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Chuck Versus the Ring: Part II is the 19th episode of the third season of Chuck. It was originally aired May 24, 2010 in a special two-hour block with "Chuck Versus the Subway." Team Bartowski escapes execution by Shaw, thanks to Morgan and Devon. Learning from an imprisoned General Beckman that the Ring Elders are going to be at a spy convention to take over the CIA and NSA, Team Bartowski prepares to capture the Elders and expose Shaw. Meanwhile, Big Mike receives some serious news about the Buy More.

Plot Summary

Main Plot

Shaw opens the door on the back of the truck. He orders Chuck, Sarah, and Casey to remove their handcuffs with his provided key. That way he can kill them and say they were escaping. Devon and Morgan sit in Casey's Crown Victoria a short distance away, pondering how to rescue the team. They realize that Casey's car is likely weaponized and accidentally fire a missile at the truck. The explosion knocks Shaw unconscious and allows the team to escape. Shaw recovers and fires several rounds at the Vic as they speed away.

Back at Castle, Chuck hacks into a remote interrogation feed on General Beckman's cell. She reveals that Shaw had her arrested so he could take her place at an intelligence conference—attendees including senior leadership of both the CIA and NSA, and which the Ring Elders will also be secretly attending in order to take control of the US Intelligence Committee in a coup d'état. The team concocts a plan to capture the Elders and expose Shaw. Chuck and Sarah go in disguised as part of the Russian delegation. However Shaw is nonetheless able to identify them, and dispatches Justin and other Ring agents to come and capture them. Chuck suffers a painful Intersect malfunction when he attempts to flash, so Sarah defeats the agents instead.

Meanwhile, Shaw gives his speech to the conference. Suddenly, he receives a phone call from Chuck, saying that he is in Shaw's room waiting to battle him, and aware of the presence of the Elders. Shaw alerts the Elders with his Ring communicator that they must leave. This reveals their identities to Team Bartowski, allowing Casey and Morgan to capture them. Meanwhile, Shaw goes up to his room and confronts Chuck, in the process admitting his affiliation with the Ring. Chuck reveals that he had been taping the whole discussion and broadcasting it on a large screen in the auditorium. When Shaw attacks him, Chuck experiences another painful flash, allowing Shaw to escape.

Sarah helps Chuck back to Castle to recover, but while she is tending to them Shaw arrives at the Buy More and begins planting explosives. Morgan sees him and attempts to warn the rest of the team, but Shaw intercepts him. Morgan however gets to Casey before Casey gets Ellie and Devon. Casey tells Morgan to break his thumbs (which he does) and pull the fire alarm. Shaw nonetheless alerts Sarah himself over his plan, and demands she send Chuck out to face him. Sarah leaves Chuck and Castle and goes herself, but is soon apprehended by Shaw after Jeff pulls the fire alarm right before Morgan does. Chuck hears an alarm in Castle alerting him to the danger, and goes to face Shaw. However the Intersect malfunction greatly hampers his ability to fight, and Shaw soon gains the upper hand. Once knocked unconscious Chuck's brain reboots itself by going through Chuck's memories about his childhood and his father, and allows him to and fight back, and soon has Shaw in a death grip. However he spares Shaw's life, and Sarah knocks their adversary cold with the bar that she was handcuffed to. Morgan manages to recover Shaw's detonator, but drops it and triggers an explosion that destroys the store.

Morgan and Casey

During the team's assault on the Ring, Morgan and Casey sneak into the conference to hack into the mainframe and find Shaw's room. While Morgan calls Chuck and tells him which one he drops a piece of a paper with Casey's daughter Alex's phone number. This provokes an argument between the two.

Later, Morgan discovers Shaw planting C-4 in the Buy More. Shaw ties Morgan up, so Morgan calls Casey on the phone with his face. He alerts Casey to the situation. Casey tells him that he must break his thumbs to escape his binds, and then pull the fire alarm to clear the building. Morgan obeys, but when he finally gets to the fire alarm, it has already been pulled.

At the impromptu celebration and memorial for Stephen later that evening, Alex arrives to reunite with her father. When Morgan begins to flirt with her, Casey threatens to break the rest of his fingers. He then directs Alex away and embraces her for the first time as a family.

Buy More

Moses, the founder of "Buy More", calls Big Mike and tells him that the Burbank store runs a great risk of being closed due to poor management. Lester Patel suggests that they have a "going out of business" sale, and raise enough money to keep the store open. However, Jeff pulls the fire alarm to evacuate the store when they spot "greenshirts" from the Beverly Hills branch, conveniently at the same time Morgan goes to save everyone from explosives planted by Shaw.

When the fire department arrives, Jeff and Lester suggest that they burn down the store and obtain the insurance. In the end, Shaw is defeated, but Morgan accidently drops the detonator because of his broken thumbs. The store is destroyed, and Jeff and Lester are accused of arson. A news report reveals that there is a manhunt on them.

Bartowski Family

In 1991, Ellie is chasing Chuck because he broke his mother's necklace. Chuck goes to his father for protection. Stephen tells Ellie and Chuck that they must fix it together. Stephen tells Ellie that she must protect Chuck because she is his older sister. In 2010, this memory influences her decision that Chuck must retire from the spy world after defeating the Ring.

When Chuck is knocked unconscious by Shaw, he has a flashback from around the same time. A young Chuck walks into his father's office and uncovers several computers. He uploads a file of encoded images, revealed to be a prototype of the Intersect. Stephen walks in, shocked. Chuck asks what the file meant. Stephen tells him that it means he's "special." This flashback "reboots" Chuck's brain and enables him to defeat Shaw in 2010.

After Shaw's defeat, Chuck tells Ellie that is now a civilian, just like her. However, Chuck receives a posthumous, automated recording from his father, directing him to the family's old home. Chuck uncovers a secret room under the house, containing shelves full of files. Stephen reveals that had been a self-hired spy for 20 years, fighting a threat that even the government couldn't handle. Chuck finds a part of the necklace he broke years before by a box labeled "Mary Elizabeth Bartowski: Missing". Meanwhile, a woman possessing the majority of the necklace receives a phone call, telling her she needs to move immediately.

Production

Continuity

Flashes

  • Chuck suffers a painful flash when General Beckman mentions the Ring Elders.
  • Chuck painfully flashes on martial arts skills to fight Justin and other Ring agents. A short time later, he again painfully flashes on martial arts skills to fight Shaw. Both times leave him disoriented and fatigued.
  • Chuck painfully flashes on martial arts skills to fight Shaw.
  • Shaw flashes on the same martial arts to fight Chuck.
  • Chuck calls Shaw and tricks him into alerting the Ring Elders, revealing their identities. In the film Quantum of Solace, James Bond breaks in on Mr. Greene's phone and tricks him into alerting the "Quantum" leadership, revealing their identities.
  • Chuck references Fiddler on the Roof by saying he played Perchik, and he later disguises himself as an elderly version of the character.
  • Jeff tells Big Mike that they could "burn it [BuyMore] down, down to the ground". This is a reference to Milton's character in Office Space who threatens, and eventually does burn Initech "down to the ground".
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