Peter was no singer. His rendition of ‘California Girls‘ by The Beach Boys was an assault on the senses of immense proportions. Considerately, he did not attempt to sing the whole song and only stuck to singing the chorus, once.
Still, it worked a charm on Amanda and Kim, who lapped it up and readily agreed to share a taxi with him. It was as the girls exited the French Airport and were about to make their way to their destination that he made his presence known. He had initiated a conversation, first offering to photograph the girls, then, upon learning that they were from California, he broke into the chorus. Next, he proposed sharing a taxi, supposedly to cut costs. Then he stayed in the taxi with them until they reached their destination. There, he continued to play his ruse, at one point appearing to leave after they said ‘goodbye’ and then turning back to invite them to an evening party, pretending as if extending the invitation was an afterthought. He then used their agreement to elicit specific information about the apartment where they would be staying.
Finally, as they departed, he quickly made a phone call and relayed the details of his catch to the girls’ impending kidnappers.
Later, Peter would be referred to as the spotter, but actually, as we saw when Ingrid arrived at the airport, it was Omar Faye who spotted potential victims and then signalled Peter to go ahead and trap them. Peter died before he could ensnare Ingrid as he had done with Kim and Amanda. Bryan had interrupted him, forcing him into the taxi with him, where he proceeded to interrogate him, brutally. The interrogation was then interrupted by the actual spotter, Omar Faye, who swiftly pulled Bryan out of the taxi, whereupon a fight ensued between the two men. It was during this tussle that Peter seized the opportunity to escape. After laying out Omar, Bryan turned back to find Peter gone. He looked around and saw Peter far off in the distance running for his life. Peter met his death after being hit by a large vehicle on the highway as Bryan gave chase. Later, in a meeting with Jean-Claude, Bryan would go on to say that he found the spotter and that he was dead, to which Jean-Claude asked whether he found him that way. Bryan let his silence speak for him.
Going back to the moment after Peter was signalled to go after Ingrid, there was an instance during which it looked almost as if he regretted what he was about to do. He had cast his eyes downward and moved with deliberateness as Ingrid approached, but he quickly recovered and buckled down to the business of accomplishing his directive. From this, you wonder if he, too, was a prisoner of this whole enterprise in some way. Prisoner or not, though, until he died, he had fared a lot better than the girls whose lives were stolen when he played go-between. Any sympathy afforded him needs to be as fleeting as his conscience about what he did or any care that he spared the girls whom he sent to their ruin.
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