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* DeathGlare: Greta #4 gives a lot of these, accompanied by her waving around a [[KnifeNut wickedly sharp knife.]] She and Casey even trade death glares in a face-off at the end of the episode.
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'''Chuck Versus the Fear of Death''' is the eight episode of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'''s fourth season.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[ArmorPiercingQuestion Are you a spy or are you a guy with a spy girlfriend?]]]]
'''Chuck Versus the Fear of Death''' is the eight episode of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'''s fourth season.
After Frost suppressed the Intersect in Chuck's head with a Portable device, Chuck is assigned to overeager Agent Jim Rye (Creator/RobRiggle) who uses unorthodox methods in hopes of reactivating Chuck's Intersect.
Sarah becomes increasingly distressed when Chuck decides to go on a dangerous mission without the Intersect.
Morgan and Casey scramble as Jeff and Lester attempt to uncover the true identity of Greta #4 (Creator/SummerGlau).
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!!This episode provides examples of:
* ActorAllusion: Casey confronts Greta #4, telling her he doesn't care "what ''crew'' you were on," a low-key reference to both Creator/AdamBaldwin and Creator/SummerGlau's respective roles in ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.
* AllergicToRoutine: Casey becomes utterly bored with not going for a mission for an entire month, since he's stuck at the Buy More until Chuck gets the Intersect up and running again.
* AuctionOfEvil: Chuck and Agent Rye are sent on a dangerous mission to Gstaad, Switzerland to acquire an unusual diamond at an auction filled with other spies and criminals. They later find out that the diamonds are fake, and a front for what's really being sold: microchips hidden inside the fake diamonds containing sensitive intelligence.
* BreakingTheFellowship: A real possibility since Chuck no longer has the Intersect. Casey confesses to Alex that he will likely be sent somewhere else if Chuck is unable to reactivate the Intersect, which brings him down since he [[HiddenHeartOfGold got attached to the people he works with.]]
* BroughtDownToNormal: Chuck has lost access to his Intersect, and while he's much more capable without it than he was when the show started, he's no longer a badass super spy on Sarah and Casey's level.
* CableCarActionSequence: The end of the episode has Agent Rye and Chuck fighting The Belgian and his men aboard a gondola.
* DeathGlare: Greta #4 gives a lot of these, accompanied by her waving around a [[KnifeNut wickedly sharp knife.]] She and Casey even trade death glares in a face-off at the end of the episode.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The Belgian is a Belgian man who is in charge of Belgian Organized Crime Organization.
* DefenceMechanismSuperpower: Agent Rye believes [[TitleDrop fear of death]] is the trigger to reactivate Chuck's Intersect, and spends most of the episode trying to bring out that fear in Chuck.
* DieOrFly: Agent Rye puts Chuck in several actively dangerous situations in order to get Chuck to activate his Intersect. This [[EpicFail ends in disaster]] when Agent Rye underestimates the villain and is gets killed by him while leaving Chuck in a LiteralCliffhanger.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Poor Agent Rye is shot InTheBack and off of the gondola to his death.
* DownerEnding: Agent Rye is killed by The Belgian, who also kidnaps Chuck, planning to extract the Intersect from his brain by any means necessary.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: The Belgian wears wire-framed glasses and is a very evil gangster.
* EroticEating: Greta #4 eating her subway sandwich. Though it doesn't actually show her eating, the scene in question is, ahem, very suggestive.
* FailureMontage: There's a montage at the start of the episode over a period of an entire month where many scientists perform unsuccessful tests in an attempt to re-access the Chuck's Intersect.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: The new 'Greta' CIA agent played by Summer Glau in "Chuck Versus the Fear of Death". She carries a small serrated knife she refers to as her "favorite friend".
* HeadturningBeauty: Greta #4, just [[LegacyCharacter just like the previous Greta before her]]. Lester and Jeff actually start becoming suspicious of how they always have hot new employees named Greta.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Agent Rye ambushes Chuck in his home as part of training to get him to feel fear, and ends up catching Sarah giving Chuck a massage in [[LingerieScene in their underwear]]. Sarah isn't pleased.
-->'''Sarah:''' What are you doing in our home?\\
'''Rye:''' The Castle's a safety zone. ''[notes her state of undress]'' And apparently this place is too.
* InTheBack: Agent Rye is talking to Chuck who's HangingByTheFingers in the gondala, trying to encourage Chuck to activate the Intersect when he's suddenly shot in the back by The Belgian and [[DisneyVillainDeath falls to his death]].
* KnifeNut: Greta #4 is very eager at the idea of using her knife on Lester and Jeff when they start stalking her.
-->'''Greta:''' I'm getting annoyed by this. I have a way of dealing with annoying things. It's pleasant... but only for me.
* KnowledgeBroker: The Belgian's primary trade is smuggling and selling sensitive intelligence, hidden in microchips inside fake diamonds. When he finds out Chuck has the Intersect, he becomes obsessed with capturing him, as the Intersect would be a gold mine for him.
* MaleGaze: The camera angles and in-character camera shots of Greta #4 as Jeff and Lester stalked her around the building, including a gratuitous pan up shot of [[ShesGotLegs her legs]].
* MsFanservice: Greta #4 is played up for this, being a fairly attractive woman with plenty of MaleGaze shots and an EroticEating scene and has a CuteAndPsycho personality.
* NiceGuy: Despite giving Chuck some TrainingFromHell, Agent James "Jim" Rye is a very nice and easygoing guy.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: The Belgian. While Belgian crime is a little oddly specific and unusual, he is still a very dangerous gangster.
* SafetyInIndifference: Casey starts acting more aloof than usual, when Alex confronts him about it he confesses he's trying to drive people away in case the team is broken up now that Chuck doesn't have the Intersect anymore.
-->'''Alex:''' Look, we both know you haven't been on a mission in a while... but I think there's a little more to this than just an itchy trigger finger. What gives?\\
'''Alex:''' I'm preparing myself psychologically... in case I get sent back to Afghanistan or Iraq. I got soft. I made friends here.
* SharpDressedMan: The Belgian wears very expensive-looking suits. Chuck and Agent Rye also wear some for the AuctionOfEvil.
* StealthHiBye: Lampshaded by Lester who gets suspicious about Greta #4 repeatedly disappearing into thin air. She even scares Morgan by doing this at one point. Casey later makes up a story to Lester and Jeff that she was a thief that was using old walkway behind the walls in the HTR for electrical repairs.
* TooDumbToLive: Jeff and Lester manage to figure out Greta #4, yet repeatedly annoy and confront her about it instead. If not for Casey and Morgan interfering, she would have just killed them for compromising her disguise.
* VillainOfTheWeek: Adelbert de Smet, better known as The Belgian (Creator/RichardChamberlain), is a KnowledgeBroker that smuggles sensitive intel to criminal around the globe. When he finds out that Chuck has the Intersect, he tries ([[TheBadGuyWins and succeeds!]]) in capturing him.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Sarah is very displeased at the TrainingFromHell Agent Rye's subjects to Chuck and becomes very agitated when Chuck goes on a mission without an Intersect or her as support.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[ArmorPiercingQuestion Are you a spy or are you a guy with a spy girlfriend?]]]]
'''Chuck Versus the Fear of Death''' is the eight episode of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'''s fourth season.
After Frost suppressed the Intersect in Chuck's head with a Portable device, Chuck is assigned to overeager Agent Jim Rye (Creator/RobRiggle) who uses unorthodox methods in hopes of reactivating Chuck's Intersect.
Sarah becomes increasingly distressed when Chuck decides to go on a dangerous mission without the Intersect.
Morgan and Casey scramble as Jeff and Lester attempt to uncover the true identity of Greta #4 (Creator/SummerGlau).
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!!This episode provides examples of:
* ActorAllusion: Casey confronts Greta #4, telling her he doesn't care "what ''crew'' you were on," a low-key reference to both Creator/AdamBaldwin and Creator/SummerGlau's respective roles in ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.
* AllergicToRoutine: Casey becomes utterly bored with not going for a mission for an entire month, since he's stuck at the Buy More until Chuck gets the Intersect up and running again.
* AuctionOfEvil: Chuck and Agent Rye are sent on a dangerous mission to Gstaad, Switzerland to acquire an unusual diamond at an auction filled with other spies and criminals. They later find out that the diamonds are fake, and a front for what's really being sold: microchips hidden inside the fake diamonds containing sensitive intelligence.
* BreakingTheFellowship: A real possibility since Chuck no longer has the Intersect. Casey confesses to Alex that he will likely be sent somewhere else if Chuck is unable to reactivate the Intersect, which brings him down since he [[HiddenHeartOfGold got attached to the people he works with.]]
* BroughtDownToNormal: Chuck has lost access to his Intersect, and while he's much more capable without it than he was when the show started, he's no longer a badass super spy on Sarah and Casey's level.
* CableCarActionSequence: The end of the episode has Agent Rye and Chuck fighting The Belgian and his men aboard a gondola.
* DeathGlare: Greta #4 gives a lot of these, accompanied by her waving around a [[KnifeNut wickedly sharp knife.]] She and Casey even trade death glares in a face-off at the end of the episode.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The Belgian is a Belgian man who is in charge of Belgian Organized Crime Organization.
* DefenceMechanismSuperpower: Agent Rye believes [[TitleDrop fear of death]] is the trigger to reactivate Chuck's Intersect, and spends most of the episode trying to bring out that fear in Chuck.
* DieOrFly: Agent Rye puts Chuck in several actively dangerous situations in order to get Chuck to activate his Intersect. This [[EpicFail ends in disaster]] when Agent Rye underestimates the villain and is gets killed by him while leaving Chuck in a LiteralCliffhanger.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Poor Agent Rye is shot InTheBack and off of the gondola to his death.
* DownerEnding: Agent Rye is killed by The Belgian, who also kidnaps Chuck, planning to extract the Intersect from his brain by any means necessary.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: The Belgian wears wire-framed glasses and is a very evil gangster.
* EroticEating: Greta #4 eating her subway sandwich. Though it doesn't actually show her eating, the scene in question is, ahem, very suggestive.
* FailureMontage: There's a montage at the start of the episode over a period of an entire month where many scientists perform unsuccessful tests in an attempt to re-access the Chuck's Intersect.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: The new 'Greta' CIA agent played by Summer Glau in "Chuck Versus the Fear of Death". She carries a small serrated knife she refers to as her "favorite friend".
* HeadturningBeauty: Greta #4, just [[LegacyCharacter just like the previous Greta before her]]. Lester and Jeff actually start becoming suspicious of how they always have hot new employees named Greta.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Agent Rye ambushes Chuck in his home as part of training to get him to feel fear, and ends up catching Sarah giving Chuck a massage in [[LingerieScene in their underwear]]. Sarah isn't pleased.
-->'''Sarah:''' What are you doing in our home?\\
'''Rye:''' The Castle's a safety zone. ''[notes her state of undress]'' And apparently this place is too.
* InTheBack: Agent Rye is talking to Chuck who's HangingByTheFingers in the gondala, trying to encourage Chuck to activate the Intersect when he's suddenly shot in the back by The Belgian and [[DisneyVillainDeath falls to his death]].
* KnifeNut: Greta #4 is very eager at the idea of using her knife on Lester and Jeff when they start stalking her.
-->'''Greta:''' I'm getting annoyed by this. I have a way of dealing with annoying things. It's pleasant... but only for me.
* KnowledgeBroker: The Belgian's primary trade is smuggling and selling sensitive intelligence, hidden in microchips inside fake diamonds. When he finds out Chuck has the Intersect, he becomes obsessed with capturing him, as the Intersect would be a gold mine for him.
* MaleGaze: The camera angles and in-character camera shots of Greta #4 as Jeff and Lester stalked her around the building, including a gratuitous pan up shot of [[ShesGotLegs her legs]].
* MsFanservice: Greta #4 is played up for this, being a fairly attractive woman with plenty of MaleGaze shots and an EroticEating scene and has a CuteAndPsycho personality.
* NiceGuy: Despite giving Chuck some TrainingFromHell, Agent James "Jim" Rye is a very nice and easygoing guy.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: The Belgian. While Belgian crime is a little oddly specific and unusual, he is still a very dangerous gangster.
* SafetyInIndifference: Casey starts acting more aloof than usual, when Alex confronts him about it he confesses he's trying to drive people away in case the team is broken up now that Chuck doesn't have the Intersect anymore.
-->'''Alex:''' Look, we both know you haven't been on a mission in a while... but I think there's a little more to this than just an itchy trigger finger. What gives?\\
'''Alex:''' I'm preparing myself psychologically... in case I get sent back to Afghanistan or Iraq. I got soft. I made friends here.
* SharpDressedMan: The Belgian wears very expensive-looking suits. Chuck and Agent Rye also wear some for the AuctionOfEvil.
* StealthHiBye: Lampshaded by Lester who gets suspicious about Greta #4 repeatedly disappearing into thin air. She even scares Morgan by doing this at one point. Casey later makes up a story to Lester and Jeff that she was a thief that was using old walkway behind the walls in the HTR for electrical repairs.
* TooDumbToLive: Jeff and Lester manage to figure out Greta #4, yet repeatedly annoy and confront her about it instead. If not for Casey and Morgan interfering, she would have just killed them for compromising her disguise.
* VillainOfTheWeek: Adelbert de Smet, better known as The Belgian (Creator/RichardChamberlain), is a KnowledgeBroker that smuggles sensitive intel to criminal around the globe. When he finds out that Chuck has the Intersect, he tries ([[TheBadGuyWins and succeeds!]]) in capturing him.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Sarah is very displeased at the TrainingFromHell Agent Rye's subjects to Chuck and becomes very agitated when Chuck goes on a mission without an Intersect or her as support.
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