I don't own Chuck. I'd much rather own NBC, but that's just the psychosis talking.


There was only one thing that Sarah Walker and John Casey knew with complete certainty at this very moment, as they sat outside Director Graham's office, waiting to be called in. Muffled arguing could be heard through the door. Whatever Graham and Beckman were yelling about, they were obviously angry enough to bypass the soundproofing of the door, and that led Walker and Casey to the same conclusion:

They were in deep trouble.


What had started as an almost routine Chuck flash to reveal a Fulcrum development facility merely a few miles away from Langley, Virginia, had turned out to be much more serious than anyone could have ever imagined. As the two agents broke into the abandoned warehouse building, the hairs on the backs of their necks started standing on end – Sarah had never seen anything like it, and Casey let out a growl that tipped Sarah off to something that she knew she wouldn't like. Just as she was about to ask what the issue was, Chuck barreled into the room from behind them, out of breath.

Casey, having seen a similar room before, started to yell at Chuck and moved to push him out of the room. However, Casey was a step too late as all the white walls in the room suddenly exploded into color for less than a second, and then the lighted room went completely dark. Too late, Casey and Sarah watched with horror as Chuck, illuminated only by the light from the doorway, stood ramrod straight for seconds afterward, eyes wide open, face completely blank. Ten seconds after the burst of imagery in the room, Chuck pitched backwards, landing unconscious on the ground.

The subsequent trip to the nearest safe hospital facility was incredibly tense, with Sarah staying by Chuck's side the entire ride, with Casey staying behind to direct the cleanup crews. Soon afterwards, the two had been called to Graham's office, uncertain as to Chuck's situation, and not knowing why they were actually there.

Soon enough, the door opened, and they were admitted into the office, where Sarah's world was turned over again. Chuck had been transferred to the medical center at Bethesda, where the neurology experts there had determined that Chuck had fallen into a coma, with the EEG showing no signs of higher level brain activity.

Chuck had become a vegetable.


End Teaser

8/26/08