Agent Kramer shows up from D. Art Crimes determined to catch Neal in the act. He even has time to catch his fedora with the classic Neal spin when he hits the ground walking.
One of the last cons Neal runs in the show is to fake his death after teaming up with a group of pro thieves called the Pink Panthers. Their big play is to steal a huge bounty of treasury cash slated to be destroyed as out of circulation bills. Neal figures out how to use old postal tubes to siphon the money to an agreed-upon spot, of course with a hearty bounty for himself and Mozzie. In the end, he finishes the con by faking his death , which is the only way he could ever truly be free.
Peter, on vacation time with no jurisdiction, comes to Cape Verde to help. Not only are they successful with Neal headed back to NY with a new deal, but Neal pulls most of the con with a bullet in his leg. Mathew Keller, Kurtis Hagan, Rachel Turner, and Vincent Adler are villains that appear over several episode arcs throughout the series.
Neal rises to the occasion every time and comes out of the mess with style. To avoid staying in prison for another four years and to be able to continue his search for Kate, Neal offers to help find the criminal Burke is hunting, as long as he can be released into Burke's custody.
After successfully apprehending the criminal, Neal is allowed to serve his remaining four-year sentence on a work-release program as a consultant to the FBI. A year after his 'death', Mozzie gives Peter a key to a storage locker with evidence of the fact that Neal is in fact alive. The last scene of the series shows him alive, free, and in Paris. Neal is known for his good looks, his fitness, his brilliant out-of-the-box thinking, ability to talk, lie or charm his way out of or into anything, and charisma.
These traits prove to be crucial necessities in his line of work and serve as an advantage in the many instances where his or another person's life is on the line. His zodiac sign is Aries. Ancient History. Neal was born on March 21 in the late s to a man named James Bennett and his wife, Mrs.
His last name at birth is Bennett. Neal mentions that his father died when he was two years old. His mother told him that his father "went out in a hail of gunfire taking out a whole gang of bad guys," and Neal grew up wanting to be just like him.
It was during this period that he "got really good with guns. What Happens in Burma. Kathryn Hill, known by her alias of Ellen Parker , later reveals that Neal's father James had been arrested for the murder of a police officer when Neal was two years old.
Other evidences found indicated that James was a corrupt cop as well, and Ellen, who had been James' partner, had been forced to arrest James. She—along with Neal and his mother—was later placed into Witness Protection as a result of her involvement in the case. Neal was then raised under the belief that his name was Danny Brooks, and that his father was a police officer who died heroically.
Diminishing Returns , What Happens in Burma. According to Ellen, Neal—as Danny—had a habit of conning people, even as a young boy.
As he was often late for school, Danny attempted to solve this problem by setting the school's clock 30 minutes behind schedule, but the plan was thwarted almost immediately.
Danny then made another more intricate attempt by barricading the roads in order to reroute the school buses to pass by his house. He exclaims that "[that plan] actually worked," as it lasted a few days. Later, he "got smarter" and forged his own bus pass. After that, he states that "[he] was never late again. Neal mentions that at the age of nine, he frequented a pool hall on his way home from school.
June states, "A pool hall in St. Louis, Missouri. Must've been full of hustlers. Louis is later confirmed to be where Neal—as Danny Brooks—spent his childhood. Stealing Home , Parting Shots. At the age of 18, Ellen tells Danny the truth about his father.
It is implied that learning the truth about his father is what started Neal down the criminal path. Diminishing Returns. Little else is known about Neal, other than the fact he didn't finish high school, and that his extensive knowledge of art and history is apparently self-taught. Sometime after arriving in NYC, he meets Mozzie. He and Mozzie target a CEO named Vincent Adler , and through Adler, Neal adopts his signature clothing preferences, encounters a fractal , and meets erstwhile lover and fellow thief Alexandra Hunter and long-time girlfriend Kate, for whom he chose to sacrifice the con-job for and instead invest in Adler's company.
Soon after, Adler disappears and is revealed to be a conman as well, taking hundreds of millions in US dollars and leaving all of his employees—including Neal and Kate—jobless and without pay.
Forging Bonds. Broke and unemployed, Neal chooses to tell Kate about his true profession. After this, Neal, Kate, and Mozzie begin running scams together, until the day Neal tries to cajole Kate into leaving for Europe.
When Neal mentions Copenhagen to her, Kate gets upset and reveals that she knows about the music box job that Alex had told him about when they first met. Unfortunately, the job fails without her, forcing Neal to leave Alex in a French hospital where she was presumably arrested and escape back to New York.
Upon his return, Neal discovers that Kate is hiding from him and eventually starts doing bigger cons and forgeries, trying to catch her attention. The FBI eventually track her down and realize that Neal has no idea where Kate is, so they set up a trap for him to find her.
This is how Agent Peter Burke eventually catches him. Neal is in SuperMax and nearing the end of his four-year sentence when Kate arrives and tells him that she is leaving him, and that their meeting was to be her last visit to him.
Confused and hurt, Neal attempts and fails to dissuade her, wherein he hatches a month-long plan to escape prison and convince her not to leave him.
Successfully pulling off the plan, Neal goes to her last known address and finds it empty. Later, Agent Peter Burke arrives to arrest him once again, and a dismayed Neal willingly goes with him. Before they leave, Neal sees a fiber on Agent Burke's shoulder, and an idea hatches in his mind. Neal makes Agent Burke promise to visit him in prison if Neal tells him what the fiber is.
When Agent Burke makes good on his promise, Neal present his idea—a shift in his sentence from jail-time to full-time consultation for the FBI. Agent Burke states that he's aware that Neal wants to get out of prison to look for Kate, which Neal does not deny.
Soon after Peter leaves him at the motel, Neal—while miserably browsing in a thrift store—befriends a rich widow named June , who was donating her late husband's designer suits.
Neal is taken on as a boarder in June's townhouse. He acquires not only a more than comfortable residence , but also a new wardrobe of expensive suits, shoes, and hats—which become his signature look.
It is later revealed that someone with an FBI ring was forcing Kate to find the music box that Neal was rumored to have stolen.
However, Neal hadn't stolen the box, and claimed that the person who'd ever come closest to it was Alex Hunter. He then enlists Alex's help to find and steal the box, hoping to get Kate back that way.
He finds out that the man with the FBI ring is Agent Garrett Fowler , and that Fowler himself had been blackmailed into finding the music box as well. Upon giving the music box to him, Fowler reveals that Kate had made a deal with him—Neal's freedom and new identities for the both of them in exchange for the music box.
This prompted Fowler to begin Operation Mentor , which is says is "all about [Neal]. Because of the actions he took to acquire the box for Fowler, Neal is sent back to prison. Agent Peter Burke seemingly pulls some strings to get Neal his consulting sentence back, and Neal agrees to it once more, but with a different agenda—he was going to find and get his revenge on Fowler, who he believes blew up the plane to kill him and Kate.
Neal Caffrey spent years as a con artist and forger, until dogged FBI agent Peter Burke finally caught him and put him behind bars. Search Charactour. Sign Up Log In. Character Analysis Avoiding Spoilers Grew up… without a father. Recommendations Fans of him also like:. See All Recommendations. Get to Know him in See Details.
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