Chuck episode 5X10 picspam/recap
Hello, hallo, greetings.
As promised, I'm continuing this process that is going to kill me writing Chuck's recaps.
Before I begin, I want to put this little problem I have with the plot out of the way. It's about the macguffin of the episode (and the last arch of the show): the intersect glasses. They're not Morgan glasses (which only had one shot), but they're glasses that have exactly the same virus Morgan's glasses had. I mean... What? How is that possible? Who built those glasses? Or are you telling me that all the Intersect glasses have the same problem? That's the only way I can explain it, that they're a batch of defective Intersect glasses, that they're a new project of the CIA and they're not perfected yet. Because other way... Crazy.
After explaining this little objection I have, let's dig into Bo Dereck Chuck's last story arch (*bawl*).
(By the way, no drinking game this time, because we're getting to the end and it's making me so sad that I just couldn't.)
We have the summary... blah,blah,blah... and then Casey and Morgan creating a fake scenario for Jeffster, who are going to reenact The Hangover (with touches of Groundhog Day and Men in Black) for the rest of the episode. But we don't care about that. That's only a preliminary for the cutest Chara gif ever. For real.
I cherish this gif. I'm keeping it, sleeping with it, wrapping it in a little pink blankie and naming it Bob.
But this peace couldn't last long. Sarah wakes up when she hears a sound and she does what every sound person does in these kind of situations: she takes her gun and searches for the source.
I want to take this moment to point this:
I like that Chuck's bedroom (now Sarah's bedroom too) is more mature than what it was in the beginning of the series, but seeing those heart figures, after the penguin figure and the plastic flamingos (oh, God, the plastic flamingos), make me realize that it's not just Chuck the one with bad taste in decoration, Sarah is too. This is a thing. This is canon.
Of course, being about to shot the paperboy gave Sarah an epiphany. By the way, why she didn't do this more times is a mistery to me, because I guess the paperboy comes everyday, but whatever. Except if she did this every day and she just gets tired of it now.
I want to quit spying. [A little too point-blank for so early in the morning.]
Wow. Wow. Okay. Okay, let's, uh... let's talk about that
Look, I-I... I've been up all night, [except in the beginning of the scene, where you were apparently sleeping] and I... I've been thinking about our futures and, you know, maybe babies. [Try to space out the shocking announcements, Sarah.]
Oof. Yeah
And I want all of that, [just... like that?] but the more I think about it, I just don't know if that future goes with the life that we're living right now. I mean, both of us have been captured more than once. Every day, we make a new dangerous enemy. [It's not every day.] And I just ran to the front door with a gun because I heard the newspaper being delivered. [You never ordered a pizza, did you? Because if not, you've killed some poor pizza delivery drivers.]
Yeah, parents can't be shooting the paperboy
Look, I'm a spy, and that's all I ever thought that I could be, but I realized that we don't have to give up what we've already built. We can just shift what Carmichael Industries does
Okay, shift it to what? [Good question.]
Countering cyberterrorism. It's your tech firm idea, but more spied up-- so we keep your computer know-how and mix it with my experience in international bad guy-ery. [You mean your weird obssession of knowing every criminal in the planet? You know, like other do sudokus, you do that.]
This scene is curious, because Chuck did something similar in episode 5X05 and he was critized by fans. The difference is that when Sarah says this, when she says she wants to change of life, she has everything planned, even what Chuck can do in the new situation. Chuck was more like "Well... I had this half cooked idea..." Then again, this is because Sarah is a perfectionist who has to think of everything. I visualize her making diagrams and all about her plan (not that Chuck doesn't do this, but Sarah does this for the little things, not for the big day-saving plans).
Did you notice that every time she tells her plans to Chuck she looks like a student trying to impress her teacher?
Also, this scene is a sign of how much did Sarah change through the series. It's not just that she wants a family and leaving the spy life (more or less) behind, it's how fast she has realized that (with no drama) and how honest she's with Chuck telling him immediately that she wants to change. Season 5 was shocking in that sense.
So, Sarah and Chuck have a new plan, but they need to convince the third leg of their tripod.
Where do I fit in? What am I, chief Googler?
Well, actually, you'd be doing a lot of the same stuff that you already do. [So he does the google searches in Team Chuck?]
Yeah, I mean, we're still going to need field ops to recover stolen systems and breaching companies' security to find their weak spots. [Yes, you know, Chuck and Sarah want to leave their dangerous life, you, on the other hand, will do all the dangerous stuff.]
Plus, wouldn't it be lovely not to get shot at? [Huh? Where do you get this from?]
Exactly. Aren't you sick of being shot at?
Or getting shot? I mean, you get shot a lot. [Wow, Sarah, lower your criticism level.]
Not considering how much I get shot at
This line is wonderful, because it gives us a great Chuck and Sarah reaction:
It's like... "Oh, yeah, you shoot a lot." It's amazing how used they are to Casey and his way of fixing everything through violence. In season first Chuck was horrified by it and Sarah felt disgusted, and now they assume it with naturality.
Since not only Chuck and Sarah, but also Casey has changed through time, he accepts the couple's offer. Which means they have to get rid of the Buy More (because apparently they'll have income from day 1 with their new enterprise and they don't have economic difficulties anymore.)
Everything seemed bright and hopeful, but then the main plot caught our heroes again in the shape of Morgan's cellphone.
Tell the world of my gloryMorgan's reaction is hilarious. For example, it's one thing to hear what was your behavior when you were drunk, and another very different to see what you did in that party that everybody remembered except you.
So as it seems, Morgan took some Intersect glasses and hid them in a vault.
Great.
Well, it doesn't change the plan. It just means we have one last mission. [Oh no, you didn't.]
Why would she...
No!
Come on, Walker
What?
Things never turn out well when you say "one last mission." [Exactly.]
Is this just because of some stupid movie?
Yes
Sarah Walker, why are you so fond of Destiny Lines?! Why, oh why? Didn't you learn anything from Vs. the Last Details (episode 4X23)? I did a facepalm in this moment.
And we know what happened then. We know.
(I call it Destiny Line and not Fate Line, because at that point you're not tempting fate, you're directly announcing your destiny. It's that certain.)
So our guys have to find out what Morgan did and where did he go when he had bleached ends. They need somebody who could go deep into his mind and discover the truth, which gives us one of the funnies lines in the show:
What is it exactly that you two think I do for a living?
Brain science
LOL! Yeah, brain science. Whatever that is.
Aside from her medical knowledge, Ellie is able to do hypnosis. That should help with Morgan. While his sister regress his best friend, Chuck waits outside.
I think Morgan might really be hypnotized in there.
Great. [Sarah, you could fake some kind of interest for Morgan's welfare.] Hey, hey, look, I've been looking at, uh, some new possible office spaces. Above ground. We could have windows. [Windows! The only landscap in Castle was Beckman's face on the monitor.]
If we ever get there.
What do you mean? [Traffic is hell in LA.]
It just seems like no matter what, the Intersect keeps finding me. I keep trying to break free, [by downloading it into your brain in the season 2 finale, for example] and the very thing that started this keeps hooking us back in.
Chuck, we're going to finish this. And we're going to move on, I promise you
Curious, Sarah never promises something she can't do or knows it's not sure.
It's also interesting to note that in contrast with the Chuck of season 4 (who wasn't sure what was hisgoal in life without the Intersect), the Chuck of season 5 is quite self assured about his path and he doesn't need the Intersect for that. The Chuck of season 5 doesn't even want it, at any level.
Marriage does wonderful thing for these two, I tell you.
But Chuck isn't the only one Sarah has to convince.
Hey, Casey, you want to see your new office space?
No, 'cause we ain't out yet. ["And if you ask about of what color I want the curtains, I shoot you."]
Even if it belonged to a little someone named Ronald Wilson Reagan?
Seriously? The Gipper?
I love the cheeky smile Sarah throws at Chuck when Casey hears about Reagan. If Sarah is good at something, trully good at something, is at luring people, at convincing them offering them things they want (or think they want). And Chuck always feels impressed by this gift of his wife (when it isn't directed at him.)
Ellie tells the trio that yes, she has hypnotized Morgan but that, maybe, she has outdone herself a little and now Morgan is a teen who wants to have Ellie as his date in the prom.
That doesn't help.
Do you know what other thing doesn't help them or Morgan for that matter? Facing a guy that made Alex feel rainbows (rainbows!) when Morgan broke up with her in a hilarious scene (for us, of course.)
And what does Morgan do? Rant. In front of Chuck and Sarah, which maybe isn't such a good idea.
She acted out physically?!
Morgan, I know this is hard, but you did dump her via text
If you were looking for compassion in Sarah, forget it. She had a couple of breakups with Chuck and she liked none of them. Your "breakup via text" won't make her sympathize with you. At least it wasn't a breakup text sent from Prague (then Morgan would be dead.) And no, being faithful during that period won't earn you any points at her eyes either. It's better than dating brunettes after breaking up, but only slightly. She's not impressed.
Not everything is in vain, though, because our team discovers, that our Little Bearded Man stayed in some Golden Peak Resort.
So our team goes to Vail, Colorado, to find what the heck Morgan did during his "douchebag phase." And apparently what he did was hooking up with Bo Derek. No, seriously.
My name is Chuck. Really big, big fan. Just loved just so, so much
We really do
Yeah, I know what you did with that poster
Oh, no, no, no. I-- I wouldn't...
Ew
Oh, perfect. As if Sarah needed another addition to her list of "Women I Must Kill (But I Am Not Jealous)."
Anyway, since Morgan... uh... knows Bo Derek, the team let him deal with her in private. Meanwhile, Casey and Sarah will interrogate the people in the pub. Although Sarah, who is not jealous (what are you talking about?), checks on her husband. Just in case.
Hey, Chuck, how's it going with Bo? Have you had any sneak peeks of your childhood crush's boobies?
What? No. Shut up
If it wasn't for how lethal she becomes, I would love more jealous Sarah. In the comedy sense. Not like I would want a jealous Sarah if she had reasons to feel jealous. Then again, that possibility is impossible.
Even in the middle of a jealousy fit, Sarah discovers Morgan has an important tattoo. Chuck warns Morgan, Morgan loses his pants but gets to meet him and Chuck tells him about the tattoo... that is inside Morgan's mouth (let's assume he never had the chance to look.) What does the tatto say? "Don't trust Bo Derek." Never truer words were spoken tattooed.
Fortunately for the boys, notjealous!Sarah was there.
Sorry, I had to do that to your girlfriend
Oh... You didn't hit her in the face, did you?
Chuck, don't say anything more if you don't want to sleep on the couch for the rest of your life.
So our team takes Bo Derek to Castle to interrogate her. Because Bo Derek is a spy. That's right, guys. She doesn't play a spy, no. In the Chuckverse, BO DEREK IS A SPY. My life is fullfilled, I can die happy now.
Bo Derek --who is a spy-- tells them the entire story. Apparently she was hired by a man named Quinn, who is the king of Scotland runs an international spy agency. An international spy agency for bad people. And Quinn wants the Intersect, who in that moment was Morgan. Because as it seems, Quinn has some personal grudges against the Intersect: basically that he has put most of his clients behind bars. That's bad.
Still, the team doesn't know where Morgan put the glasses. No problem. An unrequited (and never believed) confession to Alex, makes Morgan see the light. The glasses are in the vault of Vail's Buy More. To Casey's chagrin.
Which is worse, Vail's Buy More is strangely like Burbank's.
Our team meets Big Michelle (no comments), saying they're security specialists sent from Carmichael Industries and proceeds to tranq her. And this just puzzles me, because they seem to be lying, so that means that they don't own Buy More as a business, only Burbank's store (this episode makes it official for me). O... kay. So Buy More is like a franchise, tecnically. The franchise label let you open a store with their name, but the store is yours. That's my explanation, at least.
Anyway, the glasses aren't in the vault. Not in the office's vault, at least, They're in a fake vault, in the advertising of Gunz 'n Gold. Unfortunately, Jeffster shows up to accuse our guys. Also, that's the moment Quinn chooses to show up.
And destroy all my theories.
I'm former CIA, too. The Intersect was supposed to be mine. But then Larkin stole it for you
Oh, Okay. I've been just four years with that theory of mine that Bryce and Sarah were possible candidates for the Intersect and all, but all right. I don't mind. It's not that important.
F*ck you, Fedak.
Aheam... Quinn makes sure to be seen as a bad guy by being very mean to Chuck.
Take a good look at your wife. You think you'd get that without the Intersect?
You son of a-- Have you any idea of how long took Chuck to fight some of his insecurities and be confident enough in Sarah's love? And by the way, Quinn, dear, you're wrong. Sarah fell in love with Chuck despite the Intersect, not thanks to it. Now, if it weren't because Bryce sent the computer to Chuck they'd probably never met. But that's another question entirely.
So our heroes fight Quinn, and they beat him (of course!). But instead of chasing him, Chuck asks his friends to stop.
Call the authorities. Tell them where he is. But... let's be done. Can't we just be done? We survived our last mission. Let's leave behind the Intersect and everyone involved with it, and be done
It seemed a good idea at the time.
This mess has a good consequence, at least, Jeff and Lester ask for his memories to be erased and promise to never try to meddle in Chuck's business.
At last, our heroes go back home. Happy. Hopeful for the tomorrow.
Sarah?
Hey. Did I wake you?
No, it's... I mean, yeah, but it's okay. Where are you so early?
I'm sorry, I-I couldn't sleep. [That's like three days in a row.]
I'm just, uh, I'm so excited about starting everything. [Here's an idea: when you're excited, have sex.] I made an appointment at noon to check out some of these new office spaces, and I thought that we could get Casey and Morgan together and, um... have a little ceremony. You know, pop some champagne and toast to our futures, and, uh... destroy the Intersect glasses. [ah-hahaha.] I, um, I-I think that's the right end to this. [HAHAHAHAHA!... I want to die.]
Yeah. That sounds perfect. Turns out saying "last mission" wasn't a jinx after all, huh? [SHUT UP, CHUCK!]
I love you, Chuck
I love you, too, babe
Good-bye. [*bawling*]
I don't want to pour salt in the wound or anything, but this is the last time we see Chuck and Sarah say "I love you" to each other as themselves and remebering everything that happened to them. You can go cry now.
Quinn captures Chuck then and calls Sarah telling her to bring him the glasses and from that moment on, everything was horrible. It was like watching a child building a sand castle near the flood tide: you know what's going to happen, but you can't stop it. Although I must praise the editing of the scene, because it increases the tension until you realize Sarah doesn't have any other option.
Walker, no! Don't do it!
As painful as this scene is (and believe me, it is), kudos to Yvonne for looking so utterly scared, but determined at the same time. She sold that moment, to me.
Kudos also to the production staff, because they have to highlight how good was Sarah with the Intersect, when we know how good she is without it, and they made it possible with their tight budget.
And Yvonne delivers again.
And I don't know you, but I had the chilling suspicion that Sarah's memory was going to suffer. I didn't want to, because I thought that the writers wouldn't be able to make it work, but I had my suspicions. I mean, why would they bring Morgan's memory loss back? I have to admit that I like that they thought of every story arch in the season beforehand. That's refreshing.
Even if it hurt my heart.
But that won't stop my task. Nor the next recap.
As promised, I'm continuing this process that is going to kill me writing Chuck's recaps.
Before I begin, I want to put this little problem I have with the plot out of the way. It's about the macguffin of the episode (and the last arch of the show): the intersect glasses. They're not Morgan glasses (which only had one shot), but they're glasses that have exactly the same virus Morgan's glasses had. I mean... What? How is that possible? Who built those glasses? Or are you telling me that all the Intersect glasses have the same problem? That's the only way I can explain it, that they're a batch of defective Intersect glasses, that they're a new project of the CIA and they're not perfected yet. Because other way... Crazy.
After explaining this little objection I have, let's dig into Bo Dereck Chuck's last story arch (*bawl*).
(By the way, no drinking game this time, because we're getting to the end and it's making me so sad that I just couldn't.)
We have the summary... blah,blah,blah... and then Casey and Morgan creating a fake scenario for Jeffster, who are going to reenact The Hangover (with touches of Groundhog Day and Men in Black) for the rest of the episode. But we don't care about that. That's only a preliminary for the cutest Chara gif ever. For real.
I cherish this gif. I'm keeping it, sleeping with it, wrapping it in a little pink blankie and naming it Bob.
But this peace couldn't last long. Sarah wakes up when she hears a sound and she does what every sound person does in these kind of situations: she takes her gun and searches for the source.
I want to take this moment to point this:
I like that Chuck's bedroom (now Sarah's bedroom too) is more mature than what it was in the beginning of the series, but seeing those heart figures, after the penguin figure and the plastic flamingos (oh, God, the plastic flamingos), make me realize that it's not just Chuck the one with bad taste in decoration, Sarah is too. This is a thing. This is canon.
Of course, being about to shot the paperboy gave Sarah an epiphany. By the way, why she didn't do this more times is a mistery to me, because I guess the paperboy comes everyday, but whatever. Except if she did this every day and she just gets tired of it now.
I want to quit spying. [A little too point-blank for so early in the morning.]
Wow. Wow. Okay. Okay, let's, uh... let's talk about that
Look, I-I... I've been up all night, [except in the beginning of the scene, where you were apparently sleeping] and I... I've been thinking about our futures and, you know, maybe babies. [Try to space out the shocking announcements, Sarah.]
Oof. Yeah
And I want all of that, [just... like that?] but the more I think about it, I just don't know if that future goes with the life that we're living right now. I mean, both of us have been captured more than once. Every day, we make a new dangerous enemy. [It's not every day.] And I just ran to the front door with a gun because I heard the newspaper being delivered. [You never ordered a pizza, did you? Because if not, you've killed some poor pizza delivery drivers.]
Yeah, parents can't be shooting the paperboy
Look, I'm a spy, and that's all I ever thought that I could be, but I realized that we don't have to give up what we've already built. We can just shift what Carmichael Industries does
Okay, shift it to what? [Good question.]
Countering cyberterrorism. It's your tech firm idea, but more spied up-- so we keep your computer know-how and mix it with my experience in international bad guy-ery. [You mean your weird obssession of knowing every criminal in the planet? You know, like other do sudokus, you do that.]
This scene is curious, because Chuck did something similar in episode 5X05 and he was critized by fans. The difference is that when Sarah says this, when she says she wants to change of life, she has everything planned, even what Chuck can do in the new situation. Chuck was more like "Well... I had this half cooked idea..." Then again, this is because Sarah is a perfectionist who has to think of everything. I visualize her making diagrams and all about her plan (not that Chuck doesn't do this, but Sarah does this for the little things, not for the big day-saving plans).
Did you notice that every time she tells her plans to Chuck she looks like a student trying to impress her teacher?
Also, this scene is a sign of how much did Sarah change through the series. It's not just that she wants a family and leaving the spy life (more or less) behind, it's how fast she has realized that (with no drama) and how honest she's with Chuck telling him immediately that she wants to change. Season 5 was shocking in that sense.
So, Sarah and Chuck have a new plan, but they need to convince the third leg of their tripod.
Where do I fit in? What am I, chief Googler?
Well, actually, you'd be doing a lot of the same stuff that you already do. [So he does the google searches in Team Chuck?]
Yeah, I mean, we're still going to need field ops to recover stolen systems and breaching companies' security to find their weak spots. [Yes, you know, Chuck and Sarah want to leave their dangerous life, you, on the other hand, will do all the dangerous stuff.]
Plus, wouldn't it be lovely not to get shot at? [Huh? Where do you get this from?]
Exactly. Aren't you sick of being shot at?
Or getting shot? I mean, you get shot a lot. [Wow, Sarah, lower your criticism level.]
Not considering how much I get shot at
This line is wonderful, because it gives us a great Chuck and Sarah reaction:
It's like... "Oh, yeah, you shoot a lot." It's amazing how used they are to Casey and his way of fixing everything through violence. In season first Chuck was horrified by it and Sarah felt disgusted, and now they assume it with naturality.
Since not only Chuck and Sarah, but also Casey has changed through time, he accepts the couple's offer. Which means they have to get rid of the Buy More (because apparently they'll have income from day 1 with their new enterprise and they don't have economic difficulties anymore.)
Everything seemed bright and hopeful, but then the main plot caught our heroes again in the shape of Morgan's cellphone.
Tell the world of my gloryMorgan's reaction is hilarious. For example, it's one thing to hear what was your behavior when you were drunk, and another very different to see what you did in that party that everybody remembered except you.
So as it seems, Morgan took some Intersect glasses and hid them in a vault.
Great.
Well, it doesn't change the plan. It just means we have one last mission. [Oh no, you didn't.]
Why would she...
No!
Come on, Walker
What?
Things never turn out well when you say "one last mission." [Exactly.]
Is this just because of some stupid movie?
Yes
Sarah Walker, why are you so fond of Destiny Lines?! Why, oh why? Didn't you learn anything from Vs. the Last Details (episode 4X23)? I did a facepalm in this moment.
And we know what happened then. We know.
(I call it Destiny Line and not Fate Line, because at that point you're not tempting fate, you're directly announcing your destiny. It's that certain.)
So our guys have to find out what Morgan did and where did he go when he had bleached ends. They need somebody who could go deep into his mind and discover the truth, which gives us one of the funnies lines in the show:
What is it exactly that you two think I do for a living?
Brain science
LOL! Yeah, brain science. Whatever that is.
Aside from her medical knowledge, Ellie is able to do hypnosis. That should help with Morgan. While his sister regress his best friend, Chuck waits outside.
I think Morgan might really be hypnotized in there.
Great. [Sarah, you could fake some kind of interest for Morgan's welfare.] Hey, hey, look, I've been looking at, uh, some new possible office spaces. Above ground. We could have windows. [Windows! The only landscap in Castle was Beckman's face on the monitor.]
If we ever get there.
What do you mean? [Traffic is hell in LA.]
It just seems like no matter what, the Intersect keeps finding me. I keep trying to break free, [by downloading it into your brain in the season 2 finale, for example] and the very thing that started this keeps hooking us back in.
Chuck, we're going to finish this. And we're going to move on, I promise you
Curious, Sarah never promises something she can't do or knows it's not sure.
It's also interesting to note that in contrast with the Chuck of season 4 (who wasn't sure what was hisgoal in life without the Intersect), the Chuck of season 5 is quite self assured about his path and he doesn't need the Intersect for that. The Chuck of season 5 doesn't even want it, at any level.
Marriage does wonderful thing for these two, I tell you.
But Chuck isn't the only one Sarah has to convince.
Hey, Casey, you want to see your new office space?
No, 'cause we ain't out yet. ["And if you ask about of what color I want the curtains, I shoot you."]
Even if it belonged to a little someone named Ronald Wilson Reagan?
Seriously? The Gipper?
I love the cheeky smile Sarah throws at Chuck when Casey hears about Reagan. If Sarah is good at something, trully good at something, is at luring people, at convincing them offering them things they want (or think they want). And Chuck always feels impressed by this gift of his wife (when it isn't directed at him.)
Ellie tells the trio that yes, she has hypnotized Morgan but that, maybe, she has outdone herself a little and now Morgan is a teen who wants to have Ellie as his date in the prom.
That doesn't help.
Do you know what other thing doesn't help them or Morgan for that matter? Facing a guy that made Alex feel rainbows (rainbows!) when Morgan broke up with her in a hilarious scene (for us, of course.)
And what does Morgan do? Rant. In front of Chuck and Sarah, which maybe isn't such a good idea.
She acted out physically?!
Morgan, I know this is hard, but you did dump her via text
If you were looking for compassion in Sarah, forget it. She had a couple of breakups with Chuck and she liked none of them. Your "breakup via text" won't make her sympathize with you. At least it wasn't a breakup text sent from Prague (then Morgan would be dead.) And no, being faithful during that period won't earn you any points at her eyes either. It's better than dating brunettes after breaking up, but only slightly. She's not impressed.
Not everything is in vain, though, because our team discovers, that our Little Bearded Man stayed in some Golden Peak Resort.
So our team goes to Vail, Colorado, to find what the heck Morgan did during his "douchebag phase." And apparently what he did was hooking up with Bo Derek. No, seriously.
My name is Chuck. Really big, big fan. Just loved just so, so much
We really do
Yeah, I know what you did with that poster
Oh, no, no, no. I-- I wouldn't...
Ew
Oh, perfect. As if Sarah needed another addition to her list of "Women I Must Kill (But I Am Not Jealous)."
Anyway, since Morgan... uh... knows Bo Derek, the team let him deal with her in private. Meanwhile, Casey and Sarah will interrogate the people in the pub. Although Sarah, who is not jealous (what are you talking about?), checks on her husband. Just in case.
Hey, Chuck, how's it going with Bo? Have you had any sneak peeks of your childhood crush's boobies?
What? No. Shut up
If it wasn't for how lethal she becomes, I would love more jealous Sarah. In the comedy sense. Not like I would want a jealous Sarah if she had reasons to feel jealous. Then again, that possibility is impossible.
Even in the middle of a jealousy fit, Sarah discovers Morgan has an important tattoo. Chuck warns Morgan, Morgan loses his pants but gets to meet him and Chuck tells him about the tattoo... that is inside Morgan's mouth (let's assume he never had the chance to look.) What does the tatto say? "Don't trust Bo Derek." Never truer words were spoken tattooed.
Fortunately for the boys, notjealous!Sarah was there.
Sorry, I had to do that to your girlfriend
Oh... You didn't hit her in the face, did you?
Chuck, don't say anything more if you don't want to sleep on the couch for the rest of your life.
So our team takes Bo Derek to Castle to interrogate her. Because Bo Derek is a spy. That's right, guys. She doesn't play a spy, no. In the Chuckverse, BO DEREK IS A SPY. My life is fullfilled, I can die happy now.
Bo Derek --who is a spy-- tells them the entire story. Apparently she was hired by a man named Quinn, who is the king of Scotland runs an international spy agency. An international spy agency for bad people. And Quinn wants the Intersect, who in that moment was Morgan. Because as it seems, Quinn has some personal grudges against the Intersect: basically that he has put most of his clients behind bars. That's bad.
Still, the team doesn't know where Morgan put the glasses. No problem. An unrequited (and never believed) confession to Alex, makes Morgan see the light. The glasses are in the vault of Vail's Buy More. To Casey's chagrin.
Which is worse, Vail's Buy More is strangely like Burbank's.
Our team meets Big Michelle (no comments), saying they're security specialists sent from Carmichael Industries and proceeds to tranq her. And this just puzzles me, because they seem to be lying, so that means that they don't own Buy More as a business, only Burbank's store (this episode makes it official for me). O... kay. So Buy More is like a franchise, tecnically. The franchise label let you open a store with their name, but the store is yours. That's my explanation, at least.
Anyway, the glasses aren't in the vault. Not in the office's vault, at least, They're in a fake vault, in the advertising of Gunz 'n Gold. Unfortunately, Jeffster shows up to accuse our guys. Also, that's the moment Quinn chooses to show up.
And destroy all my theories.
I'm former CIA, too. The Intersect was supposed to be mine. But then Larkin stole it for you
Oh, Okay. I've been just four years with that theory of mine that Bryce and Sarah were possible candidates for the Intersect and all, but all right. I don't mind. It's not that important.
F*ck you, Fedak.
Aheam... Quinn makes sure to be seen as a bad guy by being very mean to Chuck.
Take a good look at your wife. You think you'd get that without the Intersect?
You son of a-- Have you any idea of how long took Chuck to fight some of his insecurities and be confident enough in Sarah's love? And by the way, Quinn, dear, you're wrong. Sarah fell in love with Chuck despite the Intersect, not thanks to it. Now, if it weren't because Bryce sent the computer to Chuck they'd probably never met. But that's another question entirely.
So our heroes fight Quinn, and they beat him (of course!). But instead of chasing him, Chuck asks his friends to stop.
Call the authorities. Tell them where he is. But... let's be done. Can't we just be done? We survived our last mission. Let's leave behind the Intersect and everyone involved with it, and be done
It seemed a good idea at the time.
This mess has a good consequence, at least, Jeff and Lester ask for his memories to be erased and promise to never try to meddle in Chuck's business.
At last, our heroes go back home. Happy. Hopeful for the tomorrow.
Sarah?
Hey. Did I wake you?
No, it's... I mean, yeah, but it's okay. Where are you so early?
I'm sorry, I-I couldn't sleep. [That's like three days in a row.]
I'm just, uh, I'm so excited about starting everything. [Here's an idea: when you're excited, have sex.] I made an appointment at noon to check out some of these new office spaces, and I thought that we could get Casey and Morgan together and, um... have a little ceremony. You know, pop some champagne and toast to our futures, and, uh... destroy the Intersect glasses. [ah-hahaha.] I, um, I-I think that's the right end to this. [HAHAHAHAHA!... I want to die.]
Yeah. That sounds perfect. Turns out saying "last mission" wasn't a jinx after all, huh? [SHUT UP, CHUCK!]
I love you, Chuck
I love you, too, babe
Good-bye. [*bawling*]
I don't want to pour salt in the wound or anything, but this is the last time we see Chuck and Sarah say "I love you" to each other as themselves and remebering everything that happened to them. You can go cry now.
Quinn captures Chuck then and calls Sarah telling her to bring him the glasses and from that moment on, everything was horrible. It was like watching a child building a sand castle near the flood tide: you know what's going to happen, but you can't stop it. Although I must praise the editing of the scene, because it increases the tension until you realize Sarah doesn't have any other option.
Walker, no! Don't do it!
As painful as this scene is (and believe me, it is), kudos to Yvonne for looking so utterly scared, but determined at the same time. She sold that moment, to me.
Kudos also to the production staff, because they have to highlight how good was Sarah with the Intersect, when we know how good she is without it, and they made it possible with their tight budget.
And Yvonne delivers again.
And I don't know you, but I had the chilling suspicion that Sarah's memory was going to suffer. I didn't want to, because I thought that the writers wouldn't be able to make it work, but I had my suspicions. I mean, why would they bring Morgan's memory loss back? I have to admit that I like that they thought of every story arch in the season beforehand. That's refreshing.
Even if it hurt my heart.
But that won't stop my task. Nor the next recap.