Kitty Swink

A group of refugees from the Gamma Quadrant claims that Bajor is their long-lost homeland.

The killer from The Execution of Catherine Willows returns with deadly results.

Monk and Natalie join Captain Stottlemeyer at a junkyard to investigate the murder of a small-time drug dealer named Chicklet. While Monk looks around, a cocky young police sergeant named Ryan Sharkey implies that he's having an affair with the captain's wife, Karen. Stottlemeyer punches Sharkey in the face, and then leaves in a huff. Karen emphatically denies having the affair. The captain, still suspicious of Karen, asks Monk to follow her and find out whether or not she's having an affair.

Series creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason uses the fictional Atlanta design firm of Sugarbaker and Associates as a witty bully pulpit for caustic social and political humor. The founder of the company is Julia Sugarbaker, a sharp-tongued but elegant and surprisingly compassionate woman. Her younger sister, Suzanne, is a former beauty queen who is long on charm but a bit slow on the uptake. Their associates are Mary Jo Shively, a recent divorcee, and officer manager Charlene Frazier, whose sweetness is matched only by her naivete. Their deliverman is Anthony Bouvier, a well-spoken ex-convict, and cheerfully dotty senior citizen Bernice Clifton often drops by for a visit as well.

Sipowicz becomes obsessed with his own mortality after he’s nearly gunned down by a murder suspect; Medavoy takes a job as a bouncer; and Irvin has doubts about a gay antique dealer who claims some of his expensive inventory was stolen.