Natalie: [answers phone] Hello? Yes. He's right here. Who's this? A what? A friend of whose? This is Adrian Monk. What number are you calling? Yeah. Hold on. Mr. Monk? It's Hal?
Adrian Monk: Hal! Hal? He called me? [takes the phone] Hello? Yeah, yeah, of course I remember you. Yeah. Oh, it was... Yeah, it was nice meeting you too. Bumping into you. All right, I get it, I get it. It was a play on words. Oh, that was just my assistant Natalie. Huh? Hold on. Hold on, I'll see. Are you hot?
Natalie: What?
Adrian Monk: What, tom- tomorrow? Oh, sure. I- Sure, that sounds okay. Yeah, that sounds great. All right, okay, great. I'll see you then. [hangs up] That was Hal.
Natalie: Who is Hal?
Adrian Monk: Oh, he's just a guy. He's a friend. We're going to the hockey game tomorrow.
Lieutenant Disher: The hockey game?
Adrian Monk: Yeah. Kramer, what're you doing tomorrow?
Kramer: Going to the beach with the kids.
Adrian Monk: Can't go with ya. I'm going to the hockey game. Captain, you don't need me tomorrow, do ya?
Captain Stottlemeyer: No.
Adrian Monk: Good, 'cause I'm goin' to the game.
Captain Stottlemeyer: Yeah. I heard.