For the first time since his escape from Emily's wrath, Raj was finally able to return to his own apartment and to enjoy himself. He had never felt this happy to be free from constant fear and paranoia. Amy was released from the hospital two days later with a bright pink cast on her broken arm. The press hounded Raj and his friends for the next two days for interviews about their handmade trap that successfully captured Emily. They were hailed as heroes by many scientists, including Stephen Hawking for their lifesaving creation.
All too soon, a week had passed by and the group had finalized their bachelor and bachelorette parties in honor of the Hofstadter's wedding. The women decided to celebrate with an all-day spa event at a Los Angeles hotel. Howard and Raj surprised Sheldon and Leonard by renting a beach house in Mexico for the weekend with a mock kidnapping and a van, completely forgetting about Emily. Sheldon did not understand the meaning of a fake kidnapping. The others grew annoyed and decided to tie and blind Sheldon as the carried him down the four flights of stairs to an old brown van.
Once they were all seated in the van, Raj unblinded and untied Sheldon. He slowly sat up and looked around in discomfort and anger.
"What is the meaning of this? And why are we trapped in some hippie's mobile sex dungeon." he whined with his arms folded.
"Well Sheldon, there's something about this van that you're going to find very interesting..." Howard explained with a smile.
"Does it run on syphilis?" Sheldon retorted.
Raj laughed.
"This van was owned and driven by your personal physics hero, Richard Feynman."
"No." Sheldon stated with disbelief.
"A buddy let me borrow it!" Howard stated.
"This was Feynman's van? That's so cool!" Leonard asked with awe.
"He picked up a lot of cute graduate students in this bad boy."
Sheldon finally smiled.
"And talked about physics with them?"
Leonard looked around his surroundings.
"Could you please tell us where we're going?" he asked.
Howard and Raj smirked.
"We drink lots of margaritas, eat spicy food, with a pretty high chance of getting diarrhea.. we're going to Mexico!" Howard announced.
"I've never been there!" Leonard exclaimed.
"Don't be fooled Leonard-"
Howard's smile suddenly faded.
"Guys... the gas is low. We got to go to a gas station as soon as possible." he told his friends.
"Really?" Leonard replied.
"I swear the tank was full when I first got it. I don't understand this but maybe I'm wrong."
"Nice going Wolowitz." Sheldon scoffed.
"Do you know where the nearest gas station is?" Raj questioned in confusion.
Howard paused and scanned the area.
"I don't know. I think we passed all of them and the next one is pretty far. I think we should turn around."
Howard turned the van around and drove back to Pasadena to find the nearest gas station.
Meanwhile, the girls happily drove in Penny's car to Los Angeles for their spa day.
"I've never been to a spa before." Amy stated with excitement.
"Really? Never?" Bernadette asked with surprise.
"Never. My mother wouldn't let me. She didn't like my body to be exposed in public. She's always threatened me to put me in the sin closet if I did anything like putting on a bikini, a tattoo or even piercing my ears." she replied as she loosely gripped on her cast.
"That's terrible. I can see why you aren't close to your mother." Bernadette remarked.
"I know."
Amy and Bernadette noticed that Penny had not spoken a word for some time.
"You okay Penny?" Amy asked.
Penny turned around and sighed.
"I'm not sure if I should tell my parents that I eloped with Leonard." she told her friends.
"Why wouldn't you?" Bernadette questioned.
"Well, I don't want them to break their hearts."
"So you're telling me that you're keeping a huge secret from your entire family?"
Penny nodded.
"How long do you think you're going to keep this from them?" Amy wondered out loud.
"My dad's not getting any younger. So, if I wait long enough, I'll tell him that he walked me down the aisle and it was magical." Penny replied.
"You are not going to lie to your family like that. Call your parents, right now!" Bernadette barked.
"But... it's going to break their hearts."
"I don't care. Tell them the truth! I don't like being lied to. Would you like it if Leonard kept some secret from you?"
Penny paused and glanced at her phone.
"Alright. Here goes nothing."
Before Penny could touch her phone, Bernadette's phone rang.
"Hi dad. How's it going?" she asked.
She loudly gasped as her father's garbled voice talked on.
"What do you mean Emily escaped? She was in a cell with high security!"
Penny and Amy froze in shock as they tried to listen to Bernadette's conversation with her father.
"That makes no sense to me. I gotta go!"
Bernadette hung up.
"Emily... escaped from prison just now and there's a manhunt going around now. We got to go home and tell the guys!" she cried as she sharply turned into a strip mall parking lot to return to Pasadena.
Richard Feynman's van ran out of gas before the men could reach a gas station. They were trapped in an isolated desert road.
"This is all your fault Wolowitz!" Sheldon angrily shouted.
"Sheldon! Stop blaming Howard! Obviously there's something is wrong with it!" Leonard snapped as he called the police for the third time.
"Busy again. What is their deal?"
Howard and Raj shrugged.
"Who knows." Raj sighed.
Howard's phone suddenly rang.
"Hi sweetie! Everything okay? You won't believe this-"
Howard paused.
"Oh my God! Emily escaped?!"
Raj's face turned pale.
The terror and paranoia plagued Raj's mind once more. He stood in his spot pacing back and forth.
"We're on route 79 right by Palomar Mountain. But how did this happen? I thought she was in an area with high security!" Howard blurted out.
Sheldon and Leonard fearfully tried to catch on.
"Oh no," Raj muttered as his heart raced. A cold sweat drenched his shirt.
"Ok Bernie, me and the guys will..."
Howard suddenly looked away and his blue eyes widened with pure horror.
"RAJ! MOVE!" he screamed at the top of his lungs.
Before Raj could look to see what was going on, he felt a strong force shove him away from the van.
A loud drop sounded on Bernadette's phone. It beeped and fell silent. All three women gasped.
"Oh God..." Bernadette muttered.
