Shoe hears that someone wants to kill him. The girls compete with each other to get to go to the Fiji open, with Kai facing down Dawn. Lacey's mom tries to take her back home, and Lacey faces down her mom.
Ed, Mike, and Danny make a bet on who's the best security operative among them and who can find the Montecito's biggest source of loss. Sam helps Polly (the manicurist) get her boyfriend back. Mary manages to sell the last residential suite, and she hopes that a special performance by John Legend will be a success for the Montecito.
Edgar Allan Poe is a writer out of ideas and short on cash that's followed by a black cat that will destroy his life or help him to write one of his most famous stories.
Monk is surprised to find he's made a friend with a normal everyday guy named Hal. Monk is overwhelmed by having an actual friend, but Natalie has her suspicions that Hal is up to something.
