Benjamin "Benjy" Fleming is Sharona's son. In "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail" (season 2), Dale the Whale tells Monk that Tennyson was involved in the murder and that he can be found in New York. "Monk" Star Stanley Kamel Dies - CBS News As revealed in the season five episode "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink", Charles has taken three paternity tests at the "request" of his son. When she was killed by the bomb planted under her car, she had gone on an errand to buy him some cough medicine at his request. The two men realize that they share many of the same problems, and even overcome their claustrophobia together when Monk convinces Harold to see the trunk as a protective space rather than a trap. Trevor also reappears in the novel Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants, having been framed for murder by the Los Angeles Police Department's private consultant Ian Ludlow, who frames five other people in addition to Natalie and Sharona for the murders he commits so that he can write his novels and meet his deadlines. The novel also reveals that Ambrose became agoraphobic after he caught Hong Kong flu. Sure enough, when Monk and the others go to the hospital and pull back "McCabe's" curtain, they find Dale, who is arrested and stopped, presumably for good now. This is later revealed to be because of Jack's boss, Ben Glazer, who was trying to destroy evidence that would link him to the death of his partner, Kenneth Woods. [6] Ambrose blames himself for Trudy's death, and his guilt led to a seven-year rift between the brothers. Trudy "T. K." Jensen Stottlemeyer (Virginia Madsen) is Captain Stottlemeyer's love interest (and then wife) in season eight. Jack Jr. makes repeated efforts to ingratiate himself to his older half-brother by stammering and sniveling helplessly, even going so far as to stage a phony phone call from his girlfriend who pretends to be his mother, who bawls sappily, begging Adrian to help her little "Jackie". Tennyson mentions (in "Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan") that he did not recognize the man who hired him, but remembers that there were six fingers on his right hand. She accompanies Monk and Stottlemeyer to question Dale's girlfriend Stella Chaze, but considers quitting the job after Stella attempts to kill the three by suicide-bombing her house. In the season five episode "Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion", a younger Trudy is portrayed in a flashback by Lindy Newton. Though she recovers, Stottlemeyer is left with a taste of the kind of pain Monk bears from Trudy and becomes far more sympathetic and respectful to him, if still exasperated by Monk's more extreme idiosyncrasies. While danger closes in on him, Monk is faced with the choice of retrieving the moonrock, or Julie's fish. Vicki then tries killing Kevin by stopping their car at a certain point in the road and drugging him - which happens to be on a grade crossing right as the lights begin to flash and the gates begin to lower. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Monk, Julie, Stottlemeyer and Devlin rush to the hospital, but in the chaos, it seems Dale has escaped by being snuck out in a body bag by an accomplice driving a stolen hearse. Monk agrees, and they eventually find it at a quarry. He greatly respects his brother's ability to cope with the outside world. Natalie temporarily coaches the team with Monk as her assistant. When Natalie grabs biotechnician Sarah Longson's pistol to force her to surrender, she whirls around so quickly that she accidentally discharges a bullet into Monk's right leg. Later, in "Mr. Monk Gets Lotto Fever", when Monk confides how he loathes Natalie for getting more attention than him, Dr. Bell is forced to admit to being a diva after writing an unsuccessful book on body language. Seconds later, it blows up in flames, and Torini jeers: "Abracadabra, Mr. Eventually, Monk finds an article, dated the same day that Trudy's illegitimate child was born, detailing how Wendy Stroud saved a child. Karen's documentary about Miles Holling, Miles Holling: The Human Time Machine, provides several clues for Monk and Leland about the man's death. This cynicism transforms into admiration as their relationship develops. Still believing Monk to be wrong about his suspicions toward Linda, he asks her about whether she has seen Monk. Dr. Bell's character has a considerably constructed background, in sharp contrast to Dr. Kroger. Lieutenant Steven Albright (Casper Van Dien) is a lieutenant in the United States Navy and Mitch Teeger's oldest friend. Dale was unable to win the lawsuit, but the Monks were forced to sell their house paying for their lawyer. For the first three seasons Sharona Fleming was Monk's assistant. He still lives in the same house because he knows that Wendy Stroud's body is buried in the yard, marked by a sundial. Randy's lack of luck getting dates is so notorious that when he actually does land a girlfriend, in the episode "Mr. Monk and the Employee of the Month", no one believes him. Trudy has already suspected that Rickover was involved in Wendy Stroud's death after she read about it in the newspaper. display: block; In the episode "Mr. Monk and Sharona", though, Sharona reveals that they have broken up for good. This is confirmed when Monk and Natalie time the route on a motorcycle and it takes them an hour to travel the route. In "Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion", it is implied that he has lived in the Bay Area since at least the 1970s; when he is trying to get information from reunion guests about a homicide investigation, he is booed off the stage when the projectionist displays some embarrassing pictures of him wearing riot gear and attacking protesters at an anti-nuclear warfare demonstration at UC Berkeley. Since the doctor was giving a lecture at Berkeley around the same time that Trudy was killed, thanks to a grant from one of Biederbeck's foundations, Monk suspects Rahner of being the killer. After finding evidence to suggest otherwise, Monk discovers that she is still alive. In the tradition of superior officers in detective television shows, Stottlemeyer often punctuates comedic moment by shouting the protagonist's last name in an annoyed tone. In "Mr. Monk Makes a Friend", Monk apparently makes a friend out of Hal Tucker, who is revealed later to have just been using him, but Stottlemeyer saves him, identifying Monk as his friend when he stops Hal. In the pilot, Randy is not only skeptical of Monk but also seems to find Monk a joke, even calling Monk "the defective detective" to Stottlemeyer. Like her mother, Julie is introduced during the season three episode "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring". She was replaced by Natalie Teeger in the episode "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring", and Teeger remained Monk's assistant for the remainder of the series. List of Monk characters - Wikipedia As they move to capture an incriminating beachball with air from Kedder's asthma inhaler, the ball lands in the scaffolding for one of the loudspeakers. Later he appears to be of some use, as the police find papers in Frank Nunn's apartment connecting Trudy's murder with a mysterious figure known as "The Judge". Ambrose blames himself for Trudy's death. (Played for comic effect.) When Randy asks him what he just threw, Stottlemeyer replies "It's just a rock," suggesting that he was going to propose to Linda while in Hawaii. In the end, after Monk captures Dale, Julie discovers that Fellows never had a criminology degree at all, and his whole career is based on a lie. He also states that Monk should look for a man named Warrick Tennyson in Manhattan, New York. Joey burned Grajna's car to torch any evidence that Grajna was the Frisco Fly, and stole Grajna's outfit. Adrian establishes in the above-mentioned episode that Jack wrote school textbooks as his career of choice (although in the episode "Mr. Monk's 100th Case" he is referred to as "a frustrated linen salesman"), similar to Ambrose, and indicating some level of education. In the two-part episode "Mr. Monk Is on the Run", Monk is framed for the murder of Frank Nunn, the six-fingered man who hired Tennyson. Hence, starting with season seven, Monk gets a new therapist, Dr. Neven Bell, who remained for the final two seasons. Then, Monk learns that, in fact, Rickover had saved the baby girl who is now a 26-year-old movie critic named Molly with whom he connects and grows to love. Marci first appears in "Mr. Monk and the TV Star" as a fan of Brad Terry, the star of the crime drama television series Crime Lab S.F.. As Monk and Sharona are first investigating the murder of Brad Terry's ex-wife Susan Malloy, Marci hands an envelope to Sharona, saying that it is a petition to get the old theme song back, since quite a lot of people hate the new theme song of Crime Lab S.F. In the first episode of season five, "Mr. Monk and the Actor", Monk wants to take up the entire week with therapy, but Dr. Kroger says he does not like working on the weekends so he can spend time with family. Stroud comes forward claiming she has "found Jesus" and can no longer live with her guilty conscience over what she did. Adrian was only eight years old, and this abandonment is seemingly the catalyst for both his and Ambrose's psychological illnesses. She appears in many episodes of the show, usually in minor roles. 12 Actors Who Passed Away While Their Shows Were Still Dale remains an important adversary of Adrian's, especially when it is revealed that he was hiding something he knew about Trudy's death. After moving to Los Angeles in his 20s, the artist joined the original L.A. Roxy cast of The Rocky Horror Show in 1973, where he portrayed both Eddie and Dr. Everett Scott. When Sharona sees T.K. When Natalie later sees Paris in that novel, she claims it is a different Paris from the one to which she and Mitch had gone. Randall Disher, portrayed by Jason Gray-Stanford, is Captain Stottlemeyer's second-in-command and employed at the SFPD. While skateboarding and ditching school with his friends Ridley and Pez, one of their skateboards hits the side of a parked car. #inline-recirc-item--id-9e9fe31c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child(5) { She visits Sharona in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater", just when Gail is framed for murder. Throughout the episode, Leland tries to figure out what her nickname T.K. Although Kevin gets his money back, by the time he makes his next appearance in "Mr. Monk and the Game Show," he has lost it all to a number of serious misfortunes, including gambling losses, two greedy wives, and a dishonest accountant. As a result, all of Dale's privileges are revoked: his furniture, custom bed, telephone, and laptop are confiscated, his window is blocked up, his special meal deliveries and manicure appointments are cancelled, and he is reduced to eating in the prison cafeteria and sleeping in a cramped bunk bed. The note ends with Jack's congratulations to Ambrose for leaving the house. Stottlemeyer uses this as his leverage to get Fellows to resign and erase his own suspension from the record book. It is also revealed that he had an uncle who was a comedian that knew Uncle Miltie. Monk foils Dale's plan, and John Rollins, the Angel County sheriff whom Dale recruited to frame Monk, turns state's evidence in the hopes of lightening his own sentence. He died in 1998 in the Kosovo War. In the season six episode "Mr. Monk Joins a Cult", Dr. Kroger mentions that the Siblings of the Sun cult tried to recruit Harold a few years prior, but he was too smart for them. } When Jack finally shows up in person, he is working for the Midland, Texas-based Tiger Bay Trucking Company and had been stopped in San Francisco for running a red light. Both have lost spouses to violent deaths (Trudy to a car bomb, Mitch to a plane crash), and in both cases they were affected heavily and only saved thanks to someone else. Yuki Nakamura: Ambrose's live-in assistant, then later girlfriend, and eventual wife. He puts up with Disher's idiosyncrasies and even barely resists laughing at some of his outlandish theories and quirks. The episode also establishes that their marriage is not necessarily stable, to such an extent that when Randy informs Leland that Karen wants to see him, Leland panics and has Randy keep her occupied while he gets his office reorganized (hanging a dreamcatcher from his lamp, hiding some of his personal junk, and installing a waterfall (that he fills with coffee). Jack Jr. appears to be a pathological liar and often swears "hand to God" that he is telling the truth when in actuality he is not. Knowing he couldn't win, Biederbeck did everything possible to draw the lawsuit out to torment her. Stanley Kamel, who portrayed Monk's therapist, Dr. Charles Kroger, died in April 2008, during the production hiatus in between seasons six and seven. Hence, starting with season seven, Monk gets a new therapist, Dr. Neven Bell, who remained for the final two seasons. Adrian Monk is the only character to appear in all 125 episodes. Kroger eventually died of a heart attack, mirroring the real death of the actor that portrayed the character. Biederbeck smugly refuses to confirm or deny Monk's suspicions, but later Monk proves that the doctor is not Trudy's killer. Julie plays a key role in the season four episode "Mr. Monk Goes to a Fashion Show", when Julian Hodge (Malcolm McDowell) invites her to participate in his fashion show, despite her young age. Ambrose writes owner's manuals for many different consumer products in multiple languages which he taught himself (seven and a half, as of "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies"; the half is for his ongoing study of Mandarin Chinese). Stottlemeyer's second-in-command, Lieutenant Randy Disher, is a source of much comedic strife. At one point during the investigation, Linda drops by Monk and Natalie's new office while they are talking with Stottlemeyer and Disher. Dr. Neven Bell (portrayed by Hctor Elizondo) becomes Monk's therapist in the season seven premiere "Mr. Monk Buys a House", replacing Dr. Kroger. The Big Bang Theory Actors You May As a result, later in the story, upon learning that Monk's consultancy contract has been ripped up, Sharona takes her anger out on Stottlemeyer, accusing him of using the latest round of budget cuts as an excuse to cut Monk (and her) loose as a result of Braddock attacking his abilities. In "Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale", Dr. Christiaan Vezza, Dale's physician, reveals that when Dale moved into his apartment, he weighed 422 pounds (191 kilograms) and could occasionally see his toes. "Karen" is revealed to be the girlfriend of sports agent Rob Sherman, who killed his wife and career burglar Dewey Jordan in a staged break-in. Having just found out about the video, Monk confronts Rickover and informs him that he knows he was behind Trudy's death, although he has no other evidence to back this up. Julie also initially helps Monk out when Dale "the Whale" Biederbeck apparently escapes from police custody while at SF General Hospital undergoing a bypass surgery. In "Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine", Dr. Kroger prescribes "Dioxynl", which successfully relieves Monk's phobias while also impairing his detective skills. Monk is shown to have been fine with T.K. He confronts Marci about the matter, stating that she is protecting Brad because she knows he killed his ex-wife. Devlin is different from Randy in many ways. After condemned prisoner Ray Kaspo is poisoned less than an hour before his execution, suspicion falls on Biederbeck, to whom Kaspo owed $1,200. A few nights later, Marci shows up at Monk's door convincing him that if he ever gets his own show, he should never change the theme song. In the season 5 episode "Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy", Disher is placed as a decoy to attract the attention of a serial, playing "I Don't Need a Badge" as a one-man band while forgetting most of the lyrics. He also says that he thinks his new therapist is better than Monk's. However, in "Mr. Monk Goes to a Farm", Captain Stottlemeyer calls Randy "Son", implying that he feels like a father to Randy. Monk finds a form for a rental truck on a table in the front hallway, and a barrel cleaner and bottle of gun oil stashed in Linda's closet, but Linda comes home while he is searching, having been tipped off, and she attempts to seduce Monk. When Merrigan shoots at Dr. Kroger with a pistol, Harold takes a bullet in the chest to save Dr. Kroger's life, telling Adrian to "beat that.". In "Mr. Monk Meets the Playboy", Sharona tells him of her less than reputable past. After leaving, Jack is not heard from for over forty years. The bomb was built by Warrick Tennyson. Monk and Natalie attempt to break the bad news to Stottlemeyer, but he refuses to be convinced, thinking Monk is being motivated out of pure jealousy, forgetting that Monk is always right when it comes to accusing someone of murder. At the end of the episode, Randy picks up Sharona to go to the airport, sharing a kiss as they load her bags. The novel serves to allow Adrian to help Ambrose get over his agoraphobia. Bitty Schram In "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage," Monk explains to Natalie that the couple has practically nothing in common (case in point: he recalls one weekend when Leland went on a hunting trip, while Karen stayed behind to organize a rally for stronger gun control). She strikes up an unusual friendship with Randy's replacement in the SFPD, Lieutenant Amy Devlin. After Torini's arrest, Monk and Natalie watch a video will that Kevin had made, and despite his tendency to ramble about various things, Monk lets the video play. As Monk and Natalie observe at Kevin's wake, this trait actually appears to be genetic. When she shows up at Monk's apartment the next day, Natalie is able to shoo Marci out. When her husband Douglas died, she was left to raise her daughters alone. The expanded universe novels written by Lee Goldberg, and later by Hy Conrad, introduce an additional cast of characters. While having a temporary relapse (in "Mr. Monk Can't See a Thing"), Adrian mentions that Trudy lived for 20 minutes after the bomb went off. 6 Actors From Monk Who Have Sadly Died - YouTube Police told The Las Vegas Review Journal that part-time actor Aaron Stanley Kamel succumbed to heart failure on April 8, 2008. Ever since their father left, Ambrose has been obsessed with the idea of his return, even to the point of preparing a dinner plate for him every night, just in case. In his second appearance in the season three episode "Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf", Sharona asks Trevor to take Benjy when she becomes afraid she is losing her sanity, and hence crying wolf. Benjy and his mother are mentioned in "Mr. Monk Is on the Run (Part Two)", having sent flowers for the "deceased" Monk and flying in to attend his "funeral". Marci even offers to be Monk's personal assistant for free, which would relieve him of having to write a paycheck. Monk Though Glee is an ensemble In the season eight episode "Mr. Monk and the Voodoo Curse", it is revealed that Natalie's superstitions about voodoo result from when she and Mitch lived on a military base in South Carolina. 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In his first and second appearances, he weighs about 800 pounds (363 kilograms) and is unable to leave his bed. In the series finale, "Mr. Monk and the End," Randy accepts a job as Chief of Police in the town of Summit in Sharona's native New Jersey, stating that he and Sharona are moving in together. Dale consents to undergo a gastric bypass operation so that he can be integrated into the regular prison system. In the season seven premiere "Mr. Monk Buys a House", it is presumed that Mitch also taught Natalie how to use Morse code. He was stunned when he was diagnosed with heart failure and later needed a lifesaving transplant. Monk discovers that he ordered Vezza to murder the judge and implicate Biederbeck. 'Monk,' '90210' Actor Stanley Kamel Found Dead in Home Linda Salvato Fusco (Sharon Lawrence) is Captain Stottlemeyer's girlfriend and a real estate dealer during season five and the beginning of the season six. Once convinced of the validity of one of Monk's theories, Stottlemeyer always proves a staunch ally in apprehending Monk's primary suspects. Below is a list of actors and actresses that were part of the cast of the 's maid of honor and best friend Stephanie Briggs, who happens to be an accomplice of Kettering's and killed him after he blackmailed her for money. Rickover hid the baby from Trudy by claiming that she died nine minutes after birth. At the time Trudy was murdered, Stottlemeyer reluctantly suspended Monk from duty, though the two remained friends. Due to the fact that "Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized" is the episode that aired immediately after this one, it is implied that Harold is referring to Dr. Climan. #inline-recirc-item--id-9e9fe31c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, #right-rail-recirc-item--id-9e9fe31c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d { Ambrose has both more severe problems than Adrian and more acute powers of observation. Adrian also reveals that Ambrose and their mother were in a state of catatonia after their father left. After the baby was born, Rickover covered up the illegitimate child by telling Wendy Stroud, the midwife, to tell Trudy that her baby died about nine minutes after birth and to then put the child up for adoption. Ambrose has left the house three times: the first two times are in "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies", the first being when his next-door neighbor Pat van Ranken sets the house on fire, and the second to visit Trudy's grave, and the third one mentioned above in "Mr. Monk Goes Home Again". She later discovers, however, that he got plane tickets to Detroit, where his rich uncle lives. Jack Monk Jr. (Steve Zahn) is Adrian's half-brother. While investigating the "abduction" of actress Sally Larkin, Harold shows up at the crime scene and tells Monk about his new therapist, that he is over their feud, and also gives him Dr. Climan's business card. In real life, Emmy Clarke studied communication and media studies at Fordham University. In "Mr. Monk and the Game Show", he accompanies Monk on a trip to Los Angeles when Trudy's father, Dwight Ellison, asks Monk to investigate possible cheating on a game show that he produces. Fourteen years later, in 1997, Rickover is nominated as an appellate court judge. When Monk and Natalie talk to Linda at her office, they come to the shocking conclusion that she is the killer, after Monk realizes that Linda has a strong motive (her victim was planning on starting his own real estate agency and taking many of their clients with him), she knows how to use a shotgun (as he notices a photo of a younger Linda with her deceased grandfather on a hunting trip, carrying a 12 gauge shotgun), she is 5'7" (the killer's height as described by the two eyewitnesses), she has a house key, and she wears the very shade of lipstick one witness remembered the shooter as wearing. Kamel was a regular on "Monk," playing a therapist who counseled the obsessive-compulsive detective title character played by Golden Globe and Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub. His final performance credit was Harrison Marlowe in "Enter Laughing the Musical" with the York Theatre Company in 2019. WebHe dies while talking to Richard Dormer. Biederbeck makes a brief appearance in the 2008 novel Mr. Monk Goes to Germany by Lee Goldberg. Lee: Jackass star and wrestler dies aged Ellen Morse: Monk's new girlfriend. In his final appearance, "Mr. Monk Goes to Group Therapy", Monk finds himself sharing group therapy sessions with Harold when his HMO refuses to compensate him for any more individual sessions with Dr. Bell. In Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu, Julie's attention to brands and fashion designs gives Monk a crucial clue to the Golden Gate Strangler's profile. This six-fingered man detonated the bomb from a distance with a cellular phone. According to Monk, Molly seems to be similar to Trudy not only in appearance but also in her mannerisms. She is introduced in Mr. Monk on Patrol, where she runs a store in Summit called Poop, which (as the store's name suggests) sells dung and other objects made from fecal material. Despite these tensions, however, Stottlemeyer also has a great deal of sympathy and respect for Monk; even Stottlemeyer cannot deny Monk's abilities. Dr. Bell also uses his past baseball experiences when talking with Monk in "Mr. Monk Takes the Stand". His body is later seen at the morgue. However, Monk thinks that Howard's death was foul play, irritating cash-strapped Sharona. Trudy Monk was born in Los Angeles in 1962[1] to Dwight and Marcia Ellison. Indeed, the next day, there is a major accident when a moving truck driving down Powell Street loses its brakes, careens down the hill into Union Square, and smashes into a MUNI bus and a cable car, leaving four people dead and dozens critically injured. While trying to deal with the investigation into the murder of wanted ecoterrorist Martin Kettering, Leland finds himself in trouble when someone starts making threats against him and T.K. 's picture in Stottlemeyer's office in the season 8 episode "Mr. Monk and Sharona", she says Stottlemeyer must feel like he won the lottery, and he heartily agrees.