- Chuck needs Awesome's help to protect a dictator who is targeted for assassination.
- Premier Alejandro Fulgencio Goya of Central American Coast Gravas, who survived three murder attempts by Casey, won the White House's favor by promising to announce election. So now the team must protect him while in California for life-saving heart surgery, performed awesomely by Devon. Gratefully, he insists to invite the Woodcomb couple and Chuck fro a gala ball in his consulate. This proves most dangerous for everybody, as the Ring has its own agenda.—KGF Vissers
- UCLA Medical Center, the year 2000
A cadaver (identified by his toe tag as one "Mason Wallace") lies on a slab in front of a man wearing a white lab coat.
"Let's jump right in," the man says, asking other people in white coats, whom we now understand to be his students, if one would like to help him dissect the branches of the femoral artery. Nobody jumps at the chance, so prof picks a name: Devon Woodcomb, aka Captain Awesome (Ryan McPartlin). Unfortunately, Devon is not in class at that moment, which the teacher tersely notes. "Seems Devon has more pressing concerns on his first day of medical school."
So the teacher calls another name - Eleanor Bartowski (Sarah Lancaster). Surprise, surprise -- she's also absent. "Wherever Mr. Woodcomb and Miss Bartowski are, I hope they are gaining an appreciation of the human body.
Of course we know what that means. Cut to a supply closet, where Ellie and Devon are getting it on after having just learned each other's names.
Nine Years Later....
Ellie and Awesome are unpacking, and Ellie is very annoyed Chuck (Zachary Levi) didn't show up to help them move as promised. While she fumes, Awesome is attempting to "channel his inner Chuck" and hook up their flat screen TV.
Ellie finds their wedding album, and wonders what the heck happened to them -- when did everything become so serious? When can they take a break from real life again? Awesome offers to play their wedding video and recreate their wedding night. That is, after a professional swoops in to hook up the TV. That's when Ellie hears the sound of a chopper overhead, a noise she's been hearing a lot lately. Awesome tries to play it cool, saying he didn't notice.
Later, Chuck returns to his apartment to find Awesome waiting for him in his room. He asks Chuck to tell his helicopter pilot to drop him off a bit further away, and reminds Chuck he was supposed to help them hook up the TV, saying Ellie is ticked off. Chuck apologizes, explaining he had a CIA mission. Awesome asks him what that means, and Chuck tries to brush him off with a, "You know...same old same old. Bad guy throws a fancy cocktail party. Another bad guy is trying to sell him a weapon. We bust both bad guys, defuse a bomb, blah blah blah."
Devon tells him that sounds kickass, and advises him to leave on his body armor when he goes over to install the TV. That's how angry Ellie is.
Over at the Awesomes, Chuck gets the TV to work, earning Ellie's forgiveness. He turns on the news, on which the top story is the collapse of a dictator named Goya (Armand Assante)...who naturally causes Chuck to flash. Once he recovers, he gets a text to head to Castle. Interestingly enough, at the very same moment Devon receives a text to report to the ER.
At Castle, General Beckman (Bonita Friedericy) orders the team to guard Premier Goya at the hospital where he's being treated: Westside Medical, Devon's hospital. The General explains although the Costa Gravan dictator was horrifically ruthless in the past, he has vowed to open his country to democracy and as such, wants to ally with the U.S. Chuck's mission, besides guarding the Premier, is to secure his medical records using Ellie and Devon's access and find out what happened to him.
"If anything happens to the Premier, I'm holding you responsible," The General tells chuck. Which is funny, because that's precisely what the armed thugs surrounding the Premier say to his attending physician, Dr. Awesome. Oh dear.
Hours after being admitted to the hospital, the news breaks. The Premier has been released, and Awesome assures the media he is going to recover smoothly. Later, Chuck corners Awesome at home to question him, and Awesome shares he didn't really have a heart attack, but his potassium levels were off the charts. He was poisoned. He thanks Awesome and moves to depart, but Awesome has a request.
"I need some real action, some real adrenaline. I want to feel like I felt out on the football field, dude!" Chuck reminds his brother-in-law, the cardiologist and an adventure sports junkie, Ellie would kill him if he ever took Awesome on any missions with him, and bids him goodnight. This can only mean one thing: One Awesome Chuck buddy action episode coming right up!
But first, Chuck, Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) and Casey (Adam Baldwin) are assigned to guard the Premier at an event at the Costa Gravan consulate. Since the consultate is technically sovereign soil, the CIA cannot officially be there, so the trio will have to go undercover yet again. Only this time it'll have to be a duo: Casey must recuse himself. Not only did he have orders to assasinate Goya in the past, it seems he's a wanted man, having spilled a great deal of blood in what he calls the country's "Mickey Mouse revolution." Chuck and Sarah laugh him off, but he assures him the government would want him dead. His nickname, after all, was El Angel de la Muerte, the Angel of Death.
Chuck assures Casey the Premier probably doesn't even remember him. No sooner does he finish that thought does a crowd of Costa Gravan soldiers swarm the apartment's courtyard. Casey grabs his guns, telling Chuck and Sarah to prepare to cover him, but Chuck gets him to stand down when he realizes the soldiers are not trying to find Casey. They're trying to get Awesome.
Ellie is napping while Awesome spins away on his stationary bike when the soldiers knock on their door. Awesome answers it, coming face to face with the Premier himself. The leader asks Devon if he knows exactly what he's done, and a slightly frightened Devon answers no.
The Premier pauses dramatically and says, "You saved my life." He laughs and hugs Devon, asking how he can repay him. Ellie joins him at the door, and the Premier says he owes Devon his life. He hands Devon and Ellie an invitation to the evening's gala at the Costa Gravan consulate, which floors them. Chuck decides to run out at that moment, playing his bumbling brother card. After Ellie explains Chuck is her brother, the Premier invites him too. And...the team is in.
At the event, Awesome and Ellie are wowed by the romance of it all, while Sarah and Chuck keep an eye out for any potential assassins as Casey monitors them from a surveillance van outside. A curious Awesome finds Chuck standing at the bar and asks what the mission is, but Chuck does his best to shoo him away, telling him the best thing he can do is keep an eye on Ellie and ensure that she remains out of harm's way. Awesome accepts the assignment and turns to see his wife...being charmed by the Premier himself, who tells her he can't take his eyes off of her and insists she stay by his side all night. Neither Chuck nor Awesome is amused.
Awesome wants to step in and get Ellie out of the way of any potential assassin's bullet, but Chuck holds him back, telling Awesome to let a pro do the job. On cue, Sarah steps up to save Ellie from the Premier, explaining she needs to borrow her for some "girl talk." They adjourn to a table. In separate convos, Ellie and Awesome ask Sarah and Chuck if they still have feelings for each other. Sarah insists they're still friends, but Ellie doesn't buy it. Neither does Awesome, who wonders how Chuck can fake being in love with Sarah for three years and not fall for her.
But just as Casey reminds the two of them their mission is to protect the Premier, not act out a scene from a Judy Blume novel, the Premier interrupts the gathering to make a speech (and make himself the perfect target). He goes on about the night being a special meeting of two great nations, the U.S. and Costa Gravas, and to symbolize the new partnership initiates a dance...with Mrs. Woodcomb. He pulls Ellie out onto the dance floor and as the music starts, snares her in a dance passionate enough to make her uncomfortable. Other couples soon join them, but not Chuck and Sarah, to whom Casey has just texted a photo of a possible assassin, a guy who got onto the guest list using a name from a stolen passport.
A scan of the room reveals their man on the periphery of the dance floor, and the pair realizes they have to get closer to the Premier. But how? Neither of them have any dance moves...until Chuck flashes. Working his rumba shaker, Chuck draws Sarah onto the floor as they hoof their way closer to Goya and Ellie. Awesome, meanwhile, is getting increasingly perturbed at the scene.
The suspect approaches the dancefloor, right behind Chuck, who nails him in the face with an elbow and knocks him down. Chuck and Sarah search the man but the only weapon he's holding is a rotten egg, and an anti-Goya t-shirt under his tux marks him as a political protester. But before they can recover from the mistake, Goya's guards 86 them, thinking they're drunk. As they're escorted away, Chuck passes a guard who causes him to flash -- the real assassin, and a poisons expert! Chuck and Sarah warn Casey. He'll have to go in and protect the Premier.
Casey dons a fake moustache and a guard's outfit and waltzes into the room, just in time see the assassin making his move with a syringe. Unfortunately, Awesome sees the disguised Casey moving in on the Premier with his gun drawn...and dashes out to stop him with a tackle. Casey's moustache flies off. Goya's right hand man recognizes him -- it's El Angel de la Muerte! Awesome recognizes him -- it's Casey! In total, it's a mess. Casey is escorted away before Ellie sees him, and the assassin, having missed another chance, slinks off undetected. Goya thanks Awesome for saving his life yet again.
Back at Castle, Chuck and Sarah beg the General to send in black ops to retrieve Casey, who is no doubt in mortal peril at the hands of the Costa Gravans. But that's a negative -- the U.S. can't afford to risk the burgeoning relationship they have with Costa Gravas. Casey will just have to handle it himself until the problem can be solved diplomatically.
Somewhere inside the consulate, Casey is restrained in a chair. Goya is not happy to see him, and enumerates the number of attempts Casey has made on his life. Casey explains to Goya he's there to protect him, but Goya doesn't buy it. He has one of the guards jam a gag into Casey's mouth and calls to another. In response, a man arrives carrying a tray with a cigar. It's the assassin, who injects it with a substance behind Goya's back before presenting it to him. Casey tries to warn Goya by grunting, but the Generalissimo doesn't get it. So, Casey kicks the cigar out of his mouth. That pretty much signs his death warrant. The General picks up the cigar, lights it again and takes a puff. Before he can officially condemn Casey to death, he collapses. The assassin smiles at Casey.
Back at Casa Awesome, Ellie and Devon are trying to keep the romance going when Awesome's phone rings. It's a text from the consulate, saying he's needed. Devon asks her to hold the thought and heads out, running into Chuck in the courtyard. He tells Chuck he wants to make things right and get Casey back, assuring Chuck he can get him and Sarah inside when he goes to treat the Premier. Cut to Sarah and Chuck, in disguise. While Chuck is a doctor, Sarah is one sexy nurse. They flank Devon as he enters the consulate through the front gate.
In the basement, the assassin confronts Casey and removes his gag. Casey asks the guy who he works for (Professional courtesy, you understand) and the man replies he works for an organization called The Ring, which wants Costa Gravas to maintain the dictatorship. He pulls out a syringe and tells Casey it contains enough poison to take out an army platoon. "Good thing I'm a Marine," Casey replies, before headbutting him in the nose.
Elsewhere, Awesome busies himself with trying to save the Premier while Chuck allows Sarah to dispatch the guards. In the basement, Casey breaks out from his chair by smashing it and defends himself from the killer, who manages to stick the needle into Casey's thigh but fails to depress the plunger before Casey knocks him out. Casey removes the syringe, only to be shot in the leg by another Costa Gravan guard horrified to see El Angel de la Muerte. Sarah sneaks up from behind and takes out the guard, escorting Casey upstairs.
They head back to Awesome so the team can make its getaway, but Awesome refuses to abandon his patient. The rest of the Costa Gravan cavalry arrives, ready to take out the team although Chuck protests they're actually trying to protect the Premier. Casey explains the real killer is knocked out in his cell, but the officer in charge says them with a sneer Casey's cell is empty. Casey, losing blood, collapses and Chuck asks for mercy; clearly Casey is dying. The head guard informs Chuck if he really wants to save Casey, he'll do it now -- as his doctor.
Awesome warns them not to cut the femoral artery. But the guard shushes Awesome -- if Chuck's a doctor, he says, he'll know what to do. Chuck freezes up, and the soldier draws his pistol. Sarah tells Chuck to stay calm, and he does...and flashes. Suddenly he's an ace field surgeon. He removes the bullet from Casey lickety-split, and the soldier puts his gun away. At that moment, the Premier flatlines. Devon reminds the guards there's nothing he can do for Goya there, short of giving him a blood transfusion, and nobody knows his blood type. Except, for Casey (apparently you learn a lot about a man when you're studying him for assassination). Goya's type is AB negative. Casey also informs us his favorite movie is "Terms of Endearment," and he showers after lovemaking. Which is nice and all, but far less important than the fact the only other person in the room whose blood type is AB negative is...Casey. Chuck discovers this by looking at Casey's dogtags. Casey assures Chuck he'll kill him if he takes one drop of blood from his body, but Chuck quickly grabs an anesthesia mask and slips it over Casey's nose and mouth to knock him out.
Casey comes to in Castle, just in time for a debrief. General Beckman praises them, telling the team the Premier made a full recovery and was able to make the intended announcement that democratic elections will go on as planned. She adds one of that would be possible if not for Casey's extraordinary sacrifice.
At first, Casey doesn't remember what she talking about, but starts to recall as he stares at Chuck. "You stole my blood. You stole my blood and you put it in a stinking Commie despot!"
Former stinking Commie despot, Chuck corrects him. The General informs Casey the Premier wanted to thank him personally but since he couldn't... Sarah places a box of cigars in Casey's lap. Costa Gravan pre-revolutionary Coronas! The Premier includes a note thanking Casey, saying he'll never forget the blood of an American patriot flows through his veins. He calls Casey "the Angel of Life." Casey sneers, then samples one of his cigars.
At Sarah's fro-yo shop later, Awesome finds Chuck and informs him he's had enough espionage excitement. He says having a double life means having to give up half of his real life, and that's not how he wants to live. He leaves just as Sarah enters and tells Chuck that Awesome would have made a great spy. Chuck then asks Sarah what she thinks their cover should be, moving forward. Sarah tells him they should keep it simple and just say they're friends. Chuck agrees, and they shake on it...looking sadly at the grasp.
Elsewhere, Ellie calls Devon, who is back at the hospital, and says she has a surprise for him at home. He assures her he'll be right there after his shift, and he owes her a dance. They exchange I love yous, and hang up just as Devon enters an examination room...to find the assassin, brandishing a full syringe.
Cut to Chuck's apartment: He opens the door to see Sarah standing there, looking concerned. She whispers something about Devon into Chuck's ear, and his face falls. As Sarah hugs a devastated Chuck, Ellie emerges from her apartment, asking them if they've seen her husband.
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