- Now the head of his own spy agency, Chuck takes on a slick thief and an investor who has stolen money from dangerous criminals. Morgan aids Chuck in planning a surprise for Sarah. Jeff and Lester launch their latest scheme at the Buy More.
- A sharp-suited Chuck (Zachary Levi) looks over the ocean and is joined by an equally well-dressed Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski). They contemplate getting a house like the one they're at for themselves...once they get away from the guys with the guns. Jean-Claude () wants his men to throw them over the balcony onto the rocks so they don't get blood on the pool deck. Chuck claims they have someone infiltrating Jean-Claude's mansion right now...except Casey got caught. (CASEY: I want it noted that I took out 6 of their guys.) And now Jean-Claude wants to kill all three for attemting to steal his vase. Fortunately, they have another master spy, whom Sarah surreptitiously signals with her bracelet.
MORGAN: (to himself) Get in there and be a man. No, be MORE than a man! Well, start with the man part first.
Morgan (Joshua Gomez) makes it into the mansion...through the fountain and over the wall. Jean-Claude is somewhat less than impressed...until Morgan flashes with his new Intersect and starts taking out Jean-Claude's men. Sarah and Casey (Adam Baldwin) take out the others.
JEAN-CLAUDE: Who are you people?
CHUCK: Charles Carmichael of Carmichael Industries. (Morgan breaks the vase.) We're still working out the kinks. (punches him out)
Back at Carmichael Industries, the vase wasn't what the client needed: the microchip in it was. Unfortunately, the broken vase was the $6 million payday Carmichael Industries needed. They blew through the vast majority of the $877 million on startup costs. (Morgan insisted on fresh shrimp on the company jet.) Casey is none too happy, but Sarah tells Chuck he is doing a good job. Except she notices Chuck secretly signaling Morgan. It turns out Jean-Claude's house was also a "open house" for Chuck trying to find a dream house for Sarah. Only she prefers her toes in the sand instead of overlooking a bluff. So Operation View From The Bluff becomes Operation Toes In The Sand. Morgan thinks it's a better acronym.
CHUCK: Better acronym? T...i...t...why don't we just call it Operation Toes.
Morgan apologizes for breaking the vase, but Chuck is confident they can wine and dine their next client and get a good payday. Plus, they still had the Buy More. Except everything seemed to quiet. Sure enough, once they left the "Save Jeff Barnes" banner goes up.
A lawyer wants Carmichael Industries to break into a computer vault belonging to a Roger Bale (), who bilked over $500 million in a Ponzi scheme from a litany of clients, including him. Despite Bale stealing from teachers' unions and families, Casey isn't up for taking the job for less than 50% of the take...until he hears Roger Bale stole $2 million from Rush Limbaugh.
CASEY: (determined) Tell me everything you know about this animal.
Chuck and Morgan scout Bale and decide they might be able to hack his Blackberry to get an invite. He was throwing a party at his house where the vault was, but they weren't sure how to get close to him...until Morgan zooms on Bale's gym bag and finds a squash club in the Intersect. (Morgan calls it a zoom...since "flash" was Chuck's deal).
Chuck feels a bit down about not having the Intersect and confirms with Ellie (Sarah Lancaster) there was only one upload left in the Intersect glasses. Chuck thought he couldn't run the new business without it, and Ellie tells him what Morgan tried to tell him: the Intersect didn't make him a hero, "it just gave him the opportunity to become one."
Chuck sets up the plan: Morgan takes out Bale's opponent at squash while Chuck plays with the guy and gets to know him, giving enough time for Casey to steal the PDA and upload a program to email an invite. Only Casey wonders how many non-videogame sports Chuck has actually played. Sarah errs on the side of practicality, and Morgan poses as Bale's opponent. Chuck has to distract the real opponent...by giving him a massage. Sure enough, Mr. Burnham is bigger than Casey, Chuck, and Morgan combined, and he likes it deep and hard. The massage! What do you think he meant?!? Unfortunately for the team (or fortunately for Chuck) Sarah tells Chuck that Casey was caught with Bale's phone. Chuck pulls out a tranq gun to put Burnham to sleep, but all of the oil he used on the massage made that pretty much a futile gesture. Not to mention Bale told Morgan about Chip "Killer" Burnham, who killed 9 men in the Foreign Legion. The same "Killer" who laughed at Chuck shooting nine tranq bullets into him and put him in the mother of all bear hugs. Chuck squirted out some of the oil on the floor to make Burnham fall and ran for the door, only to be too oiled up to open it. Fortunately, the guard Casey caught was an old friend of his who let him go. Therefore, he had time to go help Chuck. Meanwhile, Morgan successfully makes the date to invest with Bale at the party with Sarah posing as Morgan's wife.
CASEY: Thank God for the Intersect, huh?
Back at Castle, Chuck tried to hide his depression about not having the Intersect, but Morgan wasn't having it. He tried to cheer up his buddy with the plan for Toes In The Sand (even had a binder with the acronym on it). However, Sarah showed up and put the kibosh on the meeting. As Morgan was the worst ever at a poker face, Sarah was quite suspicious. However, Chuck wouldn't budge, and the Buy More had a bigger problem. A beat-up Jeff (Scott Krinsky) made his way through the store in a wheelchair trying to collect money from everybody. According to Lester (Vik Sahay), he was trampled during the midnight sale of the talking Justin Bieber doll. (by a bunch of middle-aged secretaries) Of course, Chuck and Morgan just had to wait for him to get out of the chair and ascend a ladder to figure out his ruse.
Back at home, Chuck figured Sarah would try to break him, so Morgan takes the T.I.T.S. binder and tells Chuck to be strong. Of course, one scantily-clad Sarah is all it takes for Chuck to spill his secret about the plans to buy her a dream home. She looks through the photos and confessed what she really wanted: what she pictured as a little girl while her father went on all of those cons. She wanted a house with a white picket fence and a red door, just like the houses she saw on TV. Cozy, homey, and simple. Chuck promises to get her that home.
At Roger Bale's place, Chuck is in the van (ironic, right?) while Sarah and Morgan go to the party with Casey disguised as their manservant (was supposed to be accountant but Morgan was improvising). Casey slips away and uses a pair of thermal glasses to find the heat coming from the computer vault's servers. He needs a keycard, which Sarah has to get. Fortunately for her, Bale decides to play grab-ass, so he's close enough where she can slip it out of his coat. Unfortunately, Morgan's ready to go Intersect on the scumbag for doing it. In the van, Chuck tells him to think about baseball to calm him.
MORGAN: Why baseball? I mean, come on. It is SO boring. Just pitch the damn ball already! (N.B. This episode aired opposite Game 7 of the 2011 World Series when the series was pushed back a night due to weather. Unintentional irony.)
Morgan's rant about baseball worked. Casey went to the vault, and it was time for Morgan and Sarah to create a distraction. A little Intersect lesson on the tango, and the crowd goes wild. Casey gets into the vault, and Chuck starts downloading the account info. Only Clyde Decker (Richard Burgi) overrides their computers and freezes all of Bale's accounts, setting off the alarms in the building and capturing Sarah, Casey, and Morgan in the process. (DECKER: Payback's a bitch, Charlie.)
Bale threatens to kill everybody, but Sarah insisted they had a master spy working for them who always had a plan. (CHUCK: No plan, no plan, I have no plans.) But then Bale orders someone to call I.T. for help. And now Chuck has a plan. He visits in full Nerd Herd attire and fixes their system. Only Bale orders his men to kill him. Chuck grabs a boatload of network cable and threatens to pull the plugs unless he releases Sarah, Casey, and Morgan.
CHUCK: I pull these wires, and your firewall goes down. And the CIA is inside of you within seconds...your computer. I mean your computer.
Bale's guards let Sarah, Casey, and a knocked-out Morgan go, but Sarah refuses to leave without Chuck. (CHUCK: Sarah, I'm sorry. I wanted to buy you that dream house and give you the life you wanted, but more than that I want you to live.) Casey takes them to the van, but it turns out Chuck didn't want them to leave him behind. He had a plan and left a video of it in the van. Morgan cut power to the building, enabling Chuck to pull the wires and run. Casey drove the van over to the east side of the building per Chuck's directions and lined it up with the window Chuck jumped out of. (He told Sarah he loved her first, just in case it didn't work.)
Back in Castle, the team discovers Decker froze their accounts, the one they used to give Bale some money to invest and get in his good graces. Now they were out of money entirely. Chuck is ready to give up, but Sarah reassures him they'll bounce back. He isn't so sure as he looks over the house he found...exactly like Sarah wanted. Only he was one day late for buying it. But they still had the Buy More to make money for them. But Chuck didn't know what his role was, as Morgan was the Intersect and Sarah and Casey were super spies.
SARAH: Chuck, you're our leader.
A leader who was under surveillance by Clyde Decker. And thanks to his superiors' interference, their plan was under way.
DECKER: It's final chapter time.
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