When the two-year-old boy Tommy Grazer disappears in a park, he is found holding a little finger in his hand. Stottlemeyer calls Monk to help the police to search the body in the park, and Monk fells connected to Tommy. The social assistant Theresa Crane takes Tommy from his foster mother Janet Novak, since she neglected with the boy, and Monk decides to temporarily adopt him. Meanwhile, in the morgue, Monk notes that the little finger belongs to a violinist, and the coroner says that his age is about twenty-five years old. Monk, Natalie, Stottlemeyr and Randy visits people with this profile in San Francisco and Monk finds that the violinist is Daniel Carlyle was kidnapped. Now Monk helps his mother Abigail and his brother Jacob to rescue Daniel.
—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil