Not even Mozzie knows that there was a time when Neal loved Matthew more than anyone else in the world; at sixteen, they were two lost souls who had finally found each other, and then Matty explained to Neal how to run the basic cons and helped him discover his gift for art while Neal taught Matt how to shoot and showed him the names of stars on the sky; two years later, Neal felt like the third man’s death was his own fault, and though he changed his own name and he and Keller became bitter enemies, Neal can never quite forget that it was him who first put the gun into Keller’s hands.