Peter tries to find Neal on a remote island before a bounty hunter locates him first in the Season 4 premiere.
White Collar is about the unlikely partnership of a con artist and an FBI agent who have been playing cat and mouse for years. Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer), a charming criminal mastermind, is finally caught by his nemesis, FBI Agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay). When Neal escapes from a maximum-security prison to find his long-lost love, Peter nabs him once again. Rather than returning to jail, Neal suggests an alternate plan: He'll provide his criminal expertise to assist the Feds in catching other elusive criminals in exchange for his eventual freedom. Initially wary, Peter quickly finds that Neal provides insight and intuition that can't be found on the right side of the law.Possibly repentant con man Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) and his unrepentant pal Mozzie (Willie Garson) finished last season with some serious cliff-hanging. Neal, who has been working for the FBI agent who busted him — Tim DeKay’s Peter Burke — cut the anklet that monitored his probation. He and Mozz then sold an expensive piece of recovered stolen Nazi art and boarded a plane to an island that has no extradition treaty with the U.S.
This kind of scrambles Neal’s gig, not to mention making it tricky to put the whole premise of the show back together.
So the first thing that happens this season is that things get complicated further. A ruthless FBI agent, played by guest star Mekhi Phifer, decides to score some points by tracking Caffrey down. This threatens to blow the whole “island paradise” plan after only a few weeks.
Peter wants to find Neal, too, for more humane reasons, and Peter’s wife, Elizabeth (Tiffani Thiessen), who also likes Neal, gets to join in the hunt.
We won’t spoil things except to say viewers should not necessarily expect the immediate untangling of a knot this complex.
We can reveal, however, that the hunky Bomer briefly sports a goatee and that while he’s on the island, he buys a new hat.
The questions to where Neal ran to, the repercussions Peter might face, and if Neal can ever return to work with the FBI are answered in the fourth season.
"Collar" is about a former con artist, thief and forger named Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) who has struck a deal with FBI agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay) to aid the bureau in solving crimes while wearing a tracking anklet. The two men have had their issues over the years, but have not only achieved a certain level of trust but also developed a strong friendship as well. At the end of last season, Peter was instrumental in helping Neal escape before he was rounded up by Agent Kramer (Beau Bridges) and forced to work with him instead of Peter.
At the start of the new season, Peter has to walk a fine line between protecting Neal and dealing with agent Kyle Collins (Mekhi Phifer), out to track down and capture Caffrey no matter what it takes. This time, the bureau wants to put Caffrey back behind bars.
So where is Neal? Living a life of seeming leisure on a tropical isle beyond the reach of extradition treaties, but not necessarily beyond the reach of Collins.
Since the genre itself starts off very close to satire, it's easy for a show to devolve into parody and idiocy - remember when David Addison turned into a freaking frog on Moonlighting? Luckily, White Collar hasn't gone in that direction.
In fact, it is funny, clever, well written, the cast is great, and they have obviously made a clear choice to focus on character relationships and not to obsess over getting all the real-life details exactingly accurate.
If you want heavy, serious drama you should watch The Wire; if you want silly comedy, watch Chuck; but if you want something smart and funny, but light, try White Collar. You can think of it as Burn Notice's older, more mature, brother.
(For the record, I like and enjoy every show mentioned in this review - except for maybe that frog episode.)
White Collar is about the unlikely partnership of a con artist and an FBI agent who have been playing cat and mouse for years. Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer), a charming criminal mastermind, is finally caught by his nemesis, FBI Agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay). When Neal escapes from a maximum-security prison to find his long-lost love, Peter nabs him once again. Rather than returning to jail, Neal suggests an alternate plan: He'll provide his criminal expertise to assist the Feds in catching other elusive criminals in exchange for his eventual freedom. Initially wary, Peter quickly finds that Neal provides insight and intuition that can't be found on the right side of the law.Possibly repentant con man Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) and his unrepentant pal Mozzie (Willie Garson) finished last season with some serious cliff-hanging. Neal, who has been working for the FBI agent who busted him — Tim DeKay’s Peter Burke — cut the anklet that monitored his probation. He and Mozz then sold an expensive piece of recovered stolen Nazi art and boarded a plane to an island that has no extradition treaty with the U.S.
This kind of scrambles Neal’s gig, not to mention making it tricky to put the whole premise of the show back together.
So the first thing that happens this season is that things get complicated further. A ruthless FBI agent, played by guest star Mekhi Phifer, decides to score some points by tracking Caffrey down. This threatens to blow the whole “island paradise” plan after only a few weeks.
Peter wants to find Neal, too, for more humane reasons, and Peter’s wife, Elizabeth (Tiffani Thiessen), who also likes Neal, gets to join in the hunt.
We won’t spoil things except to say viewers should not necessarily expect the immediate untangling of a knot this complex.
We can reveal, however, that the hunky Bomer briefly sports a goatee and that while he’s on the island, he buys a new hat.
The questions to where Neal ran to, the repercussions Peter might face, and if Neal can ever return to work with the FBI are answered in the fourth season.
"Collar" is about a former con artist, thief and forger named Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) who has struck a deal with FBI agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay) to aid the bureau in solving crimes while wearing a tracking anklet. The two men have had their issues over the years, but have not only achieved a certain level of trust but also developed a strong friendship as well. At the end of last season, Peter was instrumental in helping Neal escape before he was rounded up by Agent Kramer (Beau Bridges) and forced to work with him instead of Peter.
At the start of the new season, Peter has to walk a fine line between protecting Neal and dealing with agent Kyle Collins (Mekhi Phifer), out to track down and capture Caffrey no matter what it takes. This time, the bureau wants to put Caffrey back behind bars.
So where is Neal? Living a life of seeming leisure on a tropical isle beyond the reach of extradition treaties, but not necessarily beyond the reach of Collins.
Since the genre itself starts off very close to satire, it's easy for a show to devolve into parody and idiocy - remember when David Addison turned into a freaking frog on Moonlighting? Luckily, White Collar hasn't gone in that direction.
In fact, it is funny, clever, well written, the cast is great, and they have obviously made a clear choice to focus on character relationships and not to obsess over getting all the real-life details exactingly accurate.
If you want heavy, serious drama you should watch The Wire; if you want silly comedy, watch Chuck; but if you want something smart and funny, but light, try White Collar. You can think of it as Burn Notice's older, more mature, brother.
(For the record, I like and enjoy every show mentioned in this review - except for maybe that frog episode.)