We've known for a while that Chuck isn't that same old loveable, helpless geek, but I definitely didn't expect him to be able to pull off master assassin so successfully. Are there acting lessons in the Intersect 2.0? Because he's kind of awesome.

Chuck vs. The Alias: Shaw tasks Chuck with impersonating Rafe Gruber, a deadly assassin they've captured, so that they can discover why the Ring hired him. And Chuck, it turns out, is very at home as "the world's most dangerous assassin." A little too at home for Sarah's taste. Especially when he pulls out one of Casey's teeth in an "interrogation" to prevent the Mafia-type fellas who hired Gruber from catching on that they're CIA. It's upsetting on a very visceral level, even though Casey heartily approves. Our little Chuckie really has grown up...and up, and up. I will say that it was pretty sweet when he impressed the Fellas by taking out the entire CIA backup squad (including Sarah and Shaw) thanks to good 'ol Intersect 2.0.

The surprisingly adorable Fellas take Chuck to a hotel room equipped with listening apparatus and a sniper rifle, confident that he's one of the five guys on the world who can make a shot half a mile away. Through Chuck's crosshairs half a mile away (!!), Shaw is talking to Sarah about Chuck (after putting on a shirt, since she was understandably distracted by his Greek God-like chest). Chuck hears the entire conversation - how hard it is for her to see him become a person who can lie and extract teeth without anesthetic, and "the further he gets from who he is, the more [she] wants to remember who [she] is."

Shaw, red blooded man that he is, takes advantage of her vulnerable emotional state to nab a makeout session. And, more significantly, to learn her real name: Sam. Sam? Really? That seems anticlimactic. Though I'm not sure what name would actually be...climactic. I'm also going to point out that it's super awkward for Chuck to be watching Sarah and Shaw suck face. Though I suppose it's a refreshing twist that he's invading her privacy for once. The Fellas explain to Chuckthat the Ring thought Shaw was dead, but he's actually just soon-to-be-dead...or "double dead," as they put it once Chuck explains that he's upset because Shaw is messing around with "his girl."

When Chuck heads over to Shaw's place to kill him face to face (an excuse the Fellas accept for not sniping him immediately), he "acts" out a whole scene about how he's going to kill Shaw for taking "Sam." Shaw, only sort of playing along, suggests that Chuck blew his chances with Sam. He receives a punch in the face for his troubles. Rafe, the assassin Chuck is impersonating, escapes from custody, kills the Fellas (no!!!), and bursts in on Chuck and Shaw's fight, interrupting Shaw's possibly (but not definitely) fictitious attempts to strangle Chuck. Even as Rafe holds a gun to Sarah's head Chuck doesn't flash, but when a shot is finally fired it's Rafe who winds up on the ground with a hole in the head, thanks to Casey's mad sniping skills. I really shouldn't be surprised he's one of the five.