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22 Episodes 2008 - 2009
Episode 1
Mon, Sep 29, 200844 mins
Team Chuck recovers some equipment. They're told it's the last component for the new Intersect, which will be brought on line. Chuck is relieved at the prospect of returning to a normal life and asks Sarah out. Meanwhile Casey receives orders that cause some inner conflict.
Episode 2
Mon, Oct 6, 200844 mins
The team learns that the real part for the Intersect has been stolen. They track down a legendary spy who can train Chuck to get close to the woman who has stolen it. Devin tries to plan a romantic evening for Ellie, and Lester let's his new job go to his head causing some issues at work.
Episode 3
Mon, Oct 13, 200844 mins
Fulcrum has intercepted an update for the new Intersect. The chip has data that could expose Team Chuck. Bryce and Sarah must pose as a married couple to get the chip back. Chuck's jealousy causes some problems, but Sarah's decisions endanger the mission, and forces Chuck to make some decisions of his own. Meanwhile the Buy More crew must deal with bullies from a sports store.

Episode 4
Mon, Oct 20, 200844 mins
Chuck's memory flashes when seeing nerdy engineer Mark Ratner in Buy More, the partner of Sarah's high-school nemesis Heather Chandler. He's suspected of selling secret military technology. So Chuck accompanies Sarah, under her real name Jenny, to their high school-reunion. They and babysitter Casey look for possible buyers, but soon discover Mark is being blackmailed, only it's unclear who the fiends among the (fake?) alumni are.
Episode 5
Mon, Oct 27, 200844 mins
Awesome and Ellie worry that Chuck is slipping away from a career again and urge him to complete his Priceton exams. Chuck is as startled as by his flash concerning nuclear terrorist Farrokh Bulsara when he asks for a gaming champion looking exactly like deadbeat Jeff. The team works out Jeff actually holds the world record for a game devised by Morimoto, who hid in it the secret to control a satellite capable of starting World war III. The only way to stop that is reaching the end screen.
Episode 6
Mon, Nov 10, 200844 mins
Chuck goes to a corporate office and encounters his ex-girlfriend, Jill. He tries to avoid her but they catch up. Later he gets a flash on one of Jill's associates. Now he must reconnect with Jill to determine her involvement. The Buy More crew must pass CPR certification.

Episode 7
Mon, Nov 17, 200842 mins
General Beckman finds intelligence that suggests Guy had a list of Fulcrum Agents. She orders the team to find the list. This causes some problems when Chuck tries to rekindle his romance with Jill. When Jill is endangered, Chuck is forced to make some difficult decisions, and the team is not prepared for what comes next.
Episode 8
Mon, Nov 24, 200843 mins
Casey and Sarah discover Jill's secret and race to warn Chuck. Now the team tries to lay a trap for Jill, but Jill's not alone. Chuck will find out more about their break up, and he'll have to decide if they should try to rekindle their romance.
Episode 9
Mon, Dec 1, 200844 mins
The team encounters a rogue agent, Casey's former Sensei. He's been recruiting former students and getting them to steal weapons and secrets. Ellie must face Awesome's parent who are overly enthusiastically planning the wedding. At the Buy More, everyone competes to be the Employee of the Month.
Episode 10
Mon, Dec 8, 200844 mins
Sarah's father comes for a visit. His latest con involves a sheik with possible terrorist ties. When the sheik shows up, the Team must help her father to pull off the con. Meanwhile Anna makes a suggestion that forces Morgan to consider making more mature decisions, is he ready?

Episode 11
Mon, Dec 15, 200844 mins
Chuck's nerd herd was prepared for the Christmas shopping rush, not apparently mentally unstable Nathan Edward 'Ned' Rhyerson crashing in his car trough the front glass and taking everyone hostage without clear demands. Awesome is among the hostages with Ellie, but refrains his natural heroism long enough at Chuck's urging. Casey and Sarah fail to extract unwilling Chuck separately and end up hostages, Casey even loses a toe. Police detective Mauser, the negotiator in charge, alas also makes Chuck flash.

Episode 12
Mon, Feb 2, 200943 mins
Libertine rock-star Tyler Martin is to perform in Burbank, the Buy More offers a 'golden ticket' with his latest record. A flash from Chuck indicates Jihadist terrorist killer Achmed Gambir is after him, so the trio is assigned to protect Tyler, in this case Chuck openly, posing as record label official, with Casey and Sarah as backup. A new flash clarifies silly, harmless party animal Tyler is important on account of his tattooed back, but the assassin is very skilled.
Episode 13
Mon, Feb 16, 200943 mins
A new mission has Chuck and Sarah posing as a married couple and interacting with some odd neighbors. The Buy More crew help Big Mike out after his wife files for divorce.

Episode 14
Mon, Feb 23, 200944 mins
Chuck would like to help buddy Morgan win back Anna, who now dates flashy Jason Wang. Alas, a flash shows he's part of a triad, so the general orders him to make friends with Jason so the team can spy on them, discovering a plot against the Chinese ambassador. To Chuck's despair, Morgan's safety isn't even a priority. Awesome promised Ellie, in his half of the wedding preparations, to book a band, but takes pity on eager nerd herd losers 'Jeffster' (Jeff and Lester).
Episode 15
Mon, Mar 2, 200943 mins
Chuck's sister Ellie ask Chuck to break up with Sarah, but soon jealousy hits home when Sarah must seduce a handsome agent in order to retrieve the Fulcrum intelligence. Morgan can't deal with the fact that his mother and Big Mike have a relationship and to the dismay of Ellie and Awesome he crashes at Chuck's place. Meanwhile, Jeff and Lester talk Big Mike into hiring a new employee but instead end up searching for the "Buy More Babe".
Episode 16
Mon, Mar 9, 200943 mins
Cole Barker's abduction by kidnapping causes the team to going red alert, but the MI5 ace, whom even Casey admires, not only held out extensive torture, he escaped and came warn them Fulcrum is after Defense Department scientist Perseus, one of the architects of the intersect. Despite their implicit rivalry for Sara, they collaborate well at the Italian consulate to find and save Perseus, whom Chuck hopes in vain may help him remove the Intersect. Meanwhile Jefster helps Morgan trying to scare off Abba, who found his apartment lease and assumes she, not Chuck, is his chosen house-mate.
Episode 17
Mon, Mar 23, 200943 mins
Chuck is contacted by Orion, the elusive co-designer of the Intersect, and overhears that the general wants him to help find him but won't allow removing the Intersect from his brain. The special computer Orion sends Chuck for safe contact is mistaken for a new game computer and hidden by the nerd herd, hence part of a lunatic conflict with Buy More's Beverly Hiils branch. Fulcrum is also after Orion, top agent Vincent Smith even faked his death to intrude the 'castle' as a corpse to capture Chuck, who must pretend it's safe to meet Orion but manages to leave a clue for Casey and Sara to rescue them.

Episode 18
Mon, Mar 30, 200943 mins
Captain Awesome ultimately accepts to let the nerd herd join his bachelor party when they offer to host it for free in the Buy More, which ends up producing compromising pictures Ellie gets to see. Even worse for Devon, his hospital badge is missing, a firing offense. Chuck has to impersonate him to plant a tracking device in a top-wanted Pakistani terrorist's right hand's heart, with his personal physician Dr. Mohammed Zamir keeping a watchful eye. During the operation, Chuck proves that he functions perfectly in the team despite of even better because of his close relationship with Sarah, contrary to agent Alex Forrest, whom the general sent to test them.

Episode 19
Mon, Apr 6, 200943 mins
Chuck is reunited with his long absent father Steve Bartowski, who is none other then Orion, and accepts reluctantly to return for Ellie's wedding but gets a cold welcome from her, unlike gentleman Devon. It turns out software tycoon Ted Roark, who got rich by stealing Steve's brilliant inventions and is about to launch a free operating system, suspect to spread a Fulcrum virus worldwide. Both Bartowskis are to infiltrate Roark Instruents HQ, Chuck as new employee, to prevent the launch for the government and, as their private project, try to remove the Intersect from Chuck's brain. Only Casey ans Sara's protection saves them from worse then double failure.

Episode 20
Mon, Apr 13, 200943 mins
General Beckman would abandon the search for Orion, but Chuck convinces her there remains one option, getting a Fulcrum agent to talk. Although unauthorized, who offers a deal to Jill Roberts, who confides her 'uncle' Bernie, a family friend, is ranking high enough and trusts her. Alas, at the 'engagement party' for Chuck and Jill, Bernie attacks him and has a fatal cardiac arrest. After Sara betrays to Chuck the general's plan to 'bury' the Intersect project altogether, he and Jill, tailed by Casey, find and intrude the Fulcrum HQ where Orion must be held captive. Meanwhile Emmet tricks the nerd herd in making him look good enough to a Buy More HQ inspector to be 'promoted away', but that's not the true stake.
Episode 21
Mon, Apr 20, 200944 mins
The general terminates project Intersect, promotes Casey colonel and orders him to tie the loose ends: Chuck and Sara, who went AWOL to search father Steve 'Orion' Bartowski. Casey finds and ultimately captures them, but as the learned about Ted Roark's plan to program a Fulcrum force with a new Intersect Steve is forced to make, secretly reconstitutes the team to deal with him, in which process Devon, already stressed by Ellie's wedding panic, must be initiated in Chuck's secret. Steve ma,ages to remove the Intersect from Chuck's head. At the Buy More, Emmett blackmails Morgan to become his slavish assistant manager to spare his openly hostile mates dismissal, until an alternative plan hatches.

Episode 22
Mon, Apr 27, 200942 mins
Father Steve 'Orion' Bartowski managed to wipe the Intersect from Chuck's brain, so he resigns from the Buy More, happily followed by Casey, who is promoted colonel and assigned to a mission in Afghanistan. Steve's return promises to make Devon and Ellie's wedding perfect, except for Chuck who learns Sara is also reassigned, paired up with Bryce, the new Intersect. But on the big day, Ted Roark turns up with Fulcrum goons, demanding the Intersect control cube or the wedding will become a bloodbath. Casey's Marine veteran mate Miles turns on their CIA team but spares his life as a return favor. Bryce is in for surprises of his own.
