That is a valid point. Thank you for your input.

I’ve always felt that Shaw was a problem from the start. When he first came on board, ostensibly to develop Chuck’s skills as a spy, he seemed to make one bad move after another. He sent Chuck on his first mission poorly prepared and it was a miracle he wasn’t killed by Panzer and the “stewardess” on the plane; he messed with Chuck’s head and heart by pursuing Sarah; and he treated Casey dismissively. He did all he could to undermine the esprit de corps and team cohesion within the Bartowski operation.

Since the CIA seems to be able to sneak intersects in and out of people with just glasses or a handheld video game, I assume they might’ve taken the intersect out of him while he was in jail.

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We can only hope! Subway (3.18) was my favorite episode of all time with 3.19 close behind and inextricably linked, of course. When Shaw shows up at the hearing room, I was screaming at the TV! And they when Chuck was detained for throwing the blade (or was it a pen?) at him – that was awesome TV!

Easily not the best villain–the best villain was Chuck’s mom’s live in villain, until he turned to the good side.

“We’ll realize that Decker and his plan has all been manipulated by Daniel Shaw from his [prison] cell,” reveals EP Chris Fedak. “We wanted to do a monster story. We wanted to do a Christmas story. Christmas is such a haunted holiday, like in the Charles Dickens tradition. So when we started thinking about this year’s Christmas story, we thought, ‘Let’s bring back a monster from our past.’ At the end of Season 3, Brandon [Routh] was such a good ‘Mwahaha’ bad guy. I was like, “We gotta bring back the ‘Mwahaha.’” Fedak calls the hour “one of our most crazy, intense” episodes ever, adding, “It’s Daniel Shaw haunting Sarah Walker. Brandon came back, and he was great. He just plays an icy killer like nobody else.”