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Chapter 154 - EPISODE 154 — “THE CLOCKMAKER”

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🔥 EPISODE 154 — "THE CLOCKMAKER"

🎬 LOCATION: MUMBAI — FORT DISTRICT

⏱️ TIME: 6:03 A.M. — MONSOON MORNING

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🔥 SCENE 1 — INT. OLD CLOCK TOWER — FORT, MUMBAI — DAWN

💨 Rain seeps through the broken ceiling. Inside the abandoned colonial-era clock tower, a body hangs from the central gear shaft—arms outstretched like clock hands.

📜 A note is pinned to the chest with a rusted nail. Written in red ink:

> "Time doesn't heal. It reveals."

📜 The victim's watch is shattered. The time frozen at 3:17 A.M.

🚔 A constable stumbles back, horrified. Another snaps photos with trembling hands.

🔥 SENIOR INSPECTOR (on comms):

"Get me Black Squad. And tell them to bring Dr. Gupta."

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🔥 SCENE 2 — INT. BLACK SQUAD HQ — WAR ROOM — MORNING

💨 Rain taps against the windows. The mood is quiet. Heavy.

📜 Arjun reviews the initial crime scene photos. Imran leans against the wall, arms crossed. Shreya scrolls through the victim's digital footprint.

🔥 SHREYA:

"No forced entry. No signs of struggle. Whoever did this knew the victim—or drugged him."

🔥 IMRAN:

"Or both. That's not a kill. That's a message."

📜 Qazi enters, silent. Behind him—Dr. R.P. Gupta. Calm. Umbrella in hand.

🔥 DR. GUPTA (studying the photo):

"Not a message. A ritual. The time on the watch… it's not random."

🔥 QAZI:

"Then what is it?"

🔥 DR. GUPTA:

"An appointment. With the past."

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🔥 SCENE 3 — INT. CRIME SCENE — LATER

💨 Gupta walks the perimeter. No gloves. Just observation.

📜 He kneels beside the body. Studies the angle of the arms. The bruising. The ink.

🔥 DR. GUPTA:

"Left arm points to 3. Right to 6. That's not 3:17. That's a message. A clock face. But not for time—for memory."

📜 He turns to the wall. Scratches in the plaster. Roman numerals.

🔥 DR. GUPTA:

"He's recreating a clock. But each number is a name."

📜 Shreya finds a folded paper in the victim's shoe. A list of names. All former students of a now-defunct boarding school in Lonavala.

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🔥 SCENE 4 — INT. BLACK SQUAD HQ — NIGHT

📜 Arjun pins the names to the board. Imran scans the list.

🔥 ARJUN:

"Why would a grown man keep a list of classmates from 20 years ago?"

🔥 QAZI:

"Because someone wants them to remember something they buried."

📜 The next name on the list: RAVI KAPOOR — lives in Dadar.

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🔥 SCENE 5 — INT. RAVI KAPOOR'S APARTMENT — NIGHT

📜 Black Squad arrives. The door is ajar.

💨 Inside: a ticking metronome. A body on the floor.

📜 Another note:

> "Tick. Tock. Two down."

🔥 IMRAN (furious):

"He's not just killing. He's counting."

🔥 DR. GUPTA (quietly):

"No. He's remembering. And forcing them to do the same."

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🔥 SCENE 6 — INT. DR. GUPTA'S LAB — LATE NIGHT

📜 Gupta lays out the notes, the times, the angles.

🔥 DR. GUPTA:

"These aren't just murders. They're coordinates. Emotional ones. Each victim was involved in a cover-up. A suicide. A boy named Aarav. 2003."

🔥 SHREYA (pulling up records):

"Found it. Aarav Mehta. Age 14. Jumped from the school clock tower. Case closed as suicide."

🔥 QAZI:

"Except someone didn't believe that."

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🔥 SCENE 7 — INT. LONAVALA — ABANDONED SCHOOL — DAWN

💨 The team enters the ruins of the old boarding school. Dust. Silence.

📜 On the wall of the old dormitory:

"I was never late. You were just too early to care."

📜 A figure stands at the top of the old clock tower. Hooded. Still.

🔥 ARJUN (into comms):

"Target visual. Tower. Moving in."

📜 They breach. The man doesn't resist.

🔥 THE CLOCKMAKER (softly):

"I didn't kill them. I just reminded them what they did."

📜 He opens his palm. Inside: a broken watch. Aarav's name etched on the back.

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🔥 SCENE 8 — INT. BLACK SQUAD HQ — NIGHT

📜 The man is in custody. Silent.

🔥 DR. GUPTA (to Qazi):

"He's not insane. He's precise. He didn't want to escape. He wanted to be heard."

🔥 QAZI:

"Then what happens now?"

🔥 DR. GUPTA:

"Now? Now we wait. Because memory… is contagious."

🚔 FADE TO BLACK — END OF EPISODE 154

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