S7.E12 “Mr. Monk and the Lady Next Door” (1/23/09): Monk meets an older woman named Marge, who ends up becoming a mother figure for Monk. Monk gets suspicious of her though and suspects her of helping out a thief/murderer. It turns out that her neighbor stole a robot from a museum in order to create an alibi for himself by having the robot play his drums getting the neighbor’s attention. Meanwhile he stole some jewelry form a jewelry store. Eric’s Thoughts
S7.E11 “Mr. Monk On Wheels” (1/16/09): While investigating a stolen bike, Monk is shot. Natalie ends up feeling guilty so she takes care of Monk. Monk ends up solving that the bike was stolen in order to determine the combination the the bike owner was using. The combination was then used in order to steal some research. Monk and Natalie solve the case but in the process Natalie ends up shooting Monk in the other leg. Eric’s Thoughts
S7.E10 “Mr. Monk’s Other Brother” (1/9/09): Monk’s half brother, Jack, ends up breaking out of prison but is implicated in the murder of a woman who worked at the prison. He ends up getting Monk to help him with his case. While Jack annoys him, Monk actually shares a connection with Jack and discovers that he didn’t kill the woman. It turns out one of the guards at the prison was having an affair with the woman and he tried to frame Jack for murder when he actually killed the woman. Jack ends up saving the day when he is given the opportunity to escape the police but ends up saving Monk and Natalie when the guard tries to kill them. Eric’s Thoughts
S7.E9 “Mr. Monk and the Miracle” (11/28/08): Three homeless men hire Monk to find out who killed their friend. The police ruled it an accident but they believe it to be murder. Monk quickly finds enough evidence to have the case re-opened. Meanwhile, Captain Stottlemeyer is having severe back problems (bad enough that Disher is in charge of the station). He does learn about a miracle fountain outside a monastery that heals ailments (and finds a picture of the fountain and the word “drink” on his front door). He doesn’t believe it at first but eventually takes a drink from it. In two days he feels much better. Using bottle cans as a clue, Monk figures out that the murdered man was outside Stottlemeyer’s house the day he died.
Stottlemeyer takes a vow of silence and joins the monastery because he thinks being healed was a sign from God. Monk eventually notices a pile of pill bottles, canes, etc. near the fountain. Over half of the pill bottles came from the same pharmacy. It turns out that Stottlemeyer’s pharmacist caused his back problems and murdered the homeless man because he witnessed him drawing the picture on Stottlemeyer’s door. The fountain was going to be replaced with a schoolroom and the pharmacist had buried the body of his former partner (who he murdered) under it. If it turned out to be a “miracle” fountain, they wouldn’t be able to get rid of it. Stottlemeyer leaves the monastery after finding out the fountain was a hoax.
S7.E7 Mr. Monk’s 100th Case (9/5/2008): Full Episode Recap. To celebrate Monk’s 100th solved case a television show does a piece on Monk’s life. We find out more about Monk’s past. While watching the piece Monk notices something strange about the case. He figures out that he caught the right killer for the first three murders but he was not responsible for a fourth murder. It turns out that the host of the show killed his mistress and blamed it on the caught killer.
