Season 5 - Episode Guide

A method actor gets in the way as Monk tries to solve a case.

A city-wide garbage strike throws Monk completely off his game as he tries to solve the murder of a union boss.

Monk coaches basketball while trying to solve a murder case.

Monk is blinded by a murderer at a fire station, and then must help find him using his other senses.

With work scarce from the police department, Natalie manipulates Monk into opening his own agency, but his first case may be deadly.

Monk and Natalie go to Berkeley for Monk's 25th college reunion, but are sidetracked when Stottlemeyer shows up asking for their help on the recent homicide of a retired clinic nurse.

Dr. Kroger questions his abilities after a patient becomes the prime suspect in a murder. He decides to retire but a distressed Monk is convinced someone else is responsible.

Monk and Natalie are sidetracked into a homicide investigation at a local music festival when a roadie turns up dead, due to a suspected overdose.

Monk meets his long lost father after 39 years.

Monk deals with leprosy on two fronts as he's called to testify that a leper is indeed alive so that his money isn't given away.

When Monk suddenly acquires a new friend who rarely leaves his side, everyone is suspicious but him.

Upset when a hiring freeze at the police department is announced, Monk is pressured by Natalie to investigate the deaths of her parents' neighbors, but when Monk starts considering his undercover role as a viable alternate career something has to be done.

Monk and Natalie take on a very popular shock jock after his sister-in-law suspects that the jock is responsible for killing his wife. But the jockey has an airtight alibi.

Disher inherits his uncle's farm and invites Monk to visit him when he suspects that his uncle's death was not really an accident.

A street musician is murdered six different ways and the killer is threatening to strike again, but Monk and his colleagues are forced to the sidelines by obnoxious FBI agents.

Monk goes to the emergency room with a persistent nose bleed, which he becomes convinced is actually a cerebral hemorrhage, and discovers the doctor he sought out for second opinion, dead on his office floor.