While Mr. Monk's house is being disinfected, he briefly moves in with Natalie and Julie. Of course, our hero immediately finds deviations there from his understanding of cleanliness and order, but that’s not the point. A dog dies at the city fire station, and this happens on the same night as a terrible fire that destroyed an apartment building in San Francisco . Of course, the defective detective is obliged to solve this mystery. True, to his greatest horror, for this he will have to dig a lot in the dirt.