Michelle Rivas, Gene Edelson and others in “Mr. Monk and the Blackout”

Gene, what are you doing up there?

What am I doing? I am checking the auxillary generator.

Well there's a reporter looking for you.

Well you're the company mouth. You talk to them. It's not my job. [spots Monk tapping one of the gauges on an instrument panel] Excuse me! Uh, do you see the sign? [Monk notices the "DO NOT TOUCH" sign over the gauge]

Ah, no problem. I got it. [He straightens it a few centimeters. Michelle chuckles]

I've been dying to do that for six months. [Stottlemeyer and Disher return]

Hey Monk, we've got the prelim on the explosives. [Monk joins them to examine the remnants of the bomb] We think... four to five pounds of a high density plastique with a magnesium charge. It was detonated with an egg timer.

You mentioned the letters. Is that the letter?

Yeah, three pages, taped to the back door outside. [Monk looks over Randy's shoulder to see the note]

Yeah it's a basic environmental laundry list: solar power, fossil fuels, Saudi Arabia, "it's the only planet we have."

[reading] "We are free men... unshacked by your barborous laws." I know that phrase. I've heard that before. "Unshackled." "Barborous laws." [He thinks for a few seconds] Ten years ago, that exact same phrase was in a letter, written by a guy named Winston... No yes, Winston Brenner. Trudy wrote an article about him.

I remember that guy. He was a serious radicalist in Boston. He blew up a recruiting station; a couple of soldiers got killed.

Looks like he just came out of retirement.

Let's check him out.