Quote from Captain Stottlemeyer in Mr. Monk and the End (Part One)
Captain Stottlemeyer: Did you talk to the lab? Lieutenant Disher: Yeah, I just got off the phone with them. He's not gonna make it. [Stottlemeyer pulls out a bottle of scotch and two glasses] Lieutenant Disher: Should I shut the door? Captain Stottlemeyer: I don't care. Let them fire me. I wish they would. I had him all wrong. I know that now. I always thought that Monk was not all there. Like, there was something missing. Like he was less than human. But he wasn't missing anything. He was seeing more than anybody. He was feeling more than anybody. Hell, that was his problem. He was too human. If we had more like him, we'd be better off.