Mr. Monk Is Up All Night

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“Mr. Monk Is Up All Night”

Monk episode

Episode no.

Season 6
Episode 9

Written by

David Breckman

Directed by

Randy Zisk

Guest stars

Donal Logue
Terri Hoyos

Production no.

#609

Original airdate

September 14, 2007

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List of Monk episodes

"Mr. Monk Is Up All Night" is the ninth episode of the sixth season of Monk. It first aired on September 14, 2007.^[1]

[edit] Plot synopsis

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Upon leaving a barber shop, Monk sees a Latin woman walking down the street, and Monk, sensing there is something about the woman that seems strangely familiar to him, chases her for two blocks before losing her; Monk then tells Natelie that he has never met the woman. Monk, obsessed with the mysterious woman, is unable to sleep, and calls Natalie for help. Natalie cannot help because Julie is sick, so she recommends that Monk take a walk. On the walk Monk is asked by a taxi driver if he wants a ride, and declines it, but then realizes, as she pulls away that it was the same mysterious woman whom he has developed an obsession with. Monk follows the taxi as best he can. This leads him to an alley where he hears voices. Spying through a window, he witnesses an apparent drug dealing in the kitchen involving an Asian man, who identifies himself as an undercover cop, a drug dealer, and a distressed bald man, who was attempting to purchase the drugs. The cop is shot and the dealer departs with the bald man. Monk then calls Stottlemeyer-who has night allergies- and they search the kitchen, but there is no sign of a fight, and no sign of a corpse; no cop had also been reported missing that evening, and the waitress informs Stottlemeyer that she had been cleaning the kitchen all evening to prepare for a health inspection. Stottlemeyer suggests that Monk is seeing things because of his insomnia, and asks Monk to go to the nearby bar and get a drink to make himself feel sleepy.

At the bar, Monk chats with a con-man named Gully, and later into their conversation, Monk mentions his mystery woman to Gully, and Gully informs Monk where to find the local dispater, named Essie; as Monk leaves, Gully pickpockets his wallet. Monk waits at the train station after being told by Essie at the taxi station that his mysterious Latin woman-named Maria Cordova- would be there at 4:30. While waiting in the station, Monk sees the Asian that was murdered at the restaurant, alive and well. Monk once again calls Captain Stottlemeyer and Randy but the Asian man denies that any of Monk's story happened. Monk then looks through the trash to see what the Asian man, identified as William Lee, was throwing away at the train station. It is then revealed that he was throwing away coin cases, labelled Jacob Posner, matching the initials on a money clip Monk found at the restaurant(J.P.). This leads the team to a coin shop run by Jacob Posner, the same bald man from the apparent drug dealing Monk witnessed earlier; Monk also notices a whole case of coins is missing. Posner easily convinces Stottlemeyer he had been in bed all night and had never once set foot at the restaurant in his entire life, and also reveals that his gun- a 22 caliber- had not recently been fired. Monk, hoping to finally catch up to his mystery woman, then rushes back to the train station. Disher and Stottlemeyer then go to the bar where Monk was earlier, and Gully-still at the bar- buys them drinks with Monk's wallet.

Back at the train station, Monk discovers that the Asian man has been shot dead, with a 22 caliber. Monk deduces that the Asian man and the gangster were con artists who faked the shooting in order to blackmail the bald man; the waitress at the restaurant was also in on the con as well. The bald man had realized that he was conned after the team informed him that Monk witnessed Lee alive at the train station, and he tracked down the Asian man and shot him. Monk then rushes back to the restaurant-riding from a newspaper truck, after realizing that his wallet had been stolen- to stop Posner from killing the waitress and her partner, the fake drug dealer. Meanwhile, at the bar, Stottlemeyer notices that the napkin he picked up at Posner's coin shop matched the same special-made napkin he picked up at the restaurant, proving that Posner lied about never going to the restaurant even once; Stottlemeyer then reclaims Monk's wallet from Gully and rushes out the door. At the restaurant, Posner has forced the waitress and false drug dealer ouside at gunpoint, and just as he is about to kill them, Monk, arriving in the newspaper, throws a newspaper stack at him and knocks him out. At the other end of the alley Stottlemeyer and Disher, riding in a taxi cab driven by none other Monk's mystery woman Maria Cardova, also corner the remaining two from escaping, and all three people are taken to jail.

Monk finally meets the mysterious woman, and discovers she received Monk's wife Trudy's- who was an organ donor- cornea in a cornea transplant, the day Trudy died. Monk recognized her eyes without realizing it, causing his obsession with the woman. The next day, Natalie comes to his house and sees Monk finally sleeping with a portrait of Trudy.

[edit] Trivia

This episode featured characters ordering alcoholic drinks in a San Francisco bar at various times through out the night, even though it is illegal to sell liquor in the state of California between the hours of 2 am and 6 am.^[2]