Monk (TV Series)

Mr. Monk and the Red-Headed Stranger (2002)

Jackie Richardson: Wendy Maas

Quotes 

• Lt. Randall Disher : So, what's the plan?

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : Well, you know how they handled the O.J. case down in Los Angeles? We do the opposite. Where are we?

  Lt. Randall Disher : Uh, same as I told you on the phone, sir. Mrs. Mass is reasonably sure that she can recognize the assailant's voice.

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : Reasonably sure.

  [turns to Mrs. Mass] 

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : Excuse me, Mrs. Mass? Do you listen to country and western music?

  Wendy Maas : No, I like classical.

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : Okay. Good. Bring him in.

• [Randy takes Mrs. Mass's statement] 

  Lt. Randall Disher : Now, Mrs. Mass, you said you were taking the bus.

  Wendy Maas : That's right, I was visiting a friend, and-and I missed my stop. I never like to admit it, but it happens. So I got off, and I started to walk. Then I turned down that alley, thinking that I could cut through to 4th Avenue, but it was blocked off.

  [Monk starts to obsess over the unevenly sharpened pencils] 

  Lt. Randall Disher : Well, the alley was a dead...

  Sharona Fleming : Oh, yeah. There was construction. Uh-huh. It's a dead-end.

  Wendy Maas : Dead end. Exactly. So, I started to turn around, and then I heard these two men arguing.

  Adrian Monk : Uh, about what?

  Wendy Maas : I couldn't tell.

  [Monk goes over to the pencil holder and starts to sharpen the three pencils so that they are all sharpened to the same length] 

  Wendy Maas : They were very angry. And then I heard these two shots-Bang. Bang. Well, my heart was pounding and I couldn't move. Then this one man came up to me and he said- "Tell anybody about this and I'll kill you."

  Sharona Fleming : Adrian.

  [Stottlemeyer arrives with his right arm in a sling] 

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : How's it going?

  Lt. Randall Disher : Miss Mass, this is Captain Stottlemeyer.

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : Mrs. Mass, how do you do?

  [She gently shakes his left hand] 

  Lt. Randall Disher : He'll be in charge of the case from here on in, thank God.

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : Good job, Lieutenant.

• Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : Now, Mrs. Mass. I want you to take your time.

  [Willie Nelson and two other volunteers enter the lineup booth] 

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : And I want you to listen very carefully, all right?

  Wendy Maas : All right.

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : Are you all right?

  Wendy Maas : Yes.

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : Good. All right, number one, please.

  [Volunteer #1 goes up to the microphone, and holds out a notecard with the prewritten statement] 

  Participant #1 : Tell anybody about this and I'll kill you.

  Wendy Maas : No, no.

  [Volunteer #1 steps back] 

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : Number 2.

  [Volunteer #2 steps up to the microphone] 

  Participant #2 : Tell anybody about this and I'll kill you.

  [He steps back] 

  Wendy Maas : No.

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : And number three. Read the line, please.

  [Willie Nelson steps up to the microphone, holds out the card, and says] 

  Willie Nelson : Tell anybody about this and I'll kill you.

  Wendy Maas : That's him. That-that's the voice. That's him.

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : Now, you're sure?

  Wendy Maas : That's him. I know that's him.

• Wendy Maas : [SPOILER] 

  [after being caught] 

  Wendy Maas : Jason Cross served a year and a half. "Vehicular manslaughter"? That wasn't justice. What I did last week, *that* was justice.

• Wendy Maas : [SPOILER]  Thank you, Mr. Monk.

  Sharona Fleming : [surprised]  You're thanking him?

  Wendy Maas : I am so relieved. I was torn up about that nice young man having to take the blame.

  Sharona Fleming : You're going to have to go to jail.

  Wendy Maas : I understand.

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : Maybe I can talk to the D.A. about extenuating circumstances.

  Wendy Maas : There's only one thing that I want.

  Captain Leland Stottlemeyer : [smiles]  What's that?

  Wendy Maas : A window.