8.0/107 votes#1 - What Happens in Burma
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 2/1/2011
Peter and Neal work to free a diplomat's son, who has been taken into custody in Burma for a crime he didn't commit. The case requires the duo to use diplomatic laws to their advantage in order to overcome the obstacles facing them.
Director: John T. Kretchmer
Writer: Hy Conrad
7.7/1017 votes#2 - Mr. Monk Takes a Vacation
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/20/2002
While on vacation at a resort, Benjy claims he witnessed a murder. Monk believes him, but with no body and the cleanest crime scene Monk has ever seen, it's going to be hard to convince everybody else.
Director: Kevin Inch
Writer: Hy Conrad
7.4/109 votes#3 - Mr. Monk and the Blackout
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 7/9/2004
Three deaths during a city-wide blackout result in a joint investigation by Stottlemeyer, Monk, Sharona, and Disher, with the unprecedented cooperation of the FBI and the help of power company spokeswoman Michelle Rivas, an attractive brunette who is inexplicably attracted to Monk. While Sharona and Dr. Kroger pressure Monk to call Michelle, Disher follows up on Monk's suggestion that the power outage is connected to a '90s radical named Winston Brenner. Everything fits--the handwriting in the note, the phrasing, even a pair of photographs. Everything except one small detail at the end of the report--Brenner died in 1995. When the FBI acknowledges the possibility that Brenner may have faked his own death to avoid a trial, Captain Stottlemeyer presents a tree-hugging former friend of Brenner's with the evidence that Brenner is still alive and reminds him that this particular power outage is also a homicide. When the tree-hugger is murdered, it becomes clear that the killer is indeed Bre
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Hy Conrad
7.4/109 votes#4 - Mr. Monk and the Kid
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 3/4/2005
After twenty-two-month-old Tommy Graser finds a severed finger and gives it to a policeman, Monk walks through the park with Tommy trying to retrace the child's steps. He finds no body or other incriminating evidence, but he does discover a surprising affection for the placid and intelligent toddler, who constantly repeats Monk's name and quietly submits to having his hands wiped when he touches ""nature."" A lab technician identifies the finger as that of a twenty-five-year-old man, and Monk deduces from a callus that the young man played the violin. After visiting the home of Daniel Carlyle, a musician who fits this description, Monk concludes that Daniel's mother and her other son, Jason, killed Daniel and that Jason is masquerading as his brother. Meanwhile, little Tommy is temporarily removed from the custody of his foster parents, and Monk surprises everyone, including himself, by volunteering to care for him for two weeks until his new adoptive parents can take him. With Tommy in
Director: Eric Laneuville
Writer: Hy Conrad
7.4/108 votes#5 - Mr. Monk and the Lady Next Door
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 1/23/2009
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.
Director: Tawnia McKiernan
Writer: Hy Conrad
7.4/105 votes#6 - Who Killed the Guy on the Ski Lift?
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/21/2018
After a cop is stabbed on a ski lift, TJ risks the ire of his fellow police officers -- and his dad -- to prove the accused's innocence.
Director: Kevin Hooks
Writer: Hy Conrad
7.2/108 votes#7 - Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 8/18/2006
When Dr. Kroger retires after his cleaning lady is killed, it's up to Monk to solve the case and get Dr. Kroger back to work.
Director: Andre Belgrader
Writer: Hy Conrad
7.1/1015 votes#8 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Ballgame
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/11/2003
When a ruthless CEO and his wife are lured to an industrial park and are shot dead in their car, Monk connects their murders to a star baseball player's quest for the single season home run record.
Director: Michael Spiller
Writer: Hy Conrad
7.1/1018 votes#9 - Mr. Monk and the Earthquake
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 10/4/2002
Renowned philanthropist Henry Rutherford is killed when a minor earthquake rocks the city and sends a display case falling on top of him. But when Monk examines the scene, he finds clues that suggest foul play.
Director: Kevin Inch
Writer: Hy Conrad
7.1/1011 votes#10 - Mr. Monk and the Paperboy
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/16/2004
When Monk's paperboy is murdered on his doorstep by a guy looking to steal his newspapers, Monk turns to the pages of the newspaper for clues to solve the baffling crime.
Director: Michael Fresco
Writer: Hy Conrad
6.8/109 votes#11 - Mr. Monk and the Actor
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 7/7/2006
While working on a double murder, Monk finds that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery when he finds that an obsessive method actor has been cast to play...Adrian Monk in a new movie.
Director: Randall Zisk
Writer: Hy Conrad
6.6/109 votes#12 - Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/4/2005
After witnessing a Chinese gangland murder, Monk has to stay in an FBI safe house--a cabin in the woods--in the protective custody of Agent Grooms, with Stottlemeyer and Natalie as company. Awakened by a man's scream, Monk convinces Stottlemeyer and Natalie that a woman in a nearby cabin has murdered her husband. Agent Grooms, however, remains skeptical. After Grooms disconnects their telephone, Stottlemeyer locks him in the bathroom and the three ""borrow"" Grooms's car and set out in a rainstorm to investigate, only to get stuck in the mud on the way. Meanwhile, Disher and his new girlfriend Hayley are encountering a strange circumstance--the fortunes in their fortune cookies keep coming true. When a fortune informs Disher that an old friend is in trouble and only he can save him, Disher immediately sets out to save Monk, unaware that he's leading a pair of hitmen to the FBI cabin. After a rainy night in the car, Stottlemeyer leads Natalie and Monk through the woods toward the neighbor
Director: Jerry Levine
Writer: Hy Conrad
6.5/108 votes#13 - Mr. Monk Gets Lotto Fever
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 8/1/2008
Monk has to help out Natalie when she becomes involved in a lotto scandal.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Hy Conrad
6.4/107 votes#14 - Mr. Monk and the Critic
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 9/18/2009
Natalie suspects a theater critic is responsible for a murder, despite the fact that he was present to review her daughter Julie's play at the same time the victim died.
Director: Jerry Levine
Writer: Hy Conrad
6.3/107 votes#15 - Mr. Monk Stays in Bed
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 7/22/2005
Monk feels too sick to work until a case gets him out of bed.
Director: Philip Casnoff
Writer: Hy Conrad
6.3/106 votes#16 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Bank
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 1/18/2008
One of Monk's treasured possessions is stolen from a safety deposit box, and he'll go to any length to solve the case.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Hy Conrad
6.1/107 votes#17 - Mr. Monk and the Other Detective
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 7/8/2005
Monk appears to have met his match when a fellow detective shows up at a crime scene knowing all the answers.
Director: Eric Laneuville
Writer: Hy Conrad
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"What Happens in Burma" is the best rated episode written by Hy Conrad. It scored 8/10 based on 7 votes. It was directed by John T. Kretchmer. It aired on 2/1/2011 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "Mr. Monk Takes a Vacation".