A man in a blue button-down shirt is being tortured by a man in a stripey button-down shirt. Mr. Blue doesn't know who the other guy is, but Mr. Stripey doesn't care. He has dosed Mr. Blue with a handy concoction that is both poison and truth serum. (Kind of like Palmolive for the young poisoner set.) Mr. Stripey's magic potion takes effect, and Mr. Blue spills that he knows where to find the codes.
Chuck and Sarah are prepping. They don't know if it is too dangerous; they are not sure they are ready. They are also joking, because they aren't rescuing the guy -- they are getting their cover story straight for dinner with Ellie and Awesome! Oh, those two. Their fake date recap is interrupted when Sarah's boss busts into the broom closet where they are hiding for some reason. Acting quickly, Sarah throws Chuck on the ground and pretends they were dry-docking in the closet. Uh, not really better than just talking. The manager is unimpressed and tells Sarah that when "Herr Weinerlicious" signs her paychecks, he is not factoring in five minutes in heaven. Sarah apologizes to Chuck, but Chuck is so stunned with hormones that he is frozen like Kim Cattrall in Mannequin.
Back at the Buy More, Chuck is daydreaming when Rachel Bilson storms in. Oh, Rachel Bilson! I'm so glad Josh Schwartz owns your perky ass and can make you show up on whatever show he's working on. So, Rachel Bilson shows up with a broken Blackberry that contains her entire life. She is panicking, but Chuck, being smooth, suave, and technologically inclined, talks her down. She is freaking out; her whole life is on the phone. He tells her to go to her happy place. Her happy place is a grilled turkey and Muenster sandwich. Which I assume is sort of like the Land of Dairy Queen? But with rivers of cheese instead of chocolate? And turkey instead of tumbling strawberries? Anyway, her name is Lou, and she owns a deli in the mall and often thinks of meats and cheeses. Obviously, Chuck is smitten. He tells her to come back tomorrow and he will have her phone fixed. She leaves without giving him any information or getting a claim slip or anything. Just another example of the fine customer service at the old Buy More chain. Morgan totally busts Chuck for "mind cheating" on his fake girlfriend. He doesn't blame Chuck, though, because Rachel Bilson has hair like licorice that he just wants to chew on it. Hair-chewing? I guess that would explain the beard.
Mr. Blue has stumbled out of captivity and onto a crowded city sidewalk. He heads straight to a mailbox, falls to the ground, and plucks a necklace from the bottom of the mailbox. He thanks God that his codes are safe.
Chuck and Sarah are on their fake date with Ellie and Awesome at a sushi bar. I guess because it is a fake date, they have opted to sit at the counter in a row instead of at a table talking to each other. Chuck orders a crab handroll for Sarah, because he knows she likes them from Kaplan Fake Date Prep beforehand. Awesome thinks it's cute how old-fashioned they are, but he's not talking about the ordering. Oh, no. He is talking about the fact that they haven't made sweet sweet love yet. Ellie looks intrigued. Yeah, I talk about that stuff with my siblings, like, um, never. As Awesome continues embarrassing everyone at the counter, Ellie offers Sarah some edamame, Sarah wipes something off Ellie's sleeve, and Chuck asks if Ellie is ever going to retire her sweater. Nice work, team! Olympic-quality subject-changing. Ellie says that she is keeping her sweater, because it is her lucky sweater and she met Awesome when he asked if LL Bean stole the color from her eyes. Which is a really odd pick-up line, but whatever works. As they stand outside the restaurant, Mr. Blue stumbles down the sidewalk in front of them and collapses. Doctor Ellie springs into action and gets the guy into an ambulance. Chuck is so proud that he shouts her full name to the crowd and, of course, to Mr. Stripey, who is standing right there. Traffic grinds to a halt as everyone rubbernecks at the stupidity of that scene. Finally, a TV Cop pulls up and gets traffic going: Move it along, folks. Totally normal plot contrivance! Nothing to see here! They had to make the plot work somehow! Ellie shoves Mr. Blue's wallet at Chuck and tells him to look for a medical ID. When Chuck pulls it from the wallet, he flashes on it. Mr. Blue is not such a nice guy. And he has just slipped the necklace with the codes into Ellie's lucky sweater.
Chuck and Sarah are at the apartment, anxiously waiting for Ellie to get back from the hospital. Captain Awesome is exer-cycling in the background, which is a great thing to do when you have company. Since Sarah is at the apartment past curfew, Awesome gives Chuck a sex pep talk since its been a while since he "took his bike out for a ride" and he needs to "keep his chain oiled." And...ew. Ellie walks in and saves us all from further Awesomeness. Ellie announces that although they tried everything, the guy died. When Ellie retires to bed, Chuck tells Sarah that his real life and his spy life are getting too close for comfort. Sarah tells him to chill and then calmly announces that it is time they made love. You know, for the sake of the cover. That may be a worse line than the one about LL Bean. But, you know, whatever works.
The morning, the lady top-brass NSA/CIA general is filling Sarah and Casey in on the five Ws of Mr. Blue. He was a programmer for a top-secret program called Sanctuary, and he disappeared with all the details for the entire nuclear arsenal embedded on a chip. This does not make him a bad man, though, according to Lady Top Brass. Sarah says that Chuck is not wrong very often. Casey points out that Chuck is, however, annoying all the time. Heh. He said it. Lady Top Brass tells Sarah to take Chuck to the morgue and see what there is to be seen with Mr. Blue.
Back at Buy More, Morgan is back from lunch on time, because Big Mike has him working on this week's lame subplot. This time, it's a "top secret" project involving helping Harry Tang's wife pick out an anniversary present. Harry Tang's wife turns out to be the wife of Francis from Malcolm In The Middle. She's pretty funny for an Asian stereotype. She's buying a plasma TV for a man who works in an electronics store. She gives Morgan a hug that is captured on tape by two of the Nerd Herders.
Rachel Bilson is back, and she wants the verdict on her phone. When Chuck tells her it's fine, she is so excited that she doesn't seem to notice that Chuck went through all her contacts and found the number for her "Nana." Instead of thinking it is totally stalker-creepy, Rachel Bilson gives Chuck a sandwich. It's the turkey and Muenster on egg bread from her safe place. She's named it after him. He is honored. Sarah interrupts his mind-cheat on their fake relationship. Chuck gets flustered, and Sarah introduces herself to Lou as Chuck's girlfriend. Rachel Bilson tells him to refrigerate his sandwich because she doesn't want "the Chuck" to make him sick. There's got to be an upchuck joke in their somewhere, but I am too lazy to make it. And apparently, so were the writers. Sarah tells him to get a move on, because they are headed to the morgue.