bitty schram played sharona on the tv show monk.
bitty schram played sharona on the tv show monk.
who played sharona on the tv show monk?
bitty schram
bullet::::- natalie teeger (traylor howard; seasons three-eight) is monk's second and final assistant. although she is more deferential to her boss than sharona, referring to him as "mr. monk", she is not hesitant about telling him when his eccentricities are going too far. a young widow who lives with her daughter julie, natalie lost her husband mitch when he was shot down over kosovo in 1998. she first appears in "mr. monk and the red herring". natalie was introduced partway through season three when bitty schram, who played sharona, left "precipitous[ly]", reportedly over a contract dispute. traylor howard had not yet seen the show and was unenthusiastic about her manager's urgings to audition as schram's replacement. she nevertheless tried out and got the part. despite her initial "cool" reception from fans, show co-creator andy breckman believes traylor quickly and successfully filled the void. "i will always be grateful to traylor because she came in when the show was in crisis and saved our baby […] we had to make a hurried replacement, and not every show survives that. i was scared to death."
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when they get to natalie's house, there is a heavy police presence outside. in the house, as the police search all through the rooms in compliance with an authorized search warrant, ludlow greets captain stottlemeyer and proudly declares that he's gotten to the 'truth' of the case. he then accuses natalie and sharona of committing the murders, accusing sharona of the ellen cole murder and natalie to ronald webster. with smugness (as natalie explicitly points out to the reader as the narrator), ludlow presents his evidence through a series of false summations that clearly mock adrian monk's famous "here's what happened" summations: he explains their motive as, on sharona's part, a desire to rid herself of her husband, and on natalie's part, a desire to get sharona out of the way and keep her job as monk's assistant. ludlow's first summation is against sharona, saying that the one person who could set up an ebay account in trevor's name and plant the stolen goods in his truck was her. ludlow arrogantly declares that sharona had 'unfettered access', and that in her 'most brazen act' she told lieutenant dozier how she did it. next, he sardonically inquires why sharona never called adrian monk in to investigate the homicide, and immediately concludes by saying that it's because monk is so brilliant a detective, he would have pieced together the clues that sharona killed ellen cole, then, ludlow focuses on natalie. by this point, natalie is able to see that ludlow is indeed the killer, just as monk had said. in an attempt to counter ludlow's accusations, she tells him "maybe you killed ellen cole.", but ludlow ignores her. in ludlow's second summation, he accuses the two women of making a pact that sharona would 'stay out of monk's life forever' if natalie agreed to help her keep trevor behind bars, then he arrogantly declares that natalie 'concocted a brilliant scheme' by deliberately committing the murder of webster in such a bizarre way, that monk would be immediately called in to investigate, and that part of the 'scheme' was to distract adrian from learning that sharona killed ellen cole. ludlow even interjects to natalie that the reason she wanted to keep her job as monk's assistant is because she was secretly in love with him. natalie desperately tries to refute all of ludlow's wild accusations, but her efforts are futile. next, ludlow accuses natalie of ordering an alligator jaw online the day before the firehouse theft, adding that she read his book 'death is the last word' (natalie tries to tell him that she really didn't), which inspired the 'fiendish plot', and that she drugged her daughter, julie, before sneaking off to the firehouse to steal the jaws of life. natalie points out that someone could have stolen her credit card number, ordered the jaws, then swiped them off her porch, and snuck out of her house on the night of the theft to the firehouse to steal the jaws of life, but ludlow ignores her. "i bet you even had a key to the building." he sneers, though natalie protests this claim, saying that she doesn't have a key to the firehouse. additionally, forensics has found evidence matching natalie's car to clues found in webster's apartment, making it clear that natalie's car was towed because forensics wanted to give it an analysis. as impossible as it sounds, the evidence is arranged in a compelling enough way that stottlemeyer has no choice but to arrest both women, much to ludlow's satisfaction. to their horror, monk has nothing to add.
mr. monk and the two assistants