Sartaj recites the official Junaid story
At the inquiry hearing Sartaj delivers the department's version of a shootout, hesitating at the key moment.
Sartaj Singh
A lonely, sidelined Mumbai police inspector who gets a phone call that promises to change his destiny. Played by Saif Ali Khan.
65 moments · 1h 23m
Majid corners Sartaj after the hearing
Majid warns Sartaj against turning on the squad, mocks his record, and twists the knife about Megha.
Sartaj remembers the trip his father gave up
Watching Megha from a distance, Sartaj tells Katekar about a cancelled Amritsar trip and why his father was a good policeman.
What really happened to the surrendering boy
Katekar says the inquiry is rigged; Sartaj relives the real encounter, then admits his ten-year haul is one pickpocket.
The caller who knows Dilbagh Singh
A stranger needles Sartaj about his stalled career, says he will change his destiny, and claims to be a friend of his father.
Anda Pav run-around and two case numbers
The caller plays Sartaj around Metro Circle, trades insults, then hands over two police case numbers to prove who he is.
The records room: the file has a name
Katekar realises who the caller could be; Sartaj pulls the classified file and reads the name out loud.
An empire amongst garbage dumps
Gaitonde says he never left Bombay, dismisses backup, and explains why he built his empire in the city's trash.
Twenty-five days to save the city
Gaitonde preaches that lives are God's stories, senses the call is being traced, and gives Sartaj a deadline.
Inside the bunker: three fathers
Face to face at last, Gaitonde says everyone dies in 25 days except a man named Trivedi, and lists the three fathers who made him.
What Gaitonde sees in every man he kills
A brawl erupts around a dead body, then Gaitonde asks Sartaj whether he too sees himself in the people he kills.
The bunker falls: 'I am Ashwathama'
Police break in as Gaitonde reveals Dilbagh Singh introduced his third father; the standoff ends with his promise that he will not die.
Parulkar pulls Sartaj off the Gaitonde case
Outside the bunker the constables gossip about the tip, then Parulkar arrives, hands the case to Majid and mocks Sartaj for claiming it.
Sartaj's debrief: a bulldozer, a 25-day warning and the name Trivedi
Sartaj recounts the raid to Anjali and Parulkar, insists a dying man does not lie, and passes on the one name Gaitonde said would survive.
Anjali reads the dead woman; Sartaj fears the case will ruin him
Anjali argues a shot to the face means rage, not a paid stranger, and Sartaj admits what cases like this do to small officers.
Parulkar suspends Sartaj, then flinches at the name Trivedi
Parulkar dangles a deal over the Bengali Bura case, takes Sartaj's weapon for killing Gaitonde, and goes quiet when Sartaj mentions Trivedi.
Why me? Sartaj asks Katekar why Gaitonde called him
Katekar shoos away a Bengali Bura mother looking for her son, then shrugs at Sartaj's question: the gangster must have known his father.
The leopard: Gaitonde decides to ravage Bombay
Back in the bunker Sartaj hears how Gaitonde and Mathu sat on buried gold until a leopard in the jungle made him feel like God.
Sartaj lies to his mother about the Gaitonde case
A late-night call home: his mother saw Parulkar on the news and hoped to spot him; Sartaj tells her he was never there.
Katekar urges Sartaj to lie in court over Bengali Bura
Nursing his wound, Katekar repeats Parulkar's offer, rants about the Bangladeshis he would not fight for, and gets ribbed about Zoya Mirza.
Sartaj and Majid square off at Jojo's door
A suspended Sartaj is caught at the crime scene by Majid; old academy rivalry boils over into threats about Parulkar and the RAW officer.
Anjali pulls Sartaj into the fake-currency case
Anjali links a counterfeit-money stash to Gaitonde's 25-day warning and tells Sartaj his job clearly matters less to him than the answers.
Katekar goes starstruck over a TV star
The frightened girl at Jojo's flat turns out to be a TV serial star, and Katekar forgets the case long enough to ask for an autograph.
Sartaj tells Nayanika that Jojo is dead
Sartaj questions Nayanika about the clients Jojo sent her to; the news of Jojo's death does not calm her, because Jojo was never who she feared.
The gangster you are trying to reach is unavailable
Katekar clears Sartaj's father of any Gaitonde link, then a mocking automated voice answers when the gangster's line is dialed.
Katekar discovers velvet handcuffs in Bunty's flat
Searching a gangster's lavish bedroom, Katekar marvels at the bed, the velvet cuffs and the S&M gear, imagining what his wife would do to him.
Milk in the fridge: Sartaj reads Trivedi's empty house
Sartaj explains why an untouched home with milk in the refrigerator means Trivedi left in a hurry, and a 25-year-old photo ties him to Bhonsle.
Nayanika reveals Bunty's last job and his 20-25 day exit
Pressed by Anjali and Sartaj, Nayanika admits Bunty is her show's producer and plans one last job before leaving Mumbai, with her in tow.
Sartaj objects to sending Nayanika back as bait
Sartaj asks why they are returning a scared girl to Bunty instead of protecting her; Anjali answers with the clock and a camera hidden in a handbag.
A star caught in Jojo's apartment
An actress sneaking into Jojo's flat is cornered and threatened with a tabloid headline exposing her self-made image as one of Jojo's clients.
Nayanika's hidden-camera sting on Bunty falls apart
Sartaj and Katekar listen in as Nayanika wears a wire for Bunty; one mention of Gaitonde turns him paranoid and violent, and he spots the camera.
Bunty has Sartaj at his mercy
A captured Sartaj is stripped of his things and taunted by Bunty, who wants to know why Gaitonde came back and what the 25-day deadline means.
Katekar warns Sartaj he is collateral damage
Katekar tells Sartaj that the Delhi officer will use him and discard him, and names what that is called.
Nayanika gets a message out to Sartaj
Refusing food, Nayanika persuades her guard to phone Sartaj with the hideout address and the two-hour RAW deadline.
Sartaj trades his Junaid testimony for backup
Sartaj needs men to grab Bunty before RAW does; the price is reciting the official version of the Junaid shooting, word by word.
Sartaj walks into Bunty's hostage standoff
Sartaj faces Bunty, who is holding Nayanika at gunpoint, while Anjali screams at him over the phone to get out before the raid turns into a bloodbath.
Anjali tears into Sartaj for playing saviour
Anjali asks whether Sartaj gave a thought to the warning or the ISI cash before wrecking her operation, and why men feel responsible for every woman.
Sartaj's mother tells the story of Lucy the dog
Instead of scripture, Sartaj's mother offers a story about his father walking two days to find a stolen German Shepherd and being called a real cop.
The inquiry: Sartaj lies about Junaid Sheikh
Questioned about the Bengali Bura raid, Sartaj recounts the shipment tip, then flashes back to a boy begging for his life as he swears the boy was armed.
Sartaj strong-arms a pharmacist for pills
Cold open: Sartaj waves an expired prescription and threatens the chemist's license to get his anxiety medication.
Katekar grills the missing boy's mother
In Bengali Bura, Katekar mocks a mother's faith in her missing son and eyes a duplex no computer course could pay for.
Sartaj asks his mother about the imported bat
Sleepless at his mother's house, Sartaj wonders how his father afforded an expensive cricket bat, and she shuts the question down.
A house built after Partition
Sartaj's mother refuses to leave the home his father built with his savings after Partition, and asks him to work with honesty.
Who makes the system? It's us
Standing over the boy's body, Sartaj tells Katekar they both failed, and that the system they curse is made by men like them.
Sartaj beats the truth out of a child-labour boss
Sartaj interrogates the man who ran the Bengali Bura boys, swinging between offers of water and brutal threats until he talks.
The photo in Katekar's wallet
On the way to the raid, a constable exposes Katekar's secret: a picture of Zoya Mirza tucked behind his wife's.
The Bengali Bura raid turns fatal
Sartaj and Katekar corner the drunk teenagers and press them about Shamsul; the mockery ends with a knife and a scream for an ambulance.
Shalini asks Sartaj to call Katekar's phone
At the hospital, Shalini insists Katekar always woke for Sartaj's calls and begs him to ring the phone one more time.
Katekar's beach philosophy
In memory, Katekar tells Sartaj that police work is like cleaning a beach the sea dirties again, and that clean today is enough.
Gun salute for Katekar
The police guard fires the ceremonial volleys at Katekar's funeral.
Anjali puts a name to the bomb-maker: Malcolm Mourad
Sartaj is ordered off the case while Anjali's team identifies the foreign operative as an Algerian dirty-bomb specialist now inside India.
Sartaj corners Zoya Mirza with Jojo's file
Using the file Jojo kept, Sartaj makes the film star talk about Gaitonde's last, frightened days and a warning that only Trivedi would survive.
Two mottos: Anjali and Sartaj over black tea
Sartaj admits his mistakes cost Nayanika justice; Anjali answers the Mumbai Police motto with her agency's own promise to protect those who protect the law.
Zoya's safari-suit man and the Blue Global tankers
Sartaj and Anjali connect the bureaucrat who got Zoya a passport to Trivedi and to an NGO whose water tankers may be what Malcolm was emptying.
Sartaj raids the Blue Global office and follows the money
Sartaj roughs up the NGO manager over where the tankers went, while Anjali traces a foreign funding trail that points to an IFS posting history.
Bhonsle threatens Parulkar; Parulkar warns Sartaj
The minister screams at Parulkar about the NGO raid; Parulkar passes the heat down to Sartaj, who says he is only doing his job.
Ambush: someone demands Sartaj's gun
Sartaj is spotted and chased; in the chaos a companion begs for his pistol, warning the attackers will kill him.
Malcolm tells a captive Sartaj that their meeting was predestined
A calm captor from Luxor explains fate to a nailed-down Sartaj, mentions something planned for the 16th, and calls Gaitonde weak for dying.
The Haabil and Qaabil sermon: why Allah demands sacrifice
Sartaj's captor retells the first murder from scripture and lands on his own answer: God is sick of us and the pain is a debt we owe him.
Police surround the hideout and Malcolm slips away
Loudspeakers order a surrender as officers close in on the building where Sartaj is held; the fair-skinned man decides to leave before they reach him.
Sartaj's hospital bed: what disabled people call the abled
Nursing a wounded hand, Sartaj asks if it will ever be normal again and gets a quiet answer about how temporary everything is.
Bhonsle's interrogation: the country is in danger
Confronted with water-tanker gun shipments and emails from Trivedi, Bhonsle denies everything, then snaps that the officers cannot see the coming threat.
Sartaj asks his mother whether his father sold his integrity for a bat
Over his father's newspaper clippings, Sartaj wonders why a famous gangster would remember an ordinary officer, and his mother bristles at the implication.
The truth about the cricket bat: Dilbagh Singh fed Gaitonde in prison
Sartaj's mother reveals his father's secret posting under Parulkar, the extra rotis he carried to a dying prisoner, and why a gangster later sent a boy a bat.
Men in black rescue Gaitonde; the third father's 25-day game
Gaitonde's miracle arrives, he names the mastermind who saved him, and the countdown to save Mumbai snaps back to Sartaj in the present.