Casey: General, is the agency asking us to commit fraud?
General Beckman: No, that would mean the CIA has some knowledge of your mission.
General Beckman: No, that would mean the CIA has some knowledge of your mission.
Sarah's father comes for a visit. His latest con involves a sheikh with possible terrorist ties. When the sheikh shows up, the Team must help her father to pull off the con. Meanwhile, Anna makes a suggestion that forces Morgan to consider making more mature decisions. Is he ready?
Trope Flash:
- Commitment Issues: Anna wants to move in with Morgan, who isn't sure he wants to take such a huge step. Awesome loans him the money, which Morgan recklessly spends on a DeLorean instead. Anna finds out and by the end of the episode is no longer speaking to him, although it's not clear that they've broken up.Awesome: You have exactly one day to get my money back to me or I pluck you from head to toe!
Anna: Start with the groin. He won't be using that region for while! - Could Say It, But...: The team's mission is to use Sarah's father to con a sheikh who has ties to terrorist activities, so the CIA can track and freeze his accounts. Although, as General Beckman states, the CIA certainly has no idea of what they're doing.
- Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Chuck is sure Jack Burton's intentions are good towards his daughter. Sarah is less certain. Sarah seems validated when her father switches out the account information during the con and disappears with the money. However, when Chuck checks his account balance later, he finds there's ten million in there that he didn't have before. Sarah's father used Chuck's details in the con, effectively making a ten million dollar bet that he wouldn't betray Sarah.Sarah: Chuck, you're attributing good intentions to him because you're a good person.
Chuck: Well, he must've done something right. You turned out pretty good. - Guile Hero:
- Chuck proves himself to be this trope by posing as the fictitious Von Liechtenstein when Sarah and her father are confronted by the sheikh and his goons, thus saving their lives and allowing the further con to go ahead. This impresses Sarah's father, who until then has been calling him "Schnuck" and is sceptical that Sarah isn't conning him.
- He does it again later when Jack is kidnapped by the sheikh and threatened with death unless Sarah returns the money. Chuck follows her to the meet and offers the sheikh his money back by giving him a laptop to enter his account information into, thus giving the CIA the information they were after in the first place.
Casey: Decent plan, Bartowski. Of course, I'll never tell him that. - Instantly Proven Wrong: Awesome lends Morgan money to move in with Anna, because he believes he's ready for adulthood. Morgan immediately spends it on a DeLorean that barely runs.
- Refuge in Audacity: Jack Burton's motto could be the page quote.Jack Burton: The bigger the lie, the easier it is to believe.
- Shoot the Hostage: When the sheikh has Sarah's father hostage, she shoots him in the shoulder to get him out of the way.Sarah: He's my father. Imagine what I'll do to you.
- Shout-Out:
- Morgan buys a DeLorean, like the one in Back to the Future.
- The titular car is introduced with the same music as the Ferrari in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
- Sarah's father's con involves pretending to sell property on behalf of a European billionaire, Von Liechtenstein, echoes A Knight's Tale, where the name was used for a fictitious nobleman.
- Chuck's German accent when posing as Von Liechtenstein is described as sounding like Colonel Klink.
- The con is to sell the Nakamichi Plaza, a reference to Die Hard which takes place in Nakatomi Plaza.
- Jack Burton is the name of Kurt Russell's character in Big Trouble in Little China.
- So Proud of You: Sarah doesn't want her conman father to know she's in the CIA because she doesn't think he'd be happy about that. At the end, her father asks Chuck if Sarah is "some sort of cop." Chuck confirms she is, and her father says she turned out well despite his influence.
