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Monk is called to a crime scene where a pet seems to be the killer: Ian Blackburn is found in his the panic room, shot four times and his pet chimp holding the weapon. Did the chimp do it?

When a man is found shot to death inside his panic room and the only one in the room with him is his pet chimpanzee, it is assumed that the chimp did it. It is decided to put the chimp down until Sharona, sensing that the chimp didn't do it, decides to liberate him. While under suspicion for abetting the alleged killer ape, she leaves Monk the maddening task of simultaneously harboring the chimp while trying to establish his innocence.—rcs0411@yahoo.com

The record producer Ian Blackburn is working late night at his home studio when the alarm of intruder sounds. He takes his pet, the chimpanzee Darwin, and locks themselves in a panic room. When the police officers arrive, they find Ian murdered with four shots and Darwin playing with the gun. Sharona and Monk are summoned by Sottlemeyer to give a second opinion, since the captain believes that Darwin has killed Blackburn. Monk finds mysterious footprints outside the house, but no other evidence. Monk and Sharona interview Ian's former wife, the popular and wealthy singer Chloe Blackburn, and the panic room builder, Kurt Wolff. When Sharona learns that Darwin will be sacrificed for killing Ian, she does not accept the decision. She breaks in and robs the animal from the public shelter and hides the chimp in Monk's home. When Monk's landlord Leo Navarro comes to Monk's house to see what is happening, Monk solves the case.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil