*NEEDS PICS* Adhura S1E5

Previously on Adhura

Language of Origin: हिन्दी (Hindi)

Now: Episode 5 "No Exit"

Timeline: 3 Months Ago: The Day Dean Vyas Died

Mr Chandra is looking for Dean Vyas, literally the exact beginning of the 1st episode. He spots off in the distance a flashlight and is miraculously switched on when he hears a door burst open behind him, in Dean Vyas' living quarters. 

Upon stepping inside, he gets the heebie jeebies as everything inside be lookin' a little wack. All of a sudden, he hears "AAAHHHAAHHHHH" along with some flopping around noises. Mr. Chandra heads towards the room where the door was closed. He welcomes himself in there but he sees a very gruesome sight.

Yeeahhhhh. Dean Vyas is twisted like a motherfucking pretzel. He is actually still alive but dude is writhing in pain. Chandra gets closer to him as it looks like he wants to tell him something but he can barely be able to mutter anything until his last breath until he forces out:

"Ninad"

Flop. Dedz.

Timeline: Present Day at Nilgiri Valley School

Mr. Chandra Prakash is standing in the faculty room ruminating those events while staring at the mini building prototype for the school's new wing that was supposed to be built. He says out loud that he just can't get over the fact that Dean Vyas died just when the new wing way to begin construction. So like...what's up with that, man?

One of his colleagues tries to see how the man is holding up but yeah...Supriya overhears not too far away and inquires on why exact Coach Vyas was asked to be the new Dean in the middle of a term because that is a little wacky. Mr. Prakash says while there is no proof he offers his own opinion that perhaps that Coach Vyas buttered some people up at the Board and these favors served him well enough to be promoted to such a position. But hey, that's just a theory.

Dean Swamy is chilling at his home but he is also not in high spirits. He dead pans while watching the news with the latest person to be missing is actually Suyash's girlfriend. Since he is a popular actress and all so course it made headlines. This is totally putting the Nilgiri Valley School in at an all time high as far as their reputation going deeper and deeper in the shit.

Supriya goes to check up on Vedant at the nurse and depsite him trying to hide his new choice of literature she obviously catches it. Supriya is totally not amused when she finds out that this is in fact the Shadow Boy comic. She tries to take it away but Vedant is like ah HELL NAW! He will get mad if anyone touches his things.

Who?

Shadow Boy. The one who calls himself shadow boy which is obviously Ninad but Vedant doesn't actually say his name. He doesn't even say who gave him that comic book upon asking neither. He's being such a sneaky sneak. Regardless, she tries to implore to him that it is just a story and not real so STAHP and then she snatches the comic book from his innocent hands. Hmm I think she is going to regret that very soon.

Adhiraj is outside just chilling on the steps when Supriya comes storming out to not only return the comic book but gets pretty damn stern to tell him to not go near Vedant and quit poisoning his mind with this Shadow Boy rubbish. Doesn't matter anyway because Adhiraj says he's yeeting the fuck out of here anyway. This seems to satisfy her so she fucks off into oblivion but not before she notices a scar on his hand which totally resembled the exact one Vedant has as well. He just says it was from the swimming incident last episode.

I mean, everyone else is leaving. Dev and Malvika are actively packing up their stuff and putting luggage in their car...or rather paying someone else to do that because they are stinking rich LOL. Rajat comes hardcore beelining to them to reveal the new development in Nancy missing (Suyash's girlfriend) that her phone has been traced in the jungles of Ooty. BUT only dead bodies are found in Ooty. According to Rajat anyway. Dev is totes unphased.

That is, until it is revealed that there is an active investigation so maybe now is the time to freak the freak out. 

Speaking of jungles, the investigative team are shown searching like mad monkeys in this jungle. All they hear is beeps until they stop dead in their tracks. What exactly did they see? 

Next is the police en route to Nilgiri and a man is seen picking up his phone presumably to hear what they saw. I think he is a detective and we'll definitely see more of this cool cat. In a pile of cars they all make their grand entrance causing quite a scene as Dev, Malvika and Rajat observe as they entered.

Meanwhile during a school lesson, Vedant randomly gets out of his chair during lecture and walks towards the window so he can see what's up. He's just staring out the window while the teacher is like WTF but when he goes up to him, Vedant gets a nosebleed. Oh noes.

Making the grand entrance, even in front of Adhiraj as he comes face to face with this detective what immediately catches his eye is that this detective is holding some interesting choice of evidence in his hand. He takes note of his observance and asks him if there's anything he should know pertaining to the evidence. He pleas the 5th and walks off.

Officer Bedi is his name, coming all the way from Delhi, and along with SSP Anil Joshi (local police I believe) they meet in Dean Swamy's office for a private chit chat. Starting with the chits (paper squares) that were found on Suyash leading him to ask to what tomfoolery is going on here. He makes it clear he has some suspicions that Suyash did not willingly kill himself but poses the suggestion that perhaps an outside source poked and prodded him to do so maliciously. SSP Anil voices his irritance but Bedi puts him in his place to imply Anil did not earn his position and obtained it by unethical means.

Looks like this guys means business! He tells - not asks - that in order to get to the bottom of Suyash's investigation, he is going to go all hardcore. He actually wants to put the whole campus in lockdown. Nobody leaves without his permission. During this time, he will speak to staff, teachers, and even the Old Boys too (alum) which seems to make SSP go head tilt but hey...do what the man says.

BREAKING NEWS!

Well, there is a news report that they have indeed found Nancy and she ain't dead. She was literally in a meditative spa in the aforementioned jungle that just so happened to have no WIFI nor network signal. People just freaked out over her absence over literally nothing. Priya is show alive and well and she is apparently the last to know about the fate of her boyfriend.

All this was what a guard was watching on his phone on Nilgiri campus when a truck came through the entrance. It's a driver named Devi Prasad that wanted to personally deliver food which gives the OK from the guard as they make small chit chat. His face drops when he sees construction not too far away. Upon asking for more information he is told that they are making a clearing in that area behind Dean Vyas' old place to construct hostels. Oof. Looks like we have more layers to our story now.

Meanwhile Adhiraj went back to the records department thing to snap a few pics from Ninad's file that seemed to pique his interest and then he ran out. Bro definitely caught the eye of Mr. Prakash who saw him running like a guilty boi. Out of curiosity he goes in the record room in which Adhiraj sloppily left the pull out cabinet open which it is totally not that hard to connect the dots once he opened the cabinet and came across none other than Ninad's file and he has a very suspicious look on his face.

Investigators are in full swing. Old Boys are out in the hallway when they see one of them exits Suyash's room and slapped a notice on there. Official shit.

Dev leads a crowd of angry Old Boys and marches over to Dean Swamy's office voicing their displeasure of them searching their rooms like they're criminals. Poor Swamy has his hands tied and says that he has no choice but to let them cooperate.

Just as he is talking, Officer Bedi enters the room to introduce himself to the,. Dev ain't here to shake hands and gets all alpha dog on him threatening offhand how he has the power to transfer him. That power play at intimidation doesn't phase Officer Bedi one bit and basically retorts back with "Try me, bitch!" He ain't scurred.....

Supriya pulls aside the doctor there to ask about Vedant's mark on his hand but Doc doesn't take this seriously at all.

Once outside, Devi Prasad tries to say what's up to the Old Boys but Devi just stares daggers at him...I don't think it was personal though...boi just mad that Bedi ain't bending to his will. Dev just walks off with Rajat close behind. However Parth and Imaad stay and chat and give him a warm welcome. 

It is now lunch time!

Lordy this is going to be a doozy so I hope you are ready. While the little children are sitting down trying to have a nice meal, Vedant decided that today will be chaos. As he is just calmly yet eerie as hell is eating his lunch, his old bully is starting to not have a good lunch. Sarthak is sitting not too far away and he starts to hear cracks and creeks that no one else seems to hear. Out of nowhere he finds he cannot control his body as he is helpless but watch before his eyes that both his hands tightly grasp his tray and heavily bangs it against the table. Sounds harmless, right? The skin contact with the wooden table and an even more aggressive rhythm has gotten exponentially aggressive. Sarthak cries out in pain for someone to help him. His hands are actually getting pretty darn bloodied. 

This causes a real ruckas and all the students snap out of their seats and cower in the other side of the room. Except Vedant, of course and he is totally not phased.

Sarthak continues to cry and plead for Vedant to stop and that he will never bully him again just make it stop!!!

As soon as Vedant makes eye contact with Supriya, who just walked in the room, the banging of the tray has finally stopped. Sarthak's friend, Kabir, yells from across the cafeteria that Vedant stays away from them and that he is a psycho. Yeah, that will totally help your case, kid. He is sooooooo next. Sarthak gets whisked away and Vedant continues eating his food.

It is now night time and due to the lunch time shenanigan's Supriya actually brings little Vedant home. He is watching some cartoons in the front while she is cutting up some vegetables for dinner when...she hears a baby's cry. The look on her face drops as she continues to hear a baby's cry on endless loop. She feels drawn to the other side of her house and she makes her way towards the bathroom. She hears streams of water flowing and against her better judgement she opens the door and upon closer inspection, she sees a baby face down in an overflowing bathtub. She's startitng to have a panic attack but then....

Vedant is right behind her to tell her that there is knock at the door,

Holy shit it is actually Adhiraj who tells her that she is dead fucking fucking and that the chits was not all in his head like she previously tries to totally gaslight him before. He takes a peak and to his horror notices Vedant in the background staring back at him. In the lowest voice he could tells Supriya that she is making a grave mistake bringing him to her home and she's hella hypocrite for what not practicing what she preaches. She doesn't want to hear it and slams the door in his face.

When Adhiraj gets back to campus, he runs into Parth and Imaad who tells him about Devi Prasad who is revealed that used to be the peon and now turned caterer as they called it. Upon google I think it means attendant, orderly or some kind of skilled day laborer. This seems to spark his interest and departs.

He was actually able to actually catch up with him quite quickly as he was on his way back to his truck after finalizing his delivery. They weren't all that close but he tries to pry for some information to ask if he remembers Ninad or anything concerning him on their last day of school of 2007. He does make the claim that he was the one chaperon on duty that day anyway. One of his duties back then was to drive the students to wherever they needed to be. Devi stumbles out of nervousness and name drops Coach Vyas as the culprit behind buying Ninad a bus ticket. Phone numbers are exchanged should he ask for any more info and they both depart. Devi definitely looks like a sad boi right about now.

Over at Supriya's crib, she is tucking Vedant into bed in which she gives him a walkie talkie. It immediately turns back into talking about Sarthak in which Vedant says that since Shadow Boy punished him, he will not bully anyone ever again. Oh and he is angry with her personally as well Vedant casually says and then turns over to go to sleep. What a boss ass move. Supriya tis speechless! Shocked pikachu face!

Back on campus where all the Old Boys are outside by the bon fire or one that resembles one a bit anyway. Dev reaches out to Adhiraj to apologize for snapping at him. How sweet but that gets immediately upstaged when Rajat tries to start shit with Parth, accusing him for Suyash's death.

Rajat is pretty convinced that Parth is not only the one who killed Suyash but begs for forgiveness so that he won't kill him too. Lordy. Boi is making a fool out of himself but I don't think everyone gives a hoot. Rajat then tells Dev to apologize to Parth as well as he said he bullied him just like he did to Ninad on the last day of school. 

THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY YOU LITTLE SHIT?!

Adhiraj stopped dead in his tracks as this is totally new information! Dev gives Rajat the major stink eye and walks back to his room. It is not without peace because Rajat, who is belligerantly drunk as fuck is following him with a very curious Adhiraj trailing right there alongside him. Rajat continues to word vomit so much shit it is actually hard to keep up here. He spills the tea and says that Dev always wanted Malvika and jumped at the chance when Adhiraj stood her up on that date on the last day of school that Dev moonwalked right in to heal Malvika's broken heart. 

"The one who made Malvika crie will pay for this". Rajat quoted Dev on that last day of school.

Ermagerd. Without fear, Adhiraj walked the hell up to Dev and asked just what the fuck did he do to Ninad.

Timeline: Last Day of School 2007

Teenaged Ninad is seen walking up the steps and none other than Suyash and Rajat are at the top of stares with shit eating grins on their faces. They drag him to the records room and beat him up. In walks Dev who joins in on beating him up but not before he spurts out malicious homophobic slurs. After some pounding on his face, Dev takes out a yearbook and in black marker scratches out his face on the class picture and tells him that everyone will forget him. 

The assembly is about to start so they leave Ninad bleeding on the floor. After Suyash and Rajat leave the room, Ninad gathers the strength and walks up to Dev who is almost out the door and tells him that one day he will be the one who will feel powerless and his family and friends won't save him. Dev smashes his head against the glass cabinet and leaves for good. But left Dev's shoe a bloody goodbye.

Timeline: Back to Modern

Adhiraj voices his realization that Ninad already forgave him and was ready to attend the ceremony but Dev did what he did to him and the very nerve for Dev to totally gaslight him into thinking it was all his own fault. He did all this because he wanted Malvika.

Dev still has this smug look on his face. The kind of look that doesn't look like he has even a shred of remorse. His repsonse? BAH! I was 16 bro so get over it. Basically what he said too. He refused to take a single ounce of accountability aside from his "so what?" attitude and he ended it by still blaming Adhiraj that Ninad still ran away due to what he said, not because of the bullying as he was "used to years of it anyway."

Malvika opens the door to her room but Dev literally pushes her back in while bragging to Adhiraj that he didn't need to bully Ninad because Malvika still chose him in the end, not Adhiraj. She must be real confused.

And then there is Rajat who awkwardly witnessed the whole entire showdown. All he can say is just that he is sorry as he goes back in his room.

Back in Supriya's she abruptly hears Vedant on the walkie talkie pleading for help so when she rushes to his room: he has vanished. She immediately calls Adhiraj and both zoom out of their prospective rooms to look for him.

Adhiraj heads straight to the woods behind Coach Vyas' old place. At the top of the construction is Rajat. He is in tears and saying over and over again that he is sorry! He begs him to get his butt down but things start getting wacky and shit starts flying. Without warning, the foundation Rajat was standing on begins to crumble to the ground. In the dusty rubble is Rajat. Dead. His lifeless dead body. A few feet away from him is....a shoe sticking out of the ground? 

Oh. My. God.

Mr. Prakash is in his room and he actually took Ninad's student file. He is thinking back to that day when he found Coach Vyas saying Ninad's name as his last words and wow. He is shooketh at the revelation.

Episode 6 is next.