History Recap / MonkS3E6MrMonkAndTheGirlWhoCriedWolf

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Meredith kills her husband by putting carbolic acid into her his soup.

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Meredith kills her husband by putting carbolic acid into her husband's soup.

* SitcomArchNemesis: This episode marks the start of Adrian's grudge with Harold Krenshaw.

* ItRunsInTheFamily: Sharona's father went insane and spent the last years of his life confined to a room, which makes Sharona very nervous when she seems to start having delusions.

* VillainousLineage: A variant; it turns out Sharona's father went insane and spent the last years of his life confined to a room, which makes Sharona very nervous when she seems to start having delusions.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Meredith Preminger may seem like a very friendly writing professor. But she turns out to be manipulative and doesn't regret gaslighting one of her own writing students into thinking she's crazy, even to get away with killing her husband in favor of her lover. She even lies to Sharona's face that she doesn't see the figment of the dead man (really her lover in disguise).

* {{Gaslighting}}: Sharona's writing professor Meredith Preminger tries to discredit her sanity by having her lover, a security guard named Denny Graf, pose as a dying man with a knife in his blood-soaked chest and a screwdriver sticking out of his ear, stating "Douglas is worried about you", and then have him disappear when she tries to show him to Monk: Thrice. Turns out, she is doing this because Sharona has written a mystery story which was about a woman who kills her husband by feeding him tomato soup laced with a toxin that can emulate a heart attack, which Meredith and her lover have decided will be helpful to use against her husband, and thus cover their tracks in case Sharona gets suspicious. To make Sharona really think she's going crazy, Denny copies her keys and uses them to enter her house and move things around, including stealing a copy of the story she kept for herself.
* ForWantOfANail: If Sharona didn't have the habit to use scrap paper as one might use Styrofoam peanuts, the handwritten first draft of her story might not have survived.

* VillainousHeritage: A variant; it turns out Sharona's father went insane and spent the last years of his life confined to a room, which makes Sharona very nervous when she seems to start having delusions.

* InTheBlood: A variant; it turns out Sharona's father went insane and spent the last years of his life confined to a room, which makes Sharona very nervous when she seems to start having delusions.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Meredith Preminger may seem like a very friendly writing professor. But she turns out manipulative and doesn't regret gaslighting one of her own writing students into thinking she's crazy, even to get away with killing her husband in favor of her lover. She even lies to Sharona's face that she doesn't see the figment of the dead man (really her lover in disguise).

* {{Gaslighting}}: Sharona's writing professor Meredith Preminger tries to discredit her sanity by having her lover, a security guard named Denny Graf, pose as a dying man with a knife in his blood-soaked chest and a screwdriver sticking out of his ear, stating "Douglas is worried about you", and then have him disappear when she tries to show him to Monk: Thrice. Turns out, she is doing this because Sharona has written a mystery paper which was about a woman who kills her husband by feeding him tomato soup laced with a toxin that can emulate a heart attack, which Meredith and her lover have decided will be helpful to use against her husband, and thus cover their tracks in case Sharona gets suspicious.

* YouCanSeeThatRight: Sharona thinks she's losing her mind after she starts seeing a bloodied man with a screwdriver in his ear and knife in his chest, only for him to vanish without any evidence he was ever there when she goes to get help from Monk. The first couple times he only appears when Sharona is alone, but eventually he shows up while she's in the middle of a talk with her writing teacher. Sharona asks the teacher if she can see him, but she says she can't. [[DoubleSubversion She actually does, she's just in on it due to a murder scheme.]]