- How much can Jill be trusted? Will Fulcrum get the intersect? Can Big Mike save Buy More from thieves? Who's coming to Ellie's Thanksgiving dinner?
- Casey and Sarah discover Jill's secret and race to warn Chuck. Now the team tries to lay a trap for Jill, but Jill's not alone. Chuck will find out more about their break up, and he'll have to decide if they should try to rekindle their romance.—Jesse Sanchez
- Chuck and the CIA discovered independently Jill is a Fulcrum agent, but too late to prevent her delivering him to ruthless supervisor leader. With surprise help, he manages to turn the tables, only to suffer the same fate and have his heart broken. Awesome's even more perfect surgeon parents announced their first visit, so Ellie obsesses with hosting a perfect Thanksgiving dinner. Although commandeered with fellow ever-dateless bachelors Lester and Jeff to guard the Buy More stock during the holiday, Morgan escapes on home-roast turkey prowl.—KGF Vissers
- The last time we saw Chuck (Zachary Levi), he had disappeared with double-agent Jill Roberts (Jordana Brewster). We open this week's episode with a FLASHBACK to 2002. Chuck and Jill sit atop a Ferris wheel as our hero fumbles to ask the girl out. "You talk way, way too much," says Jill, leaning in to kiss the Chuckster.
FLASH FORWARD! Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) and Casey (Adam Baldwin) worry about AWOL Chuck. "If it ain't torture, what are they doing to him?" Casey growls. Well, turns out Chuck and Jill half naked are getting it on. If this is torture, we'll take it.
Jill leaves bed to take a shower when her cell phone starts buzzing. A text message reads: "Have you heard from Uncle Tobias? Mom." Suddenly, Chuck has an Intersect Moment! He sees sinister, scary things the viewer can't quite make out, but we understand the implication. "This can't be happening," he whispers. Chuck makes a break for it!
Seconds later, Chuck is being berated by Sarah and Casey. As soon as Casey mentions 'Sandstorm', Jill's nickname, Chuck realizes what they are telling him is true. "Oh my God, Jill's a spy!" he says. Casey is less than sympathetic, however. He tells Chuck to go back to Jill's room because Fulcrum doesn't know he is the Intersect. Oh, Chuck, will you ever catch a break?
Opening credits! Commercials! And we're back. Chuck kisses Jill goodbye, pretending absolutely nothing is wrong. Back inside his sister's house, our man is feeling sorry for himself when the general (Bonita Friedericy) calls. "The flash in Jill's room referenced an agent called Leader (Patrick Kilpatrick)," she says. "We want you to use your relationship with Jill. See if she makes contact with him." Chuck agrees to do it. "Jill betrayed me twice," he says. "You bet I'll do it." Now there's some backbone from double-oh-Chucky.
Later, Ellie (Sarah Lancaster) furiously cleans the house in preparation for the arrival of Awesome's parents. Morgan (), who greets Morgan, Jeff (Scott Krinsky) and Lester (Vik Sahay) at the Buy More. "I need you lonely bastards to stand guard her on Thanksgiving," he explains. The reason? The store will be full of product in preparation for Black Friday. Apparently, no one told Buy More corporate about the financial crisis.
Chuck, in the meantime, heads to Sarah for advice. "When the time is right, she's going to make certain that she has you," Sarah says. "That you love her." Naturally, Sarah proposes the pair fake kiss to test Chuck's resolve. She stops just shy of actually kissing Chuck. Before you can say "tease," Sarah reminds Chuck that Jill is "capable of anything."
Date time. Turns out Jill has decided to take Chuck to the carnival. And wouldn't you know it? They take a seat on the Ferris wheel! Its 2002 all over again -- only this time Chuck is scared for his life for good reason. Jill pulls a gun on our unlucky geek! "I'm sorry, Chuck," she coos.
A few words from our sponsors later, Jill explains. She works for Fulcrum -- and is apparently having second thoughts. "Here's the truth," she says. "There's a Fulcrum operative in the parking lot right now." If Jill doesn't follow the plan and take Chuck to a waiting car, the operative will kill them both as a "precaution." The operative, meanwhile, is none other than the Leader -- a very scary looking dude, indeed. He confronts Jill and Chuck as soon as they exit the Ferris wheel. "His handlers are closing in," the Leader tells Jill. "This is a test. Do it now."
But Jill can't do it. Perhaps she is not so evil, after all. She points her gun Leader, who promptly knocks her to the ground. He then chases Chuck into the -- gasp! -- Gravitron. Thinking fast, our hero switches the ride on, sending the two into a G-force spin. Amazingly, neither vomits as the ride slows to a stop. Instead, Chuck falls on top of the Leader, knocking HIM out cold! Yah, Bartowski!
Before you can say "Chuck is probably going to run into the fun house," Chuck runs into the funhouse. There he finds Jill in the hall of mirrors. The symbolism is thick as Chuck looks at multiple reflections of his girlfriend-turned-ex-turned-girlfriend-turned-villain. Just then, Leader steps into the hall, gun drawn. He is about to shoot when a mirror behind him shatters! Jill has shot through the glass, hitting the Leader in the arm and allowing Chuck to escape! Outside the fun house, however, Jill is immediately accosted by Sarah and Casey. "Don't hurt her!" Chuck yells. "She saved my life!" Casey can't believe what he's hearing.
Two-and-one-half minutes later, we're back at yogurt-shop headquarters where Jill is hooked up to a lie detector. She confesses Leader can be found in a building downtown.
Back at the Buy More, Morgan has hatched a plan: He will venture outside the store to find a real turkey for Thanksgiving. Jeff hotwires the front door (they've all been locked inside by Big Mike) allowing Morgan to slip out. To Morgan's dismay, Jeff traps him inside the double doors. Adding insult to injury, Jeff manages to open the wrong set in the freeing attempt. Oops! Unfortunately, the plan inadvertently sets off the silent alarm. Big Mike, relaxing on a fishing trip, looks down at his phone to see security breach flashing in red. He doesn't look happy.
Good news back at Ellie's place: Awesome's parents aren't coming to dinner after all. Ellie is so overjoyed that she doesn't even flip out upon discovering Morgan digging through the trash for turkey scraps.
Cut to the yogurt shop, where Jill is still hooked up to the lie detector. She says she didn't sleep with Bryce Larkin. True. Chuck, whose on-again, off-again girlfriend is STILL a spy for an enemy of the United States, seems positively overjoyed. Also: Fulcrum told Jill to dump Chuck in college (true). "I guess in your defense, when they told you to kill me, you didn't do it," he says. To show his appreciation, Chuck lets Jill out of the chair. Big mistake. She immediately pulls a gun on him.
Meanwhile, Casey and Sarah have infiltrated the building downtown, where Leader is undergoing surgery to repair his wounded arm. Our heroes bust down the door followed by the S.W.A.T. team. Leader has been captured. Then again, so has Chuck. Think a swap is in the offing?
Commercial. Ad. Commercial. Ad. Commercial. Ad. Aaaaaand we're back. Sarah and Casey return to headquarters to find Chuck sitting at a desk, head in his hands. Jill emerges from behind the corner holding TWO guns. "I'm sorry," Chuck explains. "I let her out." Casey angrily throws down his firearm and takes the cuffs off Leader. "You did an excellent job, my dear," Leader says. AH-HA! Jill may not have slept with Bryce, but she apparently knows how to do her job.
Leader accesses the computer and begins searching for someone. But who? "Bryce Larkin," Jill explains. "He stole something from us." In other words, Fulcrum is looking for the Intersect! For once in this episode, Chuck manages to keep his mouth shut. He is put in a glass cell across from Sarah and Casey.
But wait! While Jill and Leader search the computers, Chuck manages to shut down the computer system via remote -- a trick he learned from reading the hideout manual. Even better: He has locked the base from the outside and sent word to the CIA, who should arrive in the next 10 minutes. "The nerd in me really, really wants to say checkmate right about now," Chuck quips. Leader, however, is unfazed. He puts a time bomb on the glass door to Casey and Sarah's cell. The blast would almost certainly kill them. Sarah urges Chuck not to give in, but it's too late. Our boy folds like a house of cards, agreeing to show the bad guys the way out. "Jill, if you hurt him, I swear!" Sarah warns. Jill rolls her eyes.
Sometime later, Sarah notices a message flashing on the door's controls: "I also unlocked your door. Taking them to Buy More. Unleash the Casey." Oh, Chuck, is there nothing you can't learn from a manual?
Cut to the Buy More. Chuck leads Leader across the showroom, where a trip wire has been set up by the security team of Morgan, Lester and Jeff (although the three are nowhere to be found). Leader falls flat on his face and Casey and Sarah emerge from behind a wall of product. Casey takes on Leader while Sarah chases Jill. Catfight? Alas, no. Chuck sneaks into the back room ahead of Sarah and convinces Jill to follow him.
Meanwhile, it looks as if Leader has Casey dead to rights. The former stands over the latter, gun drawn. "You thought you were going to take me down?" Leader sneers.
"NO! I AM!" says a deep voice from behind. It's Big Mike! And he's charging like an angry bear called back to work from a fishing trip! BOOM! The big man SLAMS into Leader, sending him flying. "I hate thieves," Big Mike says. He asks Casey if "Grimes put you in charge". When Casey answers in the affirmative, Big Mike tells him "Good work, son".
Outside, Chuck takes Jill to a Nerd Herd car, telling her to drive away forever. She gets behind the wheel only to find the windows closing and the car going into "detention mode." It's a trap! Chuck, meanwhile, holds the remote key chain for the car in his hand. "What's going on?" Jill says. "Don't do this to me, Chuck!" No dice. Fool Chuck once, shame on him. Fool Chuck twice, double shame on him. But fool Chuck three times? I don't think so. "You're under arrest, Jill," he says. "And I'm breaking up with you."
Back from one final commercial break, Sarah attempts to comfort Chuck. "What makes you special is that you're like any other spy," she says. Chuck takes her hand. With Jill out of the picture, it looks as if the Chuck-and-Sarah will-they-or-won't-they plot line is back into the main rotation.
Inside, Ellie, Jeff, Lester, Morgan and Awesome(Ryan McPartlin) celebrate Thanksgiving. Sarah and Chuck enter and the entire motley crew sits down for dinner. Just one big, happy, geek family.
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