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Mr. Monk Goes to Group Therapy

‘Mr. Monk Goes to Group Therapy’

Season 8, Episode 8 -  Aired October 9, 2009

After Monk's insurer alters their coverage, he is forced to attend Dr. Bell's group therapy session as they deal with the loss of one of their members.

Quote from Adrian Monk

Natalie: Mr. Monk, please go to group therapy. Please.
Adrian Monk: I don't have to. I can talk to him right here.
Natalie: I think you're being ridiculous.
Adrian Monk: Yeah, ridiculous like a fox. Ready? Let's go.
[Natalie and Monk on a tandem bicycle pull up alongside Dr. Bell on his bike]
Adrian Monk: Dr. Bell?
Dr. Bell: Adrian.
Adrian Monk: Oh, my God. Do you bike here too?
Dr. Bell: Every morning.
Adrian Monk: Oh, I remember you mentioning that once or twice.
Dr. Bell: Natalie.
Natalie: Hello.
Adrian Monk: How you doing?
Dr. Bell: Just fine.
Adrian Monk: You're probably wondering how I'm doing. I been thinking a lot about my mother.
Dr. Bell: Adrian, I really can't give you a session right now.
Adrian Monk: What session? We're just a couple of guys in the park talking about my mother.
Dr. Bell: Join my group. We meet Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00 a.m. [cycles off]
Adrian Monk: Wait, Dr. Bell! Wait! Dr. Bell! Come on, you're losing him. Turn! Come on! Go. Mush, mush. Mush! [they fall to the ground] Okay, I'll join the group.
Natalie: Thank God.

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Quote from Adrian Monk

Natalie: Now I know you're not a big fan of Harold Krenshaw's.
Adrian Monk: I hate him. He can go to hell.
Natalie: Yeah, I understand. But besides him, besides Harold, who can go to hell, how was the session?
Adrian Monk: Awful.
Natalie: Well, what were the people like?
Adrian Monk: I don't know.
Natalie: How many were there?
Adrian Monk: I don't know. Five, eight. They hardly talked about me at all. All they did was drone on and on and on about their own lives and their own problems.
Natalie: Yeah, Mr. Monk, isn't that the point?
Adrian Monk: Nobody cares about them, Natalie.
Adrian Monk: Dr. Bell is just as bad. He kept interrupting everybody, telling little parables and stories. I'm wasting my time. Group therapy never helped anybody.

Quote from Harold Krenshaw

Adrian Monk: Are you following us?
Harold Krenshaw: I think you're following me.
Natalie: Harold, we were here first. We came straight from Dr. Bell's.
Harold Krenshaw: A lot of his patients come here, because it's right across the street. For example, that guy over there.
Adrian Monk: He's not even in our group.
Harold Krenshaw: Not anymore. He left the nest five weeks ago. That's Xavier Danko. He's completely cured. He was more screwed up than anybody.
Natalie: What was wrong with him?
Harold Krenshaw: He was obsessed with an exotic dancer named Tiffany something. He was following her. He got better. I want to be next. I want to get better too. That's why you have to leave the group, Adrian. You're ruining everything.
Natalie: Mr. Monk has every right to be there, Harold.
Harold Krenshaw: No, he doesn't.

Quote from Harold Krenshaw

Harold Krenshaw: And then there were three.
Dr. Bell: [enters] Well, I think we better get started. Who wants to go first? I know it's difficult. It's overwhelming. First, Barbara drowning, now Augie. If you want to cancel the session, cancel next week, I certainly understand.
Harold Krenshaw: I don't think we should cancel. In fact, I think we need each other now more than ever.
Rhonda: Oh, please.
Harold Krenshaw: We need your strength, Neven, your guidance. You're the beacon. You're the light that will see us through our darkest hour.
Rhonda: So, Harold, how is it up there in Neven's butt? You lonely? You getting scared of the dark?
Dr. Bell: Rhonda, let's not forget rule number one. Don't make it personal.

Quote from Adrian Monk

Adrian Monk: I think Barbara was murdered too.
Rhonda: You said "think." You're telling me you're not sure?
Adrian Monk: I think someone, for some reason, is killing this group off, one by one.
Dr. Bell: What do the police say?
Adrian Monk: They're looking into it. They'll probably want to talk to each of us.
Rhonda: Why? What, you th- They think it's one of us?
Adrian Monk: It's possible.
Harold Krenshaw: One of us?
Adrian Monk: It's possible. There is a possibility that one of you is not quite sane.

Quote from Adrian Monk

Natalie: Let's move on. Who else was in the group?
Adrian Monk: There's Harold. Could it be Harold?
Natalie: I don't think so.
Adrian Monk: You're right. God would never do that. It would make me too happy.
Natalie: Okay, let's eliminate Harold.

Quote from Harold Krenshaw

Adrian Monk: Oh, my God, I'm buried alive! I'm buried. Help me! Let me out!
Harold Krenshaw: It's no use. I've been banging on it for an hour. I still think it was you.

Quote from Adrian Monk

Adrian Monk: You're making it very hard for me to panic! Just calm down, please! I thought you were cured.
What about your technique, visualization with the door and the key and all that?
Harold Krenshaw: Oh, that doesn't work. It never worked. I was just trying to impress Dr. B. Why do I do that? Why do I- Why do I care what people think? What's wrong with me?
Adrian Monk: There's nothing wrong with you. The truth is I actually admire you.
Harold Krenshaw: Stop it.
Adrian Monk: No, no, I mean it.
Harold Krenshaw: Don't.
Adrian Monk: I mean it. Look, we're we're basically the same guy. We have the same kinds of problems, the same issues. But you, you're out there. You're in the world. You have a family. You have a real job. You don't let it stop you.
Harold Krenshaw: That's nice of you to say.

Quote from Adrian Monk

Adrian Monk: Look at me. Harold, look at me. Look, look, look at me. I think we've been looking at this the wrong way. This trunk, you know, these walls. They're not closing in on us.
Harold Krenshaw: They're not?
Adrian Monk: No. They're- They're protecting us, really.
Harold Krenshaw: Protecting us?
Adrian Monk: Yeah, they're keeping the bad stuff out.
Harold Krenshaw: Protecting us?
Adrian Monk: Yeah, protecting us from germs and snakes, and harmonicas.
Harold Krenshaw: And nature and my mother and her new boyfriend.
Adrian Monk: And Xavier Danko.
Harold Krenshaw: And Xavier Danko.
Adrian Monk: Yeah.
Harold Krenshaw: Yeah, that's right. This trunk is our friend.
Adrian Monk: I've been in therapy for ten years. I think this is the first real breakthrough I've ever had. This group-therapy thing really works.
Harold Krenshaw: It really does.

Quote from Dr. Bell

Harold Krenshaw: Be careful. He's got a gun. Listen, Adrian, if anything happens to me-
Adrian Monk: Nothing's gonna happen to you. I won't let it.
Harold Krenshaw: Ready?
Adrian Monk: Let's do it.
[Harold and Adrian scream as they charge in Dr. Bells' house and find him sitting calmly with Xavier Danko in the study]
Dr. Bell: Well, there you are. I was about to come and get you. The police will be here soon.
Xavier Danko: I'm so sorry.
Dr. Bell: Xavier was just telling me how he killed Tiffany Bolt.
Adrian Monk: The woman he was following?
Dr. Bell: Yeah, that's right. He put her car and her body in the reservoir, then he began to get worried.
Adrian Monk: Of course, the water shortage.
Dr. Bell: Right. The reservoir levels have been dropping. He was afraid the car or the body were about to be discovered.
Xavier Danko: What did I do?
Adrian Monk: He told everyone in the group about his obsession. So you were the only people on earth who could connect him to that poor girl.
Dr. Bell: Right. He was trying to kill us before the body was found.

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