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Chuck versus The Bouquet - Part One

With only a month until Ellie and Devon's wedding day, Sarah and Chuck find themselves amidst chaotic wedding discussions between Ellie and Devon at the Bartowski household. Chuck and Sarah tried to get out of it but it was too important to Ellie and time was ticking down.

Devon: "Chuckles, you know when I asked you to hold on to Ellie's engagement ring, you really came through for me, bro! I was thinking, how's about you being my best man at our wedding! Huh, what do ya think, bro!?"

Chuck: "Really, Ellie, Devon...Best Man, sure, I'd love to. What do I have to do?"

Devon: "Well Bro, you're in charge of the wedding ring, you get to do a toast at our wedding and most importantly, you are in charge of my bachelor party!"

Ellie gives him a glaring look when he mentions bachelor party. "No strippers!"

Devon: "Of course not, honey!" He looks at Chuck and winks. Sarah just rolls her eyes.

Ellie pulls Sarah into the next room and says: "Boys will be boys, but I know Chuck so I'm not worried and neither should you. I did want to talk to you to about something. I was hoping you'd be my maid of honor. That way you and Chuck could walk down the aisle together, you know." And she continues loud enough so the boys hear: "and you'd be in charge of my BACHELORETTE Party!"

Devon pokes his head in to find Ellie just smiling at him one of those gotcha smiles..

Sarah: "I'd be honored, Ellie!"

Ellie: "Oh I'm so excited, this will be the perfect wedding!" Devon and I have decided to get married in Vegas. We didn't want to make it a big wedding with my side just being me and Chuck and Devon just has his parents and two brothers. We thought we'd all take a trip into Vegas and have a blast, what do you think?"

Sarah: "That really sounds awesome, Ellie!" Devon pokes his head around the corner: " Indeed!"

Chuck and Sarah find an opportunity to leave Ellie and Devon to "planning" and Chuck walks Sarah out to the car holding her hand the entire way.

Chuck: "Well I bet when you got assigned to guard the Intersect, you never thought you'd be a maid of honor too."

Sarah: "No, but I think it's great, Chuck. I mean it's kind of nice to be a part of something this special. And you can see how much it means to Ellie, so I couldn't say no."

Chuck: "Did I hear my sister say they are getting married in Vegas?"

Sarah: "Yeah, she said that."

Chuck: "I hope I don't have to dress up like Elvis or anything." They both laugh. Sarah gets in her car.

Sarah: "Good night Chuck."

Chuck: "Drive safe." Sarah always smiled at that. As Chuck watched her drive away, he waved, thinking ...someday things will be different.

What he didn't see were the two men waiting for him in the courtyard. One of them place a gun under his chin and told him if he so much as whimpered, it would be the last thing he ever did. The two dragged him to a car waiting across the street. After putting him in the backseat between them the driver did a u-turn and sped off. Sarah was no more than 3 blocks down the street when she saw a car's headlights turn on behind her and thought it was suspicious. She turned down the very next street and back tracked to the entrance to Chuck's apartment building but saw nothing.

Sarah called Casey on his cellphone: "Casey, where is Chuck now?"

Casey: "I thought he was walking you out to your car, hold on, let me check the GPS. Okay, it says he's heading up the 101...wait he stopped at the offramp at the 110 freeway."

Sarah: "Get out here, I think something is wrong." Casey comes out and gets in Sarah's car, they head to the ramp at the 101 and 110 freeways and stop. They find only Chuck's watch with the GPS locator still blinking.

Chuck tries to recognize his captors whenever one of the streetlights shine in the car but it's still too dark, damn tinted windows.

Finally one of them speaks talking into a cellphone. "We have the Intersect, sir. The intel from Lizzie was very helpful. We'll be at the extraction point in 15 minutes."

Chuck shuddered at the mention of the Intersect and Lizzie. He quickly deduced that he had just been captured by Fulcrum. His thoughts went to Sarah telling him the difference between CIA underground captivity and Fulcrum captivity - torture.

Fifteen minutes later Chuck is transferred at gunpoint into a helicopter and is whisked away. They place a hood on him to prevent him from seeing where they were going. No one talks during the 30 minute helicopter ride making Chuck even more nervous. He kept hoping that somehow Casey or Sarah would find him.

Sarah and Casey just stared at Chuck's watch. Casey picked it up and realized it was cut from Chuck's wrist and thrown out the window. Whoever did it knew it was a tracking device. That meant it was probably Fulcrum. That also meant that they didn't know where Chuck was, where the Intersect was. He showed the watch to Sarah then placed a call into General Beckman.

Casey: "General, we have a situation. The Intersect has been abducted, we think by Fulcrum."

General: "Major Casey, you can probably deduce how furious I am at you and Agent Walker for letting this happen, but now is not the time for reprimands. I will alert Director Graham, we will do what we can from this end. You two try to locate him before it's too late."

Casey: "Roger that."

Sarah: "Where do we start? I didn't get an id on the car it was too far away. We have no GPS tracking his whereabouts, nothing. Casey, I think you were right, we kept him here too long." She tries to keep her feelings in check but a small tear rolls down her face.

They head back to Casey's apartment to check on any of the surveillance equipment Casey had been using to monitor Chuck. One of the video surveillance monitors showed the two men approach Chuck as he walked back into the courtyard. Casey and Sarah watched in horror as Chuck was dragged off at gunpoint right under their noses.

The helicopter lands and Chuck is escorted into a facility and placed in a cold room. He is tied to a chair and the hood is removed. For the first time he finds himself face to face with his captors. As he looks at each of the two men in front of him he flashes recognizing each of them as Fulcrum operatives.

The one on the left speaks first. Chuck recognizes him as Ben Davies a Fulcrum operative, with at least 3 especially brutal murders on his record.: "So Mr. Bartowski. We finally meet. Do you know who I am?"

Chuck: "Captain Kangaroo?"

Ben: "No, Mr. Bartowski, I'm Agent Davies, this is Agent Korba. We work for an agency called Fulcrum. Ever heard of it?"

Chuck not very convincingly lies: "Can't say that I have."

Ben: "Well, that's too bad. Maybe this will help jog your memory." On the screen behind Ben is a video feed of Ellie and Devon arguing in their apartment. "Your sister and her fiance, am I correct? The video feed you're looking at is looking right down the barrel of a sniper rifle aimed at them. Now, have you ever heard of an agency called Fulcrum?"

Chuck glances at the video with a very concerned face on and then back at Ben.

Chuck: "Okay, Okay...I've heard of Fulcrum."

Ben: "See that wasn't so hard. Now remember that we have a sniper rifle trained on your sister's apartment. Tell me about Operation Musket." Chuck flashes on the word but refuses to share the information. He realizes that revealing Operation Musket would compromise the identities of all known intelligence agents currently on assignment. Ben asks one more time. "Tell me about Operation Musket" He strikes at Chuck's face with a small billy club causing Chuck to slump to one side bleeding. Chuck sits back upright and says: "No."

Casey and Sarah discuss what their next step should be.

Casey: "Okay, if it is Fulcrum who took Chuck, what do they want with him and how are they going to get it? Come on Walker, you can't get emotional now, he needs us!"

Sarah wipes the tears: "Okay, well they wanted the Intersect because of the data it contained, but Chuck only flashes on certain things, not everything. And he will probably try to fight the flashes so he doesn't give them any information."

Casey: "Good, but they would have thought of that, they're probably going to have to threaten or capture someone that Chuck loves so he'll talk. Where's Ellie and Devon?"

Sarah: "Next door, we left them arguing about wedding stuff." They switch over to the audio surveillance to hear them still arguing. "Well, they're still at it."

Casey: "We'll if she's still there...wait a minute." Sarah looks at him puzzled. Casey continues: "I thought I was getting some interference in this video feed a few days ago, look at this. Someone has tapped into this camera and is watching Ellie and Devon. They must be using this to make Chuck talk."

Casey thinks a minute then calls General Beckman: "General, I need a discreet team to track a video signal back to a receiver right away."

General Beckman: "A team is on it's way, they'll meet you around back."

Casey: "Sarah, there's a chance that Chuck may be watching this right now. Why don't you go over to Ellie's and get Ellie and Devon to a safe place away from here? Hopefully Chuck will see you doing this, okay?"

Sarah finally not feeling helpless: "Good idea!" She heads over to Ellie's convincing them both to meet with a travel agent about Vegas reservations.

Back at the Fulcrum interrogation room Ben talks to the bleeding Chuck.

Ben: "How are you feeling, Mr. Bartowski? Are you ready to talk?"

Chuck mumbles his words: "I hurt...and no." He looks over Ben's shoulder to see Sarah leaving with Ellie and Devon. We see the look on his face as he realizes it may be the last time he sees Ellie, Devon or Sarah.

Ben: "I know that information is in your head and I'm going to get it out of you even if it kills you. Do you understand?" He hits Chuck on the other side of the face and in the shoulder with the club. Chuck starts bleeding from the other side of his face and spits out a tooth loosened by the impact. His thoughts drift back to Sarah and him holding hands on the rooftop. As he takes another blow to the face he begins to think that all that time waiting for Sarah to come around and share her feelings would be for nothing. He passes out and falls to the floor still tied to the chair.