When you are paying the cost to put a Control cards into play, Pete has +2 to all of his skills.
His mother called him 'The Thing That Should Not Be.' That explains a lot - Bonnie McGee

• Number: 65
• Rarity: U
• Type: Crew
• Faction: Sea Dogs
• Boarding Attack: P
• Boarding Parry: C,T
• (Influence/Move) Cost: 5
• Skills: Cannon Adventuring(x2) Swashbuckling(x3)