- [the police have to find Monk, who has been buried alive inside a coffin in a graveyard]
- Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: All right, listen up! We figure he's got about 40 minutes of air, if he's not panicking... figure on 15 minutes.
- Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: You remember that convention I went to in Atlanta about four years ago? Well, something happened there that I didn't tell you about. I got to the airport, I hailed a cab. Monk, I recognized the driver. It was Harold Burnshaw.
- Adrian Monk: Burnshaw?
- Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: Burnshaw, he used to be a Fed. He was a real player. He used to head the F.B.I.'s field office in Atlanta, right up until the 1996 Olympic Games.
- Adrian Monk: The Plaza bombing?
- Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: Exactly. They accused the wrong guy, Burnshaw booted it big-time on national television, instant career-killer. Now he's driving a cab. Monk, you should have seen his face. I'll never forget it.
- Adrian Monk: What does this have to do with...?
- Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: Twenty years ago, Sonny Chow froze some of his own blood in the event that he needed surgery. So they've got bulletproof DNA for a comparison, and that's a prelim on the hair we found at the crime scene.
- Adrian Monk: [reads] It's a match.
- Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: It's Sonny Chow's hair. No question about it. He's been dead for six years, and he's my primary suspect.
- Adrian Monk: Yeah...
- Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: Now if I go public with this, and I'm wrong, *I'm* gonna end up at the airport, picking up cops who still have jobs.
- Adrian Monk: You are a wise and learned man, Master Zi.
- Master Zi: As are you.
- Adrian Monk: It must be a tremendous burden, so much wisdom.
- Master Zi: It is a gift... and a curse.
- Natalie Teeger: Lieutenant, you understand that if Sonny Chow is alive, he's murdered at least two people.
- Lt. Randall Disher: Uh huh.
- Natalie Teeger: You'd have to arrest him.
- Lt. Randall Disher: I'd get to meet him!
- Natalie Teeger: He might try to kill you.
- Lt. Randall Disher: You think so? Wow, that would be so cool! Sonny Chow!
- [Sonny Chow's coffin is exhumed after six years]
- Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: Well, you're the expert. Is it him or not?
- Lt. Randall Disher: It's hard to say. I mean, Sonny had a lot more hair... and skin.
- Natalie Teeger: I'm sorry, Lieutenant.
- Lt. Randall Disher: Yeah. Well, at least I got to have my picture with Sonny Chow.
- Natalie Teeger: You took a picture?
- [as Sonny Chow's coffin is opened]
- Doctor: Hello...
- Natalie Teeger: [covers her eyes] Oh, my God...
- Doctor: We're so sorry to disturb you.
- [Master Zi steps closer to Monk]
- Master Zi: Oh, my... a very troubled soul. You are on a quest, Mr. Monk.
- Adrian Monk: That's right.
- Master Zi: You live in a dark place. The darkness is your fear.
- [He gives Monk a small candle and match]
- Master Zi: Take this. The light is your weapon, Mr. Monk. Be the light.