Some shows borrow scenes, plot points, and even entire stories from other sources and pass them off as their own. Chuck, on the other hand, has a more gentle way of adapting known resources and reworking them in fun and imaginative ways. In Chuck Versus The Couch Lock, they borrow a scene from the classic Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn movie, Charade, in which people turn up at a funeral just to make sure the person is really dead. The person in this case is John Casey, who has been given a sedative drug to emulate his own death. The whole exercise is given added tension because the three 'guests' are his own squad members whom he put in prison for mutiny, and they want his right hand to open a vault full of terrorist gold. If this doesn't sound crazy enough, and it's pretty wild, there's an ongoing issue for Morgan who wants to tell Casey that he's dating his daughter. How much better this was than the previous story was noticeable, as we had a lot less Chuck and Sarah dancing on the head of a romantic pin. We also had a couple of brilliant visual gags, and a great line from Jeff about 'that's a dumpster we know well'. So, did Linda Hamilton appear, like the trailer suggested? Er, not exactly, no. Well, she's in here, but not so you'd actually see her, but she's on the phone. Linda, come out of the spy closet, please! It's an old joke about actors phoning in a performance, but this is quite literally what she's doing at this point. I'd also like to comment on the number of professional wrestlers that appear on Chuck, more than actually are on the wrestling circuit, it seems. Dave Batista got on this one, along with Avatar star, Joel David Moore, but the special guest star is actually TV and movie vet, Eric Roberts. They're effectively the A-Team gone bad, and if that wasn't enough, Chuck even recites the "...if you can find them" line from that show, just in case you missed the reference. Amusingly, all the names of these characters are computer companies or products: Mackintosh, Tim Isaacs (T.I., Texas Instruments?) and Packard. In terms of the plot, and disturbingly the action too, it's Morgan Grimes who carries the heaviest pack here, and Joshua Gomez pulls it off effortlessly. He even manages to sell a genuine chemistry between Morgan and Casey's daughter, Alex, which, considering the character's origins, is a pretty amazing trick. This is turning into the 'Morgan' season, which, given how far they've taken Chuck and Sarah, isn't a bad thing. Overall, I enjoyed this Chuck, but it came as a surprise even to me that NBC announced that Chuck is to get the back order of episodes, completing season 4. I guess that even if the viewing figures aren't wonderful, they're not as bad as some other already chopped shows I could mention. I can't see it getting a fifth year, but then, I'd pencilled this as, at best, a two season concept when I first saw it, so what do I know?
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This time Chuck and his friends will have to face a mission with an old acquaintance, the Generalissimo Fulgencio Alejandro Goya who is a military leader of a small country in Central America (The Incredible saved his life in season 3).
Generalissimo sends some of his soldiers to make an invitation to The Incredible and Ellie, that they might know his country. Pressed by Ellie, The Incredible accepts and leads Sarah and Chuck baggage (To their luck).
And now Chuck and Sarah are a little trouble in their relationship, the question of marriage. Chuck in turn, will soon take advice from his best friend (That was not the best thing to do) that gives Chuck a self-help book on how to prepare for marriage, Morgan who coincidentally is also with love problems, only in the case of Morgan he's at risk of death because he is flirting with Casey's daughter, Alex (Which is not a rational thing to do, but, coming from Morgan should expect everything ).
Arriving in Costa Gravas (home of the Generalissimo), they got a great reception, even a statue of the Incredible was made, but the wife of Generalissimo tries to give a coup, but the Generalissimo flees to the U.S. soon to the home of Casey (which happens several times over the years attempted to kill the Generalissimo, and was even called the "Angel of Death") to be protected by it. Yet amid the escape Chuck and Sarah discover that the small country has many nuclear warheads hidden through their territory, only that the launch system needs two keys to be activated and had a Generalissimo. The wife of Generalissimo sends some thugs to bring back the Generalissimo, and they do.
Hence the General Beckman sends Chuck and Sarah to recover the keys and find the location of the missiles and Casey decides to go well even hurt.
Chuck gives a therapist, and manages to reconcile the couple, they can recover the keys and find all the missile missiles.
Chuck and Sarah get along and go back to normal, while Morgan's a lucky or unlucky and can stay with Alex.
To conclude while Chuck is supposedly sleeping Sarah confesses to him and says he would accept to marry him, and he's a little smile. The question is whether he was asleep or not.
