Monk - Season 3 - Eps 5: Mr. Monk Meets the Godfather
When five members of the West Coast Mafia are shot down in a barbershop, Monk is pressured by mob godfather Salvatore Lucarelli and his nephew ""Fat Tony"" to solve the case. But the FBI in the person of Agent Colmes is pressuring him, too. Despite Captain Stottlemeyer's insistence that Colmes is not to be trusted, Monk accepts his offer of reinstatement on the police force if he can bring down the whole gang. The only clues are a partially completed crossword puzzle and a gumball machine that was apparently used to break a back window so the killer could escape. With a Mafia bodyguard named Vince as their ""babysitter,"" Monk and Sharona interview the sole witness, Phil Bedard, a young U.S. mint employee who tells them that he saw three men running from the scene, one of them wearing a jacket with a strange-looking number 15 on the back. Bedard also explains the heightened security at the mint: someone has stolen five double-headed pennies. Associating the numbers on the jackets with a Ch
About Monk
Title: Monk
First Air Date: 2002-07-12
Last Air Date: 2009-12-04
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.9/10 (from 1124 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 9
Total Episodes: 125
Network: USA Network
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Production Companies: Mandeville Films, Moratim Produktions, Universal Television, Touchstone Television, USA Cable Entertainment, Universal Media Studios, UCP
Synopsis
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
Cast
Tony Shalhoub
Adrian Monk
Ted Levine
Leland Stottlemeyer
Jason Gray-Stanford
Randall Disher
Traylor Howard
Natalie Teeger
