Capt. Stottlemeyer: Okay, let's go over it again, from the top.Lt. Disher: [reading from his notebook] OK. Husband, Robert Sherman, owns expensive rug. Intruder's shoes indicate he wiped his feet.Natalie: Why would a kid breaking and entering bother to wipe his feet?Monk: Because he wasn't breaking and entering! They knew each other. It was a setup.Capt. Stottlemeyer: Maybe...Lovely Rita: [from the corner, handcuffed to a chair] Maybe the kid, the intruder, was planning on stealing the rug, and didn't want to scuff it up.Capt. Stottlemeyer: [wryly] Thank you.Lovely Rita: Anytime.Capt. Stottlemeyer: Maybe he planned on stealing the rug.Lt. Disher: Okay, what about this? The phone in the bedroom was unplugged.Lovely Rita: That doesn't mean anything. I unplug my phone all the time, if I want to sleep, when I'm going to bed...Capt. Stottlemeyer: She's right. Doesn't mean anything.Lt. Disher: Well, how about this? The wife's slippers.Natalie: Right, the husband said she went downstairs because she was cold. If she was cold, why wouldn't she put on her slippers? [pause. Everyone turns to look at Rita]Lovely Rita: Well, she wasn't really cold. She just said she was cold. She was really going downstairs to... get a bite of that chocolate cake in the refrigerator.Monk: What chocolate cake?! Who are you?Lt. Disher: This is Rita DePasque, aka "The Lovely Rita." She's a material witness on a knife fight downtown.Lovely Rita: Alleged knife fight. Alleged. I love that word.Capt. Stottlemeyer: The Lovely Rita has a point, amazingly enough. Any hotshot lawyer could explain away that entire notebook.Monk: That's true but if you look at the picture, the big picture, I mean, it's plain as day! He's the guy.Capt. Stottlemeyer: Was the wife insured?Monk: No.Capt. Stottlemeyer: So where's your motive?Lovely Rita: Wake up! [scoots her chair over] You've got two people, living under the same roof. One of them wants the other one dead. Believe me, I know.Monk: He didn't love her! I was there when the M.E. wheeled out the wife. All he cared about was the rug.Lovely Rita: You're cute.Monk: No, I'm not.Lovely Rita: You ever unbutton that top button?Monk: Uhh...Capt. Stottlemeyer: There is one problem with your theory: they never met. We checked their records - their bank records, their emails, their phone records. We talked to their friends - There is no connection between Rob Sherman and Dewey Jordan.Monk: Look, I know I've seen them someplace.Capt. Stottlemeyer: Where?Monk: I don't know. Just somewhere. It's driving me crazy.Capt. Stottlemeyer: Well, they lived in different worlds. [hands them one file] Here's Dewey Jordan's rapsheet - 19 arrests, 12 convictions: bad checks, drugs; a couple of burglaries. [hands over another file] And in sharp contrast, here is Mr. Sherman's jacket - one arrest - one in his entire life: driving with a suspended license.

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