Monk (TV Series)

Mr. Monk's 100th Case (2008)

Eric McCormack: James Novak

Quotes 

• Lt. Randall Disher : [being interviewed]  Uh yeah, he has some idiosyncracies...

  James Novak : Like what?

  Lt. Randall Disher : Fear of heights, uh, fear of germs, spiders, milk...

  Natalie Teeger : Crowds, elevators, fire...

  Lt. Randall Disher : Rabbits, tunnels, bridges...

  Natalie Teeger : Boats...

  Lt. Randall Disher : Decaffinated coffee...

  Natalie Teeger : Lightning...

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : The wind, he's afraid of the wind...

  Lt. Randall Disher : Egg whites...

  Natalie Teeger : Bad.

  Lt. Randall Disher : Naked people. That one is way up there. I think it goes naked people, and then death.

• Ralph Roberts : He joined the Siblings of the Sun.

  James Novak : Your cult?

  Ralph Roberts : It's not a cult, it's an organization. Like a self-help group. Two months later, I'm sitting here, wearing blues, eating off tin plates,

• [on Trudy's murder] 

  James Novak : You didn't leave your house for nearly three years. Your psychiatrist said you'd never work again. Yet here you are, a hundred cases later. What keeps you going?

  [long pause] 

  Adrian Monk : [looks into the camera]  I can't die until I know.

• James Novak : July 18th: For Adrian Monk the day began like any other. He would vacuum his entire apartment, then clean the vacuum, then vacuum again.

• Natalie Teeger : Keeping him focused, that's one of my jobs.

  James Novak : What else do you do for him?

  Natalie Teeger : What else do I do? How long is your show?

• Adrian Monk : Mr. Novak, do you have a copy of the episode we just saw, maybe on a VHS tape?

  James Novak : Well, this is DVR.

  Adrian Monk : Oh, that's too bad. If it was on VHS we could watch it again.

  James Novak : DVR is digital. It's better than VHS.

  Adrian Monk : Oh, well then let's do that.

• [first lines] 

  Announcer : In Focus: an unfiltered look at the news, the people behind the news, and the stories behind the headlines. Reporting from San Francisco, James Novak.

  James Novak : Good evening, and welcome to In Focus. He is a mass of contradictions, a man afflicted with a disorder so paralyzing that ten years ago, he was forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department. Now, as a private consultant, he has solved an astonishing 99 cases. Cases that were considered unsolvable.