now for a recap of tonight's first episode.
*Disclaimer: there are spoilers...lots of them, so if you haven't seen the episode I advise you stop right here and go to NBC.com or Hulu sometime and check it out (the episodes aren't up yet, but should be in a day or two.)
Now that you have been warned if you continue reading and haven't seen the episode don't get mad if you feel it's ruined for you...you've been warned and I have no sympathy for you.
and recap starts now....
After a quick recap of what happened at the end of last season (the intersect being re-uploaded into Chuck’s brain and his knew apparent kung fu skills)
Six months later: We find Chuck in what appears to be a dark room, probably a basement with a few men. After grabbing the suitcase and ‘fighting’ off one guy, we see him grab their gun and in his ear the general telling him to “shoot him.” However instead of doing this, Chuck shoves a chair and fights his way out, running with the suitcase and the general telling him to head to a rooftop where a helicopter would be. However she soon tells him that he’s going to have to zip line across and the old nervous Chuck that we all love comes out. The general tells him to flash, and he does his best to even trying to make himself flash by talking to himself , “Flash. Flash.” After trying to talk to the general once again, and there being no response, we learn that this has all just been a simulation, and that the government has put in a million dollars to train Chuck, and that it wasn’t working out because the intersect had been meant for a real spy. This leads to Chuck being fired.
We then go back six months where we learn that Sarah has decided she wants to run away with Chuck and leave the spy life behind, but as we can see from the previous scene this is not the future for Chuck and Sarah, at least not yet.
Back after Chuck’s firing from spy life we see him sitting on Ellie and Awesome’s couch, talking about how he’s lost Ellie and after being told to call her he does. She’s swimming in a pool, and after getting out a man sitting by a table tells her, her phone is ringing. We see it’s Chuck, and she picks up the phone. Instead of answering it, however, she tosses it into the pool
(opening credits and commercial break: which includes a rather entertaining Honda/Winter Olympics commercial with Ellie, Awesome, and Morgan)
Back from commercial break we see Chuck as he goes through a montage of eating Cheese balls, hanging up his robe, and growing a beard that would make Joaquin Phoenix proud. The ‘break up’ with Sarah has clearly gotten to him and not even Morgan can get him up. The only thing that seems to work is the fact that he’s run out of cheese balls. Disguising himself with a hat and sunglasses he goes to the Buy More for more Cheese balls, and we learn that Big Mike is no longer there, and Emmett has taken over, and things are quite different at the store. He believes that Chuck is someone who’s been stealing toilet paper from the restroom and sends the guards to him. After learning that it’s Chuck, he tries to make a mockery of him and we see Chuck flashing on something, and he fights to rip Emmett apart. With this encounter over and done with we learn that Lester and Jeff want Chuck to come back and save them from their new boss. It is here we also learn that Sarah has been spotted going in and out of the yogurt/ice cream place across the street.
Chuck goes over to see if she’s there, picking the lock to get in, but after being knocked to the ground he’s greeted by John Casey. Chuck inquires about whether or not he’s kept in with “the team” aka Sarah. Chuck believes that he can still flash, no matter what has been going around, everyone calling him a “lemon”, that he’s “broken“ and that the “team” should get back together. This causes Chuck to realize he has to ‘clean up’ for Chuck and shaves the god awful beard.
(commercial break)
Casey and Chuck arrive at a restaurant where Sarah is also working under cover. The fired spy goes over and she tells him to kiss her, which he does and is followed by being slapped across the face. The three gather in a room in the back to go over things, and after Casey and Sarah leave again, Chuck accidentally knocks out the guitar player for the evening, and with the guitar case in hand and costume on he’s pushed onto the stage. At first he stands there awkwardly tuning and saying “Bueno. Bueno” nervously, before he takes a look a the guitar and flashes, and suddenly Chuck has turned into Paco de Lucia. Sarah and their target (her date) are on the dance floor and we learn that Chuck has flashed that an assassin is there, but he doesn’t know who (though we know that it’s the guitar player he accidentally knocked out with a wig and fake nose). As Sarah and the man dance Chuck sees a red dot on them, and when it lands on Sarah he reacts, tackling her to the ground. He tries to explain himself, but since he can’t tell them who the assassin was it doesn’t go over to well. Casey wants to kill Chuck and Sarah tells him “that he’s not a spy.”
(commercial break)
Chuck is back in his robe and with his cheese balls and tells Awesome that “this is his life” because he was fired. It is soon after that Morgan comes over, and even though Hawaii was awesome and the Benihana school had gone well (which is what he’d told Chuck earlier), he takes him to the Buy More into the entertainment room, where he’s been living for a while. His reason for this because “he couldn’t flip the shrimp.”
Outside of the store the manager is in his car and we see him get out as the assassin approaches, holding Chuck’s Nerd Herd badge. He asks where he can find the employee, and is told he doesn’t work there any more, but he should “follow the smell.” When the assassin doesn’t leave, Emmett pushes his jacket back giving him the option of doing it “the easy way or the hard way.” The assassin takes the easy way and shoots him through the head, and as he falls back into the garbage we see his glasses fall, a hole in them and blood splattered around it.
Chuck and Morgan are then seen walking out of the Buy More
(commercial)
Sarah and Chuck are in the Buy More beginning to have a conversation, but are interrupted by a group of men with guns and the assassin knocks Chuck out.
He wakes up in a concrete room, the assassin walking in and telling him that he wants to know everything he knows and about ‘the girl.’ This ensues a flash back to Prague (where Sarah had told Chuck to meet her) and she’s standing on the train platform with their passports and new identities, Chuck’s new name being Hector, but as we know from earlier he doesn’t take the offer.
Back in present day, Casey and a team are trying to locate Agent Walker her last known whereabouts being the Buy More.
In his cell Chuck believes if he can get a flash of kung fu he can get out of there, and we then hear Sarah’s voice. She tells him that he needs to break out of his cell and then get her, but Chuck believes that he can’t and he is a “lemon” like everyone was saying. She tells him that he’s wrong and when the assassin comes back in, threatening both Chuck and Sarah, Chuck knocks him out with one punch and grabs the keys. With both him and Sarah now free they leave the building, having to zip line down to the ground (this time Chuck’s able to do it).
Chuck believes they are safe, but when we see a man with a gun pointed at them, we all learn that this is far from the truth. Luckily, Casey in a helicopter with a gun, has come in to save the day.
(commercial)
In the meeting room we learn that the general has decided to put Team Bartowski in action once again.
Casey has gotten Chuck his job back at the Buy More, and it’s been said that Emmett has been moved to a Buy More in Anchorage, an obvious cover. Morgan has also been rehired.
Sarah speaks to the general and is told that he is seen as dangerous, and that “they protected Chuck from the world, but now they have to protect the world from Chuck.”
Coming home Chuck and Morgan find that Ellie is walking out with boxes and that she and Awesome are moving, and that Chuck should get a room mate because he has lots of friends. Morgan’s rather excited about this, to which Ellie states “other friends’
Morgan goes in and Sarah goes out to talk to Chuck telling him that he has to keep his feelings to himself. Casey then shows up to tell Chuck that his training is beginning and the two are then seen with boxing gloves, Eye of the Tiger playing in the back, as he tries to get him to flash. Casey tells him to take in a breath and after he does, Chuck flashes.
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