Line #76 Awesome/Monk


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4	[[AC:Detective Adrian Monk]]
5	* How Monk is able to prove that Gavin Lloyd was behind the assassination of the mayor’s bodyguard: after experiencing an echo while visiting the site of his wife’s car bombing, Monk realizes that there should’ve been a similar echo effect in the location where the mayor was having his speech on the day of the attempted assassination. With the help of Sorona calling in a favor, Monk is able to get everyone on who was present on the stage and as he gives his theory on what happened, he’s able to prove Gavin’s guilt by having Sharona fire a starter’s pistol and demand that Gavin point out which building she’s in, which he did when the mayor was shot at; Gavin is unable to confidently do so, despite having done so during the “assassination attempt” and ends up confessing.
6	** In the same episode, Sharona goes after Ian Sykes, guy Gavin hired to do his dirty work and tries to kill Gavin in revenge for the latter’s attempt to kill him. Afraid for her life, Monk sneakily steals Randy’s Beretta under his nose ''on-screen'', braves through a nasty, rat-filled sewer, dives his arm into the water after his gun gets knocked into the water by a random pipe dumping water on him, and most impressively, he manages to nearly headshot Sykes in pitch darkness after he cuts out the lights of the tunnel; the bullet ends up grazing Sykes’ head, which is enough to stun him and he’s soon apprehended by the police off-screen.
7	* In the Season 6 finale, when Monk finds the hitman who killed his wife, even though he has a gun with him, Monk just lunges at the guy and starts beating and kicking the crap out of him.
8	* He also gets a couple of good moments when up against a shock jock. The episode deals with the insecurities Monk feels about his general lack of humour compared to the apparently hilarious DJ Max Hudson. He goes on Max's show, and is very uncomfortable until Max jokes about Trudy's death. Just the moment Monk says "[[TranquilFury Are you making fun of Trudy?]]" You ''know'' someone's going to get their ass kicked. However, Max doesn't take the hint, prompting Monk to leap over the table and attack him. Then, at the end of the episode, when Monk's finally figured out how Max killed his wife Jeanette and gotten him placed under arrest, he solemnly asks him "You're not laughing... now... are you?" Max Hudson says "No. I'm not" and Monk replies "Join the club".
9	* Then there's his response when he manages to get his ArchEnemy Dale 'The Whale' Biederbeck arrested for murder in "[[Recap/MonkS1E3MrMonkMeetsDaleTheWhale Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale]]"; Dale, who is grotesquely overweight, lunges at Monk to try and throttle him, but can't quite reach:
10	-->'''Sharona Fleming''': What's he doing?
11	-->'''Adrian Monk''': ''[highly amused]'' I think he's trying to kill me.
12	-->''[Monk slowly leans in towards Dale, though he stays about two inches out of reach. Dale eventually gives up in frustration]''
13	-->'''Adrian Monk''': It wasn't much of a fight, was it?
14	* In the Season Four episode, "Mr. Monk and the Astronaut," Monk runs out onto a military airstrip and stands in front of an F-22 fighter to prevent Steve Wagner from taking off to dispose of evidence. The same Steve Wagner who previously mocked him over his lack of conviction.
15	** And to top it all off, when it finally comes to a halt in front of him, he uses his sleeve to ''polish the nose cone''.
16	** Plus, he stands his ground with the laser sights of several rifles pointed at him, which had earlier caused him to completely flip out.
17	** Even Steve Wagner himself can't help but give Monk a [[VillainousRespect nod of respect]] for the sheer balls the guy had.
18	* In the Season Two episode, "Mr Monk and the Paperboy" when reading a newspaper (he was trying to find out why someone would kill the paperboy over it) Monk solves two different murders, one of which was ''in France'', before finding the actual reason the paper was stolen.
19	* In the conclusion to "Mr. Monk is on the Run", Monk confronts Dale the Whale, who again proves to be the mastermind behind Monk's woes. Dale [[HannibalLecture yells that even though he himself is in jail, Monk will forever be a prisoner of his own hang-ups and defects.]] Monk responds by simply [[ShutUpHannibal walking away]], leaving Dale sputtering impotently in the background.
20	-->'''Dale:''' You hear me? Come back here! I'm not done!
21	-->'''Adrian Monk:''' ''[without looking back]'' Oh, yes, you are.
22	** It is rather satisfying after how much Dale has tormented Monk, and previously Trudy as well, to see him being reduced to a common convict totally at the will of the law with all his money and connections are gone. When he tries to be smug with Monk again if he thinks he will remain in prison, Monk simply kicks the bars and replies that he does. He's right -- even Dale's last attempt to escape in ''Literature/MrMonkGetsEven'' fails.
23	* His street brawl with a BadSanta in "[[Recap/MonkS6E10MrMonkAndTheManWhoShotSantaClaus Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa Claus]]". Monk wins even after the guy pulls out a knife.
24	* In the episode "Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan," when Monk gets to see Warrick Tennyson, the guy who built the bomb that killed Trudy.
25	-->'''Adrian Monk:''' This is me turning off your morphine. ''[waits a few seconds]'' This is Trudy, the woman you killed, turning it back on.
26	* Monk studying the mummified body of a prehistoric man for a few seconds before saying "I think I know what happened."
27	* To fend off a bear in "Mr. Monk goes Camping", Monk tells it the summation. And it backs down.
28	* From "[[Recap/MonkS8E14MrMonkAndTheBadge Mr. Monk and the Badge]]" is the confrontation with Mikhail Almonov, who murdered SFPD officer Russell [=DiMarco=]. While Monk does fall for a HaveYouToldAnyoneElse moment, what happens afterward is all sorts of awesome -- when Mikhail tries to drop him from the scaffold by tilting and shaking it, Monk pulls himself up from the bottom, stabs said guy in the leg with his badge, and then throws away his pistol before suspending him upside down from the scaffold, all while terrified by being many stories off the ground.
29	** Made even better by his one-liner when announcing his retirement from the force.
30	---> '''Officer:''' You're turning in your badge?
31	---> '''Monk:''' He has it.
32	* In "[[Recap/MonkS2E14MrMonkAndTheCaptainsWife Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife]]", Leland's wife Karen has been hospitalized after Coker shoots a tow truck driver, causing the truck to swerve into the path of her oncoming van, and she collided with the car the truck was transporting. Despite Monk identifying Coker as the guy who committed the shooting, as well as shooting another truck driver at the truck depot, they are unable to find the evidence needed to arrest Coker: the MacGuffin that Coker was after (the car was his, and it was being repossessed; he was trying to grab a pistol he had stashed in the glovebox that connected him to another crime), and a pair of shoes that he took off the driver (as Coker hadn't had time to get his shoes on before racing out the door with his rifle to shoot the driver). Monk then hears a garbage truck being loaded and realizes that today is garbage day, and ''runs after the garbage truck, jumps on and flings the bags out of it''. After a few minutes of searching, they find one garbage bag containing the pistol and the driver's shoes, proving Coker's involvement in two murders.
33	* "[[Recap/MonkS4E16MrMonkGetsJuryDuty Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty]]": Monk manages to change the mind of all the jurors in the room except Number 12 by re-analyzing the evidence and disproving the plaintiff's story.
34	* The finale: Monk waits outside Judge Rickover's house and makes him dig up evidence at gunpoint. While near-death from poison.
35	--> '''Adrian Monk:''' Your garage was open. I borrowed a shovel.
36	* "Mr. Monk and the Game Show":
37	** Monk delivers an impressive boast to Roddy Lankman during his introduction, saying it's his job to bring down criminals, even powerful men who think they're above the law. Going by his reaction, Lankman clearly understands what Monk is implying and it unnerves him.
38	** Monk realizes how Roddy Lankman is helping Val Birch cheat (he indicates the right answer by the corner he's holding the question card from) and makes it to the bonus round (to expose the murder) [[HoistByHisOwnPetard by defeating Birch with his own method]], despite being $1000 in the red due to cleaning his buzzer. Then he calmly gives the summation on the air and uses his bonus round call to play the voicemail Birch had been using as blackmail, bringing them both down for their cheating and their involvement in her murder.
39	* In "[[Recap/MonkS4E3MrMonkStaysInBed Mr. Monk Stays in Bed]]", when Natalie is taken hostage by a criminal and brought to the dump in order to find a piece of evidence that could get him convicted, Monk manages to come in, tackle the guy, and then beats him down with trash long enough for the police to arrive. Monk. Weaponizing ''garbage'', his true nemesis. And succeeding. Oh yeah, and Monk also happened to be ''sick and wearing nothing but his pajamas and bathrobe at the time''.
40	* Monk and Music/WillieNelson, on clarinet and acoustic guitar respectively, serenading Trudy's grave, in "Mr. Monk and the Red-Headed Stranger".
41	* "Mr. Monk and the Leper": Monk is contracted to testify that Derek Bronson is not, in fact, as legally dead as he appears. Given that his testimony is shaky (they met in a dimly lit bar and parking garage), the judge heading the proceedings decides to [[SchmuckBait test Monk's observation and memory]] and asks him to first turn around and then to describe his shirt.
42	-->'''Adrian Monk:''' Which one?
43	-->'''Judge Lawrence Barr:''' "Which one?"
44	-->'''Adrian Monk:''' The shirt you're wearing, [[SexDressed or the shirt that your stenographer is wearing]]? [[SexyShirtSwitch That's your shirt, too, isn't it?]]
45	-->'''Judge Lawrence Barr:''' [[OhCrap Uhh...]]
46	-->'''Adrian Monk:''' You cut yourself shaving, and there's a tiny drop of blood on her collar.
47	-->'''Judge Lawrence Barr:''' What are you implying?
48	-->'''Adrian Monk:''' You were having a sex affair with her on that couch. The cushions are backwards and one of her earrings fell off. So, it’s right here. Under here. ''[Monk walks over to the couch, picks up the earring with his tweezers, and sets it down on the table]'' She must have torn her blouse. I can see it sticking out of her briefcase. Your honor?
49	-->''[beat]''
50	-->'''Judge Lawrence Barr:''' [[{{Touche}} I’m ready with my decision.]] I will accept Mr. Monk’s word that he met with Derek Bronson. Therefore, Mrs. Bronson will retain control of the entire estate.
51	* Monk's first case, as described by Stottlemeyer in "[[Recap/MonkS1E4MrMonkGoesToTheCarnival Mr. Monk and the Carnival]]": A woman had supposedly committed suicide by overdosing on pills. Stottlemeyer called it suicide, every cop on the scene called it suicide, the ''medical examiner'' called it suicide. Monk walked in, took one look at the room, and called it murder. There was no water in the room, so the victim could not possibly have consumed the large pills by herself. Eight people were in that room, and only Monk noticed it.
52	-->'''Lt. Randall Disher''': Well, I'm sure you would have seen it eventually, sir.
53	-->'''Captain Leland Stottlemeyer''': Don't kid yourself. There is only ''one'' Adrian Monk.
54	* In the season two finale "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail," Murderer of the Week Sylvia Fairbourne has hired several inmates to try to kill Monk. He's been lured into the laundry room, where he holds them off with the sprayer from one of the sinks. Apparently, obsessive cleanliness comes in handy occasionally.
55	** In the same episode, Monk goes undercover as a prisoner to solve the case, as Dale "the Whale" Biederbeck has hired him by promising to share everything he knows about Trudy's death in exchange for having his name cleared (Dale's an inmate in the same prison and can't have a window installed in his cell until the murderer is found). Monk's put in the same cell as "Spider" Rudner, an inmate who's murdered four people and ended up in solitary for putting a guy's head through a wall. Why? The guy ''touched his stuff.'' Everyone is naturally convinced that Monk's a dead man, but whenever anyone doubts him, he says the same thing: "It's for Trudy." That pure determination and dedication even wins Spider over--he and Monk become friends, with Spider saving Monk's life and Monk promising to put in a good word at the parole hearing fifty years from now.
56	* "Mr. Monk is Someone Else": Monk successfully impersonates Frankie [=DePalma=] one last time to keep the gangsters from killing their victim, including winning a staredown with over-eager Lenny, and holds all of them at gunpoint for a moment to allow the FBI to close in.
57	* During a trip to his college reunion, Monk gets roped into a touch football game, with everyone assuming he will be horrible. Turns out his fear of being touched makes him one of the best Wide Receivers in the world, as he is able to swerve and dodge college students half his age and easily score a touchdown!
58	* "[[Recap/MonkS7E2MrMonkAndTheGenius Mr. Monk and the Genius]]": Monk faces off against genius chessmaster Patrick Kloster, who is accused of murdering his two wives and stays one step ahead of Monk for most of the episode. When Monk finally proves Kloster's guilt in the end...
59	-->'''Patrick Kloster''': Very good, Mr. Monk. You play a brilliant endgame.
60	-->'''Adrian Monk''': Can I tell you something? I am sick and tired of you talking like this. All these chess metaphors. Two women are dead. They're not chess pieces, Patrick. They're human beings. I think they deserve better. ...Although, if you insist... ''checkmate''.
61	* "Mr. Monk Goes Back To School": After catching the culprit, Monk spits back [[IronicEcho the Latin quote the guy told him earlier]].
62	* "Mr. Monk and the Really, Really, Really Dead Guy" has Monk, after the entire episode dealing with a patronizing, arrogant, insulting FBI agent Thorpe get to prove that he is an utter fool. The agent claimed a dead woman didn't matter only for Monk to prove she was the main target, not the man that the agent was focused on, and had they followed the agent's commands the killer would have gotten away with it.
63	** As revealed in the tie-in novel "Mr. Monk is a Mess" his incompetence (and wasting of money, as its stated all his gear costs half a billion dollars) in the case saw Thorpe's entire crime unit shut down and him demoted until he himself turns to a life of crime, stealing money from an evidence locker only to be caught by Monk and sent to jail.
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67	* In "Mr. Monk and the Earthquake", Captain Stottlemeyer arrives [[BigDamnHeroes just in time]] to save Sharona from being knifed by Darryl Wright. He grabs Darryl's knife arm and twists it behind his back, causing Darryl to swear in response to the pain.
68	-->'''Darryl Wright:''' Son of a bitch!
69	-->'''Captain Leland Stottlemeyer''': [[PreemptiveDeclaration I'm surprised you can talk with a broken jaw.]]
70	-->'''Darryl Write''': I don't have a broken jaw!
71	-->'''Captain Leland Stottlemeyer''': Not yet.
72	-->''[Stottlemeyer shoves Darryl against the wall and belts him]''
73	* In the climax of “Monk Goes to the Circus”, Dede the circus elephant manages to stop the murderer from getting away and protects Sharona from harm at the same time.
74	* Natalie's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first scene]] in "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring" is her [[ImprovisedWeapon stabbing an intruder with a pair of scissors]].
75	** How about ThePlan she pulls in "Happy Birthday, Mr. Monk"? She put one over on ''Monk''.
76	* In the climax of “Mr. Monk vs. The Cobra”, the entire SFPD pulls a search-and-rescue mission for Monk after the murderer dies of a heart attack. Stottlemeyer manages to figure out where Monk is buried due to a repair fixing the traffic light.
77	* Randy saves the day in "Mr. Monk Gets Married," where Dalton Padron has ''married Randy's much older mother''. He brings Monk onto the scene. Then he ultimately finds the body of Padron's partner and arrives just in time to stop him from fleeing the scene (after locking Monk, Sharona, and assorted extras in a closet) and to heroically demand, "Where the hell's my mother, you son of a bitch?!"
78	** The awesomeness is enhanced by Randy assuming the role of the HumbleHero the following morning:
79	--->'''Maria Disher''': There's my hero.
80	--->'''Randy''': ''(embarrassed)'' [[ImNotAHeroIm I'm not a hero, Mom.]]
81	--->'''Maria Disher''': ''(hugs him)'' You are a hero to me.
82	* Any time that Captain Stottlemeyer ends up on the same page as Monk and gets a Monk-like eureka moment:
83	** "Mr. Monk Is Up All Night": realizing that the tissue he was given in Jacob Posner's coin store is actually a cocktail napkin from a diner that he claimed he'd never visited.
84	** "Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion": figuring out a woman who'd fallen on the stairwell was actually murdered when he noticed that none of the beads from the broken necklace she'd been wearing had rolled away—and that the necklace was too small for her to wear in the first place.
85	** "[[Recap/MonkS5E11MrMonkMakesAFriend Mr. Monk Makes a Friend]]": figuring out Monk's new FalseFriend Hal Tucker is using him because he knew that Tim Hayden was pistol-whipped instead of shot (due to the firing pin being worn out).
86	** "Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas": Solving a murder just by looking at the inconsistency of the victim's earrings in a photograph of her as she was when last seen alive, and as she looked like when first found dead... [[DrunkenMaster while drunk]].
87	* "Mr. Monk Is Up All Night": Randy stopping criminals while dressed in Captain America [=PJs=]. While drunk. With a garbage pan lid for a shield. The only reason it works is that the criminals are still trying to figure out how to react when the proper, non-drunk cops show up.
88	* "Mr. Monk Goes Camping": In the span of a few seconds, Randy goes from being unarmed and sneaking up on Luke and Del Johnston to holding a rifle in his hands and forcing them both to surrender, stopping their attempt to kill the child campers before it even started. Moments like these we realize why he's still a cop...
89	* Sharona giving a piece of her mind to a teenager who threw a chalk duster at Adrian:
90	-->'''Sharona Fleming''': Look, I know when a man's lying, okay? I was married for three and a half years.
91	-->'''Kyle Patterson''': I didn't do it.
92	-->'''Sharona Fleming''': I know that smirk. My husband had that same stupid smirk on his face when he got back from Bally's, where it turns out he spent the weekend with Betsy Bennett, his so-called "ex-girlfriend"!
93	-->'''Kyle Patterson''': Bally's, lady? What are you talking about?
94	-->'''Sharona Fleming''': Is that chalk on your hand? Maybe I should call your parents.
95	-->'''Kyle Patterson''': You don't have to. My dad's a gym teacher here, and he's gonna be pissed!
96	-->'''Sharona Fleming''': I'm really scared.
97	-->'''Kyle Patterson''': You should be.
98	-->''Sharona then stamps on his foot.''
99	-->'''Kyle Patterson''': Ow! You're gonna get fired, lady!
100	-->'''Sharona Fleming''': Yeah? I don't work here, chump.
101	* In "Mr Monk and the End (Part 1)", Stottlemeyer needs some info from an associate of Joey Kazarinski's. Intensive grilling and pleading doesn't work.
102	-->'''Captain Leland Stottlemeyer:''' You were with Kazarinski yesterday, we know that you sold him some fake ID! What was it, a driver's license? Passport?!
103	-->'''Ronnie:''' ''[shrugs, indifferently]'' I don't know what you're talking about! ''[Stottlemeyer grabs Ronnie by his coattails and shoves him against the wall]''
104	-->'''Captain Leland Stottlemeyer:''' Ronnie, I don't have time to dance with you today. My friend is ''sick''. Do you understand?
105	-->'''Ronnie:''' Your friend is sick. What does that mean?
106	-->'''Captain Leland Stottlemeyer:''' It means that I ''need'' that name! I need to know the name that Joey Kazarinski is using now.
107	-->'''Ronnie:''' ''[chuckles]'' So you need a name. What're you going to do? Hit me with a phonebook? There are no phonebooks in here, Captain. Nobody uses phonebooks anymore. They all use ''computers''.
108	-->'''Captain Leland Stottlemeyer:''' ''[mulls it over]'' Yeah, you're right. ''[His gaze falls on a laptop in the room]''
109	-->''[[GilliganCut Cuts to Stottlemeyer carrying a smashed laptop]]''
110	-->'''Lt. Randall Disher:''' Did you get a name?
111	-->'''Captain Leland Stottlemeyer''': Yes I did. Oh, and [[OneLiner your computer crashed]].
112	** The writers get one at the end of the episode, when we find out Trudy's present for Monk, the one he never opened, contained a video message in case something happened to her. The same present they've mentioned throughout the entire series.
113	* At the end of ''Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan'', Randy gets one. Throughout the episode, he had been wasting time playing a Jenga-like game, much to the annoyance of Stottlemeyer and the amusement of the others. When confronting John Ringel in a warehouse filled with large bundles of wood, Randy lifts out a long 4x4 piece of wood and shoves it back through the hole, hitting Ringel on the other side and knocking him out. "Stupid game, huh?"
114	* In "Mr. Monk goes to the Circus", Bindi the circus elephant gets one when she stops the culprit Natasha from not only escaping on a jeep, but [[GoThroughMe saves Sharona from being run over by said-vehicle]].
115	** It's also awesome in the [[TheDogBitesBack retribution]] [[AndThisIsFor factor]]. First, she's avenging her trainer, who Natasha had killed for knowing too much. Second, she's avenging Sharona, who was further traumatized by the trainer's murder during an attempt to overcome her fear of elephants. Lastly, Bindi's avenging herself for being used by Natasha as [[AnimalAssassin an unwitting tool to commit the murder in the first place]].
116	* "[[Recap/MonkS6E2MrMonkAndTheRapper Mr. Monk and the Rapper]]": Snoop Dogg rapping TheSummation song "Set Up".
117	* Natalie and Sharona teaming up to beat Perry Walsh into submission in "Mr. Monk and Sharona".
118	* In ''Mr. Monk and the End,'' Stottlemeyer and Randy are racing to stop Monk from killing the judge. Their way is being blocked by a slow delivery truck which is reluctant to get out of the way, so Stottlemeyer ''pulls out his gun and fires into the air'' to make it move.
119	* In "Mr. Monk Goes to Mexico," Sharona and Monk head to a resort full of rich kids in the country during Spring Break to get some information from one college student in particular. The kid in question turns out to be a JerkJock frat boy who propositions Sharona when he sees her. To get the necessary info, the student suggests a drinking contest: Monk and Sharona versus him and one of his friends--whoever finishes a full pitcher of beer first wins. Monk's naturally no help (he spends the first fifteen seconds pouring a glass so the foam is even), so Sharona grabs the pitcher, throws her head back, and ''chugs the entire thing'' without drawing breath--and then she finishes Monk's glass, too! That's right--Sharona outdrinks ''two'' college age frat guys. That is TALENT.
120	** Someone rigs a bomb in Monk and Sharona's hotel room, set to go off when Monk straightens the picture that it is stashed behind. However, Monk stops mid-compulsion, does a SherlockScan, and deduces that someone (not the maid) has been in the room, foiling the attempt with an incredibly small amount of evidence.
121	** Stottlemeyer gets one in the same episode. A man wearing Monk's suit dies (his suitcases had been stolen when he and Sharona first arrived), and the captain is informed of the news. Though heartbroken, he immediately begins planning Monk's funeral, and tells Disher that he wants Adrian to be buried with full police honors, including everyone in their dress blues. When Randy nervously tells Stottlemeyer that Monk is technically no longer on the force and thus can't receive that sort of service, Stottlemeyer [[BerserkButton instantly becomes furious]] and says he'll personally go to the mayor and resign if Adrian doesn't get his due. Stottlemeyer is often TheStoic and a calm foil to Monk's foibles, so to see him get so riled up and be willing to risk everything for his friend is amazing.
122	** Monk gets one for solving the case in the episode while severely dehydrated. He was fearful of drinking the water in a foreign country and packed entire cases of the only brand of water he drinks in his suitcase, but since they were stolen, he spends the whole episode without taking a sip of anything. After almost 48 hours, he's absolutely miserable and barely functioning...and he ''still'' manages to crack the case and expose the murderer.
123	* In "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail," Sharona solves the case at hand on her own, with very little input from Monk. When Monk tries to tell everyone what happened, Sharona announces "I know, I already did the whole summation!"
124	** In the same episode, Monk's cellmate Spider (played by living incarnation of awesome Creator/DannyTrejo) pulls a BigDamnHeroes moment for the ages when he takes out three Neo-Nazi skinheads who had been hired to kill the detective.
125	* It goes somewhat unnoticed, but Kevin Dorfman's motor mouth is supported by an ''excellent'' memory--and it appears that the whole Dorfman family has it too.
126	* "Mr. Monk Goes To A Wedding"
127	** Randy has been badly injured by the killer, with a leg and an arm in separate casts. Yet without hesitation and in a lot of pain, he agrees to come to the wedding reception to identify Darlene. And he does it after Stottlemeyer knocked him off a luggage cart.
128	** Stottlemeyer carrying Randy on his back for a portion of the rush to stop Darlene from going off with Natalie's brother.
129	** Darlene tries to take Natalie's brother hostage with a knife. Natalie gets a BigSisterInstinct; she grabs Darlene's knife arm from behind and twists it until she drops her weapon and ends up on the floor. Natalie pins her to the ground with a BadassBoast: "Stay away from our family. We have enough problems."
130	* "Mr. Monk And The Naked Man"
131	** Vicki has one in hindsight. She found out that her roommate was plotting to let Peter Magneri die after shorting stock against his company and wanted to split the money with her. Realizing she couldn't let an innocent man die, Vicki stole the X-Ray and ran to warn Mr. Magneri and kept telling him "It's a matter of life and death!" Monk, Natalie, and Stottlemeyer honor her memory by making Arlene tell them what condition it was and arresting her.
132	** Chance Singer has one of the best WhatYouAreInTheDark moments in the series. He's been accused of murdering Vicki and has just won a petition for his naturists to parade on the beach against Magneri. Then Monk calls him, explains that they caught Vicki's killer but Magneri has a potentially fatal aneurysm and can't be stressed. Without hesitation, Chance withdraws the petition and goes over to Magneri, doing a calming vibe meditation as Stottlemeyer comes with paramedics and a stretcher. To show how awesome this was, the {{Jerkass}} Magneri bought the naturists an island as [[KarmicJackpot thanks for saving his life]]. Chance says he didn't do it for any reward, but because it was the right thing to do.
133	* "Mr. Monk and the Birds and the Bees": after a long chase down the San Francisco Pier, and a struggle to save the memory disks with the incriminating photo Monk needs, all seems lost when the killer breaks loose and flings the disks into the Bay. He barely has a second to gloat before Julie's boyfriend Tim throws off his employee vest and dives into the freezing water, retrieving the disks and saving the day.
134	** The moment is deliciously ironic as well as awesome, as Monk reminds the killer that Tim (who was jilted as a result of the killer's IntentionalHeartbreaker gambit) is Julie's ''real'' boyfriend.
135	* In "Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever," both Monk and Randy separately figure out the solutions to the two different mysteries of the episode and give simultaneous "Here's what happened," recaps in the middle of a chaotic gunfight. The gunfight itself is pretty cool, as Stottlemeyer and several seemingly incompetent minor cops manage to keep any of the heroes from getting killed or injured, and then take down the two hit-men outside.
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137	* In ''Literature/MrMonkAndTheBlueFlu'', Monk and Natalie are put in charge of the homicide division of the SFPD by the mayor. The mentally-impaired detectives he has all get some awesome moments:
138	** Cindy Chow demonstrates Monk's ability to piece connections together that make him realize that three seemingly improvised murders are the work of one individual.
139	** Points go out to Jack Wyatt, when, during a SWAT raid that captures serial killer Charlie Herrin, he executes a ShootTheHostage ploy when Herrin tries to use Monk as a human shield. Herrin falls for the ploy, and lets down his guard, and this lets the SWAT team capture him without further incident.
140	* ''Literature/MrMonkAndTheDirtyCop'':
141	** Natalie unflinchingly training a gun on someone.
142	** While Monk puts together the pieces, he insists Natalie did it first, and she and Danielle, Monk's Intertect assistant, are actually responsible for getting the evidence to put the perps away.
143	* In ''Literature/MrMonkGoesToHawaii'', we see Monk demonstrate that he can be protective of Natalie when someone tries to prey on her personal emotions.
144	* In ''Literature/MrMonkInTrouble'', Natalie singlehandedly saves Monk from falling to his death after an old mine shaft gives way, even though she dislocates her shoulder in the process.
145	* Ellen breaking into and escaping from Damien Bigley’s room in ''Literature/MrMonkHelpsHimself''.
146	* ''Literature/MrMonkGetsEven'': When Stottlemeyer is arrested on suspicion of aiding "Dale the Whale's" escape, Julie squares off with the arrogant police commissioner and tells him, as one of his many "bosses" (a taxpaying citizen), that she'll personally ensure that his "toxic stupidity" will make him the laughingstock of the entire city if he doesn't reverse course. Stottlemeyer's tough-as-nails assistant, Lt. Devlin, admits to Julie [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat that she's wanted to say something similar to the commissioner for months]], but Julie said it even better.
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148	* In the blog post "[[http://web.archive.org/web/20060317022252/http://www.usanetwork.com/series/monk/webexclusives/blogs/teeger08_b.html Mr. Monk Scores at the Soccer Game]]"[[note]]which would later be adapted into the first chapter of ''[[Literature/MrMonkAndTheTwoAssistants Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants]]''[[/note]], Natalie and Monk finish a day's work on an open case about a murdered banker and some weird footprints and go to a soccer game. Natalie is focused on the poor sportsmanship of the opposing coach, and Monk is obsessed with making sure the spectators are seated properly. Then Monk orders Natalie to call in Stottlemeyer, and, after a short quibble about the seating, blindsides the captain by revealing that he's solved the mystery -- the unsportsmanlike coach's [[HappyDance victory dance]] matches the bizarre footprints found at the crime scene. Stottlemeyer handcuffs the guy to [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing much rejoicing from the spectators]].

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