Anybody can take a shot in the dark, so here goes one in guessing.

One clue left behind was "Bread and Butter", as it was her giving a hidden message that she knew she was going to be seperated from Mr. Monk... not killed.

What if the killer was someone that saw the uncanny resemblance of Mrs. Monk to his wife, being how Mrs. Monk was/is a journalist whom would bound to have her picture in the paper. What if the killer saw an opportunity to kill his wife, put her in the car that belong to Mrs. Monk, and blow the body of the killer's wife up in the car? Motive for killing the wife? He would not only continue in the life he was living, but inherit the money and power of her family connection before forced to being divorced by his wife of royalty for having knowledge of his secret promiscuous lifestyle.

Why would Mrs. Monk agree to meet a man in a parking garage? He was royalty, a visiting diplomat that was shy of publicity, but had agreed to do an interview in an out of the way place out of sight of other reporters and papparizzis. She knew something may be up as it was unusual for this diplomat to arrange for this interview and that it had to be "quick" as it was announced he would be on his way to his private lear jet at the airport. Getting this interview would be a star in her career, but her conscience played the better part of valor as she gave her husband a clue in case she would be forced to go on this plane ride in order to have this interview thus be seperated for while until she arranged for her trip back at her expense, but not to alarm her husband to stop her from going to this interview in case nothing should happen.

Little did she knew that the diplomat was using her to cover up for the murder of his wife as she is forced to go along with the charade as his wife or Mr. Monk would be killed by his hired hitman left behind. Time would go on when the hitman would send pictures of himself with a current newspaper to send to Mrs. Monk that he was still in the vicinity to do him harm until Mrs. Monk child was born. Now the killer had her son as well as Mr. Monk's son in custody to hold her in compliance in fulfilling the role of being the diplomat's wife while he continued to play the playboy with the mistresses.

Knowing full well that Mrs. Monk would be seen as an imposter to her family as well as not being fluent in the accent of the language, he had her in a private wing and made it known that it was her wish to hide herself and her son from the eyes of the world.

Diabolical. Fiendish. How will Monk figure this out? Videos feed from the airport that day? How will he rescue her? With the help of his friends? Truly be a seasonal cliff hanger.

It's pretty confusing and has some fairly weak spots, if I have the understanding that you were going for. Like, if he has the power or ability to keep Trudy isolated from his wife's family so she can't let anyone know what's going on, why couldn't he have done the same thing with his wife and continued living in any way he chose? What country would he be a member of the royal family of?

Also, Trudy said "Bread and butter," to a paramedic just before she died, not directly to Adrian prior to leaving to whatever it was she had planned to do.

And there was also the episode 'Mr. and Mrs. Monk' where a man hired an actress who looked like Trudy to impersonate her to get something from her former writing partner's father. Now there is a saying that everyone has a 'twin' (unrelated to you) out there, but that is already stretching the limits of believability. Even *genetically related* identical triplets are extremely rare, I'm not sure I could believe, even in fiction, that there would be three women who all look exactly alike. The Trudy 'twin' died at the end of that episode so she couldn't be hired again, and even if she was still alive or there was somehow another Trudy look alike out there, after everything that Adrian went through in 'Mr. and Mrs. Monk', he's not likely to believe it, even if it really was Trudy hidden away somewhere. But I will say that the only way that Trudy could possibly still be alive and not have let Adrian know all these years if there was absolutely no way possible for her to be able to contact him (such as being held prisoner or in a coma or something). She wouldn't be cooperating in anyway whatsoever in keeping Adrian ignorant of the fact that she was still alive.

Whoah. I missed that. I didn't catch that the bread and butter phrase was mentioned to the paramedic. Of course, one could surmise that in meeting the diplomat's wife on their way to the airport that Mrs. Monk was talking about how her husband might mind her leaving the country in order to take this interview on the private lear jet so she mentioned the phrase of bread and butter as her means of relaying his fear that the seperation would only be temporary. This being on the mind of the diplomat's wife in her dying breath to the paramedic to give the only clue she had time for towards the husband of Mrs. Monk, but of course, only confused the matter more as it made Mr. Monk think his wife meant being seperated from this life together... to be joined in Heaven again someday. Yop. Me stretching it still. *snicker*

As far as country goes or a particular royal family, it doesn't have to be direct lineage as it could be a baron or a duke. There are people with power and money in the USA not involved in politics, but as it would be for this fictional character, he just happened to be a diplomat serving his promiscuous lifestyle in the states. And since it is a fictional character, as they do make up another current president of the United States for tv series as well, they could make up another country if making an English diplomat be too much to fit into the series.

As far as doing the same for his wife in hiding her out from her family as he would do to Trudy is... Trudy .. unbeknowest to her husband, Mr. Monk, was pregnant. The diplomat's wife would fight him. She has staff loyal to her or even get word out. Trudy in fear of the unborn... would not. She would be forced to play along in hiding out from the diplomat wife's family. Not knowing who to trust, Mrs. Monk's sole goal would be to keep the unborn child safe, and as time went on, the child would be kept under the watchful eye of those that would cause it harm thus insuring Mrs. Monk continual cooperation.

I admit, it is a stretch. I missed that part in how the message of bread and butter was relayed. I did not think "Mrs. Monk" would even be still alive in that car after a bomb went off. Other problems would be DNA or other confirmations. I saw in another series in Kyle XY, that people can get in and fix the results of the DNA and other records by switching them out, thus in Mr. Monk series comparing the tests / records to the switched out records for the diplomat wife's of Mrs. Monk's. I suppose if Monk ever bothered to look at say.. the dental records, he would remember if his wife Trudy had a filling even though the switched out records says she did. I can believe that people with power/ connection and money could make that happen. The fact that Dale the Whale was seemingly taunting Mr. Monk, makes me wonder if he knew more than what was being let on as he purposefully misled Mr. Monk, enjoying the power of with-holding that knowledge that he needs thus hurting him.

As far as three look a-likes? The Next Best Thing has shown a Shania Twain look a-like that was making me believe in the possability that it was her performing as pulling a joke on the viewers and the judges. Believeability is when it has been researched like it was with the saying about having another twin out there. Well, now that there are more and more people, what are the odds "now" since the time one made that saying that one may have a twin out there? Could there be that now.. one could have four people looking like you.... if not exactly like you? Has anybody bothered to research that?

How about a contest by the producers of Mr. Monk to see how many people out there look like Mrs. Monk? Just for fun. Maybe the answer will astound us as to how many.

Why am I pushing it? I think it would be entertaining to see the son of Mr. Monk acting like his father as Natalie tends to Monk as her daughter tends to his son. Not sure how old he would be now... seven or eight? Ten? Be funny if the little guy was much the observant little fella as Mr. Monk is. Of course, this would imply that something happened to Mrs. Monk in the course of this rescue to maintain the status quo, but yet have the series continued as the mystery is solved regarding her seemingly apparent demise, and yet change the atmosphere of the series with a bit more possibilities for entertainment. Be cool to see the son of Monk, and Mr. Monk in relating to each other as they share like phobias as well as keen insights of observations as well. Seeing how the other characters react to the boy would be as entertaining as well. But that's just me, I guess.

The series is great. I guess my mind was trying to solve the murder of Mrs. Monk and wondered if the producers and the writers were laying clues throughout the series to imply believability of what I think is going to be revealed later on... as it is, this theory was a shot in the dark.

Thanks for your reply.

Thanks for replying. I panned it out more in my response to Liv. It would be neat to see the son of Mr. Monk, but I like the series the way it is.