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White Collar Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
14 Episodes 2009 - 2010
Episode 1
Pilot
Fri, Oct 23, 200955 mins
With a few months left on his four-year sentence, criminal mastermind Neal Caffrey escapes from maximum security prison to save his relationship with his girlfriend. FBI Agent Peter Burke, the man who had chased him for years and had finally caught him, is called in to track him down. He easily finds Neal at his girlfriend's apartment, deflated and defeated. She has completely disappeared. Back in prison and with four years added to his sentence, Neal decides to make a deal with Agent Burke to help him in finding other master criminals. The deal is made and Neal is released, with a GPS ankle monitor, of course, into the custody of Agent Burke. The uneasy partnership proves a success and Neal becomes an official FBI consultant, living large, to Agent Burke's astonishment and frustration, in a wealthy widow's guest-room. Neal, also, secretly brings in an old friend to help him find his girlfriend.
Episode 2
Threads
Fri, Oct 30, 200943 mins
It's Fashion Week, and while Neal is enjoying himself, Peter is less enthusiastic about the legion of beautiful women that has descended on Manhattan. Things get worse when one of those beautiful women is witness to a murder. Peter and Neal interview a model named Tara who watched as the notorious Israeli counterfeiter Ghovat killed one of his business associates. Peter thinks Ghovat is in town with something to sell, and fashion week gives him the perfect cover. But how to find this man they call "The Ghost?" Neal has an unorthodox suggestion: throw a party. Judging by Ghovat's proclivity for gorgeous women and glamorous scenes, it's only a matter of time before he shows up. With Elizabeth's event planning expertise, Peter and Neal plan a lavish affair designed to catch the eye of the counterfeiter. Neal and Tara work the party, keeping an eye out for Ghovat, while Lauren Cruz, a beautiful, whip-smart agent transferred from the Violent Crimes Unit, keeps an eye on Neal. The trap is set, but the wary Ghovat slips through the FBI's fingers.
Episode 3
Book of Hours
Fri, Nov 6, 200955 mins
Mob baron Burrelli asks FBI's help to solve the theft of his parish church's Bible, from 17th century Naples, where it would have worked several miracles. Neal assumes it may be meant for healing, as it's very hard to fence, having contacted expert Fiametta, who points out it's actually a breviary, not a Bible. Neal and Peter soon find the vagrant who was hired to steal it but robbed himself, and suspect a link with the nearby murder of rivaling mob family member, which is alas assigned exclusive to a jealously rivaling FBI agent from organized crime.
Episode 4
Flip of the Coin
Fri, Nov 13, 200943 mins
Burke's wife brings a friend of hers to see him. She tells him her husband a soldier is being sought for smuggling gold into the country. Burke tells her that her husband should turn himself in which he does but claims to be innocent. But Burke says the evidence against him is irrefutable; his fingerprints and hair were found in the gold. The soldier claims that someone from the State Department tried to get him to bring the gold in but he refused. With Neal's help they deduce that the evidence against him may have been planted. And it takes them to a news reporter who interviewed him who was also overseas at the time the gold was being prepped to be sent. So they think the reporter and State Department man are involved and try to prove it.
Episode 5
The Portrait
Fri, Nov 20, 200943 mins
A painting is stolen, and Peter and Neal are tasked with finding it. They get a lead on the thief and set a meeting, but something goes wrong and the man disappears. They try to find him using info he uttered at the meeting. Later, a curator from Europe claims that the painting was stolen from his museum years ago. When the painting is recovered, he expects it to be returned to him, but Neal talks to the owner and learns that her family has a connection to the painting, making him wonder who the painting really belongs to.
Episode 6
All In
Fri, Nov 27, 200943 mins
Peter seeks an undercover FBI agent who vanished while trying to get something on an Asian criminal. He sends Neal into it under the guise of being a high roller playing Pai Gow. While in the midst of the operation, a raid puts Neal close to the hostess. When they're alone, she disengages Neal's wire and reveals that she's an Interpol agent. In exchange for information about Kate, she wants Neal's assurance the FBI doesn't interfere with her operation. Though Neal reveals nothing to Peter, Peter checks her out, leaving Neal to choose who to side with.
Episode 7
Free Fall
Fri, Dec 4, 200943 mins
Neal Caffrey has no alibi for the robbery of the world's most exotic pink diamond from a Manhattan fashion house's safe, a gem which was replaced by a masked man resembling Neal with a synthetic stone bearing his initials. Peter Burke has nothing to prevent Neal being jailed by a hostile agent from OPR, the FBI's internal affairs branch. Neal escapes (helped only by Mozzie), 'hides' at the Burke home (invited by Elisabeth), and sets out to prove that the only other logical suspect, Adrian Tulane, faked his alibi and was hired by a third party.
Episode 8
Hard Sell
Tue, Jan 19, 201044 mins
The FBI needs to infiltrate a dodgy Wall Street investment broker firm, set a trap, and play the partners against each other, so Burke has Neal apply as a new miracle salesman to win their confidence and maneuver Peter in position. Meanwhile, Neal trusts only Mozzie to help him find out if Burke betrayed him in the matter of Kate, based solely on a picture showing what seems to be his ring.
Episode 9
Bad Judgment
Tue, Jan 26, 201044 mins
Peter Burke accepts to help David Sullivan and other victims of a plot in which people are forced to take and pay off a second mortgage due to wrong foreclosures. Neil finds out those are all signed by federal judge Michelle Clark. Mozz helps him collect evidence from her chambers, but Fowler helps Clark turn the table on Burke who tried to trick her into bribing him. Neil must turn the tables on both the fiends.
Episode 10
Vital Signs
Tue, Feb 2, 201043 mins
When June's granddaughter Samantha needs a donor organ, Peter and Neal stumble on the trail of illegal organ trade. Neal approaches Dr. Wayne Powell, the ringleader, posing as an 'approachable' doctor. That leaves only Peter to seduce his female cahoot. Finally an elaborate 'Indian' trap is set.
Episode 11
Home Invasion
Tue, Feb 9, 201043 mins
A female thief escapes the scene of a murdered art collector by posing as a victim. Neal helps the bothersome Burke (who's invited himself into Neal's luxury home while his apartment has state of the art HiFi installed) identify and find her. They work out that her set of robberies target a historically priceless set of imperial Chinese jade elephants (a matter of diplomatic interest) but find setting a trap unusually hard.
Episode 12
Bottlenecked
Tue, Feb 23, 201043 mins
Neal accepts his equally masterly rival Matthew Keller's challenge to re-create an extremely rare bottle of Bordeaux wine once owned by Ben Franklin. Initially unwilling to act without legal cause, Burke agrees that someone with Neal's skills but without police guidance is better stopped altogether. Keller, however, thinks ahead, perhaps even further then Neal and Mozzie.
Episode 13
Front Man
Tue, Mar 2, 201043 mins
When the daughter of a man Neal once robbed is kidnapped, and the kidnapper is a man with whom Neal once worked and betrayed and who will only deal with Neal, the FBI agent in charge of the kidnapping takes possession of Neal and sends him to meet with the man. When Peter talks to the father and learns that Rice intends to trade Neal for the daughter, he's too late to warn Neal. Neal is grabbed and coerced to help pull a job. Neal gets word to Mozzie, who informs Peter, who figures out what the kidnapper plans to do.
Episode 14
Out of the Box
Tue, Mar 9, 201043 mins
Alex Hunter finally teams up with Neal to steal the music box, which she located in the Italian consul's safe (no doubt obtained illegally). Peter smells a rat but is kept at a distance, as the plan requires entering a witness protection relocation to Canada, arranged by dirty agent Garrett Fowler. An explosion changes everything.
