• Air date: 08 Jul '05 16 episodes
      The fourth season of Monk originally aired in the United States on USA Network from July 8, 2005 to March 17, 2006. It consisted of 16 episodes. Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Ted Levine, and Jason Gray-Stanford reprised their roles as the main characters. A DVD of the season was released on June 27, 2006.
  • List of Episodes (16)
    • 1. Mr. Monk and the Other Detective

      08 Jul '05
      While Monk is immobilized by the presence of dog poo at a crime scene, slovenly private eye Marty Eels steps in, using the dog poo (and the dog) as clues in the murder of a security guard, the robbery of a jewelry store, and the disappearance of the store owner, Harold Gumbal. With Monk tailing helplessly behind, muttering ""He's cheating"" and ""That's impossible,"" Eels locates the stolen jewels, Gumbal's car, and Gumbal's body. Using Gumbal's watch as a clue, he determines the identity of one
    • 2. Mr. Monk Goes Home Again

      15 Jul '05
      Monk is reunited with his agoraphobic brother, Ambrose, after the murder of an armored car driver.
    • 3. Mr. Monk Stays in Bed

      22 Jul '05
      Monk feels too sick to work until a case gets him out of bed.
    • 4. Mr. Monk Goes to the Office

      19 Aug '05
      Monk goes undercover as an office worker to solve a case.
    • 5. Mr. Monk Gets Drunk

      05 Aug '05
      Monk goes to a wine-tasting and finds it a bit more than he bargained for.
    • 6. Mr. Monk and Mrs. Monk

      29 Jul '05
      Is Monk hallucinating or is he really seeing Trudy?
    • 7. Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding

      19 Aug '05
      Needing a date for her brother's rehearsal dinner, Natalie resorts to asking Lt. Disher.
    • 8. Mr. Monk and Little Monk

      26 Aug '05
      Monk flashes back to his early teenage years.
    • 9. Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa

      02 Dec '05
      When an officer dies after drinking poisoned wine sent to Captain Stottlemeyer as a Christmas gift, the captain suspects Frank Prager, who tried to shoot him outside a bar several months earlier. Searching the crime scene for clues, Monk notes that the bullet holes seem to form a pattern, but neither he nor Stottlemeyer can figure out the message they're intended to convey. After trying unsuccessfully to talk with Prager's young daughter, Monk goes under cover as Santa Claus. This time he
    • 10. Mr. Monk Goes to a Fashion Show

      13 Jan '06
      Monk is facing a crisis: he's down to five shirts. But Inspector No. 8, the only shirt inspector who can meet Monk's criteria for perfection, is not up to her usual standards. Sensing that something is wrong, Monk visits No. 8 on the job. The inspector, Maria Ortiz, informs him that her son, Pablo, has been imprisoned for murdering a fashion model, but she's certain that he's innnocent. Monk is chiefly concerned about his shirts, but Natalie persuades him to talk to Pablo because ""it's the
    • 11. Mr. Monk Bumps His Head

      01 Jan '06
      Suffering from amnesia, Monk wakes up believing he is the husband of an eccentric resident of a small town.
    • 12. Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage

      27 Jan '06
      During the investigation of a murder in a junkyard, Captain Stottlemeyer punches a cop named Ryan Sharkey, who claims to be having an affair with the captain's wife, Karen. The only witness to the murder, a homeless man named Gerald or Jerry, has disappeared, but Stottlemeyer suspects businessman Michael Karpov, who is facing charges for money laundering and had a motive for killing the victim, who was scheduled to testify against him. Removed from the case and ordered to take anger management
    • 13. Mr. Monk and the Big Reward

      03 Feb '06
      Low on cash because they haven't had a homicide to investigate in three weeks, Monk and Natalie search for the stolen Alexander Diamond, hoping to win the million-dollar reward. Unfortunately, they have competition in the form of a retired Scotland Yard investigator, a bounty hunter, and a gadget-loving private detective, all of whom want the reward money for themselves. Monk quickly figures out that the heist was an inside job and that one of the robbers was under five feet tall, short enough
    • 14. Mr. Monk and the Astronaut

      01 Jan '06
      When Captain Stottlemeyer suspects that a suicide is really a murder, Monk confirms his suspicions by discovering that the victim, Joanne Raphelson, was too short to have used the stool she supposedly stood on to hang herself. But the next clue, the remains of an olive, a cherry, and a cocktail onion on a stirring stick, leads Monk to suspect that the murder was committed by an astronaut, Steve Wagner. A little research reveals a motive--Joanne was about to publish a book revealing that Wagner
    • 15. Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist

      10 Mar '06
      During the investigation of an armored car heist involving the deaths of two drivers and the theft of valuable government bonds, Lt. Disher tries to convince Captain Stottlemeyer that he witnessed a murder while under anesthesia in the dentist's office. When one of the highjackers, Denny Jardeen, is found murdered, Disher insists that Jardeen is the man he saw Dr. Bloom and his assistant kill while he was sedated. Stottlemeyer still thinks that Disher was hallucinating, and Disher angrily leaves
    • 16. Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty

      17 Mar '06
      Monk is summoned to jury duty against his wishes and must solve two crimes: he has to convince the jury the defendent is not guilty, and solve the mystery of a corpse outside the jury room's window.