Monk (TV Series)

Mr. Monk vs. the Cobra (2005)

Ted Levine: Stottlemeyer

Quotes 

• [the police have to find Monk, who has been buried alive inside a coffin in a graveyard] 

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : All right, listen up! We figure he's got about 40 minutes of air, if he's not panicking... figure on 15 minutes.

• Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : You remember that convention I went to in Atlanta about four years ago? Well, something happened there that I didn't tell you about. I got to the airport, I hailed a cab. Monk, I recognized the driver. It was Harold Burnshaw.

  Adrian Monk : Burnshaw?

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : Burnshaw, he used to be a Fed. He was a real player. He used to head the F.B.I.'s field office in Atlanta, right up until the 1996 Olympic Games.

  Adrian Monk : The Plaza bombing?

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : Exactly. They accused the wrong guy, Burnshaw booted it big-time on national television, instant career-killer. Now he's driving a cab. Monk, you should have seen his face. I'll never forget it.

  Adrian Monk : What does this have to do with...?

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : Twenty years ago, Sonny Chow froze some of his own blood in the event that he needed surgery. So they've got bulletproof DNA for a comparison, and that's a prelim on the hair we found at the crime scene.

  Adrian Monk : [reads]  It's a match.

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : It's Sonny Chow's hair. No question about it. He's been dead for six years, and he's my primary suspect.

  Adrian Monk : Yeah...

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : Now if I go public with this, and I'm wrong, *I'm* gonna end up at the airport, picking up cops who still have jobs.

• Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : Well, that was the opposite of fun.

• [Sonny Chow's coffin is exhumed after six years] 

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : Well, you're the expert. Is it him or not?

  Lt. Randall Disher : It's hard to say. I mean, Sonny had a lot more hair... and skin.