[speaking to the prison warden] I know I spent three years of my life chasing him, and you let him walk out the front door.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
I work hard. I do my job well. And I don't have a ten million dollar view of Manhattan that I share with a 22 year old art student while we sip espresso!
Why not?
Why not?! Because I'm not supposed to. The amount of work I do equals certain things in the real world. Not cappuccino in the clouds.
Look, I will find out where June buys her coffee if it's that important.
It's not about the coffee.
I think it is.
No it's not. [pause] This is what gets you into trouble. This is the start of those something-for-nothing schemes that lead to the frauds that got you locked up.
I think it's some sort of Italian roast.
Get in the car.
[Neal is trying to help Peter with plans for his anniversary.]
No, you don't get to lecture me about relationships. My wife didn't change her identity and flee the country to get away from me. [Neal looks stricken.] That was harsh, I didn't mean that.
Yeah you did. [Peter doesn't argue.] Did she really flee the country?
I don't know.
France, did she go to France?
I don't know!
You only know the guys that get caught. They're the second best criminals.
What's that say about you?
It says that there's an exception to every rule.
Did you really put Elizabeth under surveillance before you asked her out? Peter, I underestimated you.
You told him?
Oh, he said he wanted to make sure I wasn't seeing anybody else. Honey, it's cute.
I think it's adorable.
I'm putting you back in prison.
[About Neal] He's almost as brilliant as the woman I married.
Ooh, good answer.[Pause] So what's the problem?
This is not the way it's suppose to go. You get caught, you do your time. There's more to this - more to this than some lost love. Some side angle he's playing.
So you're suggesting he escapes a maximum security prison knowing full well that you'd catch him just so he could trick you into letting him out again?
It's a working theory.
Yeah, keep working. Is it so hard for you to believe a man would do that for the woman he loves?
Neal just bought himself four more years in prison. For what?
"For what"? If you were Neal, you wouldn't have run for me?
No, Peter, menacing. You look like someone whose kid just struck out.
(After putting sunglasses on Peter) Now say, 'I'll be back'
No.
Wow your actually doing the whole hero thing.
I swept the leg he went down.
You don't look dirty.
Yeah, well I know what I'm doing.
[A known criminal knocks on the door of a FBI stake-out van]
MMan
You guys are the FBI, right?
Yes?
[Peter is meeting Mozzie for the first time]
I thought you would be taller.
Me too.
You want me to pull the records? We have clerks for that.
I have something better. I have you.
AAmes
Shame the Greeks destroyed it.
Shame you didn't have a better history teacher.
[After Neal charms a local art buyer working with the FBI]
Have you ever met a woman who didn't—
Brittney. Brittney Nicole. Second grade... I had a gap in my teeth.
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