Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Weekend At Casey's
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.18.2010
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.When a team Casey worked with (and then took down) during the Clinton administration has ties to Frost, Team Bartowski comes up with a plan: Fake Casey's death and they'll come to the funeral. They do, of course, led by Eric Roberts, and they steal drugged Casey from his coffin to take his hand back to Iran (to open a vault filled with gold bullion that can only be opened with his handprint). They get Casey to a garage somewhere in the city, and his drug wears off enough for him to escape and call in a Code Red to the Buy More. Unbeknownst to him, he gets Jeffster!, who hilariously think he's having a drug trip and save the day -- or at least they save Casey. While he's drugged out in a Stormtrooper mask at Morgan's, Chuck and Sarah get captured while looking for him. The bad guys take them to Iran to lure Casey, who heads there with Morgan in tow. Unfortunately, since it's in Iran, they can't have any more backup than that. Morgan screws up Casey's plan by failing to dim the lights, so they all get captured. Luckily, Morgan's wearing some anti-electrocution gloves and jumps onto a wired cable, sending enough volts into all the guys (standing in water) to knock them out and really save the day.
Chuck also finds out from the gang that his mom's not a prisoner, but Volkoff's right hand, and these bad guys' boss. He's starting to think she's not such a good guy, so he gives up his search at the end of the episode. Then she calls. And, when Morgan finally tells Casey he's dating his daughter, Casey loses it (but he's under the influence of the death drug, and Morgan's point was kind of to get him mad). Morgan ruins things with her by being a coward, then Casey tells her it was his fault and, in the end, all seems to be good. Though Casey does growl a warning to Morgan that if he breaks Alex's heart, Casey will break his everything.
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Want more? The full recap starts right below!Eric Roberts (Packer), a meathead named T.I., and a nerd named Mackintosh work with Casey during the Clinton administration to find a cave in Iran filled with gold bullion. Casey locks it up so that no one can get in without his handprint, but before he seals it shut, Packer, T.I. and Mack pull guns on him. Because, you know, they'd like a little of that gold. But Casey, being Casey, throws his knife and knocks the lights out and then takes them all down in the dark. He locks up the bullion, and says they're all going to Leavenworth.
But, thankfully, we don't have to. Although we get the Buy More instead, which isn't that much better than a prison, since even when it burns down, we cannot escape it. Jeffster! invite Casey out to reunite the gang, and he's like, "I was never in your gang." That doesn't shut them up, though, so they ask him to go drink white zin and play Magic the Gathering. He says no, and I think this was just a way to set up a scene later in the episode, but it's still amusing. Also at the Buy More, Alex shows up to see Morgan, but when she tries to hug, he fist-bumps her instead. She reminds him they're dating, not buds, but he says not everybody knows that yet, even though he said he was going to tell Casey. She gets that Casey's intimidating, but it's important to her that they're honest with him. Okay, then why doesn't she tell him? She has to get to class. Chuck tells Morgan to be careful how he breaks the news to Casey, who might kill him accidentally. They watch Casey take apart a price-check scanner. Chuck asks Morgan to cover for him at the Buy More (is that even necessary now that it's not even really a cover) so he can work on the Costa Gravas files with Sarah to try to find his mom.
Castle. They've combed through all the files, and found nothing. But Sarah thinks maybe they should think about Volkoff's private prison systems. She shows Chuck a picture of Packer, T.I. and Mack, who she says will know where the Volkoff prisons are. Chuck flashes and says that those guys used to work for someone they know. Cut to Casey telling them about dragging the guys across the desert after securing the bullion. He had them court-marshaled, but they promptly escaped. Chuck interrupts and references The A-Team but no one gets it. (Casey says he was, and did not watch, The A-Team.) Casey says they've tried to get him over the years, but last time he "told them to stay hidden." Casey says the only place he could think of to get them all back together would be at Casey's funeral. Chuck has a plan: Kill Casey! I do not approve of this decision. Cake credits.