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* MeaningfulEcho: When Stottlemeyer finally reads the killer's confession.
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* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Stottlemeyer ends up solving the case when he notices Dennis Gammill's horror at the mayor offering to dig up the time capsule early so Holling could add more to his autobiography.
* MeaningfulEcho: While Stottlemeyer is discussing a cold hit-and-run case, he mentions his disappointment that nobody confessed to it, calling the urge to tell someone about wrongdoing "the cop's best friend." It turns out that the two more recent murders happened because the hit-and-run culprit put an incriminating document in the time capsule. When Stottlemeyer finally reads the killer'sconfession.confession:
* MeaningfulEcho: While Stottlemeyer is discussing a cold hit-and-run case, he mentions his disappointment that nobody confessed to it, calling the urge to tell someone about wrongdoing "the cop's best friend." It turns out that the two more recent murders happened because the hit-and-run culprit put an incriminating document in the time capsule. When Stottlemeyer finally reads the killer's
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* RageBreakingPoint: Stottlemeyer reaches his after Adrian starts vacuuming his rug right after Stottlemeyer just finished vacuuming, explaining that while Stottlemeyer vacuumed in a way that leaves diagonal lines in the carpet, Adrian prefers to make a grid with the lines. Leland is... well, just read:
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* RageBreakingPoint: Stottlemeyer reaches his after Adrian starts vacuuming his rug right after Stottlemeyer just finished vacuuming, explaining that while Stottlemeyer vacuumed in a way that leaves diagonal lines in the carpet, Adrian prefers to make a grid with the lines. Leland is... well, just read:blows his stack:
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* CrimeAfterCrime: For Dennis Gammill, it goes: Driving drunk -> Hitting someone with your car -> Tampering with records to remove your ownership of the type of car that hit the person -> Trying to scare an old man to death -> Breaking into a security guard's house -> Killing said security guard to steal his clothes/pass -> Trespassing in the retirement home -> Murdering Miles Holling.
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* CrimeAfterCrime: For Dennis Gammill, it goes: Driving drunk -> Hitting someone with your car -> Tampering with records to remove your ownership of Gammill accidentally killed an innocent teenager in a drunken hit and run years before the type of car that hit the person -> Trying plot happened and covered it up. Unable to scare an old man resist confessing somehow, he wrote a letter detailing his guilt and put it in a time capsule, which was supposed to death -> Breaking into be opened again sooner than expected if Miles Holling were to live five more years. The politician eventually killed a security guard's house -> Killing said security guard to steal his clothes/pass -> Trespassing in get into the retirement nursing home -> Murdering Miles Holling.and kill Holling. He goes down for triple homicide in an attempt to cover up his single hit and run.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Somewhat in play for Dennis. He was racked enough with guilt over killing Darren that he wrote a confession letter and joined Alcoholics Anonymous shortly after. However, that guilt wasn't enough to lead him to confess to the actual authorities, and it ''certainly'' wasn't enough to stop him from killing two other innocent people to cover it up.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Somewhat in play for Dennis. He PlayedWith. Gamill was racked enough with guilt over killing Darren that he wrote a confession letter and joined Alcoholics Anonymous shortly after. However, that guilt wasn't enough to lead him to confess to the actual authorities, and it ''certainly'' wasn't enough to stop him from killing two other innocent people to cover it up.
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* SherlockScan: As is par for the course, Monk does this at the first murder scene: Holling, a one hundred and fifteen year old man, left his walker in the middle of the room but was found on the bed, and he clearly couldn't walk that distance unassisted. Then, the blinds in the room were pulled down, but Holling was too short to reach the pull cord for one of the windows and preferred the blinds be left up at all times. [[RuleOfThree Furthermore]], Monk determines that George Rowe was killed by a stranger because the murderer broken three panels in the front door--they didn't know where the lock was and had to try multiple times.
** As noted under SpottingTheThread, Karen Stottlemeyer also does one when she first arrives at the crime scene, although we don't get to see it.
** As noted under SpottingTheThread, Karen Stottlemeyer also does one when she first arrives at the crime scene, although we don't get to see it.
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** Karen quickly figures out that something's wrong upon seeing the death scene; Holling was found lying on his bed with a book on his chest, but he didn't lie down to sleep and his eyesight was so poor he couldn't read.
** As is par for the course, Monk does this at the first murder scene: Holling, a onehundred hundred- and fifteen year old fifteen-year-old man, left his walker in the middle of the room but was found on the bed, and he clearly couldn't walk that distance unassisted. Then, the blinds in the room were pulled down, but Holling was too short to reach the pull cord for one of the windows and preferred the blinds be left up at all times. [[RuleOfThree Furthermore]], Monk determines that George Rowe was killed by a stranger because the murderer broken three panels in the front door--they didn't know where the lock was and had to try multiple times.
** As noted under SpottingTheThread, Karen Stottlemeyer also does one when she first arrives at the crime scene, although we don't get to see it.times.
** Karen quickly figures out that something's wrong upon seeing the death scene; Holling was found lying on his bed with a book on his chest, but he didn't lie down to sleep and his eyesight was so poor he couldn't read.
** As is par for the course, Monk does this at the first murder scene: Holling, a one
** As noted under SpottingTheThread, Karen Stottlemeyer also does one when she first arrives at the crime scene, although we don't get to see it.
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* ComplimentBackfire: Stottlemeyer calls Monk to look at Miles Holling's room, as a way of proving to Karen that he is taking her suspicions seriously. This backfires when Monk concludes that she is right, Holling was murdered.
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* BadLiar: When Karen drops in at the station, Stottlemeyer hurriedly sets up the dreamcatcher and the waterfall-style fountain she gave him in his office; lacking any water to fill it, he pours coffee into it, describing it to her as a ''"coffee-fall"''.
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* DescriptionCut: When Randy tries to distract Karen by showing off his pistol, she informs him she DoesntLikeGuns and has successfully convinced her husband that he doesn't need to carry one. Cut to Stottlemeyer in his office, hurriedly removing his holster and locking it in a drawer, then tossing a stuffed duck behind the bookcase.
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* DoesntLikeGuns: Karen, which is why Stottlemeyer hurriedly hides his own sidearm, and the stuffed duck in his office, when she drops by to visit him.
