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* NeckLift:: Casey does it to Chuck when he refers to him as "Sugar Bear".

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When Chuck flashes on a veritable "bad-guy convention" of Russian arms dealers at a local hotel, he also discovers a woman, Ilsa Trinchina, who is romantically linked with one Colonel John Casey... a.k.a. "Sugar Bear." Despite having apparently died some years earlier, it turns out Ilsa is there to marry the head arms dealer, Victor Federov. She's also a French agent working to bring Federov down.

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When Chuck flashes on a veritable "bad-guy convention" of Russian arms dealers at a local hotel, he also discovers a woman, Ilsa Trinchina, Trinchina (Creator/IvanaMilicevic), who is romantically linked with one Colonel John Casey... a.k.a. "Sugar Bear." Despite having apparently died some years earlier, it turns out Ilsa is there to marry the head arms dealer, Victor Federov.Federov (Creator/PavelLychnikoff). She's also a French agent working to bring Federov down.



As the wedding commences, Casey starts heckling Federov's goons, resulting in a fight that ends with Chuck and Casey plunging out of the hotel room window and into the swimming pool. The team arrest Federov and the other arms dealers.

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As the wedding commences, Casey starts heckling Federov's goons, resulting in a fight that ends with Chuck and Casey plunging out of the hotel room window and into the swimming pool. The team arrest arrested Federov and the other arms dealers.



* AgentsDating: Casey and his LoveInterest Ilsa, who's a French spy. Humorously, they actually started their relationship without knowing either of them was a spy, to the point Casey believed her dead for years. But even after their reencounter, they only spend a brief time together before departing, since their jobs prevent any actual relationship.
* AmnesiacLover: Ilsa pretends to be this to Casey at first, having survived the terrorist attack he thought she died in, but losing her memory in the process.
* ArmsDealer: The VillainOfTheWeek (and Ilsa's husband-to-be) is a Russian arms dealer.



* BlackTieInfiltration: Chuck and Sarah infiltrate the wedding party as waiters.



* ComeBackToBedHoney: The episode begins with a {{flashback}} of Casey and Ilsa's life in Chechnya, with him trying to lure her back into bed as she leaves in the morning for work.
* CompromisingCall: Sarah calls Chuck reveals him to Casey and Ilsa while he's hiding in her room.
* DeepCoverAgent: Ilsa's specialty as a spy in going deep undercover, in {{flashback}} she posed as an AP photographer and in the present day she has [[HoneyTrap seduced and is set to marry her mark]].



* FakingTheDead: Federov plans to use Casey's body as a stand-in for his own when his and Ilsa's aeroplane tragically goes down on the way to the honeymoon.

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* FakingTheDead: FakingTheDead:
** Casey was led to believe that Ilsa had died in a terrorist bombing in Chechnya when the cafe across the street from their hotel blew up, but she was actually faking her dead, since she was actually a spy.
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Federov plans to use Casey's body as a stand-in for his own when his and Ilsa's aeroplane airplane tragically goes down on the way to the honeymoon.honeymoon.
* FemmeFataleSpy: Ilsa clearly specializes in being the seductive type of spy.
* FistOfRage: While an obnoxious Buy More client is pestering a pissed-off Casey, we get a shot of Casey's fist while it is shaking in rage.
* FoeCooties: Casey is ''not'' pleased to find out his old love is marrying a Russian mobster. When he's forced to hide under the bed as Ilsa and Victor make out, he becomes so jealous he pulls out a gun, but Chuck stops him from firing it. Thankfully for Casey, Victor is drunk and passes out, so he's not forced to hear Ilsa have sex with another man.



* ShoutOut: Casey asks Federov's goons if they learned to tie people up in a ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' cartoon.
* SickeningSweethearts: Ilsa's pet name for Casey is "Sugar Bear."
* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: {{Lampshaded}} by Casey, who makes a crack about objecting to the wedding.

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* ShoutOut: HoneyTrap: Ilsa is actually a DGSE (French secret service) spy who's seducing and marrying her target, the Russian ArmsDealer Victor Federov.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Ellie and Awesome mull over what to purchase as an anniversary gift at the Buy More. Ellie leaves telling Awesome to "surprise" her, strongly hinting he should buy the television. He buys the washing machine instead because he thought that'd be the most "surprising" choice.
* InterruptedIntimacy: While Chuck is investigating Ilsa's room, he's forced to hide under the bed when Ilsa and Casey come in while making out and fall into bed clearly starting to have sex. Chuck awkwardly listens in for a while, until a [[phone call from Sarah]] reveals him to both. To make matters more awkward, her fiancee starts to come in soon after, forcing Chuck and Casey to hide under the bed.
* MadeOfIron: A Russian thug ''injures his hand'' by punching Casey in the face.
* NeckLift:: Casey does it to Chuck when he refers to him as "Sugar Bear".
* NewOldFlame: Ilsa was Casey's LoveInterest in the past, who he assumed was [[LostLenore dead]] and becomes his GirlOfTheWeek for the duration of the episode.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Chuck and Casey accidentally [[UndercoverCopReveal expose the fact]] Ilsa is a HoneyTrap to her mobster husband, who now is planning to kill her in revenge, forcing Chuck and Casey to have to rescue her.
* ReturningTheWeddingRing: Not a wedding ring, but Ilsa returns to Casey the pendant he gave her the night of the terrorist attack he thought she died in. She kept it with her all those years, but returns it to him to clarify the end of their romance.
* SexySurfacingShot: Chuck and Casey are thrown into a pool next to Ilsa's wedding ceremony. Cue a shot of Casey climbing out of the pool in a full ([[SexySoakedShirt wet]]) tuxedo with music blaring dramatically. Ilsa is [[EatingTheEyeCandy obviously very impressed by the sight]].
* ShoutOut:
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Casey asks Federov's goons if they learned to tie people up in a ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' cartoon.
** The episode contains a bunch for ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''
*** The first name of Casey's NewOldFlame is Ilsa, just like the LoveInterest character in the film.
*** In the scene in the Buy More where Ilsa and Casey talk, ''Casablanca'' is playing on a TV in the background the whole time.
*** In the end of the episode, Chuck tells Casey "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship", which is a line from the film, with even the angle and scene composition being the same.
* SickeningSweethearts: Ilsa's pet name for Casey is "Sugar Bear."[[EmbarrassingNickname Sugar Bear]]."
* SoftWater: Chuck and Casey fall a large number of stories into a hotel swimming pool. Casey immediately strides [[SexySurfacingShot dramatically out of the pool]] in his tuxedo to break up his long-lost lover's wedding. Also, they were tied together by chairs.
* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: {{Lampshaded}} by Casey, who makes a crack about objecting to the wedding.wedding.
* StereotypeFlip: Ellie and Awesome want to buy an anniversary gift, but spend time arguing over what it should be--either a large-scale TV or a washer[=/=]dryer combo. Guess who wants what.
--> '''Ellie:''' Think of all the great things we can ''watch''!\\
'''Devon:''' Think of all the great things we can ''wash''!
* TakeThat: When Jeff brags that he found Creator/TaraReid's phone number while he was supposed to be working, Chuck asks "who ''doesn't'' have her phone number?" before chastising him.
* UndercoverCopReveal: Since Victor keeps Ilsa wired, when she confesses she's a spy to Casey and Chuck, he ends up finding out as well, and plans to kill her off as revenge.
* VillainOfTheWeek: Victor Federov, a Russian oligarch, ArmsDealer and mob boss who's marrying Casey's old LoveInterest.
* WholePlotReference: The main plot is one to ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''. Cynical lone wolf Casey reopens an old wound when he unexpectedly encounters his NewOldFlame ''Ilsa'' and finds that she's about to marry ''Victor'', the movie plays in the background at the Buy More when Ilsa comes to meet Casey, and at the end, after Ilsa leaves on a plane, Chuck says, "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
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Unfortunately, Federov is onto Ilsa, having bugged her necklace. Realising this, Chuck and Casey rush to the hotel to help her... only to be taken prisoner by Federov.

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Unfortunately, Federov is onto Ilsa, having bugged her necklace. Realising this, Chuck and Casey rush to the hotel to help her... only to be taken prisoner by Federov.
Federov. He plans to marry Ilsa, then use Casey to fake his own death by plane crash on the way to the honeymoon.

As the wedding commences, Casey starts heckling Federov's goons, resulting in a fight that ends with Chuck and Casey plunging out of the hotel room window and into the swimming pool. The team arrest Federov and the other arms dealers.

Meanwhile, friction breaks out between Ellie and Awesome when they agree to go in on one big anniversary gift... but disagree over what that gift should be.



* BeserkButton:
* DrowningYourSorrows:
* FakingTheDead:
* GrievousHarmWithABody:
* SickeningSweethearts:
* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace:

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* BeserkButton:
BedmateReveal: Ellie is horrified to discover Morgan in bed with her after a night of [[DrowningMySorrows drowning her relationship sorrows]]. However, they're both fully clothed, and Morgan is only there because she was too upset to be left alone.
* DrowningYourSorrows:
BerserkButton: Ilsa is this trope to Casey, as Chuck finds out after some InnocentlyInsensitive jokes about the nickname "Sugar Bear."
* FakingTheDead:
ChekhovsGun: When you see the swimming pool through the hotel room window, you just ''know'' someone's going in there.
* GrievousHarmWithABody:
DrowningMySorrows:
** Casey deals with Ilsa's true identity with a healthy combination of scotch, cigars and Music/NeilDiamond.
-->'''Casey:''' Here's to John Casey dodgin' another bullet!
** When she and Awesome fight, Ellie gets pretty... upset over it. Wine is involved.
-->'''Ellie:''' I just feel like I have both feet in, and Devon only has one foot in, so it's just me looking after all three feet, you know? And I want it to be both of us, looking after FOUR feet!
* SickeningSweethearts:
FakingTheDead: Federov plans to use Casey's body as a stand-in for his own when his and Ilsa's aeroplane tragically goes down on the way to the honeymoon.
* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace:GrievousHarmWithABody: As he and Chuck are tied back to back, Casey uses Chuck's legs as a flail-type weapon in the climactic fight with Federov's goons.
* ShoutOut: Casey asks Federov's goons if they learned to tie people up in a ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' cartoon.
* SickeningSweethearts: Ilsa's pet name for Casey is "Sugar Bear."
* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: {{Lampshaded}} by Casey, who makes a crack about objecting to the wedding.
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->''Is it too late to object to this wedding?''
-->-'''Casey'''

When Chuck flashes on a veritable "bad-guy convention" of Russian arms dealers at a local hotel, he also discovers a woman, Ilsa Trinchina, who is romantically linked with one Colonel John Casey... a.k.a. "Sugar Bear." Despite having apparently died some years earlier, it turns out Ilsa is there to marry the head arms dealer, Victor Federov. She's also a French agent working to bring Federov down.

Unfortunately, Federov is onto Ilsa, having bugged her necklace. Realising this, Chuck and Casey rush to the hotel to help her... only to be taken prisoner by Federov.

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* BeserkButton:
* DrowningYourSorrows:
* FakingTheDead:
* GrievousHarmWithABody:
* SickeningSweethearts:
* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace:

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