When Edna Coruthers, a model employee at a giant chain store called Mega-Mart, is killed by a falling television set, Monk is called in to investigate by the store's security chief--who turns out to be his disgraced ex-partner, Joe Christie. Neither Monk nor Stottlemeyer wants to work with Christie, whom they hold responsible for some missing cocaine and the death of two police officers, and both of them disregard the evidence that Edna might have been murdered--a broken shoe heel (suggesting that the victim ran from someone or something), her dust allergy (which normally kept her from entering the loading dock where the death occurred), and the three letters (in different handwriting but with similar stamps) complaining about the victim. Twenty-seven days later, realizing that the stamps were all from the same roll and therefore from the same person, Monk reluctantly agrees to help Christie discover a suspect and a motive by working undercover as a store clerk. But he still doesn't tr
Quest roles:
Stanley Kamel(Dr. Charles Kroger), Kane Ritchotte(Benjy Fleming), Maree Cheatham(Edna Coruthers), Alanna Ubach(Jennie Silverman), Jill Wagner(Crystal), Esther Scott(Delores), Enrico Colantoni(Joe Christie), Michael Weston(Morris), Patrick Thomas O'Brien(Brent Donovan), Kyle Davis(Ronnie), Sharon Johnston(Clara), Amy Higgins(Paint Customer), Kathleen Mary Carthy(CSI Tech), Shane Elliott(First Fan), Robb Skyler(Hairy Customer), Josh Shada(Rudy), Caroline Bielskis(Store Cashier (uncredited)), Sean Foley(Uniform Cop), Mar Party(Forensic Photographer (uncredited)), David Waszak(Shoplifter in Jean Jacket (uncredited))