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CHUCK Season 2 Episode 13 - Chuck Versus the Suburbs


CHUCK SEASON 2 - EPISODE 13



It is Valentine's day and emotions are boiling at the Buy More. However, Big Mike has to face a divorce, so the Buy More team try to distract him.
Meanwhile, Chuck and Sarah go undercover as a married couple in the suburbs.

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Cast and Crew


Writer: Phil Klemmer

Director: Jay Chandrasekhar

Star: Zachary Levi (Chuck Bartowski), Yvonne Strahovski (Sarah Walker), Joshua Gomez (Morgan Pace), Adam Baldwin (Major John Casey), Sarah Lancaster (Ellie Bartowski), Ryan McPartlin (Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcomb), Julia Ling (Anna Wu), Mark Christopher Lawrence (Big Mike), Vik Sahay (Lester), Scott Krinsky (Jeff).

Recurring Role: Bonita Friedericy (General Beckman), Tony Hale (Emmett Milbarge)

Guest Star: Patricia Rae (Bologna), Jenny McCarthy (Sylvia), Brian Thompson (Neighbor)

Featured Music:
"Once In A Lifetime" by Talking Heads (Chuck arrives at the new house in the suburbs)
"Fever" by Peggy Lee (Sylvia hits on Chuck)
"I Can See Clearly Now" by Johnny Nash (Chuck goes to work)
"Fever" by Peggy Lee (Chuck gets handcuffed)
"Freeze And Explode" by Cassettes Won't Listen (Closing scenes)


Episode Recap



Episode 213 | Season 2 | 02/16/2009


It's Valentine's Day, and at the Buy More, Big Mike is in an especially foul mood. Chuck learns that Big Mike's wife served him divorce papers...yes, on Valentine's Day. Wanting a distraction from his failed love life, Big Mike says it's going to be a whole new Buy More. One where he expects people to actually work. At home, Chuck and Sarah sit and wonder if anyone is having as lame a Valentine's Day as they are. Meanwhile, their answer sits in the form of Casey, alone in the bunker with a stiff drink, watching military history show on TV.



General Beckman tells Casey that LAPD has busted their operative, Jim Yeager. Yeager, whose mission isn't on record, has been missing a year and is in too fragile a mental state to divulge what his mission was. Beckman shows him Yeager's address in the valley. They think he chose the location in the suburbs to be near a sleeper cell. Beckman shows Casey a video of Yeager strapped to a hospital bed repeating "Salamander." She wants Chuck and Sarah to pose as a "normal couple" to resume Yeager's work, infiltrate his network and identify his terrorist contact. Casey tells Chuck and Sarah their mission and hands them wedding rings.



Chuck drives a station wagon to Yeager's house in the suburbs. Inside, it's now decorated with photos of Chuck and Sarah's fictitious married life. They even have a dog. Casey is inside posing as the cable guy while Sarah prepares a cookout for the neighbors. Chuck converses awkwardly among the husbands, especially when Brad jokes he'd like to wife swap with him. Meanwhile at the Buy More, the guys try to help Big Mike mend his love life through internet dating. They create a profile for him and explain the "internet hotness conversion factor" when they slightly lie about his job and physical attributes.



At the party, sexy cougar Sylvia hits on Chuck, but he rebuffs her, saying he's married. She points out her husband, whom Chuck notes is a big guy. She says her husband's job keeps him out of town a lot. Alone, Chuck tells Sarah that he hasn't flashed on any of the neighbors. Inside, Casey calls them in after finding a bug on one of the food platters. Chuck flashes on it, saying it was stolen from a CIA substation in 2006 and now it belongs to Fulcrum. Fred interrupts to let Chuck know that "His wieners are burning." Casey says these people creep him out.



The next morning, Chuck is pleasantly surprised to see Sarah cooking breakfast for him. She says Casey swept the house and it's clean of bugs. Chuck notices that Sarah seems to be enjoying the role of housewife. Outside, she hands him a note and waves to Sylvia's husband, who's also leaving for work. He doesn't return the gesture. At the Buy More, Casey tells Chuck he's identified Sylvia's husband as the guy who planted the bugs. And, that he's been buying technology to hack into government computers. Casey wants Chuck to pretend he wants to sleep with Sylvia to get inside the house and on her husband's computer.



Chuck goes to Sylvia's house and she makes quick work of seducing him, handcuffing him to the bed. While she's fixing him a drink, he breaks free and finds her husband's computer. He guesses the password, "Salamander" and scores. Several images flash on screen, overloading his senses and he passes out. The husband returns and asks Sylvia if she's tested Chuck yet. Chuck wakes, and as stunned neighbors watch, he escapes through a window and runs from her house in his boxers, fuzzy red handcuffs still attached to his wrist. Sylvia and her husband see Chuck ran the test and are amazed he survived. "We found our subject," she says.



Beckman is furious that they made their presence in the neighborhood so public. Thinking Chuck may have Fulcrum intelligence in his brain after being exposed to the pictures, Beckman pulls him from the investigation. At the Buy More, Big Mike is dressed in a big date, but is worried that he said he was a 185-pound shipping magnate on his profile. Chuck flashes on the stationery that Sarah gave to him and learns that the entire neighborhood is a front for Fulcrum. He tries to warn Sarah, but gets her voicemail. Soon, the neighborhood makes their move on Sarah and Casey, taking them prisoner.



Chuck races to the neighborhood and flashes on everyone he sees. Fred tasers him, and Chuck wakes in a lab to find himself strapped into a mind meld machine. His once benign neighbors are all in lab coats, preparing for a test. Sarah sits nearby, handcuffed. Brad tells Chuck he has a special brain, so they're using him to test their new computer program that implants intelligence directly into agent's brains. The CIA gave up on it, but Fulcrum hasn't. When Chuck is worried about Sarah, Sylvia mocks him for having feelings for her. She says they aren't real because everything Sarah's told him isn't real.



In a nearby room, Casey breaks his thumb to escape the handcuffs and sneaks out. As he makes his way toward the lab, it's lights camera action for Chuck while the Fulcrum agents and Sarah watch, wearing protective glasses. After the test, they think it might have fried Chuck's brain, but he recovers. Chuck feigns being brainwashed, and when Sylvia asks him their mission, he recites that Fulcrum wants to construct their own Intersect computer. As they put Sarah in the hot seat, Chuck manages to signal Casey in the computer room to go ahead. Chuck shields Sarah as Casey activates the program which kills or scrambles the brains of all the Fulcrum agents.



In the bunker, Beckman tells Sarah that Fulcrum is perilously close to completing their own Intersect computer. She says the honeymoon is over for Sarah and Chuck, since protecting his life has never been more crucial. In the yogurt store, Chuck wants to go back to the cul-de-sac for a romantic interlude, but Sarah has her orders, and coldly shuts him down. Chuck is crestfallen, especially when she asks for the ring back.



At the Buy More, Big Mike is glowing from a night of passion with his internet date. Because he doesn't want a relationship based on lies, he invites her to the store. When she arrives, the boys watch as he tells her the truth. She says she wasn't particularly honest either. She says she has a son...who works at the store. "Please Lord, let it be Bartowski," Mike says. They kiss, just as a horrified Morgan walks up and says to Big Mike, "You're banging my mom?"



At the apartment, Chuck tells Ellie that the trial run of playing house was disastrous for him and Sarah. He assures her they aren't breaking up, but says they aren't like her and Captain Awesome. He said that being in that house was almost perfect, but they are never going to be anything more than what they are right now. Chuck says that he's okay with that. As the house is being cleared out, Casey asks Sarah if she has everything she needs. Clearly feeling sorry that the honeymoon is over, she secretly keeps the wedding ring used in the cover.

CHUCK Season 2 Episode 12 - Chuck Versus the Three Dimension


CHUCK SEASON 2 - EPISODE 12



Chuck has to protect rock star Tyler Martin, while Morgan wins two backstage passes to Martin's concert, so he needs to decide who will become his "plus one".

This is a special 3D episode.

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Cast and Crew


Writer: Chris Fedak

Director: Robert Duncan McNeill

Star: Zachary Levi (Chuck Bartowski), Yvonne Strahovski (Sarah Walker), Joshua Gomez (Morgan Pace), Adam Baldwin (Major John Casey), Sarah Lancaster (Ellie Bartowski), Ryan McPartlin (Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcomb), Julia Ling (Anna Wu), Mark Christopher Lawrence (Big Mike), Vik Sahay (Lester), Scott Krinsky (Jeff).

Recurring Role: Bonita Friedericy (General Beckman), Tony Hale (Emmett Milbarge)

Guest Star: Dominic Monaghan (Tyler Martin), Nicholas Guilak (Achmed Gambir), Luisa Moraes (Vixen #1), Nina Fehren (Vixen #2), Treisa Gary (Wife), Jerome Bettis (Jimmy), Harry Van Gorkum (Gavin)

Featured Music:
"Good Days Bad Days" by Kaiser Chiefs (Morgan tells Chuck about Tyler Martin)
"Try It Again" by The Hives (The grenade is discovered)
"I Like Dem Girls" by Sizzle C (Chuck and Tyler go party)
"The Final Countdown" by Europe (Morgan's special triathlon)
"Out At The Pictures" by Hot Chip (Played at the club)
Unknown Song (Chuck and Tyler dance with the girls)
Unknown Song (Sarah and Casey come to the club)
"Cazonetta Sull'aria" (Morgan watches Butterman and later gives him the ticket)
Unknown Song (Just before the concert)
"Tales Of A Thousand Fears" by Vienne (The concert starts)
"Lost Coastlines" by Okkervil River (Tyler leaves) edit »


Episode Recap



Episode 212-3d | Season 2 | 02/02/2009


Chuck dreams about Sarah in sexy lingerie in his bedroom, crawling toward him like a cat. Chuck confesses he's afraid of her after watching her kill a Fulcrum agent in cold blood, adding he needs to tell her this in reality, not in a dream. Sarah says it's not a dream, but a nightmare. She raises a Halloween-sized knife over her head. Chuck wakes, screaming. At breakfast, Ellie and Awesome notice Chuck is jumpy. He says things are stressful at work. They suggest he take a day off, but Chuck goes to work anyway.



At the Buy More, a huge line of people snakes around inside. A gleeful Morgan tells Chuck that rock star Tyler Martin is appearing at their store today, meaning they can slack and no one will notice. The Large Mart cancelled Martin's appearance after learning he had a sex tape, so Big Mike snapped up the opportunity. Big Mike tells Morgan that he hired an old football buddy of his, Jimmy Butterman, who just got paroled. He wants Morgan to teach him everything he knows. Morgan is nervous about working alongside an ex-con, but Big Mike isn't sympathetic. "He's a teammate," Big Mike says.



Chuck spots a guy in a trench coat planting a grenade on a shelf. After flashing on the grenade, he radios Casey and Sarah. Casey grabs the box and of course, being the Buy More, the staff thinks it's a game of keep away. It changes hands, ending up with Morgan, who Butterman flattens with a burly arm to the face. Casey, Chuck and Sarah rush the grenade to the basement and safely insulate the detonation. In the Bunker, Beckman tells them to find out who wants Tyler dead. The grenade is a North African military weapon commonly used by intelligence. Beckman wants them to question Tyler, who just finished an African tour.



Flanked by security guards, Tyler struts into the store amid screaming girls. He jumps onto the counter and yells, "Hello Cleveland" to the Burbank crowd. Tyler tells the audience there's one Golden Ticket planted in his new CD for sale, which will grant the winner and a guest backstage access to his concert. When Tyler spots Sarah and drools, they realize getting him alone isn't going to be as hard as they thought. Sarah lures Tyler to the basement where Casey shoots him with a tranquilizer dart.



After transferring Tyler to Chuck's apartment, they put Chuck on rock star watch while they try to track down the suspect via his car, which was captured on the Buy More security camera. In the suspect's apartment, they realize they're dealing with a pro when they find detailed pictures of Tyler taped to the walls and bomb-making materials littering the desk. Meanwhile, in the Buy More break room, Morgan, Lester, Jeff and Butterman slice open stacks of Tyler's CDs to try to find the Golden Ticket. Morgan finds it but can only take one of them. He says they're going to have to settle it "The Buy More way."



Martin wakes, and thinking he's in a fancy restaurant bathroom, pees in Chuck's fountain. When Tyler asks who he is, Chuck says he's from Tyler's record label. Tyler isn't concerned when Chuck says he's protecting him from a death threat. He just wants to party, and tosses Chuck's cell phone into the fountain so their partying won't be disturbed by the wringing hands at the label. At the bar, surrounded by a smattering of women, Chuck and Tyler pound back drinks. Tyler shouts to everyone that all the drinks are on his record label and points to Chuck.



At the Buy More, Morgan holds a "special triathlon" to determine who will be his plus one for the Golden Ticket. The contestants: Jeff, Butterman and Lester. First; The Molly Ringwald Underpants Challenge. Morgan hasn't even finished explaining that the first contestant to bring back a pair of women's panties wins the challenge when Butterman pulls up Lester's shirt and yanks a sparkly pair of women's panties off him. First win: Butterman. Humiliated, Lester screams, "I'm a man!" Then, walking off gingerly says, "I need ice."



Tyler is just explaining that his manager arranges his tattoos, when two sexy women ask Tyler and Chuck to dance. Casey and Sarah trace Chuck via a homing device to the bar, where they spot the man who planted the grenade. He sees them and slips outside where they get him at gupoint. Inside his trench coat, he reveals several grenades, and tells them that he's got friends inside helping him to kill Tyler. With no choice, they let him go. Inside, Chuck flashes on one of the women's necklaces. When they want to go to their hotel room, Chuck can't figure out how to warn Tyler without blowing cover.



Meanwhile, at the Buy More, round two of Morgan's special triathlon continues with a six-foot hoagie-eating contest. Butterman faces off against Jeff, and the two race to eat their way to the middle. It's close, but Jeff wins, then passes out. Next, for round three, Morgan brings in a urinal cake that he's holding with tongs and places it on the table. Before he describes the contest, Jeff grabs it and takes a bite. Morgan is completely grossed out, and says he only wanted them to be the first one to touch it. Jeff asks, "I still win, right?"



Inside their hotel room, Chuck tries to talk Tyler out of going into the bedroom with the women. Tyler agrees, saying Chuck needs them more than he does. He pushes him inside and shuts him in. After they get Chuck's pants off, he runs, narrowly escaping their flying daggers. In boxers, socks and a t-shirt, Chuck runs to the rooftop and radios for help. As Casey and Sarah race to the top floor, Chuck is cut off by the Bond-like assassins. He jumps onto an exterior elevator and hangs precariously from the side, where the women enter!



The elevator doors open, and Tyler sees them. He's shocked when one points a gun at him. A dart hits his neck and he falls. Casey and Sarah enter the elevator and 32 floors up, as Chuck hangs from the side, they offer some major butt kicking to the two assassins. Tyler wakes in Chuck's apartment, and after hearing he's in government custody, starts calling his manager. Casey tranquilizes Tyler again, and he slumps, revealing his back tattoo. Chuck flashes: the tattoo reveals plans for a secret nuclear reactor. Chuck realizes that Tyler's manager, who hires the tattoo artists, has been using Tyler's body to trade secrets.



Casey and Sarah chastise Chuck for going to the nightclub. Chuck is angered, saying that he's not a spy with their skill sets and wants time off. Tired of listening to it, Casey shoots a tranquilizer dart at Chuck and he passes out.



At the Buy More, Morgan feels sorry for parolee Butterman, who's not had freedom for a long time. He explains to Jeff why he's giving Butterman the Golden Ticket. Back in Castle, Beckman orders Chuck and Sarah to convince Tyler to perform so they can capture Achmed Gambir, a top foot soldier in a private North African army, at the concert. Chuck worries about Tyler's safety but agrees to talk to him. As they listen, Chuck asks Tyler for one night of bravery for his entire life back. Sarah is moved when Chuck says, "I can't even tell you what I'd give for that." So is Tyler, who agrees to perform.



At the Buy More, Morgan, Lester and Jeff are stunned when they see Butterman selling the Golden Ticket they just gave to him for $800. He tells them $800 is the price of his ticket to Zijuataneho and bids them farewell, "See ya never. Enjoy hell."



When Achmed knocks on Tyler's dressing room door, Chuck radios for help. Achmed breaks open the door and knife in hand, moves toward the closet where Tyler is hiding. Chuck stops him by showing him a cell phone picture of Tyler's tattoo. As Tyler listens, stunned, Chuck recounts how Achmed and his private army are selling enriched uranium to unstable countries, and that they've been using Tyler's manager to get information to their buyers via Tyler's tattoos. He threatens to email that and the photo to everyone. Achmed puts down his knife.



Tyler bursts from the closet, armed with a cymbal. He swings at Achmed, misses, propelling himself and Chuck through the door. They run, passing Tyler's manager whom he punches and fires, ending up onstage. In the wings, Achmed is readying himself to throw his knife at Tyler, who tells Chuck to jump. They stage dive into the crowd, which passes them around. As Achmed tries to get close, Sarah and Casey find him and treat him to a mini-mosh pit of kicks and punches, knocking him out. The crowd passes Tyler to back the stage, then, realizing Chuck's not a star, drops him on his back.



At the Buy More, Morgan asks Big Mike what Butterman was in for. Big Mike said that Butterman was in for bank fraud and insider trading, a white collar crime. "Why, he take you fools for some money?" Big Mike asks. Morgan tells him about Zijuataneho. Big Mike laughs and says, "Zijuataneho is Mexican for Philadelphia." At Chuck's apartment, Casey reminds Tyler to have his tattoos removed. Tyler thanks Chuck for everything, especially the lesson to put people first. He hugs him goodbye and after one more pass at Sarah, bids her farewell too.



Chuck confronts Sarah about lying to him about shooting the unarmed Fulcrum agent on Christmas Eve. She said that she was trying to protect him, as the agent knew about Chuck, which put him and his whole family in danger. They give Chuck his time off and leave for a mission. Chuck asks them where they're going, but they're not telling. It's too much, and just as they are leaving Chuck jumps into the car with them. Casey, who seemed to have been hoping for a break from Chuck himself, angrily drives them away.