Beckman is telling Chuck that she received a message from Sarah (did she learn that tonal language too?) telling her about the Contessa. Chuck babbles about Eimacher and how Sarah needs to come home, like, yesterday, but Beckman doesn't want to hear it -- Chuck is too close to the situation, and needs to sit tight. Morgan suggests they go outside and play a little Bocce, which sounds fabulous to me, but Chuck tightly says no -- he's watched Volkoff take a bunch of people he loves from him, and it has to end now. "Ellie's right. Bartowskis take care of their family." He adds that "they" need to end this, and Morgan is thrilled to be included in whatever Chuck has in mind, but is puzzled when Chuck leads him to a cabinet: "We need office supplies?" Chuck, however, corrects him that what they need is a plan...
...and then there's a quick sequence in which they tape and tack up photos, Post-Its, maps, and the like to a wall. Chuck opines that they've come up with a good plan, and Morgan agrees before telling him he's been doing a lot of yoga, and as such is at his physical and mental peak. All that stretching does not appear to have made him taller, but as long as he's feeling positive, I guess. Morgan then asks if this is "what they call a...suicide mission," which suggests to me that the plan could use some work, but Chuck absolutely does not think so, and says they're going to start by finding Eimacher. Morgan gives him the fakest of fake smiles in addition to a thumbs-up, but when Chuck is out of earshot, he opines that they're going to need help...
...whereupon Volkoff, getting out of the elevator at Volkoff Industries, is startled by the lights going off. From his desk, he tries to call and summon someone up there, but the phone then mysteriously dies. His huge flatscreen then flashes off, whereupon a message appears on it: "Hello, Volkoff. I want my wife back." Volkoff breathes the question as to who's doing this, but after the letters merge, they re-form thusly: "Orion." The name flashes all over the screen, and Volkoff blanches and whispers that he's still alive. And while that seems unlikely, it also seems fair to say that if he is still with us, he has reason to be pissed. Credits.
As appropriately overwrought operatic music plays, Volkoff tells a bald tough whom I'm guessing is his new right-hand man that they have a Steven Bartowski problem. The dude Russian-accents that The Ring killed Orion, but Volkoff replies, "Then somehow a dead man broke into my computer system last night." Sounds like someone needs to come up with a Purgatory firewall. He tells Russian Guy that he's going to take Mary to a safer place, so Russian Guy should figure out where Orion has been hiding all these years. Russian Guy asks where he can find Volkoff, and he says he'll be visiting "an old friend," The Contessa, which is perhaps not a thing an actual person, even one as deliciously overdramatic as Volkoff, would say given that The Contessa is a ship. Sorry to spoil you, but I won't want to take the time to point that out later.













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