Chuck Versus the Seduction
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"Chuck Versus the Seduction" is the second episode of Season 2
of the U.S. television series Chuck
, first airing October 6, 2008. Chuck
must go undercover to retrieve the Cipher from Sasha Banachek (Melinda Clarke
), known as the Black Widow. But in order to get close to his target, Chuck must learn the art of seduction from the legendary debonair spy Roan Montgomery (John Larroquette
).
talking in the Buy More parking lot about the destruction of the new intersect in the previous episode. Chuck has a conversation with his best friend Morgan Grimes
and believes his life isn't going anywhere, when Sarah
walks in the Store and kisses him as part of the cover. Sarah leads Chuck down a massive underground bunker the CIA built for operations at the Orange Orange. General Diane Beckman tells them that the real Cipher might be in the hands of the former KGB
operative Sasha Banachek (also known as the Black Widow) and that she is in town to sell it. Them team is told to find legendary spy Roan Montgomery as he is the reason Banachek was sent to a Bulgarian prison for seven years and knows more about her than anyone. During the briefing Chuck walks out saying he won't help but Sarah manages to convince him otherwise. Chuck flashes on a picture of Roan and finds his location. At Roan home the find the team door open, believing someone has forced their way in they draw their weapons and enter. The team finds the house ransacked but discovers that Montgomery had been drinking and parting the night before when they find a seemingly dead Montgomery in a drunken haze under the bed.
Later during a conference with Beckman Roan tells Casey and Sarah that the only way to get information out of Banachek is to seduce her. At Casey's apartment Chuck is told he must seduce Banachek so he can get into her room and see if he flashes on anything. Roan begins teaching Chuck on the art of seduction. Chuck wants to be himself, but Roan doubts a woman like Sasha would ever fall for a guy like Chuck. Roan wants Chuck to kiss Sarah. Embarrassed, Chuck places a peck on her lips. When Roan suggests getting Casey to kiss her it's too much for Chuck and he kisses her passionately. While Chuck get prepared for his date Roan tells Chuck he needs a weapon because Banachek kills all her mates. While Chuck is at the bar in Banachek's Hotel Sarah and Roan Monitor him in a van parked across the street. Roan tells Chuck what to do and what to say to her through Chuck's earpiece but Chuck soon gets distracted when Sarah and Roan begin to argue over Sarah's feelings for Chuck. Banachek soon loses interest with Chuck and leaves but Chuck soon manages to regain control of the situation and Banachek invites him up to her room.
While Banachek gets changed, Chuck begins looking through her things and flashes on a large knife in her handbag but is unable to leave because of the bodyguards outside the door. When the Black widow returns Chuck flashes on the Cipher around her neck and it is shown that she knows Roan is feeding Chuck information. Chuck manages to lock himself out on the balcony after obtaining the Cipher from around Banachek's neck. Chuck tries to climb to the balcony above him but falls and land between a couple on a bed by the pool. Unfortunately Banachek's men have Captured Casey and Sarah, Banachek tells Chuck to meet her and bring the Cipher in exchange for their lives.
Back at the courtyard Chuck asks for Roan's help to save Casey and Sarah, When he refuses Chuck tells him how he is no longer a legend. The next morning Roan shows up at Buy More and tells Chuck he will help save Casey and Sarah. That night at the meeting place instead of Chuck a courier shows up and gives Banachek a package containing a cell phone. Chuck calls the phone and tells her the drop will go down at Buy More. When she arrives Chuck tells her over TV screens that when she leaves and he knows Casey and Sarah are safe he will tell her where the Cipher is. One of Banachek's men soon finds Chuck and chases him onto the roof. The man comes back and tells Banachek where he is and as she in about to kill Casey and Sarah, Roan appears with a gun and a fight insures. The Black Widow gets the upper hand and takes Sarah hostage. When Chuck finds out Sarah is in trouble he ties one end of a banner around his waist, swings down, knocks Banachek out and saves Sarah.
Back in the courtyard Roan tells Chuck to rent an white dinner jacket and show up at Sarah's door with a bottle of wine and a single red rose, he then leaves to meet Beckman. Chuck does as Roan suggested but when Sarah answers the door she is not alone. She is with Bryce Larkin
, Chuck's old nemesis and her ex-boyfriend.
and his soon to be brother in law Devon. Ellie is upset that Devon has not taken her on one romantic date since they got engaged, So during the day Devon goes to Buy More looking for Chuck but instead finds Morgan who tells him what to do. Back at Ellie's house, Devon starts his own seduction which doesn't go according to plan as Ellie finds out that all of the favourites that Devon was suggesting are all favourites of Morgan. The next morning Devon tells Chuck what happened who then asks the CIA for help. When Devon and Ellie get home, to their surprise, the place is covered in roses with a candlelit dinner on the table.
Chuck (season 2)
The second season of Chuck contains 22 episodes and was originally aired from September 29, 2008 to April 27, 2009. The season continues to focus on Chuck's constant struggle to keep his spy life and real life apart as he becomes more accustomed to being a spy. More background on the Intersect...
of the U.S. television series Chuck
Chuck (TV series)
Chuck is an action-comedy/spy-drama television program from the United States created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. The series is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door" named Chuck, played by Zachary Levi, who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now working for the Central...
, first airing October 6, 2008. Chuck
Chuck Bartowski
Charles Irving "Chuck" Bartowski is the main and titular character of the American fiction television show Chuck on NBC. He is portrayed by Zachary Levi.-Character profile:...
must go undercover to retrieve the Cipher from Sasha Banachek (Melinda Clarke
Melinda Clarke
Melinda Patrice Clarke is an American actress who has primarily worked in television. Clarke is best known for playing Faith Taylor on the daytime drama Days of our Lives, the manipulative and cunning Julie Cooper-Nichol on The O.C., and the professional dominatrix Lady Heather on CSI...
), known as the Black Widow. But in order to get close to his target, Chuck must learn the art of seduction from the legendary debonair spy Roan Montgomery (John Larroquette
John Larroquette
John Edgar Bernard Larroquette, Jr. is an American film, television and Broadway actor. His roles include Dan Fielding on the series Night Court, Mike McBride in the Hallmark Channel series McBride, John Hemingway on The John Larroquette Show, and Carl Sack in Boston Legal.-Personal...
).
Main Plot
The episode begins with Chuck and CaseyJohn Casey (Chuck)
Colonel John Casey is portrayed by actor Adam Baldwin on the television show Chuck on NBC. Prior to the episode "Chuck Versus the Tic Tac," he was partnered with CIA agent Sarah Walker to protect Chuck Bartowski....
talking in the Buy More parking lot about the destruction of the new intersect in the previous episode. Chuck has a conversation with his best friend Morgan Grimes
Morgan Grimes
Morgan Guillermo Grimes is a major character on the television series Chuck. He is portrayed by actor Joshua Gomez, and is the best friend of Chuck Bartowski....
and believes his life isn't going anywhere, when Sarah
Sarah Walker (Chuck)
Sarah Lisa Bartowski is the alias of one of the main characters of the fictional television show Chuck on NBC. She is portrayed by Yvonne Strahovski and is one of two agents assigned by the NSA and CIA to protect Chuck Bartowski after he unwittingly downloads the secret government computer known...
walks in the Store and kisses him as part of the cover. Sarah leads Chuck down a massive underground bunker the CIA built for operations at the Orange Orange. General Diane Beckman tells them that the real Cipher might be in the hands of the former KGB
KGB
The KGB was the commonly used acronym for the . It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time.The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the...
operative Sasha Banachek (also known as the Black Widow) and that she is in town to sell it. Them team is told to find legendary spy Roan Montgomery as he is the reason Banachek was sent to a Bulgarian prison for seven years and knows more about her than anyone. During the briefing Chuck walks out saying he won't help but Sarah manages to convince him otherwise. Chuck flashes on a picture of Roan and finds his location. At Roan home the find the team door open, believing someone has forced their way in they draw their weapons and enter. The team finds the house ransacked but discovers that Montgomery had been drinking and parting the night before when they find a seemingly dead Montgomery in a drunken haze under the bed.
Later during a conference with Beckman Roan tells Casey and Sarah that the only way to get information out of Banachek is to seduce her. At Casey's apartment Chuck is told he must seduce Banachek so he can get into her room and see if he flashes on anything. Roan begins teaching Chuck on the art of seduction. Chuck wants to be himself, but Roan doubts a woman like Sasha would ever fall for a guy like Chuck. Roan wants Chuck to kiss Sarah. Embarrassed, Chuck places a peck on her lips. When Roan suggests getting Casey to kiss her it's too much for Chuck and he kisses her passionately. While Chuck get prepared for his date Roan tells Chuck he needs a weapon because Banachek kills all her mates. While Chuck is at the bar in Banachek's Hotel Sarah and Roan Monitor him in a van parked across the street. Roan tells Chuck what to do and what to say to her through Chuck's earpiece but Chuck soon gets distracted when Sarah and Roan begin to argue over Sarah's feelings for Chuck. Banachek soon loses interest with Chuck and leaves but Chuck soon manages to regain control of the situation and Banachek invites him up to her room.
While Banachek gets changed, Chuck begins looking through her things and flashes on a large knife in her handbag but is unable to leave because of the bodyguards outside the door. When the Black widow returns Chuck flashes on the Cipher around her neck and it is shown that she knows Roan is feeding Chuck information. Chuck manages to lock himself out on the balcony after obtaining the Cipher from around Banachek's neck. Chuck tries to climb to the balcony above him but falls and land between a couple on a bed by the pool. Unfortunately Banachek's men have Captured Casey and Sarah, Banachek tells Chuck to meet her and bring the Cipher in exchange for their lives.
Back at the courtyard Chuck asks for Roan's help to save Casey and Sarah, When he refuses Chuck tells him how he is no longer a legend. The next morning Roan shows up at Buy More and tells Chuck he will help save Casey and Sarah. That night at the meeting place instead of Chuck a courier shows up and gives Banachek a package containing a cell phone. Chuck calls the phone and tells her the drop will go down at Buy More. When she arrives Chuck tells her over TV screens that when she leaves and he knows Casey and Sarah are safe he will tell her where the Cipher is. One of Banachek's men soon finds Chuck and chases him onto the roof. The man comes back and tells Banachek where he is and as she in about to kill Casey and Sarah, Roan appears with a gun and a fight insures. The Black Widow gets the upper hand and takes Sarah hostage. When Chuck finds out Sarah is in trouble he ties one end of a banner around his waist, swings down, knocks Banachek out and saves Sarah.
Back in the courtyard Roan tells Chuck to rent an white dinner jacket and show up at Sarah's door with a bottle of wine and a single red rose, he then leaves to meet Beckman. Chuck does as Roan suggested but when Sarah answers the door she is not alone. She is with Bryce Larkin
Bryce Larkin
Bryce Larkin is a recurring character on the spy comedy series Chuck on NBC. Bryce is the ex-college roommate and fraternity brother of the series' main character, Chuck Bartowski and was formerly partnered and once romantically involved with Chuck's CIA handler Sarah Walker. Bryce was responsible...
, Chuck's old nemesis and her ex-boyfriend.
Buy More
The Buy More staff are in the break room and Lester (Now the assistant manager) is trying to set new rules but no one is listening. Realizing no one listens to him he goes to Big Mike for help who tells him to pick the weakest link and come down hard on him. Lester holds a meeting with the staff where he presents "The Wheel of Misfortune," a game of chance he's designed to make his staff fear him. Morgan spins it first and it lands on "You're Fired" in protest the rest of staff quit. The next morning Lester tells Chuck that he fired most of the staff and is in a panic to get them back. Lester gets the staff back but have to give in to their demands as wells as spinning the wheel himself.Ellie and Awesome
Chuck is having with his sister EllieEllie Bartowski
Eleanor Faye "Ellie" Bartowski Woodcomb, M.D., Ph.D., is the older sister of title character Chuck Bartowski on the television series Chuck. She is portrayed by actress Sarah Lancaster.-Biography:...
and his soon to be brother in law Devon. Ellie is upset that Devon has not taken her on one romantic date since they got engaged, So during the day Devon goes to Buy More looking for Chuck but instead finds Morgan who tells him what to do. Back at Ellie's house, Devon starts his own seduction which doesn't go according to plan as Ellie finds out that all of the favourites that Devon was suggesting are all favourites of Morgan. The next morning Devon tells Chuck what happened who then asks the CIA for help. When Devon and Ellie get home, to their surprise, the place is covered in roses with a candlelit dinner on the table.
Production
"Chuck Versus the Seduction" marks the first appearance of Castle, The underground base facility underneath the Orange Orange.Flashes
- Chuck flashes on the picture of Roan Montgomery to find his location.
- Chuck flashes on the knife in Sasha Banachek's handbag.
- Chuck flashes on the Cipher tied around Sasha Banachek's Neck.
Music
- "Desert EagleDesert EagleThe Desert Eagle is a large-framed gas-operated semi-automatic pistol designed by Magnum Research in the U.S. and by IMI in Israel; the pistol is manufactured primarily in Israel by IMI...
" by RatatatRatatatRatatat is a New York City electronic music duo consisting of Mike Stroud and producer Evan Mast .-History:Evan Mast and Mike Stroud first met as students at Skidmore College, but they did not work together until 2001, when they recorded several songs under the name "Cherry"... - "At The Checkout Counter" by Billy MartinBilly MartinAlfred Manuel "Billy" Martin, Jr. was an American Major League Baseball second baseman and manager. He is best known as the manager of the New York Yankees, a position he held five different times...
- "Do You Believe In LoveDo You Believe in Love"Do You Believe in Love" is the first top-ten hit for the American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, peaking at number seven in May 1982, off their second album Picture This. It was written by Robert John "Mutt" Lange.-History:...
" by Huey Lewis and the NewsHuey Lewis and the NewsHuey Lewis and the News is an American rock band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually scoring a total of 19 top-ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Mainstream Rock charts... - "Just Browsing" by Billy MartinBilly MartinAlfred Manuel "Billy" Martin, Jr. was an American Major League Baseball second baseman and manager. He is best known as the manager of the New York Yankees, a position he held five different times...
- "65 Bars and A Taste Of Soul" by Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm BandCharles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm BandCharles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band is a pioneering American soul and funk band. Formed in the early 1960s, they had the most visibility from 1967 to 1973 when the band had 9 singles reach Billboard's pop and/or rhythm and blues Hot 100 lists, such as "Do Your Thing" , "Till You Get...
- "Right Here WaitingRight Here Waiting"Right Here Waiting" is a ballad recorded by Richard Marx on his second album, Repeat Offender. "Right Here Waiting" hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100, the 700th song to do so. It also peaked at #2 in the United Kingdom.-Background and writing:...
" by Richard MarxRichard MarxRichard Noel Marx is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard"... - "Love It All" by The KooksThe KooksThe Kooks are an English indie rock band formed in Brighton, East Sussex, in 2001. Formed by Luke Pritchard , Hugh Harris , Paul Garred , and Max Rafferty , the lineup of the band remained constant until 2008 and the departure of Rafferty...
External links
- Chuck Versus the Seduction at IMBD