RECAP :
A street musician is playing at night and calls it quits, then heads home. A man attacks him in an alleyway, puts a plastic bag over his head, then kills him seven different ways, with suffocation, poison, stabbing, shooting, and crushing.
Later Monk and Natalie arrive at another crime scene of a woman who apparently was killed by a doctor, but they?re called off to check out the street musician?s death. However, Stottlemeyer is informed that the FBI will be taking over the case. The FBI agent, Thorpe, arrives and isn?t too impressed with Monk. The FBI have high-tech equipment that impresses everyone. They go to the morgue but Monk is more interested in the murdered woman whose body is present. Thorpe calls him over to their case and they ID the body, thanks to their high-tech equipment. There is also a note warning the ?Six-Way Killer? will strike against every 36 hours.
Monk and Natalie go with Thorpe in his high-tech van while Stottlemeyer and his team cover the secondary location. Monk is more interested in looking at the big picture but Thorpe wants to deal with the situation as quickly as possible. Thorpe is also unimpressed with Monk?s lack of technological knowledge.
The next day, Monk is at home depressed at Thorpe?s opinion when he notices Julie?s computer and asks her to teach him what she knows. While Monk slowly but surely masters the computer, hours pass and there?s only three hours left. They get a caller from the Six-Way Killer and Stottlemeyer talks to him while the FBI try to get a trace. They succeed and launch a raid? only to bust up Julie?s slumber party because Monk inadvertently crossed the wires on Julie?s laptop, and Thorpe sends him home
Monk meets with Dr. Kroeger and expresses his concerns about being a ?dinosaur.? Kroeger reassures him, noting that a computer would just slow Adrian down. Kroeger makes the mistake of comparing him to John Henry the steel-driving man and sings him a few bars of the song. Monk is a little concerned about the fact John Henry died beating the machine and makes a hasty departure.
The coroner is still working on the street musician?s body and determines which order the murder methods were employed. Stottlemeyer tries to defend Monk without much luck, while the FBI determine that street musicians are the target and they get them all off the streets? except Randy as an undercover operative. Monk is with Natalie who talks about how the police are working on the Six-Way Killer case? and Monk realizes everyone is too busy to investigate the woman?s murder.
The FBI spot a man who matches the profile in Randy?s vicinity and throw him to the ground. Stottlemeyer quickly realizes the man is another musician who was going to play with him. Meanwhile Natalie has sent a message saying Monk has solved the case. Thorpe confronts Monk at the morgue where he reveals that the murdered victim, Miss Garnett, went out with a doctor and had something special which could be traced back to the restaurant where they ate. The doctor then struggled with her and ended up killing her, but needed 36 hours for the food in her stomach to be digested. So the doctor picked a random victim and set up a fake serial killing. Fortunately it?s not quite too late and they can identify the food and the restaurant where they make it. Using the credit card receipt from the restaurant, they identify the doctor and take him into custody at his hotel.
Later Monk is sending a letter of apology to the girls at the slumber party and he insists on doing it by hand rather than typing them out on Natalie?s laptop.
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