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Dug this up real quick for those not familiar with the super nerd show, Chuck.
Plot
Chuck Bartowski is a socially awkward twenty-something-year-old who works as a computer expert at the Nerd Herd at his local Buy More (a parody of Best Buy's Geek Squad), a local electronics retailer (a CompUSA store was used), with his best friend, Morgan Grimes. Chuck's sister Ellie is a doctor who is constantly looking out for his best interests and wants to help him find a girlfriend. On the night of his birthday party, Chuck receives an e-mail from his former Stanford University roommate, Bryce Larkin, who is now a "rogue" CIA agent. When he opens it, an entire server of sensitive data — once only available to the United States government — called the Intersect, is subliminally embedded into his brain by way of a long series of images. Both the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency want the intelligence returned to them and dispatch agents of their own — Major John Casey and Sarah Walker — to retrieve that data.
Since the disk with the government information was stolen by Bryce and destroyed in his attempted escape, and since Chuck experiences flashes of information from the database activated by certain subliminal triggers, he must use the knowledge he now possesses to help the government thwart assassins and international terrorists — upending his previously uneventful life. Chuck's decision to keep his new-found occupation a secret from his family and friends and to live his life as normally as possible forces Casey and Walker to establish an uneasy alliance and secret identities (Walker poses as Chuck's girlfriend and takes a cover job at the local restaurant next to the Buy More (formerly Wienerlicious, currently Orange Orange) while Casey gets a job at the Buy More), with the shared goal of protecting Chuck at all costs.
As the series progresses, it is revealed that Bryce is still alive and that a rival agency called "Fulcrum" is in search of the Intersect, which they believe to be inside of Bryce, not Chuck. At the same time the government is in the process of rebuilding the Intersect. The heads of the agencies have ordered Casey to kill Chuck as soon as the Intersect is completed. However, in the Season 2 premiere, Fulcrum destroys the government's new Intersect with a Trojan horse, allowing Chuck to remain alive for the time being.
List of Chuck Episodes
Chuck Characters
Main Characters
Special Agents
* Charles Irving "Chuck" Bartowski (Zachary Levi) is the titular affable and anxious Nerd Herd associate at Buy More who unwittingly downloads the entire CIA/NSA secret database subliminally into his brain through an e-mail from old friend/nemesis Bryce Larkin, and must use his newly found knowledge to help the CIA and NSA in spy missions. See main article: Chuck Bartowski. First seen in: Chuck Versus the Intersect (Pilot)
* Agent Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strahovski) (Aliases: Sarah Walker; Jenny Burton, Katie O'Connell and Rebecca Franco) is a CIA agent who's main job is to protect the Intersect (Chuck). Not much is known about her background due to her being a secret agent. She admitted that her real middle name is Lisa, however Chuck likely didn't hear this because he had walked away. She had an intimate relationship with Bryce Larkin, Chuck's old college roommate, CIA agent, and presumed Intersect. She claims that her most dangerous situation was when she and her sister (unknown) used baby oil instead of sunscreen and received a very bad burn. Sarah is posing as Chuck's girlfriend, and is revealed to actually have romantic feelings for him. Sarah worked at a hot dog joint called Weinerlicious in Season 1, and a yogurt parlor called Orange Orange in Season 2; the federal government has constructed a high-tech operation center / SCIF in the basement of the Orange Orange. She has admitted that she is a terrible cook, and says that so they don't have to eat at Weinerlicious, which they do anyway. In episode 4 of season 2, "Chuck Versus the Cougars", it was revealed that Sarah used the name Jenny Burton while attending James Buchanan High School in San Diego, and was recruited to work for the CIA by Agent Graham. According to agent Graham, she used the alias Katie O'Connell in Wisconsin, the alias Rebecca Franco in Cleveland, and that her birth certificate bears yet another name. Her father was sent to prison when she was still in high school, apparently for conning a number of different individuals. She is particularly skilled at throwing knives, and often wears several strapped to her leg. She demonstrated in "Chuck Versus The Wookiee" that she is fluent in Polish. While in Los Angeles, she resides in a hotel rather than an apartment, as evidenced by the notice posted on the inside of her door. First seen in: Chuck Versus the Intersect (Pilot)
* Major John Casey (Adam Baldwin) is an NSA agent, and is one of the agents assigned to guard the intersect. Little is known for sure about his past, and his military uniform has never been shown, but due to statements he makes in the series it can be assumed that he is a former pilot in for the Air Force (as the Air Force is the only branch of the military with access to the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber which he claims to have flown). As part of his cover he works at Buy More as an appliance salesman, and is apparently quite good at it although he tends to "disregard company policy". His presence there has allowed him to save Chuck's life on more than one occasion. Ironically, he has also been assigned by the government to assassinate Chuck in the event that a new Intersect computer is activated, in order to protect the information in Chuck's brain. To protect Chuck during the latter's off-hours, he takes an apartment in the same complex as the Bartowskis, which he has retrofitted with surveillance equipment and a decontamination shower. Had a relationship with Ilsa. He rarely smiles, and his pride and joy is his black Ford LTD Crown Victoria. First seen in: Chuck Versus the Intersect (Pilot)
* Agent Bryce Larkin (Matthew Bomer) was Chuck's college roommate at Stanford. He joined the CIA in 2002, he and Chuck's junior year, then learned that the CIA intended to take Chuck on as an operative, as tests had shown that his brain was capable of processing a staggering amount of visual information. Fearing that working for the CIA would destroy his good-hearted friend, Bryce manufactured evidence that Chuck had, in fact, cheated on the test, thus removing him from the CIA's recruitment list. Five years later, Bryce sent Chuck the Intersect because he knew that Chuck had the mental capacity to interpret it. He was then shot by John Casey as he was fleeing the Intersect building and left for dead. He was found by Tommy, the leader of Fulcrum, who hired Bryce in the first place. Thinking that Bryce was the human Intersect, he saved Bryce's life and sent him to Los Angeles, concealed within a medical capsule. On being woken, Bryce then "kidnapped" Chuck and talked to him about what happened. Ultimately revealed not to be a rogue agent through an Intersect flash, Bryce then was reacquired by Fulcrum while being called in by the CIA. He escaped and succeeded in capturing Tommy, after which he was sent on assignment elsewhere. Bryce reappeared in the episode Chuck vs. The Break Up. He helped acquire a computer chip that was part of the intersect. Before he left, he left his sunglasses in Chuck's room. Trying them on, Chuck received an intersect update from an embedded chip, much to his annoyance. First seen in: Chuck Versus the Intersect (Pilot)
Buy More Employees
* Morgan Grimes (Joshua Gomez) is Chuck's best friend who also works at the Buy More as a salesman. Morgan, like Chuck, is a video game nerd; however he doesn't share Chuck's computer fixing abilities, claiming "old computers give me the willies." Morgan also has a crush on basically every mildly attractive woman he comes into contact with including Sarah, Ellie, and Anna, whom he later begins dating. He is an incompetent salesman and is nowhere near as smart as Chuck, and it is assumed that Morgan never went to college. Morgan is also incredibly immature, which is shown through the ease in which his feelings get hurt as well as his general demeanor. First seen in: Chuck Versus the Intersect (Pilot)
* Michael "Big Mike" Tucker (Mark Christopher Lawrence) is the manager of the Buy More that Chuck and the other characters work at. He employs a few "classic" managerial techniques in order to keep the store running and himself looking successful such as: taking credit for your employee's successes, blame them for your failures, and work as little as possible ("Get to work!... I've got a nap to take"). Big Mike also had been having an affair with Harry Tang's wife for six months prior to Harry leaving the continent remarking, "I love the Lady Tang", an obvious pun on their surname. First seen in: Chuck Versus the Intersect (Pilot)
* Anna Wu (Julia Ling) works for the Nerd Herd and is Morgan's only real girlfriend throughout the course of the show. She is Taiwanese and is the only East Asian on staff of the Buy More following Harry Tang's departure; and, with Lester Patel, one of the store's only two Asians. Anna is skilled in martial arts, and defended Morgan against all of the Mighty Jock bullies in a cage match in "Chuck Versus the Break-Up". First seen in: Chuck Versus the Intersect (Pilot)
* Lester Patel (Vik Sahay) is a member of the Nerd Herd. In the second season, he was promoted to Assistant Manager of the Buy More, but voluntarily returned to his former position at the end of episode 17. Lester is a self proclaimed "Mac Guy", along with Jeff. Lester tries to be a ladies man, but is very bad at being one. He tried to ask out Sarah the day after Chuck broke up with her. Lester is Jewish, but appears (as evidenced by his by his surname and Big Mike's comments) to be Indian by descent. He scammed everyone playing Dreidel games at the Buy More Holiday Party. His best friend is Jeff, and appears to be the only person with the possible exception of Big Mike, not to be freaked out by Jeff's odd behavior. First seen in: Chuck Versus the Intersect (Pilot)
* Jeffery Barnes (Scott Krinsky) is a member of the Nerd Herd, and according to Lester, is a "Mac Guy", implying he specializes in, and/or prefers, Apple products. He appears to be significantly older than his coworkers, although that could be a consequence of his alcoholism. Jeff is the oddball of the Buy More, and seems to intentionally say and do things that confuse or frighten his colleagues (or at least Chuck). First seen in: Chuck Versus the Intersect (Pilot)
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