Monk

CLEAN MACHINE!

Former police detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) has suffered from intensified obsessive-compulsive disorder and a variety of phobias since the murder of his wife, Trudy, in 1997. Despite his photographic memory and his amazing ability to piece tiny clues together, he is now on psychiatric leave from the San Francisco Police Department. Working as a freelance detective/consultant on difficult cases, Monk hopes to convince his former boss, Captain Leland Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine), to allow him to return to the force. Stottlemeyer, who wavered between admiration for Monk and annoyance at his eccentricities, is becoming more of a friend to Monk as the series develops. However, he knows Monk's limitations as well as his strengths and may still harbour doubts about the wisdom of allowing Monk to carry a gun. Stottlemeyer's second-in-command, Lieutenant Randall Disher (Jason Gray-Stanford), who also had doubts about Monk (as well as a hint of jealousy) in the early episodes seems to be developing a reluctant admiration for the man he once labelled "the defective detective”.

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