A panicky woman driver goes off the road thanks to a skid block placed by her husband, former police commissioner Harry Ashcombe. Dolly Flint, a psychic who was arrested three times on bunko charges by Captain Stottlemeyer, wakes up in her car next to the site of the staged accident. She believes that she was led to the site by the dead woman's "aura," but Monk is doubtful. Instead, Monk suspects that Ashcombe is the real culprit behind his wife death.