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Monk: Mr. Monk and the Candidate (1)
After losing his job with the San Francisco Police Department for three years because of his obsessive/compulsive disorder, Monk now is a private investigator consultant. Captain Stottlemeyer, his former boss, reluctantly requests his aid to discover the would-be assassin of mayoral candidate Warren St. Claire.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 1x1 Production Number: T1100A Airdate: Friday July 12th, 2002 Alternate Airdates:
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Co-Guest Stars
Uncredited
Main Cast
Recap
At a murder scene in a Santa Clara apartment, the police watch as consultant Adrian Monk quietly scans the body and everything around it. However, he is more concerned about whether the left the stove on at home. His personal assistant, Nurse Sharona Fleming, assures him that she turned everything off. Monk then redirects his attention to the crime and informs the police that the killer tried to make the murder look like a robbery. He wore the victim's slippers to avoid leaving his own shoeprints. As he keeps touching the lamp, Sharona finally gets his attention back. Monk concludes that the killer was there at least for an hour and he was smoking menthols, and the victim was a Dutch Calvinist who didn't smoke. He then loses his train of thought thinking about the gas from his stove, but finally informs the police that after the killer disposes of the victim, Nicole Vasques, he stayed to look for something. Monk continues to obsess about the gas and Sharona finally tells him he needs to focus, or he'll never be reinstated with the San Francisco police...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Captain Stottlemeyer's lieutenant is listed in the credits for the pilot as Lt. Deacon, but he's referred to in later episodes as Lt. Disher.
We learn in this episode that Adrian Monk has a photographic memory.
Monk's phobias
Germs (Misophobia, Molysmophobia, Molysomophobia, Mysophobia, Verminophobia)
Darkness
Needles (Aichmophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia)
Milk (Lactophobia)
Dying (necrophobia)
Snakes (Ophidiophobia)
Mushrooms (mycophobia)
Heights (Acrophobia, Altophobia)
Crowds (Agoraphobia)
Lifts (a form of claustrophobia)
Bridges (Gephyrophobia, Gephydrophobia, Gephyrdrophobia, Gephysrophobia)
Clowns (Coulraphobia)
Childbirth (Lockiophobia, Maieusiophobia, Parturiphobia)
Disorder (Ataxophobia)
Driving
Dogs (Cynophobia)
Enclosed spaces, including caves and tunnels (Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia, Clithrophobia)
Flying (Aviophobia, Aviatophobia, Pteromerhanophobia)
Lightning (Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia, Keraunophobia )
Public speaking (Glossophobia)
Spiders (Arachnophobia)
The Wind
Blood
Germs (Misophobia, Molysmophobia, Molysomophobia, Mysophobia, Verminophobia)
Darkness
Needles (Aichmophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia)
Milk (Lactophobia)
Dying (necrophobia)
Snakes (Ophidiophobia)
Mushrooms (mycophobia)
Heights (Acrophobia, Altophobia)
Crowds (Agoraphobia)
Lifts (a form of claustrophobia)
Bridges (Gephyrophobia, Gephydrophobia, Gephyrdrophobia, Gephysrophobia)
Clowns (Coulraphobia)
Childbirth (Lockiophobia, Maieusiophobia, Parturiphobia)
Disorder (Ataxophobia)
Driving
Dogs (Cynophobia)
Enclosed spaces, including caves and tunnels (Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia, Clithrophobia)
Flying (Aviophobia, Aviatophobia, Pteromerhanophobia)
Lightning (Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia, Keraunophobia )
Public speaking (Glossophobia)
Spiders (Arachnophobia)
The Wind
Blood
Episode Quotes
Adrian: The stove.
Lieutenant Gitomer: Over here. It's in the kitchen.
Adrian: No, I mean my stove. I think I left it on.
Sharona: It's okay. I,m uh, checked it as we were leaving.
Adrian: Are you sure? Did you turn the knob?
Sharona: Yeah.
Adrian: The little knob, though.
Sharona: I turned all the knobs. The stove was off, Adrian
Lieutenant Gitomer: Over here. It's in the kitchen.
Adrian: No, I mean my stove. I think I left it on.
Sharona: It's okay. I,m uh, checked it as we were leaving.
Adrian: Are you sure? Did you turn the knob?
Sharona: Yeah.
Adrian: The little knob, though.
Sharona: I turned all the knobs. The stove was off, Adrian
Sharona: Do you want me to drive all the the way back to the city and check the stove?
Adrian: No.
Sharona: I mean, is that what you're telling me to do?
Adrian: Would you? Could you? That would be great.
Adrian: No.
Sharona: I mean, is that what you're telling me to do?
Adrian: Would you? Could you? That would be great.
Sharona: Now pull your twisted self together, concentrate, and be brilliant.
Uniformed Police: So that's the famous Adrian Monk?
Cop: Yeah, the living legend.
Lieutenant Gitomer: If you call that living.
Cop: Yeah, the living legend.
Lieutenant Gitomer: If you call that living.
Stottlemeyer: Is the press here? Who's here?
Deacon: The girl from channel 3.
Stottlemeyer: The pretty one?
Deacon: No, the other one.
Deacon: The girl from channel 3.
Stottlemeyer: The pretty one?
Deacon: No, the other one.
Lt. Deacon: Look who's here. The defective detective.
Miranda St. Claire: Is this a joke? Someone tries to kill my husband and you send in Rain Man?
Adrian: How tall are you?
Stottlemeyer: Six feet.
Adrian: No, really.
Stottlemeyer: Five eleven.
Stottlemeyer: Six feet.
Adrian: No, really.
Stottlemeyer: Five eleven.
Sharona: I love this part. He does this Zen-Sherlock Holmes thing.
Stottlemeyer: This isn't police work. This is... this is vaudeville.
Sharona: You're going straight to hell.
Adrian: I am in hell.
Adrian: I am in hell.
Miranda St. Claire: Do you lie awake at night thinking of ways to disrupt my husband's campaign?
Warren St. Claire: Now, Miranda...
Adrian: No, ma'am, I lie awake at night and try not to think at all.
Warren St. Claire: Now, Miranda...
Adrian: No, ma'am, I lie awake at night and try not to think at all.
Miranda St. Claire: How can you investigate anything? I'm told you're germophobic, afraid of the dark, heights, crowds, and milk.
Sharona: We're working on the milk. We're making progress on milk.
Sharona: We're working on the milk. We're making progress on milk.
Adrian: Are you registered to vote?
Sharona: I never vote; it just encourages them.
Sharona: I never vote; it just encourages them.
Sharona: We gonna let it go?
Adrian: Hell, no.
Sharona: What are we going to do now?
Adrian: We're going to follow the money. Mm! Ah! I always wanted to say that.
Adrian: Hell, no.
Sharona: What are we going to do now?
Adrian: We're going to follow the money. Mm! Ah! I always wanted to say that.
Miranda St. Claire: You've been married, right?
Adrian: Yes, uh, I have.
Miranda St. Claire: Then I don't have to tell you every marriage is stressful. That's why they call it "marriage."
Adrian: Yes, uh, I have.
Miranda St. Claire: Then I don't have to tell you every marriage is stressful. That's why they call it "marriage."
Miranda St. Claire: Are you accusing me of something, Mr. Monk?
Adrian: I don't know. Uh, are you guilty of something?
Adrian: I don't know. Uh, are you guilty of something?
Miranda St. Claire: Last week, if I could have I would have taken that bullet myself. You have to believe me.
Adrian: Mrs. St. Claire, I have to listen to you. I don't have to believe you.
Adrian: Mrs. St. Claire, I have to listen to you. I don't have to believe you.
Episode Goofs
In the board room, the back of the campaign map board that Monk and Gavin swing back and forth varies between being blank, and being covered with a counterweight.
In the theme song, Monk's door is unlocked when he leaves his house, but a person with OCD, which he had, would never leave his door unlocked.
Just before St. Claire's bodyguard is shot, St. Claire and Miranda were moving to shake hands with his supporters on his left-hand side. When the shooting actually happens, St. Claire and Miranda switch positions and move to the other side of the lectern.
When Monk was working as a police officer, Stottlemeyer and the rest of the police force referred him as a detective, but in San Francisco, where the show is set, Monk would be called inspector and not detective.
Stottlemeyer says "He was stabbed; she was shot." Jason was shot, Nicole was stabbed.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Andy Breckman |
| • Executive Producer | Andy Breckman | David Hoberman |
| • Producer | Tony Shalhoub | Jane Bartelme |
| • Associate Producer | Judith Craig Marlin |
| • Production Designer | Tony Devenyi |
| • Editor | Joe D'Augustine |
| • Casting | Jason L. Wood |
| • Unit Production Manager | Lope Yap, Jr. |
| • First Assistant Director | Lee Knippelberg | Annie Spiegelman |
| • Second Assistant Director | Caroline Battista | Sharon Gerhard |
| • Music | Jeff Beal |
| • Music Editor | Helena Lea |
| • Costume Designer | Tish Monaghan |
| • Hairstylist | Angelina P. Cameron |
| • Make-up | Faye von Schroeder |
| • Key Grip | Michael McLellan | Dave Childers |
| • Camera Operator | Mickey Freeman (2) |
| • Set Decorator | George Zimninsky |
| • Location Manager | Dennis Swartman | Gail Stempler |
| • Transportation Coordinator | Ron James (2) | David Pappas |
| • Property Master | Phil Gough |
| • Construction Coordinator | Jim Davie |
| • Script Supervisor | Portia Belmont | Peggy Geary |
| • Production Coordinator | Julia Neville | Fran Massimino |
| • Assistant Editor | Andrew Seklir |
| • Supervising Sound Editor | Peter Austin (2) |
| • Re-Recording Mixer | Joe Earle |
| • Gaffer | Peter Capadouca | Frank Strzalkowski |
| • Director of Photography | Jerzy Zielinski |
| • Stunt Coordinator | J. J. Makaro (1) | Rocky Capella |
| • Art Director | Michael Diner |
| • Production Management | Jim Rowe |
| • Third Assistant Director | Shelby Johnstone |
| • Main Title Theme | Grant Geissman | Jeff Beal |
| • Production Accountant | Reva Clavier | Joyce Quan |
| • Transportation Captain | Tony Johnson |
| • Wardrobe | Ileane Meltzer |
| • Assistant To The Director | Tanja Balic |
| • Assistant To The Executive Producer | Kim Meade |
| • Assistant Costume Designer | Karin Nosella |
| • Dolly Grip | John Brown (5) | Michael Iwan |
| • Sound Effects Editor | Ken Johnson (4) |
| • "B" Camera Operator | Brian C. Murphy (1) |
| • Canadian Casting | Susan Brouse | Lynne Carrow |
| • Best Boy Electrician | Paul Bougie |
| • Set Supervisor | Michelle Baines |
| • Best Girl Grip | Shauna Hanna |
| • Supervising Re-recording Mixer | Rick Ash |
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