Episode Report Card Tippi Blevins: B+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Tron Guy
By Tippi Blevins | Season 2 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.09.2009
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Cole "James Bond" Barker is back! And being tortured by a Fulcrum agent who looks kind of like Nestor Carbonell without the luxuriant lashes. Meanwhile, Chuck is being tortured by Sarah's mere underwear-clad presence back at Ellie and Awesome's place. She's been sleeping soundly in bed next to him as part of their "cover" while he's been in agony. Chuck escapes his torment, as does Bond. He finds his way to Castle, where he badassedly dresses his own wounds.
Beckman sends Sarah and Casey off to a party at the Swiss Consulate to find a man known as Perseus, who Fulcrum is "protecting" because he's behind their own Intersect program. Chuck and Bond are supposed to stay behind at Castle, but naturally things go wrong and they leap into action when Imposter Nestor and pals show up at the party with guns in tow. Chuck manages to twist his ankle climbing into a window, and it only gets worse from there: Chuck accidentally shoots Perseus (real name: Howard Busgang) and Bond also takes a bullet for Sarah. Busgang manages to hobble away.
During the next briefing, they find out Busgang created the Intersect that's in Chuck's head, which gives him ideas about getting the damn thing out. Before that can happen, Ellie and Awesome see an injured Chuck and rush him to the ER where he coincidentally finds Busgang, being treated for his own wounds. Chuck goes after him, trailing him to a lab with some pretty gullible security. Chuck confronts Busgang and flashes on one of Busgang's folder which conveniently as "Orion" in nice obvious letters. Busgang realizes Chuck is flashing and that he's got some Intersect going on. Chuck wants it out and Busgang says only Orion would know if it can be done. Then the cavalry and Fulcrum baddies arrive, and Busgang is killed. Bond gets shot again, too, by the same guy as before, because he's good target practice or something. Luckily, Chuck uses his cast-encrusted leg to trip up the baddie and saves the day.
So now Bond is about to go back home, but not before he has a little bonding moment (no pun) with Chuck about going for what you want. Read: Sarah. Sarah and Bond have their goodbyes, and he wants her to go with him, but she declines, and Bond muses with some disbelief that he's lost the girl to Chuck Bartowski. Aw.
Chuck tells Sarah he doesn't want to move in with her after all, because he's crazy about her. He says he plans to get the Intersect out and then he'll be with the girl he loves. Then Chuck goes into his room and does the awesomest thing of the episode: He takes down his supposedly geeky Tron poster and reveals this intricate web of super spy information he's been collecting all along.
The B plot has to do with Chuck not wanting to break it to Morgan that they're not moving in together after all, and Anna mistaking a found apartment lease for Morgan's way of committing to her. He tries to gross her out to the point of not wanting to live with him, enlisting the help of Jeffster, instead of just telling her he'd rather live with Chuck. But he comes to his senses, and decides to move in with Anna, and Chuck is a good friend about all of it. The important thing here is that Chuck's awesome poster of awesomeness gets to stay right where it is.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!"Hi, I'm Chuck!" Chuck says. Hi, I'm your substitute weecapper for the episode! How do you do? Not so well, according to the Previouslies: Agent Cole Barker is working for MI6 undercover with Fulcrum. He sits around without his shirt and flirts with Sarah. Chuck and Morgan decide to move in together, to Ellie's dismay. Barker stays mum when he Sarah, and Chuck are captured, earning Sarah's trust. Then he gets captured again just as he's headed out of town and Sarah and Chuck have to move in together for 24-hour protective detail.
Now: We cut to a Fulcrum hideout where Barker is chained up and being tortured by baddies, one of whom bears a passing resemblance to Nestor Carbonell. Speaking of names, Not Nestor asks Barker for his name and Barker, possibly having read last week's Weecap, says he's "Bond, James Bond." We'll just keep calling him that, too. Not Nestor is not amused, though, and beats him up some more. He also wants to know how much the CIA knows about "Perseus." When Bond doesn't answer, a bald thug moves to hit him, and Bond's all, "Okay, not the face." Seriously. Not Nestor then asks, "Who's the Intersect?" Bond doesn't answer, so he gets beat up yet again.
Chuck's in his bedroom at Ellie & Awesome's place, suffering through his own torture at the moment, wide awake in bed as Sarah sleeps beside him. The alarm goes off and she unknowingly tortures him some more by chipperly hopping out of bed in her little pink undies, which Chuck tries very hard not to ogle. She jokes Chuck is lucky: "At least you didn't have to move in with Casey!" Chuck laughs nervously and it seems like he'd consider himself lucky to be dropped into a vat of piranhas at the moment. Sarah goes off to shower, leaving Chuck still immobile in his bed. Post-shower, Sarah brushes her teeth with Chuck in the bathroom and it's all very couple-y and domestic, except it's not, which makes Chuck contemplative. He asks her about her "connection" with Bond, and she assures him that it was "purely professional." Chuck doesn't seem entirely reassured.
Ellie excitedly greets Sarah and Chuck as they join her and Devin for breakfast. She gives them a hug and makes sure the two are still planning to move in together, not that she's trying to rush them. Devin's real estate advice, delivered with a suggestive wink: "You two love birds need to find a nest where you can let the worm wiggle free." Ellie tries to get Sarah to convince Chuck that not everything needs to move with them, specifically the Tron poster that he's had since he was 12. Chuck pointedly reminds Ellie that Dad gave him the poster. Ellie wants to know if Chuck's found Dad's address for the wedding, but he hasn't yet. We also find out Chuck hasn't told Morgan about the change in moving plans.