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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Had Monk not realized what Vicky was up to, Kevin would have died in what would likely be considered by the police to be an accident.
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* UngratefulBastard: At the end of the episode, Kevin is alive and $43,000,000 richer thanks to his lottery winnings. He gives Monk and Sharona...$400. [[note]] In a bit of LaserGuidedKarma, Kevin loses it all by [[Recap/MonkS3E8MrMonkAndTheGameShow Season 3.]] [[/note]]
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* UngratefulBastard: At the end of the episode, Kevin is alive and $43,000,000 richer thanks to his lottery winnings. He gives Monk and Sharona...$400. [[note]] In a bit of LaserGuidedKarma, Kevin loses it all by [[Recap/MonkS3E8MrMonkAndTheGameShow Season 3.]] [[/note]]
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* GPSEvidence: This provides the basis for why the French murderer severed his victim's hands. Both he and the victim, his wife, were curators of the Bastille Prison Museum, and he used an old pair of handcuffs from their to bind her while he strangled her to death. However, he lost the key to the cuffs, and it would be ungodly obvious to the police who had killed her if her body was found when it was found.
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* GPSEvidence: This provides the basis for why the French murderer severed his victim's hands. Both he and the victim, his wife, were curators of the Bastille Prison Museum, and he used an old pair of handcuffs from their the collection to bind her while he strangled her to death. However, he lost the key to the cuffs, and it would be ungodly obvious to the police who had killed her if her body was found when it was found.with them still on.
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* AwesomeByAnalysis: Monk solves two different murder, one of which was in a different country, just by reading a newspaper.
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* AwesomeByAnalysis: Monk solves two different murder, murders, one of which was in a different country, just by reading a newspaper.
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* AwesomeByAnalysis: Monk solves two different murder, one of which was in a different country, just by reading a newspaper.
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* GPSEvidence: This provides the basis for why the French murderer severed his victim's hands. Both he and the victim, his wife, were curators of the Bastille Prison Museum, and he used an old pair of handcuffs from their to bind her while he strangled her to death. However, he lost the key to the cuffs, and it would be ungodly obvious to the police who had killed her if her body was found when it was found.
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* TilMurderDoUsPart: The victim of the murder in France was killed by her own husband.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Only the credits reveal that Vickie's accomplice she later stabs to death is named "Boz Harrelson".
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* NoNameGiven: Only the credits reveal that Vickie's accomplice she later stabs to death is named "Boz Harrelson".
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* ChekovsGun: The list of addresses Kevin tells Disher he's lived in before. They're the numbers he uses to play the lottery, which ended up winning and starting the events of this episode.
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* ChekovsGun: ChekhovsGun: The list of addresses Kevin tells Disher he's lived in before. They're the numbers he uses to play the lottery, which ended up winning and starting the events of this episode.
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* ChekovsGun: The list of addresses Kevin tells Disher he's lived in before. They're the numbers he uses to play the lottery, which ended up winning and starting the events of this episode.
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* MotorMouth: This episode introduces viewers to Kevin Dorfman, Monk's neighbor upstairs. It establishes quickly Kevin has one of these.
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* UngratefulBastard: At the end of the episode, Kevin is alive and $43,000,000 richer thanks to his lottery winnings. He gives Monk and Sharona...$400. [[note]] In a bit of LaserGuidedKarma, Kevin loses it all by [[Recap/MonkS3E8MrMonkAndTheGameShow Season 3.]] [[/note]]
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* MinorCrimesRevealMajorPlot: One story in the newspaper tells how businessman Malcolm Cowley got into two separate car accidents within 10 minutes of each other. Monk finds out the area it happened in was close by to where a grandmother was killed in a hit-and-run, and Malcolm got into those crashes deliberately so he could explain a smashed-in grille.
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* MinorCrimesRevealMajorPlot: MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: One story in the newspaper tells how businessman Malcolm Cowley got into two separate car accidents within 10 minutes of each other. Monk finds out the area it happened in was close by to where a grandmother was killed in a hit-and-run, and Malcolm got into those crashes deliberately so he could explain a smashed-in grille.
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* BlackWidow: Vickie is this to Kevin, only dating and marrying him for the winning lottery ticket, and intending to kill him as soon as they 'marry'.
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* AssholeVictim: Considering Boz killed Nestor Alvarez and was perfectly fine killing Kevin for his money, Vickie stabbing him to death is pretty deserved.
* BlackWidow: Vickie is this to Kevin, only dating and marrying him for the winning lottery ticket, and intending to kill him as soon as they'marry'."marry".
* BlackWidow: Vickie is this to Kevin, only dating and marrying him for the winning lottery ticket, and intending to kill him as soon as they
* GrievousBottleyHarm: Vickie initially tries to use a knife she brought to kill Boz, but he quickly disarms her. As he goes for the knife, she breaks the cream soda bottle she's been drinking from over his head and stabs him with ''that''.
* InnocentBystander: Nestor's only crime was working with his cousin when someone tires to steal a newspaper.
* MinorCrimesRevealMajorPlot: One story in the newspaper tells how businessman Malcolm Cowley got into two separate car accidents within 10 minutes of each other. Monk finds out the area it happened in was close by to where a grandmother was killed in a hit-and-run, and Malcolm got into those crashes deliberately so he could explain a smashed-in grille.
* NoNameGiven: Only the credits reveal that Vickie's accomplice she later stabs to death is named "Boz Harrelson".
* InnocentBystander: Nestor's only crime was working with his cousin when someone tires to steal a newspaper.
* MinorCrimesRevealMajorPlot: One story in the newspaper tells how businessman Malcolm Cowley got into two separate car accidents within 10 minutes of each other. Monk finds out the area it happened in was close by to where a grandmother was killed in a hit-and-run, and Malcolm got into those crashes deliberately so he could explain a smashed-in grille.
* NoNameGiven: Only the credits reveal that Vickie's accomplice she later stabs to death is named "Boz Harrelson".
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Vickie is an attractive woman who takes an interest in Monk’s nerdy neighbor Kevin. This turns out to be important since Vickie is only interested in Kevin because he happens to be a lottery winner.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Vickie is an attractive woman who takes an interest in Monk’s nerdy neighbor Kevin. This turns out to be important since Vickie is only interested in Kevin because he happens to be a lottery winner.winner.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Vickie stabs her accomplice to death so she can keep the lottery money all to herself.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Vickie stabs her accomplice to death so she can keep the lottery money all to herself.
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* StrongGirlSmartGuy: Deconstructed. Although Monk does pride himself on his intelligence, he's growing insecure about how Sharona is physically stronger than him.
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* StrongGirlSmartGuy: Deconstructed. Although Monk does pride himself on his intelligence, he's growing insecure about how Sharona is physically stronger than him.him.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Vickie is an attractive woman who takes an interest in Monk’s nerdy neighbor Kevin. This turns out to be important since Vickie is only interested in Kevin because he happens to be a lottery winner.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Vickie is an attractive woman who takes an interest in Monk’s nerdy neighbor Kevin. This turns out to be important since Vickie is only interested in Kevin because he happens to be a lottery winner.
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* CuttingTheElectronicLeash: As well as stealing the paper, Vickie tried her best to keep Kevin from getting any calls or watching any TV, for fear he would find out about the lottery ticket and cut her off.
* RedHerring: Monk initially assumes that the killer wanted to hide something in the paper from ''him'', given that the paperboy died trying to stop someone from stealing it. He eventually realizes the killer really wanted to steal Kevin Dorfman's paper, and mistook his front door for Kevin's.
* TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction: Vickie begins flirting with Kevin and ultimately talks him into marriage after realizing he has a winning lottery ticket. During the summation, Monk says he suspects it must have been easy because of Vickie's attractiveness and Kevin's poor luck with the female sex.
* RedHerring: Monk initially assumes that the killer wanted to hide something in the paper from ''him'', given that the paperboy died trying to stop someone from stealing it. He eventually realizes the killer really wanted to steal Kevin Dorfman's paper, and mistook his front door for Kevin's.
* TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction: Vickie begins flirting with Kevin and ultimately talks him into marriage after realizing he has a winning lottery ticket. During the summation, Monk says he suspects it must have been easy because of Vickie's attractiveness and Kevin's poor luck with the female sex.
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* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: Monk and Sharona try to stop Vickie from marrying Kevin, only to find they're too late and they've interrupted another, presumably happier, couple.
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* BlackWidow: Vickie is this to Kevin, only dating and marrying him for the winning lottery ticket, and intending on killing him soon after their 'marriage'.
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* BlackWidow: Vickie is this to Kevin, only dating and marrying him for the winning lottery ticket, and intending on killing to kill him as soon after their 'marriage'.as they 'marry'.
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* SingleParentsAreUndesirable: Randy Disher subverts the stereotypical issues people have with dating a single parent by placing an ad in the personals clearly referring to Sharona and saying he's okay with kids.
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When a paperboy ends up dead on his doorstep trying to keep someone from stealing a newspaper, Monk suspects someone wanted to hide something in the news from him.
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* StrongGirlSmartGuy: Deconstructed. Although Monk does pride himself on his intelligence, he's growing insecure about how she is physically stronger than him.
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* BlackWidow: Vickie is this to Kevin, only dating and marrying him for the winning lottery ticket, and intending on killing him soon after their 'marriage'.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: Deconstructed. Although Monk does pride himself on his intelligence, he's growing insecure about how she is physically stronger than him.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: Deconstructed. Although Monk does pride himself on his intelligence, he's growing insecure about how she is physically stronger than him.
