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Meanwhile, Monk is examining the home of the second victim, Julie Teeger the bicyclist. He notices a number of packages and one yellow box fragment, which he determines Julie must have received on the day she died. Just then he and Disher hear the news that Matthew Teeger has escaped, and rush to meet Stottlemeyer and Natalie at the DMV, where Julie is in the middle of her test. Matthew Teeger is chasing after her, but just as a police sharpshooter fires, Monk intervenes. Teeger isn’t the guy, Monk announces. In fact, Matthew was just trying to give Julie his lucky rabbit’s foot.

But if Matthew Teeger isn’t the guy, who is? It turns out Monk has cracked the case, and it all has to do with a yellow package he remembers seeing at the first victim’s house. He leads Stottlemeyer and Disher back there, where they confront her husband, and Monk gives his summation. George Teeger was having an affair, and after a bitter fight his mistress decided to send a box of his belongings and an explanatory note to his wife. But the box accidentally ended up being delivered to another Julie Teeger (the second victim), a mix-up that apparently happened regularly. The second Julie delivered the box to its intended recipient, and when the first Julie Teeger confronted her husband about the contents of the box, he killed her. Then, to cover up the murder, he tracked down and killed the other Julie Teeger, who had witnessed the fight.

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