Officer Myers, the man who was in Mr. Monk Goes to The Circus. Myers seems to know everything about Monk, like that Monk didn't leave the house for 3 years after Trudy. That Trudy was killed and that Sharona was Monk's nurse. Isn't that odd? Any ideas?

I think that that guy was just a big fan of Monk's (haha... like us!) and knew a lot about him from what he read in the papers. I suppose that a connection is possible, but I don't think that they will bring someone back from that far. Most people probably wouldn't even remember who he was, and he didn't really seem like the type to kill or be "the Judge", but he did have two mismatched socks... =)

Yeah, he didn't seem the type to kill anyone. Plus, he gave me the impression that he was maybe supposed to be even younger than Randy, because he was still a uniformed officer, and was talking about having studied Monk and the academy, and he was acting like a little kid in the presence of his hero. He probably found Monk very interesting when they studied him in the academy, and took it upon himself to do more research on him, things that wouldn't have been included in the curriculum because it had no bearing on crime solving, like Monk's breakdown, Trudy's death, and Sharona. They probably just studied monk's methods, used him as an example to emphasize how important observation and critical thinking were to police work.

From a writers standpoint, I think he was probably there for the sake of exposition and the joke about the socks, to show Randy's mild annoyance, and to say what a lot of the viewers were probably already thinking, or to offer new possible avenues of thought on the character relationships (Sharona-Monk, Stottlemeyer-Monk, Randy-Monk, as well as what Randy mght have been thinking about Sharona and Monk).

I loved Officer Meyer's few minutes of screen time though.

The arguments in the posts put up in response to your question would seem to be enough to dispel the possiblity that such a figure would have anything to do with Trudy's death and they may be absolutely correct but these writers can sometimes be inscrutibly unpredicable and though other threads dealing with her murder have concentrated on the more obvious suspects, like some Agatha Christie's novels, the writers just might have the culprit who appears at first to not be capable of killing anyone be the murderer.

I guess we will just have to wait and see. Though most fans might have wanted it, I don't think anyone really foresaw the captain getting married, the kiss between Randy and Sharona and the reconciliation between Harold and Monk so as much as I don't necessarily wish it to be, I am sure the writers will continue to keep us frustratingly off balanced when they address the last two unresolved issues: Trudy's murder and, finally, what lies ahead for Monk and Natalie.

KF