The first part of this chapter focuses on Nam-Ek's past. Apparently, he was not just Zod’s subordinate, but almost like a son to him. Nam-Ek is a big and strong man, a mute and an animal lover. His father went berserk when he was a kid, killed his mother and his two sisters. When he when after him, Nam-Ek took refuge in the barn along the gurns and survived miraculously until the Sapphire Guards showed and apprehended the mad man. Gurns are sturdy, smelly and furry animals with little horns like knobs. One can think of gurns as Banthas (Tatooine native elephant-like creatures), but smaller in size and with shorter horns.  Nam-Ek is maiking his way to Kandor’s prison, a maximum security complex, to take revenge. Earlier in Chapter 6, the Council had condemned a criminal, Bel-Ek, for the brutal murder of a few animals at the zoo. And Nam-Ek, being an animal lover as it is, went seeking justice.  The second part of the chapter describes the savage way Nam-Ek tortured an killed the man, in his own cell.  He deceives the prison guards and assassinates Bel-Ek cruelly and cold blooded, as his master had shown him. To his favor, nobody would ever suspected of him committing that horrible kind of crime: not the poor traumatized mute kid.