I am glad that TV characters exist in a different universe than my own. More specifically, I am happy that fictional detective Adrian Monk exists in a different universe than my own, specifically because of the mortality rate and the criminality of characters who are up to two degrees of separation from him. Here are the best lists that I can come up with of people one or two degrees of separation away from Adrian Monk who have either been murder victims or were murderers:
Victims, 1 degree of separation:
Wife
Group therapy patients
Upstairs neighbor
Manager at his bank
Victims, 2 degrees of separation:
Wife’s midwife (spoiler alert!)
Brother’s neighbor (woman)
Doctor’s cleaning lady
Assistant’s pizza deliverer
Lieutenant’s uncle
Nurse’s uncle (jeez, I’d hate to be an uncle in that universe)
2 victims of person who held grudge against Monk
Father’s boss
Old crush’s cleaning lady
Upstairs neighbor’s paperboy
Perpetrators, 1 degree of separation:
Flight passengers
Person against whom Monk brought evidence to a grand jury
Perpetrators, 2 degrees of separation:
Wife’s college professor (spoiler alert!)
Brother’s neighbor (man, husband to victim)
Doctor’s office neighbor
Doctor’s colleague
Nurse’s writing teacher
Captain’s girlfriend
Person who sued wife
Co-juror’s boyfriend
Father’s other boss
Assistant’s new sister-in-law
Man who had crush on assistant
Old crush’s ex-husband
Upstairs neighbor’s new girlfriend
Host of show that father-in-law produces
Upstairs neighbor’s magician mentor (when 2 people want you dead on separate occasions, maybe you suck)
Bank manager’s tall co-conspirator
