When he is tied up on the boat and Terri figures out that the whole thing was a set-up by Sarone, he says "Don't forget about the wasp." Could he have really planted a wasp in Cale's mask, or did Sarone just say that to aggravate Terri? It seems a little far-fetched that Sarone could plan something like that.
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I don't think he planned it i think he just improvised to get Cale out of the way since he was stopping him from going on his hunt.
The movie implied that he planned it, based on his line “Don’t forget about the wasp.”
He probably put the wasp in the mask, as you say. And he may have doctored the rope to have it get caught in the engine. Based on his observations of the boat’s hierarchy as well as Cale’s personality, he surmised that Cale would insist on going himself to clear the engine of the rope. Thus, he was able to get Cale out of the picture; Cale was the only one who seemed capable of challenging Jon Voight from seizing the ship.
It’s no stretch to think that Voight’s character would devise such elaborate schemes. The movie made clear that he was intelligent, sneaky, and dangerous