Marge Johnson is an incidental character who appeared in Mr. Monk and the Lady Next Door.
Biography[]
Marge was an elderly lady who coincidentally met Monk as he was waiting by a broken stoplight, waiting for Natalie to return with their paychecks at the police station. Marge struck up a conversation with him and ended up taking Monk by the arm to file a complaint about the traffic light. Marge was known to the SFPD for frequently coming to the station to make noise complaints about her neighbor, John Keyes, who has been playing drums every night for the last two weeks.
After being turned down on account of Keyes having already received a citation and court date, Monk offered his help in case Keyes acted up again, a favor which she cashed in the very next day, shutting down the neighbor unexpectedly fast. Won over by Marge's matronliness, Monk stuck around for lunch upon Marge's insistence and briefly talked about her husband Theo, who died twelve years ago, and her son Paulie, who died when he was three, immediately striking a cord with Monk, who started visited Marge on a daily basis. Soon enough, Monk felt a motherly bond to Marge, at one point referring to his birth mother as his "other mother". This also began to show when Monk showed up to work wearing knitted sweaters and scarves, as well as enthusing about treats she made him such as cookies and her "world famous" cranberry nut muffins.
This unconditional love, however, came under fire when Monk accused her being an accomplice to John Keyes when he noticed Marge unwittingly contaminating a crime scene and saw a picture of Paulie, who had a birth mark on a similar spot as Keyes. Monk concluded that the repeated noise complaints were actually a cover for when Keyes broke into a jewelry store he used to work at, providing him with an alibi for the night and heartbroken over this purported betrayal, he aggressively confronted her in the interrogation room and angrily claimed that their time together had been meaningless to him, as he figured that she had used him as a patsy to further cement her story. In the end, a DNA test proved that Keyes was not Paulie, and it was later discovered that he had previously stolen an animatronic mannequin from a museum a few days earlier and rewired it to play the drums at his house at 10:00 PM sharp each night. Monk attempts to apologize and reconcile, but Marge felt hurt by the baseless accusations and said it would be better if they stopped seeing each other. Before she leaves to live with her sister in Seattle, Marge shows Monk she forgives him by giving him back the scarf he had thrown back at her during the interrogation.