Pelant strikes again after Hodgins and Angela wake up one morning after having been drugged and a corpse hanging above them. Such actions have Booth place the Jeffersonian into complete tech lockdown-using only analog tech to avoid another hacking by Pelant. Even though the FBI manages to track him down, Pelant escapes-albeit not without significant injuries. Pelant then hacks and takes control of a MQ-9 aimed at a school full of children in Afghanistan and alsohacks into all of Hodgins' bank accounts, forcing Hodgins to choose between his fortune or the schoolchildren. Pelant is later seen sewing his own wounds, having sustained serious wounds to his face and right eye from Booth's shot, at a vet clinic with a dead body nearby.
Tropes
- Artistic License – Economics: The Cantilever Group, to which Hodgins is the sole heir, is frequently stated to be beyond wealthy, and one of the "them" that Hodgins believes in. Pelant hacks the accounts and drains the entire fortune of the Cantilever Group, leaving Hodgins penniless. First, no organization of that size would only have liquid assets. Second, an organization of that size would be "too big to fail" and couldn't simply disappear without massive repercussions and at least one government would have stepped in. Third, banks keep records; Pelant's actions would have been reversed inside an hour.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Pelant offers Hodgins a seemingly Sadistic Choice: Shut down a server that is slowly draining away his millions or let it run to prevent a drone to strike a school in the Middle East. Pelant assumes Hodgins will either shut the server down right away or waste time trying to save his cash and his choice will ruin his relationship with the team. It never occurs to Pelant that Hodgins (who's always hated being rich) will gladly sacrifice his cash to save innocent lives.
- Murder by Remote Control Vehicle: Pelant tries to use a drone to kill a school full of girls but is stopped.
- Red Right Hand: Pelant becomes Two-Faced after surviving a bullet from Booth.
- Sadistic Choice: Christopher Pelant hacks into a UAV Drone and targets a school for girls in the Middle East while simultaneously hacking into Hodgins' bank account. The only way to save his money was to shut down the system, but if they shut down the system the Drone will destroy the school and kill the young girls and teachers there. Hodgins doesn't hesitate on the choice.
- In many ways, it is subverted to show that Pelant truly does not understand the team. What was meant to be a Sadistic Choice is actually a very simple, but painful, one for Hodgins who, while happily rich, isn't particularly attached to said money. In the aftermath, he makes no attempt to recover the lost assets (see above for how easy it would be) and the only reason he later focuses on getting rich again is to care for his family in the manner to which they are accustomed.
