ChuckChuck Versus the Predator
Original Air Date: March 23, 2009
Jeff L - Sr Staff Writer
JeffL@thetwocentscorp.com
Chuck, Casey and Sarah give up the spy business and start their own plumbing company. Ok, I’m kidding, but the show does begin with the spy gang dressed as plumbers, covered in who-knows-what (I’m not allowed to say it) and discussing how low they had to go this time to retrieve some data that General Grandma sent them after.
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Original Air Date: March 23, 2009
Jeff L - Sr Staff Writer
JeffL@thetwocentscorp.com
Chuck, Casey and Sarah give up the spy business and start their own plumbing company. Ok, I’m kidding, but the show does begin with the spy gang dressed as plumbers, covered in who-knows-what (I’m not allowed to say it) and discussing how low they had to go this time to retrieve some data that General Grandma sent them after.
Later, a much cleaner Chuck is sitting in his room, when his webcam activates itself. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, we see Orion (the guy who built the Intersect) tapping into Chuck’s computer. He’s about to make contact when some Fulcrum agents break down his door. He narrowly escapes, and uses a stolen predator drone to blow up the building behind him.
Speaking of blowing things up, the Spy More is a total mess. Someone has entered in the off hours and toilet papered (can I say THAT?) the entire store. Turns out, the Beverly Hills Buy More has a bone to pick with our lovable gang in the Burbank Spy More. Their Nerd Herd, lead by Barclay (Matt Winston), show up to take credit for the toilet papering and to harass the gang because the Spy More is getting some fancy new computer display model before they are.
Orion contacts Chuck again, this time however, he’s tapped into the Nerd Herd computer. Sarah shows up before Chuck has a chance to ask him if he can get the Intersect out of his head so he can get a girlfriend (shut up with that already, Chuck!). Chuck tells Sarah about being contacted by Orion and about how Orion might have found him. It seems Chuck has been doing a little off-book investigating of his own. Remember that Tron poster? Sarah, never one to tolerate any nonsense, immediately drags Chuck to talk to General Grandma – possibly her biggest “I’m telling” moment in the show’s history. Orion is supposed to be sending Chuck a “secure” computer he can use to communicate.
I don’t know why they couldn’t just communicate on either of the computers they already were using, but that would spoil the whole B-story.
And in the B-story. Chuck’s laptop arrives and Lester thinks it’s the new floor model gaming computer. He signs for it and immediately takes it to Jeff’s bathroom “office” (thanks Fonzie) where he, Jeff and Morgan use the computer to play some war games that almost end up getting both the Burbank and Beverly Hills stores blown up by that hijacked predator drone Orion is so fond of.
General Grandma wants the laptop in government hands as soon as it shows up and Chuck has to steal it away from the boys before they actually destroy anything. Big Mike sees all the commotion coming out of the bathroom (Jeff’s office) and grabs the computer and locks it in his safe. Everyone decides they must break in while the store is closed and steal it back. Everyone including Jeff, Lester, Morgan, Chuck, Casey, Sarah and even that Fulcrum agent who almost captured Orion earlier in the show. He must have escaped the building before Orion destroyed it.
Silliness ensues, Jeff and Lester get maced and Buster Milbarge ends up getting knocked out by Casey in the process of reacquiring the laptop. Of course, when the smoke clears, Beverly Hills Buy More is going to be blamed for the theft. Chuck actually stole it though, but he doesn’t get far before the Fulcrum agent captures him. Casey and Sarah show up and save the day and the Fulcrum agent eat his suicide cyanide pill.
Big Mike rallies his troops and they break into the Beverly Hills store where Buster is allowed one swing of the baseball bat in retaliation for getting cold-cocked (sorry, Keith).
His one swing ends up destroying most of the merchandise in the store though. Damn domino effect.
Back at the Castle, General Grandma tells Chuck that Orion is probably Fulcrum and it’s a trap. She decides she needs to personally come to town to get to the bottom of the situation. Chuck gets sent home to wait for Grandma. At home, Chuck is contacted by Orion again. Orion shows Chuck the conversation going in Casey’s apartment, where General Grandma admits that Orion is real and not a Fulcrum trap and also that she has no interest in trying to get the Intersect out of Chuck’s head. Orion helps Chuck break into the bunker to steal back the computer AGAIN. Chuck gets it and the Fulcrum agent who ate the suicide pill (who’s body is still in the Castle for some reason) wakes up and takes Chuck at gunpoint to the rendezvous location provided by Orion.
Chuck is being held at gunpoint at the rendezvous location by Fulcrum, just as Orion arrives. Fulcrum agents go after his helicopter, and Casey and Sarah show up to rescue Chuck. The Fulcrum agent is shot (and hopefully killed this time) and Chuck races to try and meet with Orion, but ends up using the predator drone to destroy Orion’s helicopter instead of letting him fall into Fulcrum hands. (Um, why? You couldn’t use the drone to blow up the Fulcrum agents instead idiot?)
Later, Grandma fills the spies in on the war between the forces of good and Fulcrum. She believes that Chuck is the key to victory in that war and she thinks Chuck should stop worrying about getting the Intersect out of his head and start worrying about becoming a real spy.
Back home, Chuck finds a package left by Orion, inside are plans for the Intersect that Chuck must use to destroy the Fulcrum Intersect. Orion says that if Chuck is seeing this package he must be dead, but I doubt it.
ok, so is it just me or do you NOT trust Gen. Granny? She is up to something...big
ReplyDeleteGeneral Grandma has never had Chuck's best interest at heart. She was ready to have Casey kill him early on in the first season if he ever became a liability.
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