Chuck Versus the Truth
| "Chuck Versus the Truth" | |
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Lou and Chuck discuss her broken phone.
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 8 |
| Directed by | Robert Duncan McNeill |
| Written by | Alison Adler |
| Featured music | "Toxic" by Britney Spears "Fresh Feeling" by Eels "Ain't I Been Good to You" by The Isley Brothers |
| Production code | 3T6457 |
| Original air date | November 12, 2007 |
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"Chuck Versus the Truth" is the eighth episode of Season 1 of Chuck and aired on November 12, 2007. Chuck's real life and spy life intersect when his sister is poisoned by a mercenary tracking down nuclear secrets, and Morgan is given a secret mission by Big Mike.
The episode opens to find Mason Whitney, a government specialist, bound to a chair undergoing interrogation. He is injected with a toxic derivative of pentothal by Reardon Payne (Kevin Weisman), a former gymnast-turned mercenary and is told to retrieve the nuclear codes he has hidden in exchange for the antidote. At the Buy More a woman named Lou (Rachel Bilson), who owns a deli in the mall, comes in experiencing phone problems which Chuck fixes. Afterwards, Morgan teases Chuck for flirting with Lou. Later, Chuck, Sarah, Ellie and Awesome are on a double-date, when Awesome remarks that Chuck and Sarah have been taking things very slowly. On their way out of the restaurant, Whitney stumbles into the group and collapses. Ellie immediately comes to his aid and calls in an ambulance. Before losing consciousness, Whitney slips something into the pocket of Ellie's sweater. Chuck flashes on Whitney as he is loaded into the back of the ambulance with Ellie.
Sarah waits with Chuck at home until Ellie returns. She tells them the doctors were unable to save Whitney and she believes he was poisoned, then decides to go to bed. Sarah takes Awesome's comments about their relationship seriously, and announces to Chuck that for the purposes of their cover, it's time they make love. The next morning Lou returns to bring Chuck a sandwich to thank him for fixing her phone. Sarah arrives, and Lou leaves in disgust at the thought Chuck would cheat on his girlfriend, despite Chuck's protests. Sarah, Chuck and Casey examine Whitney's corpse and discover a bug behind his ear. Meanwhile, Payne, disguised as a police officer, goes to Ellie's house and exposes her to his poisoned pentathol derivative, while also planting a bug on her. That night Sarah arrives at Chuck's home. Although nothing is actually going to happen and everything is for appearances, she and Chuck get into a fight. She realizes that Chuck is interested in Lou, but because of their cover, pursuing a real relationship outside their cover would be extremely difficult. Ellie, under the effects of pentathol, gets into a fight with Awesome as well, and barges into Chuck's room. They all take Ellie out to the living room while Casey, listening in over his bugs, picks up cross-talk interfering with his signal and comes to investigate. Ellie passes out, and they discover that she has been bugged just like Whitney.
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