The sound coming out of the warehouse comes from a printing press. Caffrey found Hagen’s warehouse thanks to Mos. Purdue for perdue, which means lost in French. Moz found Kate with a man that he knows in San Diego. If they lose him, Neal has to go back to prison. Hagen is leaving the country in a week for Spain.
He’s aloof and confident.īurke is stalking in his own wife. He’s an art restorer, specializing in Goya. Caffrey says that Curtis Hagen is the Dutchman. She melted away.īurke has to use his detecting skills to find out what his wife Elizabeth likes. Burke makes a snide comment about Caffrey’s wife fleeing the country to get away from him, and Caffrey shuts up.Ĭaffrey finds a friend waiting for him. Neal mentions that it’s going to be Burke’s anniversary. It would be compared to the one at the National Archives. He would claim to have found a box in Spain. Neal says that the bond is still redeemable for $248K. He went to the national archives to visit the Spanish victory bond. The Dutchman wants the paper of the book, which dates from 1944. They find the book dealer dead with a syringe plunged in his neck. It turns out that the man wasn’t his lawyer. Caffrey sees Diana flirting with a hottie. Before he can tell Burke what is up, a lawyer appears. He should stop flirting with her.īurke meets the book dealer, who’s extremely nervous. Burke tells Caffrey that Diana is a lesbian, so he’s got no chance with her. Burke has got his panties tied in a knot.Ĭaffrey meets Diana, Burke’s probie. Burke leaves him at a shitty hotel and says that he can venture anywhere within 2 miles of the hotel.Īt the thrift store, he meets an old lady who’s donating her dead husband’s wardrobe. Caffrey is wearing an apparently tamper-proof GPS ankle bracelet. If he helps him catch the Dutchman, this arrangement can become permanent. The wife asks him if he wouldn’t do the same for her.Ĭaffrey is released into Burke’s custody. Burke thinks that Caffrey is playing some side-angle. Burke doesn’t bite.īurke’s hot wife is played by Tiffani Thiessen. Caffrey wants to help Burke to catch him. He says that he knows why Burke calls him the Dutchman, he disappears each time they get close to him. He wants Burke to meet him back in prison in one week.ĭiana confirms it.
He says that it’s a security fiber for the new Canadian 100 dollar bill. Caffrey finds the thread from the Dutchman case. It took him a month and a half to escape a super max. The day that Neal stopped shaving he got a visit from Kate Moreau. Burke discovers that Caffrey planned his escape pretty thoroughly. Caffrey ran even though he had 3 months left on a 4-year sentence. A US Marshall named Thompson wants Peter Burke on the case, he is part of the White Collar Unit at the FBI. He gets a Rolls Royce by posing as a valet at a long term parking facility at the airport.Īn FBI agent named Burke is after The Dutchman. He was convicted for bond forgery, suspected in art theft, securities fraud, counterfeiting and racketeering. Some guy in jail is changing into a guard’s uniform. All in all, a great show with good actors. Burke needs help to make his hot wife Elizabeth, played by Tiffani Thiessen, happy while Caffrey is searching for his wife that just vanished. What’s also interesting, is that the guys don’t just keep this professional. This setup kind of reminds me of Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can as well as The Sting with Redford and Newman. 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. They work well on the screen, there is no denying this.īasically, Dekay’s Burke is a white collar specialist who put Bormer’s Caffrey away a few years ago. It has good pacing and interesting chemistry between Matt Bormer and Tim DeKay, something that isn’t easy to fake. This show most definitely fits in the USA Network’s slew of shows, which include Burn Notice and Royal Pains. 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.