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Hey, Kenny, I forgot to mention that I'm enjoying your recaps on True Detective at Vulture.

Watching that scene where they were bagging up all the evidence, I kept thinking, "WTF? Doesn't Quantico teach anything about chain of custody?" Rachel's lawyer will have all that evidence tossed out in a nanosecond.

I kept getting distracted by Diane's big hair. What's up with that? Is that a post pregnancy thing? BTW nice to see motherhood hasn't changed the fact that she's still got the biggest set of balls in the FBI white collar crime division.

Earlier in the episode Kluger asked Alicia how her new firm was working out. Maybe he's retiring as a judge and is looking for a law firm to join. Don't know what his reputation as a judge is, but if he's highly regarded it could potentially be a big get for their firm if he joined?

Neal was afraid that he had revealed information not only about the FBI case, but maybe about Hagen as well. Of course he and Mozzie weren't going to tell Peter what they were up to.

That last scene between Neal and Mozzie about Mozzie's MacGyver mullet was pretty lame.

I think she was booked for 10 episodes.

Too kind? Not sure what you mean by that. I just don't think the writers are going to make her an out right Alex clone. Sort of a been there, done that kind of thing.

Yes, there is shades of Alex there. Rebecca got the job at the museum to get access to the Moscone Codex and clearly she knows a lot about it. I don't think that her bashfulness is a complete act — at least I hope not. Nor do I think she's a criminal like Alex. Instead I think she's someone pursuing a mystery that has

I liked many individual moments with this episode and for that I would have given it a B+. I enjoyed all the scenes between Neal and Siegel with their nice character moments. Rebecca looks like a promising new love interest. And the heist itself was tension filled.

"I think [Neal] was demonstrating that he is not "one of them".

I don't buy the father/son dynamic. I know men who have grown up without fathers. They don't act the way Neal does. As for Peter, there's at times been a weirdly obsessive quality in his relationship with Neal. Back in the season 4 opener when we saw Peter moping around in Neal's loft, I had a WTF reaction. Peter

I wonder about this, too. All the signs are this could be White Collar's best season yet, but I don't know how far they can take this without seriously straining the relationship between Neal and Peter. Can you balance being true to your characters (Neal and Mozzie) with the bromance?

Spending several years chasing a criminal and admiring his smooth ways, doesn't translate into automatic friendship, let alone mutual friendship. I understand why White Collar needs Neal and Peter to be friends. It's just never really made the case why.

"Neal was especially class clownish in that debriefing, huh?"

I feel that we should be ranking all those product placements from only slight annoying to so in your face obnoxiously annoying that it takes you out of the moment.

Jones is also the one who thought that Neal should serve out his time back in the season 3 finale at Neal's hearing.

I liked David Siegel a lot. He brings a whole new dynamic that amps up the energy level in the show. It's not just Neal vs. Siegel as they circle one another warily, it's Peter working with an agent who in many ways is a younger version of himself. That's an interesting dynamic also. It's too bad the show will

Life-size Peter and Neal body pillows? Er…TMI.

Life-size Peter and Neal body pillows? Er…TMI.