Theresa Scott (a.k.a. Darlene Coolidge, a.k.a. Phyllis Gaffney), was the bride of Jonathan Davenport. Theresa Scott appears in the episode "Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding". Though she tried to marry Jonathan Davenport, the younger brother of Natalie Teeger, she is revealed to be a black widow who had murdered her previous three husbands for their money.
In the episode, she won over the Davenports by lying that her parents had died in the Pan Am Airplane Crash, which was originally shut down in 1991. She also murdered wedding photographer Frank Ruttle to keep her identity a secret and ran down Lieutenant Disher, who was the leading detective in the murder cases, resulting in some broken ribs, a broken arm and a broken leg.
History[]
Theresa met Johnathan in Hawaii and became engaged to him after only two weeks. She made an immediate favorable impression on Johnathan's parents, Bobby and Peggy Davenport. She also had sufficient personal wealth (or appearance of same) to convince the wealthy Davenports that she was living off a healthy trust fund, and so was not a fortune hunter.
In reality, she was much worse - a "black widow." Under a series of aliases, she had married, then murdered, at least three previous husbands. One of her murders took place in Philadelphia, and was investigated by then-Detective Sergeant Randy Disher, who was able to accuse her, in absentia, of homicide, and to track her as far as Seattle.
As her wedding to Johnathan approached, she was recognized by a wedding photographer from one of her previous marriages, Frank Ruttle, who foolishly tried to blackmail her. She dealt with him decisively, luring him to the hotel's spa, then knocking him out and putting his body in a mud bath, killing him. A short time later, she was in danger of being exposed again, when Disher was brought as Natalie Teeger's date to the wedding. She ran him down in a stolen car, but he survived and was able to identify her, just after her marriage to Jonathan. Caught, she took her new husband hostage and attempted to escape, but Natalie subdued her, saving the day. (Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding)
Behind the Scenes[]
Her true identity as a black widow was earlier foreshadowed during her bachelorette party, when she told the male stripper "Officer Feelgood" that she was "a bad girl."