Monk

What's your problem?

Derek, you're avoiding the subject.

What's wrong with the subject? Your neck is my favorite subject.

Let's go inside.

You can't. You have to get up early tomorrow. The S. A. T. S, remember?

I'm not taking the stupid test.

I'm just making sure the little bastards don't cheat.

What about Laurie?

My wife? She took the S. A. T. s.

I think she got about a 1680.

I'm serious.

If you don't tell her, I mean, soon, I mean, tonight,

I'm gonna do something about it myself.

Beth, honey. Come on, now.

We don't want to go there.

We are there.

This isn't like one of your science experiments

where you get to control everything.

This is my life too.

I know. I'm not 25 years old anymore.

I know, honey.

We could be happy anywhere.

All right.

- Let me just think. - No!

No more stalling, Derek.

I mean it this time.

I'm giving you until tomorrow night.

Beth...

Beth...

Look, you're right.

I'll tell her tonight as soon as she gets home.

Just tell her. Be brutal.

"When 'tis done, 'twere well it were done quickly."

You have a quote for everything, don't you?

That's Macbeth.

That's what you get for dating an English teacher.

All right. Tomorrow.

Meet me, 8:00, before the test, our usual spot.

I'll tell ya how it went.

Monk 2x01. Mr. Monk Goes back to School

"It's a jungle out there"

"Disorder and confusion everywhere"

"No one seems to care Well, I do, hey"

"Who's in charge here"

"It's a jungle out there"

"Poison in the very air we breathe"

"Do you know what's in the water that you drink, well, I do"

"And it's amazing"

"People think I'm crazy 'cause I worry all the time"

"If you paid attention you'd be worried too"

"You better pay attention or this world we love so much"

"Might just kill you"

"I could be wrong now"

"But I don't think so"

"'Cause it's a jungle out there"

"It's a jungle out there"

- Adrian, don't do that. - I'm just centering the pieces.

I know what you're doing. I'm trying to concentrate.

Hold on. You'll thank me later.

You always say that.

- Have I ever once thanked you later? - No.

- Are you done? - Wait.

Okay.

Oh, ho-ho! You don't want to move there.

Why not?

I'll capture your queen with my bishop.

What are you doing?

- What... - Your move.

Okay. Okay, I win. You just forfeited.

- Why? - You can't do that. It's illegal.

What? - You know what. You can't lick the queen.

She's my queen.

Doesn't matter whose queen it is.

You can't lick any queen. It's an unwritten rule.

There's an unwritten licking-the-queen rule?

You're not even allowed to touch a piece during a game.

- You can ask anybody. - Oh, my God.

You have been touching pieces left and right.

You have been sexually harassing every piece on this board.

I was centering them. That's different.

- How's that different? - Okay. Okay. Okay. I'll move.

- There. - Check.

Adrian Monk's office. Could you just hold on one sec?

Adrian, do you know an Arleen Cassidy?

Arleen Cassidy? Oh, my God.

Trudy used to talk about her all the time.

- They went to high school together. - Oh.

Hi. I'm sorry. Uh-huh. Sure.

Yes, I know where that is. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Okay. Thank you.

Adrian, she really wants to talk to us.

She just gave me the address. She said it's very important.

- Do you think we should go? - It could be a job.

- Do you want to leave now? - Yeah.

- Before we finish the game? - Yeah.

Then you forfeit.

Wait. This is a handicap space.

I think we qualify.

Wow! This is where Trudy went to school?

- How'd she afford it? - On scholarship.

Oh, she loved it here.

She described it to me in such detail.

I almost feel like I went to school here. Trudy!

All right. Then let it ride.

You know, bet the whole 200.

What's the spread on Michigan?

Uh, excuse me? Excuse me.

Hold on, J. J. Can I help you?

Yeah, we're looking for Arleen Cassidy. She's the vice principal.

Uh-huh. You reporters?

No, we're with the police.

My wife went here. Did you know her? Trudy Ellison.

No. I only been here a year.

She was valedictorian. Great. Congratulations.

She was on the yearbook committee...

Adrian, he didn't know her.

Um, where would we find Miss Cassidy?

Uh, administration building, second floor.

Thanks. Oh! Sorry. Were you here this morning?

No. Missed it.

Thank God, huh? Heartbreak, isn't it?

But what are you gonna do? Hey, you there?

I was living in New York when I heard the news about Trudy.

- I cried for weeks. - Oh. We all cried.

And they never caught the people responsible?

We're still looking.

Were you and Trudy close?

Oh. We were like sisters.

But everybody felt that way about Trudy.

I helped her through algebra, and she got me through English lit.

She was a wonderful writer. Did you ever read any of her poems?

- I read them almost every night. - Oh!

I'm so sorry I never made it to the wedding.

- Was it wonderful? - It was. Wonderful.

So, uh, what happened here today?

One of my teachers died a few hours ago. I'm still shaking.

Um, her name was Beth Landow. She was first-rate.

One of the best English teachers I had.

They found her over there by the clock tower.

The police are calling it an apparent suicide.

But you don't believe them.

No, it's not that I don't believe them,

but they didn't know her.

Why don't you think Miss Landow killed herself?

Look. Beth worried. Maybe too much.

She cared maybe too much.

But she was not suicidal. I will never believe that. Ever.

You want me to look into it?

- L... I can pay you. - No.

No, uh, I couldn't take a nickel.

It's for Trudy.

Just tell him to wait. I'll let him know.

Okay, boys and girls, let's wrap it up. That's it.

Tell the medical examiner we're on our way,

and I want that report on my desk in the morning.

Captain, Adrian Monk is downstairs.

- Why? - The vice principal asked him to look into it.

It turns out that Trudy, his former... ex-wife... late...

Yeah, I know who Trudy was, Lieutenant.

This is her alma mater.

He'd like to come upstairs.

Hang on. Nobody move.

What am I forgetting?

- We got the prints off the railing. - Yes, sir.

We've got photographs of everything, every angle.

- Did you bag the shoes? - Yes, sir. Done.

Medical examiner will get the tissue and the fibers... - Don't worry, sir.

- 'We're covered here. - You got the code...

Sir. We've got it.

- All right. Let him up. - Bring him up!

Don't look down.

Hey, Monk. - Captain.

Sharona. - Lieutenant.

Oh, I imagine this is your worst nightmare... a crime scene on a roof.

No. It's not my worst nightmare.

It's my fourth worst. Uh... No, wait. Fifth.

No, fourth. Fourth... Fourth or fifth.

I didn't bring the list with me.

What's Homicide doing here? It's supposed to be a suicide.

It's not a suicide until we say it's a suicide.

This happens to be one.

No signs of a struggle?

No. She left her jacket neatly folded over there.

- What... What's that? - Those are her shoes.

She folded her jacket there?

Why did she leave her shoes over here?

She jumped.

She was taking antidepressants, and we found a note.

It was in one of her pockets.

It's printed. Yep.

Usually they're written longhand.

I've seen 'em printed. I've seen 'em written.

I've seen 'em written in blood, I've seen 'em written in crayon.

I've seen it all. - Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Easy, easy, easy.

"To whomever I may have hurt, the world and it's problems arejust too much.

I am so sorry. Beth."

I don't think Beth Landow wrote this note. - Why not?

Well, it should be "its"... "I-T-S," no apostrophe.

And then here it would be "whoever,"not "whomever."

This wasn't written by a, quote, "first-rate English teacher."