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* AbsenceOfEvidence: In Dewey Jordan's apartment, Monk finds a .22 pistol and ammo concealed in an air duct. The landlord remarks that it wouldn't be unusual for Jordan to have had two guns, but Monk notes there's no ammo for the .38 revolver that he supposedly shot Mrs. Sherman with.
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* SkewedPriorities: Sherman's wife was murdered the previous night, but he makes a point of telling Monk, Stottlemeyer, and Randy to wipe their feet before they enter the house and not soil his expensive rug. The fact that Dewey Jordan's shoes are clean, indicating he did the same before "breaking" into the house, is Monk's first clue that he and Sherman planned it together.
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* ADeadlyAffair: Implied to be Robert's motive, as he is seen in bed with his secretary, who is the one that hires Clay to seduce Julie and get her to get rid of he t-shirt with Robert and Dewey on it.
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* ADeadlyAffair: Implied to be Robert's motive, as he is seen in bed with his secretary, who is the one that hires Clay to seduce Julie and get her to get rid of he her t-shirt with Robert and Dewey on it.
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* CallBack: "Lovely Rita" says ''"'''alleged''' knife fight, '''alleged'''. I love that word"'', echoing Chris Downey, the gravedigger from "Mr. Monk Vs. The Cobra", who ''"allegedly stole"'' a fortune in diamonds from a courier.
* ADeadlyAffair: Implied to be Robert's motive, as he is seen in bed with his secretary, who is the one that hires Clay to seduce Julie and get her to get rid of he t-shirt with Robert and Dewey on it.
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* IronicEcho: "Lovely Rita" says ''"'''alleged''' knife fight, '''alleged'''. I love that word"'', echoing Chris Downey, the gravedigger from "Mr. Monk Vs. The Cobra", who ''"allegedly stole"'' a fortune in diamonds from a courier.
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* EvilGloating: After throwing the photo disks off the pier, Sherman turns to Monk and sneers, ''"guess you can't win 'em all, Detective, huh?"'' His gloating lasts less than five seconds, as neither of them notices that Tim is already diving off the pier to save the disks.
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* IronicEcho: "Lovely Rita" says ''"'''alleged''' knife fight, '''alleged'''. I love that word"'', echoing Chris Downey, the gravedigger from "Mr. Monk Vs. The Cobra", who ''"allegedly stole"'' a fortune in diamonds from a courier.
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* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Rob Sherman, a sports agent, "hires" a petty criminal named Dewey Jordan and lures Dewey to his upscale house to commit an "insurance scam" - faking a burglary then splitting the profit. However, it turns out that Sherman is actually using Dewey as a fall guy so he can murder his wife and make it look like he then shot the intruder in self-defense. To do so, he shoots Dewey once using a nickel-plated pistol. When his wife comes downstairs to investigate the noise, Sherman shoots and kills her with a revolver, which he places in Dewey's hand. He then twists Dewey's hand and fires a shot at the doorframe with the revolver to get gunpowder residue on the crook's hand, and make it appear that Dewey fired on Sherman so that his death will look like "self-defense".
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* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Rob Sherman, a sports agent, "hires" a petty criminal named Dewey Jordan and lures Dewey to his upscale house to commit an "insurance scam" - faking a burglary then splitting the profit. However, it turns out that Sherman is actually using Dewey as a fall guy so he can murder his wife and make it look like he then shot the she was killed by an intruder whom Sherman killed in self-defense. To do so, he shoots Dewey once using a nickel-plated pistol. When his wife comes downstairs to investigate the noise, Sherman shoots and kills her with a revolver, which he places in Dewey's hand. He then twists Dewey's hand and fires a shot at the doorframe with the revolver to get gunpowder residue on the crook's hand, and make it appear that Dewey fired on Sherman so that his death will look like "self-defense".
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* ConvictionByContradiction: Monk starts to suspect Sherman of being the killer because he only fired one bullet into his wife's "killer" instead of emptying the gun into him, because, of course, every person handles anger and stress differently. He gets more solid evidence when looking through Dewey's apartment. There, he finds a stashed .22 pistol, whereas Sherman's wife was killed with a .38 revolver and there is no ammo for a .38 in the apartment. But even then, it's not like Dewey couldn't have just stolen the .38 or bought it on the black market, as repeat criminals tend to not use guns that are registered to them.
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* ConvictionByContradiction: Monk starts to suspect Sherman of being the killer because he only fired one bullet into his wife's "killer" instead of emptying the gun into him, because, of course, every person handles anger and stress differently.the exact same way. He gets more solid evidence when looking through Dewey's apartment. There, he finds a stashed .22 pistol, whereas Sherman's wife was killed with a .38 revolver and there is no ammo for a .38 in the apartment. But even then, it's not like Dewey couldn't have just stolen the .38 or bought it on the black market, as repeat criminals tend to like him have a weird habit of not use using guns that are registered to them.
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* ConvictionByContradiction: Monk starts to suspect Sherman of being the killer because he only fired one bullet into his wife's "killer" instead of emptying the gun into him, because, of course, every person handles anger and stress differently. He gets more solid evidence when looking through Dewey's apartment. There, he finds a stashed .22 pistol, whereas Sherman's wife was killed with a .38 revolver and there is no ammo for a .38 in the apartment.
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* ConvictionByContradiction: Monk starts to suspect Sherman of being the killer because he only fired one bullet into his wife's "killer" instead of emptying the gun into him, because, of course, every person handles anger and stress differently. He gets more solid evidence when looking through Dewey's apartment. There, he finds a stashed .22 pistol, whereas Sherman's wife was killed with a .38 revolver and there is no ammo for a .38 in the apartment. But even then, it's not like Dewey couldn't have just stolen the .38 or bought it on the black market, as repeat criminals tend to not use guns that are registered to them.
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* ReverseWhodunnit: The episode is probably one of the closest things to a Monk version of a ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode in that we are introduced to Rob Sherman, we see how Sherman kills his wife and a hired accomplice and makes it look like the killed burglar shot her, we see him stage the scene, like a ''Columbo'' episode would do it. So the episode is Monk first proving that the murder was staged, then trying to find evidence to prove that Sherman and his accomplice have met.
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* ReverseWhodunnit: The episode is probably one of the closest things to a Monk version of a ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode in that we are introduced to Rob Sherman, we see how Sherman kills his wife and a hired accomplice and makes it look like the killed burglar shot her, we and see him stage the scene, like a ''Columbo'' episode would do it. So the episode is Monk first proving that the murder was staged, then trying to find evidence to prove that Sherman and his accomplice have met.
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* AshesToCrashes: Monk and Natalie accidently knock over the urns containing the victims' cremated remains at the crematorium, leading to them having to figure out who went into which urn and them trying to pass off what happened as a sudden very strong gust of wind.
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* ConvictionByContradiction: Monk starts to suspect Sherman of being the killer because he only fired one bullet into his wife's "killer" instead of emptying the gun into him, because, of course, every person handles anger and stress differently. He gets more solid evidence when looking through Dewey's apartment. There, he finds a stashed .22 pistol, whereas Sherman's wife was killed with a .38 revolver and there is no ammo for a .38 in the apartment.
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* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: A plot point; Monk saw Sherman and Jordan together in the background of the photo Julie and Tim had taken. Because it was proof that they had met and could have planned the "break-in", he had to get it out of sight.
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* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: A plot point; plotpoint; Monk saw Sherman and Jordan together in the background of the photo Julie and Tim had taken. Because it was proof that they had met and could have planned the "break-in", he had to get it out of sight.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Natalie clearly has a better opinion on Tim that she allows them to be together. This contrasts her ProperlyParanoid attitude toward Clay.
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* PunchClockVillain: Clay was only hired to become Julie's new boyfriend.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Natalie clearly has a better opinion on Tim that she allows them to be together. This contrasts her ProperlyParanoid attitude toward Clay.
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* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Rob Sherman, a sports agent, "hires" a petty criminal named Dewey Jordan and lures Dewey to his upscale house to commit an "insurance scam" - faking a burglary then splitting the profit. However, it turns out that Sherman is actually using Dewey as a fall guy so he can murder his wife and make it look like he then shot the intruder in self-defense. To do so, he shoots Dewey once using a nickel-plated pistol. When his wife comes downstairs to investigate the noise, Sherman shoots and kills her with a revolver, which he places in Dewey's hand. He then twists Dewey's hand and fires a shot at the doorframe with the revolver to get gunpowder residue on the crook's hand, and make it appear that Dewey fired on Sherman so that his death will look like "self defense".
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Discussed regarding Clay; Natalie doesn't like him because instinct tells her that he's not a good guy, compared to Tim. Julie thinks that Natalie doesn't like Clay because Tim was safe. It turns out that Natalie's instincts were right; never doubt a mother.
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Rob Sherman, a sports agent, "hires" a petty criminal named Dewey Jordan and lures Dewey to his upscale house to commit an "insurance scam" - faking a burglary then splitting the profit. However, it turns out that Sherman is actually using Dewey as a fall guy so he can murder his wife and make it look like he then shot the intruder in self-defense. To do so, he shoots Dewey once using a nickel-plated pistol. When his wife comes downstairs to investigate the noise, Sherman shoots and kills her with a revolver, which he places in Dewey's hand. He then twists Dewey's hand and fires a shot at the doorframe with the revolver to get gunpowder residue on the crook's hand, and make it appear that Dewey fired on Sherman so that his death will look like"self defense"."self-defense".
* EasilyForgiven: Tim forgives Julie for burning their commemorative t-shirt after their breakup. He realized that Sherman was manipulating them via a proxy.
* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Natalie asks Tim for help when getting the proof that Sherman committed murder. As Monk waits for a search warrant, Tim asks why. She gleefully says that she always wanted to use Monk's catchphrase: "Here's what happened" before going into TheSummation.
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Rob Sherman, a sports agent, "hires" a petty criminal named Dewey Jordan and lures Dewey to his upscale house to commit an "insurance scam" - faking a burglary then splitting the profit. However, it turns out that Sherman is actually using Dewey as a fall guy so he can murder his wife and make it look like he then shot the intruder in self-defense. To do so, he shoots Dewey once using a nickel-plated pistol. When his wife comes downstairs to investigate the noise, Sherman shoots and kills her with a revolver, which he places in Dewey's hand. He then twists Dewey's hand and fires a shot at the doorframe with the revolver to get gunpowder residue on the crook's hand, and make it appear that Dewey fired on Sherman so that his death will look like
* EasilyForgiven: Tim forgives Julie for burning their commemorative t-shirt after their breakup. He realized that Sherman was manipulating them via a proxy.
* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Natalie asks Tim for help when getting the proof that Sherman committed murder. As Monk waits for a search warrant, Tim asks why. She gleefully says that she always wanted to use Monk's catchphrase: "Here's what happened" before going into TheSummation.
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* NearVillainVictory: Sherman's girlfriend gets Julie to break up with Tim, hence getting her to burn the t-shirt with Sherman and Jordan in the background, and Sherman throws the backup photos from the booth off the pier. Presumably, Sherman would have won if Tim hadn't been on the swim team.
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* NearVillainVictory: Sherman's girlfriend gets Julie to break up with Tim, hence getting her to burn the t-shirt with Sherman and Jordan in the background, and Sherman throws the backup photos from the booth off the pier. Presumably, Sherman would have won if Tim hadn't been on the swim team. team and if Natalie hadn't taken the courtesy to inform him about the plot.
* ProperlyParanoid: Natalie's MamaBear instincts ended up being correct that Clay was no good for Julie. They find out that a random woman paid Clay, saying she was Julie's aunt, to break up Tim and Julie and he was keeping a girlfriend on the side. Tim takes it well when Natalie explains that Sherman's girlfriend was playing them all for patsies.
* ProperlyParanoid: Natalie's MamaBear instincts ended up being correct that Clay was no good for Julie. They find out that a random woman paid Clay, saying she was Julie's aunt, to break up Tim and Julie and he was keeping a girlfriend on the side. Tim takes it well when Natalie explains that Sherman's girlfriend was playing them all for patsies.
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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Tim mentions, on hearing TheSummation, that they don't need the backup copies from the photobooth. If Julie donated her t-shirt as evidence then Sherman is caught. Natalie sadly says the problem is that Julie burned the shirt, so they have to go with Plan B.
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* SexySecretary: Allison Clark, Robert Sherman's secretary. He was having an affair with her and knew of his plot.
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* SexySecretary: Allison Clark, Robert Sherman's secretary. He was having an affair with her and she knew of his plot.
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* SexySecretary: Allison Clark, Robert Sherman's secretary. He was having an affair with her and knew of his plot.
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* HotSecretary: Allison Clark, Robert Sherman's secretary.
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* SexySecretary: Allison Clark, Robert Sherman's secretary.
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* HotSecretary: Allison Clark, Robert Sherman's secretary.
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* TheTalk: Natalie asks Adrian to give it to Julie. At first Monk just tries to phone it in, but he talks about how much Trudy meant to him.
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* TheTalk: Natalie asks Adrian to give it to Julie. At first Monk just tries to phone it in, but Julie breaks down crying, admitting how confused she is - she's powerfully attracted to Clay, but isn't sure how to describe what she's feeling, so he talks about how much Trudy meant to him.
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Your Cheating Heart is an index, not a trope.
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* TheTalk: Natalie asks Adrian to give it to Julie. At first Monk just tries to phone it in, but he talks about how much Trudy meant to him.
* YourCheatingHeart: Clay was paid by a woman claiming to be Julie's aunt to date Julie. He already had a girlfriend. Julie isn't amused when she finds out, and neither is Tim.
* YourCheatingHeart: Clay was paid by a woman claiming to be Julie's aunt to date Julie. He already had a girlfriend. Julie isn't amused when she finds out, and neither is Tim.
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* TheTalk: Natalie asks Adrian to give it to Julie. At first Monk just tries to phone it in, but he talks about how much Trudy meant to him.
* YourCheatingHeart: Clay was paid by a woman claiming to be Julie's aunt to date Julie. He already had a girlfriend. Julie isn't amused when she finds out, and neither is Tim.him.
* YourCheatingHeart: Clay was paid by a woman claiming to be Julie's aunt to date Julie. He already had a girlfriend. Julie isn't amused when she finds out, and neither is Tim.
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* BecomingTheMask: A variation. Natalie puts Monk up to telling Julie about the Birds and the Bees. At first, Monk tries to pass off a few seconds of small talk as his version of TheTalk. But when he sees Julie is tearfully confused over her choice of dumping Tim for Clay, Monk [[SincerityMode acts like a true father figure]] and tells her she doesn't have to rush who she falls in love with.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: For trying to purposefully put a wedge between Julie and Tim, Sherman's efforts to destroy all incriminating evidence are thwarted by Tim himself when the kid applies his diving skills to retrieve said-evidence.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Julie's attraction to Clay seems to be like this. Natalie is clearly worried that Clay will take the relationship too fast too far. Additionally, when she and Julie are fighting about it, Julie claims that mothers like Tim (her old boyfriend) because he's "safe".
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Julie's attraction to Clay seems to be like this. Natalie is clearly worried that Clay will take the relationship too fast far too far.fast. Additionally, when she and Julie are fighting about it, Julie claims that mothers like Tim (her old boyfriend) because he's "safe".
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* TheTalk: Natalie asks Adrian to give it to Natalie. At first Monk just tries to phone it in, but he talks about how much Trudy meant to him.
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* TheTalk: Natalie asks Adrian to give it to Natalie.Julie. At first Monk just tries to phone it in, but he talks about how much Trudy meant to him.
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* ItsPersonal: For sabotaging their relationship, Tim gets revenge on Sherman by obtaining the evidence by swimming.
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* ItsPersonal: For sabotaging their relationship, his relationship with Julie, Tim gets revenge on Sherman by obtaining the evidence by swimming.swimming for it.
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* ItsPersonal: For sabotaging their relationship, Tim gets revenge on Sherman by obtaining the evidence by swimming.
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* ReverseWhodunnit: The episode is probably one of the closest things to a Monk version of a ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode in that we are introduced to Rob Sherman, we see how Sherman kills his wife and a hired accomplice and makes it look like the killed burglar shot her, we see him stage the scene, like a ''Columbo'' episode would do it. So the episode is Monk first proving that the murder was staged, then trying to find evidence to prove that Sherman and his accomplice have met.
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* ReverseWhodunnit: The episode is probably one of the closest things to a Monk version of a ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode in that we are introduced to Rob Sherman, we see how Sherman kills his wife and a hired accomplice and makes it look like the killed burglar shot her, we see him stage the scene, like a ''Columbo'' episode would do it. So the episode is Monk first proving that the murder was staged, then trying to find evidence to prove that Sherman and his accomplice have met.met.
* TheTalk: Natalie asks Adrian to give it to Natalie. At first Monk just tries to phone it in, but he talks about how much Trudy meant to him.
* YourCheatingHeart: Clay was paid by a woman claiming to be Julie's aunt to date Julie. He already had a girlfriend. Julie isn't amused when she finds out, and neither is Tim.
* TheTalk: Natalie asks Adrian to give it to Natalie. At first Monk just tries to phone it in, but he talks about how much Trudy meant to him.
* YourCheatingHeart: Clay was paid by a woman claiming to be Julie's aunt to date Julie. He already had a girlfriend. Julie isn't amused when she finds out, and neither is Tim.
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Despite Robert Sherman's story of surprising an intruder who killed his wife, Monk suspects he set up the "intruder" and murdered both of them. The only problem? Sherman and the "intruder" have seemingly never met. Monk remembers seeing them somewhere together, but he can't remember where. Meanwhile, Natalie is dealing with problems in her daughter's love life as Julie becomes involved with a football player.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Julie's attraction to Clay seems to be like this. Natalie is clearly worried that Clay will take the relationship too fast too far. Additionally, when she and Julie are fighting about it, Julie claims that mothers like Tim (her old boyfriend) because he's "safe".
* ChekhovsHobby: It's mentioned more than once throughout the episode that Tim is on the swim team. It comes in useful when Sherman throws the incriminating photos off the pier.
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Rob Sherman, a sports agent, "hires" a petty criminal named Dewey Jordan and lures Dewey to his upscale house to commit an "insurance scam" - faking a burglary then splitting the profit. However, it turns out that Sherman is actually using Dewey as a fall guy so he can murder his wife and make it look like he then shot the intruder in self-defense. To do so, he shoots Dewey once using a nickel-plated pistol. When his wife comes downstairs to investigate the noise, Sherman shoots and kills her with a revolver, which he places in Dewey's hand. He then twists Dewey's hand and fires a shot at the doorframe with the revolver to get gunpowder residue on the crook's hand, and make it appear that Dewey fired on Sherman so that his death will look like "self defense".
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: A plot point; Monk saw Sherman and Jordan together in the background of the photo Julie and Tim had taken. Because it was proof that they had met and could have planned the "break-in", he had to get it out of sight.
* NearVillainVictory: Sherman's girlfriend gets Julie to break up with Tim, hence getting her to burn the t-shirt with Sherman and Jordan in the background, and Sherman throws the backup photos from the booth off the pier. Presumably, Sherman would have won if Tim hadn't been on the swim team.
* ReverseWhodunnit: The episode is probably one of the closest things to a Monk version of a ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode in that we are introduced to Rob Sherman, we see how Sherman kills his wife and a hired accomplice and makes it look like the killed burglar shot her, we see him stage the scene, like a ''Columbo'' episode would do it. So the episode is Monk first proving that the murder was staged, then trying to find evidence to prove that Sherman and his accomplice have met.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Julie's attraction to Clay seems to be like this. Natalie is clearly worried that Clay will take the relationship too fast too far. Additionally, when she and Julie are fighting about it, Julie claims that mothers like Tim (her old boyfriend) because he's "safe".
* ChekhovsHobby: It's mentioned more than once throughout the episode that Tim is on the swim team. It comes in useful when Sherman throws the incriminating photos off the pier.
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Rob Sherman, a sports agent, "hires" a petty criminal named Dewey Jordan and lures Dewey to his upscale house to commit an "insurance scam" - faking a burglary then splitting the profit. However, it turns out that Sherman is actually using Dewey as a fall guy so he can murder his wife and make it look like he then shot the intruder in self-defense. To do so, he shoots Dewey once using a nickel-plated pistol. When his wife comes downstairs to investigate the noise, Sherman shoots and kills her with a revolver, which he places in Dewey's hand. He then twists Dewey's hand and fires a shot at the doorframe with the revolver to get gunpowder residue on the crook's hand, and make it appear that Dewey fired on Sherman so that his death will look like "self defense".
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: A plot point; Monk saw Sherman and Jordan together in the background of the photo Julie and Tim had taken. Because it was proof that they had met and could have planned the "break-in", he had to get it out of sight.
* NearVillainVictory: Sherman's girlfriend gets Julie to break up with Tim, hence getting her to burn the t-shirt with Sherman and Jordan in the background, and Sherman throws the backup photos from the booth off the pier. Presumably, Sherman would have won if Tim hadn't been on the swim team.
* ReverseWhodunnit: The episode is probably one of the closest things to a Monk version of a ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode in that we are introduced to Rob Sherman, we see how Sherman kills his wife and a hired accomplice and makes it look like the killed burglar shot her, we see him stage the scene, like a ''Columbo'' episode would do it. So the episode is Monk first proving that the murder was staged, then trying to find evidence to prove that Sherman and his accomplice have met.
