Chuck Episode 2.15 Chuck versus the Beefcake

Late at night, suave ultra spy Cole Barker digs a hole in an orange orchard. After unearthing a body bag, Cole grabs the corpse's belt and takes off. Back at Castle, Beckman explains that the grave belonged to Brad White, one of the Fulcrum agents who ran the Intersect test on Chuck. Why was his grave robbed, and what was taken? Beckman instructs Casey and Sarah not to let Chuck out of their sight. Sarah immediately phones Chuck.

Breakfasting with Ellie and Awesome, Chuck nonchalantly blows off Sarah's call -- he'll see her later. Ellie recalls that Chuck said he didn't think Sarah was the one. What's he going to do about it? Chuck claims breaking up is complicated, but Ellie thinks Chuck needs to take charge of his life and move forward. And if he's not being truthful with Sarah, he's not only hurting her, he's hurting himself.

At Buy More, Morgan is sleep deprived and freaked out. Big Mike and his mom are going at it like teenagers and keeping him up at night. Can he crash at Chuck's? Chuck is just blowing off another call from Sarah, when she taps him on the shoulder and offers to buy him a yogurt. Chuck claims he wanted to talk, it was just a matter of timing. But Sarah already knows that Chuck has breaking up on his mind, since she overheard his breakfast talk with Ellie.

Sarah suggests that they just tell everyone that they're taking things slowly, but Chuck is tired of lying to everyone. They will never really be together -- it's over. Casey pulls Chuck and Sarah downstairs to meet with Beckman. Ladies' man Cole has been identified from a print on the body bag. He's landed at LAX and taken a cab to the Standard Hotel to hand off his booty to a Fulcrum agent. Jealous, Chuck focuses in on Cole's groinal area, then flashes on his belt buckle -- Sarah will have to retrieve it.

Flush with romance, Big Mike asks Morgan to conduct interviews for a new green shirt while he takes care of the "plumbing" at his Mom's house. Realizing an opportunity to play casting couch, Jeff and Lester offer to take the interviews off of Morgan's emotionally drained hands. When Jeff doesn't understand what kind of hot babes would interview for a job as a green shirt, Lester concocts a plan to interview for the Buy More Babe -- a highly paid spokesmodel for Burbank's finest electronics store.

Casey is behind the bar at the Standard Hotel, as Chuck and Sarah wait for Cole to show. The plan is for Sarah to quickly seduce Cole and make off with the belt buckle. Chuck wonders if there isn't a better way, but Sarah shows him the gun in her purse. If she's in trouble they both have earwigs, and she'll ask for Cristal champagne. When Cole finally shows, Sarah swings into action, and they're on their way to his room within minutes.

Ellie and Awesome return home, where they're surprised by Morgan, who's been busy. He's drawn them a bath, cooked them a roast, and serves up ice-cold martinis. Over dinner, Ellie is surprised to learn that Chuck is with Sarah -- didn't they break up yet? If Morgan knows one thing, he knows Chuck, and he can't believe Chuck would break up with Sarah -- she's obviously the one. Ellie panics, thinking she may have been wrong to advise the break-up.

Chuck is determined to keep his earwig in for the duration of Sarah's seduction, but when the action gets hot and heavy, he takes it out and orders a stiff drink. Meanwhile, Casey notices two suspicious types. Thinking they're the Fulcrum agents, he boards the elevator along with a woman named Alexis and her baby. When the door opens on Cole's floor, Alexis pulls a gun out of her stroller and a blazing battle begins. Now with her wrists bound by Cole's belt, Sarah asks for some Cristal.

When Chuck overhears a bar order for Cristal, he runs to Cole's room and kicks down the door, shocked to find Sarah in her underwear. Cole insists they're making a big mistake, but Sarah and Chuck take him to the rooftop parking lot, where a Blackhawk appears to hammer them with machine gun fire. Sarah pushes Chuck and Cole to the ground, in a bid to draw off the fire, but gets pinned down. Cole convinces Chuck to unlock his handcuffs, promising if he wants Sarah to live, he has no choice.

Cole grabs two guns, and in a fleeting display of masculine pulchritude blows up an AC unit, which engulfs the Blackhawk in a fireball. Sarah's impressed, and Casey shows up in time to knock Cole out. Back at the Castle, Beckman apologizes to Cole: they didn't know he was MI6, or that he'd been undercover for 18 months. Chuck pries a data chip from the belt buckle. Cole claims that the chip is useless without a specific playback device developed by Fulcrum to bypass encryption.

Beckman orders Cole to stay on lock-down at Castle; Sarah will spend the night with him. Cole ensures that Chuck and Sarah are no longer together, before announcing his intention to butter Sarah's muffin. Jealous, Chuck offers to let Cole stay at his house, on the couch with Morgan. In the middle of the night, Morgan, who sleeps in the nude, wakes up and heads to the kitchen. Worried about Chuck, Ellie can't sleep either. The sight of Morgan's masculine pulchritude nearly kills her.

In the morning, Ellie puts her foot down. No more naked Morgan on the couch! When she asks about Sarah, Chuck admits they're just going to be friends. Ellie's face drops. Once Chuck lets Sarah go, she'll be hard to get back. Awesome spells it out -- a hot babe like Sarah won't be on the market for long. What was Chuck thinking? Meanwhile, Sarah has stayed up all night, avoiding Cole's suggestion that she brush up on her seduction skills. Stopping into Orange Orange, Chuck can't help spying on them through the surveillance monitor on the register console.

Jeff wears a robe for the hot model interviews. Model Brooklyn smells a rat when he pulls a Sharon Stone from "Basic Instinct," and Lester describes them as "bosses with privileges." When Brooklyn threatens to call the police, the jig is up. Lester claims Chuck is in charge. Down in the Castle, Chuck offers to crack the microchip, but everyone tells him not to be a hero. They're going to meet with the Fulcrum agents, and Chuck should go back to Buy More.

Chuck arrives at work just in time to get a slap from Brooklyn, who huffs out to call her lawyer. Morgan explains that Jeff and Lester must have taken some liberties while interviewing for a new green shirt. Chuck gets busy, trying to crack the chip, while Cole, Casey and Sarah spy the Fulcrum agents on a busy street corner. In a limo, Alexis learns that someone in Burbank has triggered the chip's homing device, and orders her agents to kill Cole.

Sarah spies an agent's gun and moves in, just in time to get pulled into the limo along with Cole. Meanwhile, Chuck cracks the chip -- it's all about him as Patient Zero. Chuck smashes the chip, and looks up to see Alexis smiling down at him. Before long, Chuck is chained hands overhead alongside Cole and Sarah in a warehouse. Chuck confesses that the chip was all about him. Worried that Chuck won't be able to withstand Alexis' torture, Sarah tells him to pass out by scaring himself.

Armed with a machete, Alexis takes a whip to Cole, making Chuck watch. When she pulls out a blow torch, Chuck finally cracks -- he's the one she's looking for. Cole claims Chuck is lying -- why would the CIA put their secrets into the brain of such a pathetic weakling? Chuck challenges Alexis to stick a five-inch long syringe in his eye, the thought of which scares him so much, he passes out. Meanwhile, Casey calls Beckman to ask for NASA surveillance, so he can locate the rest of his team.

Alexis prepares to inject Sarah with enough Ricin to kill an army when Casey and the SWAT team bust in. Casey is delighted to capture Alexis -- now she'll have to tell them everything she knows about Fulcrum. But she's no stranger to the golden rule of torture -- everybody talks -- and jams the syringe into her neck, killing herself. Casey points out that Chuck fainted while Cole endured torture. That's why Cole's getting so much attention from Sarah.

Later, Sarah ices a scrape on Chuck's head, proud that he withstood torture. He's had some experience, having endured the torture of their fake relationship. Chuck claims it wasn't all bad, and makes a move towards reconciliation, when Cole interrupts on his way out. Sarah warns that if he knows who Chuck is, he may pose a threat she has to handle. Claiming he would love to be handled by her, Cole offers to fly Sarah away for a passionate vacation, but she insists she has to work.

On the way out, Chuck punches up the surveillance camera in the register to spy Cole pulling Sarah into a passionate kiss. Back at Buy More, Morgan has reached a momentous decision: he has to get his own apartment. Inspired, Chuck asks Morgan to move in with him -- they'll get an apartment together. Meanwhile, Cole drinks scotch in a limo. A motorcycle cop drives alongside and shoots the driver.

After work, Morgan and Chuck go home to give Ellie and Awesome the big news. Ellie is devastated to hear that Chuck is moving in with Morgan, just as there's a knock on the door. Sarah pulls Chuck outside to inform him that Fulcrum has Cole, and since he knows that Chuck is Intersect, Chuck will have to go under 24-hour protection until further notice. That means they can't break up, and they have to move in together.