Emma Bates

When a friend's college-age son dies mysteriously in Mexico, the mayor sends Monk to investigate. Doubting the coroner's report that the young man 'drowned' in midair, Monk nevertheless has difficulty concentrating on the case.

When a petty officer turns up dead backstage at a local bikini contest, Gibbs and the team are sent in to investigate.

At the squad, McDowell is on the phone checking on the baby again, when they are called out to the scene of homicide in a vacant lot.

A rising roller derby star drops dead in the middle of a match and Mac and Stella come to the rink to investigate. A deeper inspection reveals a gruesome discovery: she cooked to death - from the inside out. Meanwhile, Hawkes and Danny unravel the mystery of why a struggling novelist was killed and left in an expensive oriental rug.

The team search for the son of a billionaire who disappears after piloting a small plane that crashes in the woods. Elsewhere, Kim's relationship with Marcus develops.