When Monk is talking to the two mourners he mistakes as being the victim's aunts, Natalie is in the background behind the two elderly women. The camera angle switches to show Monk, and when it switches back to the mourners, Natalie has vanished from the background, and the next angle change shows her standing a few feet away from Monk.
When Disher tells Stottlemeyer the woman was dead, Stottlemeyer throws the coffee mug as Disher is saying the words. When the camera angle switches, he throws it after Disher finishes the sentence.
When Julie takes the chess piece when baited into the "poison pawn" move, she is using her left hand and her right hand is on her neck. But on the next camera angle, it is her left hand on her neck and she is grabbing the chess piece with her right hand.
[25:30] When Leland is walking with Monk to the interrogation room, two officers are exiting the room. The second officer leaves the door completely open as Monk and Leland reach the doorway. The next camera angle, from inside the room, shows Leland and Monk opening the door from a closed position.
During the stakeout, Natalie starts to take a sip from the lemonade cup with the drink in her left hand. The shot the changes to the other side of the car and Natalie is in the middle of her sip, but the cup is in her right hand.
When Julie plays GM Tavela in the park, she makes the first move, with Black.
Of course, White always moves first. She moves her F pawn forward 2 squares and he calls it Bird's Opening. This would be correct if she had White. When Black's first move is f5, it's generally the Dutch Opening.
Of course, White always moves first. She moves her F pawn forward 2 squares and he calls it Bird's Opening. This would be correct if she had White. When Black's first move is f5, it's generally the Dutch Opening.
When the chess player describes the "poison pawn," he says it's the sacrifice of a center pawn. That is a "gambit."
The Poison Pawn variation of the Sicilian Defense involves White's b2 pawn, a side pawn. This opening was a favorite of Fischer.
The Poison Pawn variation of the Sicilian Defense involves White's b2 pawn, a side pawn. This opening was a favorite of Fischer.
The dead woman can be seen breathing as Monk kneels next to her.
When Mr. Monk is caught breaking into Patrick Kloster's house, Kloster is shown playing chess. The h1 square is black, meaning the board is rotated 90°.
When Monk, Natalie, Stottlemeyer and Disher first meet Patrick Kloster at the airport and Patrick shakes Monk's hand, a jet can be seen taking off on the runway, but there is no sound of an engine at all.
It would be virtually impossible to have the victim's body cremated and then collect the life insurance money without an autopsy in the victim's case. Mr. Monk's word as a detective would have been enough for the life insurance company to refuse to issue the check for $10 million until an autopsy was performed. The cremation would have made the policy null and void.
Monk says he got to Trudy just before she died, but in one episode he was in the police station when he heard she was dead, and in another he was on a case, and in both instances she died alone.
In the beginning of the episode, Linda Kloster states that her husband's IQ is 180, 4 points higher than Albert Einstein's. Although experts estimate Einstein's IQ was somewhere between 160 and 180, he never officially took an IQ test so his actual IQ is unknown.
While Adrian, Natalie, and Julie are watching the chess game in the park, a close-up of the game board shows the black Queen has the white King in check. The white player (Tavela) does nothing about it (he captures another piece) and the man playing black simply resigns and walks away.