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If you believe your hand to be a bluff catcher on this flop, NOT betting is a pretty bad option as well as it narrows your range significantly and only succeeds in getting you 1 step towards a showdown where you feel you have zero equity.

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We have a bluff-catcher. Villain is unlikely to bluff by check/calling.

When you have a bluff-catcher, there's value in giving villains a chance to actually bluff.

That said, fold pre-flop FFS.

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You make a good point as always Bilbo, however the way the hand is played, it would appear that hero believes his hand is only good as a bluff. In that case, he pretty much has to bet the flop in order to salvage any bluff value he may believe he has.

For the record, I’m with you on the value of a bluff catcher being to catch bluffs, however (and perhaps I misinterpreted) I think what hero really meant is that his hand post flop is only good as a bluff (as if he truly believed it to be a bluff catcher, he would have simply called the river against any opponent with some semblance of hand reading skills).