[Monk, Natalie and Sharona try to argue as to the best way up to Perry Walsh's ninth floor apartment. Natalie wants to take the stairs and Sharona wants to take the elevator]
How about this? It's the ninth floor, right? [Bangs on the elevator call button] Let's take the elevator up to four and then walk up five flights!
Yeah, that sounds fair.
Or we take the elevator up to level five and walk up four flights!
Can't argue with that.
You treat him like a child!
He's not a child!
I did not say he's a child! I said you're treating him like a child!
Oh, I'm being supportive!
No, you're not being supportive! You're enabling him- [Monk, pacing back and forth, interrupts]
Okay, here's what we're gonna do: we're going to take the elevator up to 18 and walk down nine flights. That way everybody's miserable. [Cuts to Carolyn Walsh opening the door to find Monk, Natalie and Sharona sweating and almost out of breath]
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