Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A Change in Management
By DeAnn Welker | Season 3 | Episode 4 | Aired on 01.18.2010
while Casey, Chuck, and Sarah are in a van talking to him through yet another earpiece and watch. Chuck told him he marked his watches for him, and Awesome sees one that says "Good Guys" and one says "Bad Guys." Cute. Sarah tells Awesome the plan: They bring Sydney in and then Awesome's done. He asks Chuck if this is going to be okay, and Sarah tells Chuck to remember that if he freaks out, Awesome freaks out. Chuck says everything's fine, buddy, then adds "I'm very confident" at the end, a sure sign he's not. But Sydney calls Devon before he notices. Casey starts tracing the call. Sydney tells Awesome to go into the penthouse in the building, and they'll talk more once he's there. She says there's security, but nothing he can't handle. The call wasn't long enough to get an exact location, but Casey says she's close. Chuck tells Awesome to head inside the building and wait. Then he tells Casey and Sarah to get Sydney and he'll get Awesome to the twelfth floor.Awesome strolls into the building and a security guy approaches him to ask what's up. He asks if Awesome's here to see someone in the building, and Awesome says yeah, kind of. He's here to meet his friend, Chuck. Chuck's making his way to him in some sort of janitorial gear. Awesome says Chuck might work here, and then tells the kind security guy, Julius, that he's involved in something complicated and can't lie to his wife anymore. Julius, who's actually a security gay, tells Awesome if he loves Chuck, he can't lie to his wife. He knows. He's been there. Awesome doesn't have time to tell him what he means before Julius gets shot and falls. Awesome: "Chuck! You killed Julius!" Chuck's like, "Killed? I would never do anything like that. This is a tranq gun." He accidentally shoots it again and says, "That's preposterous. Kill someone!" They are cute together. They run off, and Awesome wonders what's on the twelfth floor. Chuck says it's best not to speculate since nine (or seven) times out of ten, it's nothing. They get off the elevator and Chuck says there's nothing to worry about. But then they find a bunch of guys in a hall. Chuck pushes Awesome out of the way and flashes on being a perfect shot. He takes them all out with his tranq gun. Awesome asks him if that was his spy training, and Chuck says, "Duck Hunt. Nintendo." Of course.
Sydney calls Awesome again and tells him she's glad he's alive. Now he just needs to cut out one of the guards' eyes to use for the retinal scan to get into a room at the end of the hall. Awesome hangs up and tells Chuck they have to do that, then adds, "I took an oath, Bro. I can't cut out a man's eye." Chuck has a better idea, and they drag a guard up to the scan and open his eye. Chuck tells Awesome bad guys don't count carbs. They enter and it's a CIA facility. Chuck calls to tell Sarah, but she loses him before she can respond. Casey tracks Sydney to right here, where they are. They see her. Their machines shut down and say, "Lockdown." General Redhead pops up and tells them to stand down. Casey says they have a visual, but General Redhead says she's received new mission information and their new directive is to stand down. Sarah tells General Redhead this is some kind of a set-up, and General Redhead agrees that it is, and shuts herself off.
Sydney calls Awesome and says there's a man at the end of the hall, and he should find him and kill him. Awesome freaks out, but Chuck tells him no one's killing anyone. He goes into the room, and sees a guy looking at monitors. It's Brandon Routh, sounding very much like Tom Cruise, who tells Chuck he already knows him and he knows all about the Ring. He says Sydney will be here any minute, and he has to be dead. He gets out some sort of red pill, then tells Chuck to kill him. He puts the gun up to himself, but Chuck can't do it. He says he has rules against such things. Chuck says maybe with a tranq gun, but not a gun-gun. "I hate gun-guns." Agent Superman tries to talk him into it, but Chuck won't. So after giving Chuck a note to open after Sydney leaves and saying he hates guns, too, Agent Superman shoots himself. Awesome comes in and can't believe Chuck did this. Chuck says he didn't, but Awesome feels his pulse and says he's dead. He tells Chuck this is not a tranq gun. Sydney's coming (luckily she wears loud heels), so Chuck tells Devon to remember that he shot Agent Superman, then he hides.
Sydney enters, sees Agent Superman is dead, and smiles at Awesome. She asks him for his gun, and he hands it over. She asks for his watch back. He removes Chuck's helpful sticker and gives it back. She tells him he did a good job, and says he's cute and talented. "What a catch." She takes his headset and tells him to lose the body, keep the phone, and says she'll be in touch. She welcomes him to the Ring. Chuck opens the letter that says, "Med kit in desk. The pill was amiodarone. Save me." Awesome explains that amiodarone stops the heart, but only for a few minutes. He says he can save Agent Superman if it's a clean shot. Chuck tosses him the med kit, and sure enough, Awesome revives him. Agent Superman wakes up and says his name's Shaw. I officially love him. These three in one room is almost too much goodness on one show.
At Castle, General Redhead introduces them to Agent Superman, who's been working almost exclusively on the Ring for the past couple years so now he has total command authority on anything having to do with that. Casey's like, "Really? This guy? I have back issues of Guns & Ammo older than he is." Agent Superman says he's been fully briefed on the Intersect, and he knows everything. He thanks General Redhead, who tells them they're in good hands and shuts off. Chuck reminds Agent Superman that Sydney's still out there, so Devon's still at risk, but Agent Superman says that the Ring operates in small cells, so if they catch Sydney, they can contain his identity (why, then, did they have to fake Agent Superman's death instead of just killing her at the last place? Just because it wouldn't have been a long enough episode?). He says Awesome's a bona fide mole in the Ring now, so they have to use him in order to save him. Chuck protests again, but Casey and Sarah agree with Agent Superman, saying the risks are greater if they don't use Devon, since Sydney would rather kill him than let him go. Chuck doesn't care, so Agent Superman asks if he has a better idea. Chuck watches an image of the special phone on a computer, and has a thought.
Buy More. Customers are everywhere, but no staff. Morgan wonders where everyone is and finds them fighting in the cage in the backroom with more Dust Brothers-ish tunes. Morgan tries to stop them, but they all ignore him completely and continue to fight. When one guy doesn't want to fight Jeff, Lester hooks a battery up to the guy as he touches the cage, shocking him. Morgan tells them this is over, and Lester, who is somehow the Tyler Durden in this scenario, tells Morgan it's never over.
Chuck shows up at Awesome's, who asks him to please not say there's another mission, since he's freaking out. Chuck says there are no more missions, and he's sorry he put him through all of this. He asks for the phone, and Awesome gives it to him. Chuck leaves. In the backroom at the Buy More, Chuck does some sort of reconfiguring with the wires of the phone. The computer says it's doing its work when Morgan walks in and asks if he can talk to Chuck since he's in a crisis. Chuck says he still is, and Morgan assumes it's something about work so he says Chuck's an assistant manager's dream. Morgan explains that Lester turned the cage into a fight club and attached a battery to the cage to shock people. Chuck tells Morgan it sounds like he needs a plan, and Morgan says he was thinking that, but ... what plan? The computer beeps and says the phone's been rebuilt, asking Chuck if he wants to complete it, yes or no. Chuck tells Morgan what he does when he has a problem is attack it head on. Morgan thinks that's powerful, and leaves. Chuck activates the device, and Sydney asks how he opened the channel and who this is. Chuck says he's the spy that killed Agent Superman, that Devon was just a decoy. He says he's in charge of this mission now.
Chuck calls Sarah and Casey at Castle to tell them not to be mad, but he may or may not have called Sydney so she'd track him to the Buy More. He says it's his trap, then he sees Sydney showing up, and he tells Sarah to grab Casey and get up here to take them out. Agent Superman takes the phone and tells Chuck this wasn't smart, and if he starts things on his own he has to finish them on his own. "Good luck." He hangs up, and Casey says he won't be able to handle it on his own. Sarah says without them, he'll panic and won't be able to perform properly. Agent Superman says it happens to lots of guys. Or so he hears. Agent Superman says he's kind of curious about the plan anyway. Uh, the plan was for them to go save him; didn't he just say that. Back upstairs, Sydney and three or four big, burly guys walk in. Chuck talks to them over the intercom, requesting they go to the home theater room. He even suggests a route, but one of the guys finds him. Chuck plays dumb, and says the store's closed and they can come back in the morning. Casey and Sarah say they're going on, so Agent Superman pulls guns on them and says he's going to have to ask them to stand down. He reiterates that he doesn't like guns, but he'll use them when he has to.
Sydney tells Chuck it's a little weird to meet in an electronics store, then asks about Agent Superman. Chuck says he killed him; Devon was just a patsy. Sydney's skeptical, and calls Chuck "Mr. Buy More." She says he shouldn't have any problem with Glenn and Ian, then, and leaves Chuck to fight two of them. Chuck makes threats but can't flash, so one guy punches him out. Chuck gets up with a bloody mouth and says he's angry and in a great deal of pain. He makes ridiculous martial arts motions and sounds at them, then runs off. Back at Castle, Agent Superman scoffs, "That is the plan?" Uh, no, dude: The plan was SARAH and CASEY. Is he a slow learner? Sarah says she's going in: "Shoot me if you have to." He turns to follow her with the guns, but Casey draws his own and points it at Agent Superman before he can. He tells Casey he's fast, and Casey growls, "I love guns." Agent Superman puts his down. Go Team Bartowski!