Writer:	Nell Scovell
Director:	Jerry Levine
Star:	Tony Shalhoub (Adrian Monk),  Traylor Howard (Natalie Teeger (episodes 39+)),  Jason Gray-Stanford (Lt. Randall Disher),  Ted Levine (Captain Leland Stottlemeyer)
Guest Star:	Christopher Neiman (Chilton Handy),  Jennifer Hall (Abby),  James Logan (Ben),  Meredith Scott Lynn (Angela),  Fred Stoller (Greg),  Brett Rickaby (The Killer),  Pamela Shaddock (Waitress),  Veda Jones (Receptionist),  Christina Lusita (Assistant),  Mark McDaniels (Garage Attendant),  Morgana Davis (Female Paramedic),  Brian Hatton (Second Detective),  Chet Grissom (First Detective),  Nicole Randall Johnson (Frances),  Eddie McClintock (Warren Kemp)

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Natalie: (to Warren Kemp) [Monk] can't work here. There are people here. (edit) Monk: Give me the cards. Weather. Politics. Swear words.
Natalie: Swear words?
Monk: (pocketing the swear word cards) Don't you look at them. Football. (edit) Monk: You guys wanna hear some swear words? (edit) Monk: We were talking about the local football franchise.
Stottlemeyer: The Niners.
Monk: No. The San Francisco Forty-Niners. (edit) Monk: He's insecure. He's always trying to impress people. Act tougher than he is.
Disher: How do you know that?
Monk: He was chewing on this--toothpick.
(Stottlemeyer, chewing on a toothpick, glares.) (edit)

When Natalie calls Kemp from the Wednesday night bowling league, there is bright sunlight outside Kemp's office window. (edit) It's not likely that a security firm that installed a voice scrambler and sweeps for bugs twice a week would fail to notice the vulnerability of large windows to eavesdroppers in the courtyard. Although they might not have counted on a lip reader, it would have been very easy to listen through the glass with simple equipment. (edit) Trivia: The conversation cards were also used in "Mr. Monk and the Blackout." (edit) Not very wise of the criminal to chew on a toothpick and leave it at the crime scene. There would be saliva on it. That's instant DNA. (edit) Eventually the other bowlers notice that Monk is wearing street shoes, but no bowling alley would have let him on the alley in the first place without bowling shoes. (edit)

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