Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale

Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale is the 4th episode of the television series Monk. It is noteworthy for introducing the character of Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck, one of the show's few recurring antagonists. At night, a Superior Court judge calls 9-1-1 from her home, screaming that a man has broken in and is trying to kill her. The line goes dead, and the next day, the judge is found beaten to death in her bedroom. Monk is called in. At first he can'... more

Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale is the 4th episode of the television series Monk. It is noteworthy for introducing the character of Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck, one of the show's few recurring antagonists. At night, a Superior Court judge calls 9-1-1 from her home, screaming that a man has broken in and is trying to kill her. The line goes dead, and the next day, the judge is found beaten to death in her bedroom. Monk is called in. At first he can't understand why, since the case seems straightforward: the intruder broke into the house while the judge was in her kitchen, chased her upstairs and beat her to death, then came downstairs to disconnect the smoke alarm when what she was cooking started to burn. The murder weapon, a baseball bat, was left behind, and bears the initials "D.B."; a passing neighborhood girl saw the intruder through the window when he disconnected the alarm; and the judge even identified her attacker by name: vengeful billionaire Dale Biederbeck, a.k.a. "Dale the... less