"Pete" is a character in Inspector Gadget. His actual name remains unknown, but Gadget assumed him to be called "Pete" when the agent told him he was busy peat digging.
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"Pete" is a Scottish M.A.D. agent and was one of the agents intent on kidnapping some solar scientists in order to complete Dr. Claw's heat ray cannon, which Claw planned to use to melt the Tower of London for ransom.
When Gadget first meets him while driving through the English countryside, Gadget asks what he's doing and the agent answers "I'm a peat digging". This leads Gadget to call him "Pete" by mistake. The Inspector asks for directions to Stonehenge, but "Pete" warns Gadget about druids, then tricks him into stepping into a very deep mud pit, and “borrows” the Gadgetmobile. Luckily for Gadget, Brain is there to save him.
A little later, Gadget, after riding into town on a penny farthing, meets "Pete" again at a local inn, where one of the solar scientists, Dr. Flashpan, also happens to be. "Pete" later tries to finish Gadget off again, this time by placing a stick of lit dynamite in Gadget’s bed with Gadget in it. Once again, Brain intervenes, the dynamite slips out of "Pete"’s hands and he makes his escape out the window. The dynamite goes off but Gadget is not in his bed at that moment, much to Brain’s relief.
Thhe following morning at Stonehenge, after the kidnapped solar scientists have put the finishing touches on the heat ray cannon, "Pete" is disguised as a druid, as are other M.A.D. Agents, including Lenny, Dick and Fred. Together they tie and gag the scientists.
When Gadget arrives at Stonehenge, druid-disguised Pete and the other M.A.D. agents tie him up on a slab. "Pete" then takes control of the heat ray cannon, but Penny, who is also there, manages to take over the heat ray cannon’s controls with her computer book, much to "Pete"’s dismay, as the heat ray cannon then eventually collapses to the ground.
Then at that precise moment, the local constabulary arrive and "Pete" and the other M.A.D. agents are taken into custody.
Trivia[]
- When Penny is spying on the M.A.D. Agents overseeing the scientist building the heat ray, she also refers to him as "The man called Pete", even though that is not his real name. It's entirely conceivable that she overheard her uncle calling him Pete from outside the pub.