List of White Collar characters

This is a list of characters in the USA Network original comedy-drama TV series White Collar.

Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) is a former conman who, after being caught escaping from prison, begins to work for the FBI's white collar crime unit under the supervision of Special Agent Peter Burke.

After helping Peter and his team find an elusive criminal, the Dutchman (Mark Sheppard), Neal is released on the condition that he wear an ankle monitor that records his movements.

Throughout the series, Neal helps the FBI solve difficult cases, using his vast knowledge of white collar crime.

In "Forging Bonds" (2.11), he tells Peter that his first con with Mozzie involved a man named Vincent Adler.

Months later, Neal and Kate discovered that Adler had been caught running a Ponzi scheme, and they lost all of their money.

Back in the present day, Neal meets an insurance investigator named Sara Ellis.

In the first episode of the third season, Neal has been recommended for a possible commutation due to his part in capturing super evil-doer, Matthew Keller.

Keller kidnapped Peter's wife Elizabeth (Tiffani Thiessen) in order to ransom a treasure Neal and his fellow con, Mozzie (Willie Garson), had in their possession.

Over the first season, Peter warns Neal, on various occasions, not to investigate Kate's disappearance, as it could cause him to slip back into his criminal ways.

In Season 2, it was mentioned that Peter's father was a construction worker, and he attended college (Harvard University, according to the diploma on his office wall) on scholarship; he graduated with an A.B.

[3] Peter also informs Neal that after college he was drafted by the Minnesota Twins as a pitcher, but quit after a serious injury occurred during his second week there.

During the second season, Mozzie becomes more involved with the FBI, especially when a close friend and romantic interest of his, Gina, is kidnapped in "By the Book" (2.04).

In "Point Blank" (2.09), Mozzie is shot and left for dead, before he can tell anyone the meaning of the music box code.

It is shown in first season that Peter followed her and did background checks in order to ask Elizabeth out (although unromantic, this mirrors real-life guidelines of the personal lives of law enforcement and intelligence agents).

Elizabeth is a periodic "consultant" to the FBI and has assisted on various cases, using her professional activities as a convincing cover.

She is even seen teaching Peter how to flirt with other women when he is going undercover, and on occasion demonstrates a cooler head in a crisis than her husband or Neal.

Rebecca Lowe (real name Rachel Turner) (Bridget Regan) is Neal's girlfriend in season five.

After a brief conversation with Neal, she is escorted by the US Marshals back to maximum security, but decides to get herself killed by reaching for a gun on her way to the car.

June first met Neal while in a thrift store when she offered him a room in her luxurious home where he stays throughout the series.

[4] She first displays her singing talents in "Home Invasion", and then she contributes to a case in "Empire City" by starring as the opening act at a jazz club under investigation.

Hughes is supportive of Peter's use of Neal, but is at first skeptical of the former conman, believing that he will eventually return to his criminal ways.

Toward the end of the first season, Alex was given a plane ticket to Italy by the FBI, having helped Neal recover the elusive music box from the Italian consulate in Manhattan, because there was a 'target on her back'.

She has been fencing gold Krugerrands in an effort to stay under the radar, but is about to be set up by one of Mozzie's contacts who is selling her out to the people who are hunting for Neal.

After helping the FBI to recover a stolen painting and a case full of Krugerrands, Peter presents her with a ticket to Italy and she leaves the country, but not for long.

Early in the second season Alex returns to New York and helps Neal steal the music box again—this time from Diana's personal safe, although his method to contact her involves forging an FBI case file and a clandestine meeting on a rooftop.

After Alex anonymously donates the music box to the Russians—its rightful owners—she meets Neal at his apartment and finally gives him her number before leaving.

With Alex hostage, Adler forced Neal and Peter to open the TNT-covered entrance to the German U-boat full of Nazi treasure.

Once the three of them are saved by Peter's FBI team, Neal and Alex kiss, revealing that there is still some lingering romantic feelings between them.

Vincent Adler (Andrew McCarthy) was the CEO of a massive hedge fund, believed to be the driving power behind Kate's murder.