Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty
| "Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty" | |
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| Monk episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 16 |
| Directed by | Andrei Belgrader |
| Written by | Peter Wolk |
| Production code | #T-2365 |
| Original air date | March 17, 2006 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Carlos Gómez as Miguel Escobar
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Carlos Gómez as Miguel Escobar
Michael Weaver as Agent Lapides
Clyde Kusatsu as Judge Rienzo
Blake Silver as Karl Pillemer (the victim)
Edo Walker as Robert Perry (the defendant)
Jurors
"Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty" is the sixteenth and final episode of the fourth season of the American comedy-drama detective television series Monk, and is the show's 61st episode overall. The series follows Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub), a private detective with obsessive–compulsive disorder and multiple phobias, and his assistant Natalie Teeger (Traylor Howard). In this episode, Monk is requested to be part of a jury for a minor crime but discovers one of the juries is involved in a bigger crime.
With influences from the film 12 Angry Men, the episode was written by Peter Wolk. It was mainly shot in Los Angeles and was directed by Andrei Belgrader. When "Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty" first aired in the United States on USA Network on March 17, 2006, it was watched by 5.4 million viewers.
Captain Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) and Lieutenant Disher (Jason Gray-Stanford) capture Miguel Escobar (Carlos Gómez), a drug lord who is on the FBI's Most Wanted List. They soon encounter FBI agent Lapides (Michael Weaver), who informs them that Escobar will be transferred to the federal government's custody. Stottlemeyer and Disher are to babysit Escobar until the extradition hearing.
Elsewhere, Monk (Tony Shalhoub) has been selected for jury duty; he finds himself sitting in on the case of a young man named Robert Perry (Edo Walker), accused of stabbing and robbing a man named Karl Pillemer (Blake Silver). The other jurors are convinced of the accused's guilt, but Monk is the lone holdout. He observed that the hole in the victim's jeans show that Pillemer was sitting, not standing (as Pillemer had claimed), when attacked. The wound, Monk figures, was self-inflicted and the knife placed in Perry's hand while he was sleeping so Pillemer could pocket the money.
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