Fancy Store-Bought Dirt

That's One Variant on the Landmark Problem

Suppose you knew someone who apparently died (not of old age) a few years ago, but then you saw someone who seems to be that same person (as if the death were faked).

If your intuition were that this person wanted to meet you, but couldn't communicate a location, where would you go to hope to find that person? The answer seems very obvious to me, and I assumed that's what Mr. Monk was up to in "Mr. and Mrs. Monk," yet even if the case turned on that, he didn't specifically explain as much.

But both the plot and the climax of the previous episode ("Mr. Monk Gets Drunk") make up for it.

("Captain, you've got to see this! Monk is doing that summation thing of his, only he's completely wasted!")