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** For all her bellyaching about murder following Monk wherever he goes, she joins in on the interrogation of Mrs. Willowby, picking up Stottlemeyer's line of questioning about her late husband's life insurance policy and whether it had a double indemnity clause that paid double for a death occurring throuhg an act of God.

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** For all her bellyaching about murder following Monk wherever he goes, she joins in on the interrogation of Mrs. Willowby, picking up Stottlemeyer's line of questioning about her late husband's life insurance policy and whether it had a double indemnity clause that paid double for a death occurring throuhg through an act of God.
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* FamousForBeingTheFirst: The day before his birthday, Stottlemeyer ruefully reflects that he was the youngest officer in the history of the SFPD to make detective, but somewhere his career stalled and instead of being the deputy commissioner, he's still a precinct captain chiefly known for being ''"the guy who knows how to find [Monk]."''

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* FamousForBeingTheFirst: FamousForBeingFirst: The day before his birthday, Stottlemeyer ruefully reflects that he was the youngest officer in the history of the SFPD to make detective, but somewhere his career stalled and instead of being the deputy commissioner, he's still a precinct captain chiefly known for being ''"the guy who knows how to find [Monk]."''
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* BadLiar:
-->'''Monk''': Are we lost? I-I have to know. Are we lost?\\
'''Natalie''': We're... ''(Stottlemeyer mouths "NO!")'' ... not lost.\\
'''Monk''': Oh, my God! WE'RE LOST!



* FamousForBeingTheFirst: The day before his birthday, Stottlemeyer ruefully reflects that he was the youngest officer in the history of the SFPD to make detective, but somewhere his career stalled and instead of being the deputy commissioner, he's still a precinct captain chiefly known for being ''"the guy who knows how to find [Monk]."''



** For all her bellyaching about murder following Monk wherever he goes, she joins in on the interrogation of Mrs. Willowby, picking up Stottlemeyer's line of questioning about her late husband's life insurance policy and whether it had a double indemnity clause that paid double for a death occurring throuhg an act of God.



* UnwittingPawn: Randy gets fooled by his girlfriend into revealing Monk's location to the hitmen.

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* UnwittingPawn: Randy gets fooled by his girlfriend into revealing Monk's location to the hitmen.hitmen.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Natalie's word-for-word response when Monk deduces that the woman in the cabin adjacent to theirs killed her husband.
-->'''Natalie''': Can't I take you ''anywhere''?!
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: If Kathy Willowby wasn't so disdainful of her husband's fishing habit, she might not have missed a couple of crucial details that tipped off Monk and then Deputy Coby that he wasn't fishing on the lake when he was supposedly hit by lightning.

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: If Kathy Willowby wasn't so disdainful of her husband's fishing habit, she might not have missed a couple of crucial details that tipped off Monk and then Deputy Coby that he wasn't fishing on the lake when he was supposedly hit by lightning.lightning - such as pushing his boat onto the lake without dressing him in his ''"lucky fishing hat"'', or the brand-new lures that Monk saw him buying.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: The witness protection program is run by the US Marshals, not the FBI and they most likely wouldn't take the witness to within a driving distance of where they live.

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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: ArtisticLicenseLawEnforcement: The witness protection program is run by the US Marshals, not the FBI and they most likely wouldn't take the witness to within a driving distance of where they live.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: If Kathy Willowby wasn't so disdainful of her husband's fishing habit, she might not have missed a couple of crucial details that tipped off Monk and then Deputy Coby that he wasn't fishing on the lake when he was supposedly hit by lightning.


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* JerkassHasAPoint: Stottlemeyer calls out Grooms's refusal to investigate the clues that Kathy Willowby murdered her husband, but Grooms points out that his priority is keeping Monk safe, and a local murder is a job for the county sheriff, not the FBI. He promises to call the sheriff's office in the morning, but refuses to drive out to the Willowby house that night, or to let anybody else go.
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* CorrelationCausationGag: Monk is adjusting a car's bent antenna, which snaps off in his hand with an unusually loud bang. Monk looks in confusion at the antenna for a moment, then looks to his left and sees Tommy Win with a gun, and his latest victim dropping to the ground.
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* KnewItAllAlong: Randy breezily claims credit for ''"luring"'' Tommy Win's hitmen into a trap. Monk and Natalie decide not to call him out on it.

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* CaptainObvious: Randy morosely predicts that his new girlfriend will break up with him after he returns to San Francisco and arrests her for conspiracy and attempted murder.
* CorpseTemperatureTampering: Hearing thunder, Kathy electrocutes her husband, planning to put his corpse into his boat and claim he was hit by lightning. But when the expected rain fails to arrive, she immerses his body in ice for a day and puts him out the next night. The coroner confirms that he died a day later than he actually did, but Monk makes the connection between the screams he heard and the bags of ice.



* HoneyTrap: How the Chinese mob learns Monk's location.



* RedBaron: Discussed. Stottlemeyer and Natalie debate on calling Monk the Prince of Darkness. Monk asks them to knock it off and not call him that because "that's how rumors get started".

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* RedBaron: Discussed. Stottlemeyer and Natalie debate on calling Monk the Prince of Darkness. Monk asks them to knock it off and not call him that because "that's ''"that's how rumors get started". started"''.



* SkewedPriorities: When Randy realizes that his girlfriend used him to kill Monk and they all survive the shootout, he worries more about the fact that she'll dump him after he arrests her for "conspiracy and attempted murder".

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* SkewedPriorities: When Randy realizes that his girlfriend used him to kill Monk and they all survive the shootout, he worries more about the fact that she'll dump him after he arrests her for "conspiracy ''"conspiracy and attempted murder".murder"''.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Stottlemeyer proves to be one. When they hear a blood-curdling scream from the other cabin, and hear Kathy playing country music that her husband hates in the house, he breaks the "no phone calls" rule to see if her husband will come to the phone. When Kathy claims he's in his boat, they all know she's lying since they can see he isn't there. Deputy Coby becomes very interested in the answers to the questions' monk is asking about the death of kathy's husband.

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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Stottlemeyer proves to be one. When they hear a blood-curdling scream from the other cabin, and hear Kathy playing country music that her husband hates in the house, he breaks the "no phone calls" rule to see if her husband will come to the phone. When Kathy claims he's in his boat, they all know she's lying since they can see he isn't there. Deputy Coby becomes very interested in the answers to the questions' monk questions Monk is asking about the death of kathy's Kathy's husband.

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