White Collar/Awesome

"Diana: Draw, and I'll put a bullet through your shoulder. (His hand creeps towards his gun. She's faster, and she does exactly what she said she was going to do.)
 * In the second episode of season 2--Diana's blase acceptance of her boss's request to pose as a call girl, and the culmination of her conversation with the thug sent to hurt her.

Diana: Told ya. (Her FBI buddies burst in to save her, and she gives them a big affectionate grin, her stiletto on the chest of the bad guy and her gun still trained on him.)

Diana: Awww... You were worried."

""I wear a badge. He wears a tracking anklet. Applications are on the table. (walks off)""
 * In the ending of 2x03, "Copycat Caffrey", Peter addresses a criminology class, some of whose members are being been arrested for following in Neal's footsteps even as he speaks, in the style of an FBI recruiter, and telling 'em crime doesn't pay. He uses Neal as an example.


 * In 2x04, "By the Book", Mozzie cooks up a plan to get his romantic rival out of the way and save the girl, all within minutes. Then he--yes, Mozzie--disarms a criminal. (If you look closely, his trigger discipline is just terrible) Then he asks if he's going to become a consultant like Neal, showing he's made some significant headway in his issues with authority.
 * During this same scene, we can't forget Peter moving in alone and putting his gun on Navarro. To sum up, Navarro is not afraid to kill Peter, and he's being backed up by at least four men. Sure, Peter had FBI coming in moments after him, but going in alone and staring 5+ men down on your own is badass. Mozzie doesn't count as backup, since he was more or less keeping one unarmed thug out of the fight.
 * Peter chasing down and arresting Larson in the middle of Central Park on a freakin' HORSE! in "Burke's Seven".
 * And considering the bystanders pointing their phone-cams at him, you just know the whole shebang would show up on YouTube a couple minutes later.
 * When Diana arrives to arrest a criminal in "Countermeasures", he laughs her off and keeps walking away because he doesn't take her seriously. One Gilligan Cut later, we see Diana slamming his face into a car hood and delivering a delicious Ironic Echo.
 * In "Payback" Peter gets kidnapped, complete with the bag over his head to keep him from knowing their destination. Then, upon being un-bagged in a makeshift cell, he tells the kidnapper almost exactly where they are (within about a block).
 * In the mid-season finale of season 2, Neal goes after Fowler, the man who he thinks  They end up at a gallery showing artifacts which will soon be shipped to Russia. Peter has trapped Fowler inside a room, and while Fowler is trying to make a rope out of a sheet to escape, Neal sees him through a window. What does Neal do? He runs to a balcony on the second floor, grabs a cutlass, cuts the rope which has anchored a tapestry to the balcony, and jumps. We get an awesome slow-motion shot of Neal swinging on the tapestry and crashing through the window, then he takes the gun he stole from an antique shop and fires a shot that barely misses Fowler. All this while "How You Like Me Now" plays. Holy CRAP.
 * This troper's only thought while watching that scene for the first time was, "That would be so cool, if he wasn't being so stupid!"
 * In "On Guard", though they may not have gotten away with it completely yet,
 * In 3x10, "Countdown," Neal
 * And to make matters even better,
 * In "Checkmate": Elizabeth Freakin' Burke. Sending in front of her captor (seconds after he specifically told her not to)? Check. Scaring the pants off her other captor with a few words and a ? Check. Using her  to escape? Check, check and check.