Mr. Monk and the Candidate: Part 1

[first lines]

Adrian Monk: [surveying a crime scene] The stove.

Lt. Gitomer: Over here. It's in the kitchen.

Adrian Monk: No... I mean *my* stove. I-I think I left it on.

Sharona Fleming: It's okay. I, uh, checked it as we were leaving.

Adrian Monk: Are you sure? Did you turn the knob?

Sharona Fleming: Yeah.

Adrian Monk: The little knob, though?

Sharona Fleming: I turned all the knobs. The stove is off, Adrian.

Lt. Gitomer: We believe it was a burglary gone sour. She walked in, she surprised him, he panicked, he left there from the kitchen.

Adrian Monk: No. No. No, no. No. No. This-This was no burglary.

Lt. Gitomer: It wasn't?

Adrian Monk: He tried to make it look like one, but this guy was cold as ice. He wore her slippers to avoid leaving shoe prints - not something your neighborhood crackhead is prone to do.

Sharona Fleming: Adrian. Adrian.

[she claps her hands]

Adrian Monk: He was in here. He was waiting.

Lt. Gitomer: Waiting for what?

Adrian Monk: You know, for her. He was here at least an hour. He was smoking. You can still smell it on the curtains.

[sniffs the curtains]

Adrian Monk: Menthols. Salems. Possibly Newports.

Lt. Gitomer: Maybe she was the smoker.

Adrian Monk: No. No, she was a Dutch Calvinist. They don't smoke. They consider their bodies to be a holy - a holy chalice of -

[turns to Sharona]

Adrian Monk: Sorry, I'm having trouble concentrating, because I think I smell gas. Did you hear the click? You gotta hear the click, not just feel the click. Hear it.

[to the other detectives]

Adrian Monk: Anyway, uh, after he killed Miss, uh...

Lt. Gitomer: Nicole Vasques, 25.

Adrian Monk: Yeah, Miss Vasques, he - he hung around. He was, uh, looking for something.

Lt. Gitomer: He was looking for what?

Adrian Monk: I don't know. He checked something on her computer. He could've erased a file.

Lt. Gitomer: Anything else?

Adrian Monk: Yes, he's tall. He's 6'3", maybe 6'4".