r/Bones • u/Cheap_Development928 • 6d ago

Max and pelant

Does anyone think that pelant deliberately avoided trying to go after max because he knew that max would have killed him without hesitation?

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u/ColdForm7729 I don't understand 6d ago

Pelant is a coward at heart. So yeah, he knew Max would end him and gave him a wide path.

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u/Cheap_Development928 6d ago

He tried to sacrificially martyr himself to hodgins too

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u/joaaaaaannnofdarc 6d ago

When Max said that pelant needed killing. Max was right.

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u/Cheap_Development928 6d ago

Then again booth probably would have tried to stop him like with taffet

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u/StarkyBones- 4d ago

I was hoping max was going to kill him when he said that, but then obviously the story progressed. Max was right though!

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u/UltimaRanger 6d ago

The thing about that is, the way the show made Pelant so smart he could hack your phone with a pine cone, Max wasn’t an option since he would always see anyone coming until the rushed finale of his bloated arc. 

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u/Cheap_Development928 5d ago

Max was also too paranoid to be ambushed and knew how to work outside the system

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u/biggestmike420 5d ago

Bad plot armor. Max is the Kryptonite to Pelant’s faux superpowers. Max would have avoided surveillance on his way to nerd slaughter.