And not only is Valenti against Max but Hubble and the FBI too. Made me wonder if there was a brain between them.
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Hubble automatically assumed Max was the same alien who killed his wife, even though he'd heard the story about Max saving Liz.
I'm guessing the FBI were so predisposed to think of aliens as bad because after the crash the aliens killed some army guys, and Nasedo running around killing people for 40 years, that they just thought of all aliens as bad. Or maybe they thought there was some reason Max saved Liz. Some reason he wanted or needed her alive.
Especially after Pierce had Max in the White Room, he had to know he wasn't Nasedo, but he still thought Max was trying to take over Earth or something. And Max had never done anything to harm anyone even when he was being captured.
So I can see the Special Unit's fear of aliens because of all people Nasedo killed, especially the heads of the SU. But Valenti didn't know about any of that. He just had the stories of what his father experienced, which we never got to hear about.
It would have been interesting to know what happened to him. How did he know there were shapeshifters? Did he see them himself? Or was it Hubble who told him about the shapeshifter who killed his wife? Valenti Sr. was the one who found Atherton's body, but we don't know if he saw the killing or maybe River Dog or someone else told him something.
Maybe Jim just believed that Max was the same alien who killed Atherton, and so should be brought to justice as a murderer, no matter what good he had done afterward.