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A parking garage attendant is murdered by an unknown assailant who then seizes his real victim, financial analyst Warren Kemp, and slams his right hand in his car door, making sure that Kemp doesn't see his face. Because the perpetrator, whose voice Kemp didn't recognize, addressed him by name, Kemp suspects that the man is one of his own employees and asks Monk to go undercover as an office worker to investigate. Happy for the chance to be like everybody else and do the same job every day, Monk contentedly cleans up his co-workers' cubicles and retypes their reports, earning himself a place in what he calls the office "gang" as he searches for clues to the identity of Kemp's assailant. His suspicions fall on the unpleasant and unpopular Chilton Handy, who, like the perpetrator (and Captain Stottlemeyer), chews toothpicks, and whose obsession with winning the office bowling tournament could provide a motive for injuring Kemp's right hand. Meanwhile, Natalie's suspicions fall on Kemp himself when a secret she had confided in him appears in an e-mail sent to all the office employees. Just as Monk discovers an alibi for Chilton and needs a new lead, he manages to alienate his co-workers by causing them to forfeit a bowling tournament. Worse still, the case takes a grim turn as the interior decorator Kemp has hired is murdered. The evidence points to the same man, but Monk must find out who and why without the cooperation of the office staff.