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Disher was adjusting his belt and pants when he said this, implying he pooped in the boxes.
* PoopingWhereYouShouldnt:: While trapped in the vault, Disher comes onscreen adjusting his belt and pants. He tells the others, ''"whatever you do, don't open Box 444... or the one underneath it."''
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: The bank staff decided that one of them would need to be shot to sell their innocence, so they [[DrawingStraws drew straws]] and Jasmine lost.
* YouDoNotWantToKnow: While trapped in the vault, Disher idly browses the contents of the opened safe boxes. He tells the others, ''"whatever you do, don't open Box 444... or the one underneath it."''
* YouDoNotWantToKnow: While trapped in the vault, Disher idly browses the contents of the opened safe boxes. He tells the others, ''"whatever you do, don't open Box 444... or the one underneath it."''
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: The bank staff decided that one of them would need to be shot to sell their innocence, so they [[DrawingStraws drew straws]] and Jasmine lost.
* YouDoNotWantToKnow: While trapped in the vault, Disher idly browses the contents of the opened safe boxes. He tells the others, ''"whatever you do, don't open Box 444... or the one underneath it."''lost.
* YouDoNotWantToKnow: While trapped in the vault, Disher idly browses the contents of the opened safe boxes. He tells the others, ''"whatever you do, don't open Box 444... or the one underneath it."''
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* TemptingFate: Stottlemeyer and Disher take the call for the bank because the Robbery Squad is short-handed. The former remarks to Monk and Natalie that it's nice not to be investigating a dead body for a change. This will last less than twenty-four hours.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: In the ColdOpen, a cop is writing a parking ticket for a car out in front of the bank at night, but his pen runs out of ink and he decides to just forget it. He and his partner drive away, remarking that the driver of that car has no idea that it's their lucky night - not knowing that the driver is Natalie, and she, Monk, Stottlemeyer and Disher are currently sealed inside the bank's vault, shouting for help.
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* ShoutOut: To Creator/AgathaChristie's short story "The Lost Mine". Disher tells the others not to look in Box 444; Literature/HerculePoirot, in that story, confides that he scrupulously maintains his bank balance at four hundred forty-four pounds, four shillings and fourpence.
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* LockedInAFreezer: The bank vault variety, where Monk, Natalie, Stottlemeyer, and Disher are in danger of suffocating to death after the crooked employees shut them inside and turn off the air circulation system.
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* SlaveToPR: In TheTag, the bank's new manager confides to Monk and Natalie that it's been ''"a public relations nightmare"'' for the bank that the entire branch staff conspired together to rob their customers, murdered one of their own number, and almost murdered four other people.
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* YouDoNotWantToKnow: While trapped in the vault, Disher idly browses the contents of the opened safe boxes. He tells the others, ''"whatever you do, do NOT look in Box 444... or the one underneath it."''
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* YouDoNotWantToKnow: While trapped in the vault, Disher idly browses the contents of the opened safe boxes. He tells the others, ''"whatever you do, do NOT look in don't open Box 444... or the one underneath it."''
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* ClosestThingWeGot: When Stottlemeyer finally manages to open the locked cabinet inside the bank vault, there are no telephone lines, but Stottlemeyer recognizes what's in the safe as the next best thing: the control board for the electronic ad banner on the outside of the bank.
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* ShootOutTheLock: As a last resort, Stottlemeyer wraps his jacket around his hand, places the muzzle of his pistol against the padlock of the door containing what they think are phone lines, and fires a shot. In a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome, it does nothing.
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Monk is stricken to find that Trudy's bracelet was taken in the bank robbery. Peter Crawley, following him into the vault, asks Monk if it's insured. Natalie explains that Monk couldn't care less about the jewelry's monetary value, it's a TragicKeepsake.
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* GallowsHumor: After being locked inside the vault, the detectives, just for the hell of it, crack the suspect safe box and find the money and valuables, including Trudy's bracelet. Randy hefts a stack of bills and quips, ''"at least we'll die rich."'' Stottlemeyer manages a weak chuckle.
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* GallowsHumor: After being locked inside the vault, the detectives, just for the hell of it, crack the suspect safe box and find the money and valuables, including Trudy's bracelet. Randy hefts a stack of bills and quips, ''"at least we'll die rich."'' Stottlemeyer manages a weak chuckle.Stottlemeyer, dizzy from lack of sleep or food, actually laughs.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: The bank staff decided that one of them would need to be shot to sell their innocence, so they [[DrawingStraws drew straws]] and Jasmine lost.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: The bank staff decided that one of them would need to be shot to sell their innocence, so they [[DrawingStraws drew straws]] and Jasmine lost.lost.
* YouDoNotWantToKnow: While trapped in the vault, Disher idly browses the contents of the opened safe boxes. He tells the others, ''"whatever you do, do NOT look in Box 444... or the one underneath it."''
* YouDoNotWantToKnow: While trapped in the vault, Disher idly browses the contents of the opened safe boxes. He tells the others, ''"whatever you do, do NOT look in Box 444... or the one underneath it."''
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* LazyAlias: Monk deduces that the money and valuables never left the bank, the robber just moved them to a single large safe box in the vault, the only one that wasn't cracked during the robbery. Madge looks up the card for the box and finds it registered to a "J.A. Guar" - after Crawley, the inside man, has been found shot dead inside the trunk of his brand-new Jaguar convertible. Randy deadpans, ''"cute"''.
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* LazyAlias: Monk deduces that the money and valuables never left the bank, the robber just moved them to a single large safe box in the vault, the only one that wasn't cracked during the robbery. Madge looks up the card for the box and finds it registered to a "J.A. Guar" - after Crawley, the inside man, has been found shot dead inside the trunk of his brand-new Jaguar convertible. Randy deadpans, ''"cute"''.''"very cute"''.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one raises an eyebrow at the sight of Randy, practicing his "Living Statue" routine in the precinct's foyer, with two pencils sticking out of his nostrils.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one raises an eyebrow at the sight of Randy, practicing his "Living Statue" routine Apparently standing statue-still in the precinct's foyer, foyer with two pencils sticking out of his nostrils.nostrils is not the weirdest thing any of the cops have seen Randy do, by a long shot.
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* ContinuityNod: Monk is in Stottlemeyer's office, playing with the yo-yo the latter received during his anger management therapy in "[[Recap/MonkS4E12MrMonkAndTheCaptainsMarriage Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage]]".
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* GallowsHumor: After being locked inside the vault, the detectives, just for the hell of it, crack the suspect safe box and find the money and valuables, including Trudy's bracelet. Randy hefts a stack of bills and quips, ''"at least we'll die rich."'' Stottlemeyer manages a weak chuckle.
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** Also, Monk rules out at least two of the employees - Gloria and Leon - as the inside man, because they're not tall enough to reach the switch for the alarm that was disabled during the robbery.
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A robbery at Monk's bank leads to become a bank guard. While on the case, he uncovers a criminal conspiracy.
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A robbery at Monk's bank leads to become him going undercover as a bank security guard. While on the case, he uncovers a criminal conspiracy.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Monk has been going to the same bank for ten years and is on semi-friendly terms with Crawley and most of the staff. They turn out to have conspired to rob their customers and try to kill Monk, Natalie, Stottlemeyer and Disher to avoid being found out.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Monk has been going to the same bank for ten years and is on semi-friendly terms with Crawley and most of the staff. They turn out to have conspired to rob their customers and try to kill Monk, Natalie, Stottlemeyer and Disher to avoid being found out. After sealing them into the vault, the staff close the bank and huddle, calmly debating how long it will take the four people in the vault to suffocate to death.
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* NeverTheObviousSuspect: Invoked by Natalie, who speculates that the heavily-pregnant Gloria could be the inside player.
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: Natalie guesses, in sequence, that five of the bank's six employees could be the inside man, only for Monk to explain why he or she could have performed one of the inside tasks, but not all of them. It turns out that EverybodyDidIt, and they worked together to stage various aspects of the "robbery."
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's clear all the banktellers are in on the robbery and leaving Monk and the others for dead in the vault, but the episode doesn't say which one of them killed Crawley.[[note]] Madge seems the most likely suspect, as she played the robber and Jasmine trusted her enough to shoot her in the shoulder without killing or seriously wounding her. Gloria Morales is pregnant and doesn't seem likely to be able to lift Peter's corpse into the trunk of his car, and Jasmine [[DisabilityAlibi is the one that was shot in the arm, so she could be ruled out for the same reason.]][[/note]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: AmbiguousSituation:
** It's clear all the banktellers are in on the robbery and leaving Monk and the others for dead in the vault, but the episode doesn't say which one of them killed Crawley.[[note]] Madge seems the most likely suspect, as she played the robber and Jasmine trusted her enough to shoot her in the shoulder without killing or seriously wounding her. Gloria Morales is pregnant and doesn't seem likely to be able to lift Peter's corpse into the trunk of his car, and Jasmine [[DisabilityAlibi is the one that was shot in the arm, so she could be ruled out for the same reason.]][[/note]]]][[/note]]
** Monk rules out Madge as the inside player because of her bad back, but it is ambiguous whether her condition is real (see DisabilityAlibi, below).
** It's clear all the banktellers are in on the robbery and leaving Monk and the others for dead in the vault, but the episode doesn't say which one of them killed Crawley.[[note]] Madge seems the most likely suspect, as she played the robber and Jasmine trusted her enough to shoot her in the shoulder without killing or seriously wounding her. Gloria Morales is pregnant and doesn't seem likely to be able to lift Peter's corpse into the trunk of his car, and Jasmine [[DisabilityAlibi is the one that was shot in the arm, so she could be ruled out for the same reason.
** Monk rules out Madge as the inside player because of her bad back, but it is ambiguous whether her condition is real (see DisabilityAlibi, below).
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* DisabilityAlibi: Monk initially figures Madge couldn't be the inside man, as she has a bad back and thus couldn't have moved a large tree in a way that would have blocked a security camera. Given that she was in on the robbery alongside the rest of the staff, it's debatable whether or not this bad back of hers actually exists. On the one hand, if her disability was faked, it would be difficult for her to fool Monk, especially when he was scrutinizing all the employees to identify the inside man; on the other, when she realizes Monk is on to her and the others, she runs to the heavy vault door and pushes it closed to trap him, Natalie, Stottlemeyer and Disher inside, something that would be difficult or impossible for someone with back issues (unless she was desperate).
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* NoHonorAmongThieves: Crawley is killed by his co-conspirators for spending some of their illicit money before they could divide it and doping so long before the heat had died down.
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* NoHonorAmongThieves: Crawley is killed by his co-conspirators for spending some of their illicit money before they could divide it and doping doing so long before the heat had died down.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one raises an eyebrow at the sight of Randy, practicing his "Living Statue" routine in the precinct's foyer, with two pencils sticking out of his nostrils.
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* StupidCrooks: Peter Crawley buys a Jaguar by pawning a chunk of the jewelry the "robber" stole very soon after the robbery, which easily could have blown the lid off the entire robbery. It's a miracle the murderous accomplice was able to [[BoomHeadshot blow out Peter's brain]]; doesn't seem like it would have been a big target.
