Are you sure, Gautam, she's here?
Are you doubting Rudra or me?
-Found her? -No, ma'am.
Nothing here, sir.
Nothing here.
Not here.
Gautam.
Any luck?
Rudra, give me your hand.
Pull me up.
Where's Meera?
Meera who?
I don't know.
Then of what use are you.
All this effort for nothing.
No! No!
You can't leave me here, hanging like this.
Where is Meera?
I'll tell you.
In the hall...
Under the mirror.
Yes, Rudra.
Move all this stuff. Quickly.
Come on.
Move this back.
My hand is slipping.
Call the medics immediately!
Medics!
-Found her? -Wait.
Found her.
Is she alive?
Get her out.
Can't say.
Now pull me up.
I'll fall!
Okay.
Okay, okay, okay.
She's alive.
Rudra!
I'll fall.
Save me!
Please!
I didn't lie to you.
I was telling the truth.
Pull me up now.
Rudra, please.
Rudra...
Sahil, 8 years old.
Kidnapped from Breach Candy.
Rhea, 11.
She was returning from her private tuition classes.
And Ayaan...
I lifted his corpse with my own hands.
These hands are still shivering.
Tell me.
How can these hands save you?
Rudra!
Mumbai Police. Go ahead.
In my home...
What happened in your home?
My mom...
My dad.
Is there anyone else at home?
It's just me.
Don't be afraid.
Share your address.
So, Gautam was right.
This is how you're spending your vacation.
By staring into the darkness.
Not staring, boss.
Searching.
Your suspension has been revoked until Mandar Naik wakes up.
So, decide.
Sit here and drive yourself nuts,
or resume duty and drive me nuts.
It's a double-murder case, reported this morning.
Since when did Special Crimes Unit start handling simple cases?
Has crime reduced in the city, or have people become stupider?
Special circumstances, that's why.
Wait a minute.
Let me just remind you once again.
My orders will be final.
You do what I say.
More importantly, what I don't say...
doesn't happen.
We don't want another Mandar Naik type episode getting repeated.
Judges are also paid a salary, so let them decide.
Have you spoken to Shaila?
Why?
We're on a break.
Her idea, not mine.
There is no such thing as a break in relationships.
You know that, right?
It's all bullshit.
Our whole system runs on bullshit, boss.
So, what's my marriage in comparison.
Do you know what's the difference between me and Shaila?
She only threatens to take you back.
I actually do it.
Love doesn't last forever.
DCP Rudraveer Singh.
Hello, sir.
Welcome back, sir.
Proud to work with you.
Inspector Prabal Thakur.
He's gonna be on your team.
He'll explain everything about the case to you.
So, guys,
call me when you have something.
Yeah?
All the best.
Sir.
Anything you want to ask?
Sir?
Like, how I'm doing,
or where I spent my holiday,
et cetera, et cetera.
No, sir.
I've wanted to work with you for a long time.
I put in six requests in the past year
and followed it up 36 times.
What's the case?
Double-murder case, sir.
Sandeep Choksi and his wife, Deepa Choksi.
Union Road, Chembur.
Who reported it?
Their daughter, Aliyah Choksi.
She wasn't home at the time of the murder.
Where was she?
Supermarket.
Does she live with them?
No, sir. She lives in Bandra.
Without her parents.
Where is she now?
She's been taken in for medical and forensics.
Why did she go meet them?
It's Sandeep Choksi's birthday today.
I mean, was.
Come on then.
Let's go crash the birthday party.
Both parents were at home
when she went to the supermarket.
She had left the door unlocked.
No guards, no CCTV cameras.
Have the neighbours been questioned?
We're on it, sir.
This way.
Must have tried to attack.
Shot in the face.
Fingerprints?
Nothing so far, sir.
Side-effects of noise cancellation.
He never heard the killer coming.
He was a professor at Livingston College.
Taught Philosophy.
It was a low-calibre gun.
.22 or .25 maybe?
Hmm...
Found the gun?
No, sir.
We're still looking.
If you haven't found it, then you won't.
Who leaves the gun behind after a murder?
Sleeping pills.
Husband and wife slept in different rooms.
In house, but on a break.
Often couples who don't sleep together
have a better marriage.
Personal experience or some app?
I've heard somewhere, sir.
So, not married yet.
No, sir.
The dog was killed first,
then Mr. Choksi.
Which means...
eliminating all physical threat.
Then the killer's final prize.
Mrs. Choksi.
Don't you think something's off?
Trying to understand, sir.
Neither burglary,
nor sexual assault.
Personal enmity?
Could be.
Go on, I'll join you.
I'll see you.
Shai.
Rudra.
My suspension has been revoked.
That's great news.
I've resumed duty as well.
Already?
I think they missed me.
Shai...
everything okay?
Yes...
I'm running late.
I have a meeting.
Can we meet tonight?
Need to talk to you.
Tonight...
I have a dinner tonight.
So, let's meet after that?
Okay.
I need to go.
Okay.
Shai,
I'm feeling better.
I'm good.
Really.
I've really got to go.
Okay.
Sir.
Sir,
welcome back.
That's written on the doormat outside too.
Say something new.
Sir, your gun and I-card.
I heard you made a comeback with a double murder.
Triple murder.
There was a dog, too.
How are you?
First class.
What are you working on?
Honour killing.
Well, now we've seen it all.
Listen.
You're okay, right?
Smashing.
Ms. Choksi.
Aliyah.
DCP Rudraveer Singh.
I'm sorry
you had to come here in this condition for a statement.
You look very tired.
So tired...
that my entire body feels shattered.
Our bodies are unable to process shock.
The pain of losing family is unbearable.
But, to catch the killer,
we'll need all your strength.
Your name?
For our records.
Aliyah Choksi.
Where were you when it happened?
At the supermarket.
For how long?
Hardly an hour.
I needed a few things,
which were not really necessary.
Any suspicions?
Rift with the neighbours
or something at work?
There was no such thing.
My parents were decent people.
My mom was a housewife.
Anything else?
Your parents' relationship... Were they...
They loved each other.
Water?
Thank you, I'm fine.
Ms. Choksi,
to catch the killer, we need your courage
and your memory.
That's all I've been thinking since this morning.
What could have happened?
Who did it? Why did they do it?
Sir.
Jai Hind, sir.
Jai Hind.
So, your champion's back.
He's already handling a case, sir.
Better if he handles himself first.
Sir, if I'm not mistaken,
your inquiry team gave him a clean chit.
No.
His suspension was revoked because
the only eyewitness to the case is in a coma.
And the girl Meera, whose life Rudra saved,
is in school today.
Don't bet so heavily on Rudra
that, when he falls, he drags you and the unit down with him.
I'm sorry but I don't consider him a risk, sir.
Then what is he?
Asset.
An officer who has solved the most cases for SCU.
And if Mandar Naik wakes up from his coma,
what will he say about your asset?
I think you know the answer.
And send this Aliyah Choksi home.
She's a child prodigy.
A genius.
All-India topper.
She's also doing critical research for the space mission.
We cannot treat her like a common suspect.
Sir.
Jai Hind, sir.
Jai Hind.
Are you sure
you didn't see or hear anything unusual?
Sorry...
Maybe this wouldn't have happened if I hadn't gone to the market.
I lost them over some useless things.
Why did you go if they were so unnecessary?
You don't always need a reason to do things.
Sorry.
When you're a cop,
sleep is the last thing you get.
It's okay.
You must be tired
asking the same questions again and again.
Questions don't tire me,
answers do.
Coffee?
Tea, please.
Drop of milk, no sugar.
She did it.
Look.
Sorry.
When you're a cop,
sleep is the last thing you get.
It's okay.
You must be tired
asking the same questions again and again.
She didn't yawn.
See, I just mentioned it and you yawned.
It's the body's automatic setting.
Connected to empathy.
When I yawned in front of her,
she didn't bat an eyelid.
Meaning she has no empathy.
She is the murderer.
What are we going to say in court?
My lord, she's the killer because she didn't yawn.
And what if the judge doesn't yawn either?
This is her project,
which she's proud to complete.
She's showing off.
But, sir, if she's a genius,
then why point the arrow to herself?
More importantly, she was at the supermarket
five minutes before she called the police.
She didn't have enough time, Rudra.
Precisely, boss, her absence from the house
is the whole point.
She's telling us, "Look at me. I'm the murderer.
"But you can't even touch me."
This is all a game for her.
Where's the evidence?
Where is the gun?
Don't know.
Come again?
Tea, drop of milk, no sugar.
Any trouble sitting?
It's okay.
Your job is important too.
You balance pretty well on an unbalanced chair.
Often while interrogating suspects,
we purposely keep one of the legs shorter.
Suspect?
Hot?
Tea.
So...
PhD at 18...
in Physics.
Astrophysics.
I've always been intrigued by dark matter of the universe.
Almost a genius.
Almost.
What did people call you when you were a kid?
Genius or crazy?
Actually, my childhood--
Don't answer.
Child prodigies are usually weird.
What age did you join university?
13.
Wow.
You were 13
while your classmates were 20-22.
So, no friends...
or boyfriends.
Actually, I was quite mature for my age.
Sexually too.
We were taught at the academy,
"All things being equal,
"the simplest solution
"is the best solution."
Occam's Razor Principle.
And, as per this principle,
you're my first suspect.
And how did you reach this conclusion?
Because there is no evidence
to prove there was someone else in the house.
How can lack of evidence be evidence?
But absolutely no trace of evidence
leads to suspicion.
And then evidence
just finds a way of turning up.
Now you're going to ask me
if I hated my parents, right?
Did you hate your parents?
Did they drive me crazy? Yes.
Did I hate them?
A lot.
But did I murder them?
You'll have to prove that.
You've left no evidence
since you're a genius.
Aren't you praising me a bit too much?
You deserve it.
Are you flirting with me?
How can a beginner flirt
with a master?
If brilliance walks in the darkness,
it usually slips
and falls into the light.
And then I catch it.
So, you only catch those who slip.
What about those who don't?
I wait for them in the darkness.
Well...
then we'll meet in the darkness.
Am I right or am I right?
You're right and
you're right.
-Boss? -I agree you're right.
But a sharp tongue isn't evidence.
She wants us to call her a genius.
Then do so and gather evidence.
Otherwise, we'll be in the middle of a media shitstorm.
Serving them tea every day.
Drop of milk, no sugar.
So, we just let her go?
Can you get the evidence while she sits there?
No, right?
Then let her go, and you...
find the gun!
Ms. Choksi,
you're free to go.
It was fun meeting you.
Wow!
Nice dress.
Missed you.
Wine.
Already?
Rudra,
I've met someone.
When?
A few months ago.
Who is it?
How does it matter?
It matters.
Are you sleeping with him?
Why? Why? Why?
Why?
You tell me why.
Fine.
I'll tell you.
You were never there.
I was always there with you,
but you were not.
Come on, Shai!
You needed space.
I was right here.
Dead people fascinated you more than me.
Your murderers, serial killers, rapists.
And, when you were with me,
you were never fully there.
And he is?
When he's with me,
he's entirely with me.
Do you love him?
His name is Rajiv.
Go home, Rudra.
Thought that's where I was coming.
Shaila called.
Do you want to say something?
Do you want me to say something?
No.
Exactly.
-Cheers. -Cheers.
When did you last sleep?
Have you ever had a song stuck in your head
that keeps playing in a loop?
Thinking about Aliyah Choksi?
She's self-obsessed. She wants recognition.
And admiration.
This is her biggest project.
How could she not have kept a souvenir?
So?
Time to smash?
If I give her what she wants...
and then snatch it back?
Then she will come after you.
You want some tea?
Coffee.
But not with you.
Hey...
Was it necessary to burn my dog?
That's the procedure for murdered animals.
But you already know everything.
I loved him.
But not your parents?
Coffee?
Anybody listening in on us?
Does it matter?
I would've enjoyed an audience, you know.
Are you here to interrogate me again?
No.
Liar.
That's a black hole.
There's nothing more beautiful in the entire universe.
It absorbs everything.
Whatever goes in becomes nothing.
Only darkness.
You believe in darkness, don't you?
I live in the darkness.
Mandar.
Those who hide in the darkness...
will find me there.
Like me.
Maybe.
Where is your wedding ring?
Did your wife find someone else?
Is he handsome?
Are you in a lot of pain?
Pain.
Love.
You understand it?
You can only see love in others,
but you can't feel it.
So, have you come here for sex?
You think?
Are you trying to humiliate me?
You need to first earn respect for that.
That's what you're doing, aren't you?
Then why are you here?
You've kept the gun.
Thought I'd take a look.
Why would I have it?
If you were a genius,
you would've dumped it.
But you're not a genius,
and I will prove it.
Think before you threaten me.
Why did your wife leave you, Rudra?
There must be a reason.
What secrets are you hiding in these eyes?
You can't be as good as you seem.
Don't make a sound. Don't move.
Okay.
Your husband misbehaved with me.
What?
He ripped my clothes.
Touched me.
Over and over again.
It was disgusting, and it was all because of you.
Because of me?
He was taking your name while touching me.
He said
you were dead.
You were kidnapped by some psycho
who kept you alive for a long time.
Tortured you.
Burnt your face.
Chopped your body to pieces
and kept it with him.
I'm afraid
someone wants to kill you the same way.
Don't turn around!
Hello.
Shaila.
Slow down. Slow down.
I told you that girl is dangerous.
Why didn't you let me arrest her?
On what charges, Rudra?
Shaila didn't see her face.
There's no CCTV footage.
We don't have an eyewitness.
We have nothing.
I am Aliyah Choksi's next target.
These are your assumptions.
We can only interrogate her on the basis of suspicion,
not arrest her.
So, we do nothing!
Get the evidence.
Sir,
I'll keep an eye on Shaila ma'am.
Why?
So that you can keep an eye on Aliyah.
I know you don't like guns,
but aren't you overdoing it?
.22 Austrian made, small calibre.
It's a tough gun.
Carbon spring, polymer frame.
So?
Polymer means plastic.
Is this the point where only you know what's happening?
Maybe.
Come in.
Our department is working only on one case these days.
What is all this?
One bullet for the mom.
One for the dad.
But four for the dog.
Why?
It's a dog, must have tried to attack, so...
No.
The dog was sacrificed.
She disassembled the gun,
ripped his jaw and stuffed it in his stomach.
We perform post-mortem only on humans,
not animals.
That's why all the evidence
-was burnt inside his stomach. -Okay, okay! Stop it!
Okay, I agree.
Where is the evidence?
In her house.
With the dog's ashes.
No judge will issue a warrant for this.
They need reasonable grounds, Rudra.
She is a murderer, and we cannot even touch her!
She threatened a police officer's wife, my wife!
And we're supposed to stand by and watch this show?
Find another angle, Rudra. I don't have to spell this out.
There is no other angle.
She burnt them all.
Aliyah.
This is mine.
This or what's inside it?
You cannot use this evidence against me
because its forensic value melted in the oven.
You can't even prove that I knew the gun was inside the dog.
And finally,
you stole this from my house,
for which you can be suspended.
So, congratulations.
I know this isn't evidence.
I'm just showing a genius her place.
No!
Is this how you threw Mandar off?
You will stay away from Shaila.
So, go on.
Kiss me.
Kill me.
Do something.
You will stay away from Shaila.
Otherwise, I'll arrest someone else for your parents' murder.
I know how to plant evidence.
You can mock your principles
for a woman who's dumped you for someone else.
And you call this love?
For someone who can kill her parents to prove her genius,
what would she know about love?
What is this love that abandons you and makes you weak?
And you call me the monster?
People only fulfil their needs in the name of love, Rudra.
There is no love.
Rudra!
Don't turn your back on me!
Sir.
She's in this house.
She's not alone.
Go home.
And you?
I have some unfinished business.
Shai!
Shai.
Hi, I'm Rajiv.
What are you doing in my house, man?
I need to talk to Shaila.
She doesn't want to talk to you. You should leave.
Shai!
-Shai! -Don't--
I just want to talk.
-She can't talk now. -Shai!
-You need to give her time. -Shai!
Stop it, Rudra!
Stop!
Stop, stop. Go back.
That's it.
Damn!
Hey, hero!
What's going on here?
I'm talking to my wife.
I'm a police officer.
It's okay.
It's okay, Rudra.
I'm here.
What do you want to say?
I only came to talk,
not to make a scene.
Shai.
Shai, I...
I know you're happy where you are.
Live however you want.
Do whatever you want.
I'll respect whatever you do.
But I'll always love you.
I'm sorry.
I let you down.
Don't say that, Rudra.
I am sorry.
I am sorry I hurt you.
I am sorry.
Hello.
Why do I feel you did a favour on me,
which I must repay?
This case and everything between us is over.
Madam, where are you going?
You're not allowed here.
Sorry, I took a wrong turn.