Monk dips his toe into male bonding when he attends the playoffs with Leland, but a murder distracts them from the game and its solution may be the only way to ensure the championship.
Monk gets a call from a man who bullied him when he was a kid. He's still affected by it. He's uneasy when he goes to see him. The man wants to hire Monk to follow his wife whom he suspects is hiding something from him.
Findlay Crawford, a Hollywood film composer and conductor, murders a talented composer/musician who has been ghostwriting most of Crawford's work in recent years, including the entire score for the last film, which won an Oscar.
Security is increased at the hospital when Senator Robert Bassett undergoes an operation. Drs. Sloan and Stewart are preoccupied when a beautiful young amnesia patient is brought in.
When an abrasive, washed-up comic is found dead at a Community General benefit telethon, suspicion is cast on everyone from his son to his former writers.
Mark's cousin, Jonathan Nash, bequeaths his million-dollar fortune to Community General Hospital. His three dastardly children are the main suspects after Nash dies suspiciously... before he has a chance to alter his will.
An old flame of Matlock's asks him to represent her daughter, a talent-show contestant who's been accused of murdering the blackmailer who came in second.
A rare-coin dealer invests his trust in Matlock when he's accused of murdering a thieving employee, while Tyler puts in his two cents when Matlock agrees to let another PI work the case.
Matlock doesn't horse around when it comes to the defense of a mentally handicapped stablehand accused of murdering the manager of a Thoroughbred farm.
Matlock divines the solution to the murder of an amorous model, but forgets it after being hit by a car, and must reconstruct his thoughts from the witness statements.
Librarian and real crime buff Aurora "Roe" Teagarden never liked Detective Sergeant Frederick Burns. She also never wanted to see him dead, but when he winds up murdered, she can't help but get involved.
Aurora Teagarden and her boyfriend Martin are thrilled when they get an unexpected visit from his niece and her new baby. Their excitement is short lived when his niece disappears and the baby is left behind.
