He threatened Dussander into doing what he wanted or else Todd would go to the police and tell them everything about what he did in the past, and Dussander would not tell Todd's parents or anyone about what he did and what he’s doing. In the beginning you don’t see Todd as much as the monster considering all the things Dussander has done but the readers get a slight glimpse into Todds mind and what he likes and the things he thinks of that could consider him to be a monster “[H]e wanted to hear about German doctors trying to mate women with dogs, putting identical twins into refrigerators to see whether they would die at the same time or if one of them would last longer, and electroshock therapy, and operations without anaesthetic, and German soldiers raping all the women they wanted” (Apt Pupil 10).
