The manifold is obtained from by filling the -boundary along . The filling core represents in . The Turaev-torsion Dehn-filling formula therefore gives
Since a knot exterior has first Betti number one, its normalized Turaev torsion is
Substitution proves
The Mayer--Vietoris sequence for the splice identifies the companion meridian with the pattern longitude and kills exactly the relation already killed when passing from to . It therefore gives a canonical isomorphism
Apply multiplicativity of Turaev torsion to the torus union defining , and use part (b) to replace the torsion of . The factors cancel against the peripheral factor from the companion exterior. Using
on the three knot exteriors leaves
Under a one-variable identification, sends the companion variable to , where is the winding number of a satellite pattern. Thus this is also the usual Satellite formula for the Alexander polynomial.