"her boyfriend, Tim, in this episode is a really sweet and cute guy, too!! he looks familiar, somehow..." -Savvykate

OK, so there is also someone else that thinks he looks familiar...

Even though others do the Here's What Happened from time to time, it's still Monk who figures it out. That's what happened in Farm when he fed Randy the information in his sleep, and also in Actor when Randy recounts what Monk said off-camera five minutes earlier. Ditto for MurdeRuss in Rapper. The same is true for Natalie this time. The only way she could have known that Monk had seen Sherman and Dewey together on Julie's T-shirt was if Monk had told her, and she just recounted the whole story to Tim while Monk was out chasing Sherman. I thought her introduction was cute -- and a neat little in-joke. I, too, have been waiting a long time for her to say Here's What Happened. It's only been 44 episodes! And I think she loved it, because as Traylor Howard says, Natalie is a little Nancy Drew.

Andy Breckman and company say they like to keep the Here's What Happened fresh, and having other characters besides Monk do the HWH is just one of the ways. We've seen a drunken HWH (Gets Drunk), an animated/story book HWH (Kid), three HWHs in one episode (Garbage Strike), even two at once (Cabin Fever). And Randy's HWH in Fever is the only one that I recall where Monk didn't have some input (although one of the Sharona episodes might have had one as well).

"Kids respect landlords. I think it's the keys."

I finally saw the episode last night. I loved it! The talk between Julie and Adrian was funny and touching. I really liked what Adrian said about Trudy, it was good to hear him talk about her.
In the urn scene, I kept thinking how could Adrian stand to have human ashes on his hands? He never asked for a wipe.
Why was the captain so ready to believe the guy and not Monk?

I think that at first, the captain admired the guy before Adrian said anything because he had every reason to believe that the guy had killed and intruder who had shot his wife, and that appeals to Stottlemeyer's very protective nature. We've seen his fiercely protective streak over and over again, so protectibe his home and wife (even though it was presumably too late) helped him to relate to the guy, like a kindred spirit. My impression of the scene in the bullpen later wasn't that he was resisting the idea of believing Adrian, more like he was trying to resolve the issue, and playing devil's advocate, which is actually helpful to Adrian in trying to determine what happened and explain everything, because they had to have real, irrefutable proof. They can't really arrest the guy and go before the grand jury with lack of pie or 'Monk is pretty sure he did it, we just aren't sure how or why.' He was offering other perspectives and potential explanations to help rule them out. He can believe Monk all he wants to and most of the time he does, but he has to have more than just his faith in Monk, he has to have proof.

I saw a clip of it, it looked good!! I'm waiting to get it on DVD cause our channels and stuff don't do Monk anymore, i can't wait though because it is so going to be worth the wait, i actually don't mind waiting, well i do, but that can't be helped, but at least i'll be left to watch it alone, on my own, in my room without the noise of my little sisters, or parents on the phone when i try to watch it, they don't watch Monk.. Weirdos.

I see what you mean, Liv.
I need to see it again (tonight I think) to fully absorb everything!

I like how Adrian makes that little gesture with his fingers when he's telling Julie to please be quiet. Like he did in Makes a Friend, too.

That...would actually be really funny. I like the way she thinks.

I have always been quite content with Monk doing the HWH and never got bored with him doing it all the time, but I watched shows like Columbo and Murder She Wrote where the characters Leutenant Columbo and Jessica Fletcher explained everything at the end. Mr. Monk and the Rapper was my least favorite episode of this season because I don't like Rap and besides you couldn't even understand it when MurdeRuss was giving the HWH. I get that you like the character Natalie and the actress who plays her and that is no skin off my nose. I have nothing against the character or the actress. As for Natalie being a little Nancy Drew I have to say little because traylor howard isn't tall slender with saphire blue eyes wearing stylish clothes and driving a convertible. Natalie is fine but the show was funnier and had more sparkle when Bitty Shram (sp) was on it. The way Sharona and Monk would argue was hilarious. Sharona was streetsmart and feisty. Natalie is too mellow.

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