1.01 - Pilot
Chuck Bartowski is just your average 20-something year old working for a living at the local Buy-More fixing computers. However, through a series of unfortunate events, gets the secrets of the US Government downloaded into his brain. The only good thing about this is that he ends up meeting CIA agent Sarah Walker.
Sarah shows up at the Buy-More one afternoon with her apparently broken cell phone. Chuck is being his usual silly self when she walks up to the counter and is singing about the fictional Batman character Vicki Vale. Sarah asks if she’s interrupting anything and Chuck looks embarrassed. After he points out that the problem with her phone is fairly common and fixes it quickly, she thanks him and leaves her number on the counter (which he only discovers later.) Morgan hounds him about calling her but Chuck says that it’s not even worth a shot.
The next day Chuck is pretending to be asleep at the Nerd Herd desk with his head down. Sarah walks up and presses the service bell, which causes Chuck to reach out and grab her hand thinking it was Morgan just playing with him. However, after a few minutes of awkward hand holding he realizes that it wasn’t Morgan and asks Sarah if she’s having phone trouble, to which she replies ‘I haven’t gotten a call from you.’ Chuck is completely caught off guard. Sarah tells him that she’s new to the town and would appreciate someone showing her around so she asks him on a date later that night.
Chuck takes Sarah to a little restaurant for dinner where he tells her about Captain Awesome. Sarah then tells him she just came out of a long relationship so she may come with baggage, to which Chuck replies ‘I can be your very own baggage handler.’ (Smooth, Bartowski.) Remembering the advice that Ellie had given him earlier that day, Chuck doesn’t go into great detail about his ex-girlfriend Jill (because girls don’t like to hear about that stuff!). After a few more jokes Sarah tells Chuck that she ‘likes him’.
After lunch the couple leaves the restaurant and is shown walking down a deserted street. Chuck asks Sarah what her favourite band is and she doesn’t answer. Sarah goes on saying that she must be his ‘worst date ever’ because she’s so boring. ‘No,’ Chuck assures her. He’s had ‘much worse experiences with women… like in grade 11.’ Sarah laughs at him while he mumbles something about not having been on many dates.
Chuck then takes Sarah to see Foreign Born play at a club. She spots some NSA people in the crowd and asks Chuck to dance with her as a diversion. Sarah starts ‘dancing’ what appears to be very suggestively, however she’s only trying to eliminate the NSA. Chuck is extremely awkward and is completely oblivious to Sarah stabbing men in the legs while she’s dancing with him.
They make an emergency exit as soon as Sarah stabs the last member of the NSA… and Chuck still has no idea what’s going on. Sarah gets behind the wheel of the Nerd Herd mobile and begins to drive recklessly. She ignores Chuck’s protests and tries to manoeuvre around other cars while avoiding Casey (who’s tailing them). Sarah asks Chuck for directions but when he messes up she backs down a flight of stairs. Finally she tells Chuck that the NSA is after him because he has the government’s secrets in his head.
Meanwhile, Casey comes at them again in his SUV but thanks to Sarah’s mad ninja skills (University of Bad-Assery say what?) she sets off some barricades which causes the truck to explode. Chuck, who had tripped when they were running away, sees Sarah in a shower of sparks and runs over to her. Once it’s established that they’re both alright, Sarah takes his hand and they flee the scene.
After Chuck saves the day by diffusing a bomb and all that fun stuff, it shows him sitting alone on a beach. Sarah walks up and sits down right next to him. She explains that she’s going to have to keep a close eye on him now that he’s got all those secrets in his head. From here on in Chuck’s going to have to trust Sarah with his life. The scene closes with the two sitting on the beach together.
