[Jack The Cat]

Good post but I think you are giving him too much credit, I think his only plan is to attach himself to KP and hope to ride to the final on her coat tails.

Perez is very good at exploiting a weakness in people. With Nadia he saw her hatred of KP and cultivated that, with KP he sees her insecurity and feeds her, with a "Gríma Wormtongue" style campaign.