Brandy Barber is a field reporter in San Francisco looking to get the big scoop on anything deemed a rewarding success. She was known to be vile and ridicule those that the public disliked, for starters when Adrian Monk shot Michael Kenworthy, who was dressed as Santa Claus, she made the claim that Adrian ruined Christmas and even made children cry with a fib that Santa might die. She later received an anonymous tip about a piece of the revolver that was used in the shooting. After it was discovered that Kenworthy was masterminding a heist for the Star of Bethlehem and Monk thwarted it, Barber redacted her story and praised Monk for saving Christmas.