该剧讲述了一位“法律上已宣布死亡”的前CIA特工,受雇于一位神秘的亿万富翁,打自主正义牌,用私人力量来打击犯罪保护人民。 卡维泽所饰演的角色名叫Reese,他在秘密行动中所受的特殊培训得到了爱默生的角色Finch的注意。Finch是一名软件天才,他发明了一种可以使用模式识别即将行使暴力犯罪族群的程式。用这种国家最先进的监视技术,这两人游离于法律之外,用Reese娴熟的特工能力以及Finch无限的财富,揭开那神秘的犯罪嫌疑人,并在犯罪发生之前制止它。 Reese的行动受到了NYPD-纽约警局的关注,包括凶杀科侦探Carter,以及Fusco,一名Reese曾经利用过的警丵察。而Reese和Finch发现,在这个私人隐私被肆意暴露,每个人都被政府“老大哥”监视的时代,只要正确地利用信息、在正确的时间、发现正确的人,便可以制止犯罪,改变一切。 CBS已续订...
Former police detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub), whose photographic memory and amazing ability to piece together tiny clues made him a local legend, has suffered from intensified obsessive-compulsive disorder and a variety of phobias since the unsolved murder of his wife, Trudy, in 1997. Now on psychiatric leave from the San Francisco Police Department and working as a freelance detective/ consultant on difficult cases, Monk hopes to convince his former boss, Captain Leland Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine), to allow him to return to the force. Stottlemeyer, who wavered between admiration for Monk and annoyance at his eccentricities during the first season, is becoming more of a friend to Monk as the series develops, frequently calling him in to help, as much for Monk's benefit as for his own. However, he knows Monk's limitations as well as his strengths and may still harbor doubts about the wisdom of allowing Monk to carry a gun or subdue a perpetrator. Stottlemeyer's second-in-command, Lieutenant Randall Disher (Jason Gray-Stanford), also seems to be developing both admiration and compassion for the man he once labeled "the defective detective."
Despite flaws and inadequacies all around, the three are becoming an increasingly effective team, with additional help from Monk's personal assistant. From the double-episode pilot through the first half of season three, Monk was aided by his nurse, Sharona Fleming (Bitty Schram). But in the tenth episode of the third season, Sharona was replaced by a new assistant, Natalie Teeger (Traylor Howard). Like Sharona, a divorcee with a son named Benjy, Natalie is a single parent, a widow with a daughter named Julie (Emmy Clarke). Unlike Sharona, Natalie is not a nurse but a former bartender with a fresh perspective on "Mr. Monk," as she still addresses her new boss.