CHUCK Season 2 Episode 22 - Chuck Versus the Ring

CHUCK SEASON 2 - EPISODE 22



Ellie's big day finally arrives, and Chuck must save her life and her wedding from being ruined by Ted Roark and FULCRUM.

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Cast

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)

Featured Music:
* The song "Now We Can See" by The Thermals is played in the opening scene as Chuck and Casey march to Emmett's office to quit their jobs.
* "Looking at the Sun" by Gramercy Arms plays as Chuck learns that Sarah is leaving the next morning after the wedding.
* The song "Christmas TV" by Slow Club is played in the scene when Ellie gets married on the beach.
* Blind Pilot's "3 Rounds and a Sound" plays while Sarah and Chuck dance.


Episode Recap



Episode 222 | Season 2 | 04/27/2009

Chuck goes into Emmett's office, wanting to get something off his chest. Emmett interrupts, saying he's flattered, but he's a flaming heterosexual. After Chuck recovers from that left-field reaction, he tells Emmett that he's quitting. And, that he can take this job, his Buy-Morra flag and shove it. Casey peeks in and says, "Ditto." They exit as Emmett screams after them, wanting to know what they plan to do for the rest of their lives. In the Bunker, General Beckman asks Chuck the same question, just less enraged. Chuck doesn't know, so she asks him to be an analyst on the new Intersect project. Much to Casey's relief, Chuck declines.



In the Yogurt Store, Casey gives Chuck his thanks from the government in the form of a check that makes Chuck react with a shock. Chuck thanks Casey for saving his life at least once a week and tricks him into a guy hug. Casey threatens to remove his man parts, so Chuck backs into a handshake. With sincerity, Casey tells Chuck that he did good work, and hands him his personal number in case of emergencies. He warns him though, that his fingers better be on fire when he's dialing it.



Beckman tells Sarah that she'll be working on the new Intersect project with old flame and ex-partner, Agent Bryce Larkin. Surprise. Surprise. This time, the Intersect will go into Bryce's head. Bryce, who's in the bunker, walks over to Sarah and says, "Walker and Larkin, together again."



The day of their wedding, among last-minute preparations, Chuck sees Awesome in the church and assures him everything will be perfect. Outside Ellie's dressing room, Awesome's overly superstitious mother tries to keep him out. However, Ellie doesn't believe in that and lets him in. Chuck marvels at Ellie in her gown and surprises her with news that he quit the Buy More. She's thrilled and like everyone else, asks what he's going to do with his future. Chuck doesn't know. Sarah enters, pretty in pink as a bridesmaid. Ellie says, "I made my dreams come true. What are you going to do about yours?"



Chuck asks to talk to Sarah, who makes sure he has the rings. In his tux, Sarah says he looks like a real spy. He says she looks like a real bridesmaid, and through a long explanation of not wanting to wait anymore, asks her to go on vacation with him. Just the two of them. No guns, no lies. Sarah breaks the news that she's leaving tomorrow. Worse, she's working on the new Intersect project with Bryce. Chuck is crestfallen and reels back the emotion, thanking her for coming to the wedding, adding, "Good cover." Chuck sees his father Steve who prophetically tells him he'll remember this day forever.



Chuck wanders aimlessly, then sits and drinks champagne. He hears a noise under the table and peeks under the pink cloth to see two dead waiters, stripped of their uniforms. If that's not shocking enough, when he looks up, he sees none other than Ted Roark, who tells him he's in deep trouble. Roark says he wants the Intersect cube in half an hour. Okay, 40 minutes with traffic. He threatens to kill Ellie if Chuck doesn't get it to him.



While looking for Sarah, Chuck runs into Morgan. He tells Morgan to tell Sarah that he forgot the rings and has to run home to get them. Morgan offers to stall the wedding to cover Chuck's butt, then finds Sara and delivers the message. She immediately knows Chuck is in trouble since minutes ago he showed her the rings. Chuck calls Casey, who's en route to Tajikistan. However, he's bonding with his old Special Forces buddies and misses the call.



Chuck runs to the bunker looking for the Intersect. However, it's gone. He's surprised to see Bryce, and tells him that Roark is going to kill Ellie if he doesn't get it to him. When Bryce tells Chuck he can give Roark him in its place, Chuck realizes that Fulcrum has thought Bryce was the Intersect all along. And, that Bryce was in on protecting Chuck since Stanford. Bryce says he was the only agent that Orion, Chuck's father, trusted to protect him. Orion wanted to keep Chuck out of it, but knew he could handle being the Intersect.



In the church, upon hearing from Awesome's parents that both Chuck and Sarah are missing, Steve knows something is wrong and excuses himself. Sarah spots Roark and Fulcrum agents posing as waiters in the reception hall as Steve finds her. She's unarmed, so he finds her a clear path to the reception room via his arm computer. Inside the dressing room, Ellie, faced with both Chuck and her bridesmaid missing, tries to remain calm.



Meanwhile, Morgan has found his stall tactic. He takes the mike at the front of the church and introduces the pre-wedding entertainment, "Jeffster." Jeff and Lester run on stage and cue the orchestra to accompany Lester's synthesizer stylings as they perform "Mister Roboto" to the stunned wedding guests. Awesome yanks Morgan aside and demands to know why he's ruining his wedding. Morgan stutters that Chuck asked him to. In on Chuck's CIA status, Awesome knows it must be serious. He goes back to his horrified parents and pretends it's part of the plan.



Behind the gifts table, Sarah searches for a good weapon among the presents. Chuck enters, sans Intersect, so Roark orders his agents to kill him. However, Bryce appears, offering himself up. He sees Sarah, who after opening a waffle iron and other gifts, finally found something she can use -- a set of knives. Bryce says to take him and let the wedding go on. Problem is, Fulcrum wants Chuck dead. Sarah hurls a knife at an agent, and Bryce grabs his gun and starts firing. The agents return fire as Sarah does the best she can with a knife at a gun fight.



Bryce runs out of ammo, and the Fulcrum agents take them at gunpoint. Chuck looks at Ellie's formerly gorgeous table settings marred by bullets. Roark advances on Chuck with a shotgun when suddenly, paratroopers crash through the skylights and take out the rest of the agents. Casey takes off his helmet and says to Chuck, "You rang?" Roark runs for his life, but is stopped by Steve, who having waited 20 years for the chance, clocks him unconscious.



Jeff and Lester end their performance, which masked the sound of the gunfire, with Lester firing two handheld confetti cannons. The smoke is just enough to set off the fire alarms, activating the sprinklers. As the guests run out of the church, Ellie sees her perfect wedding day running out with them.



After the chaos dies down, Chuck talks to his father and Sarah. He can't believe his spy life ruined Ellie's wedding day. He can't believe that Special Forces had to save his sister's life. He just wants to be a normal guy and wonders how he'll make it up to Ellie. Then, he remembers the check. He hands it to Sarah and asks him if she has time for one more mission before she takes off. In the bunker, Casey and crew lock Roark in the cell. Sarah calls Casey and gets the Special Forces on board to arrange a new wedding for Ellie.



Chuck tells Ellie that it was his fault her wedding was ruined. Morgan, Lester and Jeff were just covering for him because he forgot the rings. He tells her that he'll make it up, and he does. Sarah, Chuck and the special forces team pull it off, giving Ellie and Awesome a picture perfect wedding on the beach while Bryce watches from afar. He sees Sarah, moved by what's before her, and figures it out. He radios her, "You're not coming with me, are you?" Sarah subtly shakes her head no.



In the bunker, Casey asks fellow soldier and old buddy Miles to watch Roark. When Casey leaves, he screws on a silencer and kills Roark, then takes out the rest of the Special Forces Marines. All except for Casey, who he spares because he saved his life. He knocks him out.



At the reception, being held in their building courtyard, Ellie and Awesome thank Chuck for her wedding. "Sometimes I think you have super powers," she says. Chuck thanks Morgan and tells him to go with his heart about being a Hibachi chef. Chuck and Sarah dance. Offside, Steve talks to Bryce. He says he'll reconfigure the Intersect for him if he'll leave him and Chuck alone. He asks Bryce what the new Intersect does, noting the changes they made to the architecture. "You don't want to know," Bryce says. When an agent tells Bryce they have to go, Steve flashes on him and realizes he's not CIA.



When Chuck says he's not a hero, Sarah asks, "How many times do you have to be a hero to realize you are that guy?" Sarah is about to tell him she's decided to stay when Steve tells them the agent who left with Bryce isn't CIA. Chuck asks how he knows. Steve admits having an Intersect in his head that he tested on himself when building the first one. Realizing they plan to kill Bryce, they have no choice but to go after him. And, Sarah realizes, Casey. Steve tells Chuck to let Sarah go alone. He's not a spy. However, Chuck loves Sarah and won't let her go. Steve gives him his arm computer.



In the bunker, Chuck finds Sarah and Casey, who say he can't go with them. However, Chuck flashes his arm computer and says the mission is about the Intersect, and he's a Bartowski. At that, they let him come. At a secret Intersect location, Bryce is almost killed when the agent turns on him, but is able to lock himself in the Intersect room after a brief firefight. Chuck, Sarah and Casey arrive, and Chuck guides them to Bryce via his arm computer. They shoot it out with the bad guys as Chuck gains access into the Matrix-like Intersect room.



Chuck sees that Bryce is badly wounded. Bryce, who knows he's dying, tells Chuck to take care of Sarah. Chuck tries to keep him from fading by saying he's meant to save the world with Sarah. Bryce says that Sarah didn't plan to come with him and gives Chuck a key to destroy the Intersect. He says the new Intersect is too powerful and dangerous. When Chuck says he needs it to fight Fulcrum, Bryce says Fulcrum is just one part of the ring. He tells Chuck to destroy it, and then dies.



Chuck reflects on his experience and decides he is "that guy." Chuck loads the new Intersect into his head, and then destroys it just as the agents enter. Sarah is horrified to see Bryce dead. When Miles points his gun at Sarah, Chuck flashes. Another agent notices. When they all realize that Chuck uploaded the new Intersect, Casey says, "Chuck me." Surrounded by agents, Chuck suddenly disarms them with expert lightning-fast Kung Fu moves that shock everyone in the room, himself included. After he recovers from the shock, he dishes it out Neo style on the agents. After taking out Miles, he tells a stunned Casey and Sarah, "Guys, I know Kung Fu."