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Aug 21, 2009 · Mr. Monk and the UFO: Directed by Kevin Hooks. With Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Jason Gray-Stanford, Ted Levine. Monk finds himself defending his humanity while assisting the sheriff in a remote Nevada town with a murder investigation after he spots what could be a UFO.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Kevin Hooks
- 2009-08-21
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- "What are you doing?"
Mr. Monk and the UFO is the third episode of the eighth season of Monk.
When stuck in the little town of Vintonville, Nevada, Monk sees a UFO and a dead woman shows up on a hiking trail nearby. Coincidence?
The episode opens with an old and dirty car driving through the countryside late at night. We see that Monk and Natalie are its occupants. Natalie is visibly unhappy at Monk and she berates him for even coming along with her to a friend's wedding out in Nevada. The argument is interrupted when suddenly the engine begins to sputter. Natalie pulls the car over on a converted railroad bridge and, while she tries to figure what the problem is, Monk walks along the bridge with a cell phone to try and get a signal, as they are in the middle of nowhere. He is interrupted, however, when he sees a UFO hover into the sky near him and then dart off into space.
The next morning, they take the car to a local repair shop. Monk asks the local mechanic, Boom-Boom, if he saw anything the night before. Boom-Boom admits that he didn't but he once saw a ghost in a barn house. Due to poor interpersonal skills, Monk ends up managing to insult Boom-Boom, who takes offense and raises his estimate. Natalie tries to convince him to show a little empathy but it doesn't go well. For now, they are stuck in the small town of Vintonville, Nevada.
Natalie calls Stottlemeyer and warns him they won't be making a training seminar. She tells him what Monk claims he saw. Meanwhile, Monk goes to the sheriff's office to report his sighting to the sheriff. He adjusts the blinds as a woman, Dolly, tells the sheriff that her neighbor Marge Larkin has been missing for four days. The sheriff doesn't take Dolly's report seriously, as Marge has been known to take unannounced vacations in the past, and this just might be another one of those, even though Dolly also mentions that Marge's lights have been out all this time.
Fletcher ushers Dolly out, assuring her that there's nothing to worry about regarding Marge. He turns his attention to Monk. Monk is reluctant to say he actually saw a UFO but is finally forced to admit he saw what he thinks he saw. The sheriff promises he'll investigate but is clearly skeptical, and seems more interested in Monk's UFO sighting than Dolly's missing neighbor.
As Monk and Natalie are reentering their hotel that night, Natalie mentions to Monk that swamp gas might be causing the imaginary UFO, but then Monk sees the UFO hovering over a tree. A previously skeptical Natalie also notices it. A hotel clerk nearby actually captures it on his cell phone.
The next morning, Monk wakes up, looks out the window, and sees a golden alien figure standing outside in the parking lot. Thinking he must be seeing things, he goes back to bed, wakes up again, looks out the window again, and sees that the golden figure has been joined by two others, and they are all closer to his window. It turns out that avid UFO watchers have arrived in the town, many of them dressed up as aliens like the ones Monk saw, as the hotel clerk posted his video on the web and it has gone viral. These UFO fans believe that the aliens apparently came to Earth on a Class IV Intergalactic Doomfreighter. The fans also take interest in Monk, as he was the "Alpha contact" or first person to see the UFO. They get interrupted though when an enthusiast on a Segway mentions that a "landing site" has been found.
Randy Disher does not appear in this episode. It's the fourth episode where he does not appear. The previous episodes were "Mr. Monk Goes to the Asylum", "Mr. Monk and the Game Show" and "Mr. Monk Gets Stuck in Traffic".
This is the only episode where Leland Stottlemeyer appears but Randy does not.
A theme of the episode is the notion that Monk might be an alien. In Men In Black 1, 2, and 3, Tony Shalhoub plays an alien named Jeebs.
One of the UFOlogy buffs (dressed in a gold body suit) is played by Jeremy Howard. Jeremy played a groupie of the titular sci-fi television show in the movie Galaxy Quest. He also played an alien in Men In Black 2, along with Tony Shalhoub.
One of the UFO scanning devices seen outside of the hotel at the end of the episode is actually a Cold War-era Geiger counter, from the Department of Civil Defense.
The business woman Monk and Natalie speak to wears a similar Hazmat helmet as the Characters in Outbreak (1995).
In every episode of Monk and the Monk Movie, at least once, some variation of the question, "What are you doing?" is asked.
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