Episode 102: Chuck vs. the Helicopter

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Chuck vs. the Helicopter

Air Date	October 1, 2007
Written by	Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak
Director	Robert Duncan McNeill
Next episode	"Chuck vs. the Tango"

Sarah and Casey bring in an expert, Dr. Jonas Zarnow, to extract the spy secrets from Chuck's brain. When Zarnow is killed, Sarah tells Chuck not to trust Casey... and Casey tells Chuck not to trust Sarah. Meanwhile, Ellie invites Chuck's new girlfriend over for dinner.

Synopsis

When a doctor who is brought in to recover the data from Chuck's mind is killed, Casey and Sarah turn against each other. Chuck eventually believes Sarah to be the killer, which causes a tense situation when the two of them attend a dinner hosted by his sister. It turns out that the doctor faked his death and kidnaps Sarah in order to force her to tell him where Chuck is because he wants to sell the secrets. While trying to rescue her, Chuck is captured. After a struggle inside a helicopter, Chuck finds himself forced to pilot the vehicle to safety.

Plot

The episode begins with a voiceover from Chuck, recapping on what happened in "Pilot'". He explains that he works at Buy More, had an entire database of Government secrets downloaded into his brain and that Casey and Sarah are working undercover to protect him. After the voiceover Chuck enters the Wienerlicious where Sarah is working and asks her if there is a plan, she tells him there is and asks him if he wants to go on another date to discuss it. He agrees and leaves. Sarah then contacts someone on her cellphone and tells them "Chuck is in, send the doctor."

In the next scene Chuck is at home and asks Ellie what shirt he should wear. Ellie is excited that Chuck is going another date however Chuck asserts that it is not such a big deal, Morgan refutes this claiming that Sarah is hot. Ellie is then upset that Morgan has met Sarah and she hasn't and tells Chuck to invite her round for dinner.

The scene changes to inside the Directorate of National Intelligence (DNI) building where Beckman solemnly declares that their most valuable secrets have been sent to an idiot (while watching a tape of Chuck waving a red blanket while Morgan charges at it like a bull), Graham rebuts this happy they weren't sent to Morgan but still expresses cynicism about Operation Chuck. Graham and Beckman then discuss the plan, with Beckman claiming that Dr. Jonas Zarnow is the NSAs best scientist and is on his way to LA.

Sarah picks up Chuck and takes him to Buy More, where he is taken to the home theatre room and told that a series of pictures will be displayed on the screen and he has to say what they are. At first they are normal images however when an encoded image is displayed Chuck recites secrets from the Intersect database. Zarnow tells Sarah and Casey that he can extract the secrets.

While Zarnow is driving his car away from the Buy More a cellphone in the backseat goes off and the car subsequently explodes.

The next day Ellie shows Chuck a newspaper with a story in it that "bank executive" Bryce Larkin had been in killed in a bank robbery (a cover for how he was really killed).

The scene then changes the site of Zarnow's car wreckage with Sarah and Casey investigating the scene. Sarah finds the remains of the cellphone and pockets it, telling Casey that there is nothing there. Once Sarah leaves Casey phones Beckman and tells her that it looks like a CIA job to him and Beckman tells Casey to keep an eye on Sarah.

Back at the Buy More Casey tells Chuck that he can't trust Sarah and not to have any private meetings with her. Chuck then receives an email from Sarah wanting to see him, while Casey is distracted Chuck sneaks across to the Wienerlicious and Sarah tells him not to have any private meetings with Casey and also tells him that Zarnow was killed. She shows him the remains of the phone and Chuck flashes, revealing it to be an NSA Incinerator (designed to eliminate all biological traces). Sarah convinces Chuck it was Casey who killed the doctor because he works for the NSA. When Chuck returns to the Buy More Casey asks him what Sarah told him (explaining that he knows they talked as its what he does for a living), when Chuck stays silent Casey goes and confronts Sarah, his logic is that the only two people who knew the doctor was coming where right there and since he didn't kill him he tries to arrest Sarah. A fight ensues resulting in Casey fleeing when a group of teenagers enter the store.

Back at Buy More Chuck gets an offsite callout to fix a computer, he then finds the callout was made by Casey and that Casey is trying to kill him. A car chase follows which ends when Casey slams the Herder. When they both get out of their vehicles Chuck sees Casey's wounds that were inflicted by Sarah, Casey claims she tried to kill him however Chuck doesn't believe him as the bomb was an NSA incinerator, Casey then explains that they are easily purchased on the black market and convinces Chuck that Sarah is rogue by telling him that she worked Bryce who was rogue. Chuck and Casey get into Casey's vehicle when a cellphone (which is an NSA incinerator) goes off in the backseat, they run away and the car explodes which further convinces Chuck that Sarah is rogue. Chuck becomes worried because Sarah was having dinner with them however Casey decided to send Chuck to Washington, while Casey is calling in the decision Chuck escapes in the Herder (leaving Casey stranded).

Chuck arrives home and they begin dinner when Casey arrives and joins them. Chuck goes to get a chair for Casey who follows him and tells him that the NSA ran a check on Sarah, they found that she had posed as a French diplomat, infiltrated the inner circle of a golden arms deal and killed the entire circle. When Casey says her codename, Elana Truffaut, Chuck flashes and sees that she killed them with poison - which was a problem as Sarah had made the dessert.

Chuck stops everyone from eating the dessert by saying a toast, however when that only delays it he offers to perform a magic trick; ie. pulling the tablecloth off the table. To his dismay the trick works and the dessert isn't pulled off the table, however a candle is rocking slightly. Casey knocks the candle over by bumping the table with his knee and the candle sets the dessert on fire. Chuck then puts the dessert in the bath and puts it out by running water over it. Sarah asks to speak to Chuck alone and asks him what Casey and told him. Chuck tells her that Casey told him she killed Zarnow and murdered French diplomats. Sarah explains they were French assassins and then tells Chuck "I never asked you to believe me, I asked you to trust me". Sarah then comes to a realisation that if Casey didn't kill Zarnow then ... she runs off and leaves. Chuck and Casey follow. Sarah screams for help and they run out the gate to see Zarnow putting Sarah in a car. Zarnow shoots Casey with a tranquilliser and gets away in his car.

Casey has Chuck pull out the dart and then they begin to follow the signal put out by microbots that Casey put in his quiches. They follow the signal to Buy More only to discover the Morgan ate the quiches. They eventually deduct that Zarnow would take Sarah to an airfield near the water and set out towards the Port of Los Angeles.

They arrive and Casey tells Chuck to stay in the car. When Chuck sees Zarnow leave a building, Chuck gets out of the car and goes in the door Zarnow came out of, he finds Sarah chained up and gives her something to pick the lock on the chains. He is discovered by Zarnow and inadvertently reveals that he is the Intersect by stating that Zarnow had been feeding American science to North Korea for years. Zarnow then reveals his intention to sell the "human intersect" to an overseas Government and shoots Chuck with a tranq. Zarnow puts Chuck into a helicopter and takes off while Sarah manages pick the lock open. Sarah and Casey meet on the dock and Sarah tells Casey they have Chuck.

In the helicopter it is revealed that Chuck was bluffing, the tranq had hit his Buy More pen-protector. Chuck picks up the tranq gun and accidentally shoots the pilot, Zarnow and Chuck fight and Zarnow is knocked unconscious, leaving Chuck to fly the helicopter. Casey and Sarah manage to talk him through landing it and are incredibly angry that he put himself in danger.

In the next scene Chuck is preparing to go to Bryce's funeral. At the funeral he sees Sarah who ignores him. Casey is hiding behind a tree and talking to Beckman who is very angry that Chuck flew a helicopter. She also tells him that the new intersect will be functional in six months and then Casey is to do "what he does best".

In the final scene Chuck apologises to Sarah and she forgives him. The episode ends with Morgan, Devon and Ellie entering the Wienerlicious to "give the dinner another shot."

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