A DVR programming mishap left me unable to watch the episode tonight. Y’all will have to discuss without me until I can catch up via Hulu.
A good episode. The only thing I didn’t like was that Sarah didn’t shoot the Fulcrum agent between the eyes immediately.
I’m also really starting to like Awesome. I hope he gets his own episode or arc one of these days.
Ned Rhyerson! (Groundhog Day reference)
Reginald VelJohnson! Playing Al Powell! (Die Hard reference, the exact same character!)
And the actor playing Ned (Jed Rees) was from Galaxy Quest!
And “The Chris Isaak Show.” I liked this episode okay. Well, Chuck, your secret agent girlfriend (sorry, not girlfriend, just woman you love and pretend to not have a relationship with while you pretend TO have a relationship with) is a stone-cold killer, as per her job description. And hey, she lies, too! Imagine that! I suppose he has imagined it, but seeing is not the same as imagining.
Shit, I’d’ve taken the gun from her and pumped a couple more in just to be sure. But Chuck is nicer than me. Or still strikingly naive. I mean, he’s been at this for over a year. He should be harder by now.
So how insecure is the CIA’s “secure” facility that they can’t keep one of their prisoners from getting information out? I mean, this fictional world really has a highly organized and well funded vast international network fighting the CIA, yet there’s no Guantanamo or equivalent?
Aren’t the police going to wonder why their Hostage Negotiator is lying dead, with a single bullet hole in him, over in the Christmas Tree lot- a fair distance from the Buy More?
Well, the people that would wanna break him out have infiltrated the CIA.
I wondered if they cast Reginald VelJohnson because I think some people have mistaken the BuyMore boss as him.
Re: The actor playing Ned, thanks for that info, it as driving me nuts trying to figure out where I’d seen him recently. I had just watched Galaxy Quest on Tv this weekend.
I think Chuck was a bit naive to tell Ned that he was under protection because as soon as he flashed on the hostage negotiator as a Fulcrum agent he should have realized the whole thing was a set-up.
Which leaves open the hole that Ned was taken away by regular police, and he knows enough to make Fulcrum very happy.
That is what I was thinking, as well! What are they going to do about that?
I loved the bit where Ned is about to let Sarah go, as well as Casey, and Chuck yells “NO!” It’s a very human moment, I think - Chuck is scared, and he wants to be protected from the crazy guy with the gun. And so, despite the fact that Chuck is a decent, brave guy who genuinely cares about his friends - he panics, and he wants Sarah to stay.
And she gets it.
Excuse me - there’s, ah, something in my eye …
They should have given him combat/other agent training by now.
Cheap melodrama. The moment would have worked better if she shot him immediately without thinking. Instead they had to wait for Chuck to see the whole thing.
I’m assuming that Ned doesn’t know anything about the intersect. He just knows that agent Walker and Casey are protecting Chuck, but not that Chuck is the intersect.
Hopefully Sarah is smart enough to have the body moved.
I agree that Sarah should have shot him right away.
If they moved the body, then the police only have to figure out what happened to their Hostage Negotiator.
I’m pretty sure this is correct. The only time Ned talks to the hostage negotiator is before Chuck says that he is the intersect.
I think the bigger deal for Chuck was not that she shot the guy, but that she lied about it later. If she’d said, “Chuck, the Fulcrum agent said he’d never stop hunting for you, and I promised I’d protect you, so I shot him, I shot him down” I think he would’ve been OK with it.
Agreed - however, Fulcrum ‘knows’ that the hostage negotiator was onto something - Ned knows the ‘last person’ that he left with, and who was being manipulated thru the threat to Ellie.
Therefore, Ned knows more than enough to help Fulcrum find something of interest.
I think it was both. The lie was just the icing on the cake. But actually seeing her shoot somebody was somewhat of a reality check for Chuck, I think.
I mean, he can say that he knows that this is a part of her job, and talk about accepting it. But it’s a completely different thing to actually see it with your own eyes. Imagine this- everyday somebody has to clean up the remains of a fatal car accident off the freeway. We all know and accept that this happens. But to actually see the dead body lying there could be potentially life changing for most of us. Not a perfect analogy- but I think something similar happened here.
(As evidenced by the last line… when poor heartbroken Morgan talks about witnessing his girlfriend doing something so horrible it’s indelibly marked in your brain. Chuck says he totally understands. A simple lie wouldn’t have qualified there. While I agree that if Sarah told him the truth- it would have made things easier- Chuck still would have to work it out. Plus, Sarah is just trying to protect him 100%- even from the truth about the ugly side of her job. So I get what she is doing.)
It also emphasises that the girl he’s fallen in love with is exactly the girl she is warning him away from. Sarah is pushing Chuck away partly because she’s a trained killer whose life is always at risk, and this was the reality check for him that proved she was right.