THE VAMPIRE DIARIES Sends A Rose to CHUCK

Zachary Levi and Lauren Cohan in "Chuck vs. the Masquerade"

We last saw Lauren Cohan suffering from a painful werewolf bite as vampire Rose, before being mercifully staked by her lover Damon on The Vampire Diaries. She begins a multi-episode arc on NBC’s Chuck tonight that is shrouded in mystery, but certainly won’t involve anything supernatural! (The Intersect is totally different – it’s science-fiction.) Guest starring as Vivian McArthur, Cohan arrives on the scene as something of a reclusive, bumbling, but super smart wealthy young woman studying at Oxford. In “Chuck vs. the Masquerade,” Chuck, Sarah and Casey are dispatched to find Vivian as part of a mission, and Chuck soon realizes that they share something on common. Or is it someone? Speculation runs rampant that the two are related, or that Vivian is related to Sarah.

Curious? Tune in tonight at 8/7c on NBC for “Chuck vs. the Masquerade” and get to the bottom of the Vivian’s appearance.