A man named Keller (Ross McCall) challenges Neal to a competition - which can forge a better copy of a valuable and rare bottle of wine gifted to Benjamin Franklin by Marie Antoinette? Neal, naturally, can't resist the challenge, but he does it within his FBI constraints, making the forgery part of Peter (Tim DeKay) and his plan to capture the rival. Peter goes along with it, though normally he wouldn't, because of his intense dislike for Keller, who also is a murderer.
The beauty of the situation is how good a job Neal and Mozzie (Willie Garson) do at faking the wine bottle. They are able to replicate the bottle by finding a bottle, a cork, some wax, etc, dating from the period in question. The only way that anyone would be able to tell that their bottle (or that Keller's bottle) is a fake is by running an expensive test for caesium 137. The stuff only became wide spread after nuclear testing started, meaning that any bottle of wine older than that would be free of the chemical, while any recent wine would reveal its existence. How convenient for wine testing!
The charms of the episode continued as Keller's bottle was revealed to be the real deal. He had tricked Neal into faking his own bottle so that the price would increase after his own was proved not a fake. This guy is good, almost as good as Neal, or maybe just as good. Unfortunately, he had both the Russian mob and the FBI breathing down his neck. He picked the FBI. Maybe Neal got caught, but at least he was never stupid enough to try and cheat the Russian Mob!
With only two more episode of the season left, the search is on for the music box. How are things going to go down? I don't know, but I'm excited. Are you?
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