Meredith Preminger is a creative writing teacher and the main antagonist of, "Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf," a Season Three episode of Monk.
She was played by Emma Caulfield, who is best known for playing Anyanka on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Meredith Preminger was Sharona Fleming's creative writing teacher, and she was first shown in her class while one of her students was reciting a story he had written. Sharona, who recently had a vision of a murder victim in a parking garage, asked Meredith about her grade on her own paper, only for Meredith to reply that Sharona never turned it in. Following more experiences, Sharona went to Meredith later on and informed her that she would be dropping her class, much to Meredith's dismay, as she praised Sharona's work. During their conversation, Sharona sees the murdered man again and points him out to Meredith, who stated that no one was there.
Later that evening, Meredith was at her home dining with her husband, Maxwell Preminger; serving a bowl of tomato soup. In response to Maxwell's question about her work, Meredith commented that she was taking the day off, and it was this point that Maxwell began gasping for breath during the conversation. Meredith turned heel afterwards by revealing that she poisoned Maxwell's soup and watching as her husband fatally succumbed to her handiwork, and afterwards, a man--later revealed as Denny Graf, a security guard at Sharona's school--emerged and revealed himself as Meredith's lover, as well as the "murder victim" Sharona had been seeing. The villainous couple toasted to Sharona, with Meredith commenting that Sharona was vital to their plan's success, solidifying Meredith's heel turn.
As Monk's summation revealed, Meredith noticed Sharona's story, "The Fatal Recipe," while grading papers some time ago. The story was about a woman who poisons her husband, and after reading it, Meredith decided to use the story as part of her plan to murder her own husband, Maxwell. Just like in Sharona's story, the evil Meredith poisoned Maxwell's soup with an untraceable substance, but to keep Sharona off her tracks, she sent Denny to pose as a murder victim that only she can see, making Sharona question her sanity. Meredith and Denny also broke into Sharona's apartment and rearrange her things to make Sharona think she's unorganized. Meredith held a wake for her husband when she was interrogated by Adrian Monk, with the villainess denying the claims against her. However, after Sharona discovers that her second draft of her creative writing story was replaced, she ended up finding the original draft when it was used as crumpled up packaging paper, which results in both Meredith and Denny being arrested.
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