Chuck – Recap & Review – Chuck Vs. The Tooth

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Chuck vs. The Tooth

Original Air Date: May 10, 2010

Jeff L – Staff Writer
JeffL@thetwocentscorp.com

Aside from Sarah saying the three little words, a Doc Brown cameo, Superman possibly still being alive, Anna Wu coming back from Hawaii on a Morgan-mission and some weirdly Ring-like contact with Ellie not a whole lot happened on this week’s episode of Chuck. So I’ll try and keep it short.

Chuck and Sarah are hanging out having trouble finding anything to watch on TV. “Monday nights can be a bit of a wasteland,” Chuck blurts almost breaking the fourth wall and looking directly into the camera. The couple settle on Spies Like Us which brings about a playful argument between the couple about the real-life spy skills of the Emmit and Milbarge. Chuck says I love you to Sarah (again) and she doesn’t respond. Eventually Chuck drifts off to sleep, sparking what (arguably) maybe the tiredest of tired clichés the dream sequence. It seems Chuck can’t even sleep without the Intersect working over time these days.

As Chuck dreams he flashes on something he saw while flipping though the channels earlier. The president of Zumibia is in town attending a concert. In the dream, however, he’s being killed and Superman is alive and well and delivering Zumibian food when Chuck is forced to shoot him again. Chuck wakes everyone up including General Grandma (and Grandpa General Grandma?) to explain the Zumibian president is in danger. Nobody appreciates the wakeup call, especially Casey and everyone is even angrier when Chuck announces that the concert isn’t for another full day. General Grandma sends Chuck to a CIA psychiatrist (Christopher Lloyd).

Chuck is reluctant to speak to Doc Brown, but gets the ball rolling discussing the fact that Sarah won’t return the “I love you,” when he says it. (Zzzzzzzz) The doctor can’t clear Chuck for duty, however, because he believes that the Intersect is merging with Chuck’s subconscious and could, therefore, be dangerous to Chuck and possibly have side effects including something very similar to “insanity.”

The next day, Chuck is keeping an eye on the news for anything about President Kuti. Jeff and Lester are perving around the store and Anna Wu shows up looking for Morgan, but he’s too busy with his Ass. Man./spy duties to talk to her. (On a side note, Julia Ling, you are looking good, girl!) Chuck decides he and Morgan should stake out the Beethoven concert and make sure President Kuti is safe. Annu Wu watches, impressed, as Morgan leaves the store in his tuxedo heading for the symphony.

Sometime later, Ellie is at Spy More shopping/doing a commercial for the E.R. box set (“Best show ever,” claims Awesome) when she is approached by the man who was in charge of their Doctors Without Borders camp in Africa. He tells her he’s with the CIA and that he needs to get in touch with her father and that she needs to avoid Casey because he is a rouge agent. He also tells her not to mention anything about any of this to Chuck or Awesome or anyone else. Ring? I think so.

At the concert, Chuck falls asleep and dreams/flashes that the man (Dr. Martin Kowambe) sitting next to President Kuti is the assassin/Ring agent. Chuck leaves Morgan with his tranquilizer gun and heads for the box seats just as Sarah and Casey show up. They’ve figured out what Chuck was up to on their own. Chuck talks Sarah into believing him and the two head to the Presidents suite, while Morgan tries to pull the tranq. gun on Casey and gets shot with it himself.

Up in the box seats, Chuck and Sarah start to frisk Dr. Kowambe just as Chuck flashes for real on the man’s tooth. He’s got a false tooth filled with data that maybe Ring related. Chuck swings and knocks out one of the man’s teeth which he grabs as security pulls drags him down. This little outburst lands him in a CIA psychiatric hospital.

General Grandma reads the spies the riot act about their little “mission” and informs them that Doc Brown thinks Chuck’s condition is worsening. Elsewhere, Ellie, not wanting to believe that Casey could be an evil spy, goes to his apartment where she sees through his chained door a huge case full of guns. So Casey is a spy! OMG. Ellie tells Awesome, who of course already knows all about Casey and he plays it off as Casey being a gun nut. He’s sure it’s nothing to worry about.

Casey and Sarah visit Chuck in the hospital and in an effort to make them believe that he’s not crazy hacks up the tooth and secrets it to Sarah for analysis. Morgan is freaking out about his missing best friend and Casey informs him that Chuck is on lock down in a CIA mental facility. Just then Anna appears again and Morgan blows her off for a second time.

Sarah works the tooth at Castle, but finds absolutely nothing. She calls Chuck to tell him the bad news. Outside at the reception desk, Dr. Kowambe and some security men approach asking to visit Chuck, but visiting hours are over. Kowambe pulls a tranquilizer gun of his own and fires on the reception desk nurse and the few orderlies who were unlucky enough to be standing around.

Kowambe and his henchmen (no longer security guards) grab Chuck and inject him with a powerful hallucinogen in an effort to find out how Chuck knew about the doctor’s tooth. Which, it turns out, was the tooth right next to the one Chuck managed to knock out at the concert.

Chuck, already under the haze-inducing effects of the drug, tries to create a diversion and manages to knock out two of the henchmen and run into the rec. room of the hospital. He flashes some kung fu moves, but the drugs have messed up his vision. He can’t connect with any of his moves. Chuck begs the other former spies (crazies) to help him and eventually they do when one former spy who know goes by the name Merlin orders his army to attack.

Kowambe tranquilizes all the patients and starts to make a run for it when Chuck spots Sarah, Casey and Doc Brown entering the room just as he begins to pass out. Casey shoots the henchmen and Sarah fights it out with Kowambe. She eventually takes him down and rushes to Chuck.

Back at Castle after Chuck has had some time to recover, General Grandma apologizes to Chuck and informs the spies that they found the data in Kowambe’s tooth and it was headed for the Ring. Grandma can’t clear Chuck for duty, however, only Doc Brown has that authority. Later at Doc Brown’s office, the doc explains to Chuck that while this may have been an isolated incident and Chuck can return to duty it doesn’t mean Chuck is in the clear. In fact, the Intersect maybe causing stress to Chuck’s brain that eventually will lead to serious deterioration. Doc Brown suggests strongly that Chuck talk this over with Sarah.

At the Spy More, Anna is back and she demands some face time with Morgan. She just wanted to return a box of his things he left in Hawaii. Morgan doesn’t want the things and Anne throws herself at him. She sees he’s a changed man and she wants him more than ever. Morgan, however, is a changed man and he doesn’t want her. Adios, Anna Wu. It was nice to have you back for a little while anyway.

Back at Chuck and Sarah’s, Chuck attempts to tell Sarah the news from Doc Brown about the Intersect, but she cuts him off with “I love you!” She’s wanted to say it for awhile now. (did I mention ZZZZZZZzzzz?) They kiss. Chuck doesn’t tell her about the Intersect slowly killing him.

Ellie meets with the CIA/Ring agent again and confirms that Casey is a spy. The agent asks her is she can get in touch with her father. She’s going to try.

That night, Chuck is dreaming he’s in a hospital bed. He wakes to find Superman standing over him. Sup opens his bloody shirt to show there are no gunshot wounds. Of course not, Chuck doesn’t have any Kryptonite bullets! Duh. Chuck demands to know how it’s possible (some geek you are, Chuck!) and Sup tells him it’s because he’s still alive. He lunges for Chuck as he wakes up beside Sarah. “What’s wrong?” she asks. “It’s nothing,” he assures her. “Go back to sleep.”

What did you think of Chuck Vs. The Tooth? Did you enjoy it? Do you think Anna Wu will stick around? What’s going to happen with the whole Ellie situation? Is Superman alive? Is the Intersect slowly killing our beloved Chuck? Will NBC be not-so-slowly killing our beloved Chuck?

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