White collar who is sam

All this time, Neal has been working under the assumption that his father was dead. And he's been working with "Sam" to try and find out who killed his brother. And all this time, Sam was keeping this huge secret from him? That's a pretty devastating blow. TVFanatic was pretty excited about the reveal, and what it can do for the show moving forward, writing, "the twist of fate will give fans some well-deserved reveals to our most burning questions, even as the revelation will cause TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser.

News U. Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline. HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Follow Us. That was Neal's question on the White Collar midseason finale, during which Neal Matt Bomer learned — one more spoiler warning for those in the cheap seats — that the man he believed to be Sam Phelps Treat Williams is actually Neal's father. Character Chatter: Join in the conversation with other White Collar fans.

After first introducing himself to Neal in the wake of Ellen's murder, Sam was harder to pin down than the master con man himself. In hindsight, perhaps that should have been our first clue.

First, he wanted to help Neal find his father. Then, he'd get nervous and back off. So it went for much of the season. Although Neal was quick to point that it's easy to fake one's own death, Peter seemed certain that the Sam they knew was actually one of the corrupt cops Neal's dad had testified against back in the day and who had come back to get revenge on the whistleblower's son. While saving "Sam" from a mysterious attacker, Neal got a blood sample and when he tested the DNA, he learned the shocking truth.

The revelation that "Sam" is actually Neal's dad opens a whole other treasure chest of questions. Why did he not tell Neal who he was from the start? Where the heck has he been all this time?

And why did he not want the FBI investigating him? Was it simply to hide his identity or something more scandalous? Also, Neal and Peter identified the man beating up "Sam" as a member of an organized crime family that Neal's dad also took down.