PlotChuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi) is a socially awkward twenty-something-year-old who works as a computer expert at the Nerd Herd at his local Buy More, a local electronics retailer, with his best friend, Morgan Grimes (Joshua Gomez). Chuck's sister Ellie (Sarah Lancaster) is a doctor who is constantly looking out for his best interests and wants to help him find a girlfriend. Also joining the cast is Ellie's fiance, Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcomb (Ryan McPartlin), also a doctor who looking out for Chuck's social life.
On the night of his birthday party, Chuck receives an e-mail from his former Stanford University roommate, Bryce Larkin (Matthew Bomer), who is now a "rogue" CIA agent. When he opens it, the entire database of all the US government's secret information — a neural supercomputer called the Intersect - is subliminally embedded into his brain. Both the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency want the intelligence returned to them and dispatch agents of their own — Major John Casey (Adam Baldwin) and Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strahovski) — to retrieve that data.
Since the disk with the government information was stolen by Bryce and destroyed in his attempted escape, and since Chuck experiences "flashes" of information from the database activated by certain triggers around him (such as faces, guns, watches, and other objects), he must now use the knowledge he now possesses to help the government thwart assassins and international terrorists — upending his previously uneventful life. Chuck's decision to keep his new-found occupation a secret from his family and friends and to live his life as normally as possible forces Casey and Walker to establish an uneasy alliance and secret identities (Walker poses as Chuck's girlfriend and takes a cover job at the local restaurant next to the Buy More (formerly Wienerlicious, currently Orange Orange) while Casey gets a job at the Buy More), with the shared goal of protecting Chuck at all costs.
In the meantime, the government is in the process of rebuilding the Intersect computer. As it nears completion, Casey is ordered to kill Chuck as soon as the new Intersect is ready. However, in the premier of season 2, it is destroyed using a computer virus, keeping Chuck alive.
As the series progresses, it is revealed that Bryce is still alive and that a rival agency called "Fulcrum" is in search of the Intersect, which they believed to be still be in the possession of Bryce, not Chuck. It is also discovered that Fulcrum are the ones who destroyed the new Intersect. In the episode "Chuck vs. Santa Claus" (season 2, episode 11) Fulcrum discovers that it is Chuck, in fact, who is the intersect. This discovery, however, does not last long, as Sarah kills Agent Mauser, the only Fulcrum member who knows of Chuck's secret, before he is able to notify anyone else.
Cast
Zachary Levi as computer geek-turned government agent Chuck Bartowski
Sarah Lancaster as Chuck's supportive sister, Ellie Bartowski
Joshua Gomez is Chuck's best buddy, Morgan Grimes
Yvonne Strahovski as top CIA agent, Sarah Walker
Adam Baldwin as NSA agent, Major John Casey
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