Chuck episode 5X05 very Chara-centric picspam/recap
Since I don't have time but I want to comment the episodes, if only a little, I've decided to go back to the old times and review only the relationship of Chuck and Sarah. That's what you always do, you will say. But this time, the focus would be exclusively talking about the relationship (not the couple in the episode). With a little of luck it would be shorter than usual and I'll have time to review two episodes. Cross your fingers.
So let's begin the analysis of Chuck and Sarah in Chuck Vs. the Hack Off.
First, some touches about the episode:
- Lester was hilarious. As leader of the prison and when he greeted Sarah: "Hey, you."
- I confess my everlasting LOVE for Carrie-Ann Moss and her awesome character Gertrude Verbanski.
- Craig DiGregorio must be obsessed with prisons, because this is his second episode using one (first was Vs. the Gobbler.) And if he had any idea of how they work I would understand it, but as it seems he doesn't, I don't.
- I want to begin a new campaign: The Gertrude and Sarah Should Be BFFs Campaing.
- Gratuitous nude camp is gratuitous.
- Danny Pudi was a great cameo, but Yvette's was even better.
- Lester goes free because Jeff drops the charges? Really? Even if Law worked that way (don't know exactly how it goes in US), Lester attemped murder against a plurality of people, Big Mike being the most affected. And there are dozens of witnesses. So... I don't think so.
Now, yes, to the Walkertowski goodness.
After visiting Casey, Chuck has his usual existencial crisis.
I can't help feeling like Casey going to prison is all my fault
What? Why would you say that?
'Cause I'm the genius who started the private spy company and convinced you both to work with me.
Chuck, that's not true. [He didn't convince you to work with him?] Decker wanted Casey in jail no matter what. [Oh, that. Yes.] I mean, whether we worked for ourselves or the CIA, it doesn't really matter. And I'm not just saying that to make you feel better. Well, maybe a little
Thank you
If I'd have a penny for everytime Chuck angsts, I will be quite rich by now. That's his first response when things go bad. I would say that it makes him very compatible with Sarah, because (thanks to her past and her training in the CIA) she is ready to be the comforting partner. I can't shake off the idea that she acts with Chuck as her father acted with her when she was down. And this isn't something that suddenly happened since they're a couple, she's been like this since the beginning, she's always tried to make everything sweeter for him: trying to soften bad news, to convince him to do something he didn't want to in the less coercive way, trying to shield him from Beckman's rage... It's like her modus operandi.
Of course, he thanks her, even if knowing that this is Decker's fault doesn't help. Decker asking for their help makes it worse. Basically because everybody (except these two and maybe Son Goku) could see it was a trap.
But something new happened that cut Chuck's usual angsting session: he recovered his old self. Something that Sarah had never seen. Because Sarah is always the mysterious one, the one with secrets, but we forget sometimes that Chuck isn't exactly as an open book and that he has a past too.
All right, let's find us a virus, shall we?
Uh, what is happening? Is that, is that chardonnay? [And he's drinking straight from the bottle. He's a complete barbarian.]
I haven't seen this in a long time. We used to call this routine "The Routine"
That's very creative. [sarcastic!Sarah is the best.]
Yeah. Yeah, Chuck has quite a reputation as a hacker, you know? They used to call him "The Piranha." [Is he small and attacks in groups biting on his preys? I don't think the name describes him at all.] Swordfish, right? The movie is based on him. He doesn't like to talk about it 'cause he doesn't think it was a A-plus film.
Why? I thought it was pretty good. [It's official, Sarah: you don't have taste.]
Yeah, it's okay, but it had a lot of plot holes and those hacker scenes were just, like... [Thanks for lampshadding your own episode, Craig DiGregorio.]
Someone coded the name into the Telix-script! A little inside joke for anyone running viral countermeasures.
[Sarah is just flabbergasted.]
When The Piranha got really into a coding session, he could get a bit giddy
Yeah, it's kind of cute
Yeah, it's also super nerdy
It's definitely that, too
Awww... She loves him. She loves even his nerdy side. I knew she was totally in love with him in Vs. the Other Guy, when she confessed to him while he was drunk, in his underwear and holding a plastic guitar.
Usually it's Chuck the one who discovers something new in Sarah and treasures that little secret. This time is Sarah. She likes this new side of him, maybe because he's acting high and carefree and that doesn't happen very often. Chuck makes jokes and he's nice, but his vision of life is usually kind of gloomy and this is refreshing. Sarah loves this side of him.
I think Chuck was like this when he was at College, when he met Bryce and before he was expelled from Stanford. It's funny to think how his personality would have developed if he had never been expelled. But that's what fan fiction exists for :-)
And how can Sarah say that he likes Swordfish? What kind of drug was she taking when she saw it? Because there is nothing that could make her like--
Okayyyyy.... Yeah... Point taken.
Let's draw a thick veil over this.
Oh, make sure that he eats. When he gets all plugged in,he goes overboard with the chardonnay. Calls it his "thinking juice"
This is a funny reversal: Morgan asking Sarah to take care of Chuck as if he were a child. A little test more in her long road to motherhood.
This is also a sign that Chuck would be more immature, or that this is how he was when he was more immature, before he was expelled from Stanford and everything that happened afterwards. We've always seen Chuck taking care of Morgan and him being childish while Chuck was the mature one, but this makes me realize that in the old times their relationship should have been more egalitarian. That's why Chuck takes care of Morgan, because he took care of him when he was starving himself to death when he was a hacker.
In this episode everybody has to grow up and act all mature, ask poor Gertrude. Having to help Chuck and Sarah as a snipper, that's pretty humiliating for the CEO of the best security corporation.
By the way...
Sarah, your Yvonne is showing.
What are you looking at? You're supposed to see it quite often.
And I don't know what to say of the fact that she never defends him or say anything at all when somebody doubts her boyfriend's "qualities" (be it permormance wise or size.) Is it because she's shy? Or because she doesn't care?
Anyway, a cult in the middle of nowhere seems a good place to talk about the future.
These people dropped everything and came here. Can you imagine?
Yeah, it's crazy. [So you can't imagine.]
I mean, I don't know what I'd do if I left the spy life. Sometimes I'm so caught up in it, I can't think of a world outside of it.
Well, you're really good at computers, Chuck. I mean, you love them.
Yeah... maybe
Sarah here goes back to her usual "supporting partner" role without realizing that this time her way of life is also at stake. Now they're married, most of the decision must be joint or at least, discussed between them. Sarah has a problem with this. Since she sees marriage as acting as always but with a ring in her finger, she can't see that Chuck's doubts about the spy life could mean the end of the spy life for both of them. I say "could," depending of the circumstances, not that it should or it will. Sarah loves the spy life after all, and while Chuck has thought about his possible future, Sarah didn't; no more than a vague "I'll be with Chuck when we retire, many years from now."
So it will be tricky, even if Sarah is changing and developping as a person, which makes me highlight this moment, that doesn't have much to do with Chuck and Sarah's relationship, but it does.
You know, I know that we're not partners or friends or anything like that, but are you okay? You seem to be on edge ever since we started the mission
I'm fine
Really? 'Cause we can talk about it if you want
No, no, no, no
FOR EVERYTHING THAT IS SACRED, GIVE HER A FRIEND!
This is why it's so sad what happens later, because Sarah is trying to be this new open and friendly persona. She didn't shy away after what happened the last time, she's trying again.
SARAH: We should have friends.
JENNY: We should tie you up until you recover your senses.
Don't you see Sarah as the typical person that gives a lot of advice but then applies none to her? We have a saying in Spain: "Consejos vendo y para mí no tengo." (literally: "I sell advice and I have none for myself.")
Not that Sarah's friendly attitude is going to help her with Gertrude while she's in denial mode.
What do you think? Do I look like a hacker? Is the beanie overkill?
You look perfect. [No, seriously, I think that Chuck as a hacker is her sexual fantasy. Not that I blame her.]
Okay, I found a duct opening on the east corner, just below the roof. [Look, Gertrude cockblocks as well as Casey.]
Okay, we have our entry. At exactly 2200 hours, we'll be in the server room, waiting for you to override the security system
Got it. Be careful, babe
You, too. [No sweetheart for him? Disappointing.]
All those poor shippers that have to find any little hint of affection between the members of their OTP because they aren't still a couple and we have these things every episode. It feels soo good (don't you think so, Bones fans? :-))
That's my man
Excuse me, Castle fans? I can't hear you over the sound of my joy.
Not that the shippers of official and healthy OTPs have peaceful lives, of course, because your favorite couple being together doesn't mean that there aren't issues between them. Or that they won't try to make their lives miserable just for fun.
[A SUDDEN CONFESSION appears.]
So, do you want to talk about it? [Sarah uses FRIENDSHIP.]
You know, I've just been a wreck since Casey went to prison. [It's super effective!] I had no idea I had such strong feelings for him, and now I'm petrified this could actually turn into something.
Well, maybe you're looking at it the wrong way.
What, we're gonna become a couple, have some kids, and then I gotta quit the spy business because it's too dangerous?
Relationships are all about communication. [You read that in a book, didn't you?] Big life changes don't really just spring up on you
like that. [That's so... insightful. Are you seeing a therapist, Sarah?]
[...]
I couldn't imagine life away from this
Do you really think it's gonna be that bad?
Sarah, girls like us, [could you say "women"?] we don't just leave the spy business. Look at me, I've been doing this since I was 16 years old. I never had another job, not my entire life. I wouldn't even know what to do if I did. [...] How about you? Could you do anything else?
Getrude, I want you to be Sarah's BFF, but I don't appreciate what you did here. You are making her think! You're making her reconsider her priorities. Bad, bad Gertrude.
The point is that this speech coming from Gertrude is absurd, because she's a CEO and CEOs don't go and risk their lives in suicide missions. She has people to do that. She's the damn boss. If she were a spy, OK, but she isn't.
Anyway, she is right. Sarah doesn't know how to do anything else except being a spy. That's her life. And she is good at it, she really is. She seems to love it and it's her personal way to atone for her past. Could she be any other thing? We don't know. We don't know what she studied or what are her hobbies (if she has any. Not everybody has hobbies.) Should she sacrifice her career for Chuck? In a way, she did: she was one of the top CIA agents and she ended leaving the agency. But should she sacrifice even more? Should she adapt herself to Chuck's wishes? Does she want to? Where is the limit?
These are legitimate questions that Sarah must make to herself, because relationships are more than sleeping with someone.
Unfortunately, these questions make Sarah uneasy, and this means terrible things inside her personalities.
SARAH: All this doubts make me... unsettled.
JENNY: See? see? I told you we shouldn't get soft.
SARAH: I don't know what to do.
JENNY: Slap the nerd, that's a first.
SARAH: No... I can't...
JENNY: Are you all right?
SARAH: I... (she writhes in pain and suddenly, there is an explosion of light. Then things go to normal there is SARAH and there is SAM, separated again.)
SAM: No!
JENNY: Yes!
SAM: Nooooo! This can't be happening.
SARAH: This must happen, because things are developing in a way we don't like.
SAM: Don't be silly!
SARAH: We must fight!
SAM: But we were so happy.
SARAH: We didn't know what we were doing!
JENNY: (opening her arms) Come, come here. Embrace your fury.
But... Something good happens. Chuck actually verbalizes his wishes.
So, I've been, uh, I've been thinking about life after the spy game.
What do you mean?
You know, maybe you're right; I'm, I'm great with computers. I mean, maybe Carmichael Industries isn't a spy firm. Maybe it's a tech company. [Remember, Chuck, half of the company is hers.] What do you think? Sarah?
Uh, what would my job be at Carmichael Industries? I mean, what would I do?
Well, you'd... [He can't give her an answer.]
Chuck comes as a kind of selfish for a lot of people, but you have to bear in mind that he's just talking about an idea, not saying he's going to do it for sure or imposing it. Just telling Sarah about it. He's as inexperienced in the married life as Sarah is. He didn't think about Sarah's part in the new company because he didn't see it through, it was just a possibility. And nevertheless he asks her. He wants her opinion.
The best part about this is that Sarah has grown up as a person so much that now she can verbalize her thoughts and feelings. In any other season she would have shut up, but here she talks. She tells him her doubts and this way she makes him realize that his new idea needed to be polished.
Now it's their life and they must agree about what to do, together.
Unfortunately, nothing is resolved, because Gertrude blows up Decker (WHOA!) and our favorite couple must run away, which is perfect for Sarah.
Sarah, I was wrong about quitting the spy life. Because right now, we've got to be the best spies we've ever been, okay?
When Chuck panics, he tends to angst and think he can't control the situation (see next episode), when Sarah panics she tends to run away, as she used to do in her childhood.
Now guess why she's smiling in the last cap (which makes her behavior as selfish as his was, but nobody seems to see that.)
And that's everything about Chuck Vs. the Hack Off. Loved the episode (even if DiGregorio really sucks at the spy plot). Loving the season.
What I like about this season is that it can surprise me. Decker is already dead? That was surpirsing, especially the way of doing it. Usually, in other seasons, I have a petty good idea of where the writers are heading, but this season Im not that sure. Maybe because I'm not reading any spoilers. Unfortunately, NBC's promo people kills part of the suspense with their incredibly spoilery promos! Why I watch them, I don't know.
So let's begin the analysis of Chuck and Sarah in Chuck Vs. the Hack Off.
First, some touches about the episode:
- Lester was hilarious. As leader of the prison and when he greeted Sarah: "Hey, you."
- I confess my everlasting LOVE for Carrie-Ann Moss and her awesome character Gertrude Verbanski.
- Craig DiGregorio must be obsessed with prisons, because this is his second episode using one (first was Vs. the Gobbler.) And if he had any idea of how they work I would understand it, but as it seems he doesn't, I don't.
- I want to begin a new campaign: The Gertrude and Sarah Should Be BFFs Campaing.
- Gratuitous nude camp is gratuitous.
- Danny Pudi was a great cameo, but Yvette's was even better.
- Lester goes free because Jeff drops the charges? Really? Even if Law worked that way (don't know exactly how it goes in US), Lester attemped murder against a plurality of people, Big Mike being the most affected. And there are dozens of witnesses. So... I don't think so.
Now, yes, to the Walkertowski goodness.
After visiting Casey, Chuck has his usual existencial crisis.
I can't help feeling like Casey going to prison is all my fault
What? Why would you say that?
'Cause I'm the genius who started the private spy company and convinced you both to work with me.
Chuck, that's not true. [He didn't convince you to work with him?] Decker wanted Casey in jail no matter what. [Oh, that. Yes.] I mean, whether we worked for ourselves or the CIA, it doesn't really matter. And I'm not just saying that to make you feel better. Well, maybe a little
Thank you
If I'd have a penny for everytime Chuck angsts, I will be quite rich by now. That's his first response when things go bad. I would say that it makes him very compatible with Sarah, because (thanks to her past and her training in the CIA) she is ready to be the comforting partner. I can't shake off the idea that she acts with Chuck as her father acted with her when she was down. And this isn't something that suddenly happened since they're a couple, she's been like this since the beginning, she's always tried to make everything sweeter for him: trying to soften bad news, to convince him to do something he didn't want to in the less coercive way, trying to shield him from Beckman's rage... It's like her modus operandi.
Of course, he thanks her, even if knowing that this is Decker's fault doesn't help. Decker asking for their help makes it worse. Basically because everybody (except these two and maybe Son Goku) could see it was a trap.
But something new happened that cut Chuck's usual angsting session: he recovered his old self. Something that Sarah had never seen. Because Sarah is always the mysterious one, the one with secrets, but we forget sometimes that Chuck isn't exactly as an open book and that he has a past too.
All right, let's find us a virus, shall we?
Uh, what is happening? Is that, is that chardonnay? [And he's drinking straight from the bottle. He's a complete barbarian.]
I haven't seen this in a long time. We used to call this routine "The Routine"
That's very creative. [sarcastic!Sarah is the best.]
Yeah. Yeah, Chuck has quite a reputation as a hacker, you know? They used to call him "The Piranha." [Is he small and attacks in groups biting on his preys? I don't think the name describes him at all.] Swordfish, right? The movie is based on him. He doesn't like to talk about it 'cause he doesn't think it was a A-plus film.
Why? I thought it was pretty good. [It's official, Sarah: you don't have taste.]
Yeah, it's okay, but it had a lot of plot holes and those hacker scenes were just, like... [Thanks for lampshadding your own episode, Craig DiGregorio.]
Someone coded the name into the Telix-script! A little inside joke for anyone running viral countermeasures.
[Sarah is just flabbergasted.]
When The Piranha got really into a coding session, he could get a bit giddy
Yeah, it's kind of cute
Yeah, it's also super nerdy
It's definitely that, too
Awww... She loves him. She loves even his nerdy side. I knew she was totally in love with him in Vs. the Other Guy, when she confessed to him while he was drunk, in his underwear and holding a plastic guitar.
Usually it's Chuck the one who discovers something new in Sarah and treasures that little secret. This time is Sarah. She likes this new side of him, maybe because he's acting high and carefree and that doesn't happen very often. Chuck makes jokes and he's nice, but his vision of life is usually kind of gloomy and this is refreshing. Sarah loves this side of him.
I think Chuck was like this when he was at College, when he met Bryce and before he was expelled from Stanford. It's funny to think how his personality would have developed if he had never been expelled. But that's what fan fiction exists for :-)
And how can Sarah say that he likes Swordfish? What kind of drug was she taking when she saw it? Because there is nothing that could make her like--
Okayyyyy.... Yeah... Point taken.
Let's draw a thick veil over this.
Oh, make sure that he eats. When he gets all plugged in,he goes overboard with the chardonnay. Calls it his "thinking juice"
This is a funny reversal: Morgan asking Sarah to take care of Chuck as if he were a child. A little test more in her long road to motherhood.
This is also a sign that Chuck would be more immature, or that this is how he was when he was more immature, before he was expelled from Stanford and everything that happened afterwards. We've always seen Chuck taking care of Morgan and him being childish while Chuck was the mature one, but this makes me realize that in the old times their relationship should have been more egalitarian. That's why Chuck takes care of Morgan, because he took care of him when he was starving himself to death when he was a hacker.
In this episode everybody has to grow up and act all mature, ask poor Gertrude. Having to help Chuck and Sarah as a snipper, that's pretty humiliating for the CEO of the best security corporation.
By the way...
Sarah, your Yvonne is showing.
What are you looking at? You're supposed to see it quite often.
And I don't know what to say of the fact that she never defends him or say anything at all when somebody doubts her boyfriend's "qualities" (be it permormance wise or size.) Is it because she's shy? Or because she doesn't care?
Anyway, a cult in the middle of nowhere seems a good place to talk about the future.
These people dropped everything and came here. Can you imagine?
Yeah, it's crazy. [So you can't imagine.]
I mean, I don't know what I'd do if I left the spy life. Sometimes I'm so caught up in it, I can't think of a world outside of it.
Well, you're really good at computers, Chuck. I mean, you love them.
Yeah... maybe
Sarah here goes back to her usual "supporting partner" role without realizing that this time her way of life is also at stake. Now they're married, most of the decision must be joint or at least, discussed between them. Sarah has a problem with this. Since she sees marriage as acting as always but with a ring in her finger, she can't see that Chuck's doubts about the spy life could mean the end of the spy life for both of them. I say "could," depending of the circumstances, not that it should or it will. Sarah loves the spy life after all, and while Chuck has thought about his possible future, Sarah didn't; no more than a vague "I'll be with Chuck when we retire, many years from now."
So it will be tricky, even if Sarah is changing and developping as a person, which makes me highlight this moment, that doesn't have much to do with Chuck and Sarah's relationship, but it does.
You know, I know that we're not partners or friends or anything like that, but are you okay? You seem to be on edge ever since we started the mission
I'm fine
Really? 'Cause we can talk about it if you want
No, no, no, no
FOR EVERYTHING THAT IS SACRED, GIVE HER A FRIEND!
This is why it's so sad what happens later, because Sarah is trying to be this new open and friendly persona. She didn't shy away after what happened the last time, she's trying again.
SARAH: We should have friends.
JENNY: We should tie you up until you recover your senses.
Don't you see Sarah as the typical person that gives a lot of advice but then applies none to her? We have a saying in Spain: "Consejos vendo y para mí no tengo." (literally: "I sell advice and I have none for myself.")
Not that Sarah's friendly attitude is going to help her with Gertrude while she's in denial mode.
What do you think? Do I look like a hacker? Is the beanie overkill?
You look perfect. [No, seriously, I think that Chuck as a hacker is her sexual fantasy. Not that I blame her.]
Okay, I found a duct opening on the east corner, just below the roof. [Look, Gertrude cockblocks as well as Casey.]
Okay, we have our entry. At exactly 2200 hours, we'll be in the server room, waiting for you to override the security system
Got it. Be careful, babe
You, too. [No sweetheart for him? Disappointing.]
All those poor shippers that have to find any little hint of affection between the members of their OTP because they aren't still a couple and we have these things every episode. It feels soo good (don't you think so, Bones fans? :-))
That's my man
Excuse me, Castle fans? I can't hear you over the sound of my joy.
Not that the shippers of official and healthy OTPs have peaceful lives, of course, because your favorite couple being together doesn't mean that there aren't issues between them. Or that they won't try to make their lives miserable just for fun.
[A SUDDEN CONFESSION appears.]
So, do you want to talk about it? [Sarah uses FRIENDSHIP.]
You know, I've just been a wreck since Casey went to prison. [It's super effective!] I had no idea I had such strong feelings for him, and now I'm petrified this could actually turn into something.
Well, maybe you're looking at it the wrong way.
What, we're gonna become a couple, have some kids, and then I gotta quit the spy business because it's too dangerous?
Relationships are all about communication. [You read that in a book, didn't you?] Big life changes don't really just spring up on you
like that. [That's so... insightful. Are you seeing a therapist, Sarah?]
[...]
I couldn't imagine life away from this
Do you really think it's gonna be that bad?
Sarah, girls like us, [could you say "women"?] we don't just leave the spy business. Look at me, I've been doing this since I was 16 years old. I never had another job, not my entire life. I wouldn't even know what to do if I did. [...] How about you? Could you do anything else?
Getrude, I want you to be Sarah's BFF, but I don't appreciate what you did here. You are making her think! You're making her reconsider her priorities. Bad, bad Gertrude.
The point is that this speech coming from Gertrude is absurd, because she's a CEO and CEOs don't go and risk their lives in suicide missions. She has people to do that. She's the damn boss. If she were a spy, OK, but she isn't.
Anyway, she is right. Sarah doesn't know how to do anything else except being a spy. That's her life. And she is good at it, she really is. She seems to love it and it's her personal way to atone for her past. Could she be any other thing? We don't know. We don't know what she studied or what are her hobbies (if she has any. Not everybody has hobbies.) Should she sacrifice her career for Chuck? In a way, she did: she was one of the top CIA agents and she ended leaving the agency. But should she sacrifice even more? Should she adapt herself to Chuck's wishes? Does she want to? Where is the limit?
These are legitimate questions that Sarah must make to herself, because relationships are more than sleeping with someone.
Unfortunately, these questions make Sarah uneasy, and this means terrible things inside her personalities.
SARAH: All this doubts make me... unsettled.
JENNY: See? see? I told you we shouldn't get soft.
SARAH: I don't know what to do.
JENNY: Slap the nerd, that's a first.
SARAH: No... I can't...
JENNY: Are you all right?
SARAH: I... (she writhes in pain and suddenly, there is an explosion of light. Then things go to normal there is SARAH and there is SAM, separated again.)
SAM: No!
JENNY: Yes!
SAM: Nooooo! This can't be happening.
SARAH: This must happen, because things are developing in a way we don't like.
SAM: Don't be silly!
SARAH: We must fight!
SAM: But we were so happy.
SARAH: We didn't know what we were doing!
JENNY: (opening her arms) Come, come here. Embrace your fury.
But... Something good happens. Chuck actually verbalizes his wishes.
So, I've been, uh, I've been thinking about life after the spy game.
What do you mean?
You know, maybe you're right; I'm, I'm great with computers. I mean, maybe Carmichael Industries isn't a spy firm. Maybe it's a tech company. [Remember, Chuck, half of the company is hers.] What do you think? Sarah?
Uh, what would my job be at Carmichael Industries? I mean, what would I do?
Well, you'd... [He can't give her an answer.]
Chuck comes as a kind of selfish for a lot of people, but you have to bear in mind that he's just talking about an idea, not saying he's going to do it for sure or imposing it. Just telling Sarah about it. He's as inexperienced in the married life as Sarah is. He didn't think about Sarah's part in the new company because he didn't see it through, it was just a possibility. And nevertheless he asks her. He wants her opinion.
The best part about this is that Sarah has grown up as a person so much that now she can verbalize her thoughts and feelings. In any other season she would have shut up, but here she talks. She tells him her doubts and this way she makes him realize that his new idea needed to be polished.
Now it's their life and they must agree about what to do, together.
Unfortunately, nothing is resolved, because Gertrude blows up Decker (WHOA!) and our favorite couple must run away, which is perfect for Sarah.
Sarah, I was wrong about quitting the spy life. Because right now, we've got to be the best spies we've ever been, okay?
When Chuck panics, he tends to angst and think he can't control the situation (see next episode), when Sarah panics she tends to run away, as she used to do in her childhood.
Now guess why she's smiling in the last cap (which makes her behavior as selfish as his was, but nobody seems to see that.)
And that's everything about Chuck Vs. the Hack Off. Loved the episode (even if DiGregorio really sucks at the spy plot). Loving the season.
What I like about this season is that it can surprise me. Decker is already dead? That was surpirsing, especially the way of doing it. Usually, in other seasons, I have a petty good idea of where the writers are heading, but this season Im not that sure. Maybe because I'm not reading any spoilers. Unfortunately, NBC's promo people kills part of the suspense with their incredibly spoilery promos! Why I watch them, I don't know.