简介：故事发生在二战时期的一个美国沿海小镇，八岁小男孩Pepper（雅各布·萨尔瓦提 Jakob Salvati 饰）天生矮小瘦弱，为此没少受同龄人欺负，还被取绰号为“小男孩”（little boy）。他最好的朋友兼搭档，就是自己高大魁梧的父亲詹姆斯（迈克尔·拉帕波特 Michael Rapaport 饰）。在父亲的教导陪伴下，Pepper渡过了一段美好的时光。直到父亲应召入伍，投入到第二次世界大战的战场中去。 就在Pepper期待父亲回家时，噩耗传来，他的父亲在菲律宾被日军虏为战俘，生死未卜。而此同时，Pepper和他哥哥London（大卫·亨瑞 David Henrie 饰）将战争仇恨发泄在镇上的一个日本人桥本身上，为此兄弟俩都接受了相应的惩罚。神父为了教育Pepper，将一个“古老的清单”交给他，只要他把清单上的任务都完成，他就能拥有可以移动大山的信念和力量，从而就能把他的父亲从二战战场中带回来。这个清单的其中一项，就是和日本人桥本成为朋友……
简介：Former police detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub), whose photographic memory and amazing ability to piece together tiny clues made him a local legend, has suffered from intensified obsessive-compulsive disorder and a variety of phobias since the unsolved murder of his wife, Trudy, in 1997. Now on psychiatric leave from the San Francisco Police Department and working as a freelance detective consultant on difficult cases, Monk hopes to convince his former boss, Captain Leland Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine), to allow him to return to the force. Stottlemeyer, who wavered between admiration for Monk and annoyance at his eccentricities during the first season, is becoming more of a friend to Monk as the series develops, frequently calling him in to help, as much for Monk's benefit as for his own. However, he knows Monk's limitations as well as his strengths and may still harbor doubts about the wisdom of allowing Monk to carry a gun or subdue a perpetrator. Stottlemeyer's second-in-command, Lieutenant Randall Disher (Jason Gray-Stanford), also seems to be developing both admiration and compassion for the man he once labeled the defective detective.Despite flaws and inadequacies all around, the three are becoming an increasingly effective team, with additional help from Monk's personal assistant. From the double-episode pilot through the first half of season three, Monk was aided by his nurse, Sharona Fleming (Bitty Schram). But in the tenth episode of the third season, Sharona was replaced by a new assistant, Natalie Teeger (Traylor Howard). Like Sharona, a divorcee with a son named Benjy, Natalie is a single parent, a widow with a daughter named Julie (Emmy Clarke). Unlike Sharona, Natalie is not a nurse but a former bartender with a fresh perspective on Mr. Monk, as she still addresses her new boss.