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.
S1E7 · Rudra
20 moments · 25 min of essential viewing in a 42-minute episode.
Moments, in order
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.
Guruji tells Trivedi the wheel has 25 years left
Gaitonde introduces the milk-drinking bureaucrat Trivedi, who kneels before Guruji and hears that the world will turn within twenty-five years.
Gaitonde presses Subhadra to taste the kharvas
In a hotel cleared just for them, Gaitonde urges his quiet bride to eat, offering the colostrum sweet, and refuses to eat when she will not.
Bhonsle introduces Trivedi, who hails Gaitonde as Shiva reborn
Trivedi flatters Gaitonde with divine comparisons and talks of spreading 'our community'; Gaitonde finds the riddles tiresome and wants plain speech.
The duck riddle: Gaitonde refuses to leave Bombay
Asked to go overseas as a general for the coming war, Gaitonde answers with a three-duck riddle and a crude threat, then walks out with the jalebis.
Twelve jalebis and the kharvas of Subhadra's dreams
Teasing Subhadra about her sweet tooth, Gaitonde learns why she skipped the kharvas: a childhood sweet kept for God could never match the one she imagined.
Babri falls and Bombay becomes a graveyard
Gaitonde recounts the mosque demolition, the riots and Isa's bombings, then faces Gopalmath's wounded and angry who now look to him for answers.
Subhadra schools Gaitonde on why the poor love God
Gaitonde calls religion the world's biggest business; Subhadra answers that for the poor, festivals are their one day of feeling human and equal.
Fake cops storm Gopalmath and Bunty loses his legs
Men in police uniform come asking for Gaitonde and open fire; Bunty is cut down, and Gaitonde learns they were Isa's men before he goes looking for Subhadra.
Rama, Ravana and Gaitonde's vengeance for Subhadra
Through the Ramayana, Gaitonde explains how Subhadra's death woke the Hindu in him, and admits he chose innocents to kill in Isa's name.
Burn the slum: Gaitonde becomes a god by killing 80
Bunty lists Isa's dead men and Gaitonde orders the whole slum torched; he reflects that a night of innocent blood made Gopalmath worship him.
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.
Gaitonde in custody mocks Dwivedi and Parulkar
Dragged into jail, Gaitonde laughs at his jailer's name tag and asks Parulkar whether Isa bathed and perfumed him before sending him in.
A kind man with water: Dilbagh Singh in Gaitonde's hell
Amid torture in jail, Gaitonde recalls the one guard who gave him water, and tells Sartaj it was his father, binding their fates.
Anjali finds Trivedi living in Mumbai as Sharma
The IFS posting search turns up a man named Sharma with Trivedi's exact foreign trail, and he is in Mumbai; Anjali demands the address.
Playlists touching this episode
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