OPENING SCENE – THE ULTIMATUM (Safehouse – 4:30 AM)
The TV screen glows with the live feed of Ishana’s mother in the Varma gardens. Vikram’s voice crackles through the speakers:
VIKRAM: “Tick-tock, darling. Your mother always did love her morning chai…”
Ishana’s hands shake. “He’ll do it. He’s poisoned men for less.”
Aryan grabs his gun. “Then we move now.”
Trisha blocks the door. “It’s a trap. He’ll slaughter you both.”
Ishana turns to Aryan, her eyes hollow. “There’s another way.”
She picks up the phone.
THE BETRAYAL (Varma Mansion – 5:00 AM)
Ishana returns alone, her head bowed. Vikram lounges on the couch, swirling a glass of whiskey.
VIKRAM: “No Aryan? I’m disappointed.”
ISHANA (flat): “He’s dead.”
She tosses Aryan’s bloodstained watch onto the table.
Vikram examines it, then bursts into laughter. “Oh, this is rich. You killed him with his own gift?”
He grabs her chin. “Prove it. Take me to the body.”
THE GRAVEYARD (Outskirts of Mumbai – 5:45 AM)
Fog curls around the tombstones as Ishana leads Vikram to a freshly dug grave.
ISHANA: “Check yourself.”
Vikram kicks open the wooden coffin—
ARYAN’S LIFELESS BODY stares up, a jade dagger buried in his chest.
VIKRAM (grinning): “My beautiful, murderous wife.”
He turns to embrace her—
ISHANA PLUNGES A SECOND DAGGER INTO HIS GUT.
VIKRAM (choking): “You… bitch…”
ISHANA (cold): “The first one was a fake. This one isn’t.”
Suddenly—GUNSHOTS. Vikram’s men emerge from the fog.
THE ESCAPE (Graveyard – 6:00 AM)
Ishana sprints between headstones as bullets chip marble. She dives behind a mausoleum—
ARYAN’S CORPSE SITS UP IN THE COFFIN.
ISHANA (panting): “Took you long enough.”
ARYAN (grinning, wiping fake blood off): “Had to sell it.”
They flee through a secret tunnel, Vikram’s roars echoing behind them.
THE TRUTH (Abandoned Church – 6:30 AM)
Ishana slumps against the pews, exhausted.
ARYAN (softly): “You could’ve left me in that coffin.”
ISHANA: “I thought about it.”
A beat. Then she kisses him—hard, angry, alive.
TRISHA (clearing throat from doorway): “Sorry to interrupt, but we have bigger problems.”
She tosses a newspaper on the floor. The headline:
“VARMA & RAICHAND FAMILIES DECLARE WAR.”
CLIFFHANGER – THE FIRST SHOT
A shadow moves in the confessional booth. A gun cocks.
ISHANA’S MOTHER (stepping out, pistol raised): “Hello, traitor.”
FADE TO BLACK.
END EPISODE 5.
