Monk (TV Series)

Mr. Monk and the Employee of the Month (2004)

Tony Shalhoub: Adrian Monk

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Quotes 

• Adrian Monk : [36:14]  What's next?

  Joe Christie : Eighty-nine cent plastic commemorative plaque. Would you kill somebody to get this?

  Adrian Monk : I'd kill somebody NOT to get it.

• Adrian Monk : What do you know about her?

  Joe Christie : That's Jennie Silverman. She's the best employee we've got. They just offered her a management position at the new store on Livingston and she turned it down.

  Adrian Monk : Why would she do that?

  Joe Christie : [pointedly]  I don't know. Maybe she has friends here she's loyal to.

  [pause] 

  Adrian Monk : Those two cops were married. One of them had kids. I'm loyal to them.

• Joe Christie : [motions to the coffee mug]  What do you think?

  Adrian Monk : I think Edna was obviously killed for this mug.

  Joe Christie : Really?

  Adrian Monk : No.

  Joe Christie : Well, maybe it's made out of gold and painted over.

  Adrian Monk : Joe...

  [Monk taps the mug. It's obviously ceramic] 

  Joe Christie : Hey, you said to try three hundred theories until one fits.

  Adrian Monk : I said that?

  Joe Christie : Yeah. I remember everything you ever said, God help me.

• Adrian Monk : Tell me about the Lobster Barrel.

  Joe Christie : It's a family place. It's noisy, there's a million kids. You wouldn't last five minutes. It's got a great all-you-can-eat buffet with seven different kinds of shrimp: jumbo shrimp, batter-dipped shrimp, tempura shrimp...

  Adrian Monk : Okay, stop telling me about the Lobster Barrel.

  Joe Christie : ...barbecued shrimp...

  Adrian Monk : Stop.

• Adrian Monk : You were right about Edna. I think someone was after her.

  Joe Christie : How do you know that?

  Adrian Monk : These are the complaint letters she received in the last three months. Different addresses, different handwriting, different postmarks. But the stamps were torn from the same roll. Look...

  [arranges the envelopes in a row] 

  Adrian Monk : They fit together, like puzzle pieces.

  Joe Christie : [laughing softly]  I'll be damned. You're still the man.

• Joe Christie : So, as Employee of the Month, she gets a ceramic mug, dinner for two at the world-famous Lobster Barrel, and a plaque.

  Adrian Monk : And, of course, the thanks of a grateful nation.

• Benjy Fleming : These puzzles have 500 pieces EACH! Now we're mixing 'em toghether... OK, open your eyes! Ready... Go!

  Rudy : [about Mr. Monk]  Is he a robot?

  Benjy Fleming : [laughing]  No, he's a person!

  Rudy : Wow! What else can he do?

  Benjy Fleming : He vacuums a lot... And he solves murders.

  Rudy : You could sell tickets to this!

  Benjy Fleming : I know, I know! I want to, but my mum won't let me. He's her boss.

  Sharona Fleming : Benjy, what are you doing? He's not a toy!

  Benjy Fleming : He doesen't care, he likes it! Don't you, Mr. Monk?

  Adrian Monk : Oh, yeah! This one's missing a corner!

  Rudy : [takes another puzzle]  Do you think he would do three?

  Benjy Fleming : Let's find out!

  [Mr. Monk remains still with two pieces of a puzzle in his hands] 

  Rudy : Oh, oh! We broke him!

  Sharona Fleming : Adrian! Hey! You okay?

  Adrian Monk : Sure! You don't still have those letters, do you?

  Sharona Fleming : What letters?

  Adrian Monk : The letters Joe Christie gave us.

  Sharona Fleming : I don't know! That was a month ago!

  Adrian Monk : 27 days!... A month... Close enough.

  Sharona Fleming : Hey! It's your lucky day! They're right here!

  Rudy : What's he doing now?

  Benjy Fleming : Aaah, he's just thinking! Wanna play video games?

  Rudy : Good idea!

  [the boys leave and Benjy laughs] 

• Dr. Charles Kroger : You know, Adrian, I see this all the time. I work with cops. I work with ex-cops. You see terrible things. People lie to you. After awhile, you don't believe anything.

  Adrian Monk : I - I - I - I...

  Dr. Charles Kroger : You're going to have to make the leap. You're going to have to trust. Otherwise you're going to be completely alone - and I hope that doesn't happen to you.

• Delores : [about Edna Corruthers]  I worked with her in Housewares. Everything had to be spic and span. She was a porfectionist.

  Adrian Monk : You mean "perfectionist"?

  Delores : I'm not one, so I can say it any damn way I want.

• [Monk and Christie look through Jennie's awards to see why Edna Corruthers might have been killed] 

  Adrian Monk : Tell me about the Lobster Barrel.

  Joe Christie : It's a family place. It's noisy, there's a million kids. You wouldn't last five minutes. It's got a great all-you-can-eat buffet with seven different types of shrimp: jumbo shrimp, batter-dipped shrimp, tempura shrimp...

  Adrian Monk : Okay, stop telling me about the Lobster Barrel.

  Joe Christie : Barbecue shrimp...

  Adrian Monk : Stop.