Chuck: Chuck Versus the Crown Vic (Episode 11)

Today’s episode is filled with roulettes, yachts and Dreidel gambling. What more could a gal ask for?

After a bizarre betting game involving the Buy More crew and a Dreidle, Big Mike calls Chuck and company to make a Nerd Herd house call on some Mr. Kirk Billionaire’s yacht. On the boat, the nerd herders mistakenly enter a room where some men appear to be counting loads and loads of money. Kirk says it’s money they’ve received from one of the many charity gigs he throws. I think a collective eyebrow raise is appropriate at this point… And rightly so: Chuck catches a glimpse of one of the bills being counted – one of his flashes reveals that it is counterfeit.

Chuck reports what he knows to his government superiors. Sarah is initially absent from their meeting. She’s been completely off the radar since Bryce’s incident which has led Chuck to continuously stare out the window longingly and compose songs with elaborate story lines revolving around “O’Hara,” “Riviera” and “Prohibition Era.” Nothing else rhymes with Sarah. But to everyone’s surprise (and relief) she arrives, running only a few minutes late. She says she’s there cause she has a job to do. Not quite the “I stayed cause of you, Chuck” we were hoping for.

The government people tell Chuck and Sarah that they must pose as a couple at Kirk’s next charity event for needy Taiwanese people (or something). So they go and she is extremely aloof and somewhat cold. Basically she now bugs me. I bet she smells like feet. (Yes. That’s all I got.) Sarah starts flirting with Kirk to get closer to him, as ordered by her superiors. Whatever. She’s a tramp. On the bright, Chuck gets to once again incarnate Chuck Carmichael, martini drinker. My alter ego is Lola Fuentes. She drinks mojitos. She used to be Aphrodite Pricilla but she was a little too slutty for my taste…

Sarah manages to get a “date” with Kirk on his yacht the next day. Chuck, jokingly, mentions that might be disrespectful to her boyfriend. Sarah starts saying explaining how Bryce isn’t her boyfriend, and if he was he would understand it was for work. Chuck politely points out that he was referring to Chuck Carmichael.

Meanwhile, Morgan is meeting Ana’s parents for the first time. Her parents live in Taiwan but they are in town for a charity event (I’m assuming Kirk’s). Initially, she was reticent about Morgan meeting them, so she actually went out with them behind his back. But Morgan is creepy and stalkey, so he found out what she was up to while hiding in a bush in front of her house. So he confronted her and agreed to let them meet.

Thinking she didn’t want him to meet his parents because he’s weird, he became even *more* awkward trying to become a better-faster-newer Morgan. It was… just all kinds of awkward. Like the View during the Rosie O’Donnell-Elizabeth situation. Wait, are we all over that? Is it Shepherd-Whoopie awkward now? I’m behind on my daytime tv.

Anyhow, the Ana-Morgan saga raps up when Ana tells Morgan she didn’t want to introduce him to his parents because of the way SHE acted around them – she ties her hair back, and suddenly embodies Julie Andrews. She was never embarrassed of Morgan. So it’s true love. All the more apparent after Morgan ate too much cocktail shrimp and Ana nursed him back to health. Yup. She’s a keeper.

But let’s backtrack momentarily: at the original dinner with the parents, at a seafood place by the marina, Morgan looks out the window and notices Sarah is getting a backrub by Kirk on a nearby yacht. So he calls Chuck to give him a heads up “on his cheating girlfriend.” So Chuck runs to the marina. What? If your imaginary girlfriend was caught getting a backrub form a hot zillionaire, wouldn’t you try to intervene?

When he gets there, he finds Casey doing some surveillance work. They both watch as Kirk brings Sarah below deck while some people start bringing in some boxes. Chuck flashes on the boxes – it seems as if they may be carrying counterfeit plates. Casey orders his men to seize the boat, hoping to catch Kirk read-handed. Unfortunately, when they open the box, all they find is medical supplies. Awkward much? Casey and Sarah’s superiors tell them they are benched: they blew it.

Sarah is particularly pissed at the situation. Most of her anger is directed towards CHUCK. She blames Chuck’s emotions (jealousy in this case) of getting the best of him. She then says their kiss was a mistake – *they* were a mistake. Tsk. Sarah needs to just not exist.

As for Casey, he smells something fishy. He asks Sarah if she did anything to compromise the mission. She doesn’t really answer, instead she just asks whether he ever wanted to just lead a normal life. Nope. He just wants to save the world. *swoon* My heeeroooo!

After that, Morgan has a second date with Anna and her parents. It’s the one with too much shrimp involved: he’s on a pseudo booze cruise on one of Anna’s parents’ Taiwanese important friend person. Or something. Anyways, Morgan sends Chuck a picture of him on the boat. In the background, Chuck notices the same boxes he flashed on previously, from Kirk’s yacht. He runs to Casey, who says there’s nothing they can do. So he goes to see Sarah, and she decides to give him a chance. Now, she suddenly cares. Casey finally tags along – he doesn’t want to miss any of the gunplay. That’s just the way he rolls.

At the docks, Chuck notices a GPS missile tracking device on the ship. I mean, god, they’re so darn hard to miss. Looks like someone’s gonna try to destroy the evidence. Fast-forward to Casey and Sarah on Kirk’s boat picking a fight with the bad guys. Of course, Casey and Sarah win, but not before someone launches the missile directed to the boat Morgan is on. Don’t worry, Chuck reroutes the missile to Casey’s beloved automobile (which was also equipped with a GPS tracker).

That’s a shame.

The show ends with the Buy More Christmas party where awkward dancing is rampant, as well as some more Dreidle gambling.

There, Sarah and Chuck talk and patch things up. Chuck thanks her for believing in him, and Sarah apologises for her lack of people skills. And they shake hands. Phooey.

Meanwhile, Casey gets a call from his boss: Intersect Version Two is almost up and running, soon he’ll have to “take care of Bartowski.” Pardon the cliché, but… DUN DUN DUN

And that was all the Chuck you’ll get for 2007. Tune in early 2008 for the last two episodes of the season.