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Recapped by DeAnn Welker · Aired 2010-05-03

Instead of a few things Chuck wants us to know, Morgan introduces us to his boss, Chuck, and his girlfriend, via Hart to Hart-style fake opening credits (thanks to Trini Girl for pointing out what show that was; I was stumped). Then we get a zoom-in on Morgan's eye (think Lost gimmick), as he wakes up from his dream about Chuck and Sarah. When he heads to the kitchen for a midnight snack, he thinks Chuck's there, but it's Sarah in a skimpy nightie. She offers Morgan orange juice, but he starts in about "vitamin Cs," "vitamin Ds" and "jugs," so she walks off. morning, Chuck comes out all smiley, and Morgan finds his happiness insulting to the people in the house who aren't having sex. And he'd like Sarah to wear more clothes, since he has started wearing pajamas on her account even though he likes to sleep in the nude. Chuck says to expect her there more since he's going to ask her to move in. She's standing behind him, so Morgan leaves them alone to talk about it. She wonders why they'd move in together, and doesn't want to mess with a good thing. Plus, they're not a normal couple. She opens the couch and grabs a gun. Chuck scolds her for having guns in his house, but she tells him about the 30-foot rule: No agent should be without a weapon. He says the Bartowski rule is "No guns in my apartment." She says not if he wants to live with a spy.

Cut to the Congo, where Ellie and Awesome are arriving at a new clinic. She's leaving a message on Chuck's phone until Awesome tells her they're there and she gets off. They get out in the rain, and Ellie's stressed about the men walking around with guns and the not showering or sleeping. Awesome reminds her it's the toughest job you'll ever love, and offers to make her dinner under the stars that night. They kiss, all happy.

Back at Castle, Chuck and Sarah are getting their mission, which is to observe spy power couple the Turners. No one knows who they are until General Redhead gives code names, some of which ring bells for Casey and Sarah. In other words: They're legends. General Redhead says that, since Chuck and Sarah insist on being a couple, she wants them to see how it's done since the Turners have been married for thirty years, "more or less." Casey's assignment is to get Morgan field-ready. He doesn't want to, but General Redhead tells him he's a diamond in the "very, very rough," and she's sure he can make him sparkle. Casey grunts.

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Buy More. Casey tells Morgan the three qualities that make for an effective field agent: subversion, stealth, strength. Then he tasks Morgan with getting a super hot girl's phone number. Morgan thinks it's a joke, but Casey says a spy has to be able to manipulate anyone at any time. Morgan walks toward her as porny music plays and Casey growls at Morgan from afar. The girl writes something on a piece of paper and Casey's shocked, until Morgan shows him the card, on which the girl wrote, "YOU ARE DISGUSTING!!" Casey mutters, "And I thought Bartowski was hopeless."

Speaking of, Chuck and Sarah find Swoosie drinking heavily, and are puzzled since she wasn't supposed to be a drinker. They ask her if she's okay, and she points out Fred talking to a young, hot thing. And he left his mic on, so they all listen in as he flirts and says he wishes he weren't with his wife. He suggests hooking up later, so Swoosie says he's a CIA-sanctioned gigolo. She stumbles and mumbles away, saying she's still a professional and is going to steal the software. Then she falls down and Fred comes over to help. She's angry, though, so loudness ensues, drawing all the attention in the room to them. Sarah suggests to Chuck that they show the Turners how it's done, and they leave Fred lying there asking for a nurse, "someone in a short skirt." Upstairs, Chuck and Sarah find the master suite where the software's supposed to be. Chuck sneezes and wonders if there's a cat around, then finds a whip, which he whips, luring a tiger out of the closet. Even badass Sarah doesn't appear to be prepared for this. The tiger comes out, runs right to them and jumps on the bed. Chuck flashes, not on how to tame a tiger or anything useful, but on the collar the tiger's wearing, which contains the software.

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Chuck and Sarah hide in a closet. He wishes he had his tranq gun, but Sarah pulls out her real one. He says, "No, I am not letting you shoot a tiger. They are endangered and majestic." In all fairness, though, a tiger living in a millionaire's mansion isn't going to help with that whole endangered thing. She asks if he has better ideas as the tiger paws at the door. Chuck thinks they need to ask themselves what the Turners would do.

Back at the Buy More, Casey tells Morgan he wants him to steal something, and he has something difficult in mind. He shows him something off-screen and Morgan groans, but then agrees.

Back in the closet, Sarah and Chuck bicker. She doesn't want to be the Turners, and would rather be eaten alive by a tiger. Speaking of, she wants to get the software and get out of there. Chuck shushes her, because he hears a familiar sound, which sounds like snoring. So we cut to Big Mike snoring and Casey's voiceover telling Morgan to steal Big Mike's key card (on a lanyard around his neck) -- as Big Mike sleeps in his office chair. Chuck and Sarah sneak out, where the Tiger's sleeping on the bed. In case we are too dumb to get the comparison here with the quick cuts and similar scenes, Chuck hits us over the head with "Look. Sleeping just like Big Mike after eating a baker's dozen."Sarah and Chuck bicker over who holds the gun on the tiger and who goes to get the collar. She gets to hold the gun because she can use one better. So that means Chuck and Morgan are sneaking up on their big snoring beasts as the same time, and trying to remove their collars. Chuck's on the bed by the tiger when he has to stifle a sneeze. Morgan's on Big Mike's desk and finally rips off the lanyard. Chuck removes the collar. Chuck sneezes and the tiger gets up and gives chase. Chuck and Sarah make it to the hall, and he asks her why she didn't shoot it since it was about to eat him. Sarah: "You said it was majestic." He acknowledges it is.

Morgan's on the desk holding the lanyard when Big Mike wakes up. His reaction is surprisingly calm: "I told you I don't like people looking at me when I'm sleeping." Morgan pretends he thought Big Mike was dead so he was up there to help him. And he has the lanyard because he thought it was cutting off Big Mike's air supply, and then he noticed it had jelly on it so he was going to take it and clean it for him. Big Mike says he's a grown man and can clean up after himself, but could Morgan please give him another donut. Casey watches with disappointment.

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Casey's teaching Morgan to use a gun at the shooting range. Morgan knows everything about the gun because of videogames, so he thinks he'll be great at this. When he shoots, though, he ends up throwing the gun back, yelling, "I think the gun just exploded in my hand." Casey catches the gun and says there's nothing wrong with it. He orders Morgan to sit down and then lets him fire himself. Morgan says this is worse than when he got canned from Underpants, Etc. Casey says this isn't the end of the world, and he'll be there for Morgan like Morgan was for him when he was out on his ass with the agency. Morgan tries to hug him and call him a friend, but Casey pushes him away and says to keep that on the down-low. Morgan agrees, and tells Casey he's the best person who's ever fired him.

Chuck and Sarah have brought the Turners back to their place, where they have them handcuffed. They try to pretend they didn't do anything wrong and there's no evidence of any wrongdoing. But their bickering tends to end up with them blaming each other for what they did, so it's the same as confessing. Chuck finally yells at them to be quiet. He says it's one thing to betray the agency, but it's another to betray the agency. Chuck says they were supposed to teach them to be a great spy couple. Fred says to check back with him in thirty years, since the CIA has a way of breaking young idealists in love. There's a knock at the door, which they assume is the marshals, but Chuck sees Otto through the window -- "and his pussycat." Chuck thinks the Turners must have sold them out to Otto, until Sarah finds a tracking device in the tiger's collar. The Turners want backup guns, and Fred says Chuck's surely heard of the 30-foot rule. Chuck goes to the couch, which has been emptied of weapons. He and Sarah start to bicker: She says she got rid of them, and Chuck's like, "You actually listened to me?" She can't quite believe it herself. And she left her guns from the hotel in the car, because he told her no guns in the apartment. They handcuff the Turners in the bathroom.

Chuck answers the door and lets Otto in. He and Sarah play dumb, and then pretend they crashed his party as a joke. Otto asks where the CIA agents are hiding, and says he knows this is a CIA safe house and Chuck and Sarah are spies. Chuck laughs and tells Sarah that this is probably a practical joke from her brother. He says he does feel a little like James Bond, and Sarah could be Octopussy or something. Otto just wants them to hand over the Turners, and he points a gun at them. Chuck asks for a moment with his girlfriend. When their backs are turned, he whispers that they should sell the Turners out, but she won't do it. They agree they aren't going to end up traitors, so they don't do it. Then the tiger finds the room it was looking for, so Otto has his men take it outside. In the bathroom, the handcuffs are off and the window's open, but the Turners aren't there.

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Casey and Morgan arrive at the apartment complex and find a guard (apparently?) knocked out or dead. Inside, Chuck can't believe the Turners left them holding the bag again. Otto points his gun at him and says it will be the last time. Chuck begs him to let them help them hunt down the Turners, since they betrayed all of them and are the lowest of the low. The Turners come back in with guns, then, and tell Otto to let Chuck and Sarah go. Sarah finishes Chuck's sentence: "... But, they are not without their merits." Casey and Morgan spot the tiger and hide behind a bush, as the Turners say they're showing Chuck and Sarah they're not traitors. Outside, Morgan says Casey is important, but if Morgan dies it's not big deal. Casey sort of shrugs in agreement about that, which is awesome. Morgan says there is a way he can serve his country, though. He's going to lure the tiger into Ellie and Awesome's apartment. He runs and the tiger chases him. Otto hears her growl and turns away just long enough for Chuck to kung-fu flash and he and Sarah knock them out. They end up with guns pointed at the Turners, whose guns are pointed back at them. Morgan runs up the stairs from the tiger and swings on a curtain out the window. I'm not sure why the tiger doesn't follow him, but Casey's there to catch him in his arms. It's very loving. Morgan says he told him he was good for something: Tiger bait.

Back inside, Sarah tells the Turners they have to bring them in, and Swoosie says she would have done the same thing thirty years ago. Fred says she actually would have shot them for what they did. Chuck says that would be justifiable. But unnecessary since they saved them. He lowers his gun, and Fred takes Swoosie's away from her. Sarah lowers hers. The Turners hug, as Chuck and Sarah look on with a little sorrow. Back at Castle, the Turners and Chuck and Sarah are checking in with General Redhead, who tells them they did good work and that their cryptographers (are those like the crypt keeper?) are analyzing Otto's data so the nation's communications network remains secure. General Redhead wants to move on to the Turners and their actions, but Chuck and Sarah come forward on their behalf. Sarah says their double-cross was a triple-cross, and they used that to lure Otto away to their apartment, where they could capture him. General Redhead would expect no less, and hopes Sarah and Chuck learned from them. Chuck says they did. Then the Turners announce they're retiring, to the protests of General Redhead, who says they're the best of the best and wonders who will possibly take their place. Hello, anvil! They look at Chuck and Sarah, and he's honored, all, "Really? Us? Thank you!" General Redhead shuts herself off with no goodbye, then the Turners wish Chuck and Sarah "many happy marriages" on their way out.

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In the Congo, Ellie and Awesome are helping people. She's finally seeming to enjoy it, which makes Awesome happy. Morgan finds Casey and asks him to please tell him Chuck's joking about sending him to boot camp, where they'll make him shave his beard. Casey tells him to relax: He passed, even though he failed every test and his hands-down the worst candidate Casey's trained. Because he has one thing going for him: "You got balls." He also adds that "You'd have to be a complete idiot" to go up with a Bengal tiger unarmed. And, apparently, being an idiot is what the CIA's looking for. Morgan says that's him in a nutshell, and Casey walks off while he's talking. Back at the apartment, Chuck can't believe that everything's shredded at Ellie and Awesome's. He says they have to get the place fixed up before Ellie and Awesome get back, but Sarah says she was going to start with "our place." He asks what that means, and she asks if his offer still stands. It obviously does, because then they're at their place, where she tells him she's sorry she freaked out but she's never had anything normal. He tells her he's sorry, but they'll probably never have a normal life. She says she wants something to fall back on when their spy life is over. He smiles and they kiss. Awww. I do love them as a couple.

Back in the Congo, Ellie finds Awesome in their tent, shaking and sweating with a terrible fever. She goes for help and soon enough they're hauling him away on a stretcher. Justin finds her and says he alerted the airport and they'll be able to skip Customs and go straight home. She can't believe they're leaving so soon, but he says there are plenty of ways to help back home. The truck leaves with them in it, and bad-guy music kicks up as Justin pulls a Ring phone out of his pocket. He says, "They just left. I took care of the husband, made it look like malaria. She doesn't suspect a thing." To prove it, she looks back at him and waves once more. In other words, the Ring most definitely knows who Chuck and his family are, and can get to them even in Africa. Uh-oh.

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week: Chuck's been having strange, vivid dreams. Ellie believes Casey's a bad man they need to get far away from. Christopher Lloyd tells Chuck he's removing him from field duty, then Chuck punches a guy in the face, knocking out a tooth. General Redhead says the Intersect is overwhelming Chuck's brain and Sarah tells Christopher Lloyd she needs Chuck to be okay.

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DeAnn, a writer and editor in Portland, Oregon, knows we're getting toward the end of the season when the previews start looking that good. You can contact her at twopmodmars@gmail.com.