 Valente grows tired of Beck's delays and failures, as well as the growing fear of the conspirators that Beck might be close to the truth.Valente sends John Goetz to replace him as the town's chief administrator (Beck would later get the position back upon Goetz's death).Hawkins suspects Valente as the mastermind behind the Attacks, though it is later revealed that Valente, Tomarchio and others were pawns of the mysterious "John Smith".