Monk Solving Murders Involving Poison

0:00 AMBROSE!

0:02 AMBROSE, DON'T EAT THE CANDY.

0:04 I PAID FOR IT.

0:05 NO, SPIT IT OUT.

0:06 SPIT IT OUT.

0:06 COULD BE POISON.

0:07 WHAT?

0:08 That's what this whole thing has been about.

0:10 It's been spiked with tetrachlorodrine.

0:13 Is there a Neptune bar in here?

0:16 Not anymore there isn't.

0:21 Oh my god, Natalie, call 911.

0:24 I thought it tasted funny.

0:25 [snorts] Tetrachlorodrine?

0:27 The guy down the street, he was trying to kill his wife.

0:30 It's too late.

0:30 Don't say that.

0:31 Don't say that.

0:31 Just get up.

0:32 GET UP NOW.

0:33 NATALIE, help me.

0:33 Adrian, tetrachlorodrine is a synthetic insecticide.

0:37 [music] Natalie, help me.

0:39 There is no antidote.

0:43 I'll be dead in 5 minutes.

1:12 Adrian.

1:14 I'm right here.

1:15 I'm right here.

1:16 Tell me who did this.

1:18 It doesn't matter.

1:19 It matters to me.

1:20 I don't want to die without knowing.

1:24 Tell me, Adrian.

1:27 Okay.

1:28 Here's what happened.

1:30 His name was Paul Gilstrap.

1:35 He wanted to kill his wife.

1:37 He worked at a laboratory where they made tetrachlorodrine.

1:41 Oh.

1:42 A few days ago he snuck in there and he stole some of it.

1:47 Ambrose, I met his wife

1:50 [music]

1:49 when I went trick-or-treating with Julie.

1:52 And she said that she ate a Neptune bar every night before bed.

1:58 Oh.

1:59 Gilstrap poisoned her candy.

2:04 But he couldn't poison just one.

2:07 He wanted to make it look like there was a serial killer on the loose.

2:10 So he had to poison a lot of other candy bars.

2:14 Put them back into circulation.

2:19 So his wife would just be another victim.

2:22 That's right.

2:22 It's a good plan.

2:25 [sighs]

2:24 But he made a mistake.

2:26 He got caught trying to put the poison back.

2:32 Ruined everything.

2:33 That's right.

2:34 He ruined everything because now if his wife or anyone

2:37 [music] else died from tetrachlorodrine they'd know it was him.

2:43 So he was desperate.

2:44 He had to get all of the poison candy bars out of circulation.

2:49 He found them all except for two.

2:52 Right.

2:53 The armored [music] car driver had one.

2:56 He had already taken a bite.

2:59 If the driver had just dropped dead Gilstrap knew there'd be an autopsy.

3:04 So he had to think fast.

3:06 He grabbed the driver's gun and shot him repeatedly.

3:10 Who would bother looking for poison in a guy who'd been shot five times?

3:18 Which left just one candy bar.

3:21 The one I ate.

3:22 That's right.

3:24 He's been trying to get it back all night.

3:36 How much further?

3:37 20 blocks.

3:38 Adrian.

3:41 I'm sorry.

3:43 I'm sorry.

3:44 What are you talking about?

3:47 Dad.

3:48 Oh, no.

3:49 I drove him away.

3:51 No.

3:51 He couldn't stand me.

3:52 No.

3:53 He couldn't stand me, Adrian.

3:55 It was my fault.

3:55 No, I'm sorry.

3:57 It was me.

3:58 You're a good brother, Adrian.

4:01 I love you.

4:03 I love you.

4:04 Don't cry, Adrian.

4:05 Be strong now.

4:11 That mother Neptune bar.

4:24 Where's the wrapper from the one he ate?

4:27 It's right here.

4:31 What?

4:33 This one expired 11 months ago.

4:36 That must be the candy bar left over from last year.

4:40 From last Halloween.

4:43 That's why it tasted funny.

4:45 That's why it tasted funny.

4:50 So this this is the this is the poison.

4:56 [laughter] That's why IT TASTED FUNNY.

5:00 THAT'S WHY IT TASTED FUNNY.

5:03 [laughter]

5:06 THIS IS THE THIS IS THE THIS IS THE ONE WITH POISON.

5:14 [laughter]

5:13 I have a stomach ache.

5:21 [laughter] I'm sorry.

5:22 I'm sorry.

5:23 I never got so upset.

5:24 [laughter] Paul Gilstrap?

5:45 Boo.

5:46 You missed one.

5:51 Okay.

5:52 We know how, we know who, and the answer to why has got to be in this book.

5:57 Is Disher called yet?

5:58 Uh not yet.

5:59 Is there anything on Ray Caspo?

6:02 What are you looking for?

6:04 Letters to or from a hospital.

6:06 He was an organ donor.

6:07 Try the blue folders.

6:11 Hello.

6:11 Hi, it's Karen in the warden's office.

6:14 You guys are working late?

6:15 Yeah, tell me about it.

6:16 Are uh Mr.

6:16 Monk and Ms.

6:17 Fleming still there?

6:19 I'm looking right at them.

6:20 Well, the warden wants to see them right away in the wreck room.

6:23 It's important, that's all I know.

6:30 Well, I'm glad I decided to stick around.

6:32 I'll go.

6:33 You stay here, wait for Disher's call.

6:35 Okay.

6:35 You sure you're going to be okay?

6:36 I'll be fine.

6:37 It's just down 1 2 five hallways.

6:41 Okay, fine.

6:50 Hello.

6:56 Warden Christie?

6:59 Hello.

7:14 Hello.

7:15 Hey, you were right.

7:16 Lambert Lawson was AB negative with D antigen.

7:19 It's the rarest blood type in the world.

7:21 Thanks.

7:21 I'll call you later.

7:27 Where's Mr.

7:28 Monk?

7:34 I'm guessing that was that was incredibly painful.

7:39 Uh yeah.

7:40 Ignacio's here in the wreck room.

7:42 This is an Ignacio alert.

7:48 Monk's dead.

7:50 So are you.

7:53 The lines are cut.

7:53 Oh my god.

7:54 Lock down the whole block.

7:55 Get security down there now.

7:56 Ms.

7:56 Fleming, what the hell's going on?

7:58 It's all about him.

7:59 Lambert Lawson?

8:00 Yes, Lambert Lawson.

8:01 We were suing the author of this book for millions of dollars.

8:03 So what?

8:04 So now that he's dead, the lawsuit's going to be thrown out.

8:06 What the hell does a dead billionaire have

8:07 to do with one of my prisoners being poisoned?

8:10 Everything.

8:10 Everything.

8:11 Lambert Lawson died because he needed a kidney transplant.

8:14 He was AB negative with the D antigen.

8:16 It was the rarest blood type in the world.

8:19 Guess who had the same blood type?

8:24 Ray Caspo.

8:26 [groaning and screaming] All right.

8:31 Boys, come on.

8:32 You know violence violence is not the answer.

8:43 So Lawson was waiting for Ray Caspo's kidney?

8:46 Right.

8:47 Right.

8:47 Meanwhile, D.T.

8:48 Mourning, who wrote this book, wanted Lawson dead.

8:50 D.T.

8:50 Mourning, do I know him?

8:51 his mother, Sylvia.

8:53 The reading lady?

8:53 Yep.

8:54 She used her maiden name when she applied here.

8:55 Here, read the dedication.

8:59 For my mother, Sylvia, who makes all things possible.

9:06 She came here to kill Ray Caspo.

9:08 She paid Tucker, the cook,

9:09 to spike his [music] last meal with enough poison to destroy his organs.

9:14 Wouldn't the lethal injection [music] have ruined the kidneys anyway?

9:16 No.

9:16 No, the injection attacks the nervous system, not the organs.

9:20 By destroying that kidney, she murdered Lawson to protect her son.

9:32 Adrian!

9:47 Find Mrs.

9:48 Fairborn.

9:48 Don't let her leave the prison.

9:49 Come on, follow me.

9:50 Let's go.

9:51 COME ON.

10:04 ONE SECOND, I'M MISSING A SOCK HERE.

10:08 Dry it off.

10:10 Let him go.

10:12 It's not about you, Spider.

10:14 Guy's a friend of mine.

10:15 He's a cop.

10:16 Yes, so I've heard.

10:17 Let him go.

10:20 [panting and sighs]

10:20 Each side with a cop over us.

10:22 I'd side with a cucaracha OVER YOU.

10:27 [screaming] [screaming] HE'S IN.

10:51 SHOULD RUN.

10:51 I KNOW YOU'RE OKAY.

10:52 I FIGURED out why I'm a suspect.

10:54 I know, I know.

10:55 I just did the whole summation.

10:57 Get them out of here.

11:01 Get them out.

11:04 Spider, you saved my life.

11:07 I come up for parole in 50 years.

11:10 If you're still around,

11:12 why don't you come around and tell the board all about it?

11:15 I'll do that.

11:18 [music] Get him out of here.

11:19 Come on.

11:34 [music] [music] [music] HEY, TERRY.

11:58 TERRY.

12:02 TERRY.

12:03 TERRY.

12:04 HEY.

12:04 HEY, HEY, BUDDY.

12:06 TERRY.

12:07 TERRY.

12:07 HEY.

12:08 HEY, HEY, CALL AN AMBULANCE.

12:09 JOHN, JOHN, CALL IT IN.

12:13 What happened?

12:26 What did he say?

12:27 That's still preliminary.

12:30 What did he say, Randy?

12:32 Poison.

12:33 Some kind of strychnine.

12:35 Simple and effective.

12:35 Anybody could have made it.

12:37 Couldn't he have tasted it?

12:38 Port's pretty heavy drink, isn't it?

12:40 It's really strong.

12:41 He wouldn't taste it in that.

12:43 [clears throat] Captain, they need the body.

12:47 And?

12:48 [clears throat] This was meant for me.

12:55 There but for the grace of God.

12:59 This was meant for me.

13:02 The grace of God.

13:07 Captain, I'm really so sorry.

13:11 He was only 38 years old, right?

13:13 Was he married?

13:14 No, I think they were separated.

13:16 No, they're back together.

13:17 I just talked to Jenny.

13:20 They got two little girls.

13:21 Twins.

13:25 Just the card that came with the bottle.

13:27 Yeah.

13:28 Nobody saw who delivered it.

13:30 It was sitting at the front desk.

13:32 Anybody could have dropped it off there.

13:33 I'm so sorry.

13:35 It was my idea for the gift exchange.

13:37 Secret Santas.

13:37 I just Oh, you can't blame yourself.

13:40 Well, I just woke up John DeSilva.

13:42 He owns the body shop.

13:43 He says they never send gifts or liquor.

13:45 He offered to come down and take a poly, but it feels like a dead end.

13:48 Whoever sent it knew you did business with them.

13:50 That that that narrows it down, right?

13:53 Mhm.

13:53 Exclusive part supplier for the SFPD.

13:55 It's on all their ads.

13:56 Anybody could have seen it.

13:57 Okay, let's get to it.

13:59 I've narrowed it down to five possible suspects.

14:02 People who may have had a grudge, people you arrested.

14:06 Frank Praeger.

14:07 Yes, sir.

14:07 Frank's on the list.

14:08 He's number one.

14:09 Who's Praeger?

14:11 A year ago, the captain Sean killed a bank robber named Mike Praeger.

14:15 Frank's his brother.

14:16 A few months ago, he tried to settle the score.

14:18 He came at me in a parking lot.

14:21 He got off five rounds and he missed.

14:23 Got away.

14:24 Disappeared.

14:25 And it looks like he missed again.

14:26 All right.

14:27 Why don't we each take a name?

14:28 Lieutenant, you're wasting your time.

14:30 I'm telling you it's Frank Praeger.

14:32 All right.

14:33 How about this?

14:34 How about we split up into two teams?

14:36 Your team gets Praeger.

14:37 My team will take the rest of the list.

14:40 Okay.

14:42 Let's see.

14:46 What are you doing?

14:47 I'm picking my team.

14:48 I'll take uh I'll take Monk.

14:54 No, I'll take Monk.

14:56 Okay.

14:57 Uh I'll take Natalie.

15:00 Oh, I can't.

15:01 Julie's waiting for me at home.

15:02 Fine.

15:03 Um I'll take uh You'll take Robbins.

15:09 He was back here at noon.

15:16 I'll take Robbins.

15:18 Let's go.

15:22 Four months ago, it was a Tuesday night.

15:25 I came out of the bar 2:00 a.m.

15:31 They took my keys, so I'm I'm walking home.

15:34 I was alone.

15:36 I was pretty toasted.

15:38 That street light was on cuz I could still see.

15:42 And he was waiting.

15:43 He was by There was a big black van here.

15:46 He was waiting behind it.

15:48 Uh must have been here all night.

15:51 He steps out.

15:53 I'm standing right about where you are now.

15:55 I knew who it was right away.

15:57 It was Frank Praeger.

15:58 And he wanted me dead.

16:00 I could see it in his eyes.

16:02 He aims a Glock 17 at my head, caps off five rounds.

16:09 And then then he disappeared until last night.

16:18 He's only 12 ft away.

16:19 With the street light behind him, it's not a hard shot.

16:22 You said he was a veteran special ops.

16:25 Yeah, maybe he was as toasted as me.

16:28 Maybe it was a miracle.

16:31 Maybe it was.

16:34 And they just left the bullet holes there.

16:37 Well, it's probably good for business at this place.

16:41 It adds to the mystique.

16:43 Pattern does not look random.

16:45 2 1 2.

16:47 He had a Glock 17.

16:49 He could have fired 20 rounds.

16:50 He only squeezed off five?

16:52 2 1 2.

16:53 Monk, it doesn't matter.

16:55 He's given up on guns.

16:56 The guy's graduated to strychnine.

16:58 It's a different ammo?

16:59 He's special ops.

17:00 Remember, those guys know a hundred different ways to kill somebody.

17:03 Look, Praeger wants me dead.

17:05 I'm the guy that shot his brother.

17:09 Frank, there is a clinic next to the church.

17:14 They have drugs.

17:16 They have chemicals.

17:17 Did you have access to the storage room?

17:20 Um I mean, I didn't have key or anything.

17:25 But it would have been easy enough to break in.

17:28 I didn't poison anybody.

17:30 I'm not a killer.

17:31 All right.

17:32 What about our last date in the parking lot four months ago?

17:35 I wasn't trying to kill you.

17:37 You can't be serious.

17:39 All right.

17:41 I thought about it.

17:43 When I got there, I couldn't.

17:47 I didn't want to become my brother.

17:50 The last minute, I decided to send you a message.

17:53 A message?

17:55 My God.

17:57 Captain, the pattern.

18:01 It was M.

18:02 M for Michael.

18:03 Yeah.

18:04 It was an M.

18:05 How could you miss it?

18:08 Uh what how how was I supposed to know that was the letter M?

18:13 This guy's the best detective in the free world.

18:15 He didn't know that was an M.

18:19 Why you couldn't use a spray can like everybody else?

18:22 Oh, for God's sake, a message.

18:24 I just wanted you to think about what you did.

18:28 Michael was a good kid who got screwed up.

18:36 Wait, you don't you think I don't think about your brother?

18:38 I think about your brother every damn day of my life.

18:42 It was him or me.

18:45 And it still eats me up.

18:47 I don't need an M on a wall to remember something like that.

18:52 No cop does.

18:58 Get him out of here.

19:01 Let's go.

19:04 Captain, you got to read this.

19:06 This is from the journal he kept while he was in that church.

19:09 He feels terrible about what he did.

19:10 Look at this one part.

19:11 It made me cry.

19:13 He can't see it.

19:14 Yeah, no, I know, Natalie.

19:15 I'm He's not the guy, all right?

19:17 Okay, moving on.

19:18 Lieutenant, [music] you said there were four

19:19 other suspects who might have had a motive.

19:21 Actually, we struck out.

19:24 One's deceased, one's in the hospital, and uh two are back in prison.

19:29 Okay, so it wasn't Frank Praeger.

19:30 It's nobody on your list.

19:32 Who sent me that bottle of wine?

19:34 And will they try again?

19:38 [music] To kill you, I mean.

19:39 I know what you mean, Lieutenant.

19:53 [laughter] Oh, look.

19:52 See, it looks good.

19:55 Okay.

19:56 You need one, too.

19:58 Oh, okay.

19:58 I'll put it right here.

20:01 [laughter] Okay, okay.

20:00 And this is for Mr.

20:04 Monk.

20:05 You didn't have to get me anything.

20:08 But, thanks.

20:09 Don't tell the captain.

20:13 First aid kit.

20:14 That is the hot gift this year.

20:16 It's the Cadillac of first aid kits.

20:19 I'm talking about 100 ft of gauze, five different ointments, and a tourniquet.

20:24 Now, that tourniquet great.

20:25 We're going to look at that later because this is from both of us.

20:31 Careful though, it's fragile.

20:32 Oh.

20:34 Oh, no.

20:36 Oh.

20:38 [snorts]

20:45 It's alive.

20:46 It's a living thing.

20:48 Is it going to die?

20:49 But, not for a long, long, long time.

20:52 But, it will die eventually.

20:54 It's a friend.

20:55 It's a little friend to keep you company.

20:57 Dying friend.

20:57 Look.

20:58 Look at it.

20:58 It's just twitching.

20:59 It's turning left, then it swims right.

21:02 It's zigzagging.

21:03 Can't we train it?

21:04 Yeah, we can train it to swim clockwise.

21:07 And I can show you how to feed this.

21:09 Oh.

21:09 Oh, oh, okay.

21:10 Wait, wait, wait.

21:10 Stay there.

21:11 I'll get it.

21:12 I'll get my new broom.

21:14 Just wait.

21:19 [laughter] Okay, let's see it.

21:20 Put Put it here.

21:21 Oh, that's adorable.

21:25 Cute.

21:25 Okay.

21:26 This is water.

21:27 Water.

21:29 Think it'll bite you?

21:30 I can't.

21:31 A what?

21:33 Here.

21:34 [music] Captain.

21:38 Merry Christmas, Alice.

21:41 May we come in?

21:44 So, what's going on?

21:45 A monk thinks that he knows who tried to kill me during the Christmas party.

21:50 I thought it was Frank Fleming.

21:52 No, it wasn't Fleming.

21:54 In fact, it wasn't anybody.

21:55 Nobody tried to kill the captain.

21:57 That was a trick to throw us off track.

22:00 Terry Channing was the target from the beginning.

22:03 Alice, we know you and Terry were involved.

22:06 We've got phone records, credit cards.

22:08 You were together for about 6 months.

22:11 Seven.

22:11 Seven months.

22:12 Was it because he went back to his wife that's why you killed him?

22:18 Alice.

22:20 We know how you did it.

22:23 The Christmas gift exchange was your idea.

22:25 It was easy to make sure that the captain picked Terry's name.

22:29 Yeah, I remember.

22:29 I was the last one to choose, and there was one name left.

22:33 The day of the party, you brought a poison bottle [music] into the office.

22:36 You dropped it off at the front desk.

22:38 It was addressed to Captain Stottlemeyer.

22:40 And you know I don't drink port.

22:43 And at some point, probably during the party,

22:45 you snuck into the captain's office and you stole

22:48 the gift that he had brought in for Terry.

22:51 When the captain couldn't find it,

22:52 you suggested replacing it with the bottle, the poison bottle.

22:56 Just like a magician doing slight of hand,

22:58 you had everybody looking the wrong way.

23:01 It was brilliant.

23:08 Excuse me.

23:18 Alice.

23:25 Alice.

23:26 Where's the poison?

23:29 You know, if you throw it away, we'll find traces of it.

23:31 You know that.

23:37 It's in the basement.

23:42 How did you know?

23:43 Natalie.

23:48 This is the card and the envelope came with the whisk broom,

23:52 which, by the way, I've been using.

23:54 It really is fantastic.

23:55 But, the card is a little too big.

23:58 See, you had to fold it over.

24:02 This card came with the poison bottle.

24:05 It's too small.

24:08 Alice, you mixed them up.

24:10 I mixed them up.

24:14 And I'm usually so organized.

24:21 [snorts] I couldn't.

24:27 I just couldn't live without him.

24:37 It's jungle out there.

24:39 Disorder and confusion everywhere.

24:44 No one seems to care.

24:46 Well, I do.

24:47 Hey, who's in charge here?

24:50 It's jungle out there.