Monk Is horrified when he learns there's going to be a blue flu in San francisco. It doesn't understand what the blue flu is but it sounds terrible. Captain stottlemyer explains it's not really a virus. The police force plan to call in sick until they get a better contract. The good news is that the labor dispute will give monk a chance to get back on the 4th. The bad news is it means he'll be a scab and he doesn't like the sound of that either. But before he knows that monk has his badge back in his own Squad to command. Unfortunately some of the squad members make monk look like a paragon of mental health. But despite the challenges they'll have to pull together to catch an astrologers killer solve a series of mysterious fatal assaults and most important clean up their desk