The creators of "White Collar" are teasing the final six episodes of the USA show starring Matt Bomer and Tim DeKay. Jeff Eastin previously told TV Guide that he thinks the series finale "will create huge passion" among fans.
"I'm hoping people aren't ready to stone the building. I think it will be satisfying and people will ultimately enjoy it," Eastin said.
Bomer echoed those claims, telling TV Guide that the series ends on a "big cliff-hanger that is shocking and challenging." Eastin also dished to TV Guide about Neal and Keller's relationship in the final season.
"That's a relationship I've always loved because they're always the shadowy reflection of each other, that yin and yang. It gives Neal a chance to dig in and look inside and ask, 'Who am I?' Ultimately, that's what I think the series has been about: Neal trying to figure out who he is. Is he a good guy or a bad guy?," he said.
As far as the final six episodes, Eastin said they decided to approach it as a miniseries instead of as individual episodes.
"We wanted to bring back a lot of the bad guys that I, personally, loved, with Keller (played by Ross McCall) and Hagen (Mark Sheppard)," Eastin told TV Guide. "We just wanted to make this last season a real tribute to the show and, hopefully, make it enjoyable to the fans who have really stuck with us through all these years."
And for those fans dying to know if the Pink Panthers will be the Big Bad of Season 6, Eastin teased that the idea had been tossed around.
"The Pink Panthers are actually based on a real group. We'd actually toyed with this idea earlier in the run of the show. We thought it would be a really cool way to put Neal up against bad guys who were his equal. The thing about the Panthers that will figure heavily into the end of the series will be that these guys never, ever forget a slight. So if you double-cross them, they go after you and they go after everybody you know about or have ever met and/or related to," he said. "So that's the other big part of it, that these guys are probably the most dangerous group that Peter and Neal ever gone up against."
