Monk has stiff competition solving the case of a murdered jewelry store owner from a second-rate PI with a loser reputation who suddenly displays skills even more amazing than Monk's.
On Halloween, Monk visits his brother Ambrose in his childhood home to await a visit from his long-absent father, but things take a strange turn when a masked trick-or-treater repeatedly tries to steal Halloween candy.
It's Fashion Week in Santa Barbara, and all around town it's models, parties, and ... death by electrocution? Shawn and Gus go undercover as male models to investigate the murder of a prominent designer.
When Natalie finally catches up with the pizza guy who mistakenly left her $50 in change, she finds him dead in his car. She feels compelled to solve the murder but Monk, sick in bed, offers little help.
A parking garage attendant is inadvertently killed when a murderer targets a financier, and Monk must go undercover as an office worker to solve the case.
While on vacation for his anniversary, Mr. Monk chats with an intrusive but well-intentioned man at dinner. But when he wakes up the next day, everyone insists that the man was never there.
Vick calls Shawn and Gus in after a group of fast moving and highly organized thieves pull a smash and grab at a department store. It is the third such hit in a month and the cops have no leads.
Gus leaves Shawn waiting in the car while he goes inside a bank to make a deposit. He's only in there a few minutes before a woman spots a gun in the jacket pocket of another customer.
As Owen and Grayson fight for a client's right to marry the woman he loves, Jane handles two divorces that resulted from unconventional marriage therapy.
Librarian and real crime buff Aurora "Roe" Teagarden never liked Detective Sergeant Frederick Burns. She also never wanted to see him dead, but when he winds up murdered, she can't help but get involved.
Aurora Teagarden and her boyfriend Martin are thrilled when they get an unexpected visit from his niece and her new baby. Their excitement is short lived when his niece disappears and the baby is left behind.
