[Entering his store, Harold receives a call on his cell phone]
HGHarold Gumbal
[answering] Yes?
EDEddie Dial
[on the phone] How's it going, Harold?
HGHarold Gumbal
I'm in, I'm doing it.
EDEddie Dial
Friendly reminder: don't be a hero. When we hear a police siren, Peggy's dead.
HGHarold Gumbal
Is she okay? Can I talk to her?
EDEddie Dial
Just hurry up!
HGHarold Gumbal
No let me just talk to her! [Dial hangs up] Hello? [As Dial and his partner Vic Blanchard wait patiently in their Ford Taurus parked out front, Harold unlocks his safe and fills two bags with his most valuable inventory, including emptyig a safe. When he's done, he leaves the store and carries the jewels out to the car]
VBVic Blanchard
Backseat. [Harold hands the jewels to Blanchard, sitting in the backseat with the dog]
HGHarold Gumbal
Let her go! You said you would! [Blanchard hands the dog through the window to Harold]
VBVic Blanchard
Pleasure doin' business with you. Thanks for the car, Harold.
HGHarold Gumbal
[to Peggy] Come here, Peggy. [The mall security guard notices them]
SGSecurity Guard
Harold! Everything all right?
HGHarold Gumbal
Paul? Everything's okay, I'm all right, no problem! [The guard notices that Blanchard and Dial are wearing ski masks]
SGSecurity Guard
Get out of the car! Both of you! [draws his gun] Do it! [Dial takes his hands off the steering wheel. After a few moments, Blanchard opens his door]
VBVic Blanchard
Okay! [takes off his mask] Happy Halloween, man. Just relax. [Blanchard draws his revolver and shoots the guard dead with three shots at long range]
EDEddie Dial
What did you do?!
VBVic Blanchard
No choice! They want me.
EDEddie Dial
We could've just driven off! Get in the car! [Blanchard gets back into the car and closes the door]
HGHarold Gumbal
[cowering and shielding Peggy] I didn't see any car! I didn't see your face! Neither did Peggy!
VBVic Blanchard
I'm not done. [Draws his revolver and points it at Harold]
HGHarold Gumbal
No! [Blanchard shoots Harold in the chest, and he falls to the ground. Peggy runs off]
[Monk can't concentrate due to a fresh dog mess]
Mr. Monk, are you okay? Everybody's waiting.
Dog... you know. Dog... doo.
[looks at Natalie like she's crazy] If I stepped in it, I'd be in that ambulance right now, on my way to the emergency room, wouldn't I?! Praying for the sweet release that only death can bring!
[Monk, Natalie, Stottlemeyer and Disher visit Marty Eels at his office]
Monk, Monk, sit. Sit anywhere.
Oh that's okay, I'm not fine.
[to Natalie] Did he just say he's not fine?
[Stottlemeyer is unsure that Marty Eels has become a great detective overnight, so he and the others question Marty at his office]
So Captain, am I on the case, or what?
Listen, I need to ask you a couple of questions.
Where were you yesterday morning at eight o'clock?
You mean when the robbery was happening? Why? Because you can't keep up with me on a crime scene?
[pouring them coffee] I was at the hospital. Saint Andrew's. They thought I had a concussion.
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. [hands them a file with photos of a terrified man and woman in bed]
Whoa! She was cheating on him.
No, no. That's him. That's my client.
[incredulously] You burst in and took a picture of a man in bed with his own wife?
Yes I did. I made a mistake. I'm human! So the bottom line is that I was at the hospital when the jewelry thing was happening. You can call them.
Why is it so hard for you to believe that I'm this good?
Because, Marty, you were never this good before. In fact you sort of sucked.
[Marty has found Harold Gumbal's body by using a tree branch and a dowsing rod]
He was trying to tell us the name of the man who killed him. Look. [points using his tree branch] He's pointing to his watch.
Are there any perps who'd do a job like this by the name of--Casio?
Eddie Dial? He just did seven years in Fulsom Prison for kidnapping and bank robbery; he just made parole.
Well let's check him out.
[After Monk sees Marty's certificate]
Bay Area Center continuing education; is that a correspondence school?
It's fully accredited...What school did you go to?
That's a good school....I believe they're fully accredited too.
