Okay, let's go over it again, from the top.
[Reading from his notebook] Okay. Husband, Robert Sherman, owns expensive rug. Intruder's shoes indicate he wiped his feet.
Why would a kid breaking and entering bother to wipe his feet?
Because he wasn't breaking and entering! They knew each other. It was a setup.
Maybe...
[From the corner, handcuffed to a chair] Maybe the kid, the intruder, was planning on stealing the rug, and didn't want to scuff it up.
[Wryly] Thank you.
Anytime.
Maybe he planned on stealing the rug.
Okay, what about this? The phone in the bedroom was unplugged.
That doesn't mean anything. I unplug my phone all the time, if I want to sleep, when I'm going to bed...
She's right. Doesn't mean anything.
Well, how about this? The wife's slippers.
Right, the husband said she went downstairs because she was cold. If she was cold, why wouldn't she put on her slippers? [Pause, then everyone turns to Rita]
Well, she wasn't really cold. She just said she was cold. She was really going downstairs to... get a bite of that chocolate cake in the refrigerator.
What chocolate cake?! Who are you?
This is Rita DePasque, aka "The Lovely Rita." She's a material witness on a knife fight downtown.
Alleged knife fight. Alleged. I love that word.
The Lovely Rita has a point, amazingly enough. Any hotshot lawyer could explain away that entire notebook.
That's true but if you look at the picture, the big picture, I mean, it's plain as day! He's the guy.
Was the wife insured?
No.
So where's your motive?
Wake up! [Scoots her chair over] You've got two people, living under the same roof. One of them wants the other one dead. Believe me, I know.
He didn't love her! I was there when the M.E. wheeled out the wife. All he cared about was the rug.
You're cute.
No, I'm not.
You ever unbutton that top button?
Uhh...
There is one problem with your theory: they never met. We checked their records - their bank records, their emails, their phone records. We talked to their friends - There is no connection between Rob Sherman and Dewey Jordan.
Look, I know I've seen them someplace.
Where?
I don't know. Just somewhere. It's driving me crazy.
Well, they lived in different worlds. [Hands them one file] Here's Dewey Jordan's rapsheet - 19 arrests, 12 convictions: bad checks, drugs; a couple of burglaries. [Hands over another file] And in sharp contrast, here is Mr. Sherman's jacket - one arrest - one in his entire life: driving with a suspended license.
More from this episode
All quotes from this episode →More Monk quotes · These quotes come from Wikiquote's Monk pages and are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.