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White Collar Boss on Neal’s Dad Dilemma, a Shift in Peter’s Morals and a Sara/Neal Reunion
When last we saw White Collar, con man extraordinaire Neal had come to the realization that Treat Williams’ Sam was actually his long-missing father, James.
In Tuesday night’s Season 4.5 opener (USA Network, 10/9c), the two men will begin to hash out their issues — but as creator Jeff Eastin previews below, there’s still plenty of turmoil between them. Eastin also mentions a shake-up at the FBI that brings out Peter’s Caffrey-esque side and a possible reconciliation between Sara and the suave con artist — read on for all the details.
TVLINE | The beginning of this season was about Neal figuring out who he is and how his father factors into that. What’s the journey this time around?
For Neal, it will be twofold. Mentally, it becomes about accepting this person in his life. It’s one of those things – be careful what you wish for. All his life, he’s wanted to know who his dad is… Now this person is standing in front of him, and he’s pretty pissed off about it — partly because James has essentially been lying to him since he showed up, saying he was somebody else. For Neal, that’s a real hard thing to reconcile.
As the season moves forward, you’ll see that Peter and Mozzie are the ones that are very encouraging to Neal, saying, “If anybody can understand showing up and lying to somebody for a period of time, it should be you because this is something you, especially, could probably end up doing in your life.” Between their help, he finally learns to accept James. But then, just as that’s happening, a lot of intrigue begins with James, and Neal really questioning who this guy is – not that he’s not his father because he is his father, but it becomes a lot more about, who is this guy really? Is he really here doing what he says he’s doing? Or is there an ulterior motive here? So for Neal, [it's] an emotional journey to accept the fact that this is his father and still continuing the theme of, if this guy’s my father, does that define who I am?
Then on the action/drama side, there’s still this pursuit of the evidence that Ellen left him, which ultimately will prove whether his dad was guilty or not. We have a pretty big finale that’s pretty emotionally cool. Also, we got to shoot in the Empire State Building.
TVLINE | That’s incredible.
Yeah. We got to shoot in the most iconic of New York places. It leads up to a pretty cool finale there. On Peter’s side, his big arc is he’s realized that the closer he gets to Neal, the more on the gray side he finds himself. A little bit of a spoiler is Hughes gets forced out by the evil forces. He convinces Peter that sometimes [he] needs to do what he believes in, not necessarily what the law says, but what he believes in his heart. So for Peter, it’s this realization that to save himself, his career, save Neal, he really has to embrace that Neal side of him that’s always been there.
TVLINE | Neal’s father has been so absent in his life for so long. When he comes back, how does he adjust to having a fatherly presence?
Peter has always acted as a bit of a surrogate father to Neal anyway. So in Neal’s mind, for a while now, he’s had that father figure there. The hard part for Neal is comparing the father that he secretly wishes he had in Peter to the new guy who’s shown up, who is his biological father… Neal has to come to grips with the fact James is his father, not Peter, and as much as he wants to pretend and as much as he wishes [his] life mirrored Peter’s, he really doesn’t know what he wants. He wants that perfect life with Elizabeth. He wants the white picket fence and the dog and those things. A little part of him knows that that’s not for him, but it’s secretly what he tells himself he wants, and now this dad shows up who’s a whole lot different from Peter. For Neal, a lot about that self-reflection is… “Am I looking at a reflection of myself? Or is it too late for me to change [myself] to who I want [to be]?”
TVLINE | Is there more of a physical danger this season as a result of James’ involvement in the larger mystery arc?
Well yes, but not necessarily because of James. It’s sort of who James is in league with. The people that are after James show up and, through them, it gets real dangerous.
TVLINE | There’s a shot of Elizabeth with a gun in the promos.
Yeah. That’s pretty cool. I can’t say too much about that. She plays a pretty active role this year.
TVLINE | What is the state of Neal’s love life in these last six episodes? He’s kissing Sara in the promo.
Sara’s back in Neal’s life. In an earlier season, she admits to Neal that she had a sister that disappeared much like Kate disappeared. I always felt that was a bonding thing between them. That comes up a little this year. She’s decided to pursue that. In that pursuit, her company, Sterling Bosch, has offered her a pretty huge promotion in the UK, and she is inclined to take it. At this point, her and Neal have decided to do more of a casual, friends-with-benefits type relationship, which they feel is a good way for them to maintain what they like about each other without the pressure of what usually causes them to break up. Fortunately or unfortunately, this pressure suddenly that Sara’s going to take a new job in the UK and they’ll probably never see each other again, it really pushes both of them to say, “Is this something worth saving? Or is this something we really want?” And like I said, we get to use the Empire State Building as our big iconic set piece at the end of the season, which turned out really great.
TVLINE | Any fun cases or episodes coming up that you’re excited about?
There’s several, but one would be Neal and Sara kissing by the fountain. That’s an episode where they both get kidnapped together, which is a fun one. It ended up turning out very well. And then the last couple leading up to the finale are really, really good, just because of all the stuff inside the Empire State Building. We got the whole tour and the history and everything else that we get to play into a little bit, and [we really like] the vistas of Neal and Sara at the top. We had access to what they call the 103rd floor that only like celebrities are allowed to go to. As a matter of fact, while we were filming there, we had to shut down for about a half an hour because Adam Sandler brought his family up and wanted to show them. That shut us down for a few minutes, which was actually kind of cool.
TVLINE | At this point, are there any places that you want to film at that you haven’t been able to?
Not really. There’s the High Line in New York, which is that park there that we’ve been trying to shoot at. I’d love to do [that]. I don’t think there’s any problem. I think that’s a matter of scheduling on our part. But we shot at Yankee Stadium last year. We got the Empire State Building. We’ve done a lot of iconic New York. Russian Tea Room would be fun. Madison Square Garden, maybe.
White Collar Season 4 – New Episodes Promo
White Collar Season 4 “Returns January 22nd” Promo
USA Announces Winter Premiere Dates for Suits, White Collar and Necessary Roughness
USA has announced the winter premiere dates for Suits, White Collar and Necessary Roughness.
Season 2 of Suits, which stars Gabriel Macht and Patrick J. Adams, will return with six new episodes on Thursday, Jan. 17 at 10/9c. The legal drama was the top-rated summer cable drama in the adults 18-to-49 demographic and hit a season high with its midseason finale in August, drawing 6.5 million viewers.
White Collar will return for the second half of its fourth seasonon Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 10/9c. The series stars Tim DeKay and Matt Bomer, whose character was stunned in the midseason finale when he found out Sam Phelps (Treat Williams) was actually his father.
Necessary Roughness will debut five new episodes beginning on Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 10/9c. The show stars Callie Thorne as a sports psychologist to a big New York football team.
USA Renews White Collar, Covert Affairs and Royal Pains
Summer’s gonna last forever! USA has renewed three of their top warm-weather hits, White Collar, Covert Affairs and Royal Pains.
The two crime dramaseach received a 16-episode order, marking the fifth season for White Collar and the fourth for Covert Affairs.
Royal Pains got a super-sized renewal: The network ordered a fifth and sixth season of the medical drama, each consisting of 13-episodes.
USA has yet to renew Common Law, Burn Notice, Suits, Fairly Legal, Necessary Roughness and Political Animals.
Which show’s renewal are you most excited about?
White Collar – Official 411 Promo (Winter Season . Returns In January 2013)
White Collar 4×10 Promo “Vested Interest” (HD)
White Collar 4×09 Promo “Gloves Off” (HD)
White Collar 4×08 Promo “Ancient History” (HD)
White Collar 4×07 Promo “Compromising Positions” (HD)
White Collar 4×06 Promo “Identity Crisis” (HD)
White Collar – Season 4 – Jackson Rathbone to guest star
Watch out, Matt Bomer — a “Twilight” hunk is headed to “White Collar.”
HuffPost TV has learned exclusively that Jackson Rathbone, otherwise known to Twi-hards as Jasper Hale, has been cast in an upcoming episode of USA’s “White Collar.”
Rathbone will play Nate Osbourne, a volatile ex-con who will steal anything for the love of his life. Oz is one half of a Bonnie and Clyde duo who break out of jail and into the middle of an event where Neal (Bomer) and Sara (Hilarie Burton) are present. Jessica Mcnamee (“The Vow”) plays Penny, Oz’s better half.
Sara Ellis made her “White Collar” return in this week’s episode, and even though Burton will be in and out of Season 4, Sara has a knack for showing up just when Neal needs her the most.
“She seems to crop up at really interesting times in Neal’s life,” Bomer told HuffPost TV on the set of “White Collar” in June. “I think there’s always a bit of tension there between them, and that certainly gets tested. There’s one specific episode that really tests how finished they are. It answers that question. Are they completely past that? Or is there still something lingering?”
Could Oz be a catalyst for Neal and Sara’s rekindling romance? Fingers crossed!
White Collar 4×05 Promo “Honor Among Thieves” (HD)
Hilarie Burton on Returning to White Collar, Sara’s Baggage and One Tree Hill Memories
Now that Neal (Matt Bomer) is back from his island excursion on White Collar, another familiar face is returning. But this time around, Sara Ellis might have different intentions.
“Am I coming back to be a pain in his a–? I legitimately don’t know,” Hilarie Burton tells TVGuide.com. “Sara doesn’t let a lot of people in and she has let Neal in on some secrets. So whether that makes her resent him for running away or it endears him to her and lets her understand why he’s done the things he’s done remains to be seen.”
In Tuesday’s episode (9/8c on USA), Sara and (Tim DeKay) become suspicious of a widow about to receive a huge life insurance payment. “Sara is someone who doesn’t like that Peter’s been devalued,” she says. “He’s a good man and he’s very good at what he does. So, regardless of what his status is at the FBI, she’s going to help him.”
No matter what happens with the case, the big question on fans’ minds is what her relationship with Neal will be like. The two broke up soon after getting together last season, but Sara still put her job on the line to help Neal avoid an extended sentence in the season finale. “There are some hints in this episode that everybody’s got their baggage, and we’re lifting the veil and seeing what Sara’s baggage is this year,” Burton says. “Neal’s going to have an opportunity to help her out the way she helped him out.”
Up until now, Sara’s background has remained mysterious — a trait that gives her common ground with con man Neal. “We really haven’t said a lot of stuff specifically about Sara, so she could come from anywhere,” Burton says. “For me, I’m used to playing characters that just bleed emotionally everywhere. For Sara, this wall she has up has been different for me and I’m paranoid about it. I’m like, ‘Is this OK? Am I coming off as too much of a b—-?’ It’s a very fine line because you don’t want to turn the audience off.”
Sara’s character has done quite the opposite. After first appearing in several Season 2 episodes, Burton was promoted to a series regular the following year. However, Season 4 will see Burton’s screen time cut back when Neal starts to play the field. “Sara has to be a big girl about it or she’s going to lose out,” she says. “It’s important that if he does end up with Sara, there’s no longing anywhere else because I won’t tolerate that mess.”
“I adore Hilarie but the real question was just how I was able to work in her character this year and it sucks — we’ve got a very large cast,” showrunner Jeff Eastin says. “There was just less time I could devote to that story line, but we love Hilarie and we’ll keep her around for a while.”
Burton has no complaints. “I never want to be a character that you have to fit in two obligatory scenes for,” she says. “Whether I do big, huge, crazy storylines or it’s just popping in here and there, this is a really wonderful place to work.”
Tuesday’s episode also marks a behind-the-scenes reunion with one of her former One Tree Hill directors, Robert McNeil. “I did an episode of Castle last year and the only reason I did it was because it was one of my favorite One Tree Hill directors,” Burton says. “Everybody’s branched off and is going to other stuff and so it’s a nice network of people to have in this industry that can otherwise seem overwhelming.”
Although Burton left the show three years before its series finale in April, she’s kept in touch with many members of the crew and cast, including Sophia Bush and her longtime leading man, Chad Michael Murray. “We were kids when we started that and now it’s just this warm feeling of, ‘You’re the only other person on the planet that knows what it’s like to go through that,’” she says. “I miss Chad. Matt has been a wonderful second chapter for me because Chad and I had done everything together until I was 27 years old, and that was a lot of work. So to come back and have this new love interest that I have really wonderful chemistry with and who I really love as a person has been nice.”
White Collar airs Tuesdays at 9/8c on USA. Are you excited Sara is coming back? Do you want her and Neal to get back together?
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