#WhiteCollar this episode contained El calling Neal sexy, Neal and Peter switching identities and body language, El being attracted to criminal plotting, Peter going to crime school, Neal wistfully watching Peter and El kiss, and Richard Schiff, but that welding scene is what's gonna stick with me
#WhiteCollar Actual dialogue: Neal: And as a precaution, I'll be accompanying Elizabeth. Peter: As my wife's husband. Neal: Yep. Diana: [incredulous gay laugh]
#WhiteCollar He was just ... with open flame ... while Neal did illegal collage. I was so mad in the previous scene when Peter joked about sending Neal back to prison, and now I can't think about anything but welding and paper mache as totally chill companion crafts, so thanks for that I guess
#WhiteCollar I fully buy that New York's most criminally incompetent amateur metalsmiths would try out welding with an oxy-acetylene set-up on a wood table in a loft, but Mozzie turns into a crime mad scientist on a dime, you can't tell me he doesn't know what a MIG welder is
#WhiteCollar Mozzie is currently welding in full gear on the same table where Neal is sitting in no gear working on paper crafts. He isn't actually welding (it looks like the person in the shot is maybe annealing a wire?), the torch is wrong, and June's house should be on fire
do I know who that is 😭 I was so flattered and so aged at the same time
#WhiteCollar This is a great OT3 episode all around: Peter letting slip that he thinks of Neal as a Cary Grant type, Neal's shaky relief when Peter is safe, El and Peter's dry cleaning fight. Neal choosing Peter over Kate, again. The plot is one big "how did..." plot hole, but that's on brand
#WhiteCollar El is perfectly comfortable making an end run around the law/the feds/the system if that's what it takes, which makes her a great balancing force between Peter's "surely the system has no flaws" and Neal's "what if I took this Renoir home with me, as a treat?"
I turned it off in the eighth, so by sports superstition rules I think I'm not allowed to watch any more Mets postseason
#WhiteCollar I could not be more tired of Peter's judgy, condescending moralizing. Every time he gets a smug dig in about Neal needing to grow up, I want Neal to do a flawlessly anonymous diamond heist and then hide the diamonds all over Peter's house so he's still finding them years later