When his neighbor's child plays the piano too loud, Monk decides it's time to move.

Monk goes up against a Bobby Fisher-type chess genius who always appears to be two steps ahead of Monk.

Monk has to help out Natalie when she becomes involved in a lotto scandal.

Monk finds a new lease on life after giving up his hope of reinstatement to the SFPD.

A former friend of Mitch's dies in a locked room aboard a submarine and everyone cries suicide. When Monk and the crew investigate, the ship suddenly descends and Monk finds himself trapped on-board, underwater.

As Monk and his friends watch a TV news magazine piece on the solution of his hundredth case, he realizes that one of the victims was murdered by a different killer.

After Monk seeks a new form of therapy (hypnosis), he finds himself reverting to his 9-year old personality.

When three homeless men seek out Monk's services at the holidays, Natalie convinces him to investigate the death of their friend.

When Monk's delinquent half-brother, Jack Jr., escapes from prison and breaks into Monk's apartment, he manipulates Monk into helping him find the person he claims framed him for murder.

When Natalie unwittingly helps a thief steal the bicycle of a biotech CEO, she ropes Monk into solving a crime straight out of "Encyclopedia Brown" -- until Monk learns the hard way how dangerous this thief really is.

While investigating a murder at a museum of oddities, Monk befriends a warm older woman, but he has trouble believing the friendship comes without a catch.

Monk has scored tickets to the biggest football game of the year, but he and Captain Stottlemeyer can't go inside until they figure out who tried to blow up a fan in the parking lot.

When a childhood bully who terrorized Monk hires the detective to trail his wife, whom he suspects of infidelity, Monk relishes the opportunity to prove him right — and things get even sweeter when the bully is accused of murder.

Monk goes head-to-head with a magician he suspects of murder.

Monk becomes involved in the disappearance of a city official that could have ramifications concerning Trudy's murder.