Monk - The Voodoo Curse

What are the odds of dying from being hit by a baseball if you've survived cancer twice? Dying from a lightning strike while playing golf? Dying of a heart attack while taking a medicine PREVENTING a heart attack? Not very likely. Until now.

Voodoo Doll

Natalie and Mr. Monk are on the case. Left randomly in the homes of the recently dead, are small boxes with no return address. Placed inside, are carefully customized voodoo dolls with the victims name printed on a banner. The dolls all have a hint of what's going to happen to the reciever such as:

- a lightning bolt through the head

- a baseball attached to the head

- a heart that's ripped

The strange thing is the boxes have all been delievered to the victims a week before their prescribed death.

Natalie strongly believes in voodoo and tries to prevent Mr. Monk from working on the case, out of fear that some thing bad is going to happen. Mr. Monk visits the only exsisting voodoo seller in the city, Reverend Jorgenson, but he explains that he was in his shop at each of the victims deaths, so he couldn't be the villian.

Mr. Monk and Reverend Jorgenson

The last victim is a rich man who died of a heart attack in his home. His niece, Angeline, said that he was a very superstitious person, which explained why there were a lot of good luck charms strategically placed around his house. But Mr. Monk notices the horseshoe above the door is upside down, bringing, supposedly, bad luck. Angeline claims to be a paramedic, who Mr. Monk recalls was at all of the death scenes. Natalie quickly returns home and sees a small box on the table.

Mr. Monk arrives at Natalie's house to check on her and sees Natalie crying on the staircase. Mr. Monk goes on about how he can't work when she's in this condition, when Natalie shakily points at the box on the table. Mr. Monk walks over and opens the box. Inside he finds a personalized voodoo doll with Natalie's name enscribed on it. He looks it over to see if there is anything suspicious about it, but when he turns it over, the head falls off.

Natalie Being "Un-Cursed" By
 Reverend Jorgenson

Natalie is thouroughly scared and does all things humanly possible to ensure that she won't be maimed in any way, from sleeping in the bathroom to throwing away all her knives and hedge clippers. Mr. Monk calls Reverend Jorgenson, the owner of a local voodoo shop, to come and "un-curse" Natalie. He prepares a special potion for Natalie to rub onto her neck, but in haste, Natalie drinks it on accident and get sent into an ambulence with Angeline. When Mr. Monk asks if he can accompany Natalie inside, Angeline says nervously that there's no room, so Mr. Monk rides behind the ambulence in Reverend Jorgenson's van.

On the way to the hospital, Mr. Monk and Reverend Jorgenson start to talk about the case. Reverend Jorgenson says that Angeline is a frequent customer and has bought about 6 or 7 voodoo dolls. Mr. Monk puts the pieces together and realizes that Angeline is the criminal. The rescue Natalie from the ambulence before Angeline gets a chance to harm her.

If you are superstitious, beware...