White Collar Season 3 Countdown
Did Neal pull off the perfect crime? More about that later, but this was one of the best episodes of White Collar. Neal and Mozzie are on the offensive to recover the painting that Mozzie sold last week to afford a hit on their arc nemesis Keller. The two scheming thieves quickly recap the story of the treasure up to this point and what they have to do to make sure that the FBI doesn’t trace the painting back to them. Peter introduces his mentor, a master art crimes expert who doesn’t trust Neal. Peter then gives Neal a working deadline on the FBI’s pursuit of the painting.
Mozzie then gives Neal an exact deadline, a 48hr hourglass. Mozzie will leave regardless of Neal’s choice. The investigation heats up, but Neal and Mozzie are able to stay under the radar, though Peter is still keeping Neal in his gaze during the investigation. The painting ends up in the hands of an affluent arms dealer. Peter and Diana go in to secure a buy, by waving rare guns in the arms dealer’s face. When this idea is introduced, Diana’s face lights up about the prospect of handling such a rare gun. And to make the deal even sweeter, the gun comes incased in a suitcase and can fire while concealed. Nice. Keller finds Mozzie and asks once more for the treasure, and as always Mozzie says he doesn’t know anything about anything and refuses. Keller doesn’t take this lightly and swears Mozzie will regret this.
All that is left is the little matter of Neal swapping the real picture with the counterfeit he made and getting back into place before Peter knows he was gone. This was amazing to watch, since White Collar normally doesn’t do an Ocean 11’s thing, but they pulled it off nicely. Neal knows Peter too well and was able to set up the scenario in which the entire paint switch hinged on. Well one of the many things the switch hinged on. Neal was a master thief again, something that is nice to see since he has been playing the fence. The only complaint I have was that Neal was on the balcony looking at Peter and Diana too long. I might have been yelling at the TV for Neal to jump already.
Before I get to the end of the recap, some random observations:
It seems that everyone is now referring to NYC as Gotham City. I always pictured the big apple as Metropolis in the DC world. And is Peter Batman? That would have to make Neal a villain but which one?
Nice to see Neal wrap up his romance arc with the agent from DC. Neal was very classic Neal the entire time and he knew that she couldn’t go to her boss about their talk over drinks that lead to Neal knowing about the list. Very clever Neal.
In the end, Neal stayed in NYC and Mozzie kept up his end of the barging and left town. Mozzie feels that Neal is lying to himself about his change in lifestyle. I have a feeling that Mozzie will turn back up, especially for what happens next. Keller makes his move, which I felt like would result in someone’s death, but Keller kidnapping Elizabeth did change things up. The entire White Collar office with be changed. I think that Peter and Neal’s relationship will change since Peter will probably blame Neal for his wife being taken from him.
Original Air Date: 8/9/11
On USA Tuesday’s at 9/8c
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