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"Mr. Monk and the Three Pies" is the eleventh episode of the second season of the American comedy-drama detective television series ''Monk'', and the show's 24th episode overall. The series follows Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub), a private detective with obsessive–compulsive disorder and multiple phobias, and his assistant Sharona Flemming (Bitty Schram). In this episode, Monk's brother, Ambrose, is introduced to the series, and request Monk to investigate his neighbor, whom he suspects of murdering. It was written by Tom Scharpling and Daniel Dratch, and directed by Randall Zisk. The episode guest starred John Turturro, who accepted to play Ambrose after a Shalhoub's invite. When the episode first aired in the United States on the USA Network on January 23, 2004, it was watched by 5.9 million viewers. "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies" was generally well received by critics, with most of the praise regarding Turturro's performance. It also led Turturro to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. == Plot == At a fair in Tewkesbury, a woman wins a cherry pie, and Pat van Ranken (Holt McCallany) kills her and steals her car. While Captain Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) dismisses it as a carjacking gone wrong, Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) remains suspicious. Later, Sharona Fleming (Bitty Schram) gets a call from Monk's brother Ambrose (John Turturro), an agoraphobic who does not leave his house for thirty-two years. The brothers have not spoken for seven years—Adrian is angry at Ambrose because he never called or wrote after Adrian's wife died. Ambrose calls Adrian, as he suspects his neighbor, van Ranken, of murdering his wife, Rita (Crystal Santos). Ambrose heard gunshots and noticed van Ranken was gone all night. When asked, van Ranken said Rita had flown to Argentina and that his truck was broken. However, Adrian notices the truck has been moved recently. Adrian and Sharona visit van Ranken, on the pretext of taking back a bag of flour that Rita borrowed from Ambrose, and van Ranken lies about his wife's whereabouts. The next day, van Ranken wins another cherry pie, and Adrian and Sharona see him rooting it. Ambrose remembers that Rita baked three cherry pies to give away at the fair, deducing that must be something in one of them. Though skeptical, Stottlemeyer admits there was no pie in the car when the police got there. However, the airline records confirm that Rita boarded a plane to Argentina on the night of the murder. The next day, Adrian and Sharona track van Ranken back to the fair again, and the third pie is won by van Ranken. Adrian explains that when van Ranken was disposing of his wife's corpse, a woman arrived to collect the pies. Van Ranken realized that one of the shell casings from his gun was nowhere to be found, believing it landed in one of the pies. It convinces Stottlemeyer to search the third pie, but nothing is found inside it. Later, over dinner with Ambrose, Adrian berates him for not calling after Trudy died, and Ambrose, taken aback, says the reason he did not call was because he felt guilty: Trudy was running an errand to get cough medicine for him when she was killed, and he blames himself. He breaks down crying, and Adrian, shocked, tells him it was not his fault, and embraces him. Later, Adrian and van Ranken each reenact the murder, realizing that the shell casing is in the bag of flour in Ambrose's house. Adrian and Sharona race to Tewkesbury, realizing that Ambrose is in danger. Van Ranken tries to get the flour back but Ambrose sees through his ruse. He locks the door, causing van Ranken to set the house on fire. While Sharona calls the fire department, Adrian rushes inside and resort to drag Ambrose out. Meanwhile, Stottlemeyer and Lieutenant Disher (Jason Gray-Stanford) arrest van Ranken; they just found Rita's body, and the "Rita van Ranken" who flew to Argentina is actually his girlfriend. At the end of the episode, the reconciled brothers visit Trudy's grave. 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 Three Pies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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