Finch further speculates that V fabricated the version of Surridge's diary which he left with her body, just to confuse the police. V also tore out many pages, which possibly left clues to his true identity before arriving at the camp. Inspector Finch, the head of London's police department and one of Norsefire's most powerful officials, reads through the diary, but points out that V wanted them to read it. The only explanation given regarding V's past is Surridge's diary, which V leaves out in the open for the 'Finger' (Norsefire's secret police) to find after he kills her. He doesn't even consider 'V' his 'name', saying 'I do not have a name. V's true identity is a mystery, and he visibly removes his mask only once during the entire story (at Surridge's request), at which point his back is to the reader.

However, he saves Prothero, Lilliman and Surridge for last, showing only the remorseful Surridge a bit of mercy by using a painless poison.

He then kills off most of the over 40 surviving personnel from Larkhill, making each killing look like an accident. V then spends the next five years planning his revenge on the Norsefire government, building his secret base, which he calls the 'Shadow Gallery'. He adopts the new identity, 'V', and dons a Guy Fawkes mask and costume. Much of the camp is set ablaze, and many of the guards who rush in to see what happened are killed by the mustard gas. 5th), he detonates his homemade bomb and escapes his cell. In secret, the man uses the fertilizer and solvent to make mustard gas and napalm. He then takes a large amount of grease solvent from the gardens. The man eventually starts taking surplus ammonia-based fertilizer back to his cell, arranges it in bizarre, intricate patterns on the floor. Over time, the man is allowed to grow roses (violet carsons) and raise crops for camp officials. The experiments actually yield some beneficial results: he develops Olympic-level reflexes, increased strength, and incredibly expanded mental capacity (as demonstrated consistently throughout the novel, V is a genius in the fields of explosives, martial arts, philosophy, literature, politics, computer hacking and chemistry). Still, his actions seem to maintain a twisted logic to them.

Although there is nothing physically wrong with him, Surridge theorizes that his mind had been warped by the experimentation. All prisoners so injected soon die under gruesome circumstances, with the sole exception of 'the man in room five' ('V' in Roman numerals). Lewis Prothero is the camp's commandant, and a paedophile priest, Father Anthony Lilliman, is at the camp to lend 'spiritual support'. Delia Surridge, involving artificially-designed hormone injection. While there, he is part of a group of prisoners who are subjected to horrific medical experimentation, conducted by Dr. He is at one point an inmate at the infamous ' Larkhill Resettlement Camp', one of, if not the worst of many concentration camps where political prisoners, homosexuals, Jews, Pakistanis, Muslims and probably all non-Europeans are exterminated by Britain's new fascist regime, Norsefire. The background and identity of V is largely unknown.

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