Samuel Waingaya: Adrian Monk, just keep talking.
Adrian Monk: Here's what happened. Kenneth Nichols was driving that night. He was in this van. He called his friend John Buxton, but Buxton wasn't there. He was in Barbados on vacation. The housekeeper, Maria Fuentes, answered his cell phone. They talked for a minute. And while they were talking...
Samuel Waingaya: Ansara.
Adrian Monk: Trudy. Trudy.
Samuel Waingaya: Adrian Monk, what happened next? He hit her and kept driving. Maria overheard everything. At that point...
Samuel Waingaya: He knew too much.
Adrian Monk: He had to keep her quiet. So he kept her on the phone. He kept her talking while he drove across town.
[flashback:]
Kenneth Nichols: [on the phone] I pulled over, she's hurt pretty bad. But someone's called 911, an ambulance is on the way.
Maria Fuentes: Hold on. I have a book here. It says to keep her warm and keep her head still.
[present:]
Samuel Waingaya: Ansara. She was a flower. She was so young. She was just beginning. We are turning. What is happening now?
Adrian Monk: Now he kills us. Fine with me.
Samuel Waingaya: We must go on. Trudy, Ansara, they would want us to go on. They would want us to be strong. They are here with us now. Do you not feel it?
Adrian Monk: Not anymore.
Samuel Waingaya: Well, I am not going to give up. And neither are you.
Adrian Monk: Samuel, this is your final lesson. This is how we do things in America. We cry a lot. We confuse our dead wife with other people's dead wives. And then we give up. [sobs]

Natalie: Mr. Monk. Did you hear what he just said?
Adrian Monk: No.
Natalie: He said it's almost impossible to catch.
Adrian Monk: Yeah. In that sentence, for me, the word "almost" is really the most interesting word.

Adrian Monk: [sighs] When I when I look at a man, a real man, like Steve Wagner... I just feel weak. I just feel so inadequate. I know he's guilty. But I'll never be able to prove it.
Dr. Kroger: Adrian, Steve Wagner is a human being. And if he's guilty, I know something he's very much afraid of.
Adrian Monk: What's that?
Dr. Kroger: You.

Adrian Monk: [over intercom] Ms. Hubbert, I'm sure you wouldn't want us to inform the school board about your little drinking problem.
Helen Hubbert: What? I mean, how-
Adrian Monk: How? How? We're the FBI, that's how!
Captain Stottlemeyer: Oh, for God's sakes, he can see the flask in your pocket.
Adrian Monk: And Ms. Hubbert, I'm sure you wouldn't want the IRS to know about your second job. You have been moonlighting as a waitress, haven't you? Have you been reporting all of your tips?
Captain Stottlemeyer: He's looking inside your purse. He can see your wad of singles. Hey! Hey, Agent FBI Man, huh? [drags shoe across the mirror] Here, what do you think of that?
Adrian Monk: Leland, you can put this woman away for the rest of her life. Linda Fusco will still be guilty.

Natalie: Mr. Monk, what should I write? Mr. Monk, what should I write on the box?
Adrian Monk: Case closed.
Natalie: "Case closed", I like the sound of that. [writes] Oh, shoot! The "e" is crooked. Is that okay, or should I get another box? Mr. Monk? What are you reading?
Adrian Monk: Oh, um... "A midwife is still missing. Presumed dead." It's an old article about Wendy Straud. It's on the bottom of this section. "Miss Straud made headline 15 years ago, January 2, 1983, when she found a newborn infant girl on a playground and brought her to an local orphanage." 1983? Take care of her.
Natalie: Excuse me?
Adrian Monk: Rickover's last words. It wasn't the affair, Natalie. This is what he was covering up. It was the baby. It didn't die. The baby lived. Trudy didn't know. She never knew it. They lied to her. Her daughter lived. They put her up for adoption. She is alive and she's out there somewhere. [laughs] Trudy's daughter.

Dr. Bell: I think I'm gonna cry. [both chuckle] The last time you were here, what was that? Two weeks ago?
Adrian Monk: A week and a half.
Dr. Bell: Week and a half. You looked horrible. And now look at you. You look great. It's like a miracle.
Adrian Monk: It was a miracle.
Dr. Bell: So, finally... After 12 years. 12 long years. Closure.
Adrian Monk: Closure.
Dr. Bell: How do you feel?
Adrian Monk: Fine. I'm good.
Dr. Bell: So, how do you feel?
Adrian Monk: I know how I'm supposed to feel. I'm supposed to feel like I'm finally happy, finally at peace.
Dr. Bell: But?
Adrian Monk: I feel... empty.
Dr. Bell: Well, that's not surprising. Adrian, you've spent most of your adult life looking for the man who killed your wife. See, that search kept you going. Now, it's gone. So, what's next? What do you do when you wake up tomorrow? What do you care about? Now these, these are the difficult choices.

Lieutenant Disher: What was that?
Adrian Monk: That is Wendy Straud.
Captain Stottlemeyer: The midwife from 12 years ago?
Adrian Monk: Yeah.
Lieutenant Disher: [takes the shovel] Bones. It's a human skull.
Adrian Monk: I couldn't figure it out, why you wouldn't move.
Lieutenant Disher: [to the uniform officers] Get CSI down here now.
Adrian Monk: Then I remembered the sundial, under the tree. Why would anyone put a sundial under a big tree like this, in the shade. It didn't make any sense. [coughs] Twelve years ago, when he was nominated for the federal bench, his name was in all the papers. Wendy Straud must have seen it. Right? Right?!
Judge Ethan Rickover: She said she found Jesus. That she was born again. She couldn't live with a guilt. She was gonna tell everyone about me and Trudy, and the child.
Adrian Monk: So you killed her. And then Trudy. And for what? For nothing!
Captain Stottlemeyer: Monk! Monk! Monk!
Adrian Monk: For a job! For a job!
Captain Stottlemeyer: Monk!
Adrian Monk: For a job. [puts gun down on the sundial]
Captain Stottlemeyer: Hey, hey, Rickover, put the gun down!
Lieutenant Disher: No! No!
Judge Ethan Rickover: You take care of her! [gunshot]

Natalie: Can I get you anything? How about some tea?
Adrian Monk: Nuh-uh. Just... Trudy's gift.
Natalie: No, Mr. Monk, no.
Adrian Monk: It's time.
Natalie: Please.
Adrian Monk: Natalie... It's time.
[Natalie goes over to the book shelf, retrieves the gift and hands it to Monk. Natalie cries as Monk begins to unwrap the gift. Monk is surprised by the contents.]
Natalie: Its a videotape.
[As they watch the tape:]
Trudy Monk: [on tape] Hello, Adrian. If you are watching this it means I'm dead. I know we said we'd never have any secrets, but there's something I never told you. Something happened. Something terrible. Years ago, before we met...

Captain Stottlemeyer: Okay, we have a victim founded in Colin Park. He was shot once and then burned.
Adrian Monk: I read the file, so where are we?
Captain Stottlemeyer: Still unidentified. Randy, what do we know about him?
Lieutenant Disher: Well, we know he was flammable. That's pretty much it.

Harold Krenshaw: Excuse me! He has 20 items.
Adrian Monk: It's only one item. They're all the same.
Harold Krenshaw: But you're buying 20.
Adrian Monk: But it's the same item.
Harold Krenshaw: But you're buying 20.
Adrian Monk: Of the same item.
Harold Krenshaw: There's the sign. It doesn't say 12 different items.
Cashier: I think it's 12 items total.
Harold Krenshaw: Thank you.
Natalie: Here, I'm buying the first ten, and he's buying the rest.
Harold Krenshaw: Well played, Adrian, well played.