The captain's wife becomes a victim when a union dispute goes awry, and it is up to Monk to figure out what really happened.
It’s a case of bad timing as Buffy goes out searching for a job just as Andrew, Jonathan and Warren decide to “test her” in search of a weakness they can exploit.
Grace (Debra Messing) romances an old flame (guest star David Sutcliffe) while in Vermont and tries to hide the fling from Will (Eric McCormack). Tom Bosley also guest stars.
Michael must recruit a spy within a lethal and tightknit family of gun runners in order to save a couple.