Over the past three seasons Neal has been involved in every case that Peter's White Collar team has been involved in, either as a typical consultant offering an expert opinions on situations and evidence, as well as being the undercover man often bending or outright breaking the law to close a case. More often then not Peter is oblivious to half if not all of Neal's plan or end game when it comes to catching the criminal or criminals that they are after.
Neal's two primary goals throughout the first two seasons were to keep his limited freedoms by staying out of prison and to reconnect with his past love interest Kate (Alexandra Daddario). Helping Neal pull off some very elaborate cons and helping him keep Peter in the dark about most of his illegal actions is his friend and mentor Mozzie (Willie Garson). Mozzie tends to compliment Neal extremely well with a serious dose of paranoia and distrust of any and all government employees, for the most part including Peter.
Neal and Mozzie despite becoming friends with Peter's wife Elizabeth Burke (Tiffani Thiessen) are very often, and rightly so accused of running cons and art theft while working on many of White Collar's cases, which forces Neal to be even more cunning by running a con on the criminals to close the case as well as running a separate con on Peter and his team in order to close the case and achieve their own goals each episode.
More review of White Collar coming up (spoiler warning!!!)
