Orion's laptop as seen in Chuck Versus the Predator
Orion's Laptop is a "next generation" portable computer developed by Orion aka Stephen Bartowski and which features first in Chuck Versus the Predator.
According to General Beckman, the laptop is dangerous, as it is capable of being used to override military defenses and hijacking computerized weaponry.
Relevance[]
The laptop is sent to the Buy More by Orion and addressed to Chuck, with the intention that he use it to contact Orion when he is ready. However, Lester, mistaking it for the new Roark Instruments R7, intercepts the package and claims to be Chuck, and signs for the laptop, taking it to "Jeff's Office" (a disused toilet cubicle). The pair, along with Morgan, start the laptop up, and unwittingly set a real-life MQ-1 Predator assault drone to target their own Burbank Buy More store.
Casey, Sarah and Chuck, therefore, believe that Orion is out to kill Chuck by targeting the store. However, as the Predator approaches, Morgan decides to change the co-ordinates and instead sends the Predator to attack the Beverly Hills branch of the Buy More. Chuck realizes the rapid change in direction means Orion couldn't be behind this, and eventually locates the laptop and retrieves it, before canceling the air strike just as the Predator is about to launch a missile.
Later, when Beckman orders the laptop to be locked in Castle, Chuck surreptitiously uses the laptop to contact Orion, who arranges to meet him. However, a Fulcrum agent forces Chuck to take him to the meet, where Fulcrum agents apprehend the man thought to be Orion and place him on a helicopter. Orion then overrides the laptop controls and sets the Predator drone to blow up the helicopter, despite Chuck's attempt to save him.
Sometime before this, Orion leaves Chuck with instructions on how to remove the Intersect. Chuck assumes Orion is dead, but it is later revealed that the "Orion" blown up in the helicopter was in fact just one of Orion's agents.
In Chuck Versus the Dream Job, Chuck discovers that Orion is a code name used by his father, Stephen. Two more of Orion's laptops were revealed to exist. One was in a base underneath the Bartowski old house and the other was located behind the seat of Stephen Bartowski's Mustang.
In Season Four, Orion's laptop became the center of attention when Ellie and Devon, found the laptop hidden in a Mustang that Stephen had left for his daughter. Devon had to call the Nerd Herd department, where Jeff and Lester came over as the laptop was unable to function. However, Devon had to offer the entire Buy More store his medical services pro bono. After Jeff and Lester managed to get the laptop to function, he immediately tells everyone to leave, preserving the secrets in the laptop.
After running the laptop, it performed a scan. Ellie and Devon had been studying on the brain scan and found out the laptop contains high amount of data, meant to be absorbed into the brain. Devon later gave the laptop to Chuck when Ellie didn't want it, although she regrets it later and wants it back. Chuck, after having the Intersect recently suppressed by Mary Bartowski, receives the Intersect 2.0 once again - or even possibly a more updated version of it - when he uses the laptop.
Trivia[]
- According to Lester, the laptop is liquid-cooled, encased in a titanium housing, and possesses an overclocked processor.