Monk (TV Series)

Mr. Monk Gets Lotto Fever (2008)

Brian Keith Russell: Eugene Maddox

Quotes 

• [Natalie has shown up at Monk's apartment, very shaken and upset] 

  Natalie Teeger : What time is it?

  [Monk looks at his watch] 

  Adrian Monk : 5:00, one minute after.

  Natalie Teeger : Turn on the news.

  Adrian Monk : What channel?

  Natalie Teeger : Any channel.

  [Monk switches on the TV to a news bulletin] 

  Newscaster : ...a major scandal today involving the Gold Rush Lottery. As we told you before, there were two winners in last night's jackpot giveaway: Eugene Maddox, a truck driver from Rockaway Township, and Leland Stottlemeyer, a highly decorated officer of the San Francisco Police.

  [On the TV, the scene cuts to a press conference with Stottlemeyer and Eugene Maddox holding big fake $106 million checks] 

  Reporter : Mr. Maddox, what do you do for a living?

  Eugene Maddox : Well yesterday I was unemployed. Today, I guess I'm retired.

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : [chuckles]  That makes two of us, brother.

  Newscaster : But in a stunning development, the lottery commission suspended all payment to Captain Stottlemeyer after it was revealed that Stottlemeyer has known and worked with Natalie Teeger, the newly hired lotto ball girl. There is a newsconference...

  [Monk switches off the TV] 

  Natalie Teeger : They said we cheated.

  Adrian Monk : Why? Just because you know the Captain? Okay, it looks bad, but...

  Natalie Teeger : No, it's not just that. They said they have proof. They'd checked the equipment; there was something wrong with the machine: it was rigged.

  [breaks into tears] 

  Natalie Teeger : They said I'm going to jail!