When a jewelry is robbed, the security guard is killed and the manager vanishes, Stottlemeyer calls Monk to help the investigation. Out of the blue, the loser and second-rate P.I. Marty Eels arrives at the crime scene and resolves the case using orthodox method. Monk says that Eels is a cheater, but he does not find how Eels has succeeded in the case. Until the day he decides to accept the professor position at a notorious college and needs to rent a car since Natalie will not drive him to the school.
—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil