Chuck Episode 1.13 Chuck Versus the Marlin

At Buy More, Chuck scolds Jeff and Lester for taping a video montage of cleavage, as schwarma delivery girl Lizzie makes her 29th delivery of the month. Morgan wants Chuck's advance copy of the next Call of Duty game, but Chuck insists it will stay in his locker. Devon asks Chuck's permission to marry Ellie. He plans on giving her his grandmother's ring and wants Chuck to hold it for safekeeping. Chuck puts the ring in his locker, then flashes on a poorly hidden bug in a display, which he gives to Casey.

Beckman identifies the bug as a cutting edge CIA listening device �¢â�¬" a receiver should be hidden nearby. She thinks it's being used by a secret government cabal, Fulcrum, that's after the Intersect. If they can't identify the perpetrator in 48 hours, Chuck will have to be relocated to a secure holding facility. For his own safety, his family and friends will never see him again.

The next morning, it takes Big Mike a few moments to realize that the entire store has been robbed. The worst thing - his stuffed marlin Norman is missing. As cops descend, Jeff and Lester act guilty, and Chuck runs to his locker to find Devon's engagement ring is gone. Casey summons Chuck to a warehouse that's filled with the contents of the store. They're looking for the receiver, but still haven't found it, and the ring hasn't been found either.

Sarah prevents Casey from blurting out Chuck's possible fate, claiming they can't give him a life sentence for being a good guy. The feds are surprised to learn that the video surveillance was turned back on during the robbery. Jeff and Lester thought they were turning the cameras off when they drunkenly stole Norman. Chuck's only concern is the ring, but Casey points out that if they don't find the receiver, Chuck will get a one-way ticket to an underground bunker.

Casey returns to Buy More to question Jeff and Lester, who admit they stole Norman and hid him at Chuck's. Meanwhile, Beckman calls Sarah at the warehouse to inform her that they've decided to extract Chuck. Chuck and Casey are tossing the apartment, looking for Norman, when Ellie comes home to say that Morgan left with Norman last night.

Back at Buy More, Big Mike and Conway question Chuck, convinced that he's the only one with the brains to mastermind the robbery. They turn up the heat and leave him alone in the office to think about confessing. Casey questions Morgan, who admits that he stole Chuck's backpack out of his locker, then proceeded to Chuck's bedroom to play Call of Duty. When he found the ring, he showed Ellie, thinking that Chuck was preparing to propose to Sarah, and had left them out of the big decision.

Everyone runs when Lizzie appears with lunch. Chuck escapes into the ventilation system to find Jeff and Lester's Mammary Cam tape, then returns to the office to IM Sarah the video of Lizzie. Jeff and Lester lay into Morgan for confessing to Casey, but he tells them not to worry �¢â�¬" he put Norman in the freezer at Wienerlicious. Lizzie runs to Wienerlicious to fight Sarah and escapes with the receiver.

Devon calls Chuck. He's decided to propose to Ellie over dinner and needs the ring. When Morgan approaches Chuck to ask about his impending marriage to Sarah, Chuck demands to know the whereabouts of the ring - it's in the marlin. Chuck races to Wienerlicious to find Sarah locked in the freezer, and Norman broken open in the ground with no ring. Chuck is about to shoot the lock off the freezer when Conway appears to arrest him.

With some coaxing, Morgan tells Casey that he hid Norman in the freezer. Casey rescues Sarah from the freezer as Chuck flashes on Conway, who's not a cop, but a CIA operative who's extracting him. Beckman informs Casey and Sarah of the same. Playing the nice guy for once, Casey goes after Lizzie and tells Sarah to find Chuck. She finds him on a rooftop, where Conway has arranged for a helicopter to pick them up.

Sarah tries to talk Conway out of taking Chuck, but he's not buying it. She asks for a moment, and Chuck cries, asking her to talk to his family and friends and make everything okay. Maybe Sarah can visit his cell and they can have their first real date. Chuck is about to leave when Lizzie arrives to kill Conway. She can't wait to tell her superiors that she found the Intersect �¢â�¬" but what's the ring for? Sarah tells Chuck to distract Lizzie and runs off.

Sarah attacks Lizzie as Casey arrives. The fight goes over the side of the roof. Luckily, Lizzie and Sarah land in a dumpster, where Sarah punches Lizzie out. The next morning, Big Mike opens up Buy More to find that the contents of the store have been returned. Even Norman has been taped up and replaced over his desk. Chuck and Sarah search the dumpster for the ring, amazed when they find it.

Chuck and Sarah run home to give Devon the ring, and leave so that he can propose. They spy on the happy moment through the window. Sarah tells Chuck that he's safe for now, but he thinks that eventually he'll be locked up. He invites Sarah in to congratulate the happy couple, but she insists that it's a family thing. Casey joins Sarah, who reminds her that they can only keep Chuck safe at home for so long.