Chuck Episode 1.09 Chuck Versus the Imported Hard Salami

In Helsinki, a large crate carrying nuclear cargo and a 72-hour countdown clock is loaded into a shipping container. At Buy More, Morgan asks Chuck to hang out, but Chuck's already hooked up with Lou. Sarah stops by; she doesn't think the break-up is a good idea for their cover, but if Chuck insists, she's going to have to sell it. Sarah cries so everyone at Buy More can see. Lester asks Chuck if Sarah is fair game, and Chuck tells him to go for it.

Beckman doesn't like the break-up either. Sarah tries to cover for Chuck, but Casey blurts out that she got dumped. Beckman insists they learn everything about Lou. Chuck and Lou's first date is going great. She takes him to the deli for a sexy sandwich, and he flashes on a flyer for Club Ares, and a guy named Stavros Demetrios. It turns out that Stavros is Lou's jealous and sometimes violent ex. The playboy son of Greek shipping magnate Yari Demetrios, Stavros owns the club. Lou warns Chuck to stay away from him.

Beckman thinks the Demetrios family has something to do with the time-sensitive package from Helsinki en route to LA. The team wants Chuck to convince Lou to attend the party at Club Ares, so he can get close to Stavros, and see if he flashes. When Lester takes off to hit on Sarah, Lester admits that he'd love to tag Anna, but she'd rather get with Morgan. Sarah calculatedly comes on way too strong for Lester, scaring him off.

Sarah tells Lou not to hurt Chuck; he's a great guy. Lou stops at Buy More with a sandwich for Chuck, and he persuades her to go to Club Ares, claiming that he should make peace with Stavros. Later, Sarah outfits him with a goofy guitar pin, also a listening device, as Chuck laments having to lie to Lou on their second date. Morgan makes a pass at Anna, but she throws him to the floor.

Stavros starts out nice, but quickly gets ugly, showing Chuck his scars from make-up sex with fiery Italian Lou. When he starts talking about snapping Chuck's neck like a chicken, Sarah insists on running into the club, and Chuck runs after her. Pissed that Chuck is spending all his time with their exes, Lou leaves. Flashing on Stavros' father Yari, Chuck lets her go, tossing his guitar pin on a drink tray headed for Yari.

Thanks to the guitar pin, Casey and Sarah learn the time and location of the package's arrival at the docks. Lou won't return Chuck's calls. Morgan spies Anna laughing with Jeff and Lester, and fears that everyone knows he struck out with her, and his reputation is ruined. Sarah apologizes to Chuck for interfering with his date, offering the information that Lou's favorite flower is a Gerber daisy.

Chuck brings Gerber daisies to the deli during the lunch rush, and Lou tells him to take a number. Meanwhile, at the docks, Casey and Sarah open the red shipping container to find only a video camera. Someone must have known they were coming. Lou forgives Chuck with a kiss, after making him wait a long time. Yari and Stavros watch the video feed from the shipping container. Yari hands the guitar pin to Stavros, telling him to find whoever it belongs to and bring him in.

The next morning Sarah and Casey wake Chuck up, after working all night trying to figure out who set them up. They think it's Lou, and have a surveillance photo of her meeting Stavros at the docks after their date. They proceed to the club, where Lou is supposed to meet Stavros. Casey loads Chuck's watch with a listening device and tracker. When Chuck spies Lou he runs to her with Sarah on his tail, only to learn that she's been smuggling imported salamis into the country with Stavros' help.

After Lou confesses she's a smuggler, Chuck ditches his watch in a coffee cup. Lou stalks off just before a gun-toting Sarah arrives, and Stavros shows up with several armed men to shove Chuck and Sarah into the trunk of his car. Chuck and Sarah argue when she learns that he's dumped his tracking watch. Casey visits the deli, telling Lou he's from the FDA, and asking for the dock number where she's been picking up her salamis. Back at Buy More, Anna feels so bad for Morgan that she kisses him in the Home Theater Room.

Stavros brings Chuck and Sarah to his father. Chuck flashes on a few henchman to learn that they are Russian mobsters, and spouts out their darkest criminal secrets to get them bickering at each other. Sarah starts slicing the ropes that tie her up as Casey busts in, sending Chuck and Sarah after the package, which has just arrived, and is set to expire in five minutes. Thinking the package is a bomb, and unable to diffuse it, Sarah pulls Chuck in for a passionate kiss.

The package doesn't explode. Chuck returns to the deli for another apology. Lou thinks he's an undercover agent for the FDA, like Casey. She asks if he ever liked her, and both admit it was good while it lasted, but now's not the time. The next time Chuck gets hungry, he should go to Wienerlicious. When Chuck tells Morgan that he broke up with Lou, Morgan grabs the PA and breaks up with Anna, before learning that Chuck broke up with Lou to get back together with Sarah.

Chuck calls Sarah to leave her a message asking for their first real date that night. Sarah and Casey are in a warehouse, where the packages is about to be opened. The timer was just to measure oxygen supply. An odd bio-container opens up to reveal a not-so-dead Bryce Larkin.