Chuck Versus the Gravitron Recap
December 13th 2008 08:53
Palo Alto, CA. 2002
Chuck and Jill are at the carnival. The ferris wheel comes to a stop with them at the top, and when Jill realizes he’s nervously clinging to the seat bar, she reminds him that’s it’s just a ferris wheel. He tells her that it’s not so much the ferris wheel, as him. What? “I kinda, sorta bribed a carnie to stop us at the top.”
“Well for someone that’s afraid of heights, that was pretty moronic!” She looks over the side, enjoying the view.
“I was goin’ for romantic.”
Jill smiles.
“Okay, here it goes, uh…Jill we’ve been friends for like a semester right? And it’s been fun, and I was thinking, you know, maybe, you and I, we could, I don’t know. You know what, you’re right, this is moronic,” he continues to stutter. “You’re happy being friends and I’m happy being friends and I just thought that—”
“Chuck,” she interrupts. “There is a problem.”
He just stares at her worriedly.
“You talk way way too much.” Jill leans in and kisses him.
~*~*~
“Jill Roberts is FULCRUM? And she has Chuck?” The General asks in a curt, angry tone. “How is that possible?”
Casey tells her that the list had codenames. By the time the computer translated it and they saw it, Chuck and Jill were gone.
Sarah tells The General that Chuck’s watch is still in his apartment so they can’t track him.
General Beckman: Find him. I don’t care how. Just do it.
~*~*~
Poor Chuck just can’t get a break. He finally escapes Casey and Sarah for a romantic getaway with Jill, only to flash on one of her text messages. Yep, that’s right, big surprise, Jill is a FULCRUM double agent. As Jill showers and Chuck panics, he tells her he’s going to go out for some coffee, makes a run for it, and bumps into Sarah and Casey outside on the sidewalk. They confirm that Jill is definitely working for FULCRUM. When they tell him he needs to go back up there with Jill, Chuck thinks they’re crazy. Need he remind him that she’s FULCRUM?! The General tells him they need him to try and use his in with Jill to figure out who her boss is. Chuck has a chance to find out who the Leader is. Sarah doesn’t think he’s ready for this, but Chuck reminds them all that Jill broke his heart twice now. He’s ready for this. Let’s go.
~*~*~
Meanwhile, back home, Ellie is squeegeeing the windows. Chuck starts to sit down on the couch but she quickly stops him. “Don’t!” Chuck leaps up. “What? What, what what, what is it?” In panic cleaning mode, his sister tells them that The Awesomes are coming for Thanksgiving, and the couch is perfect and needs to stay that way!
“The Awesomes? The Awesomes are coming here?” Chuck asks as his sister shoves a duffle bag at him.
“Yes the very Awesomes are coming HERE,” she says, frantically adjusting the magazines on the coffee table. “They make their son look mildly impressive.”
“Sis, you got nothing to worry about, they love you!” Chuck reminds her, but she can only focus on the fact that “I guess when you marry a doctor, and you’re a doctor, and you raise three awesome boys you tend to judge people a little harsher.” She grabs a throw blanket and moves it to a different chair. “Or I guess that’s how I feel when Mrs. Awesome is around.”
Chuck: I’ve never heard you use that nickname that many times.
She assures him that she’s just a little stressed right now, but “we all have our burdens to bear.” With that, she grabs her cleaning kit and rushes off.
~*~*~
Morgan shows up at Chuck’s window, calling in from outside first just to make sure that Chuck isn’t there with the “other woman”. Chuck assures his friend that there is no other woman, and Morgan is relieved that he won’t have to do “some sort of intervention or something, you know help you with your addiction to really attractive women.” Suddenly Morgan catches a whiff of something cooking downstairs and stops. He sniffs. “What’s that smell?”
Chuck tells him how Ellie is panicking about The Awesomes coming and is doing Thanksgiving meal practice runs.
Morgan’s gone.
~*~*~
Downstairs, Morgan finds Ellie pulling out a turkey from the oven. He watches her hair blow wistfully around her as she’s backlit by a heavenly glow, everything going in slow motion as she starts to sharpen the carving knives.
“Morgan.” Ellie interrupts Morgan’s moment and tells him that she needs him to taste the turkey. Right!
Morgan takes a bite and sinks further into turkey Heaven.
When he tells her how good it is though, she doesn’t believe him and slaps his hand away, pulling out a recorder and announcing, “Test turkey number one is two dry—” she slaps Morgan’s hand away as he goes for another bite and checks her watch. “Three hours and seven minutes.”
Ellie grabs the turkey and tosses it in the trash much to Morgan’s horror. As he continues to stare at the trash, Ellie tells him they need to talk.
“That’s fine,” he answers, still distracted. “Just don’t hurt another turkey like that.”
She tells him that this Thanksgiving is “Very important.”
“Sure.”
“And things need to run smoothly…”
“I know, I know! You’ve been so stressed!” He laughs and gives her arm a reassuring rub. “Everything’s great, it’s perfect! What can I do?”
Ellie clears her throat and puts on a great smile. “Morgan?”
“Yeah?”
“You’re—”
~*~*~
At the Buy More, Morgan is shocked and very hurt. “I’m not invited? I can’t believe this, I mean how? Uninvited to T-day? I mean—”
“Morgan, relax,” Chuck interrupts. He assures him that he’s going to talk to Ellie and everything’s going to be okay. Morgan is too busy realizing that Anna’s out of town so if he doesn’t have Thanksgiving with them then he’s out of luck. No Thanksgiving? Ahhhh!
“Morgan? Morgan, breathe,” Chuck helps then turns to help a customer as Big Mike suddenly shows up. He’s overheard their conversation and tells him to follow him.
As they walk through Buy More, Big Mike tells Morgan how terrible it is that so many of his employees don’t have proper Thanksgiving plans. “Like these two poor creatures,” he says stopping behind Jeff and Lester.
Morgan is shocked and touched. “Sir, are you inviting us to dinner?”
What? No! He’s telling them they’re going to be the ones who stay in the store overnight to make sure nobody steals anything because of Black Friday.
Chuck gets a call from Jill, and Casey stands by listening as he tells her that he can meet her for their surprise date…alone. He makes a kissing noise and hangs up.
Casey grabs Chuck by the ear.
Chuck: Ow! What are you doing? What was that for?
Casey: The kissing noise. Have some self respect Bartowski, you’re a man.
Chuck rushes off to talk to Sarah.
~*~*~
Downstairs, Chuck asks Sarah how he’s going to be able to make it though tonight, and Sarah tells him that Jill will wait until the moment he’s most exposed. Emotionally that is. “A good spy knows what their mark wants.” She tells him that Jill’s going to wait until just the right moment when she’s sure that he loves her, say, a kiss.
Sarah: Imagine that I am Jill. *gets up* The moment is romantic. She’s close to you, she’s looking into your eyes…
Chuck: Yeah okay, I got that I-I’m trying not to be distracted by the oh-so-romantic secret base.
Sarah: *picks up the remote and turns down the lights* Concentrate. Keep looking into my eyes *Chuck looks up* Don’t look up! *Chuck meets her gaze again* And if you can’t hold Jill’s stare, look at her lips. *He does* Good. Now move her hair back over her ear. *he does* And when you start to kiss…focus again on her… and just before your lips are about to meet, closer your eyes…
Chuck leans in and Sarah suddenly says, “Okay good! Good. You’re all set.”
Chuck is confused a second, then remembers this was just an example and pulls away. Casey joins them, breaking what could be an awkward moment, and tells them that he found out Jill’s got tickets to some concert tonight.
Casey: Better not be another freakin’ opera.
Casey walks off and Sarah assures Chuck that they’ll be there to make sure nothing happens to him.
~*~*~
That night, Chuck joins Jill outside his apartment, and she takes him not to the concert, but to a carnival. Uh-oh.
Not only does this remind Chuck of the time he was with her at a carnival before, in which he bribed a carnie to stop the ferris wheel when they were at the top, but it also reminds him that Sarah and Casey will not be there to back him up should Jill, say, try to kill him.
Jill reminds him what happened the last time they were stuck at the top of the ferris wheel, kisses him, and tells him she’s sorry.
“For what?”
Jill cocks the gun pointed at his side.
~*~*~
“What are you doing!”
Sarah tells him that she belongs to FULCRUM and that they want him eliminated. She tells him that she’s not a killer, but she has to do this.
Chuck nervously reminds her that if she pulls that killer she is a killer. “You already broke my heart is it necessary to shoot it as well?”
Jill thinks about this a second, then says, “You’re right.” She tells him that the truth is that there’s a FULCRUM Operative down there in the carnival crowd waiting for her to transport him to a car waiting in the parking lot. “If I don’t follow the plan they’re going to eliminate you and me as a precaution.”
~*~*~
While driving, Casey asks Sarah, “What’s the ETA on Chuck and the FULCRUM Agent?”
Sarah checks Chuck’s tracking signal and is shocked to find out that it’s dropped off the grid.
“What!”
“Turn this around Casey, now!”
Casey swings the car around in the opposite direction, and Sarah finds Chuck’s signal again. They’re not at the music center that’s for sure.
~*~*~
Back at the carnival, Jill leads Chuck through the crowd, pistol pointed at his side. She tells him that he has to do exactly as she says, and he answers, “I think you should know that my completely rational fear of carnivals has spread to girlfriends.” How does he even know that he can trust her, that she’s not just “gonna take me to the parking lot to do something you said you wouldn’t?”
Jill stops. “Oh no, it’s him.”
“Who’s him? Him who?”
“Leader”
“Leader” hangs up his phone and turns around to join Jill and Chuck.
“Um, excuse us person we don’t know. You’re blocking us.” Chuck says nervously.
The Leader tells Jill that Chuck’s handlers will be there any second. He wants her to eliminate him now. Jill looks around and asks, “What, here?”
“Shoot him in the head and let’s go.”
Chuck: Did you—did you just say—
Jill: Let’s talk about this first.
Chuck: Can we actually just leave? We-ahhaahaa!
Leader shoves Chuck aside and tells Jill that this is a test. “Do it now.” Jill hesitates and the Leader tells her, “Too late,” and goes for his own gun. Jill turns her weapon on Leader, and as he knocks her out, Chuck makes a run for it.
Chuck spots an out of order Gravitron and leaps the “temporarily closed” sign. Inside, he pulls out his phone, but it’s too late. The Leader is already waiting.
Leader: Mr. Bartowski you need to come with me.
Chuck eyes his gun. “Um, you told Jill to shoot me, why would I ever go anywhere with you?”
“I’d rather not leave your body on the ride. What if some kid saw it?”
The door to the Gravitron shuts and Chuck spots the buttons to activate the ride-- the ones labeled “TOUCH AND YOU DIE”.
As he’s telling Leader “Wow, that’s uh, that’s strangely considerate of you,” Chuck leans over and presses the green button.
The Gravitron whirrs to life, throwing them both off their feet for a second, before gravity kicks in and they’re pinned to the walls. The gun is knocked out of Leader’s hand and they both slowly try to claw their way around the walls as the seats begin to rise. Leader catches up to Chuck and tries to pry him off the wall.
Suddenly the green light switches to red and the Gravitron stops, knocking both men off the wall. Chuck lands on Leader, knocking him out, then stumbles out of the ride and runs as fast as he can to…The Funhouse!
Chuck stumbles through until he gets to the warped mirrors. He stops a second, studying his reflection. “That’s exactly how I feel.”
Suddenly, Jill’s voice echoes through the funhouse, “Chuck, you have to trust me.”
“Jill?” Chuck shouts.
“I’m not going to hurt you.”
“Where are you? Jill where are you and why are you doing this? When did you join FULCRUM and why?”
They continue to talk, both trying to find the other first in the land of mirrors. She tells him that it started at Stanford when she was doing a leadership seminar. After school FULCRUM gave them whatever dream job they wanted.
“Couldn’t you get out?” Chuck asks.
“When someone controls every part of your life, Chuck, you have to do what they say.” They continue to look around at the mirrors, trying to find the real person. “After awhile I found myself doing things I thought I never would have done, but by then it was too late.”
“Too late for what?” Chuck asks, and when she doesn’t answer, he starts to get worried. “Jill?...Jill!”
Suddenly Leader shows up, gun in hand. “I’m impressed Mr. Bartowski.” Chuck swings around to look at all the Leader reflections as the man tells him, “I wasn’t really certain you were a spy, but now I see.”
Chuck makes another run for it, and hits a mirror instead of a hallway. He knocks himself to floor, scrambles up, and finds himself facing the Leader’s gun.
Leader: Goodbye.
A shot rings out and the mirror behind Leader shatters. He falls to the floor as Jill grabs Chuck’s hand and leads him back outside.
~*~*~
“Don’t move!”
Sarah and Casey are there to greet them, and Casey grabs Jill and shoves her down to start cuffing her.
“No, no, no, wait! Don’t hurt her, she saved my life!”
Sarah holds her gun on Jill as Casey finishes cuffing her.
~*~*~
Back at the Buy More, Big Mike leads Morgan, Lester, and Jeff back through the store.
Big Mike: So one more time, what’s the plan?
Jeff: We stay here in the store all day.
Lester: And if anything goes wrong, we call you.
Big Mike: Good. Remember, you three are the last line of defense against the—
Morgan: Yeah but, can I—don’t you think this is a bit overkill?
Lester: *warning whisper* Dude—
Big Mike: Overkill?
Big Mike stops in his tracks to tell Morgan that his first store was “The Husky Lad Big and Tall. For the more than average man. It was robbed! Thanksgiving of ’88. That was a dark day, Morgan. Husky Lads throughout Burbank went without britches for Christmas. The store closed before the New Year. So no. It’s not overkill. It’s business.”
Morgan nods. “Sure…but before you lock us in, um, isn’t there some sort of law or rule about locking us in a store?” He turns to Jeff and Lester for help. “I mean, what if there’s a fire?”
“I’m not worried about a fire!” Big Mike interrupts loudly. “I’m worried about thieves.” He checks his watch. “Alright, Lady Big Mike is cookin’ with the family. I got fish to catch.” He leaves.
“Lady Big Mike?”
Morgan, Lester, and Jeff all walk to the front door as Big Mike types in the lock code and the doors close behind him.
~*~*~
Back at the base, Sarah and Casey have tied Jill up and hooked her up to a lie detector. Chuck assures her it’ll be okay, and Sarah sits down at the computer. “Answer all of our questions with either a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’.”
“Okay.”
“Is your name Jill Roberts?”
“Yes.”
Sarah looks at the computer. It beeps: “POSITIVE”
“Did you attend Stanford University?”
“Yes.” Another positive.
“Can I ask a follow-up question?” Chuck asks, and Casey answers, “You’re about to leave through that window.” Chuck quickly takes back his follow-up question.
Sarah asks Jill if she has a degree in molecular biology, if she’s a FULCRUM Agent, and Jill answers yes on both (the second only after automatically answering no and correcting herself). Sarah asks her if she knows the current whereabouts of her handler, “codename: Leader”, and Jill hesitates. Sarah asks again, and finally Jill answers, “yes.”
Casey orders her to give them the location and she hesitates. Casey leans in. “Tell me now or I lose my calm.”
“Jill, just tell him, please--” Chuck says, leaning into try and calm Casey down. “Please just tell him.”
Casey backs off, Chuck lets him go, and Jill finally answers that she’s not supposed to know this, but “FULCRUM has a mobile medical unit. You’ll find Leader recovering in an office building in downtown Los Angeles.”
Sarah stares at her. “Is this a trap?”
“No.”
The computer beeps a “POSITIVE”.
~*~*~
Sarah is getting ready to go and Chuck asks, “What about Jill?” She tells him that she knows he’s going to argue that she’s the same person that he knew and dated, but they can’t be sure. “Trust me Chuck,” she tells him. “We can’t trust her.”
Sarah leaves.
~*~*~
Back at the Buy More, Morgan and Lester stand with their microwave turkey dinners at the door watching Jeff string an invisible wire across the door.
Morgan: Is he setting a trap?
Lester: Mmmhmm. Our good friend Jeffrey’s been doing this job for, give or take, 15 years. This is his Thanksgiving tradition.
Finished with the doors, Jeff continues with the wire throughout the rest of the store.
Morgan: Amazing. How many traps does he set?
Lester: Just the one, trip wire. It’s kinda sad, he tripped over it last year. Anyway, bon appétit, buddy!
Lester pulls back the plastic on his microwave dinner. Morgan follows suite and grimaces. “Turkey in plastic? No, no, Les this is all wrong. This is not what Thanksgiving’s about, this is pathetic. Dude!
Lester is confused. “What? What else is there?”
Jeff listens in as he moves the trip wire behind them.
“There’s so much more, man!” Morgan answers. “Yeah, there’s fun, and food, and friends, and that’s just the ‘F’s!”
Lester knows nothing of this. “Where?”
Morgan looks at the door. “Out there.” He walks towards it.
“Morgan,” Lester says, letting out a confused laugh. “We can’t leave.”
“What if I could bring it back here?” Morgan asks. “A turkey.”
Lester looks down at his plate. “We—”
“No, no, not like this,” Morgan interrupts, and Lester stares at him, finally getting it.
“A real turkey?” He’s in shock.
“Yes!”
Not taking his eyes off Morgan, Lester hands over his plate to Jeff. “What do I have to do to get thissss “real” turkey?”
~*~*~
Jeff is working furiously to hotwire the Buy More electronic sliding doors. Cords in his mouth as his fingers twist the wires, he nods to Lester and Morgan, who put all their whole weight into slowly inching the door open.
“Talk about your fire hazard!”
They get it open just enough for Morgan to squeeze his arm through. “Okay, okay, okay, okay!” Morgan gets his let through. “You gotta hold it—” He’s just started with his head when the door slams shut again, trapping him. “Ahh!”
“Jeff! Open the door, buddy!”
“Open the door!”
“Jeff!”
“Got it!”
The outer door slides open and Lester and Morgan just stare at it.
“Okay! Nice Jeff!” Morgan shouts, his cheeks still crushed between the inner door. “Now can you open the door that is currently chopping me in half?!”
“My bad!” Jeff mumbles around the cords, and works the wires until the inner door opens.
Morgan squeezes through to the other side and he and Lester share a triumphant look. Suddenly they’re solemn again, and Lester puts his hand up to the glass.
Morgan puts his hand up then runs off.
Jeff climbs over the counter. “Did he make it?” In his hurry to get to the door, Jeff trips over his own tripwire.
Lester, still standing at the door, hand up, just shakes his head.
All the Buy More alarms begin to blink.
~*~*~
A very happy Big Mike is walking through the forest, clad in his fishing gear, pole and tackle box in his hands. Suddenly his phone rings. He pulls it out.
He looks at his text. SECURITY BREACH AT BUY MORE A woman’s voice announces, “Security breach at Buy More. Location 2354”
The tackle box and fishing pole drop to the dirt.
“Security at Buy More. Location 2453.”
Big Mike runs, forgetting his fishing equipment.
~*~*~
Ellie is rushing around the kitchen as Captain Awesome talks on the phone with his parents. She asks him what time they’re getting there, and he tells his parents, “Okay,…Mmmhmm…Alright, love you too.” He hangs up and turns to Ellie. “Babe? I got some news.”
She listens, distractedly as he laughs and tells her, “My parents can’t make it!”
She just stares at him. “Don’t toy with my emotions right now, Devon.”
“Honey, I wouldn’t dare.”
“You’re serious?”
“Yeah!”
Ellie is unbelievably relieved. “That’s great! Oh that’s so great!” She jumps into his arms and they both laugh.
“Now can we just have some fun?” he asks her.
“Yes!”
“And listen to some Chuck stories, and laugh at Morgan as he O-faces through his mashed potatoes and stuffing?”
“Oh no,” Ellie suddenly remembers. “I uninvited Morgan! He’s like the one person who loves this day more than anyone!”
~*~*~
Outside, Morgan rustles through the trash.
~*~*~
“Ah man,” Captain Awesome says. “Some animal’s gotten into the trash again.”
He grabs a broom and goes outside to find Morgan’s legs sticking out of the trash. He opens the lid and pulls him out with one arm. He frowns when he realizes it’s Morgan and that he’s holding the turkey Ellie threw away.
Ellie comes out and stops when she sees him.
Morgan: Well I saw you put it in the bag, you know, and I figured it was still good. *laughs* So I—
Ellie interrupts him by pulling him into a big hug. Confused, Morgan puts the turkey down and hugs her back. “Okay…”
“Morgan—” Ellie pulls back to look at him. “I am so sorry that I uninvited you to Thanksgiving please please forgive me.”
“Forgive you? Of course! Yes, yeah I understand,” Morgan says. “I completely understand, I mean you’ve been so stressed out with this whole thing, and you know with our new boss at work, and this whole Chuck and Jill thing, it’s like—” he whistles to indicate everything getting crazy out of control, and Ellie stares at him.
“What Chuck and Jill thing?”
“What Chuck and Jill thing? I didn’t say anything about—” Ellie grabs Morgan by the mouth and warns, “You tell me everything that you know.”
“Mmmhmmm, yeah I will.” Ellie lets him go and he asks, “Can I just get one small favor though? I need to invite a couple of guests over.”
~*~*~
Back at the secret base, Chuck types in the password to go into the room with Jill, who is still tied up to the lie detector. He tells her he just wanted to see if she wanted a water or anything. No she’s good. Okay…”are Casey and Sarah ready to get started again?” No, not yet, but before they do he was wondering if he could ask some of his own questions first.
Jill is surprised. “Do you know how to work all this stuff?”
“Yeah, totally.” Chuck grabs a huge book. “I uh, read the manual.”
Jill laughs. “You read a lie detector manual?”
“No, this is the manual for the entire castle base!” Chuck clarifies.
“Oh,” she answers, amused. “You read a manual for a base.”
“Ah, well, you know, um…I skimmed it.”
Jill smiles and Chuck becomes serious. “Would you mind if I asked you a couple of questions?”
“Go ahead.”
Chuck wheels the computer over, types some keys, and asks if “Back at Stanford when we were dating, was that for real?”
“Yes.”
The computer beeps POSITIVE.
“You really liked me?” Chuck asks. “Those were real emotions?”
“Yes.” Another positive.
Chuck asks why then, if that’s the truth, did she sleep with Bryce right after he got kicked out of school? She reminds him that it has to be a yes or no question or it won’t work.
“Did you love him too?”
“No.”
POSITIVE.
“Great. That’s great, that makes it even worse,” Chuck says, distressed.
“There’s a question that you’re not answering,” she tells him. “It’s right there and you’re not asking it.”
Chuck thinks a moment then it hits him. “Did you sleep with Bryce?”
“No. I didn’t.”
POSITIVE.
~*~*~
In the FULCRUM mobile medical lab, Leader is getting sewn up.
“Everyone freeze!” Casey aims his gun as Sarah comes in behind him, telling the doctors to, “Stop right there.”
More of their team rushes in behind them and Casey tells them to leave Leader for him.
~*~*~
Chuck is very confused. “So you’re telling me, that for the last six years of my life…I’ve been believing that you betrayed me? Why would you do that?”
She tells him that when he got kicked out school her FULCRUM advisor told her she had to let him go. Since he wasn’t talking to Bryce at the time, she figured that was the best way to do it. Jill apologizes to him and Chuck still can’t believe it. “FULCRUM told you to dump me?”
“I didn’t have a choice.”
“I guess in your defense, when they told you to kill me you didn’t do it so I guess that means something.”
“It does,” she tells him. “I never wanted to hurt you, Chuck. Ever. You were my first love.”
Chuck lets this sink in, thinks a moment, then asks, “Do you think when this is all over…we could try again?”
“Get me out of these.”
Chuck jumps up and undoes the binds holding her to the chair. Jill jumps up and wraps her arms around his neck. “Yes.”
She kisses him as, behind Chuck, the lie detector beeps: NEGATIVE.
~*~*~
On the phone, Sarah tells Chuck that “we have Leader. We’re taking him back to The Castle.”
“Great. See you when you get back.”
Chuck hangs up the phone, Jill’s gun pointed at his head.
“I’m sorry Chuck.”
~*~*~
Casey and Sarah bring in Leader and find Chuck sitting at the computer monitors.
“Chuck?” Sarah notices something’s not right. “Chuck, what’s wrong?”
“You promised you wouldn’t hurt them,” Chuck calls out, and Jill rounds the corner, two guns pointed at Casey and Sarah. She orders them to put the guns on the table and to take Leader’s cuffs off. Chuck quickly apologizes, telling them that he let her out. “I’m sorry!”
Sarah hands her gun over to Casey, who sets both of their weapons on the table. He glares at Leader and begrudgingly uncuffs him. Leader shoves Casey back, takes off his sling, and picks up their guns. “I believe we were headed to a holding area? Show me the way.”
Case and Sarah back down the hallway as Jill tells Chuck to just “do what he says and it’ll be okay.”
“What about my friends?”
“Just do what he says.”
“How could you do this Jill?”
“Chuck, it’s complicated.”
He swings around in his chair to face her. “Look I know complicated, how could YOU do this?”
She doesn’t answer, and Leader comes out to tell her, “You did an excellent job, my dear.”
Jill orders Chuck to show Leader the joint intelligence database, and Chuck just answers, “I’m sorry, I don’t know how to do that.” Leader orders him to “do it now or I’ll kill your friends. Starting with the blond.”
Chuck swings around and starts typing at the computer keyboard. Leader thanks him with an evil smirk, and Chuck realizes that the whole thing has been a setup. “You let her shoot you!”
“Devious aren’t we?” Leader tells Jill to move Chuck as he sits down at the computer.
~*~*~
Jill leads Chuck to another glass cell, telling Chuck that they’re searching for someone. Chuck asks who, stalling for time as he reaches for the manual behind him.
“Bryce Larkin.”
Why are they looking for Bryce? She tells him not to pretend he doesn’t know. They know he’s CIA. She locks him in and walks away. “He stole something from us.”
Casey: They’re looking for The Intersect.
Chuck looks across the hall to the cell where Casey and Sarah are and apologizes. “I’m sorry Sarah, I should have listened to you.” He flips open the manual, telling them he has a plan. He goes over to the keypad in his cell and begins to type.
Sarah: Hey, what are you doing?
Casey: That’s The Castle manual. I told you that’s top secret.
Chuck: Yeah, I know. So am I.
~*~*~
Big Mike is now driving through the mountains. He rips off his fishing hat, letting out an angry grunt…
~*~*~
Jill and Leader watch as all the computer monitors suddenly go fuzzy.
They walk back to find Chuck laying down using the manual as a pillow.
Leader: What did you do?
Chuck: Like I told Jill. I read the manual.
Leader: What. Did you do?
Chuck tells him he’s locked them out of the system using the remote console that every room in Castle’s equipped with. He holds up the thick black book. “It’s in the manual.” He gets up. “Unfortunately, said manual is in here with me, and since I overrode Castle’s primary controls, we’re now safely locked within these bulletproof cells…Devious?” He grins, slamming the book down. “Aren’t I?”
Leader warns him that with one phone call and his men will be there in 20 minutes. Chuck is glad he brought that up, seeing as how he also activated the base’s communication jammer. “So no calls out, sorry about that. And because I triggered the CIA’s trouble alarm? I think the cavalry’s gonna be here in like, ten minutes or so?” He gets up and walks over to the window. “The nerd in me really really wants to say checkmate right about now.”
“Never say that,” Leader tells him.
“Why?”
“Because you don’t know who you’re playing against,” Leader tells him, pulling something out of his pocket. Casey and Sarah exchange a look. “These cells might be bulletproof,” Leader continues, sticking something to the glass. “But they can’t withstand that.” He steps back to show Chuck the explosive he’s just activated. Two minutes count down. “The blast will kill them.” Leader turns back to look at Chuck. “But I’ll bet your cell will be fine.”
“Chuck,” Sarah warns. “Don’t do anything!”
“Stay in that cell Bartowski!” Casey adds.
Chuck looks at his friends, then to Jill for help. “Jill?”
“Just do what he says, Chuck.”
Leader: Open the door or your friends will die.
Chuck glances at Sarah, then at Casey, who quickly shakes his head no.
Beep…beep…the second tick down.
“Goodbye Mr. Bartowski.” Leader starts to leave and Chuck can’t take it anymore.
“Wait wait wait wait wait! Wait!” Chuck quickly punches in the code and opens his door.
Leader points his gun at him. “Now show me the way out of here.”
Jill pulls off the explosive and Sarah warns her, “Jill if you hurt him, I swear…”
Jill just walks off.
Jill and Leader walk Jill down the hall.
~*~*~
Sarah and Casey’s remote panel beeps and Sarah checks it. “It’s a message from Chuck!”
The message reads:
<//…I also
unlocked your door.
Taking them to Buy More.
Unleash the Casey.//>…
They get the door open and rush out.
~*~*~
Chuck slowly inches up the trap door in the floor of the Buy More home theatre room. He, Leader, and Jill slowly inch through the store and Chuck steps over Jeff’s tripwire. Leader trips and Chuck pulls out of his grasp.
“Drop it!” Sarah warns, aiming her gun at Leader, who quickly gets up and aims his gun at Chuck.
Casey slams into Leader and Jill makes a run for it. Sarah goes after her, and Chuck yells, “Sarah don’t hurt her!”
Sarah goes down the hallway, gun drawn. Jill rounds the corner after her, cocks her gun at Sarah, and Chuck suddenly appears, whispering that he can help her. “Come on.”
Casey and Leader continue to fight, knocking things off shelves, and Leader finally knocks Casey down, grabbing his gun and pointing it at him.
Leader: And you thought you were gonna take me down.
“No baby!” a voice calls out. “I am!”
Big Mike takes a running leap at Leader, slamming into him and sending Leader flying across the room and into an Averrtec display. He’s knocked out cold.
Casey jumps up, hiding his gun as Big Mike continues to glare at Leader.
“I hate thieves,” Big Mike says, then turns to Casey. “Grimes put you in charge?”
“Hm? Yeah.”
Big Mike slaps him on the back. “Smart boy.”
~*~*~
Outside, Jill asks Chuck what they’re doing as he leads her to a Nerd Herder. He tells her that it’s the perfect getaway car, and to just get in, he won’t call it in. She gets in and asks him to go with her. It’ll be just them, no secrets or spy stuff. He leans on the open window, telling her that they obviously have the whole opposites attract thing going on here, but he can’t. “It’s just, there’s one small problem.” He reaches in his pocket and pulls out the electronic key, hitting the button and locking Jill in the car.
“What are you doing Chuck?”
The car goes into “detention mode”, handcuffing Jill to the wheel.
Sarah opens the door to overhear Jill tell Chuck not to do this to her.
“You know I wanted to help you!” he says loudly so she can hear through the glass. “I was gonna let you get away.”
“Chuck…”
“But then when you were about to kill Sarah you made the decision for me…You’re under arrest Jill. And I’m breaking up with you.”
He walks away, leaving her in the Nerd Herder.
~*~*~
Walking through the courtyard, Chuck apologizes to Sarah again, and tells her that he’s just not used to this whole spying and lying thing. Guess he’s just not over wanting to believe there’s some good in people. She tells him that he shouldn’t’ get over it, that he’s a good guy and he should leave the deception to her.
“Well I’m glad I have you,” he answers, taking her hand.
“We’re better as a team,” she agrees and Chuck smiles.
Inside, it’s Thanksgiving dinner! Lester and Jeff watch in awe as Ellie puts the Turkey—a REAL turkey!—on the table. They hover nearby as Captain Awesome starts to carve it, and Ellie takes Morgan aside to make sure that he’s absolutely sure there’s no “Chuck and Jill.” He assures her that that’s what Chuck told him, why, does she think Chuck’s gonna break up with Sarah?
“Well I hope not,” she tells him.
“Yeah me too,” Morgan agrees. He takes her arm. “You know what we need here?”
“What?”
“A Thanksgiving miracle.” At her reaction, he assures her that, “Chuck and Sarah are gonna walk through that door, they’re gonna be as happy as could be and everything’s gonna be fine.”
Right on cue, Chuck and Sarah walk through the door. Ellie is impressed. “Good job Morgan.” As she goes over to hug Sarah, Morgan is shocked. “I could have asked for anything!”
“Happy Thanksgiving!”
“Happy Thanksgiving!”
Sarah walks over to the table, but Chuck stops short when he spots Lester and Jeff. “Ellie, do you—do you realize that Lester and Jeff of the Nerd Herd are at our table right now? Is everything okay?”
Captain Awesome takes the wine bottle out of Jeff’s hand as Lester notices Chuck.
“Yes well, the Awesomes couldn’t make it,” Ellie tells him. “So you know me, just expand Thanksgiving.”
Lester grabs Sarah in a really long hug, and Captain Awesome comes to the rescue. “Okay.” He pats Lester on the back, getting ready to pry him off of her.
“Happy Thanksgiving!” Lester says, his voice muffled by Sarah.
She laughs. “You too.”
Ellie asks Chuck if he’s okay, and he tells her he is. “Why do you ask?”
She tells him that Morgan told her about Jill and she was worried about him. Chuck tells his sister that Jill was just wondering if maybe they could work it out and give it a second try.
“And…?”
“And I realized that Jill, Sanford, and Bryce? That’s a story for my past. But my new story is you and Sarah and these freakin’ yahoos.” He puts his arm around her and she laughs as they head for the table. “And sometimes it can be a really fun story!”
Morgan is still wishing on the door. “Swedish bikini team. Uh, DeLorean, flying DeLorean!”
“Hey Morgan!” Chuck calls. “Come on buddy.”
He rushes over to sit down at the table as Lester says, “So you were saying how the turkey is made…”
Chuck holds up his glass. “Toast! To some of the great faces that I know, and some of the new ones to Thanksgiving!”
Lester laughs. “Yeah we don’t know each other!”
Jeff: Here here!
Everyone: Happy Thanksgiving!
They toasts as the camera pulls back out the window. *fade out*
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Awwwww! But where’s Casey? LoL I’m glad Jeff and Lester got to have real Thanksgiving.
I loved the whole thing with Big Mike and how he ends up saving the world without even knowing it. Haha Perfect! This show just keeps getting better and better. | 52 |
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