Mr. Monk and the Blackout (9 Jul. 2004)

A blackout puts half of San Francisco in the dark for a few minutes. When the police discover it wasn't an accident, Monk gets involved to try and figure out why.

Director:

Michael Zinberg

Writers:

Andy Breckman (creator), Daniel Dratch,

Stars:

Tony Shalhoub, Bitty Schram, Jason Gray-Stanford

Cast

Episode cast overview:
Tony Shalhoub	...	Adrian Monk
Bitty Schram	...	Sharona Fleming
Jason Gray-Stanford	...	Lt. Randall Disher
Ted Levine	...	Captain Leland Stottlemeyer
Judge Reinhold	...	Alby Drake
Alicia Coppola	...	Michelle Rivas
Todd Stashwick	...	Winston Brenner
Kane Ritchotte	...	Benjy Fleming
Stacy Michelle	...	Herself
Stanley Kamel	...	Dr. Charles Kroger
Joan Blair	...	Rita (as Joan M. Blair)
John O'Brien	...	Maitre'd
Scott Peat	...	Construction Foreman
Timothy Thomas Brown	...	Power Company Foreman

Storyline

When the power goes out for a few moments. The authorities get a letter from the one claiming responsibility, a radical who supposedly died a few years ago. Monk goes to the power plant to investigate and catches the eye of the P.R. woman. She asks him out and when they go to where she chose to take them his phobias become a problem. Later a former associate of the radical after being visited by the police calls someone and threatens to go to the police cause someone was hurt because of the blackout. Later he's killed.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Crime

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Details

Release Date:

9 July 2004 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Biltmore Hotel - 506 S. Grand Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Did You Know?

Trivia

The scene in which the first bomb is placed ends with a close-up of the ticking timer on the bomb. The scene quickly cuts to show Monk, Sharona and Benjy playing a timed board game and Benjy yells, "Time's up!".

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Goofs

Before the lights go out Benji, Monk, and Sharona are on the couch and then when the lights go out Benji is behind the couch.

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Quotes

Sharona Fleming: I'm going to Hell. I'm a horrible person.
Adrian Monk: Why?
Sharona Fleming: I just told that woman, Michelle, that there was nothing wrong with you.
Adrian Monk: She should have asked me.

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Connections

References The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

User Reviews

Another loser.

Dear guernsey-1, no one cares about meaningless "technical errors." Furthermore, there is no reason why the producers of a successful cable series would see fit to hire YOU, a nobody, to act as technical adviser. As for the episode itself, this is one of my personal favorites. The scene with Monk and the Alicia Coppola character climbing forty flights of stairs is an all-time Monk classic. Other choice scenes include Monk trapped on an elevator with a plus-sized woman whose presence brings the total poundage dangerously close to maximum capacity. And let's not forget Judge Reinhold (yet another Seinfeld cameo: he was the obnoxious "close-talker") up in a tree protesting something or other. Rating: 10 out of 10.