YMMV / Monk S2E16 "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail"

• Fridge Logic: Given the revelations in the series finale, how the hell did Dale know anything about Trudy's death or who was involved? It's highly unlikely Rickover told him.
  • This very question is brought up in the episode. Sharona outright asks Biederbeck how he was able to track down information that no one else had, and he boasts "Sweetheart, I am Dale the WHALE!" Remember that Dale made a good portion of his riches as an Information Broker extraordinaire—we know that he had dirt on sitting politicians (his Establishing Character Moment is him forcing a congressman to agree to one of his deals in the middle of a committee hearing). So even if Rickover didn't tell Dale, Biederbeck was probably able to piece together what happened via his sources. Plus remember that Biederbeck sued Trudy after she wrote a critical article on him for a newspaper; he probably dug as much into her past as possible then, which gave him the dirt on Trudy's affair with Rickover.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The episode presumably takes place in 2004. Since then, the last prisoner to be executed in California was in 2006 and, since 2014, the death penalty has been put under a moratorium in the state.

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