Barbara Niven.
