OPENING SCENE – THE CHOICE (Safehouse – 12:35 AM)
The whispered voice lingers in the air as the police batter the front door.
ISHANA (snarling): “Who the hell are you?”*
A slip of paper slides under the door:
“GATE 7 – 5 MINUTES. OR DIE HERE.”
TRISHA (peeking through blinds): “SWAT teams. Three sides.”
ARYAN (grabbing gear): “Back exit. Now.”
They crash through a rusted sewer grate just as tear gas floods the room.
THE MYSTERIOUS SAVIOR (Docks – 1:00 AM)
A black van idles in the shadows. The door creaks open—
REVEAL: A WOMAN (50s), face scarred, holding a shotgun.
WOMAN: “Took you long enough.”
ISHANA (freezing): “Aunt Nisha?”
FLASHBACK (15 YEARS PRIOR):
A younger Nisha teaching 8-year-old Ishana to shoot, then vanishing after a family “accident.”
PRESENT:
NISHA (grinning): “Who else would your mother call before burning alive?”
THE PLAN (Abandoned Factory – 2:00 AM)
Nisha slaps blueprints onto a table: Raichand-Varma wedding tomorrow.
NISHA: “Your fathers are merging empires. Your replacements are already picked.”
PHOTOS:
- Aryan’s cousin in a tux.
- Ishana’s timid younger sister in a bridal lehenga.
TRISHA (horrified): “They’re sacrificing them too?”
NISHA (cocking gun): “Unless we gift-wrap a massacre.”
THE DRESSING ROOM (Grand Hyatt – Wedding Day – 4:00 PM)
Ishana’s sister, Diya (18), trembles as a maid zips her into red silk.
DIYA (whispering): “I don’t want to marry him.”
ISHANA (from the closet): “Then don’t.”
Diya whirls—Ishana clamps a hand over her mouth.
ISHANA (soft): “Play along. Or we all die.”
THE CEREMONY (Ballroom – 6:00 PM)
Aryan’s cousin lifts Diya’s veil—
GUNSHOTS ERUPT.
CHAOS AS:
- Nisha snipes guards from the balcony.
- Trisha hacks the lights—plunging everything into darkness.
- Aryan tackles his father onto the mandap.
ISHANA (dragging Diya): “Close your eyes!”
She hurls a grenade into the sound system—
THE EXPLOSION DEAFENS THE ROOM.
THE FACE-OFF (Shattered Mandap – 6:07 PM)
Mr. Varma aims at Ishana’s back—
DIYA (screaming): “NO!”
The child bride shoots her own father with a hidden derringer.
MR. VARMA (collapsing): “…You?”
DIYA (cold): “I paid attention to Aunt Nisha too.”
THE LAST STAND (Ballroom – 6:10 PM)
Rudra Raichand crawls toward a fallen pistol—
ARYAN STOMPS ON HIS HAND.
RUDRA (spitting blood): “You’ll regret this.”
ARYAN (loading round): “Say hi to Vikram in hell.”
BANG.
CLIFFHANGER – THE COST
Silence. Smoke. Then—
TRISHA (gasping): “Aryan… your side.”
Blood soaks his shirt. A stray bullet hit his liver.
ISHANA (pressing hands to wound): “Stay with me!”
NISHA (grabbing her shoulder): “We have to go. NOW.”
DIYA (from doorway): “They’re coming.”
FADE TO BLACK.
END EPISODE 10.
