This episode have everything! I'm not sure the number of times I started clapping with excitement (I do that sometimes), but it was enough to claim based on those statistics alone that this IS the best episode of Chuck to date, and that is saying a lot.
It started with what might not have seemed the most engaging of storylines. Chuck (Zachary Levi) was going to go to Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) and try to convince her of his love so that they could be together in Rome. With the issues caused by Sarah's involvement with Shaw (Brandon Routh) and her feelings over his ability to kill a man, it was not going to be easy, if remotely possible, but at least Chuck really wanted to give it a shot.
So, enlisting the aid of his best buddies, Morgan, Casey, and Devon (Ryan McPartlin), Chuck goes in. While our boys distracted Shaw, Chuck joined Sarah on her date, trying to make her understand that he loved her and that she still loved him. Things weren't going too badly, until Ring agents showed up. Then Shaw really had to be grateful to the boys because, through their shenanigans, they managed to outmaneuver the enemy.
Still, Morgan, Casey, and Devon ended up in jail. But, as Ellie (Sarah Lancaster) brilliantly pointed out, since Chuck went to them for advice instead of her, no wonder it ended in jail.
She went on to be the awesome big sister that she is, and when Chuck had almost given up on Sarah, she told him to man up and get his girl.
And if all that wasn't enough to make a great episode, Shaw then decided to go be a hero, bring a tracking device to the Ring who wanted to bring him to their director, and allow the CIA to bomb the entire complex, likely with him still inside. Sarah, naturally, planned to go after him, but Chuck stopped her. He locked her in Castle to protect her, and went after his rival instead.
Back to the brilliance of our Buy More employees. Jeff (Scott Krinsky) and Lester (Vik Sahay), wanting to prove to Chuck that they could stalk with the best of them, decided to follow Shaw. Turned out to be a very good thing when the Ring operatives removed the tracking device from Shaw's person. They led Chuck to the all American Hero, and he was able to plant the removed tracking device and save Shaw.
But that didn't account for the awesome complication. It turns out that somewhere, somehow, at some point, someone really screwed up. The target Sarah was told to kill for her Red Test turned out to be Shaw's double agent wife. Why a CIA agent ended up killing one of the good guys, we can't be sure, but let's just say that the craziness of next episode when Shaw confronts Sarah about it is going to be great.
We had romance, we had explosions, we had Buy More employees accidentally foiling the plans of supervillains, we had Morgan, Casey, and Devon working together, and we had major plot twists! What more can you ask from any episode of Chuck!
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