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| “ | It's the giant flaw in our system. Trying to make the system secure, we make it more complex. But the more complex we make it, the more insecure we actually are. | „ |
| ~ Pelant in The Crack in the Code. |
| “ | You, uh, you crossed a line when you shot me, Agent Booth. I thought... I thought we were working so well together. I never did anything to hurt you guys. Now the rules have changed. | „ |
| ~ Pelant. |
| “ | Do you see, Booth? She's willing to risk your life to keep me alive! What does that tell you? | „ |
| ~ Pelant's attempted spiteful manipulation mere seconds before Booth fatally shoots him in the neck. |
Christopher Pelant, or self proclaimed The Hacktivist, is the main antagonist of the 2005 FOX crime TV series Bones.
He was a tech genius and intelligent mastermind who orchestrated his brutal murders to disrupt the Jeffersonian efforts to catching him, and playing said game against them while killing random innocents who were primarily involved with Seeley Booth and Temperance Brennan. Throughout Seasons 7 to 9, he bested the Jeffersonian efforts by discovering the Ghost Killer before them, and that he leveraged the innocent in return for them providing what he wanted.
Even after his death, most of his Ghost Killer facade played a vital role in Sweets' death, and in the tenth season with his possible protégé Leelah Strawn, who murdered Franklin Holt with his same techniques, eventually expanding Pelant's backstory with connections to him.
He was portrayed by Andrew Leeds.
Personality[]
Christopher Pelant was a particularly calculative person who is cunning and manipulative of what he planned doing. In Season 7, he made the public humiliation of the FBI upon using references of five agents' blood who committed major felonies that affected numerous American citizens. Most of his prime involves his hatred of the government, which is shown when he hacked both the Senate and the Department of Defense websites in 2009 and 2010, where the authorities saw him as federal danger and placed him two years under house arrest for wire and computer fraud.
He also exhibits obsessiveness and intolerance for Dr. Temperance Brennan, who already had a lover and fiance named Special Agent Seeley Booth. Due to this, he ensured that they remain separated by framing Brennan for Ethan Sawyer's murder so that they couldn't see each other for three months, and threatening Booth with five innocent lives had he kept his engagement with Brennan. When Brennan arrived at Pelant's lair, he's composed and complimentary towards her instead of Booth. His intentions are clear that he didn't respect her, and only out of perversion, where he persistently ruined Brennan's life from being with Booth and Christine.
It does not appear until the end that he decided to threaten leveling up his lair upon his second explosion, killing himself, along with Booth and Brennan, and at this point he's spiteful to taking anyone down with him given his chance to do so. With Pelant's remote control being one of his tricks and toys, Pelant also shows cowardice as he doesn't attempt doing so and wouldn't dare exploding the building but only to attempt scaring Booth off for his benefit. Despite his serial killing spree that proved him otherwise, it was due to how secretive he plans his kills, much as to planning a specific threat towards Angela and Hodgins with Freeman's flayed body.
Accomplices[]
| Anna Samuels | Surrogate and a scapegoat whom he manipulated using her late father. |
| Leelah Strawn | Posthumous copycat and possible protégé whom he indirectly influenced. |
Victims[]
Confirmed[]
| Carole Morrissey | Snared upside down, and gutted with a WWII katana. |
| Inger Johannsen | Obliterated by bang stick, spine and skull extracted, and had leftover remains to the archive building. |
| Ezra Krane | Face obliterated by bang stick, hung from flagpost, later cremated upon re-transportation. |
| Ethan Sawyer | Drugged with tubocurarine, had arteries exposed and left for wolves to eat him. |
| Xavier Freeman | Extensive torture with needles to the spine until death of pain, then flayed and posed as Vesalius. |
| Random veterinarian | Murdered off-screen. |
| Special Agent Hayes Flynn | Shot with Serberus' mounted miniguns, incapacitated; later flayed, posed as Prometheus and liver removed when conscious. |
Attempted[]
| Dozens of Afghan female students | Using an MQ-9 Predator drone from Serberus to attempt striking an Afghan school with them inside. |
| Lance Sweets | Attempted assassination from behind by Anna Samuels with a silencer pistol. |
By Proxy[]
| Alan Friedlander | Shot in neck & ten more times post-mortem via Anna Samuels. |
| Jeff Stone | Shot in neck & ten more times post-mortem via Anna Samuels. |
| Franklin Holt | Shot to death, then flayed and impaled to an Egyptian obelisk via Leelah Strawn. |
Quotes[]
Season 7[]
| “ | No computers or Internet, and I haven't been past my front door in six months. Condition of parole. | „ |
| ~ Christopher Pelant's introductory quote. |
| “ | The company that built that network got the contract because of campaign contributions. I exposed the corruption. I'm a patriot. | „ |
| ~ Pelant's prior hacking rationale. |
| “ | Dr. Sweets: That seems like a pretty minor obstacle for a man who can write a computer virus on bone. Pelant: Mm, mm, no, not virus. The word you're looking for is "worm." It's a common mistake. |
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| “ | You can charge me! You can charge me! But-but what jury is going to believe that I killed a girl, cut her up, and then dumped her in the museum, all in 38 seconds? | „ |
| “ | Give Jack Hodgins my regards, I knew he'd enjoy the code in the spine. | „ |
| ~ Pelant revealing his true colors to Booth and Sweets. |
Season 8[]
| “ | Pelant: You won't marry her, Agent Booth. Booth: You don't get to decide that. Pelant: But I do. I always make the decisions, and Dr. Brennan can't know the reason why you're turning her down. If you tell her, I'll know. Booth: We're done here. Pelant: If you ignore me, you'll be responsible for the deaths of five innocent people: the teenager with the green shirt and headphones, a couple on the bench, the old man playing chess by himself. Booth: You know I'm gonna find you and I'm gonna kill you. Pelant: But you've already tried. See, I-I really do decide what happens next, and this will happen too maybe because I've read everything Dr. Sweets has written about you and Dr. Brennan. I know you could never trade five innocent lives for your own happiness. Don't be upset, Agent Booth. Please. It's... I feel all of us are-are closer than ever now. Booth: I will kill you. |
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| ~ Pelant threatening to kill innocent lives for Booth's marriage to Brennan. |
Season 9[]
| “ | Pelant: What do you think happened to poor Chloe Campbell? Dr. Brennan: I think you killed her. Pelant: No, it wasn't me. Dr. Brennan: You know who did it. Pelant: Oh, same person who did 1870, 3606, 4005, 7932 and 9224. Dr. Brennan: That's not possible! I wouldn't have missed that! Pelant: Don't be so hard on yourself! They were found on different geographical locations, killed by complete different methods, different ages. Nothing to connect them and yet they were all killed by one person! Dr. Brennan: Who? Pelant: I don't know... yet. |
„ |
| ~ Pelant gloating to Brennan about the Ghost Killer. |
| “ | Dr. Brennan: Christopher? I'm here. Pelant: So am I. Nice to see you. Temperance, you look beautiful. How much time do you think we have before Booth gets here? Dr. Brennan: I'm alone. Pelant: Yeah. But, that never lasts very long, does it? |
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| ~ Pelant to Brennan before meeting for the first time in person. |
| “ | Pelant: The mysterious serial killer, are you curious why I think it's a woman? Dr. Brennan: No? But I do wanna know if Hayes Flynn was working with you. Pelant: Not wittingly. I mean, he didn't know about the money in his fridge or the bug in his car. Please drop the gun. Dr. Brennan: What? |
„ |
| ~ Pelant to Brennan about Hayes Flynn's criminal involvement, and before proceeding to disarm Brennan with his electric trap. |
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- He was one of the few villains in Bones who are the most dangerous and personal the protagonists ever faced, followed by Mark Kovac in Season 12. Coincidentally, he's the only one out of the two to be a Non-Action villain, while Kovac fought against the FBI in the series' ending.
- Like many recurring antagonists in the series, Christopher Pelant serves as a "doppelganger" of a main/recurring protagonist. In Pelant's case, he served as the Anti-Sweets due to his use of Sweets' psychological research on everyone and his inability to understand that Brennan fell in love with Booth already, including his acts of making anyone bring out their darkest personalities while Sweets refuses or prevents that.
- His alternate reality version in "The 200th in the 10th" does not count as a villain, primarily because he's a cameo who appeared as a waiter to Brennan, delivering her the phone, and nothing after that. Plus, his appearance is only brief with the lowest screen-time than any other character in the episode.
External Links[]
- Christopher Pelant on the Bones Wiki
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