Sarah Walker (Chuck)
fictional character from Chuck
Sarah Lisa Bartowski (née Walker) is the alias of one of the main characters of the television show Chuck on NBC. She is portrayed by Yvonne Strahovski and is one of two agents assigned by the NSA and CIA to protect Chuck Bartowski after he unwittingly downloads the secret government computer known as the Intersect into his brain. Throughout the series, she is Chuck's primary love interest and initially poses as Chuck's girlfriend to conceal their identities as spies from the public. In the Season 4 finale, "Chuck Versus the Cliffhanger", Chuck and Sarah were married, dismissed from government service, and given ownership of Volkoff Industries, with which they bought the Burbank Buy More and the secret Castle base thereunder. During the final three episodes of season 5, Sarah gets her memories suppressed due to a faulty Intersect upload, the signs of recovery from which are exhibited throughout the final episode. At an episode later in the series her real first name is known to be Sam, and a while later her real middle name is said to be Lisa.
Biography
Very little about Sarah's past is revealed throughout the series. According to one dossier, she was born in May 1982, though Chuck stated she was 28 years old before he met her father for the first time in a 2008 episode. The only people outside of her family confirmed to know her real name, "Sam", were Director Graham, Daniel Shaw, and Chuck; she confessed her middle name is Lisa.
The relationship between her parents began to fall apart after her father's disastrous proposal, and Sarah and her father were largely on their own at least as early as 1988. Her father was a con artist she introduced to Chuck as "Jack Burton," and much of her youth was spent moving from city to city under a series of aliases, actively participating in her father's schemes.
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