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🔥 EPISODE 157 — "THE MOTHER'S ROOM"
🎬 LOCATION: MUMBAI — SION, DHARAVI, ANDHERI
⏱️ TIME: 6:42 A.M. — OVERCAST MORNING
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🔥 SCENE 1 — INT. SION APARTMENT — BEDROOM — MORNING
💨 A ceiling fan spins slowly. The room is silent.
📜 A woman lies on the bed. Mid-40s. Eyes open. A pillow over her face. No blood. No struggle.
📜 On the wall: a child's drawing. Crayon. A house. A woman. A boy.
📜 The maid enters. Sees the body. Screams.
🚔 CUT TO: POLICE TAPE OUTSIDE THE BUILDING
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🔥 SCENE 2 — INT. BLACK SQUAD HQ — WAR ROOM — MORNING
📜 Shreya pulls up the case file.
🔥 SHREYA:
"Victim: Meenal Joshi. 46. NGO worker. Lived alone with her adopted son. No signs of forced entry. No valuables taken. No defensive wounds."
🔥 IMRAN:
"Smothered. That's personal."
🔥 QAZI:
"Where's the boy?"
📜 Arjun flips through the file.
🔥 ARJUN:
"Aarav Joshi. Age 10. No school records. No Aadhaar. No birth certificate. He doesn't exist on paper."
🔥 DR. GUPTA (quietly):
"Then maybe he was never meant to."
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🔥 SCENE 3 — INT. CRIME SCENE — BEDROOM — LATER
📜 The team walks through the apartment.
📜 Dr. Gupta examines the body.
🔥 DR. GUPTA:
"No bruising. No struggle. She knew the killer. Trusted them."
📜 Shreya finds a hidden drawer. Inside: a folder labeled "MOTHER'S ROOM."
📜 Dozens of photos. Children. Different ages. Different faces. All boys.
🔥 SHREYA:
"These aren't adoption records. These are… profiles."
🔥 QAZI:
"She wasn't running an NGO. She was running a pipeline."
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🔥 SCENE 4 — INT. BLACK SQUAD HQ — NIGHT
📜 Shreya decrypts a hard drive found in the apartment.
📜 It contains chat logs from a private forum: "The Mother's Room."
🔥 SHREYA:
"It's a closed network. Women who 'adopt' undocumented children. No paperwork. No oversight. Just cash and silence."
🔥 IMRAN (furious):
"They bought kids like furniture."
🔥 DR. GUPTA:
"Not bought. Rescued. That's how they saw it. But not all children want to be saved."
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🔥 SCENE 5 — INT. NGO OFFICE — DAY
📜 The team interviews a former volunteer.
🔥 WOMAN (nervous):
"Meenal was obsessed with control. She didn't raise children. She curated them. If they didn't obey, they disappeared."
📜 She hands over a photo. A teenage boy.
🔥 WOMAN:
"His name was Kabir. He vanished two years ago."
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🔥 SCENE 6 — INT. BLACK SQUAD HQ — NIGHT
📜 Facial recognition. Kabir is now 17. No known address. But he was spotted on CCTV near Meenal's building two nights ago.
🔥 ARJUN:
"He came back."
🔥 QAZI:
"Not for revenge. For closure."
📜 Shreya pulls up a pattern of missing boys from similar NGOs.
🔥 SHREYA:
"Five disappearances. All boys. All from 'rescued' homes. All within the last three years."
🔥 DR. GUPTA:
"He's not just a killer. He's a survivor. And he's not alone."
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🔥 SCENE 7 — INT. DHARAVI — ABANDONED SCHOOL — NIGHT
📜 The team tracks Kabir to an old municipal school.
📜 Inside: makeshift bedding. Drawings. A wall covered in names.
📜 In the center: a photo of Meenal. Torn in half.
📜 Kabir steps out of the shadows. Calm.
🔥 KABIR:
"She said I was broken. That I needed fixing. So I fixed her."
📜 Imran moves forward.
🔥 IMRAN:
"You killed her. And left the boy behind?"
🔥 KABIR:
"There is no boy. Aarav was me. She renamed me. Reprogrammed me. I just took my name back."
📜 He doesn't resist.
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🔥 SCENE 8 — INT. BLACK SQUAD HQ — INTERROGATION ROOM — LATER
📜 Kabir sits across from Qazi. Silent.
🔥 QAZI:
"You could've run. But you stayed."
🔥 KABIR:
"Because I wanted you to see it. What she did. What they all did."
📜 He slides a notebook across the table.
📜 Inside: names. Addresses. Photos.
🔥 KABIR:
"She wasn't the only one."
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🔥 SCENE 9 — INT. BLACK SQUAD HQ — WAR ROOM — DAWN
📜 The team pins up the new names.
🔥 SHREYA:
"Three more women. All active. All with undocumented children."
🔥 DR. GUPTA:
"This wasn't a murder. It was a warning shot."
🔥 QAZI:
"Then we move before the next shot lands."
🚔 FADE TO BLACK — END OF EPISODE 157
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