WhiCo's "Mentor"

[katikat]

Wouldn't it be cool if...

... the title of the OPR program - Mentor - was actually literal? As in, what if the program was created by Neal's "mentor", the man/woman who taught him everything, his teacher. Because he had to have learned his skills somewhere, right? So, what if Neal's mentor was someone powerful, someone high up there, and for some reason he or she needed to get Neal under his or her control?

I love, LOVE to speculate. That's what fics are born from...

Comments

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

My possible-Big Bang story theorizes that this is Kate.

Do we have any canon that proves that Neal is *her* mentor? I mean, this whole season she seems to have been playing him through one long con.

[whitecollarfan.livejournal.com]

Mozzie does say something about Neal having taught her too well - when they're trying to figure out what the message is on the wine bottle.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Ah, you're right!

[whitecollarfan.livejournal.com]

On the other hand that could just have been from when they were figuring out how to hide their communications as they were being hunted from the FBI. Not that Neal taught her everything.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

That Mentor is Kate? That she was Neal's teacher? I don't think that there's any proof that Neal taught her. On the other hand I think that she's too young for that. And in the finale, Neal and Alex were talking about the music box in... Copenhagen? And it didn't sound like Kate was with them...

But it might be an interesting take on the whole thing - fans seem to assume that Neal "brought Kate over". But what if he was a simple artist and it was her who made him a conman? Interesting.

I'm thinking of writing a fic about how Neal become a conman too. But very different from yours. And of course, it would be just Neal and Peter talking about it - I'm very bad at long fics ;P