Plot

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.

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.—rcs0411@yahoo.com

A man plants a time bomb at the power station and when it blows up, puts San Francisco in a blackout. Sharona, Benjy and Monk are ready to watch a Willie Nelson's concert on TV when the bomb explodes. Captain Stottlemeyer invites Monk to help the investigation at the crime scene and when he arrives with Sharona, the beautiful PR Michelle Rivas tells him that she is her big fan. She gives her phone number to Sharona to give to Monk. She explains Stottlemeyer that the bombing looks like an inside job since the bomber knew the location of the security cameras. Randy brings a letter the police has found with environmental demands from the bomber and Monk sees sentences identical to the ones used by the terrorist Winston Brenner about ten years ago, when Trudy wrote an article about him. Stottlemeyer and Randy compare the letters and the handwritings are the same. However, the FBI informs that Brenner committed suicide with a bomb in 1995. Meanwhile, Monk calls Michelle and dates her, going to a restaurant, but his phobia spoils the date. The investigation proceeds and Stottlemeyer, Randy, Sharona and Monk meet Brenner's former partner, Alby Drake, who is protesting in the top of a tree, to know whether Brenner is alive. However, Drake is killed by a bulldozer that puts the tree down during the night. When Sharona and Benjy are ready to see the reprise of Willie Nelson's concert on TV, another bomb explodes and puts San Francisco in blackout again. When Monk is informed by Sharona, he solves the case.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The San Francisco bicentennial celebration is interrupted by an explosion at a power station. Sharona plays matchmaker to Adrian.