- Chuck has problems with Bryce back in town. He's Sarah's "husband" on a mission where Chuck's a waiter. Fulcrum's stolen an encrypted Intersect chip. Bullies monopolize Buy More's game room.
- Fulcrum has intercepted an update for the new Intersect. The chip has data that could expose Team Chuck. Bryce and Sarah must pose as a married couple to get the chip back. Chuck's jealousy causes some problems, but Sarah's decisions endanger the mission, and forces Chuck to make some decisions of his own. Meanwhile the Buy More crew must deal with bullies from a sports store.—Jesse Sanchez
- Just when Chuck tells awesome and Ellie he plans to get his life on the rails again, he's commandeered to help identify the thieves of an update chip for the new Intersect. It's processed by tycoon Von Hayes. Eager Bryce and reluctant Sarah will attend as a dashing couple, trying to steal it back. Chuck observes inside as waiter, Casey from the hi-tech truck. Chuck concludes his relationship with Sarah has no future. Meanwhile a sports shop bullies gang terrorizes Lester and Morgan, who refuses to look silly in front of Anna, only to be surprised by her.—KGF Vissers
- Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) and super-cute ex boy-toy Bryce Larkin (Matt Bomer) make out in Bogota, Colombia. The year is 2005. The couple continues to swap mouth fluids until a pair of policemen turn away. Safe? Hardly. Suddenly, the pair is identified by another dangerous-looking man. They flee.
Sarah takes a case they're transporting and rounds a corner. She turns back to find a man holding a gun to Bryce's temple.
"You got it sweetheart?" Bryce asks.
Yes, indeed, she does. She pulls a gun from her lower back. While Bryce dives for cover, Sarah wastes the bad dude. Looks like love to us.
PRESENT DAY: a nattily-attired Chuck (Zachary Levi) approaches Sarah's hotel room with a rose. Who answers? Sarah and Bryce. Chuck is crushed.
Moments later, we find Chuck back home. He drops the rose into the trashcan. Ellie (Sarah Lancaster) and Captain Awesome (Ryan McPartlin) try to comfort the heart-broken secret spy, but fail miserably. In fact, watching his sister and her significant other cuddle only makes Chuck sadder.
The next day at Buy More, Morgan (Joshua Gomez) and Chuck discuss the power-mad Lester (Vik Sahay) when Casey (Adam Baldwin)approaches. "We got a new mission," Casey tells his reluctant partner. Soon enough, the general (Bonita Friedericy) is on the line. Fulcrum has stolen a microchip containing top-secret intel. Isn't that always the case?
Chuck, meanwhile, wants to know why Bryce is in town. "Not now, Chuck," Sarah says. The general continues: Information on the chip could compromise the agents, so they need to get it back pronto. Luckily, a software developer named Von Hayes (Steve Valentine) has been hired by Fulcrum to decrypt the chip.
Just so happens that Mr. Hayes is throwing a lavish party that very evening. Bryce and Sarah will pose as a married couple and recover the stolen item. Chuck, meanwhile, will pose as a lowly waiter. At that moment, Bryce, looking totally badass in a pair of sleek black sunglasses, enters.
He slides a wedding ring onto Sarah's finger -- part of their cover, of course. Chuck looks like he wants to throw up. Cue opening credits!
Back from break and back at the Buy More, Casey explains the plan: Bryce and Sarah will be very affectionate at the party and then slip away to the bedroom to look for the chip. Everyone else will just think they're having sex. Perfect, right? "That's the beauty of PDA," Casey explains.
Chuck, naturally, doesn't see it quite that way.
Sarah, meanwhile, is at the yogurt shop telling Bryce they should keep their relationship strictly professional. But it sure doesn't look that way to Ellie, who passes by outside and sees Bryce fondling Sarah's hands.
Ellie arrives at the Buy More and reluctantly breaks the news. "I saw her holding hands with another guy," she tells Chuck. No time for crying now, though. It's mission time. Chuck and Bryce put on their ties (the former has a clip on) and a breathtaking Sarah enters in formal evening attire. Chuck pretends not to notice. The rebuff stings Sarah ... and Bryce notices. He raises a handsome eyebrow.
A short time later, Hayes welcomes the guests to his birthday party -- and it's a swanky affair, indeed. While couples dance and Chuck serves champagne, Sarah and Bryce seductively feed each food. Poor Chuck. But it gets worse. As Chuck pours champagne, he becomes distracted by the happy couple gyrating erotically on the dance floor. Naturally, Chuck dumps the bubbly into Hayes's lap. "Get your head in the game!" Casey barks from a van parked outside. Chuck touches his earpiece and nods.
Soon enough, however, Sarah and Bryce are making out. It's too much for poor Chuckers and he drops the bottle. "Are you on drugs?" Hayes asks. "That was a $1,000 bottle!? The head waiter arrives and fires Chuck, going by "Jorge," on the spot.
On his way out, Chuck overhears a beautiful brunette asking Hayes about the chip. Suddenly, our boy has an Intercept moment! He sees flashes of agents and then a dead body in a pool of blood. Who IS this woman? Chuck is determined to find out. Casey unlocks the door so Chuck can sneak back inside. He hides underneath a table when Hayes and the mysterious woman enter.
The woman immediately pulls a gun and shoots Hayes's assistant dead. "Forget about the $15 million," she tells the birthday boy. "I'll take my chip." Hayes, startled, drops his keys. Intersect moment! Chuck recognizes the Intersect Data Drive on the man's keychain. "The microchip is not in the vault," Chuck whispers to Casey. "It's on Von Hayes's keychain!"
Turns out Chuck was talking a bit too loudly, however. The Fulcrum agent bends down and aims a gun at our hero. With Chuck taken hostage, Hayes makes a run for it, escaping in a sports car. Sarah chases Chuck and the evil agent outside. A gunfight ensues!
The breathless action ends when the agent jumps inside an onrushing car and speeds off to safety ... but not before dropping a handheld bomb. "Run!" Sarah screams. But it is too late. The bomb EXPLODES and Sarah is knocked unconscious. Is this the end of our super-hot super spy? We suspect not.
Indeed, one commercial break later we discover pretty Sarah resting prettily in a hospital bed. Chuck arrives with flowers. "Thank you," Sarah coos. "Put them over there." "Over there" we see dozens and dozens of flowers from Bryce. Outdone again. Poor Chuck.
Back at the Buy More, Morgan is dealing with the not-so-gentle giants from Mighty Jocks (one of the store employees is guest star Michael Strahan). The sporting-goods store behemoths are upset over being kicked out of the Buy More video game room. They demand Sony PSPs and Morgan, quaking, agrees.
Chuck, meanwhile, returns home to find Bryce waiting. The latter is worried that Sarah's feelings for the Chuckster have put the whole team in danger.
"Sarah has feelings for you Chuck," Bryce says. "Feelings that will get her killed!"
"Sarah knows what she's doing, Bryce," Chuck says. But it doesn't look like our boy necessarily believes it.
Inside, Captain Awesome, on Ellie's suggestion, has intercepted flowers for Sarah he believes to be from Bryce. Angry, Chuck calls the number on the attached card. And wouldn't you know it? Hayes answers. The millionaire playboy sent Sarah flowers trying to contact the agent. He wants to return the microchip in exchange for protection from Fulcrum. Thinking fast, Chuck introduces himself as Jorge Carmichael, Sarah's "supervisor."
"Just get me the hell out of here, Jorge," Hayes says. "I'm living in a Lamborghini. You have no idea how little leg room there is."
Back at the Buy More, Chuck tells Casey he has negotiated the return of the microchip. There is one small catch, however: Hayes requires $4.5 million in cash. Casey, as he is wont to do, scowls.
Sometime later, Chuck, Bryce and Casey assemble in a crowded train station. Chuck carries a bag of what we can only assume is money. Hayes approaches our hero. "I've never done a handoff before," Hayes says. "I'm really not used to this spy stuff."
Of course, neither is Chuck. Their mutual hesitation and fumbling attracts the attention of a nearby Fulcrum agent. Hayes, still holding the microchip, makes a run for it. "I can never catch a break," Casey grouses.
The group runs to the top of the train station to find a gang of mercenaries waiting with guns. "I'm not sure what the going rate of thugs for hire is ..." Chuck begins, showing the contents of the bag and making a sales pitch. The gunmen drop their guns, grab the bag of cash and flee. Bryce takes the microchip from Hayes.
So while Chuck may have just lost the American taxpayers $4.5 million by paying off the hired guns, he has also safely recovered the chip. A happy ending, right? Hardly. Casey goes after the mercenaries leaving Chuck and Bryce alone. And who is waiting at the bottom of the platform? Our mysterious female Fulcrum agent.
She grabs Chuck and points a gun at his head. Wait! We've seen this scene before. But where? That's right! At the beginning of the episode in flashback form. Sure enough, Sarah emerges from behind a column. She pulls a gun from her back waistband. It's deja vu all over again.
"You got it?" Bryce asks.
Only this time, she doesn't. She can't shoot! She cares too much for Chuck to risk shooting him. Suddenly, a BLAST and the agent falls dead. Casey emerges, gun smoking. Bryce, meanwhile, stares daggers at Sarah. Perhaps he is correct. Perhaps her feelings for Chuck have put the agency at risk.
Back at the Buy More, the Mighty Jocks are back in the video-game room, starting trouble. This time, however, Morgan stands up for himself. He pours a drink over the Strahan's head. Anna (Julia Ling) enters, twirling a pair of camera tripods like nunchucks. Seconds later, the big guy lies in a heap in the corner.
Casey calls in a background check on Anna. Is she agent material? Chuck rolls his eyes.
Back inside headquarters, Sarah admits to letting her guard down, but insists she can protect Chuck. Casey doesn't seem to hear. Or maybe he doesn't want to. Outside, Sarah and Chuck meet. "Sarah, you're the best thing that has ever happened to me," Chuck says. "But the more I think about it, the more I realize that you and I can never have a future together."
Sarah is crestfallen. She believes Chuck is "dumping" her. Of course, we know Chuck is giving his beloved the ol' Spider-Man speech, protecting Sarah by denying his true feelings for her. "Someday when the Intersect is out of your head and you have the life you've always wanted, you'll forget about me, Sarah says.
Later, Chuck goes into his bedroom and tries on sunglasses left behind by Bryce after Bryce again expressed concern Sarah was falling for Chuck and so has compromised her work as a secret agent. Immediately, the glasses begin downloading secrets into Chuck's brain before the lens displays a message: "Intersect update complete." Chuck falls backwards on the floor. "I hate Bryce Larkin," he says.
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