Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty

The series follows the adventures of Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub), a private detective with obsessive–compulsive disorder and multiple phobias, and his assistant Natalie Teeger (Traylor Howard).

Captain Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) and Lieutenant Disher (Jason Gray-Stanford) capture Miguel Escobar (Carlos Gómez), an FBI's Most Wanted List–drug lord.

During the jury deliberation, Monk sees a police dog sniffing around a dumpster outside the courthouse and deduces that a body is hidden inside.

Natalie (Traylor Howard) and Disher find the body of a woman with no identification, and Monk remembers that she was in the assembly room when the jurors were selected.

Monk deduces that Pat killed the woman to get on the jury using her identity, and is consistently voting contrary to the other jurors in order to extend the deliberations.

[1][4] According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was viewed by an estimated number of 5.4 million people, making it the second-highest-viewed cable series of the week of March 13–19.

"[7] A reviewer for TV Guide called it "a humdinger of an episode", praised the chemistry between Shalhoub and Howard, and said the "ID-idea" joke was "neo-screwball comedy at its best.

"[8] The Digital Fix's Jon White praised the homage to 12 Angry Men, saying it shows the "obvious" care the last four episodes of the season received.

12 Angry Men served as inspiration for "Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty". In the picture, Lee J. Cobb , actor in the film, whose last name was used to name Juror No. 4 of the episode.