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.