Casey: Common spy problem.
Chuck and Jill are (secretly) back on, and Sarah is completely fine with it. Jill meanwhile has her doubts, partly about Casey watching the pair's every move but also that Chuck and Sarah's Fake Relationship is completely fake. It doesn't help when General Beckman sends the two Undercover as Lovers to find something very important in Guy LaFleur's hotel room: a list of CIA agents that LaFleur dealt with, effectively a list of Fulcrum agents.
At the Buy More, Emmet is on the warpath. He can't help noticing the large number of offsite installations carried out by one Chuck Bartowski, without the proper paperwork submitted. It doesn't help that he approaches Chuck just as Morgan is telling him all about the illegal game copier he just bought.
Chuck struggles in the Air-Vent Passageway into the hotel room, resulting in a Pocket Dial to Jill that makes her decide to come to the hotel and check what's happening. Meanwhile, Chuck finds a Venetian puzzle box that shoots an aerosolised something all over him and Sarah. Assuming it's poison, they strip off and get in the shower to wash it off... just in time to get caught by Jill.
Casey runs an analysis on the aerosolised substance, which turns out to be... powdered fruit punch. Chuck leaves frantic messages for Jill, finally getting a chance to explain what she really walked in on. Amazingly, she believes him; LaFleur was paranoid, and used puzzles for everything. Realising Jill can help find the list, Chuck brings her into the base.
Emmet's investigation of Chuck intensifies, with his friends questioned and their poker night threatened. Morgan refuses to talk, but when he sees Chuck and Jill sneaking off together he accidentally blurts out everything Emmet wants to know.
The punch turns out to be a particular brand high in Vitamin C. A "high C" note makes the puzzle box open to reveal a set of opera glasses with a hidden key. The team find another box at the opera house, which opens to reveal a bomb that Chuck and Jill defuse by arranging blocks with musical notes, finally revealing the list.
Triumphant, Chuck and Jill make plans to steal away on a romantic weekend. But on the way, disaster strikes: Jill is kidnapped by a Fulcrum agent looking for the list, and if Chuck doesn't bring the list to the opera house he'll kill her. A frantic Chuck returns to the base to beg for Casey's help. Casey refuses to give up the list (because, y'know, that's treason), so Chuck grabs it and runs.
Emmet crashes poker night, leaving himself vulnerable to Morgan's countermove of getting him drunk and filming what he does, which is break into Big Mike's office. Blackmail material secured, Morgan is content that Chuck is safe from Emmet... for now.
Chuck arrives at the opera house with the list. Sarah and Casey arrive to stop him, but Chuck hands over the list and gets a terrified but unhurt Jill in return. The agent smashes the list and leaves, but Chuck has a surprise for Casey: the list, copied using Morgan's game copier.
Sarah and Casey run the list through the computer, while Chuck and Jill get down to some... celebrating. Files on the listed Fulcrum agents flash up on the agents' computer screen, including someone they recognise: Jill. They run to Chuck's apartment to get her, only to find that she and Chuck have already left for their weekend.
The episode ends on Chuck and Jill driving off into the sunset, alone at last...
Trope Flash:
- Air-Vent Passageway: Chuck struggles through one of these to reach LaFleur's hotel room, resulting in a Pocket Dial to Jill, who is thoroughly confused by what she hears and goes to the hotel to find out what's going on.
- Chekhov's Gun: Morgan's Q-36 game copier, which can ignore all forms of copy protection. That probably won't be important later...
- Cliffhanger: Jill and Chuck drive away on their romantic weekend, just as Sarah and Casey realise that Jill works for Fulcrum.
- Foreshadowing: That Jill works for Fulcrum.
- When Jill answers her Pocket Dial from Chuck, we can clearly see she's alone in Chuck's apartment. Why is she there? Because she's taking the chance for some snooping.
- When Chuck asks Casey for help, he's told that the Fulcrum agent will kill Jill no matter what. However, once he has the list he hands Jill over safely with no trouble.
- I Have Your Wife: The unnamed Fulcrum agent takes Jill hostage so Chuck will bring him the list.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: Chuck has just finished a speech reassuring Jill that spy work isn't at all glamourous or sexy... only for them to walk in on Sarah in her escort disguise.
- Irony: The episode opens on Chuck and Jill being spied on by Casey, with Sarah asking him how much trouble even Chuck could get in on a date. The episode ends with Sarah and Casey frantically searching for Chuck as he unknowingly drives away with Jill, a Fulcrum agent.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Sarah is taking this view of Chuck getting back together with Jill. Because he's just her asset and not anything else.
- Mistaken for Cheating: Chuck, briefly, by Jill. He's amazed when she believes his explanation.
- Not What It Looks Like: Jill walks in on Chuck and Sarah coming out of the shower together in their underwear and jumps to the obvious conclusion. In fact, they were blasted with an unknown substance and were washing it off on the assumption it was poison.
- Shout-Out:
- At the opera house, the bomb timer stops on 0:07, as they frequently do in James Bond.
- What's Opera, Doc? is playing on the Buy More wall of TVs.
- Spotting the Thread: Emmet Milbarge is the first person to ask why Chuck goes on so many more callouts than anyone else. Pulling on this thread gets him blackmailed to back off by Morgan.
- Take a Third Option: Chuck can let a kidnapped Jill die, or give up the list of Fulcrum agents. Or secretly copy the list and then give it up, which is what he does.
