Saturday, January 31, 2009

Monk - Recap & Review - Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs

Monk
Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs

Original Air Date: Jan 30, 2009

Jeff P. – TwoCents Staff Writer
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The Murder –
A high profile athlete and a woman get into a limo to continue a night of partying. After they arrive at the next stop, the driver takes the player’s playbook and makes a call to meet someone. He makes a copy of it and sells it to a man. The next day the player discovers this and confronts the driver and tells him he’ll be calling the authorities. Hearing this, the driver gets in a struggle with him and hits the player across the head with a crow bar killing him.

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  1. The Murder –
    A high profile athlete and a woman get into a limo to continue a night of partying. After they arrive at the next stop, the driver takes the player’s playbook and makes a call to meet someone. He makes a copy of it and sells it to a man. The next day the player discovers this and confronts the driver and tells him he’ll be calling the authorities. Hearing this, the driver gets in a struggle with him and hits the player across the head with a crow bar killing him.

    “Three days earlier”
    Monk is invited to watch the Condors game but notifies them that he has tickets to the game. He claims that Bob Costas had invited him personally because of a past favor. Stottlemeyer doesn’t believe him until he sees the tickets, which are for the Press Box! And he has an all-access pass to go anywhere including the locker room! Monk tells the Captain that he wants to take Natalie, but Natalie suggests that Leland would be better to take with him after some obvious hints. At the game, the limo driver is seen siphoning gasoline out of a limo while Monk is attempting to deal with the antics at the tailgating parties. While they are in line to get in, a guy goes to light his grille and we see an explosion in the background.

    Monk thinks that there was foul play. He knows that it wasn’t lighter fluid in the grille, and that is was gasoline. Monk questions the man who owns the grille and he says that he thinks that the rival team’s fans put gasoline in the grille for a joke. It turns out that Stottlemeyer knows the rival he was speaking of personally and knows that he wouldn’t have done that. Plus he has a speeding ticket that was issued only 35 minutes earlier which is his alibi. On the way into the stadium he sees a picture of a championship ring and recognizes it from a fan out in the parking lot that was sitting relaxing in a chair. They go back out to see him and they find the man… he is the man that the limo driver killed wearing a wig and sports gear. And he happens to be the backup Quarterback for the Condors who has been missing since last night.

    The driver is brought over to the gang for questioning. He has a smudge on his outfit and Monk notices it. He smells gasoline on him and thinks that the smudge is a charcoal smudge. Monk goes over to investigate the limo and confronts the driver. He accuses him of siphoning the gas and that he thinks he may have killed the player. He denies it (of course) and drives off. Then Adrian questions the guy with the grille again and asks him more about the player (who he had seen earlier that morning) and he said that the player had been saying “out of order” over and over again. He uses his all-access pass to go into the stadium to investigate further. Monk overhears Bob Costas on TV saying the opposing team must know what the Condors are doing due to the many turnovers in the game, and Monk says that he’s solved the case.

    Monk realizes that the pages in the playbook were out of order, and that’s what the player was talking about. When he figured this out he knew that the driver must have taken the book to copy it. He then figured out that they fought and the driver must have killed him. He put the player in plain sight because he didn’t have time to come up with a plan. Later, he tried to destroy the evidence by having him be consumed in the fire. Monk needs to get the playbook to prove his theory. He takes the playbook from the opposing locker room and runs from the team and security. After a pass and catch exchange with Stottlemeyer, Randy and the Police show up to take the playbook from them. Bob Costas names Monk and Stottlemeyer the MVP’s for this game.

    This was another solid episode in the series with a humorous appearance by Bob Costas. His storyline is that he had a cat that was truly “crazy” and wanted to kill him. At the end of the show Monk tells Leland that he had agreed that the cat was crazy just to get away from Costas (who they eluded to as crazy himself). What did you think? Who was your favorite guest appearance in this show so far? I’m thinking it’s tough to beat John Turturro (who plays Monk’s brother), but there were a lot of good guest spots. Your two cents is always appreciated.

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