I am looking at a derivation of the parallel axis theorem in a book. The photo is below
I'm not sure why but I just cannot figure out how they got from line 2 to line 3. I have thought through all of the properties I know (I have expanded and used the vector triple product, the cyclic permutations of scalar triple product etc) but I cannot seem to figure out that step.
Would very much appreciate if someone could enlighten me as to what property/rule was used here.
$$ (a \times b) \cdot (c \times d) = \varepsilon_{kij} a_i b_j \varepsilon_{klm} c_l d_m = (\delta_{il} \delta_{jm}-\delta_{im}\delta_{kl}) a_i b_j c_l d_m = (a \cdot c)(b \cdot d) - (a \cdot d)(b \cdot c), $$ so in this case, $$ \lVert \hat{n} \times (r-a) \rVert^2 = \lVert \hat{n} \rVert^2 \lVert r-a \rVert^2 - (\hat{n} \cdot (r-a))^2. $$