Previously on Chuck…Agent Shaw has taken over Castle, and Kristen Kreuk joined the cast as Hanna, Chuck’s new love interest.
This week, Hannah starts her new job at the Buy More, and Chuck learns how to be a handler.
We start off at the Buy More on Hannah’s first day. Chuck is showing her the works and introducing her to the other employees, who all turn extra creepy in the presence of her beauty.
Chuck is briefed on his new mission: to develop some geek as a new asset. Sarah doesn’t think he’s ready…they’re advancing him too quickly. Such a worry wart.
The asset is Manoosh, an MIT dropout working for the Ring who has just entered the Buy More. Hannah is on him already, trying to make her first sale. Chuck gets all patronizing on her so she’ll go away, and ruin’s Manoosh’s “flow with that hottie.” Strike 1, Chuck. He’s coming on way too strong and panics, giving Manoosh his card and a CPU to shoplift. Strike 2. Come on, Chuck, this shouldn’t be that difficult.
Ellie found Chuck’s claim ticket from the airport in Paris and starts drilling Devon. He’s still a terrible liar. She knows he’s hiding something.
The Buy More creeps are still all over Hannah. Chuck enlists Morgan to keep an eye on her, but Morgan enlists Jeff and Lester to stalk her for info because he’s crushing on her. Using the intel they’ve gathered on her, they inform Morgan that she’s way out of his league (duh).
Back to the mission. Chuck is chatting up the asset over nachos. They bond over being nerds and college dropouts. The Ring interrupts their date, calling Manoosh on one of those fancy phones, but he tells them to cool their jets because he’s busy with a “friend.” Dattaboy, Chuck.
The Ring is tracking the signal, so Sarah heads in to take things up a notch. Of course, hot chicks are so much hotter when wearing Battlestar Galactica-related clothing.
She puts the moves on him and tranqs him, and they carry him out of there just before The Ring agents arrive. They use the classic waking-up-in-bed-with-a-half-naked-chick-who-says-you-had-amazing-sex-last-night-but-you-must-have-drank-too-much-to-remember ruse. Never fails.
They steal Manoosh’s prototype from his briefcase, and Chuck heads back to the Buy More to return it to Manoosh sans prototype.
Devon is there freaking out. He wants to come clean to Ellie about Chuck being a spy. Ellie comes in soon after, and Chuck makes up a story about an eccentric customer letting him use his flat in Paris for a week, which was supposed to be a surprise honeymoon for Ellie and Devon. Problem solved.
Manoosh gets his briefcase back, and The Ring finds him. It turns out the prototype the team stole was a decoy, and the real prototype is a new Intersect he apparently built into a pair of sunglasses.
Manoosh has no intention of selling this to The Ring, as he figures he can get a much better price on the open market. He puts on the glasses and flashes, giving him the combat moves to take out the Ring agents singlehandedly before hopping a flight to Dubai for Weap-Con, which Casey never misses. This year he gets to write it off as a business trip!
Morgan ignores Jeff’s and Lester’s advice and tries to be all sophisticated to woo Hannah, but she lets it slip that Chuck went to Paris, and Morgan gets all verklemmt that Chuck kept yet another secret from him.
Cut to Chuck and the team in Dubai. Casey is a kid in a candy store. Manoosh demos his glasses at the con. The team intercepts him backstage before he can start the bidding, but they’re soon joined by agents from The Ring. The team is tied up, but luckily Casey bought a Japanese laser pen, which they use to escape.
There’s a standoff. Chuck threatens the Ring leader with a Japanese laser pen of his own, but apparently he bought the wrong model. Casey: “Just like Bartowski—bring a knife to a gunfight.”
Chuck flashes a few times and the team takes out all of the Ring agents. Manoosh begs to be let go, but Chuck tranqs him.
Back at Castle, Chuck “burns” his first asset, and Manoosh is taken into custody. Casey: “Only one way to burn a new asset—Johnny Walker. Black.” Chuck takes Casey’s advice. Casey is proud of Chuck…he’s growing up and becoming a real spy. Sarah’s mourning the loss of Chuck’s innocence.
Tying up the B-stories: Devon freaks out when the plane tickets to Paris arrive and tells Ellie she has to obey him. He “forbids” it. Looks like Devon isn’t awesome at being a husband either. Morgan assures Ellie he’ll get to the bottom of what’s going on with Chuck, and he asks Jeff and Lester to use their stalking skills to dig up the dirt.
Next week: Chuck goes on a mission with both Sarah AND Hannah? I hope there’s a catfight.
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