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Zach Ellinghouse was the father of one of Trudy's old journalist partners Janice Ellinghouse. Following Janice's death, a woman named Cameron met with Zach, posing as Trudy. As Trudy, Cameron claims to have faked her death in order to protect herself from an extremist group, and requests a key that Janice owned. However, Adrian Monk's assistant Natalie Teeger happened to be at the diner they met at, and heard their conversation. Natalie went to their next meeting to try and capture photos of them, but Cameron saw her and forced her to delete the photos. Cameron met with Zach one last time at his apartment. Zach decided that Janice's key belongs to her, and nobody else can have it. Cameron fights for the key, and accidentally kills Zach when he falls on a memo spike. During the investigation Monk becomes distressed as all the clues seemingly point towards Trudy. Jack Bollinger was Cameron's employer. He was an anonymous source to one of Trudy and Janice's stories about corruption in a dockworker's union. After the story broke the leaders were arrested, allowing Bollinger to take charge. He wanted the key so that he could get rid of the documents that identified him as the whistleblower. While looking through the storage facility, Monk appears and Bollinger pulls a gun on him. When Leland Stottlemeyer and Randy Disher arrive Bollinger shoots at them, resulting in a shootout that kills him and Cameron.

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