Overview
When Monk's older brother Ambrose calls him about a ""life-or-death matter,"" Monk accepts the call grudgingly and agrees to meet the brother from whom he's been estranged since Ambrose refused to attend Trudy's funeral seven years before. In fact, Ambrose, an agoraphobic packrat whose house is full of bundled up newspapers, has not left the home he and Adrian grew up in for thirty-two years. Believing Ambrose's claim that his next-door neighbor, Pat Van Ranken, has murdered his wife after a loud argument, Monk and Sharona visit Van Ranken and decide to follow him. Van Ranken, meanwhile, is behaving very strangely, entering a potato sack race and a bingo tournament in which the prizes include a cherry pie. It's not hard for the Monk brothers to tie Van Ranken to another murder involving a cherry pie--the challenge is finding a motive for Van Ranken and proving that he did it. The episode provides a glimpse of Monk's family background and the reasons for his estrangement from his brother,
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2 - 1Mr. Monk Goes Back to School June 20, 2003 -
2 - 2Mr. Monk Goes to Mexico June 27, 2003 -
2 - 3Mr. Monk Goes to the Ballgame July 11, 2003 -
2 - 4Mr. Monk Goes to the Circus July 18, 2003 -
2 - 5Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man July 25, 2003 -
2 - 6Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater August 01, 2003 -
2 - 7Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect August 08, 2003 -
2 - 8Mr. Monk Meets the Playboy August 15, 2003 -
2 - 9Mr. Monk and the 12th Man August 22, 2003 -
2 - 10Mr. Monk and the Paperboy January 16, 2004 -
2 - 11Mr. Monk and the Three Pies January 23, 2004 -
2 - 12Mr. Monk and the T.V. Star January 30, 2004 -
2 - 13Mr. Monk and the Missing Granny February 06, 2004 -
2 - 14Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife February 13, 2004 -
2 - 15Mr. Monk Gets Married February 27, 2004 -
2 - 16Mr. Monk Goes to Jail March 05, 2004
