Chuck Episode 4.10 Chuck vs. the Leftovers

In his Moscow office, Volkoff tells Chuck's mom that he's shocked to learn Chuck is still alive. Still unaware that Chuck's her son, Volkoff orders Chuck's mom (aka agent Frost) to track him down and eliminate him. He assigns his top assassins to help her.

Morgan and Chuck prepare for their training routine. With Black Friday at Buy More and Chuck back in the spy game, they'll both need to be in top fighting shape. Morgan's set them up with a rigorous regimen: a strip-kick class. They enter an exercise studio filled with hard-bodied women working out on stripper poles. They're a bit embarrassed, but jump right in.

As they take a walk, Chuck invites Sarah to the annual Bartowski leftover dinner with Awesome and Ellie. She's flattered to be part of such a holiday tradition. As they're talking, Volkoff's assassins jump out from the shadows, setting off a dangerous battle. Chuck and Sarah hold their own, even though they're outnumbered. But the henchmen go down, dropped by bullets from a silencer-equipped gun. Chuck's mom has saved them. She's killed Volkoff's top three assassins to save her son.

At Castle, Chuck grills his mom. Why she has been putting him in such danger? Chuck loses his temper, and Casey and Sarah usher him out of the interrogation room. They tell him he needs to detach himself from the investigation. She just pushes my buttons, he admits as Sarah locks him outside and resumes the interrogation with Casey. Chuck can't help but overhear, so he calls Sarah on his phone to comment on what his mom tells her and Casey. They ignore him. They're in danger, Frost warns them: Volkoff will come looking for them, now that the assassins have been killed.

Morgan walks the littered aisles of Buy More, basking in the success of his first Black Friday as store manager; Big Mike congratulates him on a job well done. As Morgan cleans up, an attractive customer appears outside the store door. She's desperate for one of the new 7G phones they're selling; she'll do anything for one. Morgan shoos her off: they're sold out and the store is closed, he tells her definitively. He walks away, but a stealthy Jeff has a proposition for her. Lester catches Jeff and pulls him aside. He's potentially compromising their plan to sell a bunch of the 7G phones they've stolen. The customer, who's actually a Volkoff operative, injects Lester and then Jeff, dropping them to the floor. She radios in, the store is secure. A squad of black-clad commandoes enters, followed by Volkoff himself.

At the hospital, Ellie tries to analyze the imagery her father left her on the notebook computer. She tells Awesome she's been studying her father's mapping of the human brain as a data storage device. By analyzing CAT scans of brains, she's made some progress towards deciphering what her father might have left for her. But now she's stuck: the computer has a cryptic prompt, reading simply, "1 or 11?" Ellie's tried various combinations to no avail.

Morgan notices the commando team taking over the store and takes refuge in the store ventilation ducts. He calls Chuck in desperation. The store is under siege! Chuck, Sarah and Casey look at the store's remote cameras. Casey puts mechanized countermeasures in play. But Volkoff's team disables the security system, leaving the team vulnerable. Jeff and Lester are taken hostage. Volkoff gets on the phone to Chuck: give me Frost or I will make things very uncomfortable for everyone, he tells them. It turns out he's in love with Chuck's mom and will do whatever it takes to get her back.

Chuck confronts his mom with the revelation. She explains that because Volkoff has fallen in love with her, she's in a unique position as an intelligence asset. Chuck doesn't really accept her answer - his mom has been with Volkoff for years with ample opportunity to eliminate him or get away. But Sarah gets it. Chuck calls Volkoff back, threatening to harm Frost if they're not all released. Volkoff counters with the revelation that he's brought a very high-explosive bomb into the store, set to detonate at the slightest provocation or trickery.

Casey heads into the ducts to try to thwart Volkoff's takeover of Buy More. He soon encounters Morgan and explains the situation. Morgan volunteers to go free Jeff and Lester and sneaks onto the floor. He's got his own version of "Die Hard" on his hands. As he's sneaking around the store, one of Volkoff's men captures him - but Casey arrives to turn the tables. Just as quickly, more of Volkoff's thugs appear, capturing Casey. Morgan escapes and retreats, racking his brain for a way to save the day.

Thinking he's got a deal to exchange Frost for his team's safety, Chuck walks his mom out of Castle. Volkoff embraces her and then swiftly delivers a body blow to Chuck. He has no intention of letting him or Sarah go. In fact, in what he sees as a romantic gesture, he plans to shoot Chuck. But Chuck's mom stops Volkoff. He's my son, she tells him. Volkoff's amazed at the news and somewhat hurt that the love of his life wouldn't share her family with him. He warmly embraces Chuck. When Ellie calls with invitation to her leftovers dinner, Volkoff invites himself.

The gang heads to the apartment, where a surprised Ellie and Awesome welcome them inside. Volkoff desperately wants to make a favorable impression on Frost's family, so he threatens Chuck with harm if anything is less than perfect. Volkoff explains to Ellie that he's her mom's handler, there to ensure she's protected. Chuck and Sarah put up with the ruse.

Volkoff goes all out to charm the family, engaging in a lively game of charades. Awesome and Ellie are impressed. But Chuck pulls Awesome aside and tells him the truth. They hatch a scheme for Awesome to go to Chuck and Sarah's apartment, call in a CIA alert, and retrieve a gun. He does and then fakes receiving a phone call from the hospital, calling him and Ellie in for work. They say their goodbyes. In the courtyard, Sarah and Volkoff pull guns on each other. Chuck's mom aims her gun at Vokoff, telling him that if he harms her family, she'll put an end to him. Impressed, Volkoff backs down. Still loyal to Volkoff, Chuck's mom leaves with him and his guards.

Morgan drops in on the agent watching over Casey, Jeff and Lester, but he has trouble pulling the gun he's taped inconveniently to the center of his back. It doesn't matter, she tells them as she leaves. On Volkoff's orders they're all free. Casey and Morgan consider what to do with the still unconscious Jeff and Lester. They put them into a storage closet amongst all the 7G phones they hoarded. A little while later, big Mike discovers them, and puts them to work on the sales floor as a punishment.

Back at their apartment complex courtyard, Sarah and Chuck discuss what's happened. Sarah explains that even though she's loyal to Volkoff, Chuck's mom is the only person keeping them safe now. They all know too much; only Chuck's mom can keep Volkoff from destroying them. Awesome appears to confront Chuck: his spying put Awesome and Ellie in danger. He gives Chuck the laptop computer from his dad; he and Ellie want no part of it. Chuck takes the laptop back to Castle. He recognizes the prompt as something his dad used say to him, and enters the requisite code (Aces, Charles), then gets a greeting with a prompt to continue. After hitting enter, Chuck is subjected to a blindingly-quick series of images. The Intersect has been restored.