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The pilot episode of White Collar was most definitely slick and smart, as well as charming, as Matt Bormer will charm the pants off anyone he meets as his suave alter ego Neal Caffrey.
This show most definitely fits in the USA Network’s slew of shows, which include Burn Notice and Royal Pains. It has good pacing and interesting chemistry between Matt Bormer and Tim DeKay, something that isn’t easy to fake. They work well on the screen, there is no denying this.
Basically, Dekay’s Burke is a white collar specialist who put Bormer’s Caffrey away a few years ago. In order to reduce his sentence a bit further, after having escaped a super max jail, Caffrey offers to help Burke to catch the illusive Dutchman, a criminal that Burke has also been chasing for a few years. This setup kind of reminds me of Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can as well as The Sting with Redford and Newman.
What’s also interesting, is that the guys don’t just keep this professional. They also involve their personal lives. Burke needs help to make his hot wife Elizabeth, played by Tiffani Thiessen, happy while Caffrey is searching for his wife that just vanished. All in all, a great show with good actors. I recommend it.
Warning: spoilers ahead
They are after an Israeli counterfeiter called the Ghost. They are interviewing a witness. An Israeli model named Tara was at a party. She saw the Ghost and someone else arguing. The other guy was murdered. They didn’t see her hiding in the closet. Guvat killed a known associate.
Burke thinks that this is linked to NYC’s fashion week. Caffrey thinks that they can throw a party and have Tara will ID him. Caffrey says that Elizabeth will help them out and give them a good deal. That’s Burke’s wife. They go through the FBI seized goods for supplies. Burke wants to throw the party in a seized loft. Caffrey has got a better idea. It’s a rooftop garden. Neal meets Lauren Cruze, a hot FBI agent that was transferred to the task force.
They find a guy speaking Hebrew at the party. They are sure that Guvat is here. Guvat dumps his phone on another guy. This happened after Caffrey swiped Dmitri’s phone. They get the wrong guy and Guvat is making his way away.
Moz comes to see Caffrey. He still wants to find Kate. He told Kate that he kept all of this spoils in San Diego. Some guy is making her look for it. When Kate came to say goodbye, he thinks that Kate might have left him a message. Moz tells him to ask for the footage.
They didn’t lose Guvat. They are tailing him.
Elizabeth is meeting Burke in a park. She got him something. It’s a new watch.
They trace Dmitri and the model Guvat was with. He is at a photo shoot. Dmitri is a buyer. Caffret poses as a rival buyer. He meets Guvat at a hotel, but is killed shortly after.
Dmitri was killed with a dress. They find a place for a high tech security system. It’s basically a USB flash drive. They find the designer. He says that his son was kidnapped. Guvat is responsible. He had to smuggle something in using the dress. Once in the US, his son was released. The designer says that Guvat took the wrong dress. They are analyzing the data on it. They use the dress as bait. Tara is modeling it. Guvat calls and offers 5 million for the dress. Caffrey says that he wants 10. Guvat says that he tried to reason with him and hangs up.
Tara was kidnapped on her way to the safehouse. Guvat phones Caffrey. Guvat wants Burke to make the exchange. He found his card on Tara.
The thread in the dress holds the holographic code of the latest European currencies. They will be putting a counterfeit one on it.
Guvat calls him and tells him to run to the fountain. He doesn’t want any of the FBI surveillance to move. Guvat tells Burke that Tara is modeling an explosive belt that can be remote detonated with a cell phone. Caffrey gets an idea. They will try and jam Guvat’s phone. Everyone keeps dialing it. Cruze tackles him.
Caffrey gets to watch the tape of Kate. He sees her signaling him ‘Bottle’ in Morse code. It’s the bottle that she left for him.
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