Monk: Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas
Episode score
9.4
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Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas
- 43.
- Season: 3
- Episode: 14
- First Aired: 2/18/2005
- Prod Code: T-3016
Stottlemeyer is in Las Vegas and drunkenly figures out how a wealthy casino owner secretly murdered, but calls in the Monk the next day when he can't remember how he solved the murder. Read full recap »
- Director:
- Randall Zisk
- Stars:
- Tony Shalhoub (Adrian Monk)
- Ted Levine (Captain Leland Stottlemeyer)
- Jason Gray-Stanford (Lt. Randall Disher)
- Traylor Howard (Natalie Teeger (episodes 39+))
- Guest Star:
- Krista Allen (Teresa Telenko)
- Maury Sterling (Lewis)
- Challen Cates (Sheryl Thorn)
- Mike Barger (Dealer)
- James Brolin (Daniel Thorn)
- Dalton Grant (Bartender)
- John Sterling Carter (Croupier)
- Phil Abrams (2nd Cop)
- Ann E. Livingstone (2nd Barfly)
- Alexandra Kenworthy (Wanda the Barfly)
- Eric Gelman (Paparazzi Photographer)
- Larry Varanelli (1st Barfly)
- Josh Cruze (Roberto the Cook)
- Chet Grissom (1st Cop)
- Paul Hayes (Mr. Cooper)
- Mike Marlin (Gambler)
- Cheryl Faye Kloner (Gambling Woman)
- In "Mr. Monk and the Panic Room", we learn that Monk is unable to speak to someone unless is looking at them. Here, he cannot bring himself to look at Miss Telenko, yet speaks very directly to her. edit »
- Sheryl Thorn is murdered on May 2. However, in "Medicine," Sharona informed Monk that Mardi Gras wasn't for another nine months, meaning that "Medicine" is set in May. If Monk has been on his own for three months at the beginning of "Red Herring," this time frame is impossible, unless the "Vegas" episode takes place in May 2005, three months after it first aired on February 18, 2005. edit »
- Monk adamantly claimed that he didn't gamble (and was extremely hesitant to do so, even under extenuating circumstances), but in "Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan," he nonchalantly wagered money in a three-card monte game (not realizing that the dealer was crooked, of course). edit »
- Monk's initial assumption of murder was based on the way the victim touched the fingerprint pad (upside down and not completely vertical). He consider that "abnormal." But it's possible (and logical) that the victim extended her right arm when facing the elevator back panel (with her back to the door) to do it. edit »
- When Natalie and Adrian enter the room where all of the SFPD guys are sleeping off the party, you see a low-top, gray and black cross-trainer sneaker beside the chaise lounge where Lt. Disher is sleeping. The next shot from this angle shows a white, high-top sneaker in the same place. edit »
- The casino set featured in this episode is the Montecito, which is used as the home base of the fellow NBC/Universal series Las Vegas. edit »
- Eric Gelman, an aspiring actor who played a paparazzi photographer in this episode and "First Paparazzi" in "Mr. Monk and the TV Star," was fatally stabbed on April 17 on his way home from his job at the Marmalade Cafe in Los Angeles. He was 32. edit »
- If you enjoy watching Stottlemeyer get drunk, check out Ted Levine's performance in Ellen Foster (where he drives like a maniac and manages to fall upstairs) and Harlan County War (in which he does a jig, sings "Shady Grove," passes out, and wakes up to find Holly Hunter pouring cold water on his head). The classic TV Series Crime Story features a drunken Frank Holman (Ted) in at least one episode ("The St. Louis Book of Blues"). And he sings (Elvis-style rock) in several episodes. edit »
- James Brolin is billed as Special Guest Star in this episode. edit »
- Stottlemeyer: So that means if I'm drunk as a skunk, completely plastered, I'm as smart as you.
Monk: Smarter. edit » - Stottlemeyer: Randy, give me the money. You'll get it back when you get home.
Disher: I'm not ten years old.
Stottlemeyer: Yeah, that's true. Give me the money. edit » - Disher: I'm never gambling again for as long as I live.
Stottlemeyer: Wanna bet?
Disher: A thousand bucks? Sorry. edit » - Natalie: Mr. Monk, don't do it.
Stottlemeyer: Mr. Monk, it's Randy.
Monk: I have to do it. It's Randy. edit » - Natalie: (to Stottlemeyer) He gets hooked on everything. He's the most compulsive person I've ever met. He's like a different species.
Monk: Thank you. edit »
- Daniel Thorn: Two million here, four million there, and pretty soon you're talking real money.
This is a variant on a phrase attributed to former U.S. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen: "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking real money." edit » - Louis the Bellboy: What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
From a Las Vegas commercial. This slogan implies that all the wild things that go on in Vegas will be kept secret. edit »
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