History Recap / MonkS1E3MrMonkMeetsDaleTheWhale

* {{Gasshole}}: Sharona implies this when Monk has her [[DatingCatwoman pose as Dale's nurse]]. She sarcastically asks Monk, "What is he going to do, break wind on me?"

* MurderByProxy: Dale himself didn't kill Judge Lavinio--he forced Dr. Vezza to kill her for him and stage the crime scene to make Dale, the one person in the world who couldn't possibly be the murderer, seem guilty. As Stottlemeyer points out, ''arranging'' a murder is still a crime, and Dale gets arrested for it, especially because Vezza agrees to testify against him.

* FrivolousLawsuit: Dale tells Sharona that when Trudy published an article criticizing him as "the Genghis Khan of world finance," he hit her and the paper that ran the piece with a libel lawsuit. While Dale lost the lawsuit in the end--and knew full well that he was ''never'' going to win--the Monks were so tied up in legal fees and such that they had to sell everything they owned, including their first house... which he then bought and used it to store his pornography collection just to run salt in their wounds. It's clear what Dale was actually hoping to accomplish with the suit was to watch Trudy squirm.

Things only get worse when another judge--and personal friend of Lavinio's who dined with her on the night of the murder--denies the group a search warrant, explaining that the existing clues don't reconcile with Dale's immobility. Stottlemeyer comes up with a new idea: Dale mentioned that his night nurse recently quit, and since Sharona still has a license to practice, she'll go undercover to hunt for evidence herself. Sharona is eager--so long as it doesn't clash with her date with Dr. Vezza, who's told her that he was named after Christiaan Barnard, the surgeon who performed the world's first heart transplant--but Monk strictly forbids it, which only pushes her to take up the job further. That night, she tries to covertly explore, only for Dale to call her in to serve dinner with a quip: "So did you find what you were looking for?" As Sharona reluctantly spoon-feeds Dale, the financier taunts her about her past ("I know how you paid your rent back in Miami") and decides to tell the story of why Monk hates him so much. Trudy, in her career as a reporter, wrote an article criticizing Biederbeck and his cruel ways, dubbing him "the Genghis Khan of world finance." Dale decided to sue her and the newspaper she worked for into oblivion, knowing full well that he didn't have any kind of case. His only goal was to cause enough legal trouble to force Adrian and Trudy to sell everything they owned--including their own home--to cover the astronomical court costs. A disgusted Sharona remembers the task at hand and tries to feel Dale's stomach to see if he is truly immobile or just faking, as Monk theorizes. Dale realizes what she's doing and lifts his pajamas to show off his mammoth body...

* FrivolousLawsuit: Dale tells Sharona that when Trudy published an article criticizing him as "the Genghis Khan of world finance," he hit her and the paper that ran the piece with a libel lawsuit. While Dale lost the lawsuit in the end--and knew full well that he was ''never'' going to win--the Monks were so tied up in legal fees and such that they had to sell their first house. It's clear what Dale was actually hoping to accomplish with the suit was watching Trudy squirm.

** Monk ''loathes'' Dale and even admits that his hatred is clouding his judgment. Dale himself later tells Sharona why: Trudy, who worked as a newspaper reporter, once wrote a piece criticizing Biederbeck and dubbing him "the Genghis Khan of world finance." The villain decided to take out a libel suit against both her and the paper, even though he knew he couldn't possibly win--[[ForTheEvulz he just wanted to see Adrian and Trudy squirm]]. The Monks were forced to sell everything they owned to pay for the court costs, and Monk admits that during the whole incident, he would see Trudy outside sobbing with grief.