The quote Patrick Kloster tells the reporter to look up is from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
After confronting Monk as he attempted to plant false evidence, Kloster mentions he is replaying a chess match he won against Boris Spassky. A Russian, Spassky was the chess World Champion from 1969 to 1972.
Lawrence O'Donnell makes his second brief appearance on Monk as Judge Lawrence Barr. His first appearance was in Mr. Monk and the Leper (2006).
Tony Shalhoub played a chess member in the 1993 film Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) where Dan Hedaya played a chess tournament monitor and then would go on to play Jack Monk, Adrian's father, in Mr. Monk Meets His Dad (2006).