Chuck Versus the Anniversary

"Chuck Versus the Anniversary"
Chuck episode
Mary delivers the final blow to Marco.
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 1
Directed by	Robert Duncan McNeill
Written by	Chris Fedak
Featured music	"Howlin' For You" by Black Keys "We're Here to Save the Day" by The Constellations "In Response" by Peter Wolf Crier "Generator ^ First Floor" by Freelance Whales
Original air date	September 20, 2010
Guest appearance(s)
Linda Hamilton as Mary Elizabeth Bartowski Larry Cedar as an interviewer Katie Cleary as Laura Dolph Lundgren as Marco Olivia Munn as "Greta" Harry Dean Stanton as Harry Joshua Rush as a young Chuck Bartowski
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"Chuck Versus the Anniversary" is the fourth season premiere of Chuck. It originally aired September 20, 2010. When the CIA gains control over the Buy More, Chuck Bartowski begins searching for his mother (Linda Hamilton). Sarah and Casey follow a trail to Russia as they investigate the mysterious Volkoff Industries and its operative, Marco (Dolph Lundgren). Back at home, Ellie delivers big news to her family.

In the Bartowski home at Encino, California, in 1994, Mrs. Bartowski (Linda Hamilton) reads her son Chuck a bedtime story to cheer him up. She eventually finishes him the story and gets up to leave the room, saying she'll be back in a few days.

The scene changes to 2010, in the basement, where Chuck is reading his father's research into his mother's whereabouts, where it is confirmed that she was a spy. He asks Morgan to help him find her, and to keep it a secret, because Sarah and Casey would try to stop him.

Chuck and Morgan travel all over the world in search of clues as to where his mother could be, until they arrive back in Los Angeles at Mary's safehouse, where she supposedly got all of her missions during Chuck's childhood. They find and open a safe, only to find it empty. Their only clue is a menu Morgan finds for a Chinese dumpling shop called Imperial Dragons, with a stylized Asian logo on the cover in red and black. Morgan suggests starting the search for Mary from scratch, but Chuck gives up entirely. The scene then turns to a security camera, and shows Mary sympathetically watching them.