Review -- Mr. Monk is Underwater
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Bartholomew Klick
Bartholomew attends community college and wastes his free time peddling fiction to rejection machines.
He has exactly twenty-three phobias less than Mr Monk. By Bartholomew Klick
Published on 08/28/2008
In this delightful stand alone episode, we're shown that Mr. Monk's fears most certainly do not interfere with his ability to scrutinize ...
Rated: 7 out of 10 perfectly rational fears.
In this delightful stand alone episode, we're shown that Mr. Monk's fears most certainly do not interfere with ability to scrutinize.
After agreeing to (quickly) investigate a naval officer's recent suicide, Mr. Monk finds himself trapped on a submarine when they're thrown into a surprise war drill. Fortunately, his psychiatrist followed, and snuck aboard at the last second -- he knew Mr. Monk would need him.
Mr. Monk's assistant and most of the submarine crew treated Dr. Neven Bell somewhat coolly, though, and mostly pretended he didn't exist.
Despite this, Dr. Neven helped Mr. Monk survive the harrowing and entirely-too-tiny halls of the so-called boat, and -- just for something different -- helped solve a murder.
A few minor doubts about the details of the case prevent me from rating it much higher.
SPOILERS!
After agreeing to (quickly) investigate a naval officer's recent suicide, Mr. Monk finds himself trapped on a submarine when they're thrown into a surprise war drill. Fortunately, his psychiatrist followed, and snuck aboard at the last second -- he knew Mr. Monk would need him.
Mr. Monk's assistant and most of the submarine crew treated Dr. Neven Bell somewhat coolly, though, and mostly pretended he didn't exist.
Despite this, Dr. Neven helped Mr. Monk survive the harrowing and entirely-too-tiny halls of the so-called boat, and -- just for something different -- helped solve a murder.
A few minor doubts about the details of the case prevent me from rating it much higher.
SPOILERS!
Firecrackers don't sound anything like guns. I find it hard to believe that a group of trained soldiers (Navy though they may be) could not distinguish between a firearm and a firecracker.
I even have trouble believing they could have heard the firecracker outside a submarine door.
I absolutely love how Mr. Monk's hallucination saved him and Natalie. After all, Lt. Disher couldn't have stopped the submarine from submerging if Mr. Monk had not handed the mysterious note to the phantasm of Dr. Neven.
Adrian's performance while speaking to his hallucination was brilliant. I've seen a lot of people with hallucinatory dementia, and he pulled it off well enough to make me wonder if they didn't doctor the doctor out, somehow.