[Agent Grooms kicks Stottlemeyer out of the interrogation room]
I just got kicked out of my own interrogation room.
You want some coffee, sir?
No, Randy. What I want is for that A.T.F. CREEP to eat crow!
Well, we know who did it, and we know why. We just don't know how.
Monk, again, he's in a coma.
In twenty seconds, Agent Grooms is gonna come walking through that door, and he's gonna ask me what I think. Give me something else, for the love of God.
Okay, wait. I have an idea. Maybe he had an accomplice.
Yes, somebody else mailed the damn thing. Why not?
I already had that idea. Tell him.
There was no accomplice. Why would Brian Babbage hire one? He didn't know he was gonna be in a coma.
It's not exactly something you can plan.
All right. Anyway, why would an accomplice bother to go through with it? There was no reason to. The guy who hired him was in a coma.
All right, so... Brian built the bomb, and then Brian mailed the bomb, by himself.
[admiringly] You gotta admit -- it's a pretty good alibi. It's rock solid!
Monk, I have known 15,000 criminals in my lifetime. Here's what they all have in common: THEY'RE CONSCIOUS!
Is your shrink coming back soon?
[Agent Grooms comes out of the interrogation room, having finished questioning Ricky Babbage]
Agent GroomsCaptain. Sorry about in there, I, uh, work better one on one.
All right. So, how's it look?
Agent Grooms
He's bending not breaking. I'll get him. About to write up my case report, uh, I'm gonna list him as my primary. I'll need you to sign off on that. Right? Be easier to get an indictment if we're all on the same page.
I'm thinking… [glances at Monk] Maybe it's the other brother.
Agent Grooms
Well, there's only one other brother, and... he's in a coma.
That's the one. I think, uh, I think we should look into him.
[Stottlemeyer takes another glance at Monk, who is showing support]
Agent Grooms
He's a vegetable, Captain.
Agent Grooms
Don't you think that eliminates him as a suspect? I mean, I'm just…curious. How do you think he did it?
We're still working on that.
Agent Grooms
Yeah. Well, good luck with that, Captain. Uh, keep me informed.
[as they drive into the mountains] Why couldn't we stay in the city?
Because a man there wants you dead.
Agent Grooms
And that man packs a lot of muscle in the Bay Area.
That's why they have a witness protection program.
[Grooms stops the car at a gas station. Stottlemeyer gets out]
Agent Grooms
Captain, please stay in the vehicle until we get to the cabin.
What are you afraid of, Grooms? A sharpshooting raccoon with a high-powered rifle?
Agent Grooms
Okay, Captain, this is not a joke. Tommy Winn has already had two other federal witnesses killed.
I know he has. That's why I'm here. [Natalie gets out behind him]
Agent Grooms
Miss Teeger, stay in the vehicle.
Agent Grooms
All right, you can stretch your legs. Just don't call any attention to yourselves.
Good advice coming from a guy wearing a three-piece suit in the middle of the woods.
[Monk gets out]
Agent Grooms
You're safe. That's where you are.
How long do we have to stay here?
Until the deposition hearing on Monday.
Six days. [Grooms goes to the gas pump and removes the hose]
Agent Grooms
You're doing God's work. We've finally got Tommy Winn behind bars and thanks to you, he's gonna stay there.
[Disher has shown up at Kathy Willowby's cabin, having been lured here by Chinese hitmen]
Lieutenant, this was handmade. See the edge? It was cut with scissors.
Randy, did you just drive up here?
Yeah, so? [Stottlemeyer looks outside and sees that he is in the center of a sniper's rifle scope]
[The hit men open fire, and Monk, Natalie, Stottlemeyer, Disher, Deputy Coby and Kathy Willowby take cover]
DPDeputy Paul Coby
Where are they?
Captain Stottlemeyer:' There's at least two! One behind the canoes!
DPDeputy Paul Coby
Who the hell are they?
Hit men from San Francisco!
THEY'RE HERE TO KILL MONK!
[As the two hit men continue to fire on the cabin, Monk puts Kathy's radio on the table, and notices scorch marks with the shape of an electric cord that run from the electric outlet to the bathtub, while Randy examines his fortunes]
MDMonk and Disher
[simultaneously] Oh my God, I've got it! Here's what happened! [Monk and Disher start giving their summations simultaneously (Monk about how Kathy Willowby killed her husband Martin and made it look like an accident, and Randy about his girlfriend's relationship), with the camera jumping back and forth between each summation. Randy is shown in a bar when Hayley "accidentally" spills her drink on his lap]
We met by accident! I can see it now. God I'm such an idiot! [switches to Kathy electrocuting Martin in the bathtub]
...She dropped the radio into the tub while he was bathing. She needed it to look like an act of God to collect the extra insurance, but... [switches to Randy's fortunes being prepared separately in the kitchen]
...Maybe I believed them because I wanted to believe them. All of those fortunes were printed in advance just for me! [switches to Kathy pouring ice over Martin's body]
She had to preserve the body until the storm came!
That's why she bought all those bags of ice.
[flashbacks end]
DCDeputy Coby
My head is spinning. Which one are you listening to?
Neither one. [A bullet shatters one of the vases behind them]
All they had to do was send me a fake IRS check!
[at the same time] She froze the body so that the coroner would never be able to determine the right time of death! [A flashback showing a Chinese driver in the garbage truck that nearly ran Randy down is played]
The first fortune predicted that I would be save by a dirty death, which is exactly what happened when I left the restaurant. [switches to Kathy putting Martin's body in the boat and creating fake scorch marks]
Last night during the storm, she put her husband in the boat, then cut it loose, waited a few hours, and then reported it as an accident.
Now I have to go back and arrest my girlfriend for conspiracy and attempted murder. She probably broke up with me.
[Outside, Agent Grooms crawls behind one of the canoes and pops up, taking the hit man in front of him by surprise]
Agent Grooms
FBI! Freeze! [He shoots and kills the first thug. The other thug comes over, preparing to shoot Grooms (who is checking the first goon), but Stottlemeyer is ready to take out the second goon]
Grooms! [He shoots and kills the second goon] A little vacation, huh? [Grooms scorches daggers at Stottlemeyer. Inside the cabin, a shaken Kathy stands up]
DPDeputy Paul Coby
Not for you. I'm gonna order a full autopsy on Martin's body; they'll know if it was lightning or electrocution. [He leads her house of the house while Monk, Natalie and Randy get up]
[to Monk and Natalie] So what the hell happened here?
She electrocuted her husband!
Well, looks like we've all had a pretty full day: you guys solved a homicide, and I led those two hit men into our trap.
(After hearing a car)
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