History Recap / MonkS7E11MrMonkOnWheels

* WhatTheHellHero: Stottelmeyer calls out Monk on taking out his anger over being shot on Natalie, despite that she wasn't the one who shot him in the leg. That honor belongs to Kuramoto, who is lying dead in a ditch nearby.

* HeelRealization: Upon seeing Berry diagnose Natalie with being dehydrated and then [[PetTheDog try to nurse her back to health out of spontaneous kindness]], Monk realizes that in comparison, he's been acting like an outright BadBoss.
* HereWeGoAgain: The episode ends with Monk's other leg shot, and him asking Natalie in a deadpan to return all the "karma chips" she owes him.

-> '''Vince''': You mean he used to shoot cops?
-> '''Randy''': No, he shot someone who used to be a cop.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Natalie wasn't the one who shot Monk in the leg, but because tracking down the bike was her idea he resents her nonetheless and guilt-trips her to be his servant.

* SmokescreenCrime: The plot is kicked off by the theft of a bike which is later found in a dumpster. The bike itself was not important; the thief was hired to steal the bike's eight-digit keypad lock whose password was the same one used for a safe containing genetically-altered seeds that are worth a fortune.

* RecklessGunUsage: Natalie turns around, gun in hand. She tells Monk, who had already been shot in the leg earlier in the episode and was trying climb down some stairs to assist Natalie, that she was okay...and accidentally shoots Monk in his uninjured leg. Which makes no sense at first given that in "Mr. Monk and the Three Julies", Natalie tells Randy that she went to a firing range all the time and knows how to use a gun. However, this is only the second time that Natalie has held a firearm (having once held, but never used, a twelve-gauge shotgun in an earlier episode). For all we know, she probably hasn't used one for a minimum of eleven years.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Monk's reaction to discovering Dean Berry's square tomatoes. He is literally beside himself with joy, since each slice is the exact same size and won't overlap in sandwiches.[[note]]a continuity error, given that "Mr. Monk and the Asylum" had said that Monk has an allergy to tomatoes. [[/note]]

* CallBack: Once it is revealed that John Kuramoto, the thief who shot Monk in the leg was paid $3,000 to steal a bike (which in part was the reason Monk and Natalie were at said thief's house), Monk wonders if there could have been anything valuable hidden inside the frame, echoing "Mr. Monk and the Employee of the Month," in which Joe Christie is cleared of suspected drug theft after Monk determined that someone stole drugs from an evidence room by hiding them in a bike frame.

* NoPeekingRequest: Berry asks Monk and Natalie to turn around while he puts in the combination to his wall safe.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Stottelmeyer warns Monk that if he keeps up his resentful attitude towards Natalie, he's going to lose her. Upon prompting Monk to ask him how he knows this, Stottelmeyer points out "Because ''you're acting just like me''." It (seemingly) [[IgnoredEpiphany doesn't change Monk's mind]], but the context behind it is very sobering.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The episode opens with Natalie helping John Kuramoto after his bike hits a pothole and crashes, and even fixes his chain, then compliments him on his bolt-cutters, all while unaware that the bike is stolen. She is very embarrassed when Dean Berry, the bike's legitimate owner, comes running out just as Kuramoto rides away. This eventually leads to Monk getting shot in the leg by Kuramoto, ultimately leading to Monk verbally abusing Natalie to the point that she becomes his emotional punching bag/virtual slave.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Natalie wasn't the one who shot Monk in the leg, but for some reason, he resents her and guilt-trips her to be his servant.

* RecklessGunUsage: Natalie turns around, gun in hand. She tells Monk, who had already been shot in the leg earlier in the episode and was trying climb down some stairs to assist Natalie, that she was okay...and accidentally shoots Monk in his uninjured leg. Which makes no sense at first given that in "Mr. Monk and the Three Julies", Natalie tells Randy that she went to a firing range all the time and knows how to use a gun. However, this is only the second time that Natalie has held a firearm (having once held, but never used, a twelve-gauge shotgun in an earlier episode). For all we care, she probably hasn't used one for a minimum of eleven years.

* CharacterNameAlias: When knocking on John Kuramoto's door, Monk says, "Hello, Johnny! Open up, it's—it's Literature/EncyclopediaBrown! Sally and I want our blue bike back, and the name of your decorator."

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Monk when he realized he was taking out all of his anger out on Natalie.

* LaserGuidedKarma: A BlackComedy version, with a BrickJoke involving symmetry-obsessed Monk lamenting that he only has one bad leg. At the end of the episode, Monk accidentally gets shot in the ''other'' leg by an overworked Natalie.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Monk has this happen to him when he realized he was taking out all of his anger out on Natalie.

* NotSoDifferent: Stottelmeyer invokes this. First he warns Monk that if he keeps up his resentful attitude towards Natalie, he's going to lose her. Upon prompting Monk to ask him how he knows this, Stottelmeyer points out "Because ''you're acting just like me''." It (seemingly) [[IgnoredEpiphany doesn't change Monk's mind]], but the context behind it is very sobering.

* RecklessGunUsage: Natalie turns around, gun in hand. She tells Monk, who had already been shot in the leg earlier in the episode and was trying climb down some stairs to assist Natalie, that she was okay... and accidentally shoots Monk in his uninjured leg. Which makes no sense at first given that in "Mr. Monk and the Three Julies", Natalie tells Randy that she went to a firing range all the time and knows how to use a gun. However, this is only the second time that Natalie has held a firearm (having once held, but never used, a twelve-gauge shotgun in an earlier episode). For all we care, she probably hasn't used one for a minimum of eleven years.
* WhatHaveIDone: Monk realizes just how badly he's been treating Natalie when she collapses from exhaustion mid-case and Dr. Berry diagnoses her with dehydration.

* RecklessGunUsage: Natalie turns around, gun in hand. She tells Monk, who had already been shot in the leg earlier in the episode and was trying climb down some stairs to assist Natalie, that she was okay... and accidentally shoots Monk in his uninjured leg. Which makes no sense at first given that in "Mr. Monk and the Three Julies", Natalie tells Randy that she went to a firing range all the time and knows how to use a gun. However, this is only the second time that Natalie has held a firearm (having once held, but never used, a twelve gauge shotgun in an earlier episode). For all we care, she probably hasn't used one for a minimum of eleven years.

* WhatTheHellHero: Stottelmeyer calls out Monk on taking out his anger over being shot on Natalie, despite that she wasn't the one who shot him in the leg. That honor belongs to Kuramoto, who is lying dead in a ditch nearby.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The episode opens with Natalie helping John Kuramoto after his bike hits a pothole and crashes, and even fixes his chain, then compliments him on his bolt-cutters, all while unaware that the bike is stolen. She is very embarrassed when Dean Berry, the bike's legitimate owner, comes running out just as Kuramoto rides away. This causes Monk to get shot in the leg by Kuramoto, ultimately leading to Monk verbally abusing Natalie to the point that she becomes his emotional punching bag/virtual slave.

* WhatHaveIDone: Monk realizes just how badly he's been treating Natalie when she collapses from exhaustion mid-case and Dr. Berry diagnoses her with dehydration.

A bicycle thief leaves Monk with an injured leg and Natalie, who helped him before realizing the bike had been stolen, with a massive guilt complex.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Monk's reaction to discovering Dean Berry's square tomatoes. He is literally beside himself with joy, since each slice is the exact same size and won't overlap in sandwiches.