- Chuck and Sarah infiltrate an unusual cult to find the designer of a computer virus. The Buy More gets a new employee.
- Casey (Adam Baldwin) is incarcerated, but Chuck (Zachary Levi) and Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) have a plan for him to escape. Chuck tried to palm the blueprints to Casey, but he refused. Chuck was mad, mainly because it's very difficult to shrink plans down to that size on a copier at Kinko's. (The name FedEx Office never really caught on, did it.) Casey is aware Decker has plans for him inside, so he wants Chuck and Sarah to figure out what those are while he avoids all of the scumbags locked up with him...like Lester. Lester (Vik Sahay) isn't getting out soon, because all Jeff (Scott Krinsky) asked him to do was promise not to poison him anymore to get the charges dropped, which Lester refused. Casey's problems were already beginning, as a few of his old friends wanted to start in early on him. Fortunately, a guard pulls him out into a storage closet. One Gertrude Verbanski (Carrie-Anne Moss), whom Casey asked to protect Team Carmichael while he was on the inside. Verbanski wasn't much for taking orders from "Ward and June Cleaver," but she was willing to show Casey some of the good things about prison, such as conjugal visits.
As Chuck and Sarah leave, they run into Decker (Richard Burgi). Run into being defined as getting tranqued and thrown into a van. Decker has a deal for them: find a hacker who wrote a virus that could elmininate zetabytes of data from computer systems in mere seconds. In exchange, Casey would be a free man. If they didn't, Casey would not have the most pleasant time in prison. Chuck isn't happy about having to be in bed with Decker, but Chuck is a great hacker. In fact, 's character from was based on him according to Morgan. He even had a bottle of Chardonnay as he got to work. Thankfully, they avoided the car chases and 's mugging for the camera and found the person responsible for the virus, a Colin Davis (). Morgan (Joshua Gomez) advises Sarah to make sure he eats, since Chuck calls the chardonnay his "thinking juice" when he gets on a hacking bender. That's about the time Verbanski drops in and insists they'll need a sniper on their mission, since Davis appeared to be holed out in some sort of private military compound with high security. Ward and June aren't thrilled about it, but Verbanski assured them she wanted Casey out of prison as much as them...obviously for different reasons.
As Casey adjusts to prison (and Lester wants a 12-gauge for some reason...can't be a shotgun), Chuck, Sarah, and Verbanski make it to the military compound...only it's not much in the way of military, unless clothes aren't standard issue and fuzzy censorship boxes are. It appears to be some sort of clothing-optional cult where they're getting some exercise. Sarah thinks Chuck's and her best bet is to infiltrate. Yes, the clothes are coming off. Thankfully for them (and annoying budget cuts), the leader of the cult () welcomes them to the Church of the Eternal Wind and gives them some robes...and tells the security guy behind the hidden camera to figure out who they are.
Chuck and Sarah find Davis leading a drum circle, mostly free-form, and Verbanski wants them to trash the Phish concert and get the pendant around Davis' neck, which looked suspiciously like a flash drive. Davis was reticent about letting Chuck to see it (cult rules forbade removing a pendant), but that didn't matter much since security found Chuck and Sarah's clothes and security was on them. Verbanski opens fire to take out the guards and everybody scatters, including Davis. Chuck gives chase while Sarah takes care of the rest of the security and the cult leader. Unfortunately, Davis is paranoid about the drive and swallows it. Chuck tries to Heimlich him, but thankfully a tranq dart by Verbanski settled the argument. They pick up Davis and take him out of the compound. (CHUCK: Guys, could we find him some pants?)
In prison, one of the inmates wanted Casey's decision on joining his group. Casey refused and found himself on the "one" side of a twenty-to-one fight. They eventually subdue him, only to be stopped by...Lester! He warns the leader to step back before his nights got really, really long. Lester saw , so he knew what he had to do. (CASEY: You know that's a women's prison film, right?) But Lester insisted if any of them got out of line, he would "pull their plugs." Yes, Lester got in good with the guys by hooking them up with cable and Internet access. It was 12-gauge electrical wire he ordered, so installations were a snap.
In Castle, Davis was paranoid the virus would get out. He's afraid of handing it to anybody. It was why he joined that cult in the first place. He tried to get as far away from his former life as a techno-terrorist but he conceded he would never get away from that, which struck a chord with Chuck. Unfortunately, there was a snag as always. Davis swallowed the virus program but someone would need the distribution program to upload the virus onto any computer and create a technical Armageddon. The distribution program was still locked up at the compound under heavy guard. The best Davis could offer was some schematics of the building. None of this is sitting well with Verbanski, and Sarah asks her about it. Verbanski doesn't want to talk, but it's too obvious it's about Casey. Sarah tries to tell her she can admit her feelings and still be a good spy, but Verbanski doesn't want to end up like "Mr. & Mrs. Hospitality" in Castle.
At the Buy More, Morgan has come up with a plan to convince Lester to leave prison. He hooks up with him through videochat and shows Lester his replacement. A kid straight out of Greendale Community College. Vali Chandresekaren (fellow Notre Dame HS alum ) introduces himself to Lester, who wonders where he's from.
VALI: Look at my face. Can't you tell I'm from Montreal, like all true Hinjews?
LESTER: Oh, no you did not.
JEFF: You should hear this guy's singing voice. It's like an angel.
Vali thinks he has the perfect voice to compliment Jeff's keytar, and Lester cracked. Of course, it was a ploy by Morgan, who hired Vali from an acting agency in exchange for an iPad. (VALI: Is this just wi-fi?) For an iPad 2.
In Castle, Verbanski was kind enough to get Davis the popcorn-flavored jellybeans he requested. Only they tasted a little funny. They were designed to make him throw up. And now Verbanski has a slightly-used USB drive. They head to the building where the distribution program was being held. Chuck posed as an unemployed hacker and entered the building, which was full of hackers. The Collective, as Davis described, was a room full of highly-skilled hackers, although it looked more like room full of extras from . Chuck had to audition by beating their best hacker at hacking into the Federal Reserve and transferring a penny into a secured account, so he breaks out the Chardonnay. Meanwhile, Sarah and Verbanski break into the surveillance room and subdue the guards. Of course, Chuck's job was to bypass the security in the building to allow Sarah and Verbanski to get in and access the servers.
SARAH: Servers are in here somewhere. Can we pull up the schematics? Verbanski?
VERBANSKI: OK, fine! I'm in love with Casey. Stop grilling me!
Verbanski admits she doesn't want to give up the spy life, settle down, have kids, and she's afraid Casey might want that. Sarah assures her they just have to communicate. They pause to take out two more guards, and Verbanski tells Sarah that she never did any other job since she was sixteen and wouldn't know what to do with herself if she left the spy life. She takes out another guard and asks Sarah if she could do it. Sarah takes out one last guard and finds the server with the device. She signals Chuck, who "lost" the competition. But the gloating Chuck thinks the Collective needs to find better security and takes out the lights. His hacker competition, who designed the system by the way, gets the lights back on, only to find no Chuck anywhere. Sarah and Verbanski lay down some cover fire for him. (CHUCK: I don't think I got the job.)
Lester was returning to work the next day after a talk with Jeff, but Jeff also wanted Morgan to talk to someone. Morgan told him he sympathized a bit with what Lester did, given he did some bad things recently. Jeff thinks he needs to right that wrong...with Casey. (MORGAN: I know, dude. I'm not brain damaged. Oh, sorry. Was that too soon?) Meanwhile, Chuck and Sarah wait for Decker. Chuck confesses he's more a computer person than a spy, and perhaps they'd do better as a tech firm instead of a spy company. Sarah was concerned about what she'd do for the company. Chuck didn't have time to answer as Decker showed up. Chuck hands Decker the virus, which was the excuse Decker needed to frame Chuck for cyber-terrorism. He had footage of Chuck in possession of the virus. Decker will release the virus and make sure Chuck takes the blame for it. If that wasn't bad enough, Decker loaded that prison with enough of Casey's enemies where he wouldn't survive. That was enough for Verbanski, who hid while Decker talked. She was ready to kill him, but he thinks she's already too late.
DECKER: I suggest you get yourself a good head start. Because they'll be hunting for Chuck the way they hunted for Bin Laden.
Chuck and Sarah tell Verbanski to walk away, which she does. Only she had a little something extra: the computer virus. But not to worry: she left a little something for Decker. An explosive device.
VERBANSKI: He deserved that.
Chuck and Sarah wonder about Decker's plan to frame them and were determined to find out. Meanwhile, Verbanski tells Casey in prison the truth about Decker, how he tried to frame Chuck and Sarah and keep him in prison. She had to disappear, but first she wanted to break him out of prison. But she wasn't doing it alone. Someone who really cared about Casey came to help: Morgan.
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