Writer:	Daniel Dratch
Director:	Andrei Belgrader
Star:	Tony Shalhoub (Adrian Monk),  Ted Levine (Captain Leland Stottlemeyer),  Traylor Howard (Natalie Teeger (episodes 39+)),  Jason Gray-Stanford (Lt. Randall Disher)
Guest Star:	Kathryn J. Taylor (Waitress),  Nick Hoffa (Bartender),  Daniel Roebuck (Larry Zwibell),  Bianca Chiminello (Wine Expert),  Richard Libertini (Dr. Sobel),  Peggy Miley (Mrs. Willis),  Maurice Godin (Pierre Lecoste),  Felicia Day (Heidi Gefsky),  Chris D'Elia (Cal Gefsky),  Larry Clarke (Rudy),  Assaf Cohen (Ricardo)

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Monk: (to Al Nicoletto while drunk) You look like a moose... I'm gonna call you... Mr. Look Like a Moose! (edit) Mrs. Willis: (to Natalie) We had a mystery weekend [last year], and we hired some actors who were going to act out a little murder.
Monk: I'm really, really sorry.
Mrs. Willis: It was supposed to be for three days, and everybody paid in advance for three days. And Adrian solved the case in, what was it, twelve minutes? (edit) Mrs. Willis: Adrian, you don't drink, do you?
Monk: Mmm, no.
Mrs. Willis: Oh, good. Perfect. (edit) Monk: (to the invisible Trudy) Thank you for marrying me. What were you thinking? (edit) Larry Zwibell: (to Monk) I'm bilingual. My mother was Venezuelan. That means I can make an ass of myself in two languages. (edit)

Why would Monk, who has had a sip of the same wine on 15 preceding anniversaries, have such an unpredictable reaction to it this time? (edit) When Monk is sitting alone "with Trudy," the waiter places his bottle of wine on the table, then removes the extra place setting, then returns it at Monk's insistence, and then pours the wine. This implies that the waiter was going to just leave the bottle on the table and walk away, which a professional waiter (let alone one at a winery) would not do. This is confirmed moments later, when the waiter correctly presents Larry's wine. (edit) When Natalie is talking to the psychologist at the table in the hall (before he notices the painting), her lips are badly out-of-sync with the audio. (edit) When Monk and Natalie first meet the man who claims to be Alan Gruber, the lighting (sunlight) keeps changing after each cut. (edit)

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