Monk, Season 2

Capt. Stottlemeyer:
Listen to this: this is "News from Around the World," Paris, France. There is an unsolved murder; a woman was found strangled, and both of her hands were cut off.

Sharona:
Oh my God!

Lt. Disher:
That happens all the time: no fingerprints. Makes it harder to ID the body.

Capt. Stottlemeyer:
Now here's the thing: they found the hands. They were a couple of meters away from the body in the grass.

Monk:
The killer cut off both hands, but then left them near the body?

Capt. Stottlemeyer:
Yeah. She and her husband both worked as curators at the prison museum in the Bastille.

Monk:
Prison museum?

[cuts to a Paris police prefecture. A police lieutenant comes into his captain's office]

Lieutenant Lafitte:
[in French] Captain Dupres, there is a detective calling from America. He has solved the murder of Madame Beaudreau.

Captain Dupres:
[in French] He solved it?

Lieutenant Lafitte:
[in French] By reading a newspaper, from 9,000 kilometers away! [Dupres sighs and picks up the phone]

Captain Dupres:
Captain Dupres, Prefecture de Police. [cuts to Monk's apartment]

Capt. Stottlemeyer:
Bonjour. Je m'appelle Captain Leland Stottlemeyer. Je travaille avec le department de police de San Francisco. Uhhhh, parlez vous English? ["Hello, my name is Captain Leland Stottlemeyer. I work for the department of police of San Francisco. Do you speak English"]

Captain Dupres:
I speak enough. What can I do for you?

Capt. Stottlemeyer:
Uh, hi, I've got a friend. His name is Adrian Monk.

Monk:
[into the phone] Bonjour.

Capt. Stottlemeyer:
He has a theory about an unsolved case of yours. Here, I'll put him on. [hands the phone to Monk] He speaks English well enough. [Monk wipes down the phone, pressing several of the other buttons]

Monk:
Yes, yes, hello. I think I know who killed Madame Beaudreau.

Captain Dupres:
[skeptically] Oui, Monsieur Monk, what is your theory?

Monk:
I think her husband did it.

Captain Dupres:
Well, we suspected him from the beginning. But why did he cut off her hands?

Monk:
He must have used a pair of handcuffs from the museum to restrain her.

Captain Dupres:
I do not follow you.

Monk:
They were antique handcuffs, very distinctive, so they could easily have been traced back to him.

Captain Dupres:
Mon Dieu...

Monk:
He must have lost the key. So he was desperate, he had to get them off the body.

Captain Dupres:
Well, that makes sense! Lafitte, why didn't I think of that? Monsieur Monk, you are a genius! Perhaps someday, you will come to Paris so I can thank you in person.