- [last lines]
- Adrian Monk: [Roaming through newspaper headlines] TV writer found dead after contract dispute.
- Natalie Teeger: Creepy.
- Lt. Randall Disher: [being interviewed] Uh yeah, he has some idiosyncracies...
- James Novak: Like what?
- Lt. Randall Disher: Fear of heights, uh, fear of germs, spiders, milk...
- Natalie Teeger: Crowds, elevators, fire...
- Lt. Randall Disher: Rabbits, tunnels, bridges...
- Natalie Teeger: Boats...
- Lt. Randall Disher: Decaffinated coffee...
- Natalie Teeger: Lightning...
- Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: The wind, he's afraid of the wind...
- Lt. Randall Disher: Egg whites...
- Natalie Teeger: Bad.
- Lt. Randall Disher: Naked people. That one is way up there. I think it goes naked people, and then death.
- Ralph Roberts: Do I remember Adrian Monk? That's like asking the Titanic if it remembers the iceberg.
- Arlene Boras: Adrian Monk? I have to admit I have mixed feelings about him. I mean, on the one hand, he sent me to prison. 25 years to life. On the other hand, when they arrested me, he stayed after everyone left and cleaned my apartment. I got my security deposit back, which was nice.
- Hal Tucker: Well, killing my girlfriend was the easy part. The hard part was pretending to be Monk's friend for a week.
- Jimmy Belmont: You ever hear the man try to tell a joke?
- Joey Krenshaw: It's like verbal root canal.
- Hal Tucker: Excruciating.
- [Monk's friends and relatives describe his reaction to Trudy's murder]
- Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: I saw him coming apart, like those rockets that hit the atmosphere at the wrong angle... and there was nothing I could do.
- Ralph Roberts: He joined the Siblings of the Sun.
- James Novak: Your cult?
- Ralph Roberts: It's not a cult, it's an organization. Like a self-help group. Two months later, I'm sitting here, wearing blues, eating off tin plates,
- Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: [about Monk's "Zen Sherlock Holmes" thing] I don't know how he does it. Sometimes when Monk's not around, I'll catch the other cops doing it, right, with the hands. Then, like, oh, touch that. It doesn't work. Doesn't work for anyone else but him.
- Lt. Randall Disher: [as they find evidence that links Douglas Thurman to the murders] I guess that clinches it. This guy's definitely the Cosmetic Assassin.
- First SWAT Team: The what?
- Lt. Randall Disher: Cosmetic Assassin. That's what we're calling him.
- Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: Maybe you'd like to hear what we're calling you.
- [on Trudy's murder]
- James Novak: You didn't leave your house for nearly three years. Your psychiatrist said you'd never work again. Yet here you are, a hundred cases later. What keeps you going?
- [long pause]
- Adrian Monk: [looks into the camera] I can't die until I know.
- [Monk does his "Zen thing," holding his hands out in front of him, while on the TV he is doing the same thing]
- Jillian: That is *so* trippy.
- James Novak: July 18th: For Adrian Monk the day began like any other. He would vacuum his entire apartment, then clean the vacuum, then vacuum again.
- Natalie Teeger: Keeping him focused, that's one of my jobs.
- James Novak: What else do you do for him?
- Natalie Teeger: What else do I do? How long is your show?
- Adrian Monk: Mr. Novak, do you have a copy of the episode we just saw, maybe on a VHS tape?
- James Novak: Well, this is DVR.
- Adrian Monk: Oh, that's too bad. If it was on VHS we could watch it again.
- James Novak: DVR is digital. It's better than VHS.
- Adrian Monk: Oh, well then let's do that.
- Natalie Teeger: Hey, Captain, have you seen Mr. Monk?
- Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: I figured he's with you. He usually is.
- [first lines]
- Announcer: In Focus: an unfiltered look at the news, the people behind the news, and the stories behind the headlines. Reporting from San Francisco, James Novak.
- James Novak: Good evening, and welcome to In Focus. He is a mass of contradictions, a man afflicted with a disorder so paralyzing that ten years ago, he was forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department. Now, as a private consultant, he has solved an astonishing 99 cases. Cases that were considered unsolvable.