- As the team tracks down a high-tech weapon in Milan during Fashion Week, Chuck discovers some issues in his relationship with Sarah. Morgan uncovers a flaw in Buy More's security, and Casey tries to acclimate himself to living in Burbank.
- MILAN
A woman (Karolina Kurkova) who looks like she just came off the runway is running from a man in a suit who has "secret agent" written all over him. She gets around a corner and fires her gun. The bullet goes back around the corner and nails the agent between the eyes. Either we're in The Matrix (1999), or we have some really cool bullets that need to be found. These are smart bullets, which use a tiny microchip to arrive at a certain point, no matter what.
The CIA needs to send their best team in. Unfortunately, their best team is having a not-so-awesome time with Devon (Ryan McPartlin) and Ellie (Sarah Lancaster). Devon, who is far more excited and scared about the impending baby than Ellie is, is rallying Chuck (Zachary Levi), Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski), and Morgan (Joshua Gomez) to help with the decisions like natural or water birth, Ergo or Baby Bjorn, Spanish, French, or Japanese as a second language. Everybody just wants Awesome to calm down. Ellie congratulates Chuck (and Morgan) for starting at the Buy More...again...the next day. But Devon thinks Chuck and Sarah should be taking notes, as they could be next. Now they REALLY want Devon to calm down. Especially since Sarah hasn't even unpacked her suitcases in Chuck's apartment: a little factoid Morgan shares with the group...and shouldn't have. Sarah asks Chuck later if he thinks it's weird, and he plays it off and assures her it isn't weird.
(next day at the Buy More)
CHUCK: It's totally weird, isn't it? I mean she won't put ONE THING in her side of the closet. It's almost like she'd rather be on a mission than back at home with me.
Morgan tells him it's their Achilles' Heel; the one thing in a relationship couples can't get past. Chuck has to keep it to himself. And he will, since Beckman (Bonita Friedericy) is sending Chuck and Sarah back to Milan to recover the smart bullets from Sofia Stepanova. Who apparently did a Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover, based on the picture Beckman had...and Chuck gawked at...and Sarah caught Chuck gawking at. Casey (Adam Baldwin) is being recused from the mission because of an incident with Yves Saint Laurent and a stiletto. (I'll assume Casey wasn't wearing the stiletto.) Chuck encourages him to get used to living in Burbank, given someone is in Burbank that will make it feel like home...like his daughter.
CASEY: Spies don't put down roots. And women have a lot of baggage. You should be happy Walker's is just a suitcase.
In Milan, they scan the party and find Stepanova. Chuck goes to reach for the purse and ends up with handful of supermodel backside instead. Stepanova is offended until Chuck points out he's with somebody. Except he points at Bronson Pinchot. No harm no foul, as far as Stepanova is concerned. Sarah? Not so much. But she observed Stepanova leave her purse at the bar. Chuck and Sarah retrieve it...only to find a bomb in it. Chuck thinks to run and throw the bomb, only he grabs the pressure-sensitive switch and renders that idea moot. Sarah has to cut the wires quickly.
CHUCK: Sarah, listen. I cannot die without letting you know I accept you for who you are, OK? You're weird unpacking thing doesn't matter to me. I still love you, OK?
She defuses the bomb. The one with the C-4. The bomb Chuck just dropped will take a lot more time and wire cutters ain't gonna help.
Morgan talks with Casey at the Buy More. He isn't happy the service is beyond efficient and everybody looks like they should be eating dinner at Koi every night. Awesome notices it as well and is suspicious Chuck decided to remain a spy. Morgan and Casey both deny it, but Greta II (Isaiah Mustafa) isn't helping the situation by firing pricetags from 30 feet away...and riding a horse backwards, and that horse is now diamonds...sorry. Morgan goes to tell Beckman, since he was afraid if customers saw how well the place ran, then more customers would come in and would start investigating that the Buy More wasn't acting like your typical appliance store, such as a drink Morgan spilled being cleaned up before he's done spilling it. ("General, if even I can see through this Buy More cover, what's an enemy spy going to think?") The little kid who wanted to grow up and work in the Buy More instead of being an astronaut convinced her.
Chuck and Sarah leave the party, where Chuck is still suffering from foot-in-mouth disease and Sarah is none too happy about it. They decide to break into Stepanova's apartment...but without the Spiderman kiss. They find the bullets in a safe in her closet...following yet more awkward comments from Chuck about unpacking. However, Stepanova and her bodyguard arrive. She goes into the bathroom, gets naked, and gets in the shower...which Chuck naturally sees and Sarah is naturally ticked off about him seeing.
CHUCK: Can you see anything?
SARAH: (beyond livid) Are you serious!?!?
CHUCK: Am I serious? What? Who do you think I am? If we can't see anything, than she can't see anything either, right?
SARAH: (quickly humbled) Oh, right. I'll get the card and you get the safe.
She goes to slip out, only the bodyguard (Lou Ferrigno) wants to confess something to her. She pretends to be Stepanova, only to find out the bodyguard is in love with her (Stepanova, not Sarah). But Sarah is so touched, she puts her hand on the bodyguard's shoulder and is sorry to knock him out, while Stepanova puts a gun to Chuck's head...while still naked. Sarah opens fire on her to escape.
SARAH: (disdainfully) Put some clothes on.
Chuck and Sarah return to Burbank, only to find out the chips inside the bullets were fake. Stepanova kept them separate from the bullets. Where? In her dress. The dress no supermodel would wear twice. Beckman sends Chuck and Sarah back to Milan while she sends Morgan out to recruit to make the Buy More a little more...like the Buy More. They track down the guys who have been on the run from the po-po for 184 days and miss Ace of Base terribly. Casey thinks is the most demeaning thing he's done, but Morgan insists the Buy More can't be too efficient to raise suspicions. Naturally, Lester (Vik Sahay) wants to negotiate a raise and good perks, but he settles for a tranq dart from Casey's gun, while Jeff (Scott Krinsky) needs six of them (although Casey fired seven times...weird) and Morgan blowing him over. ("I think my water just broke.")
Chuck and Sarah arrive for the final night of Fashion Week in disguise. Chuck takes out the guards with a custom-made tranq glove while Sarah slips into the dress (and provides us with a gratuitous lingerie shot...for which we're grateful). Except Stepanova and her lovestruck bodygurd arrive. Chuck locks her out of the room to protect her from the guards (and remembers to say I love you), but Stepanova puts a gun to Sarah's head. Chuck flashes on some moves with a coatrack bar and takes out the guards, except for Mr. Ferrigno. (he doesn't actually have a name in this) Chuck tries to start a slapfight with him and the glove (and kudos to Lou for reacting the same way), and Chuck is forced to rub the tranq glove in his face to knock him out. Sarah gets led into the dressing room, and the catfight is on! (Hard to describe in text, but it was well done on both their parts) Stepanova nails Sarah with a vertical kick and she lands on the runway. A well-timed flip on Sarah's part and she gets the upper hand, ending it with a vicious superman punch. And the crowd goes wild!
Despite Sarah ending up on the cover of a fashion magazine, Beckman considered the mission a success. And things start to get to normal. Ellie heads to the Buy More to return most of the sleep machines Devon got for her, and Devon panics. However, the old crew is back, and Morgan is managing the store, so things are back to normal...and scary. Sarah unpacks, because she has found a home. The one she made with Chuck. Casey tries to make Burbank feel more like home by calling his daughter, and Chuck is happy about being able to one day get married and have kids with Sarah.
Oops, the Achilles Heel.
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