Natalie Teeger is overworked from working for Adrian Monk, and desperately seeks a vacation. So she is naturally delighted when her best friend Candace no last name given invites her on a comped trip to Kauai in Hawaii to be the maid of honor at her wedding to a guy named Brian Galloway. The only question is how to tell Monk about the upcoming trip. She decides to drop the bomb at the last second, when Monk is on his usual high after solving a murder case - a well-known heart surgeon who was poisoned by his own patient while she was on the operating table - and tells him shes leaving the next day. He is devastated, and she quickly pushes him off to his normal appointment with Dr. Kroger.,
