The USA television network’s pilot episode of the new crime drama, White Collar, premiered October 23, 2009. The show stars Matt Bomer as the highly skilled con-man, Neal Caffrey. Tim Dekay stars as Peter Burke, the FBI agent who captured Caffrey. Agent Burke comes to a dead end in his investigation of a counterfeiter named The Dutchman, who continues to elude capture.
The pilot episode starts out with Neal Caffrey managing to break out of a maximum-security prison. To catch him the FBI calls on agent Peter Burke, someone who knows Caffrey’s habits. Burk believes that Neal escaped in order to find the love of his live, a woman named Kate. Peter goes to Kate’s apartment and finds Neal there, but Neal was too late because Kate was already gone.
Dreading the thought of having to spend more time in prison, Neal comes up with the idea to use his expertise in crime to help Peter catch The Dutchman, but only if he can get out of prison. Peter eventually accepts the offer on the condition that Neal wears a tracking device on his ankle.
To Peter’s dismay, Neal hooks up with a wealthy widow named June and trades his motel room for her lavish Manhattan mansion. He is also provided with a closet full of her late husband’s designer suits. Basically, Neal is fresh out of prison and already is living the high life.
They discover that the counterfeiter is using the paper from antique books to forge hundreds of rare 1944 Spanish Victory bonds. The Dutchman could make millions of dollars through these counterfeit bonds. Neal’s criminal expertise and shady underworld contacts lead them to discover that The Dutchman is a man named Curtis Hagen, who is a professional art restorer. After working together Peter has to admit that he and Neal make a great investigative team.
Feeling the heat is on him, Hagen books a flight out of the country before he can be apprehended. Now Neal must find a way to help apprehend Hagen within just seven days, or else he goes back to prison and loses any hope of discovering the whereabouts of Kate.
I found White Collar to be a smart and dynamic new drama with its rich, interesting plot and storyline that is both unique and creative. This is a real thinking man’s type of drama with a wealth of good humor to balance out the mildly tense drama.
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