the eel begins to attack everything in sight. as defilak, gar, and idris use the chance to escape from pridak and his sharks; ehlek and carapar take the opportunity to snoop around pridak's lair, where they find a newcomer to the pit - the mutated brutaka. takadox tries to hypnotize the eel into submission, but it becomes distracted by sounds in a long cord of stone that reaches to the surface and it knocks takadox far away. dekar, now with a healthy respect for the mask, cautiously touches it and is given a vision of its history, along with the revelation that the pit's waters are eroding it away and damaging it.