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
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We learn more about Diana, who used to be the daughter of a diplomat. She’s not crooked, but she’s working on Peter. They have the box and are trying to trace the people behind everything.
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Diana and Peter are at Fowler’s meeting. Someone arrives. He tries to do a runner. He manages to get away.
The new case is looking into a potentially corrupt senator named Jennings. An assistant is ratting him out. There are two sets of books. He set up a straw donor scam.
Neal has got an idea of a scam. Good bad guy, bad cop.
Burke will be the bad cop and Neal will be the good bad guy. Burke puts some pressure on Jennings. Jennings is looking for another fixer. The FBI has fixed Neal up with a new ID. It’s flawless.
He has an interview with Jennings. He plants a bug and gets hired. Burke meets with Diana in his home. He lied to Neal. Someone is watching them. They get a composite of the runner. Diana lifted the box because Burke asked her to. They are laying plans to get the people behind this. Diana isn’t crooked.
He goes to the Senator’s office early. He finds a badge with leads Neal to a brothel. The senator is having Burke surveilled. Neal says that the girl in the photos is a prostitute. The girl is Diana. So the Senator’s security guy is surveilling Burke. Neal discovers that Burke lied to him. He never lied to him.
Neal talks it over with Moz. Diana has no trouble posing as a prostitute. Barrow, Jenning’s fixer, meets with Diana. He’s some high-class pimp. He needs Diana to generate $10K for him tonight. Neal goes into the club. He tells Peter to go see Moz at his place.
Moz and Peter go on a scavenger hunt to find some money.
They get the money in time. Diana is in. The security guy tells Neal that Barrow is going to have a chat with Diana to see what she knows about Burke.
Diana enters his suite and she finds him with a silenced pistol waiting for him. Diana warns him not to pull the gun or she’ll put a bullet through his shoulder. She’s an undercover FBI agent. He goes for the gun and Diana shoots him in the shoulder.
Barrow rolls on Jennings. They arrest him.
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