 Edriss realizes that they were simply animals, not the Andalite bandits, and Visser Three just had them brought in to trick the Council into thinking that he did kill the Andalite bandits.Unfortunately, the Council of Thirteen does get fooled by the demonstration, and suddenly Visser Three has a lot more credibility.Visser Three then says he has testimony from a witness who was with Edriss during the time that Edriss did not make any memory dumps.