Chuck Versus the Role Models: S03E15 Recap – Chuck Versus the Role Models opens with Morgan having a dream right out of the introduction the series Hart to Hart with Chuck and Sarah playing the Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers’ roles and Morgan as their butler, Alfred, (no sign of the Hart’s dog, Freeway.) Morgan wakes up, groggily heads to the kitchen, only to run into Sarah getting O.J. in her lingerie.

Morgan mentions to Chuck that he is having some awkward moments around the couple which could be foreshadowing of a future move by Morgan.

Chuck asks Sarah to move in with him but she declines by saying, “why ruin a good thing?” Chuck also has a conniption when he realizes that Sarah has hidden guns in his couch and that’s when Sarah explains the “30 Foot Rule” (a good spy always keeps a gun within access of no more than 30 feet).

General Beckman conferences and tells Chuck and Sarah that they will be observing the spy duo of Mr. and Mrs. Turner (played by veterans Fred Willard and Swoozie Kurz)who have been top spies while having been married for 30 years (more or less). She wants them to learn from the best.

In the meantime, Casey is ordered to train Morgan Grimes whom Beckman calls a “diamond in the rough… very, very rough.”

When the Turners show up at Chuck’s place, Sarah is not impressed with them but Chuck is enthralled. They are interesting – having re-married each other several times.

Well, the assignment is to steal some software from evil-doer, Otto von Vogel. He’s a software designer who writes a program that would basically render CIA security useless (okay, writers – strehhhtch!). The gang is going to try and get the software during a party at his mansion (I guess von Vogel backs up his data as often as the rest of us?) so let the double-crosses begin!

It starts with the Turners acting like they have completely buckled under the pressure of being together for 30 years and Chuck and Sarah decide to take over – sneaking into the upstairs bedroom of the mansion, and grabbing the software which is hidden in the collar of von Vogel’s pet tiger (which explains Chuck’s allergies).

In the meantime, Casey has told Morgan to steal Big Mike’s key card ID from him while he’s asleep in his office. There is a fun synchronous series of clip interchanges when Morgan and Chuck are attempting daring collar capers at the same time (but why Morgan didn’t just take the card from the clip, I don’t know). Both awaken their targets and we see Chuck and Sarah running from the tiger and Morgan trying to explain himself to Big Mike.

The Turners then turn around and take the collar from Chuck and Sarah at gunpoint and reveal that they were just using the young couple to do the dirty work.
It is also revealed that they are planning on selling the software to an interested buyer, suddenly making them bad guys.

Chuck and Sarah begin to wonder if this will happen to them in 30 years. Will they be better? Will they even still be together?

Over in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in their new assignments as Doctors Without Borders, Ellie is having issues coping with jungle living and Awesome is trying to make things better for her. The army men are not wearing the identifiable berets but eventually, a director comes forward and identifies himself as Justin Sullivan (he kills a snake that was about to get to Ellie). He befriends Ellie, telling her that she is making a huge difference in the village because he sees it in how the patients respond to her.
Welcome to the world of non-location shooting. These refugees were clean, well-fed and, in true Hollywood style, had beautiful teeth. I look worse coming out of the gym after a workout.

Back in the States, Chuck and Sarah manage to locate the whereabouts of the Turners and steal the collar back. The Turners chase them down to Chuck’s apartment. Von Vogel finds all of them thanks to the GPS locator in the tiger’s collar (bad kitty!)
Morgan fails at the shooting range – there’s a lot more kickback to real guns than he realized when he was getting better at Duck Hunt.

So the big showdown is a Chuck’s place and the “30 Foot Rule” comes into play again as the Turners bring it up when asking for guns and Chuck finds the cache empty.
This is when Sarah said she moved the guns because she wanted to move in with Chuck and make him happy… awww….

Then there’s that really big kitty… Casey and Morgan are returning and Morgan is bemoaning the fact that he failed every test when they comes across the tiger, lurking in the courtyard. Morgan decides to give his life for his country and gets the tiger to chase him into Ellie and Awesome’s place, trapping him there. He runs up the stairs and leaps out the second floor window, only to be save by Casey, who was standing on the stairs underneath the window, and catches him on the way down.

The Turners, Chuck and Sarah, take care of the bad guys with some Kung Fu fighting and actually stick up for the Turners during the meeting with General Beckman so the Turners get a pass and a retirement, turning the torch over to Chuck and Sarah.

Casey tells Morgan he’s got balls and that’s all he needs to stay a part of the team.
That’s when they notice what a mess the tiger made of Ellie and Awesome’s apartment… which brings us to… Awesome on a stretcher with a bad fever being loaded onto the back of a truck.

Ellie and Devon are going home.

As they are driving away, Justin Sullivan pulls out a Ring phone (you can’t help but notice a company-issued Ring phone) and says that they are on their way home and that he made Devon’s disease look like malaria. He also says that Ellie doesn’t suspect a thing which is another Welcome to Hollywood write-up since the people I know that have visited those jungle regions are required to start getting inoculations against everything about 3 months prior to their visit… but I guess we’ll let it slide because poor Chuck only gets an hour a week to tell their story.