[Monk, Sharona, Stottlemeyer and Disher are at the scene of the store clerk's death]
Adrian Monk: When did it happen?
Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: The M.E. is saying two and a half, three hours. He worked as the night manager at the Stop 'n Go on Ridgedale.
Sharona Fleming: Oh my God, we were just there! That's where we bought the newspaper. [to Randy] Along with your letter in it to me.
Lt. Randall Disher: It wasn't to you!
Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: His shift ended at 4:00 AM, he came here to make the night deposit. He got jumped by the killer, stabbed twice: once in the neck, once in the stomach, with that bottle. [Monk looks at the remains of the bottle that Vicki Salinas used as the murder weapon]
Adrian Monk: No prints on the bottle?
Lt. Randall Disher: Nothing yet.
Adrian Monk: Surveillance camera?
Lt. Randall Disher: Negative. It's over by the ATM, facing the wrong way. It didn't see a thing. [Stottlemeyer turns to Monk]
Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: Now what I can't get over, is that we haven't had a homicide in this neighborhood for over four years, all of a sudden we've got two: first your newspaper boy, killed for a newspaper, and now this robbery.
Adrian Monk: No, this was no robbery.
Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: But the killer took the money.
Adrian Monk: The killer wants us to think robbery. But why wouldn't he do it in a more secluded spot? He could have killed him anywhere between here and the store.
Lt. Randall Disher: Well maybe the killer just waited for him here by the bank.
Adrian Monk: No. No, the killer had to have followed the victim from the store. [points at the bottle] Cream soda bottle. You can't find that brand anywhere else.
Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: Well how do you know the victim wasn't drinking it? He worked at the Stop 'n Go.
Adrian Monk: That's true. [Sharona examines the bottle]
Sharona Fleming: It's a woman. There's lipstick on the bottle. [Monk and Stottlemeyer squat and see some lipstick towards the bottom of the bottle]
Adrian Monk: How did I miss that?
Captain Leland Stottlemeyer: She's stronger and smarter than you.

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