This should be a no brainer, but in case anyone's unsure, I'll tell you up front that nothing I write about the useless he-skank will be positive.

Usual disclaimer, no rights to any characters portrayed etc.

Carina was back in a little over twenty four hours with her new DIA ID, and Sarah and Chuck's NSA IDs as well (Auntie D had had some serious talks with the parties who had to make the call and walked through the last nearly three years' mission reports with them and it was agreed that Chuck's skills, field experience, performance and achievements greatly exceeded that of most "qualified" agents with rather longer tenures, so his induction was handled on the basis that they were just adjusting the formal status of an existing accomplished agent, much like Sarah's was when she came over from the CIA), Carina did take the time while she was in D.C. to pick up a few boxes of her personal effects from secure storage, which showed that she intended to put down some roots with the team.

The timing on getting their NSA IDs was quite fortuitous, because a week later they were saddled with a CIA Ring "expert" by a dodgy oversight committee, Special Agent Daniel Shaw, Shaw strutted in with the attitude that he was in charge, because he was important and he was a "special agent", but he was met by Special Agent Sarah Walker (it was decided that there was more value in her keeping her famous identity, and keeping their marriage under wraps), Special Agent Charles Bartowski and Colonel John Casey (at the same level) of the NSA. He came in expecting to lord it over CIA Agent Sarah Walker (who he was looking forward to making do his every bidding), a civilian asset, and an old NSA agent who'd would never amount to much, instead he walked into a scenario where they were all NSA Special Agents with rather higher clearance levels and pull than he had, and who made it quite clear that they were the lead agents for this operation and that they would allow nothing to jeopardise it. Furthermore, they told him in no uncertain terms that his role was to provide Ring intel and follow orders. Special Agent Shaw wasn't at all happy about that.

The General had been dubious about Shaw when he was first forced on them by the oversight committee, and their doubts escalated when the team investigated him and found gaping holes in his records, with nothing to support his rise to the level that he'd attained. When he got there, the immediate feel the team got from him was that, not only was he an arrogant, sleazy, slimy bastard who thought he was god's gift to women, he couldn't be trusted at all.

Shaw's expectations continued to come crashing down as he was told the parameters under which he would operate, because everything above ground was part of the Piranha Security & Technology cover and the majority of their operation was "civilian" employees, he was not allowed any access at all as that would jeopardise the cover that they maintained, therefore his only access to the dungeon was via one of the "back doors", a tunnel to a parking station a block away. What he wasn't told of course was that every access, every move, every keystroke that he made was recorded and they received alerts that had be manually approved by one of them whenever he tried to access the Dungeon (or the tunnel), so they had time for the others to vacate the Dungeon if they were down there for any reason (they fluctuated the delays on access and explained it away as being due to the fact that the accesses were controlled by a central authentication system, so it sometimes took a while to process the authorisation). He also wasn't told about the other security measures in "his" access tunnel, like the several blast doors along the tunnel that could be used to seal off sections, and enough scanning and monitoring equipment in there to record everything that went through so if he tried to bring anyone else in, or bring in or take out anything he wasn't supposed to, he'd (or they'd) be isolated in there and knocked out with gas until they'd secured him. So Shaw came in expecting to be king of the castle, only to find that the three original team members were running the show, and that he was not only the only one not living on the premises, he had no access to anything above ground, so he had to park his beloved Tesla in a parking station a block away and wait until there was no-one else near the lift to get down to the long access tunnel that he had to use to get in (just for fun, they also had half the lights "out" in the tunnel half the time), this wasn't panning out the way he expected at all.

Of course, Shaw was cut from the same cloth as Bryce Larkin, and was sure that he could make any woman give in to him, so the information that Walker was obviously involved with Bartowski didn't phase him, the fact that Carina Miller was there, too, was an added bonus, but he was well aware of her reputation, she'd be easy, so he'd save the fun with her until after he'd cracked Walker. With an ego like Shaw's, all the avoidance and irritation that Sarah was putting in his way when he tried to charm her was passed off as her trying to cover up in front of the others, so he kept trying to get her alone to work on her, but whenever briefings or planning sessions were done she tended to take off with one of the others to handle things for her cover job. He thought he saw an in when he watched her working out or sparring with Carina or Chuck, but when he suggested that they should work out together she just asked why? She already had workout and sparring buddies. When he went into the women's locker room to "talk" to her after a session with Carina (who he thought had left), he ended up with a seriously bruised ego (and testicles) when Carina stepped out of the shower and caught him in there. After that, the door was kept locked at all times, though he noted that he was the only one that didn't have access because Bartowski and Casey went in sometimes when the girls called for them.

Shaw thought he saw his chance when Sarah was working on some mission plans and everyone else seemed to have gone back upstairs (they still had the same mission load, and that was just hampered by Shaw hanging around getting in the way most of the time, so they had to put more time in). Shaw walked up behind Sarah and started massaging her shoulders (ignoring the way that she stiffened when he did) as he went into his spiel "Sarah, I think we got off on the wrong foot, we may have different ways of doing things, but I want to work with you to make it work, why don't we have dinner together to give ourselves a chance to get to know each other better?" Sarah shrugged his hands off and stood up to get a bit of distance between them. "Are you crazy? My cover is a married woman! Having anyone who knows me, or even knows who I am, see me having dinner with you would start people talking and jeopardise my cover!" "Well I'm sure we could find a quiet, out of the way place where no-one would see us." "What part of no don't you understand? We've worked too hard to make this cover solid and get acceptance for who we are to risk it all for one stupid dinner, it's not going to happen!" "If you're that worried about being seen, we can go back to my room and get room service." He added with a suggestive look "After all we need to be able to work closely together for this operation to succeed."

By this stage, Sarah wanted nothing more than to pull out her pistol and put a bullet between his beady eyes, but she was trying hard to control herself. "Agent Shaw" "Special Agent Shaw", he automatically corrected. "Shaw, I am not going to have dinner with you, and I'm certainly not going back to your room for that or anything else, we have no need to work together any closer than we already have, because I have my partners that I am comfortable working with for any missions that we may encounter. With regard to the "working closely together" that you were implying, if I have any missions where that's required, I'll be doing it with Chuck, not you." "Sarah, I don't know why you're being like this, I understood that you were very easy to work with." (emphasising the "easy"). Sarah's urge to put a bullet between his eyes, or in some other body part, intensified as she glared at him. "We're not friends Shaw, you can address me as Agent Walker, or rather Special Agent Walker as you appear to be picky about titles, do not address me in a familiar manner again. As for your comment, I presume that you're talking about the rumours floating around about me that were started by arseholes like that scumbag that I put in hospital when he tried to rape me." "It was hardly rape" "Were you there? I was and I can assure you that I was NOT a willing participant!" "Come on, he told me how you put on a show when your partner turned up." Sarah's hand crept towards her pistol, but she controlled herself. "It figures that you'd know someone like him, there too many of your type in the CIA, that's why I agreed when the Director of the NSA made me the offer to move to the NSA after I was dragged over the coals by the CIA for refusing to let some bastard force me to screw him, and for your information, I'd already broken that prick's arm before Chuck got there." "Look, Sarah" In the blink of an eye, he was looking into the muzzle of Sarah's pistol. "What did I just tell you?" "I don't know why you're being so antagonistic towards me and the agency that put you where you are, I'm trying to work with you here and you're pulling a gun on a fellow agent, I'm beginning to think you may need some time away for rehabilitation, you're too close to the edge." Sarah's hand was shaking from the strain of stopping herself pull the trigger, and his next words "And as far as claiming that the "rumours" were all started by ones that you turned down, we heard enough from Bryce Larkin and your other partners to know how much you like it" would have pushed her over the edge if Chuck's hand didn't wrap over her's to push the pistol down at that moment.

Chuck looked at Shaw and said "Leave" Shaw drew himself up and started to say that he couldn't order him to do anything when a bullet nicked the tip of his ear, the pistol in Chuck's hand was rock steady as it remained pointed at Shaw's face and when he repeated "Leave", this time Shaw complied. He stopped to look back at the couple before he exited the Dungeon, he was going to get them for this. When he thought about a piece of intel he'd just received, his face creased in a gloating smile, he'd almost certainly get rid of Bartowski, and that would leave Walker open for retribution, and he could have fun doing it, yes, this would work, he just had to massage the intel to ensure that Bartowski was on the plane, alone, before he "discovered" that the target was actually on the same plane as he was. He grinned as he headed down the tunnel, but that changed to a grimace as he swore and tried to stop his ear bleeding from that lucky shot of Bartowski's.

As soon as Shaw left, Chuck sat Sarah on the table so he could look her in the eye and asked whether she was going to be OK? (he wasn't stupid enough to ask if she WAS OK). She nodded tentatively but whispered "Hold me.", so he wrapped his arms around her and whispered "I love you" into her hair. They were still that way, holding each other close and whispering to each other, when Casey and Carina ran out of the elevator five minutes later. Their eyes showed that all four of them desperately wanted to kill Daniel Shaw, as did the General's when they brought her into it via video conference. They spent the next forty five minutes or so discussing what Shaw had just done, as well as the lack of value his intel had been to date, and given the way Shaw left, they were all shocked when they got alerts to say that Shaw was trying to get in. Chuck looked at Sarah and after she nodded and indicated that she could handle it, said to let him in to see how he was trying to play it now and they reluctantly put their pistols away, except for Chuck. When Shaw entered, Chuck pointed his pistol at him and told him to halt, then Casey went over and searched him, removing all his weapons and frog marching him over to the table to push him into a chair. Chuck grinned at Casey, saying "Memories, huh, Casey?" Casey looked confused until he remembered a very similar scene with Bryce Larkin and grinned too, nodding.

Shaw tried to take charge of the situation by informing the general that he would be lodging formal reports of the irrational behaviour of the personnel in this station, he was trying to build a working relationship with Walker when she pulled a gun on him and threatened to shoot him, and then Bartowski barged in and DID shoot him, and now when he came to his assigned station with important intel for a mission, Bartowski held a gun on him while Casey treated him like a criminal, this behaviour would not go unpunished! The General looked at him for about thirty seconds before asking "Are you an idiot, Shaw? After your behaviour earlier, Special Agent Walker would have gotten off on a justified shooting if she'd done what she wanted to, and Special Agent Bartowski was diffusing a volatile situation by ensuring that you removed yourself, given that you were apparently unable to understand the simple verbal instructions you were given. As you apparently don't understand how an NSA station such as this operates, I'll explain, all activity is recorded, I have reviewed the footage and have already initiated a case of sexual harassment and conduct unbecoming against you for your actions. Given your apparent inability to behave in a professional manner, the personnel of this station were quite justified in ensuring that you were not able to attack anyone present, therefore their actions to disarm you were quite appropriate." She turned to Casey then "On that note, Colonel Casey, please set the protocols to ensure that Mr Shaw cannot enter the base carrying any weapons, and secure the armoury against him." Casey managed to say "Yes ma'am" without grinning, which must have been a challenge.

With that out of the way, the General asked what the important intel he had to share was? Shaw looked nervous, but he had to go forward now, so he brought up the information about the digital key for the device that was recovered from Karl Stromberg (By the team, here? Asked the General, enjoying the way Shaw bit out "Yes ma'am"), saying that it had been located in Paris, and this would be a good mission for Agent Bartowski to build his solo mission experience on, as it should be a simple pickup. The General turned to Chuck, asking what the schedule for the team was? At this, Chuck brought up superimposed schedules for both the Intersect team, and PST, which showed that he, Sarah and Casey didn't have anything like the window needed to go to Paris, so she turned back to Shaw, saying "Agent Shaw, as you can see, my other agents can't perform this mission, you will have to take it on yourself, you should enjoy it anyway, I see that you like going to Paris." Shaw started to argue, but choked it off, saying "Yes ma'am", standing to leave, he put his hand out to Casey for his weapons, but Casey escorted him to the door, handing them to him just before he closed the door. It was obvious that just about everything he'd said was bullshit, so they brought up the surveillance feeds for the tunnel and the parking garage, watching him walk to his car, sit in the car for about ten minutes and then walk back. When he tried to access the door, a mechanical voice said "Agent Shaw, you have been identified as carrying weapons on your person, please remove all weapons and place them in the lock box to your right." At that, a lock box opened in the wall at waist height, he reached over to push it closed, only to have it re-open and the same message play again, this time he followed the instructions and the door opened once the lock box was closed.

The General was still in a video conference, and looked up to ask "What is it Agent Shaw?" "I have received an update on the intel about the digital key." The others looked at each other, knowing that this was bullshit after watching him just sitting in his car, checking his watch for ten minutes before he came back in. "Apparently the key isn't in Paris yet, it is going to Paris on a commercial flight today." "Well, get on that flight and get the key then!" "There is a complication ma'am, the key is being escorted by Hugo Panzer (Chuck flashed and just thought "SHIT!", this guy was nasty, and dangerous), and there will be an unknown number of Ring agents supporting him, so it would be too dangerous to engage them without weapons and backup." "WHAT? Your intel is obviously dangerously inadequate and inaccurate Mr Shaw! If Agent Bartowski had walked into that scenario without any warning, it would have been extremely dangerous for him!" Shaw tried to cover up by saying that the source of the intel had been accurate in the past, he didn't know why they'd failed to tell him this before now. Sarah was about to blow, this sleazy bastard had been trying to get Chuck killed! Her hand started to go for her pistol, but it was captured in Chuck's, when she looked at him, the reassurance in his eyes brought her down from DEFCON 1 and she relaxed a little, but the look she sent Shaw's way made it quite obvious that she still wanted to kill him, and looking around the table, she wasn't alone there.

Sarah laced her fingers into Chuck's as she sat back to see how Shaw was going to try and talk his way out of this. The General asked Shaw how he proposed to proceed with this operation, and he tried another play "General, our best chance of success would be if Agent Walker accompanied me, we will board the plane as a couple and have weapons supplied to us on the plane, between the two of us we would be able to subdue any Ring forces on the plane." Sarah's grip tightened enough to almost break Chuck's fingers, but he rubbed his thumb across her hand until she started to relax again by the time the General spoke. "Mr Shaw, it would appear that your English comprehension skills are sorely lacking, Agent Walker has indicated quite clearly that she is NOT willing to work with you as a partner in any capacity, and furthermore, if you had been able to read the schedules that Agent Bartowski showed us earlier, none of our lead agents have a big enough time window to allow them to participate in this mission, therefore, as you are apparently unable to complete this mission that you have provided intel the for (though I hesitate to use that term for what we've gotten from you here) without the support that we do not have available, we will have to cancel the mission, perhaps the CIA can provide resources in Paris to recover the key when it arrives there." "I'll go." Everyone looked at Carina as if she was crazy, but before anyone could say anything, she held up her hand to stop them. "I haven't been locked into the schedules for the team yet so I can manage the time window needed, but I won't be doing that." (waving at Shaw) "I will go as backup, not as a partner, we will be seated well away from each other and we will NOT interact in any way on the plane, or in the airport, so there will be nothing to connect me to him at all. Whether or not weapons are provided for Shaw, I will steer clear of anything that could identify me to anyone on the plane. I will engage only if Shaw fails, if he does I will attempt to neutralise Panzer and/or any other Ring agents that remain and recover the key. As long as we handle the backup this way, I won't be compromised if Shaw is. Everyone around the table (except Shaw, of course) was nodding, this was obviously the best plan for success, but they were worried about what might happen to her. "Are you sure about this Agent Miller? There is considerable danger for you in this." "Yes ma'am, I think that this is the best chance for success." "Very well, good luck." With that she disconnected, and it wasn't lost on anyone (except Shaw, probably) that the "good luck" was only directed at Carina. Chuck and Sarah went to Carina to talk to her about it because it was too dangerous, but she was determined to go.

As Shaw had been effectively dismissed, he left, and the moment he did Chuck called Anna down to the Dungeon, when he asked if she'd go along separately to support Carina, she agreed immediately, so they made the necessary arrangements quickly to make sure that they were at the airport in time, ready to board. There was a problem when Shaw tried to talk to Carina at the airport, but she stalked straight past him, complaining about pathetic idiots who thought that she could be interested in them. As expected, Shaw failed to take the proper precautions when he drugged Panzer, so Panzer recovered and took him down (unfortunately without killing him). Carina didn't have too much trouble convincing Panzer to try the mile high club with her, and as soon as she got him in private she took him down, making it permanent to prevent him causing any more trouble. She recovered the key and freed Shaw, but part of Panzer's backup identified her when she took out Panzer and poisoned her drink.

Chuck actually found a use for that drug and poison database in the Intersect, because using the symptoms Carina was experiencing, he managed to zoom in on the drug family for she'd been given, and from that identify the materials that should be available on the plane that could counter the effects enough to give her more time. Anna tracked down and gave her what she needed to give her extra time, then went after the one who'd poisoned her (the stewardess who'd given Shaw his weapons, for some reason they didn't work?) and worked on her until she gave up the antidote, Carina was fine after that and Anna went back to her seat so that Shaw didn't see her.

At Orly, Carina and Shaw transferred to a CIA Jet to take them straight back to L.A., but when Shaw arrogantly instructed Carina "I'll take the key for safe keeping.", the look that accompanied her reply of "Fuck off Shaw!" made it quite clear to him that it wasn't just most people on the team who wanted to see him dead, it was everyone! Back in L.A., Chuck and Sarah were there to meet the plane when it landed, rushing up to hug Carina the second she got off the plane and leading her to Chuck's Odyssey. As soon as they were in the car they took off, only to get a call on Chuck's phone thirty seconds later. Sarah answered the phone and Shaw was actually stupid enough to think that they'd forgotten him, because at his "You've left without me", Sarah's terse response of "Yes" seemed to fluster him, and he asked how he was going to get back? Sarah just said "Get a cab" and hung up. Shaw must have paid the cabbie big bucks to get back as fast as he did though, because he was only ten minutes behind them.

Shaw argued that they were wasting time, because the device was only a lock box that had belonged to an agent he had inside the ring, and that it held all the intel that the agent had when Sarah and Casey insisted on following protocols and opening the device in a hazardous materials containment chamber, but everyone was done with listening to him. When the device opened the readings were all clear, so they removed it from the containment chamber and took it to a nearby table, Shaw took out the tray of disks and handed it to Casey, then grabbed the small envelope that had been underneath it and went to walk off with it. Sarah had her pistol out in the blink of an eye and told him to hand it over. Shaw argued that it was his by right! Sarah just looked him in the eye and said "You have no rights, no that's wrong, you have the right to remain silent, if you give up that right, I'll shoot you." Casey and Carina snorted at that, but she went on "We've risked our lives to get this while you sat on your arse, I'm not going to let you remove any evidence from here!" Shaw handed over the envelope and she emptied it onto the table, when a wedding ring slid out, she looked at Shaw. "She was killed by a Ring agent five years ago, her name was Evelyn Shaw, Eve." He looked at Chuck and added "We both made the same mistake Sarah, we fell in love with spies." Chuck confirmed that the story about Eve checked out when he flashed on her name.

Sarah just looked at Shaw without lowering her weapon, thinking the same as the others were, that Shaw's statement may have been a touching if he hadn't been trying so hard to get into her pants ever since he got there! She turned to Casey and asked him to lock the disks away and met Chuck's eye, they walked out together without another word to anyone. They didn't pay attention to anything other than each other that night. Anna had asked for a couple of days in Paris, and they agreed to that quite happily, she'd saved Carina, she really deserved a reward and a couple of days in Paris should be good for that.

Unfortunately, even with the copious evidence of inappropriate behaviour and incompetence, the committee who'd insisted that Shaw be on the team refused any rational arguments to get rid of him (they were getting flashbacks to the time they were forced to use Larkin on that other mission). Because none of them trusted Shaw at all, and the girls didn't want to be anywhere near the sleazy bastard, he was only used as part of the larger missions, and Casey normally had to keep an eye on him. Because his ego couldn't handle the fact that no-one paid any attention to any of the crap he came out with, he started to do a lot of solo missions (which of course never resulted in anything of use). It was on one of these solo missions that he was captured by the Ring, and the team had to go in to save him. It was suspiciously easy to get him out (to the extent that they all laughed when Carina said "Looks like the Ring doesn't want him, either.") When Shaw got back, though, he appeared to have given up trying to win Sarah over, but the malice in his eyes when he looked at her was notable.

In the middle of this, Casey had a crisis, he was being blackmailed by the Colonel who'd had him scrubbed from consideration for the Special Operations Command in order to con him into joining a covert NSA black ops team twenty one years ago. Keller had defected to the Ring, and as they knew the sort of accesses Casey had, and Keller knew about Kathleen, the fiancé that Alex Coburn had before he was convinced to fake his own death and start again as John Casey, they decided that Casey was the perfect candidate to steal something from the CIA's secure vault for them. Keller also had another ace up his sleeve though from the research that they'd done when they were looking to "recruit" him, at the time he faked his death, Kathleen was carrying his child, but she'd never got a chance to tell him (because Keller grabbed the phone off him before she could), so Keller had two hostages he could use to force Casey to do their bidding, the fiancé he'd left behind when he started a new life, and the daughter he didn't know he had. Keller thought he had Casey over a barrel, because to the world at large Casey was still the lone wolf killer that he'd been for so long, so no-one would have suspected that he had people he could turn to at a time like this, people who had the resources and inclination to help him in this.

When Casey came back from meeting with Keller, he went straight to the Penthouse and told Chuck and Sarah, so they all went into the workroom to call the General. She confirmed that she had just received a request for a trace cell mission (to test the security of the CIA's secure storage facility), as Keller had told Casey, and when Casey advised what box number he was told to retrieve the item from she checked the contents of that box and told them that it was the samples for an experimental battlefield drug called laudenol, designed to suppress emotions. Chuck flashed on what was in the intersect for laudenol, and cross referenced that information with the drug and poisons database in the Intersect to come up with something that would do a good job of mimicking the expected effects for a short period (an hour or two). They contacted Ellie to get samples of the drug that they were going to substitute for the laudenol ASAP, and set up a watch over Kathleen and Casey's daughter in case Keller moved on them early.

The next night they did the trace cell mission, removing the laudenol from the box where it was, and substituting the "fake" laudenol into the laudenol container before storing the real laudenol in the box that the General was using for these tests. Once the word got out that the laudenol had been stolen, Casey's meet with Keller was on. Sarah hid in the SUV that Casey drove to his meeting with Keller, while Chuck and Carina went to protect Kathleen and Casey's daughter from the men that they knew that Keller would be sending for them (if he killed Casey, they'd be killed to clean up the evidence, if Casey got away they'd be taken to be used as bait to bring him in again, then killed when they did get Casey, hopefully without anything else being done to them first). When Casey had gone in to deal with Keller, Sarah slipped out to quietly deal with Keller's men (that was why she had to be the one who went with Casey, the only way to deal with them was wipe them out, because they knew that Casey would be having a fight to the death with Keller, and if it wasn't Casey who came out, Sarah would kill Keller too. Chuck would have had problems with that, whereas the team sent to take the women could be captured, maybe). Casey took out Keller and they collected all the computers, devices, data and paperwork etc that they could find there before they headed to where the others were. At the house, as soon as Keller's men saw that they had opposition, they tried to kill their targets before they could be stopped, so they all died. Well, Chuck did leave four alive, but Carina looked at him and mouthed "sorry" before she walked over to finish them off. When Casey and Sarah arrived, Casey made sure that Kathleen and his daughter were both OK, looked wistfully at his daughter (named Alex, after him) for a while, then turned and left. They left the rotating watch over them in place while they waded over every piece of information that they'd taken from Keller's cabin, trying to determine whether the information about them stayed with Keller, or he'd shared it with anyone else. After going through everything, it looked like Keller had been playing his cards close to his chest and keeping the intel about the leverage he had on Casey to himself, so that Casey was his trump card and no-one else could use him. So, given that it looked like Kathleen and Alex were safe, they gave up watching over them. Of course, Chuck and Sarah (and Carina) tried to get Casey to talk to Kathleen and Alex, but he just kept saying that it was too late.

About two weeks after Casey found out that he was a daddy, Shaw disappeared, at first they thought that he'd been taken by the Ring again, but when they were going though his things they found a smashed thumb drive. When Chuck reconstructed it to recover what was on it, they realised that they had a serious problem. The contents of the thumb drive was a video, starting with home movies of an attractive brunette woman, and then going on to the video of her being a shot in a red test, Sarah's red test, and the problem was that Chuck recognised the woman from the flash he had when Shaw said his wife's name, Evelyn Shaw had been Sarah's red test, and Daniel Shaw obviously knew that. There was little doubt why he'd disappeared now, he'd gone to ground in hope that he'd get a chance to go after Sarah, because he couldn't do anything to her in the Dungeon.

They kept looking for Shaw, but the intel that they were getting on the Ring was ramping up, so they were constantly on the move, hitting Ring locations. When they received intel that appeared to indicate that the Ring Director was at an L.A. location they went in, they breached the building, with Chuck and Sarah parachuting onto the roof to work their way down from the top, while Casey and Carina entered at the bottom to work their way up. While Chuck and Sarah were sweeping one of the executive levels, Chuck saw movement reflected in the glass front of an office, and spinning around he saw Shaw silently stalking up behind Sarah with the back of her head framed in his sights. In the space of a little over a second, Chuck put three rounds into Shaw's head, walking them across his skull from his forehead to above his ear (the one with the nick out of it, actually), Shaw stopped moving forward, and then crumpled to the floor, leaving the majority of his brain matter sprayed over the wall behind where his head had been. Sarah had spun around when Chuck fired, seeing Shaw crumpling to the floor. She stared at his corpse for a moment and then moved to Chuck, who still had his pistol rigidly extended at where Shaw had been standing, Sarah reached out to push the pistol down and take it off him, then put her arms around him, whispering "It's done, you got him, you saved me again." She pulled his face down to look at her. "We're safe now, because of you, I love you." With that she went up on tip toe to kiss him and Chuck focussed on her, pulling her into his arms. They had been standing there like that for a few minutes when they heard Casey over the radio, saying that the building was empty, there was nothing here. Chuck answered "Not quite, it was a trap to get us here for Shaw." There was silence from the other end until Sarah spoke up "We're fine, Chuck got him." They heard two profound sighs of relief over the radio and Chuck said "We're coming down."