Mr. Monk and the Panic Room (25 Jun. 2004)

Monk is called to the scene where a pet seems to be a killer: Ian Blackburn is found in his the panic room with 4 shots and his pet chimp holds the weapon. Is the animal really guilty???

Director:

Jerry Levine

Writers:

Andy Breckman (creator), David Breckman,

Stars:

Tony Shalhoub, Bitty Schram, Jason Gray-Stanford

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Tony Shalhoub	...	Adrian Monk
Bitty Schram	...	Sharona Fleming
Jason Gray-Stanford	...	Lt. Randall Disher
Ted Levine	...	Captain Leland Stottlemeyer
Carmen Electra	...	Chloe Blackburn
Willie Garson	...	Leo Navarro
Stewart Finlay-McLennan	...	Ian Blackburn (as Stewart Finlay-Mclennan)
Brad Hawkins	...	Kurt Wolff
Kane Ritchotte	...	Benjy Fleming
Stanley Kamel	...	Dr. Charles Kroger
Samantha Quan	...	Female Control Officer
Ross Mackenzie	...	Male Control Officer
Anthony Franchitto	...	First Cop (as Tony Franchitto)
Beau Dremann	...	Second Cop
Scott DeFoe	...	Uniform Cop (as Scott Defoe)

Storyline

When a man is found dead inside his panic room and the only one in the room with him is his pet chimpanzee. So they assume the chimp did it. So it's decided to put the chimp down. But Sharona sensing the chimp didn't do it decides to liberated him. She in turn would be arrested. She leaves the chimp with Monk and he's driving Monk crazy.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Crime

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 June 2004 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Canfield-Moreno Estate - 1923 Micheltorena Street, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Mandeville Films, Moratim Produktions, NBC Universal Television

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

One of the characters is named Leo Navarro; Special Guest Star Carmen Electra is married to Dave Navarro.

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Goofs

At the beginning, Benjy got into a fight at school, and received a scrap in the middle of his forehead. But later in the story (a couple of days later), when Disher is arresting his mother, he has no bandage nor injury on his forehead.

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Quotes

[watching Sharona nuzzle Darwin]
Lt. Randall Disher: So how long have you two been dating?
Sharona Fleming: [to Darwin] He's just jealous because you're cuter than he is. And you smell better too.

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Connections

References King Kong (1933)

User Reviews

Great for the kids

What started as a moderately entertaining show in episode 1 of season 1, quickly became overplayed, over-simplistic and generally childish, as effectively shown by this episode.

Watch how the captain behaves while interviewing the main suspect! Or the lieutenant moving about in the house: mimicking a red beret in a terrorist situation, with his gun pointing upwards. This is not funny - this is laughable. The simplicity of the story adds to the general impression that this in reality is Benji with humans. But Benji was better.

For kids only.