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White Collar Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 2010 - 2011
Episode 1
Withdrawal
Tue, Jul 13, 201050 mins
Manhattan has the latest branch of a bank to receive calling cards from the Architect, a master robber who got away with three earlier, similarly bloodless hold-ups. Peter, reinstated, gets jailed Neal his ankle device parole condition back, but on a trial basis for both of them. Neal proves the bank's security as insufficient and works out the likely identity of the Architect, squeaky clean but bored and arrogant Wall Street mogul Edward Walker. Catching him proves hard, but his easily seduced secretary and the realization of an inside accomplice are key. Meanwhile, as Mozzie helps Burke keep track of Neal's mental recovery, he discovers that the mysterious music box has disappeared from evidence.
Episode 2
Need to Know
Tue, Jul 20, 201044 mins
Tipped off by campaign official Dylan Ledding, the FBI suspects slick senator Gary Jennings of illegal campaign fund raising and having inconvenient witnesses eliminated by Robert Barrow. Burke poses as a bulldog agent who promises to dig until he makes the earlier rejected charges stick. Neil gets recruited with a fake Harvard wonder boy identity and proves himself by solving a non-existent problem of his own making which even Mozzie fell for.
Episode 3
Copycat Caffrey
Tue, Jul 27, 201044 mins
Professor George Oswald teaches a class on masterly con artists, including Neil. The FBI suspects him and/or his students of copycat robberies, so Burke asks eager Neil to turn up for a guest lecture and get the ball rolling. Manny Veselic and Justin Magary are all too eager to work with the master to steal paintings from a museum; however, Oswald stayed a step ahead, improving a scam so even Neil is surprised. Meanwhile the music box's secrets keep fascinating Burke and Neil, who got hold of a broken-off ornamental figure.
Episode 4
By the Book
Tue, Aug 3, 201043 mins
For the first time ever, Mozzie must turn for help to the FBI, via Neal, desperately worried when the person of his affection, waitress Gina De Stefano from a local diner, disappears. Mozzie seeks to find and rescue her using cryptic clues, often references to book texts, left by Gina. Neal's odd behavior alerts Peter. Turns out Gina's boyfriend, petty thief Tommy Barnes, has long been on the FBI's radar as he works for a big, dangerous fish - Colombian 'cigars' dealer Navarro - who had Gina abducted to get Tommy to return something he stole. Neal concocts a convoluted plan to catch Navarro and liberate Gina, but an overlooked detail could get Mozzie killed.
Episode 5
Unfinished Business
Tue, Aug 10, 201043 mins
Neal finds himself working with Sara Ellis, an insurance investigator who has it for him. He and Peter are helping her find out who has possession of Japanese bonds. They believe that a man named Mr. Black, whom they believe is a courier for the one in possession of the bonds, wants to move them, so they come up with a plan for Neal to take his place. When he meets the contact, he gives Neal a gun and brings him to the apartment of Ellis, whom he has to kill. When they fake her death, she along with Peter and Neal try to find out who wants her dead.
Episode 6
In the Red
Tue, Aug 17, 201043 mins
The arrest of a jewel thief puts Neal (posing as fence/collector) and the FBI on the trail of the laundering agent (adoption lawyer Luke Donovan) who extorts adoptive parents with fake claims from fictitious biological mothers to pay off his gambling debts to a Russian mobster. After challenging Luke at cards and a face off with the mob, Peter and Neal arrest Donovan. Meanwhile, Mozzie breaks into Sara's apartment and retrieves the Kate recording, soon recovered by Sara Ellis and her detectives searching Neal's apartment. Sara promises, after hearing the recording, to help Neal with his investigation. The recording reveals that Kate called an unidentified person shortly before the jet exploded, setting Neal and Mozz after whoever was on the other end of the phone.
Episode 7
Prisoner's Dilemma
Tue, Aug 24, 201044 mins
Peter's quality evening plan for home-cooking stew or his wife again falls out as Peter's big boss needs him to chaperon Neal as only person skilled enough to help John Deckard's US Marshalls team catch FBI agent Jack Franklin, presumed to have gone rogue. Peter wants to give his former colleague, suspected of getting rid of key witness Rebecca Vidal in a mob case, a fair chance. Neal proves himself an even better salesman at the luxury cars dealership where she works, and tracks her down. Franklin comes and surrenders his weapon to Peter, whom he convinces to have been set up by Deckard, the real witness program traitor. Cued by Neal, who even talks the boss out of turning them in, they dodge the fiends, seeking shelter with Mozzie, and go after proof against Deckard, and Neals sets a trap for both him and his mob boss.
Episode 8
Company Man
Tue, Aug 31, 201044 mins
Wesley Kent's microchip firm's head researcher, Joseph Hayes, is murdered by a poisonous overdose, presumably on account of his revolutionary invention. The duo goes undercover, but due to his major, Peter now gets the cushy alias of pampered rating agency accountancy expert. Neal joins the competitive junior executives in a cubicle, but gathers no less information there. After Mozzie discovers Peter has the music box, he must accept to continue the Kate investigation officially, with a stuck-up FBI agent as his equally unamused partner.
Episode 9
Point Blank
Tue, Sep 7, 201044 mins
Realizing the music box is part of the treasures Alex Hunter robbed from a single ship, Neal lets Mozzie fake an FBI file so Burke will enlist departmental help to investigate just that. They realize the musical code requires an expert, Akihiro, but he's found murdered later. Neal is found out having arranged the music box being stolen and donated to a Russian embassy, then refuses to accept being 'benched' when the trail leads to rogue FBI agent Garrett Fowler, whom he presumes murdered Kate. His excessive risks pay off.
Episode 10
Burke's Seven
Tue, Jan 18, 201143 mins
Mozzie, shot by a hitman, is saved by surgery. Neal agrees to go by the FBI book to see that the hitman (soon identified as Julian Larssen) and whoever hired him are caught and punished. Suspiciously, Larssen is easily arrested after all known forgers help burn his known aliases except one, yet he somehow manages to plant false evidence pointing to Burke as the killer. That suffices for Peter's suspension from the FBI, leaving only Neal's ways.
Episode 11
Forging Bonds
Tue, Jan 25, 201143 mins
Upon learning who is responsible for Kate's death, Peter wants Neal to tell him all he knows about him, but because it means revealing some of his past criminal acts, Peter tells him that, for the next twelve hours, everything he says is off the record; so, Neal tells him of how a few years ago he first came to the city and how he first met Mozzie, then how he later met the man, Vincent Adler, then how he also met Alex and Kate, and of the con which first brought him to Peter's attention.
Episode 12
What Happens in Burma
Tue, Feb 1, 201143 mins
The desperate UN ambassador calls in a favor from the FBI to help his estranged son, a human rights activist who was arrested in Burma and faces an atrocious sentence for a ruby theft. Neal, who grew up fatherless, convinces reluctant Peter to condone dodgy means against the Myanmar junta. After finding out the true master thief, Andrew Collins, Neal has an irresistible fake made by Mozzie as a trap for greedy Burmese ambassador Kyi, but it can only work if they find a way around the inviolability of his diplomatic pouch confided to his assistant Suu.
Episode 13
Countermeasures
Tue, Feb 8, 201143 mins
Despite Burke's incredulity, Neal has the FBI investigate the potential danger to his landlady June after the release of her slick ex and late husband's friend, Bradford 'Ford' Toman. Burke is all the more interested when fingerprinting shows the presence of elusive master forger Jonas Ganz, never convicted but presumed extremely dangerous. Neal still takes the front in an elaborate dollar counterfeiting trap.
Episode 14
Payback
Tue, Feb 22, 201144 mins
Neal's old rival Matthew Kellar proposes a deal with FBI, wherein he will give the feds information to a threat on National Security if his transfer to SuperMax prison is stopped. When the deal is refused by FBI, he kidnaps Peter with help from his old partner and asks for $2.5 mil. in exchange. Now, Neal must put everything on the line. including one thing he holds closest to his heart, to save Peter.
Episode 15
Power Play
Tue, Mar 1, 201142 mins
Peter runs late, so to allay the nerves of a first-time informant, Neal identifies himself as Peter Burke. To keep the pretense going, Peter later takes pickpocket lessons from Mozzie to pose as Neal. The goal: take down Andrew Stanzler, who, with a cohort, creates faux power outages to bilk New York City during a heat wave.
Episode 16
Under the Radar
Tue, Mar 8, 201142 mins
Sara uncovers what Adler is trying to find and almost the exact location of it. While the rest of the department looks for Adler, the team looks for Alex because she might know more about the submarine than anyone else. Adler kidnaps Alex, Peter and Neal and locks them in a warehouse where he's already stored the submarine. There is a slight problem - the submarine hatch is loaded with enough TNT to blow up a square block. Adler wants Neal to open it. Meanwhile, the team realizes that Neal and Peter are missing and starts searching for them with Mozzie's fractal antenna. Alex, Neal and Peter find the treasure of the century in the belly of the boat.
