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.
S1E8 · Yayati
19 moments · 25 min of essential viewing in a 47-minute episode.
Moments, in order
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.
Gaitonde gets used to 22 days of beatings and finds Mathu in prison
Gaitonde recalls the daily routine of beatings, then runs into his old smuggling partner, who boasts of running the jail and warns of a plan to kill him inside.
Trivedi explains how the Mahabharata begins while Gaitonde is beaten
Gaitonde learns who was really behind his torture, while the men watching joke he is unkillable and Trivedi turns a king's seed and a fish into India's birth.
Gaitonde asks Bunty for kharvas and a knife
Expecting to be killed within days, Gaitonde asks for one last taste of a sweet, then laughs it off and requests a blade to deal with some men inside.
Jamila: a broken Gaitonde meets an Afghan girl who speaks Farsi
In a brothel room Gaitonde asks a frightened girl her name and where she is from, then admits he is too wrecked to do anything at all.
Gaitonde slits Isa's men's throats and declares himself a god in prison
Revenge gives Gaitonde his strength back: he hunts Isa's men through the jail with a blade and throws the result in Parulkar's face.
Dilbagh Singh hands Gaitonde a flashlight in the isolation cell
Thrown into a pitch-black cell with a bucket and a low ceiling, Gaitonde is quietly given a torch by a guard who tells him to hide it when anyone checks.
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.
Gaitonde begs Parulkar for water after 25 days
Starved and parched in the dark cell, Gaitonde pleads for anything to drink and admits he would have asked to be shot if he had the voice for it.
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.
Trivedi smuggles a phone to Gaitonde: Guruji wants a word
Barely alive in the cell, Gaitonde is told to chant that he is Brahma, then hears a stranger promise him, with total certainty, that he will not die.
Yayati versus Oedipus: Guruji on fathers who sacrifice their sons
The voice on the phone contrasts the West's son who kills the father with India's father who must sacrifice the son, then offers to be whatever Gaitonde needs.
Gaitonde confesses killing his mother; Guruji explains the mandala
Told to face his first fear, Gaitonde admits his oldest sin and gives up on living, until the voice tells him he is both the mandala and the door to it.
Gaitonde and Mathu against forty of Isa's men
Called a rat and dragged out of isolation, a skeletal Gaitonde insists he will not die and walks into the yard where Isa's men are waiting.
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.
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