EPISODE

2. Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike

A city-wide garbage strike throws Monk completely off his game as he tries to solve the murder of a union boss.

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A sanitation union boss is found dead in his office during a citywide garbage strike. Although Monk wants to call the case a suicide so the union will go back to work, Natalie persuades him to follow the evidence and investigate it as a murder, prolonging the strike and putting the mayor ( Chi McBride ) at risk of being indicted. Guest appearances by David DeLuise and Alice Cooper.

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