Steve Wagner: Here you are. Our brave centurion. I liked your speech. Especially the little dance number at the end.
Natalie: Those laser pointers can be very dangerous.
Steve Wagner: Yeah. They're a real menace. I hear you've been checking up on me. Calling Joanne's family.
Her publisher. Turning over rocks. If you want to talk to me, let's talk right now, man to muss.
Adrian Monk: Did you hit her?
Steve Wagner: Hit who?
Adrian Monk: Joanne. Did you hit her so hard that she woke up in the hospital?
Steve Wagner: I wouldn't repeat that, Mr. Monk. That's slander. Besides, who would believe it?
Adrian Monk: That's why you killed her, isn't it? Because she was about to go public. She was about to tell the truth about you.
Steve Wagner: You're a sad little man. I can't believe you and I breathe the same air. I was on a space ship, Mr.
Monk, circling the Earth with my crew. Why doesn't that satisfy?
Adrian Monk: Am I making you nervous?
Steve Wagner: Never. You know why? [clicks fingers] See? You flinched. See, you're a flincher. You'll never stop me because when the chips are down, when it really counts, you are always going to flinch.
Assistant: Sir, sorry to interrupt. We have to go.
Steve Wagner: Would you excuse us? The governor's waiting.
Natalie: [to Monk] My God. You were right. He killed her. That was almost a confession. But how? How did he do it?