Okay, I want to thank my reviewers…

Bringirl2001- You are a teacher? KEWL!

Jeasus Freak 87- That's what I was aiming for! lol

Rach- Thanks form dad (and me too)!

Osaka Chii- I know! No matter how many times I read it through, I always miss something! lol I'll try harder.

On to the story!

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Once Adrian got to the "crime seen" he started looking around. Natalie just watched him, expecting him to come up with something brilliant.

Adrian was having troubles concentrating. There was a pretty big crowd out side as people tried to get out, and he didn't like crowds.

Then he saw some clowns on the other side of the ring. He shuddered and moved a little further away from them.

After that he saw the paramedics caring off Christina Halo's broken body. He was going to go mad if he didn't get out of here soon.

Adrian was only half heartedly looking around when a police came up to him and offered him a video tape.

"This is a tape of when Christina fell." He said handing it to Adrian.

"Oh, okay, thanks." He said quickly handing it over to Natalie and taking out a wipe.

After the police officer watched him sanitize his hands he added "There is a backroom where you can watch that. Follow me."

Adrian and Natalie strode after him in to a medium sized room with a little television on a table. He put the video tape in and it started playing the act.

Adrian watched carefully as she put the blindfold on. He noticed that she put it on securely, so she wouldn't be able to see.

Then as she got on the tightrope he saw her struggling and he knew it was a act. Then she got to the middle and just seemed to hop off. By the horrified look on her face he knew that it couldn't have been an accident.

"Something doesn't add up." He said pressing the rewind button on the cassette. This time through he looked for cues. He noticed that the song ended right before the accident but she jumped after the band started up another one.

"Could that be a cue?" he thought out loud.

"What?" Natalie asked turning off the television.

"Never mind." He said making a mental note to question the band conductor. Then he decided to look at the crime seen more carefully, because it is good to have more than one lead.

They brought a fire truck that could lift investigators up to the tight rope to see if there are any clues up there, but Adrian knew that someone couldn't have tampered with the rope and go unnoticed for the first part of the act.

What he was looking for a motive and was interviewing some of the people she worked with. That's how he discovered that the band conductor was her husband, but he left soon after it happened, looking very depressed.

Then he went outside of the tent to think over everything he just learned.

As he was going over his thoughts he started pacing. That's when Captain Stottlemeyer came out of the crowd wiping the sweat from his brow. It was a hot day and being stuck in a circus tent was not helping that fact.

He went over to Natalie and stood there for a second watching Monk pace back and fourth in his suit. He didn't know how he could stand being so stuffed up in that.

After a minute of watching Stottlemeyer looked at Natalie and said "Turns out to be a accident, or we couldn't find anything so uhh-" he gestured towards Adrian "You can tell him to stop now,"

Adrian looked up and noticed Stottlemeyer there and said "No… no something just doesn't add up."

"Things don't have to add up Monk." replied Stottlemeyer.

Adrian thought that over for a second and then said "Well, yha- it sort of dose."

Then the Captain walked up to him and said "Well, then what do you think?"

"I am not sure yet, but I have a lead." Monk said going in to deep thought.

"Look, we looked in to it and she just fell! No one tampered with the rope or anything. No mystery here Monk, you can just go home." said Captain Stottlemeyer. Monk started pacing back and fourth again.

Then he stopped and said "But- how? She was a highly trained tight rope walker. How could she just fall in the middle of the rope? Even less likely jump? Okay she was blindfolded- but she has done the act many times and never fell before. She must have got the feel for when to stop. They probably had a cue or something to tell her when to stop, and I think I found something" Adrian looked from the Captain to Natalie.

He didn't want to tell the Captain yet, not until he was sure.

Captain Stottlemeyer threw up his arms in defeat. "Okay Monk, if you want to investigate this you can, but I seriously doubt that you will find any thing." Then he turned on his heal and walked away.

Monk watched him until the crowed swallowed him up. Then he saw a middle age woman coming towards him. She looked very upset. She walked over to him and asked quietly, "Are you Adrian Monk?"

"Um- yes." He simply said.

"Oh thank you God," she said in a shaky voice. "I am Christina's mother, Samantha Havlo, and…and…" she left the sentence unfinished and started to sob.

Monk felt unsure of what to do. He shifted his wait form one foot to the next and looked over pleadingly at Natalie. Natalie rolled her eyes and went over and put her arm around Samantha's shoulder and led her to the bleachers to sit down.

Samantha continued to cry and said in between sobs "She… she couldn't have fell! She talked to me… she talked to before the show and… and she was so confident and and..." she started to sob even harder and her words were drowned out.

Natalie gave her a tissue and tried to comfort her.

After a while she calmed down a little and was able to choke out "Mr. Monk, please help me, it couldn't have been a accident because she has been doing the act for many years. I don't know if someone tampered with the rope or if somehow somebody pushed her but it was not on accident! Please- please figure out what happened!" She looked up at his serious face.

"I'll do what I can." Monk said looking down at her feeling a pang of sympathy. He knew what it felt like to lose a loved one. Her coming up to him asking for his help encouraged him to find out who murdered Christina more than anything else.

"Thank you Mr. Monk- and may God be with you." She then got up and walked away.

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TBC…

Here is another riddle. (They are all killing ones…sorry!)

Riddle- When the buzzard sounded he fell to his death.

A.- When the buzzard on a army jet plane sounded a soldier jumped off (with a parachute) in enemy territory and he was shot. REVIEW!