ChuckChuck vs. The Break-Up
Original Air Date: Oct 13, 2008
Jeff L - TwoCents Staff Writer
JeffL@thetwocentscorp.com
Well, Bryce Larkin is back and it looks like that kiss between Chuck and Sarah last week wasn’t enough to combat the animal attraction between the über-spies. We open on Larken and Sarah kissing in a passionate embrace. But wait! It’s a flashback to 2005 way before Chuck became the Intersect and before Sarah even knew Chuck existed. It is some sort of operation in Bogota, Columbia. The mission goes bad and Larkin ends up with a gun to his head before Sarah, without missing a beat, guns down the target who’s use of Larkin as a human shield fails epically.
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Original Air Date: Oct 13, 2008
Jeff L - TwoCents Staff Writer
JeffL@thetwocentscorp.com
Well, Bryce Larkin is back and it looks like that kiss between Chuck and Sarah last week wasn’t enough to combat the animal attraction between the über-spies. We open on Larken and Sarah kissing in a passionate embrace. But wait! It’s a flashback to 2005 way before Chuck became the Intersect and before Sarah even knew Chuck existed. It is some sort of operation in Bogota, Columbia. The mission goes bad and Larkin ends up with a gun to his head before Sarah, without missing a beat, guns down the target who’s use of Larkin as a human shield fails epically.
Then, we pick up where we left off last week back in the present, Chuck shows up at Sarah’s dressed for romance with his single red rose and Sarah look excited to see him, but, as we know, Larkin is also there. Chuck’s rose ends up in the trash and Chuck ends up back home being the third wheel during date night with his sister and Captain Awesome.
At the Buy More, assistant manager Lester is power-tripping, but that’s the least of our worries. The gang from Mighty Jocks Sporting Goods, led by Michael Strahan (former defensive end for the New York Giants) has taken over the demo room and their making a huge mess while they product place the hell out of Madden ’09. Strahan should have been out on the field while his Giants were getting their butts kicked by the 1-3 Cleveland Browns! But I digress.
Morgan is tasked with getting the Jocks out of the demo room and it’s not pretty. There’s a pretty funny scene where Strahan picks Morgan up like a rag doll and hefts him about 6’5” in the air and later promises to buy PlayStation Portables for all the Jocks if they’ll just stay out of the Buy More.
Meanwhile, over at the Orange Orange, the spy gang is getting a briefing from General Grandma. There’s some Fulcrum agents (the bad guys) who stole an encrypted, top-secret government micro-chip that’s supposed to be part of the Intersect 2.0 and upgrade of sorts. The upgrade also contains all the data on every operative currently in the field thereby putting Casey, Sarah, Chuck and Larkin all at risk. Fulcrum has hired a computer expert to hack the chip but instead of getting to work with the encryption (which -- if Stargate Atlantis’ Rodney McKay has taught me anything – takes a enormous amount of time.) he’s throwing a gala black-tie affair to celebrate his new found wealth. Larkin is to pose as Sarah’s husband because...Ok I don’t know why, exactly, but weren’t Chuck and Sarah getting too close anyway? Chuck will be a waiter at the party while Larkin and Sarah do all the heavy petting, err lifting.
Chuck is the bumbling waiter while Sarah and Larkin clear the dance floor with their Lambada. Chuck flashes on the hacker and tries to get close but ends up getting fired for dropping an expensive bottle of wine when Larkin and Sarah start to heat up the dance floor. Casey, outside in the support vehicle, has done some hacking of his own – into the security system at the party and he lets Chuck renter the party. It’s just in time too, because the exchange is about to go down. Chuck hides under a table while the female Fulcrum agent tries to extract the chip by force from the hacker. Wasn’t he going to give it to them anyway? Anyway, Chuck flashes on the chip which this hacker genius is using for a keychain and calls Casey for backup. The Fulcrum agent overhears him and Chuck is taken hostage.
Sarah and Larkin go after the hacker with the microchip but when Casey tells them that Chuck’s been taken hostage by the Fulcrum agent, Sarah goes off mission to rescue Chuck. There’s a gunfight and a huge explosion, which sends Sarah to the hospital and the Fulcrum agent gets away as does the hacker who somehow manages to escape with the microchip.
At the hospital there’s a funny scene where Captain Awesome puts the smackdown on Larkin, who he thinks is Sarah’s ex-boyfriend looking to rekindle their old flame. Sarah is going to be fine though so don’t worry.
The hacker, apparently done dealing with Fulcrum, contacts Chuck and arranges to sell him the microchip for 4.5 million dollars – which Casey is able to scare up with almost no effort. I guess it’s part of that government bailout money. Of course, the handoff goes terribly awry and Chuck ends up being the human shield for the Fulcrum agent and this time Sarah can’t take the shot. Not if she might end up hurting Chuck. Larkin is begging her to take the shot, Sarah is aiming and trying to find the courage to possibly kill Chuck in order to save not only the microchip but also the 4.5 million dollars but she can’t do it. Casey eventually shows up and takes the shot. We know he’s got no problem with killing Chuck, since he’s going to have to do it once the new Intersect goes online anyway.
Over at the Buy More, things get settled in a cage match between Strahan and Morgan who ends up being rescued by Anna who kicks some serious butt. So serious in fact, that Casey makes a call to Washington to see about getting her a clearance to do some fieldwork.
Larkin is on his way out, but before he goes he leaves Chuck his fancy sunglasses, telling him if he’s going to be a real spy he’s going to need them. Chuck puts on the sunglasses and his internal Intersect gets an upgrade courtesy of Bryce Larkin and the microchip Chuck helped rescue.
Oh yeah, Chuck and Sarah break up. For real. But, I only have 10 words left, so more on that later.