Law student Julie Parlow's grandmother is kidnapped and held for ransom. But they don't have any money, so why did the kidnappers release her? And why did they feed her pizza?
When a member of a local brotherhood dies during an initiation ritual, Shawn and Gus enter a world of secret handshakes and ancient traditions, all presided over by Lassiter's father-in-law (guest star Philip Baker Hall).
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 Randy's mother marries a guy much younger than her he gets worried. When they go to some kind of couples retreat, he asks Monk and Sharona to go and keep an eye on her. So to go in they pretend to be married.
When an inmate is poisoned to death hours before he's due to be executed, Monk is brought in to solve the case and finds himself as the prison's newest resident.
Monk and his colleagues travel to New York City to interview someone connected to Trudy's murder. While they are waiting, Monk helps solve the murder of the Latvian ambassador.
Shawn's mother Madeleine is back in town to conduct psych evaluations for the police department, and the way she can Henry easily fell back into old habits has Shawn out of sorts.
Gus has worked long and hard organizing their high school reunion, so when Shawn claims one of their fellow alumni has been murdered and his body has been hidden, Gus refuses to believe him.
When Shawn and Gus get tickets to a daredevil show as payment for a job, Shawn notices that Dutch "The Clutch" Jenkins' fuel line has been cut just as his motorcycle flies through a ring of fire.
Jane and Grayson help a dying teenager find a bone marrow donor, while Owen fights a friend's impeachment as mayor after she leases Malibu's City Hall to replace a school that was destroyed in a fire.
As Grayson worries his client is guilty of murder, Jane fights for a student's right to use the boys' bathroom at school even though he was born a girl.
Megan wakes up from a coma. The husband and 2 kids she just dreamed about aren't real. At her first job interview, she meets Thomas from her dream – or was it a vision into the future? Starring Rachel Skarsten and Brant Daugherty.
After learning she's been entrusted to take care of her deceased cousin's children, an architect is torn between focusing on her career and honoring her cousin's wish. Starring Danielle C. Ryan, Myko Olivier.
