- Casey's patience is tried when he has to train Morgan to be an agent, while Chuck and Sarah learn from a successful but splintered married team of spies.
- The general orders Chuck and Sara to learn operating as a (fake) couple from 'the best in the business', Craig and Laura Turner. During their mission, stealing back vital software from fancy party host Otto Van Vogel, Chuck soon finds his 'models' a poor couple and no longer very effective. Otto's security isn't limited to goons and technology. Casey meanwhile has to complete Grimes's training alone, or join him back in boot-camp.—KGF Vissers
- This is my boss, Charles Bartowski (Zachary Levi). A computer repairman with all the government's secrets in his head. This is his girl, Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strahovski). A CIA agent with more than just killer looks. And when these two spies first met, it was love at first fight. That's where I come in. I'm Morgan. It's my job to keep an eye on the both of them...which isn't always easy.
Sound familiar? Yes, Morgan (Joshua Gomez) is having a dream that Chuck and Sarah assumed the Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers roles from Hart to Hart (1979). (Now if only they could assume the Judge Reinhold and Phoebe Cates roles from Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982).) Morgan goes to talk to Chuck about his dream...only he finds Sarah instead sporting the latest from the Victoria's Secret catalogue. He's trying to play it cool, good luck on that. He's even more upset the next morning to see Chuck with the I-got-some-last-night grin, since Morgan...isn't. To add to his bad day, Chuck wants to ask "the leggy Valkyrie with an aversion to clothing" (Morgan's phrase) to move in with him, which she declines, since she loves how things are going and doesn't want to rock the boat just yet. Chuck, however, would like to discuss the hidden guns in the couch.
Their new mission, since they insist on being a couple, is to learn from the CIA's best married couple: Craig and Laura Turner (Fred Willard and Swoosie Kurtz). They have a long list of major accomplishments and have been married for the last 30 years. "More or less," according to Beckman (Bonita Friedericy). Unfortunately, Casey (Adam Baldwin) isn't getting out of an annoying mission that easily. His job is to make Morgan field ready.
BECKMAN: He's a diamond in the rough. Very, very rough. But I'm sure you'll make him...sparkle.
Perhaps they need to make the courtyard sparkle. The Turners think it's a dump. And the first meeting is...well...
CRAIG TURNER: My God, that's us 30 years ago.
CHUCK: Sarah, that's us in 30 years.
It is true the Turners have been married for 30 years...if you add up all their marriages. However, a Russian double-agent was not exactly the best way to keep the embers going. And boring the new spy couple about the type of cherry you should use in a Manhattan doesn't help, either. The Turners have to go, mainly because they have a mission for tonight. Otto Von Vogel has a party tonight to meet potential buyers for decryption software that could render CIA computer security useless. The Turners must obtain the software. Chuck and Sarah's job? Watch and learn. Chuck is excited. Sarah, not so much.
While Casey informs Morgan they'll use the Buy More to train him (and hopefully show Morgan how to do that thing with the neck which renders someone incapacitated), Chuck, Sarah, Craig, and Laura make it to Vogel's. Sarah doesn't seem all that impressed with the Turners, until they're able to stop Vogel from questioning them. But it is short-lived. Laura is hitting the bottle because Craig is hitting on a twenty-something at the party. Sarah wants to know if the mission is still on, and Laura is determined to carry on. And immediately trips and falls. Followed by Craig throwing out his back trying to pick her up off the floor. And a very heated argument about him wrecking it in the first place in the line of duty. ("It was a Havana hooker!") Chuck and Sarah have had enough and proceed on the mission without them.
Morgan's first assignment from Casey? Make use of the three skills a spy needs: subversion, stealth, and strength. Casey wants Morgan to get the phone number of a super-hot customer. Morgan goes in (kudos on the Barry White music), and Casey is actually surprised Morgan was successful. That is, if the phrase "you disgust me" written on Morgan's business card counted.
In the master bedroom, Chuck starts sneezing and knows there is a cat around. There's also a whip. Yes, you know where this is going. Clearly Otto Von Vogel really misses Siegfried and Roy. Naturally, in order to get the software, Chuck will have to get it off the tiger's collar. Fortunately, Chuck figured out the tiger wanted to sleep on the bed. How? The tiger was making the same sound Big Mike makes after downing a baker's dozen of pastries. The same Big Mike (Mark Christopher Lawrence) who is sleeping in his office and will be the victim of Morgan's next spy test: stealing Big Mike's keycard from around his neck. Chuck is successful, in spite of waking the tiger back up with his sneezing. Morgan, not so much.
As Devon (Ryan McPartlin) and Ellie (Sarah Lancaster) get used to being in the Congo for Doctors Without Borders (and you gotta give credit to Devon for being at his most awesome in calming down the still-citified Ellie), Chuck and Sarah make it out of Von Vogel's house...and run right into Craig and Laura's gun. They were playing our favorite spy couple the whole time, making them risk life and limb to get the software. They take the software, and Chuck and Sarah are ticked. General Beckman is even more upset. Beckman orders them to find the Turners. And Casey has to make Morgan field ready or both of them will have to go through boot camp in Pendleton.
Chuck is beside himself back in the apartment...and cleaning dishes, because that's how Bartowskis deal with stress...because he thought Sarah and he could be the perfect spy couple by emulating the Turners and they drop dime on them. Sarah calms him down and figures out where they might be: the Ambassador Hotel, where Craig Turner can get his perfect Manhattan with the right kind of cherries.
SARAH: They picked the wrong couple to stab in the back. (takes her gun out) This is how I handle stress.
Ellie tries to call Chuck and talk to him. Ellie is not handling it as well as "Dr. Super Fantastic White Person," but the clinic's security officer, Justin (Scott Holroyd), lends her an ear, He tells her she's doing great and to give it some time.
Sarah's plan to get even with the Turners: send a Manhattan to their room and sneak in through the balcony. Chuck and Sarah get the drop on them, and the Turners' first thoughts are to turn on each other in a marital fight Dr. Phil wouldn't touch. Laura accused Craig of hatching the plan and Craig accused Laura of being the one to sell the software on the black market.
CHUCK: You know, it's one thing to betray your agency. It's another to betray your partner. You were supposed to come here and teach us. Teach us how to become a great spy couple.
CRAIG: Check back with me in 30 years, Charles. The CIA has a way of breaking young idealists. Especially if they're in love.
Unfortunately, the U.S. Marshals didn't make it. Otto arrived, with his pussycat. Chuck is too scared to flash, and Sarah actually listened to him when he said not to have guns in the apartment. Chuck tries to play dumb about knowing Otto while the tiger inspects the apartment, presumably looking for her collar. The Turners escape, and Otto is about to make it the last time Chuck and Sarah get betrayed by them...or anybody else, for that matter. However, the Turners come back and offer to exchange themselves for Chuck and Sarah.
CRAIG: We're showing you we're not traitors, Charles.
But what about Sasha? She has escaped into the courtyard, where Casey and Morgan just happen to be following Morgan's disastrous night on the shooting range. Casey advises to not make eye contact and act big if she charges. ("Easy for you to say.") But Morgan realizes nobody would care much if he died tomorrow, so he decides to do one big one for his country by luring the tiger into Ellie and Awesome's empty apartment. ("Semper fi-dizzle!") A loud roar by Sasha distracts Otto and his muscle long enough for Chuck to flash and for our new spy couple to kick some ass. Laura points the gun at Chuck and Sarah to get away, but they show some heart by lowering their guns and not shoot them. Craig is moved and convinces Laura to lower her gun and give up.
Back in Castle, Sarah covers for the Turners by saying they did a triple-cross in order to lure Otto to justice. The Turners decide to retire. Beckman won't allow it, but the CIA already has the best of the best: Chuck and Sarah.
At the Buy More, Casey shows some sympathy to Morgan and passes him.
CASEY: You've got to be hands-down bar-none the worst candidate I've ever trained. But you've got one thing going for you: you've got balls. How many Marines would go up against a Bengal tiger unarmed?
Morgan is happy, but Chuck isn't, because Morgan turned Devon and Ellie's place into a litter box. Sasha wasn't housetrained, apparently. Chuck and Morgan will fix their apartment, while Sarah fixes Chuck's...and her...apartment. She agrees to move in with him. She was afraid because she didn't know how to live a normal life. But Chuck admits they will never have a normal life, and he's happy about that.
In the Congo, Ellie is starting to get used to the great work Devon and she are doing. But a mosquito bite from earlier has put Devon in bad shape. Justin sends them home right away. Mainly because he's with The Ring and gave Devon a disease to carry back to Burbank.
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