The Best Episodes Written By Tom Scharpling

What could possibly make a cherry pie worth killing for? Monk finds out, with a little help from his long-lost brother Ambrose.

Frances and Robert try to set aside their differences and make their annual Christmas trip to her parents' house with the children.

Monk takes a new medication that alleviates the symptoms of his obsessive-compulsive disorder but impairs his ability to solve crime.

Nandor visits one of his living descendants, and a lover from Nadja's past re-emerges.

Monk suspects the star of a hit TV crime show of killing his ex-wife. His only problem: the actor's rock solid alibi.

Monk unravels a baffling mystery after a toddler finds a severed finger in a park.

Monk reluctantly takes the stage to investigate an actor's murder.

Monk gets stuck in a traffic jam and finds that the cause of the standstill is murder.

After being temporarily institutionalized, Monk stumbles upon a four-year-old murder. Or is his mind playing tricks on him?

Lieutenant Disher quits the force when no one believes that he witnessed a murder while under anesthesia at the dentist.

When Natalie convinces Monk to go into business as a private eye, his first case is a seemingly innocuous fender bender that leads to a far more dangerous investigation.

The vampires venture into Manhattan, to make an alliance with an old friend who is now the king of the Manhattan vampires.

A blind woman witnesses the murder of Willie Nelson's road manager. Is the country music legend the killer?

Monk and Natalie try to solve a diamond heist that promises a big reward. But in their race for the money, they face three unscrupulous competitors.

Tensions between Frances and Robert ease after Lila has an emergency, but a cutthroat move by Frances' new lawyer sends Robert on a vengeful path. An encounter at the grocery store crystallizes Diane's feelings about motherhood. Frances makes a confession to her father at her gallery opening and is surprised by an unexpected visitor.

Sharona's life is in danger while Monk brilliantly solves a seemingly perfect crime committed during a San Francisco earthquake.

Monk solves a Halloween murder mystery while he and his brother Ambrose wait for their long-lost father to return home.

When Monk is arrested for murder, he escapes the custody of a small-town sheriff and becomes a fugitive on the run.

As Monk and his friends watch a TV news magazine piece on the solution of his hundredth case, he realizes that one of the victims was murdered by a different killer.

Monk's estranged father, Jack, returns at Christmas time, but all is not merry with the Monks.

Tyrannis and Hippocampus release the only god they like, Prometheus, from his eternity on the rock, only to find he's friends with Deliria. Shlub takes Stupendous to the cyclopes island to find her dad.

With Tyrannis' support, Hippocampus overcomes his imposter syndrome and wins first prize for his invention at Hephaestus-Con, only to learn that Hephaestus selected him for his looks, not his intellect. Rebranding her image into the 'goddess of no hangovers', Deliria unintentionally starts a city-wide drunken riot while Shlub watches, afraid to confront her.

Monk becomes involved in the disappearance of a city official that could have ramifications concerning Trudy's murder.