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"Mr. Monk and the Candidate" is the two-part pilot episode of the American comedy-drama detective television series ''Monk''. It introduces the character of Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub), a private detective with obsessive–compulsive disorder and multiple phobias, and his assistant Sharona Fleming (Bitty Schram), as well as police officers Leland Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) and Randy Disher (Jason Gray-Stanford). In this episode, Monk investigates an assassination attempt on a mayoral candidate. First envisioned in 1998, ''Monk'' went through development hell due to difficulties to find an actor to the main role. After successfully casting Shalhoub, the series' first episode was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia in 2001. "Mr. Monk and the Candidate" was written by Andy Breckman and directed by Dean Parisot. When the episode first aired in the United States on the USA Network on July 12, 2002, it was watched by 4.8 million viewers. The episode was generally well received by critics, with most of the praise regarding Shalhoub's performance as the title character. == Plot == In the past, Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) was a San Francisco Police Department's investigator, but the death of his wife, Trudy, led him to develop depression, obsessive–compulsive disorder and multiple phobias. Now, as a private detective, Monk investigates the murder of Nicole Vasquez (Michelle Addison). Later, a shooting occurs during a campaign rally, resulting in the bodyguard of mayoral candidate Warren St. Claire (Michael Hogan) getting killed. The incumbent mayor orders Captain Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) to bring Monk in on the case, and, as Monk's former supervisor, reluctantly, he does. Monk meets St. Claire, his wife Miranda (Gail O'Grady), and their advisor Gavin Lloyd (Ben Bass), and walks to the site where assassination attempt occurred. He discovers Vasquez was a volunteer for the St. Claire's campaign. When he goes to St. Claire campaign headquarters and questions a volunteer about Vasquez, that volunteer later dies under suspicious circumstances, enhancing Monk's suspicion about a link between the Vasquez and St. Claire cases. Monk's assistant Sharona Fleming (Bitty Schram) suspects that St. Claire's wife Miranda was the person who ordered her husband's assassination. Sharona's theory is supported by the fact that St. Claire is worth $150 million, but Monk thinks about other hypotheses, including one in which Miranda is having an affair with one of St. Claire's assistants. Things become clearer in Monk's mind when he watches a news report on the assassination attempt. Monk regroups everyone at the place of the campaign rally to recreate what happened that day. He explains that the assassin was not hired to kill Warren St. Claire, but to kill the bodyguard instead. When Vasquez had discovered that Lloyd was embezzling campaign funds, he approached the bodyguard about murdering Vasquez. As the bodyguard refused to carry out the murder, Lloyd had him killed. To prove his theory, Monk shows a photograph of Lloyd looking at the direction of the shooter just after the shots were fired. Monk proves that Lloyd's sight line was obstructed, and that the gunshot's echo would have masked the direction of the shot. As such, it was impossible that Lloyd could have known where the shots were coming from unless he already knew where the gunman would be. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mr. Monk and the Candidate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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