Monk (TV Series)

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

Enrico Colantoni: Joe Christie

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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.

• Sharona Fleming : What was he like as a cop?

  Joe Christie : I remember the day we met. I walked down the hall to shake his hand - this was, you know, back when he was shaking hands - and there were seven detectives lined up outside his office just waiting to run cases by him, just to see what he thought, just to pick his brain. I learned more from Adrian Monk in two days than I did in the two years I was at the Academy.

• 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.

• Joe Christie : [to Monk]  You remember a vehicle not scraping on a speedbump?

  [beat] 

  Joe Christie : Damn, I've missed you.

• 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.

• [waiting in a diner for Monk] 

  Sharona Fleming : So where is he, anyway?

  Joe Christie : Well, when I left, he was putting away boxes in the shoe department.

  Sharona Fleming : He's putting boxes away?

  Joe Christie : [laughing]  Yeah...

  Sharona Fleming : Oh, God. Maybe we'd better start ordering now, you know?

  [Joe laughs again] 

• 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.

• Sharona Fleming : Jennie Calendar's criminal record was clean, but she did a stint in juvie as a teenager. She stole a car when she was sixteen.

  Joe Christie : Juvenile records are supposed to be sealed.

  Sharona Fleming : They are. But one of the clerks in the office lives with his mother and stays home on Friday nights, and he bought me a drink.

  [off his look] 

  Sharona Fleming : I don't get paid enough.

  Joe Christie : Monk was right, you are good. I'm glad you've got his back.

• [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.