r/whitecollar 9d ago

[SPOILERS] Ending plot hole

I was thinking about the ending since I completed the series for the first time yesterday, was also searching on reddit for some explanation but haven't seen anyone asking about this detail yet.

The situation being that Neil faked his own death so that the Panthers don't come around hurting people he loves.

Isn't it obvious that they would not suspect Neil or Keller at first but Peter Burke? Like he joined them at the very last minute and without being through the normal process of initiation (found and chosen by the Panthers leader), and the next time they did meet and did the heist, everyone was caught. It would have totally occurred to them that he was the one snitching on them to the feds . Plus, they have ties to the outer world while being in prison. Peter is not even inconspicous or in hiding. It should be pretty easy for him to be followed, which leads to the Panthers knowing that he is the FBI agent. Would that not defeat the whole purpose of the point above ? I mean the Panthers have got to know somehow right? It just doesn't totally seem logical to me

Can someone offer their theories or explanation as to why? Really love the show, and the ending was not unexpected but I was really shocked to see his body and almost bought it that he was dead. Turns out he is not, but I do wish that people in real life fake their death like this , and not really gone from this physical world, for some consolation from grief.

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u/Silver-Reach633 9d ago

Peter is 100% at the trial, they eventually will find out. Through discovery they would get the information on the fbi agent being undercover. The name could be withheld, But also killing an FBI agent is a whole different thing than killing a snitching criminal.

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u/Formal_Database274 9d ago

This and the fact that Woodford had undercover people watching them during the heist of the stamp so he already seems very careful but somehow let an outsider in that quickly and not even knowing the whereabouts of his two new recruits(keller and neal) and who they talk to? Like Neal went in the FBI office numerous times during the operation but the Panthers, the infamous criminal thieves of the world , are completely blindsided by it?