Adrian Monk is a brilliant San Francisco detective, whose obsessive compulsive disorder just happen ...
Adrian Monk is a brilliant San Francisco detective, whose obsessive compulsive disorder just happen to get in the way.
Former police detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) has suffered from intenified obsessive- compulsive disorder and a variety of phobias since the murder of his wife, Trudy, in 1997. Despite his photographic memory and his amazing ability to piece tiny clues together, he is now on psychiatric leave from the San Francisco Police Department. Aided by his friend and practical nure, Sharona Fleming (Bitty Schram), Monk works as a freelance detective/conultant, hoping to convince his former boss, Captain Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine), to allow him to return to the force. Stottlemeyer waver between admiration for Monk and annoyance at his eccentricities. Moreover, he harbor serious doubts about the wisdom of allowing Monk to carry a gun. Stottlemeyer's second-in-command, Lieutenant Disher (Jason Gray-Stanford), also has his doubts about Monk but seems to be developing a reluctant admiration for the "defective detective."
