Complex sentence: The captain is called to the scene, where the pie is searched as Monk does his black-and-white recap-as the wife put the pies on the counter, VanRanken came in, and there was a fight.
Split into simpler sentences: The captain is called to the scene, where the pie is searched as Monk does his black-and-white recap. Monk surmises that as the VanRanken wife put the pies on the counter, VanRanken came in, and there was a fight.