History Recap / MonkS8E6MrMonkAndTheCritic

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Hannigan never reviews community theater. That he does this time turns out to be an important clue - he did it for a FakeAlibi. Similarly, he had a seat in the back, in stead of near the front like he usually does - to allow him to sneak out.
* OhCrap: Hannigan claims that he'd never seen Julie in his life when she accuses him of assaulting her the night before. Then she asks Natalie, "Mom, can we go home now?" Hannigan's face falls as he says "Mom?!" Stottlemeyer smugly reveals that the girl was Julie Teeger, whom he lambasted in his review and looked exactly like what she looked like now (hair, makeup, costume) for the performance Hannigan claimed as his alibi, and he just proved that he walked out of the theater before her solo.

* ShamedByAMob: Hannigan's coworkers come to listen with interest when Julie claims that he drugged and assaulted her, and Stottlemeyer loudly yells at him to shut up, in order to draw attention. They nod when Monk asks if they can say Hannigan claimed he never saw "this girl" in his life, with some packing a DeathGlare. When Hannigan is busted for murdering his girlfriend, their expressions change, and they look both shocked and disappointed. Hannigan doesn't dare turn to face them as Randy arrests him.

** Natalie smells men's cologne in the VictimOfTheWeek's hotel room. Later, when she visits Hannigan at his office, she smells that he's wearing the same cologne.

* FakeAlibi: Hannigan couldn't have committed the murder, because he was watching a play at the same time. Except that he snuck out, having someone else take his place.

* GoldDigger: John Hannigan is engaged to the daughter of the newspaper editor, meaning that if his affair with Callie got out, he would lose out on that money and he certainly could French kiss his career goodbye. Thus, his motive.

* HellYesMoment: In the climax, Julie can't help but smile smugly when Hannigan refutes his own alibi. He was exposed as a killer, and invalidated his unfair critique of her. Natalie can't help by rubbing it in and saying that Julie is unforgettable now.

* HollywoodLaw: This episode probably has the most strained “proof” in the series. The police don’t have any real evidence of Hannigan’s involvement, so they browbeat him into a confession by showing up at his office, with all of his colleagues present, and having Julie [[FalseRapeAccusation loudly proclaim that he raped her in a parking lot]]. When a flustered Hannigan says he doesn’t recognize her he’s arrested for a different crime because this conflicts with his alibi. Not only would this not be enough to convict, it would probably result in a lawsuit against the SFPD.

* MamaBear: Natalie. Her anger at John Hannigan's scathing review culminates in her trying to punch him, and Monk and Stottlemeyer having to restrain her. She also gets busted for snooping around his property, thinking that he only wrote the bad review because he was actually murdering his girlfriend Callie Esterhaus during the performance. Of course, he is guilty of the murder, but they convict him by his failure to recognize Julie in costume.

* VillainousBreakdown: Hannigan doesn't react well when he realizes that he destroyed his own alibi. Logically speaking, he ought to have recognized Julie after lambasting her in a review ForTheEvulz. He tries to defend himself by saying that she wasn't in the curtain call. Monk and Natalie refute this by revealing that she was wearing a wig and makeup for act two, but in act one she looked exactly as she looked like in his office with her hair down.