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Friday Patriotics: George W Bush

Patriotism means we share a single country. In all of our diversity, each of us has a bond with every other American.

-George W Bush

White Collar: Bad Judgment

Season 1, Episode 9

 

When Peter is convinced to investigating a mortgage issue, he and Neal discover a corrupt judge who might be in Fowler's pocket.

Neal: Why do you need me for this? You're uncomfortable around the 6 year old.
Peter: I don't speak that language.
Neal: I do?
Peter: Yeah, you do, Peter Pan. Come on.

 

Mozzie: Do you trust your FBI buddy?
Neal: Yeah. I trust him til I can't.

 

Peter: My wife's inviting you to lunch. Good thing is, I get to come along.

 

Mozzie: It's oddly difficult to find a tailor in the dead of night.

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White Collar: Hard Sell

 

Season 1, Episode 8

An agent from the Dallas office alerts New York about an investment brokerage scam. Neal is sent undercover to wheel and deal the men behind the money. While this is going on, he suspects Peter is the one who has Kate which causes an undercover clash.

Peter: Oh, give me a break. You could sell light switches to the Amish.

 

Neal: Cigar tube. Nice. FBI's been watching Thunderball.

 

Neal: 5 minutes of air?
Jones: Yep.
Neal: What's your response time?
Jones: Roughly 5 minutes.

 

Neal: Just so we're clear. If anything goes wrong, I suffocate.

 

Mozzie: It did make you appear superhuman.
Neal: Image is everything.

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Hump Day Quote: Jeph Jacques #976

Dora: Maturity is knowing you were an idiot in the past.
Martin: If that's true, then wisdom is knowing you'll be an idiot in the future.
Faye: And common sense is knowing that you should try not to be an idiot NOW.

-Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content #976

White Collar: Free Fall

Season 1, Episode 7

Neal is arrested for a high dollar jewel heist. He and Peter work to clear his name while finding who is behind the frame up.

Neal: I'll admit I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of. No, that's not true. I'm proud of most of them, but what I'm about do do today? This is going to be good.

 

Neal: Plausible deniability?
Peter: Words to live by.

 

Neal: Celebrate the victories however long they last.

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White Collar: All In

Season 1, Episode 6

An undercover FBI agent goes missing and Neal is sent undercover in NYC's Chinatown to find him.

Neal: I'm really tired of guns being pointed at me tonight.

 

Neal: Am I such a bad guy to be stuck with?

 

Peter: You're a bad influence.

 

Neal: I think I saw the Arc of the Covenant back there.
Peter: If my face melts off, let me know.

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White Collar: The Portrait

Season 1, Episode 5

 

A rare portrait is stolen during a home invasion and Neal and Peter must figure out if it's an inside job. Complicating matters, a museum is claiming ownership of the painting.

Julianna: I hit him in the face and he said if I did it again he'd kill me.
Neal: What'd you do?
Julianna: I hit him again.

 

Peter: Calling him a loan shark is like calling Oedipus a mama's boy.

 

Neal: What?
Peter: Have you ever met a woman who didn't...?
Neal: Brittany. Brittany Nicole. Second grade. I had a gap in my teeth.

 

Dorsett: I have a girlfriend myself.
Neal: Is she faithful?
Dorsett: She's French. I try not to think about it.

 

Peter: The thing about Neal nothing is ever what it seems.

 

Neal: It's not theft when rich men do it.

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White Collar: Flip of the Coin

Season 1, Episode 4

 

When the husband of El's friend is arrested for stealing Iraqi treasures, Neal and Peter have to find who framed the soldier.

Peter: I thought you'd be taller.
Mozzie: Me too.

 

Lauren Cruz: You can't make this work? What kind of conman are you? The Neal Caffrey I did my thesis on could make this work.

 

Peter: Hey. Hey. Don't make me shoot.

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White Collar: Books of Hours

Season 1, Episode 3

 

A mob boss gets involved in FBI business when his church's prized book of hours is stolen. Will Neal be able to survive facing off with such dangerous people?

Mozzie: I'll take it back to the lab. Run some tests.
Neal: You don't have a lab. You have a storage unit.
Mozzie: Semantics.

 

Peter: I prefer my miracles with a little more smiting and lightning.

Neal: Ten years painting the same Bible. It's like stalking God.

 

Maria: You know what? I don't trust you.
Neal: Smart. I wouldn't trust me either.

 

Maria: With all due respect, Neal, we could make quite a fine pair.
Neal: With all due respect, Maria, shut up and drive.

 

Neal: Clip. I lifted it when I patted you down.
Maria: You forgot about the one in the chamber.
Neal: Damn it, I've never been a gun guy.

 

Neal: I take my miracles where I can get them.

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Friday Patriotics: John McCain

We have to love our freedom, not just for the material benefits it provides, not just for the automony it generates us, but for the goodness it makes possible.

-John McCain