White Collar: Season 4, Episode 3 “Diminished Returns” (B+)
There’s really not much worse than being stuck in an evidence room all day, especially when the guy you’re working for clearly got punished for something and wants to take it out on his underlings. The always excellent Brett Cullen wasn’t ready to give Peter a break at all for coming in even a minute late, but it seems that the kind work done by Neal and crew to help Peter get his cell phones sorted helped get him on his good side so that he might now have a more pleasant daily office experience. His role in catching the elusive diamond thief played by the real Michael Weston, not to be confused with the character of the same name on “Burn Notice,” could help get him sprung back to his old job, but I suspect that will take some time. It was entertaining to see Neal and Peter essentially switch roles, and to have Peter go undercover and improvise a $5,000 squash bet and then undercut his supposed friend to steal his deal. The contributions of Diana, Neal, and Elizabeth to narrowing down which jewelry store he planned to hit were entertaining, and it’s great to see them all working together so well. The method of distracting the appraiser by using the word blue over and over and words that rhyme with pink was quite cool. The ending of the episode prepares us for a whole new direction, as Neal reveals a childhood spent in Witness Protection and a burning desire to know more about his father.
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