Chuck vs. The Seduction
October 8th 2008 06:58
Chuck and Casey walk up to work as Chuck forlornly complains about how this was supposed to be the first day of his new non-spying life. Casey tells him to get used to working at the Buy More because it doesn’t look like his life as The Intersect is going to be over anytime soon. As Casey heads inside, Chuck looks up to see the “Under New Assistant Management!” banner hanging under the store sign.
Inside, Lester is enjoying his new assistant manager power. He tells the employees that things are going to change around here. Jeff’s not getting anymore bathroom naps, and Morgan won’t be able to take store DVDs home, watch them and then re-shrink-wrap them. Morgan denies the preposterous idea that he would do such a thing, and Lester just pulls the shrink-wrap and shrink-wrapping gun out of his bag. Okay, you were saying…
Any questions? From now on they will address him as “Mr.”, “Boss,” “Or, for our Latin friend,” he points to Morgan, “El jefe.” Morgan starts to ask Chuck a question, and Lester interrupts him to tell him that from now on all questions will go through him.
“El Jefe,” Morgan redirects his question. “When are we offering our low interest Buy More credit cards?”
Ah yes, that would be…Lester leans over to Chuck for help. “Today.”
“Today!” Lester repeats. Any more questions? No. Good! “Dismiss!”
As they walk out of the meeting, Chuck sighs and asks Morgan if he remembers the time when he actually had potential.
“Are you kidding? I remember when you were bursting with it!” Morgan slaps an arm around his best friend. “Man I’m glad that’s over with.” Chuck looks at him and he laughs. Morgan reminds him that no matter how bad his life gets, just remember. “You get to go home to THAT.”
*Insert slow-motion over the top, hair-blowing-in-the-wind, Heavenly spotlight, cartwheel into a kiss entrance of Sarah*
“Is that a real kiss or a cover kiss, because I’m confused right now,” Chuck asks her.
“It’s a ‘we have a national emergency and I need to speak to you privately’ kiss.”
“See I knew I felt something.”
Sarah grabs his arm and tugs him across the store, next door, and into the freezer…Where she scans her eye and heads down into the secret CIA basement. Chuck is impressed. “Woooow, it looks expensive.”
Casey, Chuck, and Sarah stand in front of the many computer screens as General Beckman tells them that the real cipher is out there somewhere, possibly in the hands of a former KGB operative named Sasha Banacheck.
The good news? Only one person ever got close enough to learn something about her, and that happens to be one of their agents. The bad news? Said Agent, Roan Montgomery, hates Casey. He failed him twice in operative training.
General Beckman tells them to “use The Intersect” to find Roan. Chuck thinks it all sounds fine and dandy, but he’s going to pass on this one. He heads up the stairs. “I’m going back to my peaceful, quiet albeit degrading, life at the Buy More.” He wishes them luck and, oh yeah, he loves what they’ve done with the place.
General Beckman asks if there’s a problem and Sarah assures her she’s on it. She chases Chuck and convinces that if he helps them he can get the Intersect out of his head and have “Everything you’ve always wanted.” Chuck takes the file and flashes on Roan and his James Bond lifestyle. “Wow, okay the guy lives in Palm Springs, and he’s got a lot of lady friends.”
~*~*~
Chuck, Casey, and Sarah get out of the car and head up to Roan’s house. Chuck asks what the story is on this legendary Roan, and Sarah tells him he’s very old school spy. Very “James Bond”. Casey thinks he’s overrated.
Sarah: What was that class he failed?
Casey: Infiltration and inducement of enemy personal.
Sarah: In the academy we called it “seduction school”.
Casey: Yeah like I need a class.
They find the door unlocked and open and enter, guns drawn. The place is a mess. Roan’s feet are spotted under the coffee table. Chuck thinks maybe he should go outside before they uncover him, as he’s still having nightmares about the last few dead bodies they found. The toilet flushes and they all swing around to find a flight attendant telling “sugar” she’s got to get going if she’s going to catch her flight. They realize that Roan is not dead, just asleep and probably drunk.
Chuck: This is the guy who’s supposed to help us? I’m going to be The Intersect forever!
~*~*~
Captain Awesome (a.k.a. Devon) kisses Ellie’s cheek at the breakfast table, and thinks they have time for a quickie in the shower. Chuck, who is sitting at the table too, groans and Ellie reminds Devon that they haven’t been out on a real romantic date since they got engaged.
Devon: I took you out last week.
Ellie: To Arby’s! With Chuck and his little bearded friend, that’s not exactly every girl’s dream, no offense Chuck.
Chuck: None taken.
Ellie decides that she and Devon need to be more like Chuck and Sarah. What’s their secret to keeping the spark alive? Chuck chokes on his food. Uh, no secret really…No really, she wants to know. “We pretend like we’re not really dating,” he finally tells them. “Which forces me to have to win her over again and again.” Chuck forces a smile. “And again.” Ellie finds that incredibly sweet and Captain Awesome accepts the mission of an evening of wining and dining.
~*~*~
The other mission, on the other hand, the spy one? Yeah, that one’s not going to well. Casey and Sarah tell General Beckman that Roan was…well, “he’s having a bit of trouble remaining upright”, so they’ll just have to find another way to get at Sasha.
Unbenounced to them, Roan is already up fixing his next martini before stepping into the shower in preparation for spy duty.
Casey suggests torturing the truth out of Sasha, and suddenly roan appears, telling them that torture won’t work. She was tortured for 7 years and they got nothing out of her. Roan looks at the computer screen. “Hello Dianne.” The General fixes her hair. “Hello Roan.”
He tells them that they’re going to have to seduce the truth out of Sasha with the last person on earth she would suspect would be an agent.
Casey and Sarah look at each other. They know a guy who might work…
~*~*~
Lester hands off his work to Chuck and Casey calls Chuck over. “I need your services in a romantic capacity.”
“Oh I’m flattered,” Chuck answers, following him. “I just hope Sarah’s involved.”
Sarah tells Chuck that he has a date with Sasha tonight. Chuck is more than a little hesitant, and she assures him that she and Casey will be right there to help him through it. All he has to do is get up to Sasha’s room to see if he flashes on anything.
And just how is he going to manage to get into her room? Roan tells him by being anyone but himself. To start out, he teaches Chuck the proper way to drink a martini. “Moment to learn, a lifetime to perfect.” Roan walks off and Chuck hisses to Sarah, “His liver must look like camouflage!”
~*~*~
Devon walks into Buy More looking for Chuck, and when he can’t find him Morgan steps in to help him with Ellie romance tactics. Devon says his plan is flowers, candles, wine, and jumbo shrimp. Morgan looks at him like he’s crazy. Hasn’t he heard about the shrimp incident? No…Nantucket Trip of ’92, spent the whole time on the floor throwing up. Okay, what’s Ellie’s favorite dessert. Devon says pecan pie, and Morgan just answers, “Okay, she likes pecan pie, not her stuck on a deserted island, all time favorite, but she likes it.” Devon laughs. “I know my fiancé.” Morgan tells him he’s dedicated his life to studying Ellie for 19 years. It’s okay, Devon’s come to the right place.
~*~*~
Roan stands in front of Chuck and Sarah, asking Chuck what he’s going to do to seduce Sasha. Chuck teases that he’d give her the old Bartowski eyebrow and Sarah can’t help but laugh at his silliness. Roan tells her not to encourage him, and Chuck tells him that he’d just be himself, try to make her laugh, find a common cultural interest, music.
Roan sighs. “You think a woman like this could ever fall for a guy like you?”
“I don’t know.” Chuck turns to Sarah. “Barring any National Security Emergency, I might have a shot.”
Roan: But this is a gorgeous, sophisticated woman, and you’re a—
Sarah: Passionate, and sweet, and caring.
Roan: Really? Talk, dark, and caring, what a combo!
Sarah: I didn’t mean it like that. He has a lot to offer.
Okay then, “kiss her.”
Sarah: Excuse me?
Chuck: I don’t think that’s necessary!
Chuck tells Roan he’s “solid as a rock” in that department, and Roan asks, “What’s wrong? Don’t you find Agent Walker attractive?” Of course he does, it’s just “I had a burrito earlier, and I’m tryin’ to be respectful,” Chuck tries to get out of it.
“While I admire your chivalry,” Roan tells him. “If you can’t kiss her now, what makes you think you’re going to be able to kiss Sasha Banacheck when the entire mission is on the line?”
Sarah tells Chuck that it’s okay. “Really?” “Yeah.” Embarrasses, Chuck slowly starts to lean over, and gives Sarah a very quick peck on the lips. There ya go, kiss is done, moving on.
Finding Chuck a lost cause, Roan gets up to leave, telling him he’ll get Agent Casey to kiss Sasha. Tired of being insulted, Chuck yells, “Aright you really want me to kiss her?”
“Desperately,” Roan mocks.
“Fine.” Chuck grabs Sarah and kisses her passionately…and kisses her…and kisses—Oh yeah, they should probably stop now.
When they pull away, both Chuck and Sarah are flustered. Roan clears his throat. “Bravo.” Chuck gives him an ‘I told you so’ look and Sarah quickly excuses herself to “fix her lipstick”. Roan tells Chuck that something tells him that’s not the first time that happened, and Chuck insists that they just work together.
Listening on his headphones outside, Casey overhears Roan tell Chuck that he can teach him how to get Sarah too. But first, they’re going to need more gin.
Casey: We’re dead.
~*~*~
Back at the Buy More, Big Mike compliments Lester on his new vest, and Lester asks how he can get the employees to fear him (since they’re obviously not listening to him). Big Mike tells replies, “Don’t you watch Animal Planet? Find the wounded gazelle and pounce.” Pounce. Right! Big Mike dismisses him, “Thus endeth the lesson.”
~*~*~
All dressed up and ready to go, Chuck puts his mic in his ear and tells Sarah that although they may not be the steamiest relationship in LA, but it’s probably the strangest.
“I doubt that,” Sarah teases. “Morgan’s still dating right?”
“Good point.”
She tells him to forget about Roan and just be himself. He doesn’t think Chuck Bartowski could ever get Sasha, and Sarah tells him it worked on her. Before Chuck can let this sink in, Roan shows up to talk about protection.
Chuck: I don’t think it’s gonna get that far.
Roan: I mean a gun. Why do you think she’s known as the Black Widow?
Chuck: She’s African American and her husband died?
Roan: Because she kills all her mates.
Sarah tries to give Chuck a reassuring look, but it doesn’t work.
~*~*~
At Sasha’s hotel, Chuck tries to waltz in nonchalantly ass Sarah and Roan watch him on the video monitors from the van across the street.
Roan: If he survives the night it’ll be a miracle.
Sarah: He can he hear you.
Chuck: Thanks for the vote of confidence.
Sarah reassures him that they’re with him all the way, and Roan starts to walk him through the famous “four-prong Montgomery attack.” First. “Work the room.”
Chuck enters. Casey spots him and nods from his bartending station. Roan tells Chuck that when he enters a room every eye should be on him. A man accidentally knocks into Chuck, who apologizes quickly and leans on a nearby table. Next, Roan tells him, order Sasha an ice cold dirty martini. Three olives. This too fails as chuck offers to buy Sasha a drink and she informs him that she doesn’t drink anymore. Roan overhears this and believes the mission is doomed. “How is this boy supposed to seduce her without alcohol?” Sarah glares at him and leans into the mic. “Don’t worry Chuck, it’ll be fine.”
Chuck tells Sasha that he should probably cut back too. “Lotta calories in those martinis.” She tells Mr. Carmichael to enjoy his drink and gets up and goes to the bar where Casey is tending. Roan tells Chuck that a woman wants to be saved, rescued, even though she won’t admit it. “That’s not true Chuck,” Sarah says into the mic. “Some women prefer a man who can take a back seat.” Roan just smiles at her. He’s not talking about her, he’s talking about the Black Widow. She looks at him and his drink. “So am I.” She promises Roan that Chuck “on his own” can get Sasha.
Chuck is listening to them argue and asks them if they can get back to the mission. Right. Third Prong-Mention St. Tropez. She smiles. He really liked the pianist. Oh Chuck loves him. She tells him guy has been dead for six years.
Chuck: That is a shame. No one ever called…
He takes a drink, waiting for Sarah or Roan to help him out here. Sarah does some quick research and tells him he prefers the new piano player, Marcel. When Chuck tells Sasha this, she finally starts paying attention to him. “I have to agree.” Chuck asks Casey for a “refill for the lady please” and they toast to the dead piano player. Roan raises his own martini and drinks with them.
~*~*~
Meanwhile, Devon is all ready to start his night of intense seduction, and thanks to his “inside information” he’s got all of Ellie’s favorite things. They’re going to start if off a little old school. He clicks on Richard Marx. Ellie is confused. Okay…And, now a little something for the sweet tooth. Devon holds up a plate . “What would you do for a Klondike bar?” He turns to grab Ellie’s favorite movie, and she sets the plate down with a muttered, “not much…”
And now, for tonight’s entertainment. “Your favorite all-time movie.”
Ellie grins. “Casablanca.”
“No,” Captain Awesome answers with a grin. “Sister Act!”
Ellie has reached her breaking point. “Honey, why of all the movies in the world, would my favorite be Sister Act?”
He tells her that Morgan said he sat behind her in the theater and she laughed the whole time! Ellie has no recollection of—wait, “You consulted Morgan for an evening of intense seduction?”
“Technically he has known you longer.”
She gets up and tells him that just for future reference, her favorite dessert is pecan pie.
Devon: That’s what I said!
Ellie starts to leave. Where is she going? She has to get up at five in the morning. But what about their date? She tells him to call Morgan, since he apparently planned his favorite evening.
So Morgan purposely ruined his night with Ellie? Captain Awesome does not find this awesome.
~*~*~
Back at the hotel, Chuck overhears Roan tell Sarah that she has real feelings for Chuck, and she thinks that’s crazy. He’s “just an asset”. She argues that he’s had too much to drink, and as he’s refuting her, he accidentally knocks his gin all over the equipment, shorting out Chuck’s mic. Sasha, who was just starting to warm up to Chuck, realizes he’s not paying much attention anymore and walks off.
Sarah gets everything back up and running and Casey tells them that the mission failed. The Black Widow’s on the move. Chuck overhears Sarah yell at Roan, “I told you, he’s an analyst not a spy!”
Sarah jumps out of the van and slams the door. Roan takes another drink.
Casey tells Chuck he’ll have the Intersect in his head forever. And with renewed determination, Chuck asks for the 4th Prong. Roan argues that he’s not ready for the 4th Prong, but Chuck insists that he is, so Roan tells him to basically be everything he is not. “BE Carmichael.”
Chuck channels Carmichael, and follows Sasha to tell her that she’s going to regret passing up an opportunity with “the greatest lover you’ll ever know”
“And who might that be?” she asks, turning to face him.
“Oh you’re looking at him, sister,” Chuck tells her. “A man trained in the art of seduction, a man who has travelled the world sampling women of every culture and creed, so I will offer one final time before boarding my jet and heading off to an undisclosed rendezvous for which I am already late—Can I buy you another club soda?!” Chuck finishes determined.
Sasha looks at him. “No thank you.”
Back to being Chuck, he answers, “Oh okay, I just thought I’d ask. Have a good night.”
He starts to leave and she calls out, “But you can take me up to my room and make mad passionate sex to me.”
Chuck freezes. The elevator dings. Roan grins. “I’ve still got it.”
Casey and Sarah round the corner just in time to see Sasha grab Chuck and start kissing him.
The elevator doors close.
~*~*~
Up in Sasha’s room, she tells him she’s going to slip into something more comfortable, and he suavely answers, “Yeah you do that, take your time doll. I’ll just uh, be here.” When she slips out of the room, he frantically leans over his watch and asks Casey and Sarah where they are. They’re on their way, but did he flash on anything?
Chuck finds the knife Sasha uses to kill all her victims and throws it back in, telling his watch, “Abort mission! Abort mission, abort mission!” He runs and opens the door, only to find Sasha’s muscle men blocking the way. He thanks them and tells them he and Miss Banacheck are going to be needing some privacy. He nods and casually shuts the door, then locks it and tells Casey and Sarah, “Get me out of here right now!”
Instead, Roan answers, assuring Chuck that he can get him out. Did he ever mention his time in Thailand on the roof with the kind’s daughter? No, no he didn’t. “How do I get out of here RIGHT NOW?” Chuck asks on the verge of panicking. Roan tells him to go out on the balcony. He does. And now tie a bed sheet around his waist and leap off the edge. Chuck interrupts that he’s crazy. He’s not a real spy!
“There you are.” Chuck swings around to find Sasha sashaying towards him. He flashes on her necklace, which is hiding the cipher as she teases forward to take off his belt. She asks him why he’s so shy, and Chuck stammers a reminder that they just met “And I’m kind seeing someone right now.” She wraps his belt around her head and tugs him forward.
~*~*~
Casey and Sarah approach the two guys out in the hall…
~*~*~
“I’m going to do things to you you never never would have dreamed possible,” Sasha whispers into Chuck’s ear as the knife she’s hiding slides up his back. He assures her he has a very vivid imagination, and Sasha speaks directly into Chuck’s ear. “Hello Roan. You shouldn’t have sent a boy to do a man’s job.”
~*~*~
Sarah and Casey get ready to round the corner, guns drawn, but it’s too late. Guns are already trained on them from behind.
~*~*~
Roan: Get out of there! Now!
Chuck backs up and is horrified by the knife in Sasha’s hand. He stumbles back onto the balcony, sliding the doors shut and holding them closed with his belt. He assures Sasha that she doesn’t want to kill him, but she thinks she does. He has nothing to offer anyway.
Chuck holds up her necklace. “I have this.” Sasha gasps, unable to believe he was able to snatch it without her noticing. Chuck scrambles up towards the balcony above him. “Roan? How did Thailand work again?”
Roan and the van squeals off as Chuck continues to struggle and Sasha grabs a gun out of a nearby drawer.
Chuck finally manages to lift himself up to see over the next balcony and a woman screams. She and her husband were trying to enjoy their anniversary! “Pervert!” She slams her shoe into his hand and Chuck goes flying.
Down by the pool another couple clink their glasses together. “To a night of infinite possibilities.”
Chuck lands on the bed between them. “Sorry to interrupt! Enjoy your night!” He scurries off and through the hotel door, talking into his watch. “Sarah please tell me you saw that leap from the balcony, land through the flourish, and the Russian judge gives it a 9.4? Oh and by the way I have a little thing called the cipher if anyone’s interested,” he hastily adds, still running.
“Yes Mr. Carmichael,” Sasha replies. “I am very interested.”
Chuck’s smile disappears.
She tells him if he ever wants to see his partners again, he’ll meet her tomorrow. Alone.
Alone, Chuck stares out into the night. “Roan?...Roan?”
~*~*~
Buy More
Lester’s decided that if the employees aren’t going to respect him, they’re going to fear him. He’s come up with the Wheel of Misfortune. He had a similar wheel at home growing up and it was…very effective to say the least.
He makes Morgan spin first. It lands on “You’re FIRED”. What they can’t fire him! Lester just tells them that the wheel has spoken, and Morgan walks out. “That’s just my luck.” In protest, Anna quits, followed by Jeff who says he must follow his heart (to which Anna reminds him he has no chance). The entire staff quits, leaving Lester to scream after them, "Fine go! Who need you? GO! You're all fired! Do I have your attention now? Do I have you attention NOW?"
~*~*~
Chuck walks up to his door and finds Roan out sipping drinks in the courtyard. Roan tells him that Sasha’s going to kill Casey and Sarah, and Chuck says he’s just going to have to try and save them then. But he can’t do it alone, he needs Roan’s help. Roan argues that they knew what they were getting into. He hasn’t made it to where he is today because he knows the game they play. “If you show up there will be three dead agents instead of two.”
“So that’s it? What happened to the world’s greatest spy?”
Roan argues that that was a long time ago. His lie may be cowardly, but at least he’s alive, which is more than most people in his line of profession can say.
“But you’re a legend!” Chuck argues. “So how can you just sit there and watch them DIE?”
“Because I am not in love with one of the agents” Roan answers.”
Chuck slowly answers, “I’m not…I care about them. Both of them,” he gets himself refocused. Besides, they both heard Sarah tell him he was “just an asset.”
“No you’re not,” Roan answers, explaining, “The lady doth protest too much.” He tells Chuck he has to ask himself. “Is she worth dying for?”
Roan starts to walk off and Chuck answers “Yes.”
Roan sighs. “Poor boy.” He turns around. “Lesson number one in being a spy. NEVER fall in love.”
“Well then I guess I’m not much of a spy.” Chuck walks off. “And you’re not much of a legend.”
~*~*~
Chuck tries to get a hold of General Beckman, but nobody will let him through. Hanging up, he goes downstairs to find Captain Awesome sleeping on the couch. Devon tells him about his failed attempt to romance Ellie thanks to the “Grimes-induced gaffe” and tells Chuck that he really wants to make it up to Ellie (rose petals, pecan pie, dinner, champagne, maybe a foot massage in the tub. Chuck stops him here.), but with his busy doctor’s schedule he worries that he doesn’t have the time to pull it off.
~*~*~
Back at the Buy More, Lester rushes up, vest missing and tie hanging loose. Chuck asks where everyone is, and Lester tells him he “fired the majority of the staff.”
Chuck is shocked. “You what?”
Lester totally loses his conceited Assistant Manger persona and panics, “I’m dead, I’m DEAD!” Once Big Mike finds out “he’s gonna fire ME, you have GOT to help me Charles!” he begs. Chuck has no idea how he can possibly help, and Lester begs him to ask everyone back. Why doesn’t he ask? “Because they won’t fear me, what don’t you get—Michael!”
Chuck and Lester swing towards Big Mike. “Something amiss?” he asks Lester. Lester struggles for an answer, and Big Mike just says, “I mean you’re vest?” Oh, right! The vest, it’s in his locker, he was going to change it right now. Great. And the donuts? On his desk. Even better.
Big Mike walks off.
Lester: Maybe he’ll never notice.
Chuck: It depends on how long it takes him to eat a box of donuts.
~*~*~
Lester calls everyone back to The Wheel of Misfortune, and tells them that he forgot to mention that everyone gets one practice spin! So Morgan has another chance. “Come on!” Anna grabs Morgan back with the group. “No one is spinning the wheel.” If he wants them back, he’s going to have to negotiate. Okay…what do they want? Jeff wants unlimited bathroom time, they all want longer breaks, and…”You spin the wheel.” Lester tries to laugh his way out of it, but they all start to clap him on. Jeff steps forward. “Live by the sword, die by the sword.” Lester lets out a nervous laugh. “I don’t even know what that means.” He turns and spins the wheel.
~*~*~
Lester plugs his nose as he empties the diaper station in front of the amused employees.
“Nice, nicely done!”
~*~*~
Roan shows up at Buy More and asks Chuck what he meant when he said he wasn’t a legend. Chuck tells him that he meant just that. “You were great. Once.” Now is he here to help, or is he just browsing? Roan asks him what his plan is. He’s going to show up and get Chuck and Sarah back in exchange for the Cipher. Roan tells him he might want to rethink his plan, smiling. Looks like Roan’s back in the game!
~*~*~
Sasha and her men watch Casey and Sarah as a car pulls up. A nervous delivery boy gets out and has them sign for a package. As he drives off, the package starts to ring. Sasha pulls out the phone. “Hello?”
“Alright, here’s how this is gonna go down,” Chuck answers. “You want the cipher, you play by my rules.” He tells her to meet him at the Buy More address with the hostages.
~*~*~
Chuck hangs up the phone and sighs. The phone rings again. He looks at it. “It’s her.”
“Answer it,” Roan coaxes on.
Chuck answers the phone and, “Oh sorry, yeah. You’re just gonna want to take the five north, that’s probably the easiest way, Burbank Boulevard exit, you’re gonna make a left at the light—” Roan sighs and Chucks hastily tells them, “You can find it.” He hangs up.
~*~*~
Sasha and her men enter Buy More with Casey and Sarah. All the TV screens blink to life, showing Chuck with the Cipher. He sees she’ brought the hostages and wishes her the best of luck on all her future endeavors. “Remember, we’ll always have Paris,” Chuck quips. In the background of the video, one of Sasha’s men opens the door, and Chuck turns and yells. “Ahhh!” He runs away. The camera falls over as the guy chases Chuck to the roof.
~*~*~
Sasha turns back to Casey and Sarah. Now that Chuck is trapped on the roof and they’re sure to get the Cipher back, she won’t be needing any hostages anymore. She turns to shoot Casey and Sarah, but Roan cocks his own gun pointed at her head. “I wouldn’t do that if I were you.”
“Roan.”
“Hello Sasha.”
“I should have killed you years ago.”
He asks her to please drop her gun and she does. One of her men asks who that guy is, and Casey answers, “That. Is Roan Montgomery.” He and Sarah attack Sasha’s men and Sasha grabs her gun and grabs Sarah as a hostage.
Chuck overhears her tell Roan that she’s going to kill Sarah, and panics. What to do? What to do! Roan calls him on his watch. “Remember Thailand!” Chuck thinks this is no time for reminiscing about the past! Roan tries again. “Remember. Thai-land.”
Yeah he remembers he was on the roof and, “No, no, no, no!” Chuck is not jumping off the roof! When he hears Sasha order Roan to bring her the Cipher now or she’ll kill Sarah, Chuck decides everybody dies sometime, and hastily unhooks and wraps the “Under New Assistant Management” banner around his waist.
“It’d just be nice if it wasn’t today!” With that, Chuck jumps off the roof.
“Aaaaahhhhhhhh!” *BAM!* He swings right into Sasha, knocking her unconscious and landing on his back.
Casey runs over to apprehend Sasha and Sarah runs over to Chuck. “Chuck! Are you okay?”
“I’m fine,” he manages to grunt, the wind having been knocked out of him. “How are you?”
“I’m fine.”
Roan is impressed. "Now that's what I call a spy."
~*~*~
Big Mike steps out of his car and stops when he sees the ducktaped banner hanging in front of his store, now reading “New Ass Man” with crisscrosses of tape everywhere holding it together.
Big Mike is confused. “I ain’t new.” He shrugs and walks inside.
~*~*~
General Beckman congratulates them all on a job well done, and Casey thinks Chuck’s involvement in this case should be noted. Sarah also points out that he risked his life several times “to save ours”. She nudges his shoulder and he grins as General Beckman tells him his country thanks him. Hopefully they can now rebuild the Intersect “and this nightmare can be over for you. Have a nice day.” She starts to terminate the video feed, but Chuck stops her. He thinks that it’s about time the government “start pulling their weight around here”. What did he have in mind?
~*~*~
On their way up to the house, Devon apologizes to Ellie for not having more moves. “All I know is I love you.” She assures him that she doesn’t need moves, she just the fact that he’s trying is enough.
Ellie opens the door to find the entire room covered in rose petals. Candles line almost every surface and dinner is on the table. Ellie is shocked. “Is that pecan pie?” She jumps into Devon’s arm, laughing at how she can’t believe she fell for his first try. “This is the sweetest thing ever!” She continues to hug a very confused Captain Awesome. “No biggy babe…”
~*~*~
Chuck and Sarah grin as they watch them through the window. As they turn to walk through the courtyard, Chuck tells her to be sure to thank the CIA for him. She tells him it was “our pleasure”, and decides she should probably thank him for saving her life. He just shakes it off. “You’ve done it a time or two for me, I’m probably still in debt.”
Sarah has to admit that “was pretty impressive.”
“Right.” Chuck laughs. He knows he’s just an asset and all, but tell him the truth. Has he ever seen anyone do that before?
She stares at him and answers, “I think it’s safe to say, Chuck, I’ve never seen anyone quite like you.”
Chuck smiles.
Casey’s door opens and he shakes Roan’s hand. Roan tells him that the reason he failed him so many times was because his partner was too pretty to let pass. “Should have failed her a few more times,” he thinks. Casey is glad to know this.
Roan kisses Sarah’s hand goodbye and she heads off. Chuck starts to follow, but Roan stops him. “Let her go. A great man once said it’s to give the illusion of being pursued.” Chuck can’t help but smile.
Roan: Do you trust me?
Chuck: Yes…
Roan: Good. Do you own a white dinner jacket?
Chuck: No.
Roan: Rent one.
He tells him that tonight Chuck will show up with a wine, a single red rose, and a white dinner jacket. Or, as it is known in some countries, “The Montgomery.”
Chuck grins and Roan shakes his hand. “Goodbye Charles.”
“Goodbye Roan.”
Roan walks off, talking on his phone to “Dianne”. He’s on his way to the airport now…Chuck stares after him. Roan and General Beckman huh?
~*~*~
Chuck takes his time getting all dressed up just right for “The Montgomery” on Sarah. He grabs his rose and wine and heads on over to her apartment to surprise her.
He knocks on the door.
Sarah is surprised to see him. “Chuck, hi.”
He grins, holding up his rose.
Sarah: Um…
Suddenly Bryce walks up behind her and opens the door all the way. “Hello Chuck.”
Chuck is super shocked. “Bryce?”
“Miss me?”
Chuck looks at Sarah, who can’t meet his eye. Chuck turns to Bryce, his smile disappearing.
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