"" "" "Morgan,this is a bad idea." "Well,we can't stay here,chuck." "I'm uncomfortable with the plan." "Morgan:" "Plan?" "What plan?" "This is survival." "that's her.We've been compromised." "I'm a ghost." "Morgan,you can'tleave me like this." "You can't do thisto me,man." "Chuck,what are you doing?" "Uh,escaping." "From your own birthday party?" "Hey,ellie." "Wow,you look fan... tastic." "Uh,you know,sis,the thing is, morgan and I don't reallyfeel like we're fitting in... at my birthday party, 'cause we don't knowanybody,'cause they'reall your friends and they all happento be doctors." "Doctors who don'treally get our jokes." "Well,your jokes." "Okay,my jokes." "Chuck,I have invitedreal,live women for you." "So please... let's go." "Morgan,you stay here." "Need a hand,buddy?" "No,no,no,I'm okay,I'm all right." "Chuck Season 1 Episode 01" "We're going to be social." "You are funny,you are smart,you are handsome." "Thank you." "Oh,there'scaptain awesome." "Please don'tcall him that." "Okay,I've identifiedsome candidates for chuck and they are awesome." "Let me introduceyou to chuck-- ellie's brother." "Hi,chuck.We've heardso much about you." "Are you ina costume?" "No,I-I..." "I workfor the nerd herd." ""Nerd herd"?" "That is so cute." "What do you really want to do?" "Working on my five-year plan.Just need to choose a font." "What happened here?" "Did you hurt your hand?" "No,no,it's,uh,from call of duty." "The controller chafesafter several hours." "So ellie said youwent to stanford." "Yes,that's technically correct." "I graduated in '02." "What was your major?" "Engineering." "Oh,my god,I knewthis great guy." "He was an engineer,um,he ran track and I think he wasa gymnast,too." "Bryce larkin-- he was my roommate." "Oh,yes." "What's he doing now?" "I think he's an accountant." "Bryce Larkin not an accountant" "it's hard to say good-bye." "Security breach." "Data vault." "So,do you have a girlfriend?" "Uh,no..." "I dida while back at stanford." "Yeah.And her name was jill." "We metfreshman year." "Oh,that was a while back." "I remember when I met jill,I was... it was an economics class." "I was walkingacross the quad and she had dropped her bag, and I was like,you know,rushing to... to go and pick it up for her,and,uh... and we kind of,like,did that whole,like,you know," "kind of in a cartoon--kind of bumped heads,and... there was a whole gangof us-- jill and bryce." "We had so much in common then." "How's he doing?" "Not awesome." "So there I was-- jill with bryce,me on a train home." "I guess she thoughthe was more exciting." "larkin is in the vault." "Larkin,open the door!" "The intersect computer'sbeen compromised." "Blow the door!" "We can't let him go!" "Call for backup." "Larkin!" "freeze!" "Stop right there!" "larkin!" "cover right!" "larkin,stop!" "Larkin is on the roof." "All units converge." "I repeat,larkin is on the roof." "All units converge." "don't move." "Too late,casey." "thanks for my party." "Your seven-layer dip... tasted like eight." "Chuck,can i tell you something?" "It really was eight layers?" "Even though we may ask,no woman really wants to hear about an old girlfriend." "It's depressing,okay?" "Stanford was five years ago." "You need to move on.It's time." "Do we really have to have this conversation again?" "We've rehearsed it enough." "Fine." "I'll get over jill tomorrow." "Hey,there." "seems like everybody had a really good time,huh?" "I know I did." "Super." "Cheer up,chuck,you talked to some women." "You know,it's a start." "Blast-from-the-past wow." "Bryce remembered your birthday,dude." "What?" "The guy who got you kicked out of school,the guy who stole your girl,remember that guy?" "Yeah,morgan,I think I remember bryce." "All right,well... what,uh,what do we got here?" "The terrible troll raises his sword" "Huh,what is it?" "Zork...you remember zork the old text-based video game?" "Well,bryce and I programmed our own version of it back at stanford using a trs-80." "Wow,you guys were really cool." "Yeah,if I could only remember what was in my hero's satchel." "The weapons that I would use to kill the terrible troll." "Right.You know what,you're still really cool." "And,uh,you're going home." "Is it that time?" "It's that time." "Right." "Pedal safe!" "Thank you." "attack... troll... with nasty knife." "Chuck?" "Chuck." "Dude..." "Dude,you-you okay?" "Morgan?" "Yeah,man,yeah,it's me." "What happened?" "I was going to ask youthe same question." "You okay?" "Did you spike the punch?" "Something goes wrong,you blame me." "After all these years,where's the trust?" "Yes,I did." "The 101 is clear at universal city." "Watch out for delays near burbank airport." "Security's checking all vehicles." "We got a sigalert on the I-605,san gabriel river freeway,utsouthbound." "A fender-bender on the I-5,santa ana freeway,northbound,from 91 freeway to the I-..." "So this morning I'm playing xbox." "And I'm like,dude,just let meget the sniper rifle," "I'll take care of it-- the guywon't give me the sniper rifle." "I made him eat a frag grenade." "Morgan,morgan,morgan,morgan." "As much as I would love to talk video gameswith you right now," "I've got a reallysplitting headache and I... in fact,you know what?" "Can you do me a favor?" "Do you mind driving?" "Whoa,whoa,whoa,whoa." "Are you-are you,look,are you being serious?" "You're goingto let me drive?" "It's a company car,morgan." "It's not thatbig a deal." "It's not just acompany car,okay?" "A hoopty'sa hoopty,home boy." "I mean,this baby'ssitting on chrome." "Or...plastic." "°ï°ïÃ¦ È"ºó±ð×ß5ºÅ¹"Â· ºÃ°É?" "ÒòÎª¾¯²ìÔÚÄÇ¶ù.." "Éè¿¨²é³µÄØ" "Okay." "Thanks for the tip,ponch." "fellow nerds,today is goingto be a very bad day." "We've got a new computervirus on our hands." "They're calling this onethe irene demova virus." "yes,yes,it's named afterthe serbian porn star." "Lonely dude call volumewill be high." "This is a nasty one,kids." "It's a computer killer." "Last night,the display versionof our prism express laptop was fried when someone... excuse me... decided to enter ms.Demova's web site." "Anna,close the eyes." "This is what happens." "Woman:" "Food is sexy?" "Am I sexy?" "Am I...sexy..." "Sorry,chuck." "She drives me crazy." "But that's love." "Ladies and gentlemen,if you'll please just ignore dirty uncle morgan," "I think that everything... to arrive in los angeles later today to deliver a speech before the pacific security league tomorrow evening..." "Will be... the general has drawn fire for his criticism... normal." "General stanfield,the former allied commander of nato... he's already here.He landed last night." "Who's alreadyhere,chuckles?" "Trying to stop tomorrow night's speech from happening..." "I don't know." "Directorate of National Intelligence Washington D.C." "Bryce larkin was cia,graham." "He was one of your agents." "Graham:" "And it was nsa's jobto find him and to question him,not to kill him." "Thanks to rambo here,we've got nothing." "No,you got a dead cia agent." "It's a gold star in my book." "If this gets out... it won'T." "Nobody asked you." "Actually,they did." "Major caseyis heading up this investigation." "So what wasbryce after,hmm?" "What did thiscomputer do?" "Well,this computerdid everything." "After 9/11,the nsa and the cia were toldto play nice-- share their intel." "This is how we did it." "Every scrap of data we hadwent into this computer." "It mined for patterns in the chatter." "Saw things we didn'T." "The data was encrypted into thousands of images." "Whoever received larkin's e-mail got all of our secrets." "Find those secrets,casey." "I found this on larkin." "Hard drive is fried." "We picked up a trace signature." "Where?" "Los angeles." "Which is perfect" " I've beenfeeling a little pasty." "Stop the presses!" "Who is that?" "Vicki vale." "(Singsongy):" "Vicki vale,vick-vicki vale." "Vickity-vickity,vicki vale,vic-vicki vale." "I hope I'm not interrupting." "No." "Not at all." "That'S...it's from batman." "'Cause thatmakes it better." "hi." "I'm morgan." "This is,uh,this is chuck." "I didn't think peoplestill named their kids chuck, or morgan,for that matter." "My parents are sadists,and carnival freaksfound him in a dumpster." "But they raised meas one of their own." "How can I help...you?" "Sarah." "Sarah." "I'm here about this." "Oh,yeah.The intelicel." "Yeah.Absolutely." "This model has a little screwthat pops loose right in the back here." "Just go ahead and give ita couple of quick turns and... good as new,no problem." "Wow!" "You geeks are good." "Nerds.I would say nerdsprobably more... it's no big deal." "You know,yeah.I mean,nerd herd." "Excuse me.Excuse me." "I have an emergency." "I don't know what I did wrong, but I shot the entire recital,but,um,now it... now it won't play back." "Okay." "We'll just take a look and... you don't have a tape in here." "But it's digital." "Oh,boy." "Right.Yes." "But you still need digital tape." "Oh,no." "Her mom'sgoing to kill me." "morgan,I need the wall." "It's yours." "I'm so sorry." "Okay.This...this way." "You ready?" "What's wrong?" "I'm usuallyin the back row." "Why?" "I'm too tall." "I block the other ballerinas." "Can I tell youa secret?" "But you can't tellthe other girls." "Real ballerinas are tall." "did you get it?" "Did it work?" "Chuck." "Hi,harry." "Uh,look,we'll be back upand running in five minutes." "Five minutes?" "Do you know what five minutesmeans in buy more dollars?" "I didn't realizewe had our own currency." "Look,I'm sorryabout all the commotion." "We are not stock boysanymore,chuck!" "We are leaders,buy more leaders." "And you wonder why big mikewants me for assistant manager." "There's an open position?" "Big mike didn't tell meabout that." "And why should he?" "He knows you won't leavethe comfort of the herd." "Chuck,dude,she left you her card." "Yes." "Why wouldn't you call this girl?" "Oh,I don't know.Did you see her?" "Yes.Oh,man,yes." "That's why I'm goingto repeat the question." "Why wouldn't youcall this girl?" "Because I liveon planet earth,morgan." "Why are you following me home?" "Aw,come...hey." "We're buddies." "We're going to godo friend things,and..." "I needto use your computer because mine's stillacting up on me." "Irene demova." "Ah!" "So beautifuland so... deadly." "Yeah." "You know,you gotto understand.This is what I'vebeen telling people for I don't knowhow long... please,not the computer." "Hai!" "Come on,chuck!" "Do something!" "give me the... that's my friend!" "okay,look,he's notthat good of a friend." "Didn't you hang that shelf?" "damn it." "Nah,I've been through it." "It's dead.It's totally fried." "This hard drive was... murdered." "What if you werethe unwitting target of a ninja vendetta, and he returns tonight to strangle youwith his nunchakus?" "That's super,jeff." "Thanks for thinkingoutside the box on that one." "And here I thought I couldn'tget any more freaked out." "I'm going to gobuy some new locks next door at large mart." "oh,thank god." "excuse me,sir." "Do you knowwhere they sell the..." "What do you want?" "Um... no.Sorry." "Sorry.Nothing." "Nothing at all." "Just..." "I was,uh..." "Look at that." "Oh,god!" "come on.Oh,my god!" "Thank god!" "Listen!" "There's a guy here,and he's trying to dosomething." "I don't know.You have to call the cops--security-- the guy at the frontwho's checking receipts." "What kind of guy?" "Scary,kind ofa terminator vibe." "Stubble.Red hair." "Black leather jacket?" "Yes!" "Like that guy." "I have eyes on himright now." "Like I said,the computerwas destroyed." "Beyond repair." "Okay." "It's done." "I want you in the airing an hour." "But what if he hasan external drive?" "A backup?" "It's over,sarah." "The nsa is stepping in." "Bryce was cia,he was our guy,and he burned us." "Casey's on his way out." "You're being recalled." "'Cause of casey?" "He's a burnout." "He's a killer,sarah." "Cold school." "I want you to listen to me." "Whatever happened with bryce,you couldn't have known." "You couldn't have stopped." "But I can fix it." "If there's a backup,I'll find it." "Just give me 12 hours." "I'm losing my mind." "I'm losing my mind." "I'm losing my mind." "morgan,not now." "Hi!" "Hi... phone trouble again?" "yeah." "I'm not sureI'm able to receive calls, 'cause I never got onefrom you." "Oh,man!" "She..." "I'm sorry I leftso quickly yesterday." "I had an appointmentwith a realtor." "I just moved here." "Welcome." "Thanks." "And,uh..." "I don'treally know anyone here." "I was wondering ifyou would show me around." "That is,if you're free." "Oh,he's free." "He's got nothingbut time on his hands." "He is veryavailable." "You guys are goingto have a great time." "What's that,sir?" "Xerox machines?" "Yeah,I'm on it." "Apparently,my schedule is wide open." "Great." "hey,chuck." "Ellie,captain.Don't freak out." "Remain calm." "I have some news." "Chuck's got a date!" "What?" "Who?" "Way to go,chuck.That's awesome." "Oh,god,what are you going to wear?" "Uh..." "So,sarah... she's nice?" "Pretty?" "Yeah.Actually,morgan met her online in this kindof chat room..." "I'm totally kidding." "Try it on." "Honestly,this..." "I'm a girl;" "I know what girls like." "I'll go change." "Chuck." "Hey,so,these are left overfrom the party." "Take those." "And,um,don't forget about the oldgirlfriend rule." "Right,got it.No mention of jill." "Aces,charles." "You're aces." "A dad quote.I'm impressed." " Love you,sis." " I love you.Have fun." "I will.I'll try." "They just... they grow up so fast,you know,and... go home,morgan." "Just go home.Go home." "He's picking me up for a date." "You're on your own on this one,sarah." "I can't help youif something goes wrong." "I don't knowabout this guy,graham." "Nice guys aren't sentgovernment secrets." "What should I do if he runs?" "Kill him." "So,yeah,I livewith my sister and her boyfriend,captain awesome." "No!" "it's true,though." "So,so,wait.You call him"captain awesome"?" "Yeah,waittill you meet him." "Everything he does is awesome:" "Climbing mountains,jumping out of planes,flossing." "That's funny." "I'm-I'm a funny guy." "Clearly." "Which is good'cause I am not funny." "Is that your big secret,by the way?" "'Cause I've beensitting here trying to figure outwhat's wrong with you." "Oh,plenty,believe me." "And I was thinkingeither she's a cannibal or she's really not that funny, and I was pullingfor cannibal 'cause I never met one before." "Uh,not a cannibal but I did just come outof a long relationship, so I may come with baggage." "I could be your very ownbaggage handler." "Uh,so the guy,the ex,the guy, the ex is the reasonyou moved here from..." " uh,D.C." " Right." "Yeah,after I realized that all of my friends were his friends and that everythingabout washington reminded me of... bruce,I needed a change,a big one." "Bruce...yeah." "You give me crapfor being chuck and you went out with a bruce?" "That's nice.That's real good." "So,so what about you?" "What skeletons do you haveing your closet?" "Any secrets?" "Any women?" "Uh,yeah,yeah." "Uh,actually,well,back incollege there was someone... actually,that's all over with now and her restraining ordersare very specific." "so..." "I like you,chuck." "So,whereare we going?" "Well,do you like music?" "I guess." "You guess?" "What's your favorite band?" "Oh,my gosh!" "Oh,my gosh!" "God,I'm not funny,I don't listen to music." "This must be yourworst date ever,right?" "I was waitingfor you to say "no" ." "Sorry,sorry,I kind ofzoned out there for a second." "No.No,no,no." "God,no,I,uh,I've had..." "I've had much,much worse,uh, much worse dates;" "experiences overallwith women." "In 11th grade,actually." "11th grade?" "you have to goback that far?" "Come on." "Chuck bartowski's your mark." "Nsa director wants himwith a pulse." "Till we find outwho he's working with and what he knows,he lives." "Cia skirt...you can kill." "they're good." "Good!" "Good!" " Let's dance!" " I'm not really a dancer." "hey-hey-hey,where's the fire?" "Chuck,give me your keys." "I don't meanto be old-fashioned, but the company onlywants employees-- nerds-- drivingthe nerd herd-mobile." "I mean,it's kinda,you know... get in the car." "How did you get into my car?" "Get in the carright now!" " Sarah..." " just get in!" "What is going on?" "Please tell me what's going on!" "Sarah,you're not even looking!" "Wait,wait,wait." "Who are these guys?" "What do they want?" "Oh,my god!" "Oh,my god!" "oh!" "Oh,my god,oh,my god,I'm gonna die!" "Tell me when to turn." "Uh,uh,left in five seconds!" " your left or my left?" " What?" "Too late!" "Oh,my god!" "Whoa... computer emergency." "Listen to me,chuck.Those men will hurt you." "They're from the nsaand they're after you." "Me?" "Why,why?" "Why me?" "I'm nobody.I'm the supervisor ofa nerd herd at a buy more." "Maybe one day I'll beassistant store manager and I don't even knowif I want that job." "You know,that's not your problem... but that is." "back!" "Back!" "get out of the car.Let's go,chuck.Move!" "Wait,wait... sarah,look out!" "Sarah.Sar... request emergency air-evac." "Track location,we're on foot." "Let's go!" "How well do you knowbryce larkin?" "What?" "How do you... how do you know bryce?" "We worked togetherat the cia." "The what?" "!" "The cia?" "Bryce is a spy?" "!" "Bryce larkin fromconnecticut is a spy?" "A rogue spy.Did he try to contact you?" "I haven't heard from bryce in... wait.No,he... he-he sent,he sent me an e-mail." "Did you open it?" " Yeah.It was,it wasa line from zork." " What?" "Zork,it's a video game that we used to play." "It was like a riddle,and I solved it and then there was,uh,pictures." "Lots and lots of pictures." "You saw them?" "Uh,your computer,did you back it up?" "Is there an external drive?" "It crashed a week ago." "Wait,wait,wait.Hold on.Was I not supposedto look at those pictures?" "Okay,I may have to aimmy gun at you,so just don't freak out." "Why?" "It's late.I'm tired." "Let's cut the crapand give him to me now." "He belongsto the nsa." "the cia gets him first." "You come any closer and I shoot." "Sarah..." "I'm freaking out." "You shoot him,I shoot you." "I leave both your bodies here,go outfor a late snack." "I'm thinking may be pancakes." "Chuck,no!" "they're gonna kill him." "Kill who?" "Stanfield,the general.The general stanfield,the nato guy." "Look,something is wrongwith me,okay?" "I don't knowwhat it is,but something is very,very wrong with me and I'm remembering thingsthat I shouldn't know." "Okay,chuck,talk to me.Like what?" "I don't know.I don't know.For example,uh... there was,there was a serbiandemolitions expert at the large mart today." "That's kind of odd,wouldn't you say?" "Look,last weekthe nsa,you guys interceptedsome blueprints, blueprints of a hotel,that hotel." "And then the cia,you guys found a file of schematics ofa bomb in prague." "The bomb is in that hotel!" "He was working with bryce." "No,he opened bryce's e-mail." "Chuck,those pictures that yousaw were encoded with secrets, government secrets." "If you saw them,then you know them." "There were thousands of 'em." "Wait a minute." "You're telling meall of our secrets are in his head." "Chuck,is the computer." "What did you,what did you say?" "What does that mean?" "Chuck,you have to listen to me.You have to tell us where... what's happening to me?" "You said there was a bomb.Is there time to stop it?" "What?" "What?" "Are you crazy?" "No,we're the good guys." "We get paid to keepbombs from exploding." "Look,I can't,I can't help you,okay?" "I really wish that I could,but I can'T." "Call bryce.He's the guythat can save the day." "Bryce is dead!" "He died sendingthose secrets to you." "Bryce is dead?" "yeah,and he's gonnahave a lot of company unless you start talking." "So,pretty please... can we defusethe bomb now?" "According tothe schedule,general's already on the stage." "Was our mission to giveour nation's diplomats the military perspectiveon world issues." "Now,maybe it was justbecause I was a uniform... wait!" "Casey,wait!" "We can't take him in.He's too valuable." "Okay,johnny commodore." "You stay here,but youtell us where to go." " Uh,the easiest way?" " No,fastest,chuck." "The fastest.Got it." "Chuck,stop!" "Chuck,wait!" "You know,it takes courageto speak out,to take action... this way!" "Chuck,where is it?" "I don't,uh..." "I don't,uh... that's it." "uh,right here." " Oh,god." " No time to evacuate.Ideas?" "Disconnect the lap top." "There's no trigger.The cables." "No,definitelya trap." "What the hell do youthink you're doing?" "Uh... ladies and gentlemen, we-we may have a cautionarysituation here,so we'll take a short break." "Chuck,is thereanything else you rememberabout the bomb?" "What's the situation?" " hi,morgan." " Hey,how's it going?" "Little busy right now,buddy." "In a good way?" "Details." "Why are you calling?" "I don't know,just... laying on your bed,ellie's with the captain." "My computer's gota case of the demovas." "So,I figured I'd check in." "You old... okay,okay,I have an idea." "That's not an xbox." "And you're noting x men." "I understand that.This is a prism expresslaptop,okay." "We sell this at our store.It has a dos override." "I think I can do this.I can do this,please." "He's our best shot." "Go." "Mr.Bomb,meet mr.Internet." "He's searching for porn." "you did it." "I did it.I did it." "I..." "I defused a real bomb." "This was a real... what if I was wrong?" "Don't puke on the c-4,huh?" "He's coming with me." "What if this was a fluke?" "And what if it wasn't?" "What if he can stopsomething bigger?" "Fine,we drop himin a psych tank,let him stare at fourrubber walls for a decade." "He'll tell us whatwe want to know." "Casey,we don't knowhow this works and what triggers the memories." "He'll crack wide open." "Not my job." "I break things,I don't fix them." "What about his job?" "And his friends?" "What do we do about his sister?" "What about my sister?" "Nothing.We were justdiscussing... no,no,no,hold on a second." "You have to leave my familyand my friends out of this." "We'll see." "Look,bryce sentthat e-mail to me." "I'm the one rememberingyour secrets." "Which means you have tolisten to me,both of you." "And right now..." "I'm going to go home." "No,you're not.Uh-uh." "You...you need me." "how long you been here?" "All night." "There's nowhereI can run,is there?" "Not from us." "Talk to me,chuck." "Yesterday I was making11 bucks an hour fixing computers." "Now I have one in my brain." "And I can't figure outwhy bryce did this,why he chose me." "What are you goingto do with me?" "What happens now?" "For now,you go backto your own life." "We'll protect you andyou'll work with us." "And my sister,my friends,are they in danger?" " All night..." " all night!" "Do you know howworried I was?" "I even called morgan." " I even got to hangout with ellie." " How far did you get?" "Morgan,shut up." "You tell them nothingto keep them safe." "Early morningprocedure,so... group hug,huh?" "Okay.Awesome." "Need you to do onemore thing for me." "Yeah?" "Trust me,chuck." "well,wish me luck." "sorry,man." "Go get 'em." "Didn't think you'd apply." "Well,uh..." "I think I'm readyfor this, big mike,and what it means- responsibility,decisive leadership... save it forthe interview.Now go train the new guy." "OkeydokeY." "don't freak out."