Re: "Monk" Season 7 Thread
The reason I mentioned Harold, more than any other reason, is because he has repeatedly said that he 'hates' Monk. Then again, he also said (after having taken a bullet), "Beat that," which implies he still has somewhat of a sense of humor. Incidentally, I wish they had had a follow-up episode whereby Monk says, about a foot from Harold's face, "Beat that."
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Originally Posted by Joseph DeMartino
The way I see it there are two possible classes of motives for killing Trudy: Something having to do with her job (prevent her from finding something out or revenge for something she'd alredy written) or an indirect attack on Monk. Killing her destroyed Monk without killing him. It got him off the force and made him a total wreck while leaving him alive and suffering. Killing Trudy to spike a story or as retribution for one is nasty, but there's a certain Don Corleone detachment to it. "It isn't personal. It's just business." So would killing Monk himself for similar reasons. But killing Trudy to get to Monk is sadistic and deeply personal. (It is, of course, possible that both motives were present. Trudy may have been working on a piece that would have led to a police investigation, and the subject of the story might already have crossed swords with Monk. But the fact is if you can plant a bomb in Trudy's car and set it off when she's in it, you could also have set it off when they were both in it. Killing Monk and Trudy together wouldn't have been much more difficult than just killing Trudy. So I'm convinced that it is either the case that Trudy was the sole target or that she was at least in part to punish Monk. And I'm leaning towards the latter.)
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Joe,
I think your latter theory may be spot on. You're quite right about it being as easy to kill both Monk and Trudy, had the killer wanted to do so. (Side note: Wouldn't it be odd if the killer had wanted to kill both, and had failed because Monk wasn't where he was 'expected' to have been at a given time? Just a thought.)
I suppose it's rather easy to assume that someone who has been put away for life (like Dale) is actually behind this, but I've been lead to believe that he is only a key, and that his motives for doing what he does toward Monk really have nothing to do with Trudy directly.
Did Dale say, in an early episode of the series, that Sharona was his nurse before he got his current nurse? Or was he just bragging to another person who was in the room? I can't recall exactly. But I may have another theory, although it depends on what Dale said regarding his nurse in that episode. I will have to watch that one again.
As much as I loved the 'Trudy's eyes' episode, I really wish that they hadn't done it now, only because having Trudy somehow surviving the explosion would be an astonishing way to end the series.
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Okay, I apologize in advance if what follows does not make too much sense. Perhaps someone knows what I am talking about and can express it more clearly.
My wife and I were trying to think of what the episode
Mr. Monk and the Three Julies was about the other night. We thought it was the basketball episode, and then realized that those girls were named ... Emily. I turned to my wife and said, "They've done it again!" We eventually figured out which episode was which. But this gets to my main point. With regard to the three Emilys / three Julies, I think I have about six or seven instances whereby the series takes a title (or part of a title) from one episode, or a theme from a previous episode not specifically related to the episode at hand, or some other related but asynchronous commonality, and very cleverly weaves it into a future episode so as to blend two or more episodes together in such a way that the two episodes
are not related to each other plot-wise, but
are related to each other on some (perhaps secondary?) level. A second example is the episode having to do with the multi-million dollar baseball and the episode about the cleaning lady finding the million dollar lottery ticket. And another example is the episode
Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink, which is not really the episode in which he gets his new shrink permanently (yet this does occur in a future episode for real). I will post a few other examples as I think of them.
