The show might be called Chuck, but tonight it was Devon aka Captain Awesome that shined.
Usually taking a backseat in the plot and only being seen on screen for a few minutes during an episode, he was pushed forward into the 'Chuck' spotlight. For those of us who have been watching the show since season 1, we all know just how "AWESOME" Captain Awesome is, but we never really got a feel for the man behind the awesome. Sure we've had a few glimpses here and there, more so in season two than one, but nothing like tonight.
for all you Captain Awesome fans out there here are some 'awesome' Awesome videos to help pass the time
Ryan McPartlin's: Captain Awesome audition
Best of Captain Awesome: Season 1
and the recap begins now
(DISCLAIMER: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS...lots and lots of them)
UCLA Medial Center 2000
First day of medical school, one of the doctor’s inquires if someone wants to help him make an incision. He suggests Devon Woodcomb, but he is nowhere to be found and when he believes Ellie Bartowski should try she is no where to be found either. Both are in one of the closets aggressively making out
9 years later
The two are in the process of moving and Ellie finds their photo album of the wedding and Devon (Captain Awesome) promises here no packing for tonight and they might ‘recreate’ their wedding night later, because Ellie feels that that day was so long ago. She then hears a helicopter and mentions there’s been a lot of helicopters lately, but Awesome tells her that ‘he hasn’t noticed.’
Chuck arrives at his apartment and when he goes into his room he’s greeted by Awesome who tells him that he should have his pilot land further from the apartment. The two then have a conversation about what Chuck had been doing, though Chuck only calls it a CIA mission. Awesome reminds Chuck that he’s supposed to come over and help with their TV.
We are then taken to Awesome and Ellie’s new place, Chuck is putting up the TV and when he’s done they turn it on to suggest. Chuck flashes on a man on the TV, the Premiere/Dictator of Los Cosas Gravas, who has been taken to hospital, after suffering a sudden heart attack. Ellie has left the room and Awesome notices that Chuck looks like he might pass out and asks what’s going on. Chuck tells him that it’s spy business and leaves. A few seconds later Awesome gets a page and has to go to the hospital, promising Ellie to make the night up to her.
Casey, Chuck, and Sarah are all being briefed by the general and we learn that Casey had three orders to kill (the man) but failed all three times, to which Sarah jokes about him “having a perfect record.” We learn that the man is being treated at Westside Medical and that Awesome is his doctor.
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Being released from the hospital. The three watch as Awesome handles a press conference and Chuck’s in shock when he speaks Spanish to a woman. Sarah asks “if there’s anything he can’t do” to which Chuck replies “hence the name.” Casey tells Chuck that he needs to talk to Awesome. To debrief him and get the information out of him.
Outside of the house Awesome is returning home with Chuck sitting and waiting for him. He debriefs him and Awesome tells him that what he’d suffered hadn’t been a heart attack because of the potassium levels. Chuck thanks him and Awesome tells him that if the CIA ever “needed another pair of hands.” He continues on saying that he needs adventure. A slightly confused Chuck mentions that he’s “a extreme sports cardiologist” Which led to what could easily become my favorite Awesome quote “I can do that in my sleep.” He tries to convince him a little more, but Chuck tells him no “Ellie would kill me”
Our favorite new spy has given the others the information about the Premiere and the general tells them that she believes someone is trying to kill him and that they need to protect him. Casey says he’s sitting this one out because he’s a wanted man in the Premiere’s land, having earned the nickname Angel de Muerte. They are interrupted when they see the Premiere and army men outside and though Casey thinks they’ve found him, Chuck knows they are there for Awesome.
Inside Awesome and Ellie’s, he’s working out on the stationary bike and she’s trying to get some sleep when there’s a knock at the door. It takes a while but finally Awesome answers it and is surprised to see who’s there. There’s a bit of fear and confusion on his face, but the Premiere tells him that he’s “saved his life, how can I repay you?” and gives him a hug. Ellie comes out and the Premiere winds up inviting them to the gathering that he’s throwing.
At the ‘party’ Awesome asks Chuck what his mission is and Chuck tells him it’s to watch Ellie and not keep his eyes off of her. They then spot that the Premiere has taken a liking to Ellie and wants her to be by her side for the night.
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Sarah comes and saves Ellie from the Premiere and there’s a conversation between the two about how Ellie believes Sarah is still in love with her brother, at the same time Chuck and Awesome have one about how he and Sarah weren’t really a couple and Awesome tells him it must be hard to fake being in love with someone for three years.
The Premiere gives a speech and then says he wants to dance…with Ellie.
Casey sends them a photo from the van of who they believe the assassin is. He’s on the other side of the room and Sarah says they need to take him out before the guards see them. They have to get across the dance floor. Flash. Chuck and Sarah begin to dance along with the others, Chuck is now a smooth dancer, not awkward as we’ve seen in previous episodes. He knocks the man out with an elbow, but they have the wrong guy, he was only a protester. A few guards tell them that they’ll go outside because they’re drunk and as they are escorted out, Chuck flashes on dressed as a guard.
Casey now has to go in disguised as a soldier. He walks in heading towards the dance floor as the assassin comes the opposite way. Awesome and Ellie are talking when he sees the disguised Casey pulling a gun and runs tackling him. The mustache comes off and there’s that classic look of ‘oh shit’ on Awesome’s face. The real soldiers see who it is and grab Casey taking him out. The Premiere thanks Awesome for saving his life again, and Ellie couldn’t be any prouder of her husband, but Awesome knows he’s messed up.
(commercial: I really love the Honda/Olympic commercials with Awesome, Ellie, and Morgan “okay no more power ballads.”
The general has told Chuck and Sarah to wait before trying to get Casey back. She wants to use diplomatic measures, because the Premiere’s country is in danger.
Casey is trapped to a chair and the Premiere is talking to him. He tries to tell him that he was protecting him, but of course the Premiere doesn’t believe him. The assassin comes in to help with the interrogation and he gets a cigar ready for the Premiere who wants to handle Casey himself. When the assassin hands him the cigar, Casey kicks it out off his hand, but eventually he smokes it anyway and collapses.
Awesome and Ellie are back home when he gets a message from the consulate about the Premiere. Outside he meets Chuck and tells him that he can get them in, because the Premiere wants him to be his own personal physician.
In the secret base, he’s of course, impressed by the fact that there is a secret base, and Chuck tells him not to touch anything. Talking to Sarah, who’s come in, Chuck tells her that he believes Awesome can get them in to the chancellor. Awesome states he has a plan, but Sarah is way ahead of him.
We are then transported outside the gates where the Premiere is, the three dressed head to toe as doctors.
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Back in Casey’s cell the assassin has come down again. He’s going to kill Casey, and he mentions he works for the Ring.
Awesome has come into where the Premiere is held and he says he’s in trouble.
We are taken between Awesome, Chuck and Sarah and Casey and the Assassin.
The plan for Chuck and Sarah is to go and get Casey, taking out some guards in the process, and Casey takes out the assassin, breaking himself free of the chair he’d been strapped in. As he tries to get up a guard coming down shoots him in the leg, and is knocked out by Sarah. They go upstairs and try to get Awesome to leave, but he refuses because his mission isn’t over, he’s here to save the chancellor, and that they should leave because the men are trying to kill them.
They don’t get too far, as the Premiere’s right hand man and a few other guards are there to stop them. They see Casey and still don’t believe that they are there to protect the Premiere. Casey collapses and Chuck tells them that they need to get him to a doctor, but the guard tells him that he has a doctor. Chuck. IF they’re not assassins he should be able to do this.
A nervous Chuck is getting ready to work on Casey’s leg, but luckily when he calms a little he flashes and is able to get the bullet out successfully. There’s a brief moment where they share in Chuck’s moment, but they are interrupted when the Premiere starts taking a turn for the worse. Awesome tells them that the only thing that will save him is a blood transfusion, but he doesn’t even know the blood type. Casey informs him that it’s AB negative and Chuck finds out that Casey as AB Negative…of course Casey is not fond of the idea of his blood being taken and put in the Premiere.
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A groggy Casey wakes up and the general thanks him for his sacrifice. Casey thinks it was just about the bullet, but when Sarah wonders that he doesn’t remember, he puts things together and that classic “I’m going to kill you Chuck” look comes on his face. He is given a gift from the Premiere, a box cigars and a note in which he calls him the Angel of Light.
We then see Awesome and Chuck having a conversation about how Awesome realizes he wouldn’t want to be a spy. He couldn’t see himself having to give up half of his real life because of it.
There is a short conversation between Sarah and Chuck about how they for now their relationship should be that of friends, and how Chuck could handle “faking being friends with her.”
Ellie is walking down the stairs as she holds a phone conversation with Awesome who’s at the hospital. She has a surprise for him when he gets home from work, and he tells her that he has one patient then he’ll be home. Before hanging up telling her “I believe I owe you a dance.” He goes to the room and we see that the assassin is sitting there, a syringe in his hand.
Standing outside his door, Chuck sees Sarah as she comes up and walks up to him, whispering something about Awesome, of course using his real name, Devon. We don’t know exactly what she says, but we know it’s bad as she pulls Chuck into a hug. This is interrupted by Ellie who comes out of her home and asks the two of them if they’ve “seen her husband.”
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