[Monk, Stottlemeyer and Disher are trying to figure out what really happened to Martha Murphy]
Whaddaya think, act of God? [Monk nods] So how do you explain the doll?
I can't explain it, yet.
What, you want me to start rounding up witch doctors?
That'd make a hell of a line up. [Monk, Stottlemeyer and Disher chuckle to themselves, but Natalie is not impressed]
You know what? It's not funny! I used to laugh about it, too.
Monk About what?
Voodoo. Black magic.
Wait, you don't actually believe in that stuff?
Somebody predicted that that poor woman would get hit by a baseball three days before it happened! How would you explain it?
I don't know-
Oh, I've got it. Well she came by here every day. Right? So maybe the killer was waiting, behind that tree with a baseball gun.
A baseball gun? There's no such thing!
Yeah, but there are pitching machines.
All right, how would your baseball gun killer-
That's a good name for him actually.
...how would he know that a home run would be hit at exactly that moment? And what happened to the other baseball? [No response from Monk, Stottlemeyer and Disher] It's voodoo, it's real, and it kills people!
Okay, how 'bout this? She had an insurance policy with a no-suicide clause. So she had to make it look like an accident. She came here, she waited for a home run to be hit. She grabs the ball... and cracks her own cranium. [Mimics hitting his head with a ball]
[Incredulously] With a baseball? She fractured her cranium?
[Matter-of-factly] Yeah.
Was she that strong?
Yeah, she exercised.
I think voodoo's looking better and better.
All right, let's be rational! We live in the real world. It is governed by science, physics, laws of nature. There is always, always a non-voodoo explanation for everything!
Except voodoo. [Randy takes a call on his cell phone]
I don't understand! Did some gypsy put a curse on you when you were a child?
I don't wanna talk about it!
[On his phone] We'll be right there. [Hangs up]
Randy, what is it?
There's been another doll.
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