Michelle Rivas is a public relations representative for the San Francisco Power Company. She immediately met Monk, admiring his work, and developed an affection for him. She gave Monk her number and managed to get a date with him, not knowing everything about Adrian. She soon realized Adrian had major issues when they climbed 52 flights of stairs instead of taking the elevator and missed the deadline for their reservation but was even more unbearable which a second bombing caused another blackout, trapping them on an elevator and the fact that he kept pressing the lobby button, despite no power. She dated another technician from the electric company, Winston Brenner, whom she despised to the core, unaware he was an anti-military extremist named Winston Brenner. After Winston was arrested she congratulated Monk on finding Brenner and was even gifted a dozen red roses. In the end, regardless of what she learned about Monk's unusual habits, her little crush for him hadn't subsided.