What’s Chuck’s dream job? It’s to work for technology guru Ted Roark, played inexplicably by Chevy Chase of all people. Quite what Chevy is doing in here, I’ve no idea, but he plays the strangely Steve Jobs-reminiscent corporate geek acceptably, even if they don’t actually give him any really funny lines to deliver. Chunk went to find Bartowski senior so that he could walk Ellie down the isle on her wedding day, although her reaction when he returns home is to shout ‘pancakes’! Ellie’s reaction is because when Stephen left he told her he was going for pancakes, and never actually returned. What Chuck works out is that inside Roark Inc. there is another intersect, and a possible means to get the information out of his head. With Casey not supporting Chuck’s instinct on this, he’s forced to take out him out, with at least three tranquiliser darts. There is a lovely start to this scene where we see Chuck suit-up as an assassin for the very first time. He certainly looks the part and he’s becoming the spy the show has promised from the outset. Once he gets into Roark’s building there’s a brilliant twist when, while he’s hiding, his father appears acting somewhat crazy. Chuck goes into action and takes out the five security guys with dual dart pistols, and tells his dad that he isn’t who his father thinks. They escape and break into the Intersect, hoping that they can remove the information from Chuck, but are out-manoeuvred by Roark. In the end Sarah and Casey appear to save Chuck, but Stephen is captured by Fulcrum. While not the funniest Chuck this season, plenty of plot development made this move with some additional pace, and the pieces for a spectacular Ellie wedding finale are neatly falling into place. What Chevy Chase was doing in here, I’m still none the wiser, but a guy has to be somewhere, I guess. Next week Chuck goes up against the ‘first kill’, and I’m reliably informed this involves getting the help of a previously important character who hasn’t been around for a while. And no, they didn’t bring back Harry Tang, damn it! Check out Billy’s review of episode 18 here.
