When his younger brother Wayne, the family's black sheep, becomes chief suspect in the murder of his employer, Sheriff Metzger relies on Jessica to help him keep his perspective about the case.
Jessica trades in her typewriter for a computer and Michael, one of her students, takes her to the company where he works to get setup. When one of their programmers is murdered, Michael is arrested.
A street musician is murdered six different ways and the killer is threatening to strike again, but Monk and his colleagues are forced to the sidelines by obnoxious FBI agents.
Monk goes to the emergency room with a persistent nose bleed, which he becomes convinced is actually a cerebral hemorrhage, and discovers the doctor he sought out for second opinion, dead on his office floor.
When a deceased dog is accused of murder, Monk finds himself in the employ of his biggest fan, Marci Maven. Obsessive-compulsive meets completely obsessed.
Evidence points to the battered wife of a powerful businessman as his killer, but Jessica establishes that there is a long list of suspects who wished him dead.
With the masked magician's murderer now captured, the mystery shifts to the killer behind the slaying of an actor who was fatally shot by Burley during the filming of a television series based on Sloan's life.
A masked magician, who reveals the secrets behind illusions on live television, is murdered during a performance, and the killer may have done it for ratings reasons.
Four gorgeous but deadly female cops roam the streets as vigilantes, murdering thugs and registering them as organ donors to help patients in need of transplants.
Mark tries to have a new doctor (Kathleen Quinlan) arrested for murder after she helps two terminally ill patients commit suicide. Meanwhile, Jesse proposes to Susan.
When a realtor is shot and killed while showing off a house to a couple, Monk and Natalie suspect the killer to be the victim's partner - who happens to be Stottlemeyer's girlfriend Linda Fusco.
Monk is on the trail of a man who seems to have committed the perfect crime when he murdered his wife and an intruder, and Natalie worries that Julie's new relationship is progressing too fast.
When Emma Fielding is recruited to aid in a groundbreaking discovery beneath the Chandler Castle, she is swept into another mystery when she finds her colleague murdered in the crypts. Stars Courtney Thorne Smith, James Tupper.
After a friend and head of the National Archaeological Society meets an untimely death, Emma and Agent Conner find themselves questioning her colleagues' motives. Stars Courtney Thorne-Smith, James Tupper.
