# Monk help **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 9, 2006, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-help/360042 "2006-06-09T08:49:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-help/360042/1 "2006-06-09T08:49:28Z")
In the [Wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk_%28TV_series%29) article on the series “Monk,” the description includes this gem: > [@](#): > > However, it is not necessary for him to see evidence to solve a murder. One such example of this is the time that he solved a very old murder, in which the wife of a caretaker for a museum exhibit that contained some of the world’s first handcuffs is found murdered with her hands cut off. Monk deduces that the caretaker had restrained her with the handcuffs, but because the keys for the handcuffs were missing, had to cut her hands off to return the handcuffs to the exhibit as not to raise suspicion. This rings no bells with me at all. Does anyone happen to recall any details about the episode in which this was shown? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-help/360042/2 "2006-06-09T10:34:07Z")
Monk was either reading a newspaper or visting that museum when he solved that, so it’d be either the first episode that featured his brother or the one with the stolen diamond. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-help/360042/3 "2006-06-09T10:38:41Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Monk was either reading a newspaper or visting that museum when he solved that, so it’d be either the first episode that featured his brother or the one with the stolen diamond. I’m fairly certain it wasn’t either of these. The first one with his brother was where his brother suspected his neighbor of killing his wife, and the diamond one only had the dead ninja, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-help/360042/4 "2006-06-09T10:39:32Z")
The handcuff bit was incidental to the main story. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-help/360042/5 "2006-06-09T11:26:33Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Monk was either reading a newspaper … He read the details in a newspaper. The murder happened in London, IIRC. I can’t pinpoint which episode it was exactly, but I do remember this bit. As **Lute Skywatcher** said, it was incidental to the main story. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-help/360042/6 "2006-06-09T11:53:45Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > He read the details in a newspaper. The murder happened in London, IIRC. > I can’t pinpoint which episode it was exactly, but I do remember this bit. > As **Lute Skywatcher** said, it was incidental to the main story. Paris, I think. It was the episode where someone killed the paperboy. Working on the theory that someone didn’t want Monk to see the paper, and solve a crime described in it, he was going through all the issues he missed. He ended up solving several crimes, but IIRC The intent was to keep Monk’s neighbor from learning that he had won the lottery, until the murderers got marry the guy and have him bumped off. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-help/360042/7 "2006-06-09T11:57:13Z")
Yes, that was it, “Mr. Monk and the Paperboy.” Thank you. It was bugging me and I was picking through the episode desciptions at [epguides.com](http://epguides.com) but hadn’t come to this one yet. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-help/360042/8 "2006-06-09T12:06:46Z")
Here, [this is the one](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000000YBI/qid=1149854678/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-8526006-9234432?s=music&v=glance&n=5174) you want. You can say all you want about his collaborations witth Coltrane or Rollins or Mulligan – or even his long-term relationship with Charlie Rouse – but I still maintain that Johnny Griffin was his finest saxophone foil. …what? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-help/360042/9 "2006-06-09T12:18:32Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > Yes, that was it, “Mr. Monk and the Paperboy.” Forgot about that one. I was thinking it was in one of the papers that his brother had. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-help/360042/10 "2006-06-09T13:45:12Z")
> [@Ukulele Ike](#): > > Here, [this is the one](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000000YBI/qid=1149854678/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-8526006-9234432?s=music&v=glance&n=5174) you want. You can say all you want about his collaborations witth Coltrane or Rollins or Mulligan – or even his long-term relationship with Charlie Rouse – but I still maintain that Johnny Griffin was his finest saxophone foil. > > …what? I’d make some smartass reply, but you’re a Mod. I’d hate to get banned over a TV show thread. 😛