When a wealthy couple is killed, Monk poses as a butler to investigate. Along the way, Monk discovers a fear of frogs and realizes that his obsessive-compulsiveness serves him well as a manservant.
Lynn Arlt has a challenge with four French bulldogs - Boris, Bella, Tallulah, and Groucho. Lynn loves her dogs, but this pack of bulldogs has begun their own French Revolution. Jim and Marcia adopted miniature schnauzer Tori and received a warning "She spins." Can Cesar set this spinning schnauzer straight? In 2004, Police found Howie, with a leash tied so tightly around his neck that it had grown into his skin and had to be surgically removed. The ladies of the Animal Hospital call on Cesar to help.
Unable to bear a morose Lassiter who doesn't rise to the bait, Shawn sets out to prove that Lassiter's theory of murder is correct: that an astronomer did not die of natural causes.
After his grandmother's funeral, Mike finds an artifact in her basement could re-write the history of our nation. There are clues that suggest George Washington was in fact a cannibal, Mike must protect his family and escape from a band of Washingtonians, hungry for human flesh and willing to protect Washington's secrets.
Greg tells Cyd how much he wants the duty officer job - Josh's job. But he has a bitter pill to swallow when Dixie walks in and announces that she has been offered it.
Meanwhile, Nathan tells Kelsey that he won't tell anyone she is moonlighting as a prostitute if she keeps quiet about his visit to the brothel. Selena later praises him for making a tough call by suspending Harry for sexual harassment.
Elsewhere, Sam finds Alice crying in the staffroom. She tells him that everyone hates her because she is the one who made the complaint about Harry.
