Overview
When a friend's college-age son dies mysteriously in Mexico, the mayor sends Monk to investigate. Doubting the coroner's report that the young man ""drowned"" in mid-air, Monk nevertheless has difficulty concentrating on the case. His eighteen suitcases carrying not only his clothes and ""back-up pillowcases"" but a year's supply of food and his favorite brand of bottled water are stolen, leaving him with nothing he considers safe to eat or drink. Even worse, someone is trying to kill him, first by running him down with a pick-up truck and then by planting an explosive device behind a picture that he compulsively straightens every time he enters his room. Neither the witnesses nor the police, a south-of-the-border caricature of Stottlemeyer and Disher, offer any helpful leads--except for the mention of another unsolved murder, this one a mauling by a ""wild lion,"" the previous year. The fact that both victims were from San Francisco offers Monk the clue that he needs to solve the case and e
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2 - 1Mr. Monk Goes Back to School June 20, 2003
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2 - 2Mr. Monk Goes to Mexico June 27, 2003
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2 - 3Mr. Monk Goes to the Ballgame July 11, 2003
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2 - 4Mr. Monk Goes to the Circus July 18, 2003
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2 - 5Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man July 25, 2003
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2 - 6Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater August 01, 2003
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2 - 7Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect August 08, 2003
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2 - 8Mr. Monk Meets the Playboy August 15, 2003
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2 - 9Mr. Monk and the 12th Man August 22, 2003
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2 - 10Mr. Monk and the Paperboy January 16, 2004
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2 - 11Mr. Monk and the Three Pies January 23, 2004
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2 - 12Mr. Monk and the T.V. Star January 30, 2004
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2 - 13Mr. Monk and the Missing Granny February 06, 2004
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2 - 14Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife February 13, 2004
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2 - 15Mr. Monk Gets Married February 27, 2004
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2 - 16Mr. Monk Goes to Jail March 05, 2004