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 (Ivana Miličević), 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 (Pavel Lychnikoff). 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. 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 arrested 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.
Trope Flash:
- Agents Dating: Casey and his Love Interest 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.
- Amnesiac Lover: 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.
- Arms Dealer: The Villain of the Week (and Ilsa's husband-to-be) is a Russian arms dealer.
- Bedmate Reveal: Ellie is horrified to discover Morgan in bed with her after a night of drowning her relationship sorrows. However, they're both fully clothed, and Morgan is only there because she was too upset to be left alone.
- Berserk Button: Ilsa is this trope to Casey, as Chuck finds out after some Innocently Insensitive jokes about the nickname "Sugar Bear."
- Black-Tie Infiltration: Chuck and Sarah infiltrate the wedding party as waiters.
- Chekhov's Gun: When you see the swimming pool through the hotel room window, you just know someone's going in there.
- Come Back to Bed, Honey: 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.
- Compromising Call: Sarah calls Chuck reveals him to Casey and Ilsa while he's hiding in her room.
- Deep Cover Agent: 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 seduced and is set to marry her mark.
- Drowning My Sorrows:
- Casey deals with Ilsa's true identity with a healthy combination of scotch, cigars and Neil Diamond.
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! - Faking the Dead:
- 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.
- Federov plans to use Casey's body as a stand-in for his own when his and Ilsa's airplane tragically goes down on the way to the honeymoon.
- Femme Fatale Spy: Ilsa clearly specializes in being the seductive type of spy.
- Fist of Rage: 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.
- Foe Cooties: 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.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: 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.
- Honey Trap: Ilsa is actually a DGSE (French secret service) spy who's seducing and marrying her target, the Russian Arms Dealer Victor Federov.
- Innocently Insensitive: 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.
- Interrupted Intimacy: 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.
- Made of Iron: A Russian thug injures his hand by punching Casey in the face.
- Neck Lift: Casey does it to Chuck when he refers to him as "Sugar Bear".
- New Old Flame: Ilsa was Casey's Love Interest in the past, who he assumed was dead and becomes his Girl of the Week for the duration of the episode.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Chuck and Casey accidentally expose the fact Ilsa is a Honey Trap to her mobster husband, who now is planning to kill her in revenge, forcing Chuck and Casey to have to rescue her.
- Returning the Wedding Ring: 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.
- Sexy Surfacing Shot: 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 (wet) tuxedo with music blaring dramatically. Ilsa is obviously very impressed by the sight.
- Shout-Out:
- Casey asks Federov's goons if they learned to tie people up in a Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon.
- The episode contains a bunch for Casablanca
- The first name of Casey's New Old Flame is Ilsa, just like the Love Interest 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.
- Sickening Sweethearts: Ilsa's pet name for Casey is "Sugar Bear."
- Soft Water: Chuck and Casey fall a large number of stories into a hotel swimming pool. Casey immediately strides dramatically out of the pool in his tuxedo to break up his long-lost lover's wedding. Also, they were tied together by chairs.
- Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: Lampshaded by Casey, who makes a crack about objecting to the wedding.
- Stereotype Flip: 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! - Take That!: When Jeff brags that he found Tara Reid's phone number while he was supposed to be working, Chuck asks "who doesn't have her phone number?" before chastising him.
- Undercover Cop Reveal: 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.
- Villain of the Week: Victor Federov, a Russian oligarch, Arms Dealer and mob boss who's marrying Casey's old Love Interest.
- Whole-Plot Reference: The main plot is one to Casablanca. Cynical lone wolf Casey reopens an old wound when he unexpectedly encounters his New Old Flame 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."
