Monk Episodes :- Mr. Monk and the Missing Granny

Julie Parlo, a law student tries to influence Monk into helping her to retrace her missing grandmother in return for helping Monk to get reinstated as a police officer. There is hardly any substantial clue to assist in locating Julie’s grandmother except a hastily drawn lightening bolt on a piece of paper left at grandmother’s house. The uniqueness of the symbol drawn on the note, triggers Stottlmeyer and Disher into believing that an ex-leader of Anti- Vietnam War organization might be behind kidnapping of Julie’s grandmother. This view point of Stottlemeyer and Disher gets contradicted when Monk discovers that the note had three humps rather than two as seen on the suspects tattoo. Julie receives instructions from the kidnappers that she should serve Turkey to homeless in return for her grandmother’s release. Julie obliges and the kidnappers release her grandmother. Julie keeps to her promise of assisting Monk in getting his job. She reveals to him the exact procedure via which he can hope to be reinstated. In the meantime, Monk persists with his investigations. He interrogates Julie’s grandmother by asking her to try to revive her memory regarding her journey in the van with kidnappers. Both Sharona and Monk gear up to seize the kidnappers.