Writers: Rafe Judkins and Lauren LeFranc
Grade: A
This was a great episode for pretty much every major relationship on the show: Chuck/Casey, Sarah/Chuck, Casey/Sarah, Chuck/Morgan, Chuck/Ellie, Ellie/Awesome, Chuck/Awesome, and especially Chuck/Sarah/Casey. It’s not often that Casey needs to be rescued, and if I don’t think about it too hard, it works in this episode. It was great to see the original spy trio working together so well, and sad to see it come to an end (though surely not a permanent end). I also greatly appreciated Shaw's absence in an episode that highlighted so many of the show's important relationships...
I didn’t understand the “trace cell” mission at the beginning of the episode, though. I do understand the concept of using some of your best agents to test CIA security, but I’m not sure why you’d want the Intersect on that team. There’s only one of him, so it’s not like the bad guys have one, too (though certainly they’re working on it), nor is he your average “really good spy,” because he’s basically got super powers that the rest of the playing field doesn’t have. And why was Beckman so happy that he succeeded? Shouldn’t she have been more like, “The bad news is that our security isn’t tight enough to keep you out. The good news is that if we can Intersect-proof this security, we’re practically invincible.” And yeah, I know that part of the episode wasn’t important and was just a way to set up Casey’s treasonous actions, but still, it bugged me.
I did really enjoy Chuck and Sarah breaking into the CIA facility the second time, though. It really highlighted what a great team they are—they read each other’s cues perfectly, and the little “we are so awesome” smile they shared after conning the security specialist was adorable.
Chuck taking the super-spy pill has two sides to it. On the one hand, Chuck almost killing a man and becoming Sarah’s worst nightmare is pointless because Chuck’s willingness to kill was artificially induced. I don’t think he even really understood what the pill would do to him, so that scenario has no moral weight. On the other hand, taking the pill allowed him to get a taste of what being a “perfect spy” feels and realize that’s not a place he wants to go.
Finally… Casey has a daughter! That’s HUGE! If they don’t bring that element back into the story later, the writers really are idiots. I’m sure it will come up again, though, because otherwise, why even introduce that element to Casey’s story?
Other stuff
-I’m a little unclear on just how long Casey had been working for Keller. That might be my fault for not paying close enough attention, though.
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