ChuckChuck Vs. the Dream Job
Original Air Date: April 6, 2009
Jeff L - Sr Staff Writer
JeffL@thetwocentscorp.com
Remember last week, when Chuck and Sarah tracked down old man Bartowski in his Streamline trailer about 100 miles from everywhere? Well, maybe you don’t because I missed recapping last week’s episode. Sorry. Anyway, we pick up where we left off last week, with Chuck and Sarah being greeted by Chuck’s father (Scott Bakula), who we’ll call Quantum Orion – for reasons which will be revealed later.
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Original Air Date: April 6, 2009
Jeff L - TwoCents Senior Staff Writer
JeffL@thetwocentscorp.com
Remember last week, when Chuck and Sarah tracked down old man Bartowski in his Streamline trailer about 100 miles from everywhere? Well, maybe you don’t because I missed recapping last week’s episode. Sorry. Anyway, we pick up where we left off last week, with Chuck and Sarah being greeted by Chuck’s father (Scott Bakula), who we’ll call Quantum Orion – for reasons which will be revealed later.
See, old Quantum Orion is a little nutty. Perhaps that’s why he left Chuck and Ellie oh those many years ago, after promising them pancakes for dinner, but leaving them on their own instead. Chuck tracked down the old man, with help from Sarah, so dad could give Ellie away at the upcoming Ellie/Awesome nuptials. Ellie thought it was just a pipe dream, however, and when she’s surprised by the old man, she reacts exactly as one would expect someone to react upon encountering a father who abandoned them.
Chuck and Ellie have a heart-to-heart and Ellie decides it’s time for forgiveness. She barely has time though before Quantum Orion starts spouting off about his former partner Ted Roark (Chevy Chase) a kind of Steve Jobs-type. It seems the ultra-successful Roark stole all of the senior Bartowski’s ideas and left him penniless and alone. So Chuck has a major flash on Roark and they call in General Grandma. She wants to send Chuck undercover into Roark’s company before his big software launch that may or may not have something to do with the Fulcrum Intersect.
The funny part is that the job Chuck is sent in undercover for is actually Chuck’s dream job and his qualifications from Stamford and working in the Nerd Herd actually make him a perfect candidate. He can check his agent Charles Charmichael identity at the door and just be himself. Of course he gets the job and of course word gets back to the Spy More that Chuck on his way out – which leaves Morgan devastated.
Sarah and Casey dress as nerds to infiltrate the Roark compound, after Chuck flashes on one of Roark’s top execs and realizes he’s a Fulcrum agent. Casey and Sarah are going to steal the source code from the software Roark is about to unveil while Chuck creates a diversion. Chuck storms the stage but Casey and Sarah cant break the high-level security system and Chuck ends up accosting Roark and getting himself fired form his dream job. Ellie and dad watch the whole thing play out on TV and Ellie thinks that Chuck is doing it as some sort of revenge their father.
Chuck goes home and starts pouring over the Fulcrum Intersect plans Orion got to him last week and realizes that Roark’s entire complex is one giant Intersect. Of course, he can’t just tell Casey and Sarah that he’s had secret plans for the Fulcrum Intersect stuck in the pages of his comic books for the last week without them knowing. Instead, he decides to spy-up and storm the complex himself. He ends up shooting Casey with some tranquilizer darts on his way out of the castle and Casey swears he’s going to kill Chuck when he wakes up, but that doesn’t stop him.
Inside the complex, he finds old Quantum Orion, and realizes that his father is way more than he had been giving him credit for. The old man is Orion, the inventor of the Intersect that’s stuck inside his son’s head. He’s the one who slipped Chuck the plans for the Fulcrum Intersect. He left Chuck and Ellie, those many years ago, because he wanted them to be safe and not have to deal with his top-secret life. The apple doesn’t far fall from the tree indeed.
They find Roark’s Intersect and dad is about the give the Intersect extraction to his son, when they are caught. The procedure doesn’t happen – mostly because Roark’s Intersect doesn’t’ work. Fulcrum agents swarm the complex and Quantum Orion agrees to stay as a hostage to fix the broken Intersect as long as Chuck get’s to go free. He tells Chuck to trust his handlers (who have shown up – but are far too outnumbered to save the day) and we’re left with one of the best cliffhangers of the series so far.
What are your thoughts on Quantum Orion? Will Ellie and Awesome ever get married? Will Chuck ever get the Intersect out of his head?