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Kate Moreau
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Alias(es) Kate Moreau
Gender Female
Profession Assistant (Vincent Adler)
Status Deceased
Family Robert Moreau (father)

Neal Caffrey (ex-boyfriend)


Portrayed By Alexandra Daddario
Season(s) 1, 2 (Flashbacks)
First Appearance Pilot
Last Appearance Forging Bonds
Episode Count 6 episodes
Images of Kate Moreau


Kate Moreau was an ex-girlfriend of Neal Caffrey, and the sole reason for his prison escape with only three months left on a four-year sentence.

Relationships[]

Neal Caffrey[]

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Kate met Neal when she was working under Vincent Adler as his assistant. At the time, Kate already had a boyfriend and she was planning to move to Chicago with him. On the day of the move, Kate showed up at Neal’s apartment, choosing him.

After Vincent Adler disappeared, leaving the lovebirds without a job, Neal and Mozzie started teaching Kate to run cons with them. Eventually, Kate and Neal had a falling out when Neal tried to con Kate into going to Copenhagen with him in order to pull a job with Alexandra Hunter. In the end, Neal chose to go without Kate.

When Neal returned to the US, Kate had left him and was hiding from him, moving constantly, so Neal started pulling high-profile jobs to get her attention. When he finally found her, they were ambushed by the FBI and Neal was thrown into prison for four years. Before the four years were up, Neal escaped from prison to look for her after she broke up with and stopped visiting him in prison but all he found was an empty bottle in their old apartment.

Through Kate's clues and with the help of Mozzie and eventually Peter Burke, Neal was able to find out that Kate had changed her last name to Perdue, which means “lost” in French, and an FBI agent named Garrett Fowler (“The Man with the Ring”) was the reason for Kate’s disappearing act.

At the end of Season 1, Neal arrives at an aviation hangar to see Kate waiting for him on a jet so they can leave together, but Peter arrives just in time to try and convince Neal not to leave. Neal hesitates and the plane suddenly explodes in a fiery inferno, leaving Kate dead and Neal distraught.

Peter Burke[]

Peter always had his doubts about Kate’s loyalty to Neal, and much of his frustration with Neal in Season 1 stemmed from Neal’s obsession of Kate. For a brief moment, Neal (and the audience) is misled to believe Peter might be the “Man with the Ring” as Peter seemed to be able to find Kate whenever he wanted in order to speak with her or deliver a message from Neal.

Mozzie[]

Kate meets Mozzie through Neal and it can be assumed that they were friends and able to run cons together with Neal. During Neal’s search of Kate, she was comfortable asking Mozzie to take care of Neal. However, Mozzie also questions Kate’s loyalty. Kate is also the one who convinced Mozzie to stop wearing his toupee.

Garrett Fowler[]

Fowler reached out to Kate to help him find the music box, as he assumed (like everyone else) that Neal had it in his possession. It's not known how much Fowler told Kate about his intentions behind the music box, but Kate was able to negotiate a deal with him: the music box for both her and Neal's freedom by faking their deaths. He was just as surprised when the jet exploded early.

Vincent Adler[]

Kate was Adler's assistant prior to either of them meeting Neal, and Adler is revealed to be the man pulling the strings behind Fowler's interest in the music box and Kate's death. However, it appears Kate and Adler had been in contact for some time because Kate's last phone call was to Adler, alerting him that Peter Burke had arrived at the hangar, causing him to set off the bomb on the plane.

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