by Carl » May 13th, 2015, 3:03 am
Exactly like DGF says. If Scar did the deed himself, it could be witnessed and pointed back to him. However, if the hyenas are the ones doing it, in the event anyone sees, Scar can throw the blame onto someone else. In this case, if someone saw the hyenas killing Simba, and the hyenas said Scar told them to, and Scar denied it, who would the pride believe? Not the hyenas who had killed the prince. He had the hyenas scare the wildebeest for the same reason. No one could pin Mufasa's death on him if they saw the hyenas scare the wildebeest, and he could say he was trying to help Mufasa up when he killed him.
He planned it carefully so that he could deny any guilt, should he need to.
And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those stupid hyenas! (And his own big mouth!)