What Episode of White Collar Does Diana Have Her Baby

Previously - Peter became the white collar ASAC, Hagen blackmailed Neal to help him win his entreatment past destroying testify, Diana was meaning, and Peter told Neal that he was getting a new handler.

Every bit Neal practices his dance steps, Mozzie plays instructor. They choreograph the footwork Neal needs to avert the cameras in FBI evidence. It's non going well. Mozzie: "Since when exercise you overstep your marking." Neal: "Take it easy Bob Fosse." Bwah! They both are anxious. Neal over his new handler and Mozzie over Hagen'due south blackmail. He exposits that Hagen'southward bonds will be in evidence in 3 days. Neal: "If you lot're aiming to reduce my anxiety, I'1000 not the only one missing my mark." Neal meets his handler that morning and Moz thinks that's expert, since they are too close to the FBI. Mozzie: "Perchance your new handler volition remind us of why snakes don't fraternize with mongeese." Neal: "Mongeese?" Moz: "Mongooses?" Neal: "That'due south why I ever get with scorpions and frogs." Ha! Mozzie exposits the plan to historic period Hagen'south bonds using UV lite to disintegrate them. He's working on a calorie-free source and then Neal practices his nondetection trip the light fantastic toe until it's fourth dimension to go to the FBI. Peter says Neal'southward late but he counters that they spend 30 minutes drinking java anyway. Not today though. The FBI captured Brendan Holland, who runs a con version of Eastward-Bay chosen Gray Trade. Neal's more worried about his new handler whom he surmises is "late heart aged, curmudgeonly, prefers Sports Center to Masterpiece Theatre." Peter won't ostend or deny so Neal goes in cold. Jones and Diana coordinate the debrief and Neal doesn't win any points being late or his continual interruptions. The plan is to get later on the sellers before they notice the site is close downward. Neal counters that keeping Gray Trade open up gives them more fourth dimension while his new handler suggests they create fictional accounts to win the bids to keep from selling whatsoever contraband. Neal: "I guess I was wrong about curmudgeonly." Ha!

Peter introduces Neal to Agent David Siegel, his new handler, who flatters Neal for his skills. He previously had a CI, who got a deal patterned afterward Neal's. Siegel: "I desire to work with y'all Neal. Hey, you lot're the all-time there is. Your skills are unmatched and your smarts are unparalleled. You might be the most valuable asset the FBI has." Neal eats information technology upwards just Peter decides he made a wrong pick until Siegel convinces him that he is flattering Neal to gain his trust - treatment him. Peter gives Siegel his function, which I phone call foul on. Diana or Jones deserves it. That dark Peter compliments Siegel, and Elizabeth knows he kissed up to Peter besides. That much smoke makes me suspicious. Everyone from other FBI divisions and locations has been nothing but bad news. I don't wait this ane to be any unlike. Plus I want Peter and Neal as partners. El points out that the new situation must be hard on Neal, which Peter should already know. She calls him on not checking to meet how Neal'due south doing. Peter: "I should reach out to him." Fans: "Duh!" El agrees it's a groovy idea, but she wants some Peter time beginning. Deal! The adjacent morning Peter greets Neal with coffee, making him suspicious. Neal: "Just a friendly coffee, chat, and walk to the role thing?" They talk Siegel, whom Neal compares to the Von Trapp's - bwah!, and Neal informs Peter he knows the game Siegel is playing with him. What he doesn't know is why he'southward in NYC? We all desire to know that Neal. Apparently Neal is okay with the new state of affairs, but makes sure he and Peter are on good terms. Peter: "I might have a new championship, but I'k yet the same old me." Yes right. In future events, you're darn near psychic, Peter Burke, but that's an issue for later.

Back at the office, Diana is "multigeeking." BWAH! I'm so using that. Diana poses equally Holland and 40 clients to win the auctions. To say she's cranky is an understatement. Diana: "What are you? My obstetrician." Ha! Peter offers to accept someone comprehend for her but ends up roping himself and Neal with the task. Luckily Siegel pops in with a case and both brand a breakaway before Diana'due south wrath spews over them. He wants to target Fiddling Star Merchandise, which sells stolen art and antiquities, only Neal protests about going after the dangerous, which of course means Mozzie runs Little Star. Peter snarks about Faberge eggs. Neal: "Oh Peter, y'all know me and then well." Siegel and Neal head to Niggling Star headquarters where Siegel notices Neal thinks the con is male person. Siegel: "He?" Neal: "English doesn't have a gender-neutral singular pronoun." Adept cover, Neal. I'd be suspicious also. Neal says they can't spook the perpetrator and Siegel agrees to let him get in lone. Yeah, definitely Mozzie, who works on the lite source to destroy the bonds, but panics when Neal says the Feds are in that location to abort him. Both Neal and I are shocked he doesn't immediately flee in escape programme A. Mozzie: "I knew when those pencil necks at UCLA invented the internet that I would end upward like a trapped rat." Neal: "Mozzie, I'thou going to get yous out of here but I need y'all to breathe." Shoe's on the opposite foot now. Mozzie exposits the Roanoke Praxis, which includes leaving his teeth backside when he torches the place. That's one way to become the Feds off your back. Neal is horrified. Neal: "Are those…" Mozzie: "My teeth? Yes." Neal: "How did you lot….actually no. I don't want to know." Neither do I. That'southward gross. Mozzie sets the filing cabinet on fire and Neal freaks, getting the fire extinguisher. Neal: "I'm cancelling the Roanoke Praxis. Does your other contingency plan involve called-for anything down?" Mozzie: "Non every bit such." Neal: "Then we're going with that one. Now gather upwardly your teeth and get out." Bwah! Sadly the burn down alert triggers and so Siegel heads in as well. He spots Mozzie, who flees. Uh oh!

Neal and Siegel sift through the wreckage, detect Mozzie's laptop, and caput to the role where Siegel says he has feel with estimator forensics. Double uh oh! He as well gives Peter and Jones a clarification of Moz and I run out of uh oh's. Jones: "Short, bald guy with pre-war treasure. Diana, sound like someone nosotros know?" Diana grunts, too wrapped upwards in her work to listen. Neal says information technology isn't Mozzie and Siegel suggests he make a sketch. It'southward definitely NOT Mozzie he draws. Peter wants Siegel to confirm information technology and he does through the glass of his function, mostly because Neal flips the page to a Mozzie sketch. Neal: "Farsightedness and male blueprint alopecia are epidemic, Peter." Ha! Jones interrupts to talk about Diana. Peter says he'll pull Diana presently, but Jones calls that a error. He argues that condign a single mom is hard enough for her. Fearfulness of losing her career on peak of that is too much. Jones: "I mean she'due south staring downwards the butt of Diana Barrigan, single mother and that'south scary, but I recollect the thought of her losing Diana Barrigan, special amanuensis…I only remember that's scarier." Well put Clinton. These insights prove Jones deserves more screen time. Here's hoping for a expert story line his way. Jones questions how Peter volition treat Diana in the hereafter, knowing she has a child. It's a not bad question and Peter'due south natural instinct is to protect. Jones agrees Peter is in a tough position, but reminds Peter that Diana is in one likewise. Fantabulous scene! Meanwhile Neal impatiently waits for Siegel to crack Mozzie's laptop. He suggests Neal help Diana, but ane look at her banging on the keyboard in frustration is plenty for Neal. Besides, Siegel finds a name, Teddy Winters, forth with prints and dental records but no photo, making Neal but slightly less nervous.

Cut through the park from piece of work, Neal finds Mozzie…dressed as Lady Liberty. BWAH! Best disguise however! Neal obviously disagrees. "The FBI shuts down Piffling Star and this is your alternative revenue stream?" Mozzie: "This is my camouflage, security through obscurity." Neal: "Not sure that principle applies hither." Mozzie: "Says you lot. Plus I made $11.l…75." Neal: "Loftier roller." Mozzie wants to jump transport to Florida but Neal says they simply have an alias. Mozzie's relieved until he hears the proper noun. "Teddy Winters isn't an alias, Neal." Ladies and gentleman, we take Mozzie's real proper name…or at least he figures information technology'southward his based on Detroit birth certificates from a month before his abandonment. Moz: "Babies in baskets rarely arrive with birth certificates. I was no exception. I was homeless, nameless, purposeless…" Neal: "Histrionic." Ha! Moz: "You'll never really understand the plight of the orphaned, not truly." Moz explains that the FBI tin can find all his worldly appurtenances with that name. Mozzie: "If they have Teddy, they have it all." I don't know why Mozzie isn't moving stuff equally they speak just Neal's more concerned near why he kept his existent name active. Moz: "Just in case my parents came looking." Aww, you break my middle Moz. Neal: "If you lot let Teddy die, no ane would always detect him." Neal is sympathetic simply only Teddy's expiry can become the FBI off Mozzie's back. The Roanoke Praxis is dorsum on, but all of a sudden Mozzie is dainty. Moz: "I'k not the one who thinks my teeth demand a host." Um, I don't similar the sound of that either. Moz: "Pulling my own teeth is one thing but a expressionless man'southward? On the off chance that there actually is a heaven, this is definitely going to get me barred." For his part Neal hunts for combustibles. Mozzie and I want a loud blast and Neal delivers. Woo hoo! I miss Fire Notice. Homemade napalm it is. Mozzie sets it up to an unclaimed body. Hmm.

Back at the office, Siegel and Peter celebrate nearly cracking the Winters case. A Cayman business relationship leads them to all of Mozzie'due south properties. Neal: "He won't have anything left." Aww. Peter: "That's the bespeak." Hmm, I definitely prefer Peter and Neal working together. Siegel wants to become to SoHo but luckily Diana breaks in to say there's activeness at Little Star. So back to Trivial Star they go, where a toy monkey types on the internet. Ha! Those things creep me out but finally there's a expert employ for them. Moz heads out wearing a gas mask. When the Feds appear, Moz goes back in and the whole place explodes. 6 hours later, the fire department gets the blaze under command and at that place's a perfect teeth friction match. Peter, Siegel, and Diana are unhappy to Neal's surprise. Siegel: "Information technology's a win when the bad guy's in cuffs, Neal. Non when he's a briquette in a burned out building." Diana is suspicious simply Peter orders her to go dwelling house. Before leaving she asks Neal how he'd fake his own expiry. Yeah, she's non dropping this someday shortly. She asks Neal to go to the warehouse with her and Neal snarks, "Are you lot suggesting we condone directly orders from the assistant special agent in accuse?" Diana: "Are you suggesting we follow them?" Ha! Neal: "Things really are changing around here, huh?" Sadly Neal. I'thousand not a fan then far. Neal agrees to see Diana at the warehouse the adjacent twenty-four hour period. Diana, of class, can't wait that long and goes by herself.

Neal, all the same, learns from Peter that the Hagen evidence is in building. They reminisce nigh the airplane pilot before Neal heads upstairs at the same time Diana goes downward a manhole to observe Mozzie. She'south sweating and nearly to give birth at any moment. Mozzie: "This isn't what it looks similar." Diana: "It looks like you're Teddy Winters." Moz: "And if I am?" Diana: "Then you're nether arrest." Mozzie: "Oh so I'yard definitely not." She tries to arrest Mozzie but goes into labor instead. At first Mozzie flees to avoid prison, only he can't exercise information technology. Diana: "You came dorsum." Mozzie: "You may exist the enemy but bad karma isn't hereditary." He helps Diana deliver the babe. As if things aren't hectic enough, Neal distracts the evidence guard with a telephone telephone call while Siegel and Peter talk nigh if Neal purposely messed up the Little Star case. They dialogue virtually Siegel'due south CI, who is back in prison for forgery, and Siegel says Neal's yet in the edifice. Peter tells him non to be worried until he leaves, merely Peter is definitely suspicious enough for both of them. Patently he is clairvoyant at present because for no reason, he decides Neal is up in evidence. I hate them making Peter a plot device this flavor as seen here. Argh! Neal gets Hagen's show successfully and corrupts the bonds with Mozzie's light source. All the same, Peter calls him in the middle of the chore. He ignores the phone call, sending Peter to evidence right as Neal is about to leave it. He exits while Peter inspects the room. Meeting back in the function, Neal claims he left his hat. I phone call foul on this whole situation. Peter is smart but this is ridiculous! They are setting upward disharmonize for conflict'due south sake at the expense of believability. It's a shortcut cheat that makes me less excited nearly the buildup of Neal'due south state of affairs.

Heading back to Mozzie's underground safe house, Neal'due south shocked to see Diana'due south baby. Moz: "I'chiliad a dad." Diana: "Non even close." Moz: "I'm a midwife." Ha! They go Diana to the hospital and El hurries Peter off to bring together them. Peter, El, Jones, Neal, and Moz coo over the baby and Diana calls them her family, even Moz. She names her baby Theo. Awww! Peter ruins the moment expositing Theodore Winters, shocking Jones that Diana named her child subsequently a criminal. Jones: "I mean no offense to present visitor." Neal: "None taken." Diana and Moz exchange a small smile as Peter grills her about her not-hospital birth. Diana says she didn't know the person who helped her to deliver and Peter looks at her suspiciously. Ugh! Really? Now he suspects Diana? I hate this new omniscient Peter. He is smart enough on his own without giving him spidey senses. Thankfully we end on Neal and Moz smoking cigars to toast the new baby's nascence. Neal: "It's poetic you know. One Teddy dies, some other is born." Mozzie hopes the baby calls him papoose. Huh? Neal: "I think you lot're going to be disappointed on that one." They barrack on Shakespeare, being nameless, and how Mozzie smells. Yeah, um, moving on. Neal calls it a new kickoff although Mozzie is at present broke. In good news, Moz is not in prison and the bonds are destroyed. Moz: "So Hagen will get his retrial and that sociopathic blackmailer volition be back on the street." Aye, but at least we go more Mark Sheppard time. Moz: "Hey, you paid the piper. That's the end, isn't information technology?" Oh you cute dreamer. At that place'south no way information technology's the end. Neal agrees. "I hope so Moz, but I have a feeling it's just the commencement." Me too, Neal.

Overall I liked this episode meliorate than the premiere. Nonetheless, this all-knowing Peter takes me out of the episode every time.  Instead of logically getting from indicate A to point B in a story arc, it feels like they have jumped the track and headed straight for point Grand. The writers are generally better than this when it comes to characterization although they take taken shortcuts with the plot before. As it is, I hope the whole affair comes to a head quickly before I get really frustrated. On the plus side though, I actually liked Jones in this episode likewise equally getting more Mozzie back story. In that location were some great scenes and Diana naming the baby Theo was a masterful touch on. Siegel was also a plus, since I was worried he would be a tool similar the other FBI agents who take come up in from other areas. Nonetheless, I am worried that Siegel can never see Mozzie again though. That will make any further direct assistance from Mozzie to the FBI more than difficult. It's difficult to believe Mozzie didn't have another escape programme that didn't involve walking right in front of Siegel. It's another odd plot device I don't find advantageous. This was definitely an episode I liked meliorate in the little moments than overall.

Episode Awards:

Grade: B-

Best Aww moment - Diana names her baby Theo and she and Mozzie share a moment

Best Sense of humor - Mozzie dressed as the Statue of Freedom

All-time Use of an Underused Character - Jones makes Peter see Diana'south perspective

All-time Scene - Mozzie and Neal talk about why he kept the name Teddy Winters effectually

Biggest Relief  - Siegel makes an interesting handler for Neal so far

Best Use of Music - Opening scene with Neal practicing his evidence room burglary

Most Prophetic Line - Neal: "Things actually are changing around here, huh?"

All-time Line - tie -
Mozzie: "Since when do you overstep your marker?" Neal: "Take information technology easy Bob Fosse."
Mozzie: "You lot may be the enemy but bad karma isn't hereditary."

Other Smashing Lines -

Mozzie: "I knew when those pencil necks at UCLA invented the internet that I would cease up like a trapped rat." Neal: "Mozzie, I'thousand going to get you lot out of here only I need you to breathe."
Diana: "What are y'all? My obstetrician."
Neal: "I'chiliad cancelling the Roanoke Praxis. Does your other contingency plan involve called-for anything down?" Mozzie: "Non as such." Neal: "Then we're going with that ane. Now gather up your teeth and become out."
Neal: "Farsightedness and male person design baldness are epidemic, Peter."
Jones: "I mean she's staring downwardly the barrel of Diana Barrigan, single mother and that'south scary, but I think the idea of her losing Diana Barrigan, special agent…I just call up that's scarier."
Moz: "I'g non the one who thinks my teeth demand a host."
Moz: "Pulling my own teeth is one thing but a expressionless human being's? On the off chance that there actually is a heaven, this is definitely going to get me barred."
Mozzie: "I'g a dad." Diana: "Non even close." Mozzie: "I'k a midwife."

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