FBI tradition holds that matters of life and death urgency constitute a no-boundaries rule. (And other excuses Peter has made.) AKA "Five Times Peter Insists He Didn't Actually Dress Neal".

Neal Caffrey is falling in love with his handler, Special Agent Patricia Burke. Her husband Eliot is probably going to kill him.

Before seeing the picture, she'd just slotted Neal Caffrey in as one more thing Peter's brain couldn't let go of, and amusing yourself while your spouse hunted down the greatest international art thief of the age was certainly classier than being a football widow.