While season 5 ended on a cliffhanger (Neal’s abduction), Eastin says he’ll be closing out White Collar by refocusing on the show’s core tension between mostly reformed con artist Neal Caffrey (Bomer) and FBI agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay).
“It’s to create this idea of Neal vs. Peter — what the show always has been, and always should be — and really run at that,” Eastin says. “That’s the approach this year: Make the show when it’s at its best. And to me, the show is at its best when Neal and Peter are talking and they’re happy and smiling, and then as soon as Neal steps out of the room, Peter’s eyes narrow, because he knows he’s up to something. So it’s taking that to the extreme and saying, ‘What do both these guys want more than anything?’ Let’s take Neal to his logical extreme, and Peter to his logical extreme, and crash the two things together and see what happens.”
“It’s to create this idea of Neal vs. Peter — what the show always has been, and always should be — and really run at that,” Eastin says. “That’s the approach this year: Make the show when it’s at its best. And to me, the show is at its best when Neal and Peter are talking and they’re happy and smiling, and then as soon as Neal steps out of the room, Peter’s eyes narrow, because he knows he’s up to something. So it’s taking that to the extreme and saying, ‘What do both these guys want more than anything?’ Let’s take Neal to his logical extreme, and Peter to his logical extreme, and crash the two things together and see what happens.”
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