Arjun 27th October 2012 Written Update

Short Update

This episode begins with Riya dying =/ with the ETF team completely devastated by the loss. In her final moments, Riya speaks to each of the ETF team, ending with Arjun, as they both understand the pain of losing your love. After she is cremated, we then move to the crime for today – the murder of an ACP, who dealt with anti-extortion cases. At the scene of the crime, an Eagleman Comic paper is found, and it’s traced back to Reema and her special needs child, Vicki. At the same time, we also find out that Girish Kulkarni, the ACP that was murdered, was a corrupt officer, taking things from the people hw as helping in return for actually helping them out with their cases. Vicki was a witness to the murder, we find, and Arjun and the ETF team set about talking to other police officers, trying to figure out who killed Girish Kulkarni

The mystery is unraveled at the end, where we find out that it was in fact, Vicki, that killed Girish Kulkarni in anger, when he saw Kulkarni hitting his mother. And Reema, rather than reporting this to the police immediately after seeing the dead body, chose to hurry away back home with her son.

So essentially – a son’s love and protective urge for his mother manifesting into murder.

Detailed Update:

The ETF team rushes into teh hospital, all calling for a doctor as Arjun is holding Riya. They put her on the stretcher and rush her inside as they explain to the doctor that she has bacteria inside of her, some specific kind, and everyone tells him toplease save her. Riya is lying on the stretcher, looking pale, as she struggles to breathe. The doctor looks her over and says that she will need a blood transfusion, and Shree immediately responds that her blood group is B+. The hospital staff hurries to make arrangements for the blood, when Riya says that she’s really cold, and Chotu and Shree hurry to help her.

Arjun holds Riya’s face and pleads with her to not give up on him, to hold on, and Rathod does the same, and Riya haltingly explains that she really wants to live, but everything is slipping away. She tells teh ETF team to tell her father that she wasn’t afraid. Riya then calls for Rathod, telling him to forgive her if she ever made a mistake, and then promises that if she gets another chance, she’ll prove herself. Everyone is emotionally devastated, as Riya then turns to Chotu and Riya, and shares something with them, before turning to Arjun, who immediately turns to her. She says to him, Remember how I always used to tell you that I understand? No one else can understand because … And then she stops breathing. Arjun finishes the sentence fo her, saying that only those who lost their love would understand what the meaning of it is. And Arjun slowly closes Riya’s eyes and turns away, while Chottu and Shree break down holding her hands, as they scream for her to wake up. And Rathod? He just remains in stunned silence, before slowly walking outside of the room, and dropping into a seat, recalling Riya’s last words to him. At the same time, Arjun’s eyes are filling with tears as he recalls other moments that they shared together.

The scene then shifts to the cremation grounds where the ETF team is standing behind the burning fire, all recalling moments they shared with Riya,

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Next scene – a man enters a bathroom, kicking things around when he gets a phone call from someone who he threatens for continuously calling him. Right then, a door in the bathroom mysteriously opens and closes, and someone comes out right then, and murders the man. Next morning, a janitor is cleaning the bathroom when he enters the bathroom and sees the dead man.

Rathod is briefing the ETF team about this murder, explaining that the man who was killed was an anti-extortion ACP officer – Girish Kulkarni. He caught a lot of gangsters , and had a lot of enemies. But the comissioner gave the case to ETF because he believes that an inside person has a hand in all of this. Rathod orders the team to go when Shree says no, how can they be so mechanical? Only yesterday, Riya died right in front of them, and today they’re just going to head out to solve a case? He can’t do that.

Arjun responds by saying that Shree made a promise that they would save good and eradicate evil. Riya gave her life for this and we can’t let her life go to waste. And another thing Shree – you’re not a regular man, you’re a police officer, and more importntly an ETF officer.

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The ETF team arrives at the crime scene, with everyone doing their job of initial survey of the situation, talking to some of the employees etc. Chottu finds a piece of paper that hadn’tb een there earlier, and they decide he was murdered between a certain time.

Everyone returns to ETF headquarters. The piece of paper was from a comic that was bought in a store at another multiplex, and Shree explains who the credit card belonged to (someone named Reema) and what else they bought with the credit card. Shree also says that the phone call that Kulkarni got was from another police officer – Rawat.

At Reema’s house, they knock on her door, and declare that they’re teh ETF and have to ask her questions, and instead of inviting Shree and Arjun into the house, she closes the behind her and steps out to answer questions. When Arjun explains teh situation, and how the paper torn was from a comic book that was bought by her the day before, but doesn’t remember. Shree pulls out her transactions, and then she suddenly remembers, saying that she bought an Eagleman comic the day before. Arjun then says that her son must have gone to the bathroom, taking the comic book with him the night before, and the woman adamently denies it, saying that the book is still with them. When she brings it though, we see that it was the same book from which the cover was torn.

Arjun suggests that their son might have seen the murder and having become afraid, hurriedly left like that, not noticing the book was ripped. And he asks her if she’s noticed any changes in her sons behavior and she says no, he’s always been relatively quiet, etc. But she seems really afraid in her mannerisms, and Arjun asks her why? And the woman says that her son is a special child, and Arjun assures her that they won’t pressure him at all.

They step into the house, where Reema introduces Arjun and Shree to her husband, Prem, and their lawyer. Upon hearing about the murder, Prem gets angry with his wife, asking her how can she leave their son like that? And she responds that she knows how to take care of their child because she’s the one that takes care of him. And the begint o fight before the lawyer interferes.

Arun and Shree meet with Vicki, and ask him if he saw anything and he seems really afraid, backing away quickly, and falling onto his bed, before the mom rushes over and says taht her son is in no state to say anything, and to please let him go.

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Rathod and Chottu go to speak with Inspector Yadav, who’s the bodyguard of Girish Kulkarni. Yadav says that Kulkarni had told him to leave after dropping him off at the mall. Rathod then questions him about getting suspended by Kulkarni, and Yadav explains that they had a tuffle over the fact that he saw Kulkarni speaking with some gangster, and he got suspended, but it was ACP Rawat that helped him get his job back. Chottu and Rathod quesiton Yadav about Kulkarni’s relationship with Rawat, and he seems really heistant to speak, really afraid. And Yadav says he doesn’t know for sure but that he saw the two arguing where Girish Kulkarni raised his hand on Rawat.

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Rathod and Chottu speak with Rawat at a bar, and Rawat explains that he didn’t like how Kulkarni dealt with their subordinates. And says that Kulkarni was handling some case with some construction Sujeet and how he was getting some threats from the underworld.

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The ETF team goes to speek with Sujeet, who explains that yes but Girish took care of them. And then he also explains how he ended up giving Girish’s wife a flat because Girish demanded that in return for saving him from threats, he would have to give Girish Kulkarni himself something. (So clearly they had a give and take thing going on)

Right then, Arjun gets a phone call from Reema who says that the murderer came to her house and threatened her son, and Arjun assures her that they’ll be there ASAP.

Rathod goes to speak with Rawat and ask him if he would also take something from people who they were supposed to be helping? And Rawat adamantly denies this, saying that in fact this was what he used to disagree with Kulkarni about, and that people were now not happy with Girish anymore, teh gangsters, and they were threatening him, one of them being Abu Sheik.

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Arjun questioning Reema asking her how she’s so sure that the person who threatened him was the murderer, and she explains that it was Vicki who said that. Arjun questions Vicki then, talking to him and trying to get him to slowly help them out, and the boy signs that when he went to the bathroom, he saw two men fighting, and then closed the door. When he heard them yelling, he opened the door, and saw one of them stabbing the other, and afterwards he went to his mom and came home. Arjun asks the boy more questions, and then thanks the boy for his help and they leave, after assuring Reema that they’ll take care of her and Vicki.

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Rathod and Chottu go in search of Abu Sheik, questioning him about Girish’s murder and he insists that he has no hands in his death.

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Next, Reema and Vicki are being questioned when it comes out that Reema was having an affair with Girish Kulkarni, and she explains that they had met him that night at the mall. Vicki had gone to the bathroom, and then when he didn’t come out, she had sent Girish in after him. However, when they both didn’t return, she went into the bathroom to find Girish dead, so she hurriedly took Vicki out and returned home, afraid of what could have happened.

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Arjun and teh rest of the ETF team decide to wait it out at Vicki’s school because they might get some sort of clue there, the murderer might try to threaten Vicki once again. There they find someone hurriedly drive in in a van and grab Vicki and drive away. When they corner the van, we’re shocked to see that it’s Vicki’s dad – Prem. Prem explains that he was taking Vicki away because he’s afraid of what will happen in court, and he wants his son. As soon as he found out that Vicki was witness to this murder, he’s been fighting with Reema about who can take better care of Vicki. But he insists that he didn’t murder Girish, in fact Vicki would actually get really disturbed by the way Girish treated Reema, hitting her and hurting her.

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Reema is anxiously waiting for her son and when he comes inside with the ETF team, she’s more than relieved to find them. The ETF team shocks her by saying that they are arresting her for the murder of Girish Kulkarni, and that she wanted to get married to Girish, but when he refused, she decided to kill him. Meanwhile, Arjun is searching inside the house for some sort of clue and comes across a sharp Eagle toy in the bathroom which he takes outside and claims is the means of the murder. Reema says that when Vicki went to the bathroom that night, she had told Girish that they should stop their affair, and Girish, not liking it, chose to hit her and hence she killed him with the toy. And she tells teh team to arrest her, When they go to do so, Vicki steps in the way, crying out no, and then it comes out that it was the bo who murdered Girish Kulkarni.

Vicki used whatever he had in his hand, the Eagleman toy, to kill Kulkarni because he couldn’t stand the way the man treated his mother, and that’s when Reema finally explains the truth – how Vicki in his anger, went and killed Girish as he was in the bathroom. When Reema stepped inside after hearing a scream, she saw the dead body and so dragged the boy out of the bathroom.

Arjun explains that Vicki will go into juvenile detention and she will be tried for assisting in the murder.