Sharona Fleming

Sharona Fleming is the deuteragonist of the first two and a half seasons of the crime drama/comedy series, Monk and a background character in Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie. She has also been referenced in the novel series that serve as a tie-in to the franchise. 
She is the former nurse and assistant to Adrian Monk, as well as a dedicated single mother. Despite her employer's numerous phobias and anxieties, and her occasional threats to resign, Sharona continues to assist Adrian in solving cases while caring for him in the aftermath of his wife Trudy's murder. 
The character was developed by Andy Breckman.
==History==
===Season 1===
===Season 2===
===Season 3A===
===Season 8===
=== Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie ===
Sharona does not appear in it but she is mentioned: it is revealed she is married to Disher. Sharona was unable to come to San Francisco and attend the wedding of Adrian's stepdaughter, Molly Evans because she is helping Benjy out with his newborn child, her grandchild. 
Andy Breckman has expressed interest in bringing Schram and thus Sharona back for a potential sequel film.
==Personality==
==Abilities==
* Intelligence
** Medical Skills: Being a nurse, Sharona possibly earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, as she uses these skills to help people with their health.
**Deductive Reasoning: Due to her job as Monk's assistant and nurse, Sharona developed a few detective skills when she was out in the field. However, there was only one time where Sharona as actually able to find a clue where Adrian wasn't looking. When they were at a crime scene where a continent store worker was murdered, Sharona easily identified the killer as a woman when she spotted lipstick on a soda bottle the worker had been killed with.
*Athleticism: Sharona is a healthy woman with an athletic streak, who exercises often and pushes at least 200 pushups, according to her.
**Free Running: Sharona works out and thus runs relatively fast enough to catch one of the criminals trying to escape. 
** Above average strength: Sharona is quite strong and once teased Monk that she was tougher and stronger than him. She once had an arm-wrestling match with Monk but let him win.
**Golfing
**Tennis playing skills:
==Trivia==
*Sharona left the show in the midway of Season 3 due to her actress haing a network dispute with the showrunners. She did, however, return to Season 8 when she apparently reconciled with the network.
* Sharona shares many similarities with Kate Beckett from Castle and 
**They are both the female companion of the main character who is also suffering from PTSD and the case
***However, unlike Lisbon and Beckett, the relationship between Adrian and Sharona was strictly platonic.
**They accept their male partner’s quirks, even learning to remain patient with them over time.
** Accompanied by a third party that gets secondary focuses behind them. 
***Leland Stottlemeyer and Randy Disher (Monk)
***Javier Esposito and Kevin Ryan in Castle.
***Kimball Cho, Grace Van Pelt and Wayne Rigsby in The Mentalist.
**Additionally, Sharona, Teresa and Kate do go through teasing their respective love interests and later marrying them. 
***Sharona and Disher married off screen.
***Lisbon and Jane married each other in the series finale of their series.
***Kate and Rick married each other in the middle of season 6 of Castle.
* She also plays tennis, as shown in "Mr. Monk Takes a Vacation." Andy Breckman explained that he put a lot of tennis scenes into the episode after discovering Bitty Schram was a semi-pro level tennis player herself (having studied at the University of Maryland on a tennis scholarship).
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