The professor was not the usual scholar. He had his degrees, but also a past that was beyond the usual qualifications for scholarship. Quite unusual. He had reached a time of peace, well earned at his age, but it couldn't last. What happened to his family shouldn't have happened; it was undeserved but something which might have been forseen. What the then professor did was a reaction born from his most distant past, and one which no one could have seen coming. Moving across the country, then across national borders, the professor made his presence known. And got payback.