Monk, Season 3

[Monk walks into Stottlemeyer's office]

Capt. Stottlemeyer:
[not looking up from his desk] Don't you ever get tired of being right?

Monk:
I do feel tired. More fatigued, really. I don't know if it's from being right or-

Capt. Stottlemeyer:
It was a rhetorical question, Monk. We might be on to something here. [hands Monk a file] Jack Whitman. He's been sent up twice, first time for mail fraud and receiving stolen property. Lately, he's been importing rugs.

[Monk looks up from the file]

Monk:
Rugs?

Capt. Stottlemeyer:
Yeah, rugs, from places like Chechnya, Uzbekistan. Sound familiar?

Monk:
[realizing] The shell casing and the grenade.

Capt. Stottlemeyer:
The Feds think that he's a major arms dealer. They raided his office six months ago. They came up empty-handed: no guns, no nothing, no paper trail. All they could get him on was tax evasion. He did five months. He just got out last Wednesday.

Monk:
And two days later, he's on a roof taking shots at Natalie.

Capt. Stottlemeyer:
Then he joins her campaign, and then he tries to take you out?

Monk:
What do you think he's after?

Capt. Stottlemeyer:
[stands up] I'm not gonna find out. Let's go get him.

Monk:
I can't go. You're on your own. Natalie's waiting for me downstairs. I have to go vote.

Capt. Stottlemeyer:
Well, that's good. You're doing your civic duty.

Monk:
There's that. Also, if I don't vote, Natalie will - you know.

Capt. Stottlemeyer:
I know.