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Monk: Season 5, Episode 9Mr. Monk Meets His Dad (17 Nov. 2006)Monk meets his long lost father after 39 years. Director:Jerry Levine |
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Sara Jo
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Monk gets called down to the station and is told that his father whom he hasn't seen in 39 years has been arrested. Monk learns that the man is not the man he was told he was; that he is a trucker and that he asked Monk to the station to help him get out of jail. It seems he has a lot of deliveries to make. The gang convinces Monk to go with him and while on the road Monk lets out some of the pent up feelings he has. But also Monk wonders why he is taking such an unusual route like he's going back and forth when he could be going straight to his destinations but his father's boss insists that he follow his route. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com
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17 November 2006 (USA) See more »Filming Locations:
Halfway House Café - 15564 Sierra Highway, Santa Clarita, California, USACompany Credits
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Adrian Monk: [picks up mic and respons] Roger that, if we see it we *will* stop and pick it up.
Jack Monk: [laughs] A plain brown wrapper... that's an unmarked policecar. He is trying to warn us.
Adrian Monk: [picks up mic again] Gumbo Five, this is Addicus One: You are making it harder for Highway Patrol to enforce the local speedlimit, which isn't very cool. Over.
Other truckdriver on transistorradio: Jack, who the hell is that?
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A tractor trailer does not have hydraulic brakes. If the line breaks air would come out not oil and by default the brakes would lock up. See more »Quotes
Other truckdriver on transistorradio: [over transistorradio] Addicus One, This is Gumbo Five, just wanted to let you know you're coming up on a plain brown wrapper.Adrian Monk: [picks up mic and respons] Roger that, if we see it we *will* stop and pick it up.
Jack Monk: [laughs] A plain brown wrapper... that's an unmarked policecar. He is trying to warn us.
Adrian Monk: [picks up mic again] Gumbo Five, this is Addicus One: You are making it harder for Highway Patrol to enforce the local speedlimit, which isn't very cool. Over.
Other truckdriver on transistorradio: Jack, who the hell is that?
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The crime is the secondary story in this episode. The main story is Monk seeing his father for the first time in 39 years and how the two slowly re-establish ties Dan Hedaya, one of the better characters of our era, plays "Jack Monk," a long-haired sleazy-looking 68-year-old truck driver.
The murder case, which is shown primarily in the introduction, is one where a guy doesn't actually commit homicide but stands by and watches his nemesis accidentally kill himself and does nothing to prevent it, when he could have helped. In this case, he helps the accident finish off the guy by making sure the victim doesn't have a foothold when the man is choking as his tie is caught in the engine. The tie-in, pun intended, is that the elder Monk also drives truck for this company and his boss-murderer.
Monk, believe-it-or-not, reluctantly takes a long trip in his dad's big truck to Phoenix because Capt. Stottlemeyer convinces him this may be his only shot to ever connect with his dad. By the way, I've watched every episode up to this one and Monk would never go anywhere without all his necessities....but, that's the story here.
This one then blends humor, sentimentality, and suspense at the end as the two men's lives are in danger in the truck when it speeds down a mountain with no breaks!
In all, a very flawed because of so many things that are out of character here, but a very entertaining episode, and that's why we watch isn't it? I give it high marks, simply for the entertainment.
Hedaya was riveting and weird but then again, what male isn't strange in the Monk family? Speaking of that, I wish we'd see Adrian's brother "Ambrose" again. JohnTurturro was hilarious in that role.