As you read through the other reviews you are going to see a pattern in each of them. They are going to talk about how this episode wasn't very "Monkish" so to speak, but then again I wasn't expecting it to be. Afterall, his Therapist, Dr. Kroger did pass away so I wasn't expecting this episode to just breeze on by and continue like nothing ever happen. Instead of taking a leap forward and forgetting that Stanley passed away they focussed the episode on him and how it seemed to put a stop to things. So no, the solving a mystery wasn't up to par, but it wasn't about that. This episode was about Dr. Kroger and how lossing him changed the outcome. As a couple comments below me stated that characters are suppose to move forward and they felt that he didn't. They are wrong. He is expressing his loss of his Therapist. That's moving forward...he is learning to work past it which for Monk, is hard. I'm sure that the episodes to come will have that flare in mystery, but right now, it must remain a flicker. Great episode to my standards. I like how it wasn't about forgetting Stanley died and lets go "solve a case" now. It was in his rememberance.