- Monk attends a popular new play starring Sharona's sister Gail. But when Gail appears to stab and kill her costar during the live performance, Sharona calls Monk in to investigate.
- Sharona's actress sister, Gail, is suspected of murdering Hal Duncan, a fellow actor who dies onstage after Gail stabs him with what she insists is a retractable knife. When Sharona's mother (who thinks that Sharona is Monk's partner, not his assistant) arrives for a visit and Sharona tells her the bad news, Monk and Sharona promise to "do whatever it takes" to discover what really happened. "Whatever it takes" turns out to be a bit more than Monk bargained for, however. After talking with the props manager, he begins to suspect that Jenna Ryan, Gail's understudy, somehow killed Duncan and framed Gail, even though she was at a party on the other side of town when Duncan died. In order to talk with and observe Jenna, he endures a painful half hour at a speed dating service and even agrees to take the dead man's part in the play for two days until a new actor arrives. While Monk is on stage battling stage fright and fully aware that one of the knives on the stage is real, Sharona searches Jenna's dressing room to discover the clue they need to solve the case and set Gail free.—WyattJones
- Monk and Sharona go to the theater together to see the performance of Sharona's sister Gail. During the show, Gail stabs she fellow actor Hal Duncan with a real knife, instead of the retractable one, and kills him in front of three hundred people. However, Gail claims that she used the retractable knife. Meanwhile, Sharona's mother Cheryl Fleming arrives in San Francisco to stay with Sharona, and Monk promises to investigate the case with Sharona. Soon they suspect of Gail's understudy Jenna Ryan, and Monk investigates her at a speed dating service. But she has a solid alibi and now is the star of the play. When Monk is invited to be Hal's replacement for two shows, he finds what happened in the tragic night.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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