Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii
At the wedding, Monk's Doxinyl wears off and he exposes that Candace's fiancé Brian Galloway is already married, and has been planning to travel back and forth between his two families.The local Kauai police lieutenant, Ben Kealoha, tells them that elderly Helen Gruber was sitting in her hot tub when a coconut fell from a palm tree and struck her on the head, knocking her out, after which she drowned.Lance Vaughan, Helen's husband who is thirty years her junior, was on a snorkeling trip at the time she was killed, and has video footage to prove it.Natalie's disbelief in communication with the dead is shaken when Swift reveals details about the death of her husband Mitch that were never made public.Kealoha baits Monk into helping out with some burglaries that took place in broad daylight, even in gated communities and security buildings.At dinner, Natalie sees a woman who appears in the snorkeling video and has a tattoo of a heart with wings, which she interprets as "love taking flight".Monk insists that Swift must have simply happened to see Lance and Roxanne together and persuades Natalie that his knowledge of Mitch was obtained through trickery.Hotel manager Martin Kamakele is upset that Monk asked the cleaning ladies to fold towels instead of roll them, making them fall behind schedule.At Monk's suggestion, Swift elaborates further on Mitch's death, revealing he ran to draw a Serbian patrol away from his injured crew.He concludes that the killer stored Helen's body in the fridge to falsify the apparent time of death, rendering Lance's alibi invalid.Crime scene technicians find Helen's hair, blood, and footprints in the refrigerator, but there is still no evidence pointing to Lance as the murderer.Afraid that she would find out what was going on, he killed Helen while Lance was off snorkeling, then stashed her body in the fridge to mislead police into thinking someone was trying to falsify the time of death.