There was some alluding to the faked death thing early in the season, but I don't know. As big an ass as Peter is being, I'm not sure Neal would do that to him. Plus, that would put us more or less in the same place as the end of S3/beginning of S4, with Neal on the run.
I tend to think it's going to be Rachel hurting Neal that keeps Peter in New York. she's been set up as so menacing and formidable, and they've taken that fixation so far, that it feels somewhat inevitable to me. Plus, I honestly think the writers are positioning Peter for a really vicious wake-up call. He's become so unsympathetic I have to believe it's deliberate, and they're placing him where he is, with all that self-righteousness and distancing, to the very specific end of having a brutal moment of clarity.
I don;t know if she'll do something to him deliberately, or if he'll just catch the edge of her crazy, but I really think something ugly is coming.
ETA - and there's still the copy of the file on Neal's childhood that Peter had Jones make floating in the ether. I still feel like that has to be significant; they didn't need to include it in Rachel's intel to drive home how extensive her research was, nor did they have to make sure Peter had a copy of it coming his way once it was included if its significance was only to show how much she had on everyone. That's got to be important to something that has yet to develop, and I still think it could be key to Peter really having a revelation about why Neal has lived the way he has.
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I tend to think it's going to be Rachel hurting Neal that keeps Peter in New York. she's been set up as so menacing and formidable, and they've taken that fixation so far, that it feels somewhat inevitable to me. Plus, I honestly think the writers are positioning Peter for a really vicious wake-up call. He's become so unsympathetic I have to believe it's deliberate, and they're placing him where he is, with all that self-righteousness and distancing, to the very specific end of having a brutal moment of clarity.
I don;t know if she'll do something to him deliberately, or if he'll just catch the edge of her crazy, but I really think something ugly is coming.
ETA - and there's still the copy of the file on Neal's childhood that Peter had Jones make floating in the ether. I still feel like that has to be significant; they didn't need to include it in Rachel's intel to drive home how extensive her research was, nor did they have to make sure Peter had a copy of it coming his way once it was included if its significance was only to show how much she had on everyone. That's got to be important to something that has yet to develop, and I still think it could be key to Peter really having a revelation about why Neal has lived the way he has.