- Chuck and Sarah work on their relationship as they accompany Ellie and Devon to Costa Gravas to meet Premier Alejandro Goya. Casey has to contend with Morgan's interest in his daughter.
- Chuck (Zachary Levi) and Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) look at that ring and quickly back off. Last week they wanted to take things slow...super slow, actually...and Chuck reassures her he wasn't proposing. Both of them go, but Chuck watches the video footage of his non-proposal and Sarah's non-answer and wonders what the hell he was thinking. It was so awkward, Morgan (Joshua Gomez) even felt the need to augment it with the "In a world of awkward Chuck and Sarah moments..." movie trailer guy. Morgan questions whether Chuck would have been happy if the "hot mystery" (Sarah, natch) had said yes? What is Chuck to do? Morgan has an answer: the two have to learn how to communicate. And there is a self-help book being sold at the Buy More. A book signing at the Buy More? Apparently, and Morgan is convinced that "101 Conversations Before I Do" will help Chuck and Sarah find out if actually proposed or whether or not both of them were happy about it or would she be happy if Chuck finally actually proposed?
Devon (Ryan McPartlin) is quite good at communication...much to Ellie's (Sarah Lancaster) annoyance. He's talking to his future son/daughter that they can work out together when he/she is older, even providing the accompanying music for when he goes tri-blasting. (that's an actual exercise program) Ellie wants to get away from all things baby-related for a weekend. A "babymoon," as it were. ("My hot husband drives a minivan.") And given Awesome's commercial for the Toyota Sienna, you can see her point.
Beckman (Bonita Friedericy) has the team gathered, including its member currently on the injured list (Casey) because Commandante Juan Pablo Turrini is in town. He is Premier Alejandro Goya's (Armand Assante) Chief of Security, and Beckman needs to know what he's up to. Apparently Turrini is in town to deliver a message to Awesome and Mrs. Awesome from the Generalissimo. Which is good, because sitting in a van outside the Costa Gravan embassy while Chuck tries conversation number one of the 101 is not Sarah's idea of a good time. Turrini delivers a video from Goya, who apparently is the love child of Sonny Crockett from Miami Vice (1984) and Mr. Roark from Fantasy Island (1977). As a thank you for saving his life, the Generalissimo wants to invite Devon and Ellie down to Costa Gravas. Devon thinks it may not be safe, but Sarah confirms it is...for the moment. ("We have peace...and Subway sandwich franchises.") Chuck suggests going with, as Sarah could help keep them safe, and Ellie thinks it's a great idea.
Morgan tries to help Casey (Adam Baldwin) be comfortable while he is sick, mainly because he can't surgically attach his lips to Casey's butt, but also Alex (Mekenna Melvin) came over to check on her dad, even bringing him soup. Alex and Morgan are apparently seeing each other behind Dad's back, and she is slightly more comfortable about it than he is. She departs, and Morgan has to wait five minutes at Casey's behest. (Behest meaning having him in a chokehold.)
Sarah confronts Chuck about why he wanted to go so badly, although the bikini show Yvonne was putting on made most of America not care about that. Chuck thought it would be good for them to have a couple of days off to work on their communication exercises.
SARAH: (letting her teal bikini do the talking) That's what you're excited about? Our communication exercises?
CHUCK: Well, there are many ways in which to communicate. (they kiss) Like that. (good recovery, Chuck)
The four arrive in Costa Gravas, and Goya greets Devon with a hug and Ellie with kisses to the hands...and wrists...and arms...and elbows...and dude, seriously. He introduces them to his wife, Hortencia de la Corazon Goya. And it's time to party. (Nice The Mambo Kings (1992) reference with the band.) As Chuck and Sarah negotiate some cuddling, silence, and Halo time in the relationship, Goya gives Devon a gift of appreciation: a nine-foot marble statue of him. Even Devon thinks that's awesome. Chuck, not so much, as he flashes on the men's room sign, which apparently is in the same hallway as a Soviet-era nuclear control room. Which he doesn't want to tell Sarah, but she knows what a flash looks like. He doesn't want to spy around Ellie, but Sarah is afraid it might be a threat. Given that Hortencia is quietly giving orders to the servers to move into position, apparently it is a threat. She is not happy about the country losing Socialism to Capitalism and is going to do something about it.
Sarah contacts Casey, who is more than happy to provide a lay of the land in that castle, as he hid in one of its walls for two weeks. They need a diversion to get past the guards, and Goya singing Besame Mucho to Hortencia does the trick. They get the first of two doors open, but someone is about to break down the other door. Apparently, Awesome is about to break down the door...by using Ellie.
DEVON: Babe, is a nine-foot marble me making you a bit caliente?
The babymoon is going quite well, it seems, but Sarah has to interrupt them. Unfortunately, Hortencia and their soldiers interrupt everybody with their automatic weapons. Ellie lifts her proverbial "spy ban" for Chuck, and Devon is not happy they blew his head off. (The statue's head, not his.) A group of soldiers finds them, and Chuck flashes on some kung-fu. He takes one man out, and Sarah gets another one, but the man gains the upper hand. Chuck kicks him out of there, and the two take out the remaining soldiers. Goya finds them and leads the four into the basement. He even knew Casey was hiding in the walls, but he was in Havana with Castro at the time. (Guess Sarah should have hung up the phone before he said that. They go through the weapons control room Chuck flashed on, and Sarah gets some pictures surreptitiously before they fly to Los Angeles.
As Morgan gets advice from Big Mike (Mark Christopher Lawrence) on how to proceed with Alex ("There's no arm or no leg that's worth as much as the love of a good woman."), Chuck wants to talk to Sarah about the book he is reading. Which she finds on the Buy More surveillance. The one covered in wedding rings. She freaks out about it because she doesn't want to push and change things. She just wants to be.
Goya hides in the one place he's guaranteed safety: Casey's apartment. Things have been on the outs with Goya's wife for a little while, so clearly she felt a little revolution every now and then was a healthy thing. Casey isn't taking the news well, but he's about to take the news that Costa Gravas has working nukes even less well. The missiles need two keys to operate, and Goya has one. Beckman sends Chuck and Sarah back to Costa Gravas to investigate, safe in the knowledge that even if Hortencia has the other key, it would take a traitor on Goya's personal staff to get his key to her. And sure enough, Turrini puts a gun to Goya's head. To match the one Casey already had to Turrini's head. Casey caught Turrini eyeing the key earlier, and he also knew from studying the Costan Gravan government 20 years ago that someone in Goya's own government would bring him down. Someone who had the hots for his wife. Turrini doesn't want to shoot a man in a wheelchair, so Casey is happy to stand up and pull the trigger, except there are laser sights all over his back. Casey is willing to take all of them out, but Goya isn't willing to risk the man who saved his life. He knocks Casey out with a flower plot and surrenders.
Beckman tasks Chuck, Sarah, and even Casey to return to Costa Gravas and destroy the nuclear base. Casey knows every inch of that slimehole, and they have to crawl through an actual slimehole to get to the base and place charges around it to blow it up. Hortencia is trying to make a video warning any country not to attack them, only Alejandro keeps interrupting her. She wanted Alejandro to work on the marriage, but what revolutionary leader goes to a marriage counselor? She's had enough, but Goya grabs a gun. Chuck, Sarah, and Casey hear the whole thing, and Casey thinks blowing up the room...with them there...is preferable to a nuclear strike.
CHUCK: You're crazy! We're all about to die over basically one big relationship problem?
Suddenly that book is about to come in handy. Chuck drops into the room and gets everybody to calm down, and Sarah has to follow him in. He tells Hortencia she's right about her husband as he kept undermining her during the video. But they still care about each other, because she could have shot him already. Things were good when they weren't running the country and were just having sweet jungle love, but when they moved into the palace...
SARAH: So, change ruined things?
CHUCK: Change is unavoidable. Unavoidable. Life is constantly changing. But no matter what the changes are, is the love still there?
Turrini can't take it anymore and goes to shoot everybody. But a quick Chuck flash and a well-timed Casey entrance solves that. ("FYI, lady, this guy used to watch you sleep.") Hortencia doesn't trust her second-in-command so much anymore, but she's still upset Goya changed when he moved into the palace.
SARAH: But that love doesn't have to change.
Goya admits he always loved her and promises to give her an official role in the government. ("I love it when you talk politics.")
Morgan is still in his office deciding if Alex is worth having every limb broken by Casey. When she arrives and gives him a more-than-friendly kiss, that tips the scales. He grabs her and kisses her passionately. A team is sent down to disassemble the nuclear control room, only Chuck discovers the weapons were purchased by Volkoff Industries. He grills Goya about it, who tells him it was Project Beacon. Goya never met "Frost," (aka Chuck's mom) but apparently she was a kept woman back home for Volkoff. He forwarded all of his files to the CIA, but he warned Chuck these were not people he wanted to meet. Chuck confesses to Ellie he's going to find their mother, but she is afraid that he'll find out she's the same mother who walked out on them twenty (not seventeen like the season premiere said) years ago.
CHUCK: Well, then we'll find that out too.
That night in bed, Sarah tells Chuck while he's sleeping that she loves him, nothing would ever change that, and if he ever asked her for real, the answer would be yes. Chuck heard it...and smiled.
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