2.17 - Chuck Versus the Predator
Original Airdate: March 23, 2009Written By: Chris Fedak
Directed By: Jeremiah Chechik
Description: Chuck is contacted by the creator of the Intersect as Fulcrum closes in on both of them. General Beckman comes to Los Angeles personally to deal with what's been going on regarding Orion. The Buy More is faced with competition from the Beverly Hills store over the delivery of a new computer.
Quotes
Chuck: I have to say this. We should never do that again.
Casey: Mission's over, Chuck. The plan went just fine.
Chuck: Yeah, except your plan necessitated that we do actual plumbing and for the record, none of us knows how to actually plumb. We're going to burn these jump suits, right?
Sarah: I second Chuck's motion. No more plumbing on future missions.
[They see toilet paper all over the Buy More.]
Chuck: What? When did this happen?
Lester: During the night. Look on the bright side, don't have to buy TP for, like, years.
Jeff: Why start now?
General Beckman: I lied to Chuck earlier. He's done what no one else could do. He found him, Chuck found Orion.
Sarah: General, why lie to him? Orion is extremely important to this project and to Chuck.
General Beckman: Important? Don't think for a second that you can tell me what's important, Agent Walker. I've had an army of analysts and spies hunting for Orion since before you were in a training bra.
Chuck: Okay, what's the plan?
Casey: You got us into this mess, why don't you come up with the plan for once.
Chuck: Okay, alright, you two distract Emmett with your super spy skills while I go hit Big Mike's office where he keeps the combination to the safe at his desk.
Casey: He keeps a combination in his office?
Chuck: It's a Buy More, Casey, relax.
[Casey and Sarah begin preparing weapons.]
Chuck: Oh no, no, no, no, no. There are no guns in my plan, okay, as annoying as Emmett is, you cannot shoot, tranq or karate chop him in any way.
Sarah: [to Casey] You put him in charge.
Lester: I've tried to help you over the years, Jefferson. I've drowned myself trying to help you, but you're a moron. In the end that's what you are. You're a Buy More-on!
Vincent: I'll give one chance, drop your guns.
Chuck: Um, sir, they don't have any guns. I personally put this mission together and I forbid them from packing.
Vincent: Why would you do that?
Chuck: I don't know, I just, you know... I think that guns make things too easy and I like my spies to be tough. Look, you're not gonna shoot me, right?
Vincent: It would be unprofessional not to.
[Casey pulls out a gun and shoots Vincent.]
Chuck: You had a gun?
Casey: I always have a gun.
Morgan: We can't get away with this, okay, we can't be calm and collected this time.
Big Mike: Let me see it. No, Morgan. We will remain calm and collected. We will be calm and collected when we go to Beverley Hills tonight. And we will be calm and collected when we use my manager's code to get into the store. And then we're going to be calm and collected when we burn that mother-loving store to the ground.
Morgan: Sir, what exactly are we doing here?
Big Mike: Payback.
Morgan: I see. Does payback involve illegal activities?
Big Mike: Damn well better.
Vincent: I wish I could give you a proper reward. But, unfortunately I have to shoot you.
Chuck: It would be unprofessional not to.
Featured Music
Cool Cat by Daniel May The Buy More staff find their store has been toilet papered.
Making Love Out of Nothing At All by Air Supply Morgan sits in his room while hearing his mom and Big Mike.
Amazing Life by Matt Pond PA Chuck tells Sarah that he still trusts her, General Beckman questions Casey and Chuck reads the material Orion left him.
Episode Trivia
Sarah Lancaster and Ryan McPartlin do not appear in this episode.
Orion tells Chuck that "this disc will self-destruct in five seconds." In the Mission: Impossible TV series and movies the tape containing the mission would self-destruct in five seconds.
The comic book Chuck is reading at the end of the episode is called Ex Machina.