> Terribly sad. It was a shock. I'm glad the show was really about Monk dealing with this loss. . > P.S. I didn't get the stumble, for some reason. I knewd that On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:36:36 -0700 (PDT) Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg> writes: > no, we didn't know that. In Monk how do they explain why the Dr. is not there? Natalie is sympathizing with Monk... Monk then says- I can't believe that he died of a ...a heart attack. He was more than my therapist he was...he was...Dr. Kroger. I thought he was going to say his friend- later that is addressed.