We start on a close-up of a menu from "Bamboo Dragon," which is apparently the "home of sizzling shrimp." Morgan and Chuck are at Chuck's counter at Buy More, and when Sarah comes into view in her Weinerlicious outfit, Morgan wants to be sure that she knows that they're all hanging that night and having Chinese, which, taken together, is officially being referred to as "An Evening With Morgan." Morgan, she'll probably deign to hang out with you because you're Chuck's friend, but to expect her to have an appetite while doing it is maybe a little unreasonable. Morgan has no such concerns, though, in fact telling Chuck that this is Sarah's opportunity to prove to him that she's good enough for Chuck. It'd almost be touching if Morgan hadn't already discolored half the Buy More's surfaces with his Sarah-inspired drool. When he's gone, Chuck explains to Sarah that he hasn't gotten to hang out with anyone this week, so Morgan wanted the bunch of them to spend the evening together. Sarah refers to it as "An Evening Of Morgan," and Sarah, it's going to be tough enough without you switching words that make it sound even worse. Casey expresses his extreme glee at Sarah's misfortune, smiling that instead of an evening with Morgan, "I'd rather Afghani warlords bleed me from my liver." He walks away, prompting Chuck to note that he's a "happy person. And he works hard." Heh.
Chinatown, L.A.-style. We're at the Chinese consulate, from which a man emerges and answers his ringing cell phone, greeting his "paranoid sister." "Lee" informs her that he's not in any trouble, which is the cue for a van to pull up and deposit some masked thugs on the sidewalk, who quickly tranq-dart Lee's driver and kidnap Lee, leaving his cell on the sidewalk. Oh, and the van just happens to bear the name "Bamboo Dragon." What, did the alley outside the restaurant run out of dogs? (Kidding! Don't email me!)
So despite Chuck specifically mentioning Ellie when telling Sarah about the evening, it's just Chuck, Morgan, and Sarah on the sidewalk heading to the restaurant, as Morgan is saying that first on the agenda is dinner, which will consist of sizzling shrimp. After that, they'll be screening 'the greatest kung-fu film ever made -- Enter The Dragon. Okay, I would totally be in for that, and Morgan and Chuck do these harmonized electronic voices when saying the movie's name, which is pretty awesome and makes Sarah laugh. Morgan says the third act can only be found in Chinatown, and when we focus on a seedy-looking guy up the road, Chuck gets serious and says he thought Morgan was off this stuff. I am actually doing this weecap from my DVR without having watched it first, so if it's fireworks here, I can honestly say that I guessed it for real. Chuck: "You know how I feel about fireworks!" For my genius, you guys have to give me a sparkler. Anyway, Chuck has some silly fear of losing a limb, so the fireworks are ix-nayed, but Morgan and Sarah still high-five over the prospect of "getting [their] shrimp on."
However, Bamboo Dragon has a sign on the door saying they're closed for a private party. Morgan is bummed, and wants in -- and it turns out that he knows one of the dishwashers, and said dishwasher has left a key hidden by the stairs for emergencies. If I were that dishwasher, I'd be worried about getting fired, since I'd think for Morgan an "emergency" would be "having the munchies with Domino's closed." Anyway, Morgan goes up to his friend as Chuck and Sarah wait at the edge of the kitchen, but when Chuck sees a woman reach for a plate and reveal a tattoo of a Chinese character on her wrist, his brain goes nuts with blipverted images -- a tiger, Red Square, tanks, secret files. Chuck blurts out that the waitress is "Mei-Ling Cho, Chinese intelligence. Never set foot on U.S. soil before." Morgan returns with the sizzling shrimp, and Sarah, in response to Chuck's revelation, is like, "Oh my God." Morgan skeeves that he's just Morgan, but he appreciates the enthusiasm. I'm pretty sure Sarah isn't under the impression that God's five-foot-three.
Back at Buy More, Casey gives Chuck a picture and asks if it's the woman he saw, and on hearing an affirmative, he rams some files into Chuck's stomach to pore over and tells Sarah to call the director and inform him they have a "Priority Code Orange." You'll understand if color-coded alerts have lost all meaning for me. Chuck weakly tries to talk about how Ellie and Morgan are waiting for him, but Casey breathes that China's top spy is in L.A., and they don't know why, and figuring that out is their top priority. He slaps the files into Chuck's gut again for emphasis. Chuck, I'm going to be wecapping all night instead of watching Heroes, so we're kind of in the same boat. Except for the stomach pain and the fact that I won't have to deal with Morgan tomorrow...
...or Ellie, for that matter, who's pissed, not just about the blown evening, but also about the fact that she's the one who got stuck babysitting Morgan. And you know, that reminds me, we have not seen nearly enough of Captain Awesome yet. Well, there was that tango in a towel, but while I certainly appreciated that, that's not what I'm talking about. Chuck digs himself out by saying that Sarah was sick; Ellie, offering her medical help, asks what was the matter, but is grossed out to hear that she has a spastic colon. Chuck: "I know! A girl that beautiful with a colon that spastic!" Hee. Ellie leaves, but not before reminding Chuck that the night is their "very own October version of Mother's Day." He says he won't miss it, but she snits, "I never figured that you would pass on sizzling shrimp either." In other words, "It's going to take more than a spastic colon to save you again, Geek-o My Brother."
Buy More. Casey beckons Chuck up for a pedeconference, and Chuck reports a negative on flashes from the files. Casey says that's all right, as they're going to tail Mei-Ling that evening and see if anything they observe triggers Chuck's memory files. Chuck's psyched for his first stakeout, and asks what he should show up with, but Casey's like, "You just bring those pretty little files in your head, sweet thing." Chuck's affronted, saying he can offer more than just the Intersect. "For instance, what are we doing for tunes tonight? I can make a stakeout mix." Hee. Casey's little grin of disbelieving amusement is awesome, but then Big Mike appears and tells "John" he needs all the green shirts in his office immediately...
...and then he's telling everyone that sales are down, and the team needs motivation, so they're having a twenty-four-hour sales competition -- first prize is an iPhone, down to last prize, which is getting fired. Morgan won't shut up through this whole thing...
...and then he's biffing sales pitches and offending customers right and left, causing Big Mike to accost him and tell him he's the worst salesman he's ever seen: "Vultures are circling. Get it in gear!" I think Morgan's still got a chance of beating Casey, though. A customer who drops dead of a heart attack can't buy anything. Um, I'm guessing. Anyway, Morgan's freaked...
...so he goes to Chuck and asks for after-work help on his sales technique. Unfortunately, Chuck's got the stakeout (er, "plans with Sarah") that night, and the night, he could only miss Mother's Day if it were a major national emergency. He looks at Morgan: "So...to speak." Hee. Morgan begs Chuck, even modifying the famous "Help me, Obi-wan Kenobi" line from Star Wars for his own purposes. Seems like the Nerd Honor Code would only allow you to bust that out like, twice in a lifetime, but I suppose he is pretty desperate. Chuck offers to try to wrap up with Sarah early enough to come back and help Morgan, and Morgan's psyched. Chuck, not so much.
Car. Casey notices a "bogey" approaching them from behind; he and Sarah get weapons ready -- but it's just a delivery of sizzling shrimp for "Mr. Carmichael." Heh, love the callback to the name he tried with La Cuidad. Casey informs Chuck that the idea behind a stakeout is to remain inconspicuous. Chuck: "Hello! That's why I used an alias!" Hee. It's no dumber than most of the shit Sydney Bristow pulled, anyway. The three of them then see a limo pull up, and from inside the restaurant emerge a bunch of goons with an older guy in a wheelchair. Casey tells us that the guy's name is Ben Lo Pan, and he's a local businessman big-shot who owns half of Chinatown. He's also the guy who played the maitre d' on Seinfeld who told Jerry he'd have a table for him in "about ten minutes" on four hundred separate occasions in the same evening. God, I love that guy. Okay, fine, his surname is also a shout-out to the character, David Lo Pan, that the actor, James Hong, played in Big Trouble In Little China. I still like my reference better. ["I just want to add that James Hong has 318 credits in his IMDB profile, going back to 1955. That represents an average of a little more than six appearances per year, or a little more than one every two months, year in and year out, for more than fifty years. And in many cases, one of those 318 credits is actually a set of two or four or eight appearances on one show, meaning that in reality, he's probably been showing up somewhere on screen something like every six weeks since fifteen years before I was born. In case you think he might be slowing down now that he's 78 years old, he's already rung up seven 2007 credits, so he's right on target. Holy longevity, dude." -- Miss Alli]
Anyway, the goons load Lo Pan into the limo, and after they pull away, we see Mei-Ling appear and pursue it on a motorcycle. Our spies do likewise, but not before Casey puts a meat hook over Chuck's babbling face and pushes him back out of frame. Hee.
When everyone gets wherever they're going, Chuck focuses in on the weapons Mei-Ling is assembling and realizes they're Chinese Army-issue pistols. As she climbs up to a nearby roof, Chuck theorizes that she's there to assassinate Lo Pan, and Sarah realizes they can't afford to wait for the local law to arrive. Casey notes that it's paramount that they take Mei-Ling alive, and he and Sarah get out while ordering Chuck to pull the car around front and stay in it.
Morgan shows up at Ellie's, to her dismay; he whiningly tries to get her to help him in Chuck's stead, but she has less than no sympathy for him and kicks him out. Love her.
Chuck's in the car, hilariously trying to eat shrimp with chopsticks, talking to them, jamming to "Private Eyes" (which: HEE, not least because of the callback to Veronica Mars). He enthuses, "Stakeouts are kind of fun!" They are when you're on them, my boy.
Apparently, Lo Pan and company are in some crowded bar that's only accessible from an indoor hallway. The bouncer asks Sarah and Casey if they're on the list; not liking the way Casey reaches for his pocket, he draws a gun and orders them against the wall. Sarah tries to tell him his boss in is danger, but that doesn't go anywhere, so Casey takes the guy down. More efficient and more fun!
Lo Pan is at a table inside when Mei-Ling shows up. Sarah appears just in time to yell a warning before Mei-Ling starts shooting, and then it's chaos, compounded by the fact that Lo Pan's people think Sarah and Casey are on Mei-Ling's side. Sarah realizes this and warns Casey not to shoot to kill, causing him to snarl, "I hate being nice!" And that's why we love you. Well, that's Reason Number 57, anyway.
In the car, Chuck hears the gunshots, but for once he obeys orders and stays where he is.
Lo Pan makes it out to the front, but it seems like all the goons nearest to him have fallen, so Chuck gets out and wheels him to his car. Meanwhile, inside, a couple guys retrieve a bound and gagged Lee as Mei-Ling avoids getting shot with some acrobatic moves. Some of Lo Pan's goons eventually appear and help him into the car; Chuck thinks he did good until two guys appear with Lee and shove him in the trunk. I'm guessing they're showing their gratitude to Chuck by not tossing him in there as well. Mei-Ling then appears and shoots at the kidnappers, but they escape. She almost shoots Chuck too, but asks where they're taking Lee. He of course doesn't know -- he was just trying to help an old guy in a wheelchair..."who...puts people in trunks." Mei-Ling: "You idiot." I think he's actually gotten that one on his own. What he didn't know, however, is that Lo Pan is "Triad" -- Chinese Mafia, and he kidnapped her brother, whom she was trying to rescue. Chuck and Casey then appear, and Mei-Ling makes herself scarce. Chuck laments his role in FUBARing the operation: "I blew it!" Probably still better than an evening of Morgan, though.
When Chuck emerges from his place in the morning, Casey is waiting for him, and he tells him that Washington confirmed Mei-Ling's story -- her brother is a low-level Beijing bureaucrat who was on a business trip to L.A., and the Triad is now demanding the release of one of their captains from imprisonment in China. The government refused, and Mei-Ling went rogue in an attempt to retrieve her brother. Chuck asks what they do now, but Casey informs him that it's not their problem -- if the "Chi-Coms" don't even care about Lee, why should they? Chuck turns to Sarah, but she's of like mind -- she knows how Chuck feels, and she felt the same way when she started, "but the truth is we can't save everyone, Chuck." Chuck's got a look on his face like, "I'm having a bad enough day without you making me think of my springer spaniel again, okay?"
Morgan is looking at a whiteboard that's showing the current sales standings; there are six competitors, and Harry Tang is way, way ahead, but "John" (I can't get used to that) is tied for second, with Morgan bringing up the rear with a big fat zero. Lester gives him shit ("The idea here, Morgan, is to sell...things"), and Morgan babbles about not being able to eat, and see above re: not giving restaurant keys to Morgan. Morgan tells the guys that they need him, because if he gets fired, someone else will have to be the butt of jokes. "Let me tell you something, Jeff. You don't want to carry that mantle!" Jeff's eyes hilariously bug out in an "Oh, shit, he's right" expression, and this may not be the last time I say this but it's certainly the first: Well played, Morgan. Except for the part where they totally ditch him anyway.
Chuck answers the phone at his desk when Mei-Ling calls and says she's looking at him right now. He doesn't place her voice at first and asks who it is. "Let's just say you owe me for ruining my rescue operation. And I've fully reloaded those sweet Army pieces of mine, too." Okay, some of that was non-verbal. Chuck gets to his feet and looks Casey's way, but Casey apparently wants an iPhone more than I might have guessed, if the way he's hard-selling some customer is any indication. Mei-Ling tells him that if he signals his friend, it will be the last thing he ever does, and "by the way, nice mustard stain." Hee. Chuck looks down to see that there is in fact a big yellow spot on his tie, and Mei-Ling then informs him that her brother has only nine hours before the Triad executes him, and she wants Chuck's help in rescuing him. Morgan appears, and Chuck is uncharacteristically unindulgent with him, which can happen when it's all you can do not to void your bowels at any moment. He tries to protest that he just fixes computers and can't really help, but Mei-Ling notes that Chuck has a team watching his every move. "You can help and you will." She hangs up, and when Casey passes, Chuck asks him if he wants a hot dog. Casey swivels quizzically. Chuck: "It's an emergency."
Over at Weinerlicious (I love how this place is always deserted; it's like the library on Buffy), Chuck is wondering if they could get Mei-Ling to defect if they helped her. He rattles off some movies in which people defected -- The Hunt For Red October and White Nights. Casey: "Well, as long as you've done serious research on the subject." Hee. Sarah wonders why he's bringing it up, causing Chuck to confess about the phone call from Mei-Ling, which in turn sends Casey and Sarah scurrying back to Buy More...
...but there's no trace of Mei-Ling. Meanwhile, Chuck apologizes to Morgan for the night before, but Morgan is graceless about it, and says he's working a double shift that night in an effort not to get fired. Boo-hoo. Jeff then sends Chuck to the storage cage to sign for a delivery. Soon after, Casey asks Jeff where Chuck is, and is dismayed to hear the answer, as deliveries usually come at six. Jeff guesses they came early, but no one with more than three working brain cells really thinks that could have happened. And sure enough, it's Mei-Ling who's waiting for Chuck, as she points one of those sweet silver pistols at him. He stutters that he hopes it's not real, but she jabs it into his stomach and asks, "Real enough?" Probably best to move on to a different topic, dude.
Chuck babbles something about defecting before Casey and Sarah appear. Mei-Ling claps her gun to Chuck's head, and there's a standoff and more talk about defecting; Mei-Ling says she could never go back to China again if she did, which means she'd never see her brother, but Chuck points out that she'll be in the same situation if he dies, and might feel slightly worse about it. Eventually, she lets Chuck go without damaging a hair on his pretty geeky head...
...and then she's showing everyone on a map the spot where her intel indicates her brother is now being held, which is near the center of Lo Pan's mansion. Casey thinks that getting out will be the tricky part, as Lo Pan has his own private army of security guards. "When those alarms go, they're gonna be on us like white on -- " "Thank you, Casey," Sarah finishes. Hee.
Speaking of things that can lay the hurt on you if you cross them, Ellie arrives home, in a good mood because she and Chuck will be spending the evening together. Chuck's cell then rings, prompting Ellie to pull a face. However, when Chuck finishes and tells her that his co-worker "John Casey" needs some decorating tips from a guy, Ellie lets him go, saying that they have a couple hours before dinner and she should focus on the kitchen anyway. In fact, she gives Chuck some of her "special guacamole" to take with him. Aw! And just as well Chuck didn't say Sarah would be there -- guacamole and a spastic colon do not mix. Sarah: "Just make sure to keep it away from Sarah, though -- this is definitely not good for her spastic colon." All right, it was funny the first time, but now I'm starting to get pissed. This job's hard enough without you stepping on my real-time punch lines, show! Chuck promises he'll be back by eight. Oh, Chuck.
The three spies have set up Ops Central at Casey's place; Sarah mentions the make of the security cameras Lo Pan has at his place and mentions it's an older model. Casey and Mei-Ling aren't familiar with it, but Chuck is -- they used to sell them at Buy More (haven't we almost been here before?), and he did some installations a few years back. Mei-Ling's like, 'Oh, good, you're in, then," but Chuck gabs about his plans for a while. Mei-Ling just stares at him incredulously, like, "You have plans with a sibling? Must be nice, huh?" and Chuck uses his babbling to work up to the fact that he owes Mei-Ling and has to accompany them. Sarah says okay, but under no circumstances is he to leave the van. Honey, it's only the fifth episode and I'm already tired of hearing you say that. It's not gonna happen. Chuck says he just needs to be home by eight, "if that's at all possible." Hee.
Mansion. The spies infiltrate. Chuck gets in the front seat and puts on headphones so they can communicate. Casey hacks into the cameras using the information about them that Chuck provided, and when the images all pop up in the van, Chuck exclaims, "Ho! We have liftoff!" He wouldn't be cuter even with a baby rabbit on his shoulder.
Back at Buy More, Morgan again approaches Lester and Jeff for help. They wonder if interfering would be an affront to Darwinism, but when he offers them half his pizza if he gets second place, they turn to each other: "The wounded raccoon!" I'm guessing we'll find out soon enough. Morgan then goes up to a pretty, friendly woman; she's a little concerned about the price of some product, but decides to get it anyway for her sick nephew. However, Morgan has a good-guy attack and tells her it's on sale at Large Mart, and she could save fifty bucks. She's thrilled, and in gratitude, gives him her card and tells him to call her for a coffee date sometime. Just then, however, Jeff and Lester come up and call him weak and pathetic, and say that if he spent his time selling instead of "trolling for phone numbers," he wouldn't be flat broke and living with his mother. The scales have jumped onto the woman's eyes, and she asks for her number back and stalks off; when she's gone, Morgan asks what the hell that was. Jeff and Lester explain that "the wounded raccoon" is a technique that consists of berating the salesman in front of the customer, so that she feels so bad for him she'll buy anything. Jeff: "Always wondered if it worked. Guess not." Lester: "No, it does not." Hee. And, aw! I felt bad for Morgan! Not sure if that means there's hope for him, for me, or both of us, but at least there's hope!
Sarah informs Chuck that the guards are now looking at a static loop. Ooh, Sarah's seen Speed! She tells him that he's their eyes, and if there's any trouble, he should let them know. Maybe it's just my TV, but I see trouble in that the screens on the van are making pale Sarah look like Grace Jones. Chuck directs Casey to a lone guard, and then winces when Casey smack-fus him. Everything's going well until Chuck loses the visual on all the security cameras; he can only see through Casey's "lipstick camera," and what he sees is his allies quickly getting taken. Lo Pan gloats that Mei-Ling's timing is perfect, as the Chinese government refused his final offer for her brother. He has said brother tossed at her feet (still alive, at least) and says it's convenient that he now has two American agents with which to barter. The goons take Casey's headset, and having lost his last visual, Chuck climbs into the driver's seat and sees Sarah and Casey being marched out of the mansion.
Sarah and Casey exchange A Look, and Sarah purposely trips and falls, giving Casey the opportunity to talk into his watch; he tells Chuck not to speak, as he can't hear him anyway, but to go home. It's nice that he's primarily worried about Chuck's safety, but if it's after eight now, Chuck might as well stay involved, because Ellie will be roasting him on a spit no matter when he gets home. Everyone piles into the van, and when Chuck realizes they're headed for the Bamboo Dragon, he tails them...
...successfully enough, it seems. He looks in the back entrance to see the spies getting shut into the walk-in; his phone then rings, and it's of course Ellie, but he declines to take it, moaning that she's going to kill him. If you're lucky, she'll lead with that. I mean, she's ten times scarier without Captain Awesome around to take the edge off. He then sees the fireworks vendor and gets An Idea.
Meanwhile, Ellie is leaving Chuck a guilt-inspiring message; just as she finishes, Morgan turns up. She sighs that Chuck's never missed Mother's Day before, and while all that she wanted was for him to meet a great girl, now that he has, she never sees him. Morgan sincerely tells Ellie that while Chuck's been through some really hard times, she got him through that, and no one knows that better than Chuck. Ellie smiles in spite of herself, and asks how things are at work for Morgan. He tells her they're awful, "thank you for asking" (heh), and explains about the sales competition and how he's going to get fired. Ellie wonders if that's necessary, but Morgan says he and Chuck always complain about how boring Buy More is, so he's going to do the honorable thing. "Fire myself." Ellie asks if he means he's going to resign. Morgan: "That sounds better, I guess." Hee. Hey, if Ellie can grin goofily in Morgan's presence, I can crack a smile, right?
Chuck, scared out of his wits, lights a big rocket and puts it back in the bag with its friends, tosses the kit and kaboodle in the front seat of the Bamboo Dragon van, and hides. When the fireworks all ignite, the goons come running out, and Chuck takes advantage of the diversion to sneak in and free Lee and the spies. Chuck and Lee take cover as the spies literally use everything but the kitchen sink in dealing with the goons, but Chuck notes that no one is paying attention to Lo Pan, who's getting away. He goes and grabs him: "Forget it, Ben. It's Chinatown. Did you ever see that movie?" HEE hee hee. Lo Pan, for his part, holds his head like it's not the first time he's heard that. Very soon, it's over...
...and Chuck's arriving home. Ellie's waiting up, and she tells him she's figured it out -- he hasn't had a girlfriend in a long time, and he's in love. However, it is so not cool the way he's lying, missing their most important day, and by the way, did he know that Morgan's about to be fired? Chuck profusely apologizes, and Ellie tells him he's a good person, and he shouldn't lose that. He begs her to reschedule Mother's Day for the day, even though it's "ridiculously unorthodox" and it's totally his fault, "but, I mean, it is our holiday, so I think we could make up our own rules?" Aw. Ellie agrees on the promise that Chuck will be there, and tells him that if there's anything going on with him, he can tell her. Chuck takes a long moment to consider that, but merely nods. As comedic as this show is generally, it's doing a good job of weaving these dramatic elements in. In straight comedy, no one, particularly the lead, ever gets hurt. But Chuck, despite being a goofy, resilient guy, is getting hurt, in increments, and it'll be interesting to see just how far that goes. Anyway...
...Morgan goes in to see Big Mike and give his resignation letter. Big Mike isn't particularly fazed, or really particularly anything other than into his Game Boy, and then Lester comes in and tells Morgan a big spender is waiting for him...
...and it's Ellie, who says she knows what she's getting Chuck and Devin (he's already not in the episode; would it have killed you to say Captain Awesome?) for their birthdays, so she figured she'd get the shopping out of the way. Her total is $733.42, and she gives Morgan the credit with a big smile. He tells her he loves her, and it's not even creepy, and then he goes running over to Big Mike to tell him he's not quitting, and he got second place. However, Big Mike had no intention of accepting his resignation, as he's the only "Hispanic" on the sales team. "You quit, the affirmative action goons will be all over my ass." Hee. In addition, there never were any prizes, and no one was ever getting fired. "The competition was to get you bums to work harder. Looks like it worked!" Heh. Ellie gives Morgan another smile, which he bravely returns all, "Looks like I wasted that favor." At least from now on, she's not going to begrudge you all the free food you scam from her, dude.
As Mei-Ling hugs her brother off to the side, Chuck apologizes to Casey and Sarah for not going home when they told him to. However, Casey notes that he turned one of China's top spies, and Sarah adds that he helped save her brother. "So good work, Chuck." He beams, and then Mei-Ling joins them and adds her thanks. Chuck aw-shuckses that it was nothing, and then asks her to sign a form saying she was happy with the level of computer service he provided. Hee.
Chuck again arrives home to find Morgan there, and Chuck's all stammery about how it's Mother's Day until Ellie appears and says it's okay -- she invited him. Chuck's happy to see their détente, and when Morgan goes into the kitchen, she confesses that they bonded over an "I miss Chuck" moment. I can understand that. Chuck asks where "Awesome" (THERE we go) is, and Ellie says he couldn't get off work, but when there's a knock at the door, she tells him it must be Sarah. After brother and sister bond a bit more, Chuck gets the door, and it is in fact Sarah. She asks what the deal is with Mother's Day, and Chuck soberly tells her it's the anniversary of the day their mom..."left us. Our dad was here, but he was never really here. So now, every year we celebrate the day we learned to take care of ourselves." Ellie adds that they also learned to rely on each other, and soon everyone's got a drink, and Chuck says they'll need more champagne...
...and later, Chuck's outside, telling Morgan he heard about him coming in second. Morgan babbles about how he's going to marry Ellie, but she appears behind him, and when he figures that out, he makes himself scarce. Chuck and Ellie toast to Mother's Day, and we're out. Man. This show always hits you in the last two minutes!