Overview
When five members of the West Coast Mafia are shot down in a barbershop, Monk is pressured by mob godfather Salvatore Lucarelli and his nephew ""Fat Tony"" to solve the case. But the FBI in the person of Agent Colmes is pressuring him, too. Despite Captain Stottlemeyer's insistence that Colmes is not to be trusted, Monk accepts his offer of reinstatement on the police force if he can bring down the whole gang. The only clues are a partially completed crossword puzzle and a gumball machine that was apparently used to break a back window so the killer could escape. With a Mafia bodyguard named Vince as their ""babysitter,"" Monk and Sharona interview the sole witness, Phil Bedard, a young U.S. mint employee who tells them that he saw three men running from the scene, one of them wearing a jacket with a strange-looking number 15 on the back. Bedard also explains the heightened security at the mint: someone has stolen five double-headed pennies. Associating the numbers on the jackets with a Ch
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3 - 1Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan June 18, 2004
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3 - 2Mr. Monk and the Panic Room June 25, 2004
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3 - 3Mr. Monk and the Blackout July 09, 2004
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3 - 4Mr. Monk Gets Fired July 16, 2004
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3 - 5Mr. Monk Meets the Godfather July 23, 2004
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3 - 6Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf July 30, 2004
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3 - 7Mr. Monk and the Employee of the Month August 06, 2004
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3 - 8Mr. Monk and the Game Show August 13, 2004
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3 - 9Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine August 20, 2004
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3 - 10Mr. Monk and the Red Herring January 21, 2005
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3 - 11Mr. Monk vs. the Cobra January 28, 2005
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3 - 12Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever February 04, 2005
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3 - 13Mr. Monk Gets Stuck in Traffic February 11, 2005
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3 - 14Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas February 18, 2005
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3 - 15Mr. Monk and the Election February 25, 2005
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3 - 16Mr. Monk and the Kid March 04, 2005