Trivia: Monk went to Berkeley College.
When the police arrest the killer, they only charge him with the murder of the jewelery owner. However, they should have charged him with the murder of both the store owner and the security guard.
When Natalie brings in the groceries to Monk's apartment, she starts to put them in the kitchen cupboard. The shots change from a view from back of the cupboard to the kitchen itself. The items in the cupboard vary from shot to shot.
When the captain is talking to Marty in his office, Marty's computer monitor appears and reappears between shots.
Marty claims that he hears a thud, and a clang as he's talking with his mother's kidnapper, but there's no background noise during the actual conversation.
Monk: Over there. Natalie: What? Monk: Dog . . . doo. Dog . . . doo. Natalie: Did you step in it? Monk: If I stepped in it, I'd be in that ambulance right now, wouldn't I, praying for the sweet release that only death can bring.
Marty: (looking into the sack of dog poo) You can't throw this away. This--this is evidence.
Marty: Monk, Monk, sit. Sit anywhere. Monk: That's okay. I'm not fine. Marty: (to Natalie) Did he just say he's not fine? Natalie: Yes.
Disher: What happened? Marty: Well, it's kind of embarrassing. I got hit very hard by a client--hit me very hard. Yeah. I--I was supposed to follow his wife and take pictures. Stottlemeyer: (looking at a photograph) Whoa! She was cheating on him. Marty: No, no. that's him. That's my client. Natalie: You burst in and took a picture of a man in bed with his own wife?
Stottlemeyer: Monk, sometimes when you're picking up clues, it seems like magic to me. Maybe he's doing something that--that you don't understand. Monk: I think he's cheating. He's a cheater. Stottlemeyer: This isn't the fourth grade, Monk. Monk: He's cheating! Stottlemeyer: How? Monk: I don't know.
Disher: Feels weird, huh? Maybe we should send one of them home. Stottlemeyer: Yeah, but which one?
Reporter: So your son is helping Adrian Monk? Mrs. Eels: Who's helping who? That's the question.
Monk: What are you doing? Marty: Mud. You can tell where the car has been. Monk: From tasting it? He's tasting it! Natalie: Will that work? Monk: No! It's nuts!
Marty: He was trying to tell us the name of the man who killed him. Look. He's pointing to his watch. Monk: No. He's not, Captain. Marty: Are there any perps who'd do a job like this by the name of--Casio?
Stottlemeyer: Monk, why don't you stay here? We're gonna let Marty take this one. Natalie: Wait, wait, wait! You're firing him? Stottlemeyer: No,no. Um, it's just that Marty seems to be in the zone. He's got a handle on this one. You get the next one, okay? I'll call you. I've gotta go.
Monk: Tell me about this [Dr.] Lowenstein. Dr. Kroger: Lowenstern. I could introduce you. Office right across the street. He charges four hundred dollars an hour. Monk: Where--where were you?
Monk: I think I would make a very good teacher. Natalie: Mr. Monk, you'd make a terrible teacher! It would take you four weeks to correct one paper.
Natalie: (Laughs.) You're going to take a taxi? Do you know what people do in taxis?
Natalie: Mr. Monk, Fulton College is one hundred miles away. It is up the interstate. It's over a bridge. Monk: No. I have a blindfold for going over bridges. Natalie: You'll be driving. Monk: Good point. I think I can make it if I just sort of peek underneath.
Marty: Thud. Clang. Thud. Clang. Thud. Clang. Monk: Marty, I've got "thud, clang."
Marty: I heard a clang and a thud. Monk: A thud and a clang.
This guest appearance is Jason Alexander's first since his show Listen Up! was cancelled. Alexander is best known for his role as George Costanza in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld.
This episode is the fourth-season premiere. Jason Alexander is billed as Special Guest Star.
Marty Eels: Philip Marlowe meets Sherlock Holmes. Raymond Chandler's famous detective Philip Marlowe first appeared in the novel The Big Sleep (1939). The role of Marlowe has been played by various actors, including Dick Powell, Humphrey Bogart, and Robert Mitchum in films and Danny Glover and James Caan on television. Sherlock Holmes is, of course, the hero of a series of novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (and to some degree the inspiration for Adrian Monk). By pointing to Monk as he names Philip Marlowe, Eels implies that a legendary detective (Monk) has the privilege of meeting the greatest detective of all time (himself).
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