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Chuck and Sarah get a mission to go live in the suburbs and pretend they're a married couple. They do it, of course, and they meet Andy Richter, Jenny McCarthy, and many other creepy suburbanites who are all eerily smiley and sunshiney. Casey keeps popping up as the cable guy, so they're all in the mix. Soon enough, they realize that one specific neighbor is the bad guy they're looking for. Luckily, his wife (Jenny McCarthy) hit on Chuck so he goes over to spy. Instead of romance or intel, Chuck gets a Fulcrum intersect loaded into his brain. Agent Redhead calls him off the mission, and sends Sarah back, under the guise that she and Chuck are getting a divorce. Casey goes, too, and sits around suspiciously in his cable truck. Chuck flashes on something from the neighborhood (thanks to his new Fulcrum-filled brain) and realizes the whole neighborhood is Fulcrum. He goes back to save Casey and Sarah, and they all end up in Fulcrum custody. The Fulcrum agents test him by loading their whole supercomputer into his brain. He pretends he's a different person now, but he's not, and he and Casey save Sarah from getting killed by the supercomputer images, but the agents' lives aren't spared. Even with one suburban den of evil destroyed, Agent Redhead tells Sarah that Chuck's never been in more danger. This makes Sarah decide to be cold and ask for the fake wedding ring back after he asks her on a date. He goes home to tell Ellie that he and Sarah will never be more than they are right now, and he's okay with it (except that he's not), while Sarah helps Casey and a bunch of other agents clean out the suburban house. Casey asks her if she's done there, and she says she is (except that she's not). It's more of that frustrating stuff this show is so good at: making us all want Chuck and Sarah to just be a couple already.
The Buy More storyline is a little more interesting than it has been, too, because Morgan, Lester, Buster Bluth (with an incredible toupee), and Jeff help Big Mike start online dating on Valentine's Day. He goes out on a date, and comes in the day saying he did all sorts of crazy stuff. His new girlfriend is coming in to meet him, so that he can tell her he's not really the shipping magnate he claims. When she arrives, he tells her the news, and she admits she wasn't completely honest either. In fact, she thought he had her come to the Buy More because he had found out her secret: She has a son. Who works there. And it's Morgan! It's a Valentine's Day miracle. Or, if you're Morgan, it's probably the opposite of that.
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Want more? The full recap starts right below!We open on a close-up of a Clockwork Orange-style eye as a computerized voice explains they're going to run some tests. The guy asks what he's being tested for, and the computer says they'll show him a training video that will explain everything. Red light flashes and the guy obviously can't close his eyes. I can hardly stand to watch it.
Chuck's looking at something, all confused, when Sarah walks up behind him and asks if he's okay. Now, how could she tell from behind that he was looking confused? That Sarah sure is smart. He tells her he's not okay ever since Buster Bluth started playing romantic comedies on all the Buy More screens. Apparently, it's mostly Must Love Dogs, so I would say that Buster Bluth is also not very okay. Sarah asks Chuck about tonight, and he thinks there's a mission he doesn't know about. She's just talking about Valentine's Day, though. He completely forgot and wonders if she wants to do something. She was just curious, unless he wants to do something. He thinks it seems like they should do something. She agrees, since they've been cover dating for more than a year. They think it would be weird if they didn't do something. But then they decide to give their covers the night off. Until Morgan walks up and asks what their hot plans are, so they settle on tonight at 8. Sarah walks off and Morgan asks who would have ever thought the two of them would have two hot women like they do (except that Anna has been nowhere to be seen forever; I actually forgot she existed). Big Mike walks up, clearly pissed off, and says that their relationships with women who are so out of their league are a cruel trick of nature. He then yells at them to get to work. On his way back to his office, he also takes time to yell at Jeff and Lester. And he even yells at Buster for making cupcakes and wearing a toupee. Buster is just trying to look nice because "Henrietta" is in town for Valentine's Day, and he thinks the toupee doesn't look that different. Jeff and Lester stifle their laughter, because it looks completely ridiculous. Big Mike storms off, and Buster wonders who crapped in his box of chocolates.
Big Mike's yelling at someone on the phone in his office as Morgan, Jeff and Lester watch. They think Big Mike's actually working, and cannot believe it. Jeff thinks it might actually be a robot, so Lester's going to go stab him with a pen. Chuck suggests going to talk to him, and goes to do that himself. When he walks in, Big Mike asks him what kind of woman delivers divorce papers on Valentine's Day. Apparently, Big Mike's wife. And now Big Mike's working to keep himself from realizing he's going to spend the rest of his life alone and unloved. And he tells Chuck to make everyone else work harder, and get that damn Must Love Dogs off the TV. Good call on that one, at least.
Chuck and Sarah are sitting on his couch, where there are lots of candles burning, but absolutely no romance. He's playing a game on his iPhone, and she's reading. She asks him if this is the worst Valentine's Day ever, and he tells her there has to be someone somewhere having a far worse Valentine's Day. Cut to Casey, who's pouring himself a whiskey, eating a microwaved hot pocket, and settling in to watch a military documentary. All of a sudden Agent Redhead pops up on his screen (okay, I would not want the TV that comes with that feature), and he quickly hides his whiskey. She tells him that LAPD just picked up "one of ours," an agent who has been on assignment and went missing. So far he's been uncooperative in explaining what he's been doing, however. Casey wants to know if Agent Redhead would like him to get the agent to talk, but she shows Casey a picture of him strapped to a bed, and I finally realize that he's the guy from the Clockwork Orange homage in the opening. She explains that the last phone call he received came from an L.A. suburb, and that the agency has bought a house there to serve as a base of operations. Casey asks her to zoom in on the guy, who keeps saying something. She tells him it's "salamander," but she clearly has no idea why he'd be saying this. She thinks it might be a code name for his enemy contact. She needs someone to go to the suburbs and infiltrate this network by finding whomever lives there that might be said enemy contact. Casey doesn't know if he'll fit in in the suburbs, and Agent Redhead agrees: This assignment is for a "normal couple," which can only mean one thing...
Chuck and Sarah are watching TV when Casey texts Sarah that they have a mission. They come outside and he tells them they'll have to drop their dating cover for this mission. They seem happy about this, until he says that for this mission they'll be married. In the suburbs. And ... Cake.
Chuck's going through his closet. He says "no" to a "Cowbell Hero" T-shirt and then finds a flannel-y looking striped blouse. Ellie walks in and says he's breaking out a dad shirt. He asks what she thinks, and she thinks it makes him look very grown-up. She asks where they're going, and he says he and Sarah are housesitting for her boss for a week in the suburbs. Ellie's so excited that they're going to see what it might really be like, and she points at her ring. He tells her to keep the wedding crazy to herself, because that's all hers. But she thinks if he's staying with Sarah in a house that doesn't have a Tron poster, it's a big step forward.
Chuck's pulling up to a house in a cookie-cutter neighborhood as Talking Heads sing. (I think the Weeds theme song would have been so much more appropriate, but oh well.) He gets out of the car in the dad shirt with a sweater vest (!!) and all of the people in the neighborhood wave at him. They really do look like they were made from actual cookie cutters. He walks inside and finds all sorts of photos of him and Sarah and their life together: wedding photos, camping photos, photos of a golden retriever, who runs out of the other room. Chuck sees Sarah, who's busy making potato salad in a gigantic bowl. She tells him he's cooking for the whole neighborhood. Just then, Andy Richter calls him "Grillmeister," and Sarah reminds him quietly that one of their neighbors is a suspected terrorist. Casey comes out from behind a giant TV (he's playing the role of cable man) and tells Chuck to get out there and mingle.
Back at the Buy More, Morgan's giving Jeff and Lester a pep talk, which basically consists of him saying that he knows they all took this job to do as little work as humanly possible (they, of course, nod in agreement; which sort of explains why everyone puts up with Chuck never being there -- he's still the most productive of all Buy More employees). They all appreciated that Big Mike didn't care about this, until his wife left him. They wonder how to get his wife to take him back, and Buster... er, busts in and says, "You mean how do we get him laid?" Buster agrees that the new regime is insufferable, since their "rotund" leader is channeling his sexual energies into the Buy More. Morgan wonders how they'll find Big Mike an out-of-his-league hottie. They all puzzle over it, but Buster wins on the weird scale by asking, "Where do you meet people you don't have to pay for sex?" Sadly, I'm not sure any of these guys know the answer to that.
Chuck's grilling when Andy Richter comes over to introduce himself. He's Brad, and is in the stationery business. He goes on and on about the embossing and how he can get Chuck free business cards, and... no one cares. Then Andy introduces Chuck to the gang, with a funny anecdote about each of them: Mark ("Whatever you do, do not let him driver your golf cart"), Dennis (he and his wife play "a wild game of charades"), and Mitch (you can't believe a word he says). Andy asks who the hottie is talking to his wife, and Chuck looks over at Sarah and says that's his wife. Andy asks if Chuck wants to trade sometime, and then all the guys laugh and say it was a joke, because the PTA wouldn't stand for that. Ha. Ha. Ha. No, really. Their laughs are all so fake (especially Chuck's) that they actually sound like that: "Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha."
Lester, Jeff, Morgan and Big Mike are at a computer. Morgan's setting a profile up for Big Mike on an online dating site. They give Big Mike the user name Lando Calrissian, even though Big Mike doesn't know who that is. I'm not sure how that's possible, but I'll play along. The profile also says Big Mike's 6'2" and 185 pounds. Big Mike's not sure he wants to lie that much, but Morgan tells him that everyone is taller and thinner online. Lester calls it the "Internet hotness conversion factor." Big Mike would like his job to be "manager at the Buy More," and all the guys laugh. Lester suggests astronaut, and Jeff throws out lion tamer. Morgan says he's got it, though, and types something. Big Mike says he doesn't know about online dating. He met his wife at a church picnic. He's explaining why that's better, but then Morgan finds the women who match Big Mike's profile and they're all hot. He's suddenly interested; screw the church picnic. But then Big Mike asks whether the Internet hotness conversion factor works both ways. Morgan tells him to lay off, because they're trying to help him find "dirty, nasty, filthy love."
Andy Richter is regaling a bunch of people with boring stories (who knew Andy Richter could be this good at being boring?) as Chuck stands far off, uninterested. Jenny McCarthy comes out of the house and tells him she shares his boredom. She then hits on him, and asks if he'd please come over and hook up with her. He says he's married, and she says she is, too. So she tells him to just come over when the honeymoon period is over. She slaps him on the butt as he heads over to Sarah.
Sarah asks him if he flashed on anyone; he didn't. He thinks everyone is clean, except Jenny McCarthy and her dirty mouth. He thinks maybe they're in the wrong cul de sac. Casey calls them inside, citing a slight problem with their cable. Inside, Casey finds a bug on the bottom of one of the food dishes. He says it looks like "one of ours" (what is with "one of ours" this episode?), but Chuck flashes and says it was actually stolen and is now Fulcrum's. Uh-oh. Sarah had been hoping for a garden-variety terrorist. Andy Richter tells Chuck his wieners are burning, and everyone at the party waves at them from outside the window. Casey says he knew these people creeped him out. Well, yeah, they're suburbanites, Casey. You're practically allergic, even without the Fulcrum implications.
Chuck and his golden retriever come down the stairs. He's in total dad pajamas. Matching flannel shirt and pants. He finds Sarah in a cute pink nightie cooking breakfast in the kitchen. She asks if he slept well, and he yells a response thinking it might still be bugged. She tells him Casey swept the house, and it's clean. He asks if they're inviting the neighbors over, but she says she's just cooking for him. Awwww. He thinks it's cute and gets the most adorable smile. He tells her he never pictured her doing this, and she tells him she's versatile. He asks if she's enjoying this Martha Stewart thing, and then tells her if she's not careful, she might turn into a real girl. He eats his omelet as she feeds food to the dog. It's very cute, but I actually found myself wondering if she'd put some sort of tracker in his food. I am such a skeptic. Chuck heads out to his car and all of the crazy neighbors are outside, too, so they wave. She comes out and gives him a grocery list, calling him sweetie. Then she kisses him and tells him to have a great day at work. He's loving this so much.
Then he's at the Buy More, where he gazes lovingly at her grocery list. Casey grabs it from him and it turns out she wrote a message on the back in invisible ink. Chuck wonders why they can't just use the phone, and Casey says if they'll bug your house, they'll bug those too. The note says, "Location Clear. Target on move." Chuck can't believe they figured out who the target is already. Casey shows Chuck a picture, and it's Jenny McCarthy's big, beefy, odd-looking husband. Chuck describes him as "crazy cougar lady's husband." Casey got his fingerprint off the bug, and he also found out that the guy bought a bunch of big, neon plastic hose stuff that is supposed to be some sort of super cable that is the stuff they use to tap into the agency's intranet, which he could be using to break into government servers. Chuck's glad he could help Casey solve this, but Casey says he still has to help -- by going into that house and onto that computer.
They're still discussing it at some later point in the Super Secret Spy Lair. Casey wants Chuck to pretend to want to sleep with Jenny McCarthy, and then try to get on her husband's PC and find out what he's up to. Casey sprays Chuck with some cologne. Chuck doesn't think Sarah will just let her husband do this, but she comes in and asks if he's ready and then tells him she's sorry, but this is their best option. Chuck says he has no trouble breaking his fake wedding vows and asks Casey to hit him with another spritz of cologne. Casey sprays him once more and then once in the crotch. Chuck: "Why here?!"
Then he's knocking on Jenny McCarthy's door. She didn't expect him to come so quickly, to which Chuck replies, "Charles Carmichael always comes quickly." Casey, on the roof as the cable guy, tells Chuck how smooth that was. Then he uses his super sunglasses to zoom in and tell Chuck what part of the house the cable enters through. Jenny McCarthy takes Chuck to her bedroom and asks if his wife would be jealous. We see Sarah's in their fake house, listening. Chuck tells Jenny McCarthy it's like she said: The honeymoon is over. Jenny McCarthy starts ripping Chuck's clothes off. Jenny McCarthy asks when's the last time Chuck and his wife made love, and he says things have been pretty cold in that department lately. She throws him on the bed and says she's going to thaw him out. Chuck asks if they can talk for a few minutes, and Casey scoffs on the roof. Jenny McCarthy handcuffs Chuck to the bed, and he tells her needs a little liquid courage. She asks if Scotch is okay, and he says yes, so she takes off to get it. He asks Casey how he can get out of handcuffs, and Casey says it's easy: Just break a tiny bone in your thumb. Chuck is SO not doing that, but he sees the keys, picks them up with his feet, unlocks himself from the bed, and takes off with the fuzzy handcuff still on his wrist.
He finds the computer with the crazy neon hose/cord in the room. He touches it and it asks for a password. He sees some salamanders in little Zen garden and says "salamander" to himself (maybe Casey told him about the salamander thing?). He types it and it works. The computer says, "Test sequence initiated." Images start flashing like when Chuck became the Intersect, only they're red this time, so we know they are evil. At the end, it says "Test sequence successful," and Chuck passes out. Just like the first time.
Sarah sees Jenny McCarthy's husband coming home and calls to Chuck on his watch (I think?) to get out of there. He's still passed out, so doesn't answer. Casey tells Sarah he's going in after him. When Jenny's ogre of a husband comes in, he asks if she's tested Chuck yet. She says she has him cuffed upstairs. And she actually does have some drinks, so at least she wasn't lying about that part. They find the bedroom empty of Chuck. Only his clothes remain. Casey, outside, sees Chuck crawling across Jenny McCarthy's roof. When he gets to the edge, he jumps off onto the fence and then falls into the yard. The whole neighborhood is watching, and remember: He's in his underwear, his T-shirt, and a fuzzy pink handcuff. Inside, Jenny and Ogre notice that Chuck ran the test and survived. She says they found their subject. Outside, he's running to his fake home, and everyone's watching. It's totally awkward. He gets home, and tells Sarah she won't believe what just happened to him. With everyone watching, she slaps him across the face. Poor Chuck.
Back in the Super Secret Spy Lair, Agent Redhead is watching footage of Chuck's streaking incident and reprimanding them for nearly exposing Chuck (literally) to Fulcrum, and to a whole cul de sac of civilians. Casey apologizes, saying they pooched it. Chuck disagrees, because he saw pictures on that computer. Agent Redhead is like, "Wow. Pictures on a computer. No one else has ever seen those." He tells her it was like the Intersect, only "very different." Sarah thinks he might have Fulcrum programming in his brain. Agent Redhead says that in that case she's pulling Chuck from this, but Sarah and Casey need to go back. She throws in a "The Carmichaels are getting a divorce."
Big Mike walks into the Buy More in fancy black suit with gold buttons. Buster says he looks prosperous. Morgan asks how he's feeling before his night with the internet lady. Big Mike says he feels like an imposter, because she'll take one look at him and realize he's not a 185-pound shipping magnate. Buster tells him the suit is actually very slimming, and Morgan adds it makes his wallet look fat. Chuck walks in, and Big Mike asks him if he should come clean and tell her who he really is -- since Chuck got Sarah without having to lie about his occupation. Chuck's not sure he's the best role model, but Big Mike says he's better than any of these losers: Morgan and Anna break up every other week. He's not even sure what Buster's affiliation is, and he calls Buster Elvis. Buster whispers to Morgan, "What does he mean my affiliation?" Morgan says, "The bathroom thing." Are we supposed to know what that means? Did I miss something? Chuck pipes up and tells Big Mike it's up to him, but asks if he really wants to be part of a relationship founded on lies. Chuck walks off, and Morgan says, "The answer's 'yes,' " and all the other guys agree.
In the backroom, Chuck gets to his locker and his grocery list falls out. It's written on Meadow Branch subdivision paper, and he flashes immediately on a sort of family tree that goes from Fulcrum to W.T. Energy Corp. to Lateral Energies Inc. to Teveron Consulting to Holloway Corporation to Meadow Branch. It's all red, by the way, so we know which Intersect is being used. Chuck freaks out, but still takes time to shove his stuff in his locker before he calls Sarah. She hears her phone, but just as she's about to answer, Casey tells her that unknowns are moving on her position. Chuck leaves a message that she and Casey need to get out of the cul de sac because he just flashed on something that's really bad, and he thinks it was Fulcrum. Andy Richter's talking to Casey, who's sitting in his cable truck, pretending he has a cable problem he needs help with. All the while, Chuck's leaving the message. He explains that the company that owns the subdivision is some sort of front for Fulcrum. Andy Richter tasers Casey. Sarah hears a knock at her door, and puts the gun in the back of her pants. One of her crazy neighbor ladies shows up with brownies, expressing sympathy for what happened with Chuck. Then Jenny McCarthy pulls a gun, and they now have Sarah too. Chuck pulls up to warn Sarah, and is greeted by Andy Richter, whom he immediately flashes on: Fulcrum. Then he looks around. Everyone in the neighborhood is in his new Fulcrum database. Andy tasers Chuck.
When Chuck comes to, he's in a hospital-looking room, where people are talking about his blood pressure and whether to give him more sedative. He's asking for Sarah, "my wife." Jenny McCarthy tells him she's not his wife, but a CIA agent, and so is he. He's strapped into the Clockwork Orange machine, though they haven't hooked his eyes up yet. Andy and Jenny are explaining that what he saw upstairs was part of a larger program, and that it told them he has a special brain that they'll try not to damage. Andy also explains that the government gave up on the Intersect during the war on terror, but Fulcrum has kept at it. The camera angle when it's on Chuck is very frantic and panicked, just like A Clockwork Orange. It's almost making me nauseous, actually. Jenny and Andy ask Chuck if he wants to be part of Fulcrum. He tells them he'll do whatever they want if they just let Sarah go. Jenny and Andy can't believe he let her get into his head, since nothing about any of this (the subdivision, her feelings) are real. They hook up his eyes to the machine and say that this will help him get over her, if he survives it. They start punching keys on a computer. Sarah yells "Chuck!" But they tell her he can't hear her. They put sunglasses on Sarah, too.
Casey's in a cell trying to get out of handcuffs. You know where this is going, right? He's wrenching on his hand, and eventually gets it out without making me any more nauseous than the fish-eye lens and eye machine Chuck's hooked up to. They turn on the machine. Sarah yells, "No!" Images start flashing before Chuck, just like on A Clockwork Orange (have I mentioned the similarities?). Casey wanders down a space-age looking hall. The images stop, and Sarah jumps up and runs to Chuck. He is immobile, and Andy Richter says he's toast. Jenny says to dump him where they've dumped the others. And then Chuck wakes up. He asks what just happened, and Jenny asks him if he knows where he is. He says, robotically, "Beneath Meadow Branch subdivision in a Fulcrum lab that was built as part of a secret initiative." Jenny asks which initiative, and he says, "to rebuild the Intersect computer." Jenny asks if he minds if they test his wife , and he says he doesn't have a wife. Sarah looks sad that Chuck's all bad or whatever now.
Casey sneaks into the room with the computers as they strap Sarah into the chair. Chuck sees Casey as he crawls up to the keyboard. Chuck winks at Casey, and then Chuck tells them he'd like to tell Agent Walker something before they run the test. Jenny's happy to know Sarah's name. Chuck turns around and Sarah sees Casey. He winks at her, and Sarah's relieved to find out Chuck's not bad after all. He walks toward her, leans forward and tells her to close her eyes. Casey puts on some sunglasses, then he hits the button on the keyboard. Sarah squeezes her eyes shut and puts her head down. Chuck leans forward and covers her ears -- one with his hand, the other with his own head. It's so sweet and heroic. I love that he's getting to save her for a change. And in a big huge way. The images flash and all of the Fulcrum agents scream because their brains can't handle it like our Chuck's can. Chuck continues to hold Sarah tight, and then they hold hands, too. It ends, and Chuck leans back and asks if she's okay. She is, and so is he. They gaze at each other with what is definitely love. Casey storms in, high from the excitement, and asks if anyone called the cable guy. This is possibly the best moment in the history of this show, for all three of our main characters.
Casey is supervising the clean-up of the bodies and surviving agents. Sarah's in the Super Secret Spy Lair getting debriefed by Agent Redhead. She tells Sarah that this latest discovery makes it obvious that Fulcrum is perilously close to creating their own Intersect computer, making Chuck more important than ever. His life has never been in more danger. She throws in a "The honeymoon is over, Agent Walker," who replies with "Yes, ma'am." I'm not sure what this means, but I think it means no more fun and games. But what would this show be without the fun and games? She comes up into the Orange Orange and Chuck asks her how it went. She lies that it was "routine." Chuck takes a big shot and asks her to go back to the subdivision with him. She asks why, and he says they still have the place and Ellie still thinks they're housesitting, so he thought they could enjoy a night in the suburbs without a mission. Maybe a movie and dinner, just Mr. and Mrs. Carmichael, maybe have some fun. She tells him they can't go back there, and that it was just a cover. It's sad for him, but for me it's mostly getting tiresome at this point. How many times will they have this same conversation? And also, why can't they be together, anyway? He's in danger, and she's his protector. I can't imagine a couple more suited for each other. Who cares that it will never be normal? Neither one of them will ever get "normal" with anyone, so why not take what they can get: each other? Especially since, you know, they're in love. He tells her he knows, but he just thought... She interrupts and tells him she and Casey have to shut down the operation and asks if they can talk later. He turns to leave, but she asks for his ring back. He gives it back, and they both look solemn. Are we supposed to think of this as a breakup or something?
Big Mike comes in and tells Jeff and Lester how great his date was: He did things with that woman that he didn't know existed and that are likely illegal. And he got to do it all because he lied his ass off. They're glad he took their advice. Then Big Mike gets all crazy about how much work they have to start doing right now. They can't believe he's making them work now that he has a new girlfriend, but he says she's going to be here any minute. He invited her down. In walks a sexy Latina lady. She asks him what's going on and why he's dressed like that. He comes clean and says it's because he works here, as manager. She thought he was a boat captain. Heh. Clearly, "shipping magnate" was lost on her. He corrects her, not that it matters. Her name is "Bolonia," according to my captions. He tells her that he made that up to get to do what they did last night, but now he can't bear to lie to her, and he hopes she forgives him. She forgives him, because she also wasn't honest. She has a son. A 26-year-old son. Who works here. She thought he found out, and that's why he wanted to meet there. Big Mike prays it's Chuck. Who could it be? Who could it be? OMG, you guys, it's totally Morgan! He appears out of nowhere and says, "Mother." She says, "Mi hijo?" And Big Mike repeats that. Morgan says, "You're banging my mom." Ew. And also: HA! I love that.
Chuck comes home, and Ellie asks how it all went in the suburbs. He tells her that it all just made him realize how things have been wrong from the start. He explains that he and Sarah aren't anything like Ellie and Awesome (who he calls Devin). As he tells her all of this, Sarah's supervising as a crew takes down their fake life. Chuck tells her that when he was in that house with her, where everything was so close to being perfect, he realized what was wrong: It was him and Sarah. They will never be anything more than they are right now. Ellie looks like she wants to cry. And I want to throw things, because that's so dumb. He did NOT have that realization in the house. He just asked her on a date after their time in the house. He tells Ellie he's okay with that, but he's totally not, and it's obviously not over. If we didn't have the round and round with these two, what would we have? Everything's cleaned out of the house, but Sarah just stands there. Casey asks if she got everything she needed, and she says, "Yeah." She looks sad, as she takes off her own ring and leaves the house, shutting the door on her and Chuck. For now.
Here's my big issue with all of this, other than, you know, how stupid it is that they won't just be a couple already: They didn't build up how cute and fun and wonderful it all was in the house in any moment except that one morning when she cooked breakfast. They should have done a little more with that if they really wanted us to feel like she had some deep attachment to that house there at the end. Otherwise, it's just an empty house that they stayed a few nights in, not even as a couple. I mean, as viewers, we don't even know if they shared a bed or if they had separate beds, or if they hung out at night, or what. It's just: mission and breakfast? There needed to be more for this episode to work just a little better than it did (and, don't get me wrong, I loved the episode).
Anyway, week: Chuck will do anything for Morgan -- even spy on Anna. She's with another guy, and Lester says it might be her brother. Then she makes out with him. Jeff's like, "It might be her brother." I can't tell if he's serious, which is one of several thousand reasons Jeff disturbs me so. Morgan's sad. And then Chuck apparently flashes on the boyfriend, and wants to go save Morgan, but it's "explosive." We see Chuck get into a Buy More car, as Casey yells that he's risking his life (Chuck: "No. I'm saving Morgan's"), and then we see a Buy More car blow up. We are supposed to think it's Chuck's car, but we all know that would never happen. Sarah does yell, "Chuck!" though, so at least she still cares.
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