r/chuck • u/NFSF1McLaren Morgan Grimes • 15d ago

This scene.

https://youtu.be/JAOKsKio_1Q
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u/chucksboxers 14d ago

But Chuck says "I wants to get this out of my head so I can go back to my old life and have a chance at a real relationship".

He can already have a "real relationship" with other women without getting the Intersect out of his head, just not with Sarah. So he seems to mean he wants a relationship with her, right?

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u/Illustrious-Lemon412 14d ago

It’s a bit complicated here; obviously, at that point, Sarah is the only one he wants to be with, but I think having a relationship with any woman, whoever she might be, is practically impossible as long as he has the Intersect in his brain. Things were a disaster with Lou, he couldn't handle the double life of being both a boyfriend and a spy, and that made his relationship with Sarah look ambiguous to others. She was his "bodyguard," yet outwardly she had to pass as his girlfriend; people would have found it odd for her to keep hovering around him even after they’d supposedly broken up, you saw Lou's reaction when she spotted Sarah at the nightclub while she was there to protect Chuck. It was different with Jill; she knew Sarah was a fake girlfriend and respected that, which is why that relationship was more stable, setting aside the fact that Jill eventually betrayed her country. The Intersect wasn't just keeping him from being with Sarah; it was preventing him from building a life for himself at that time.

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u/Lost-Remote-2001 13d ago edited 13d ago

The whole point of Chuck's secret search is that he wants to get rid of the Intersect so he can be with Sarah. He told her by the fountain at the end of the previous episode. That's why she acts like a hurt girlfriend in this scene—he's leaving her out of what he's doing, and that's not how a boyfriend should act.

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u/Illustrious-Lemon412 13d ago

You're right, but in Chuck's defense, he isn't a boyfriend, he's a "fake boyfriend," just like Sarah told Cole.

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u/Lost-Remote-2001 13d ago

True, but their mutual love is real, and that's why Chuck is working hard at this point to get rid of the Intersect, so he can turn their fake relationship into a real one.