Because we copped YTW's role and he is:
Our cult leader can cult dead players and we had 1 shot of an ability that allowed us to recruit a living players as an agent, we used it on ??? and one shot on Hayumi which failed :(
But Pepe has a very nice set of abilities, comparable to those of our cult leader! ( well he can't have his own cult but it works very well for our agenda ) so the sooner you take him out the better for us