EPISODE 18 RECAP

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Anokhi and Pawan come home from walking their dog. Anokhi's impersonation of flirty Nicky quickly persuades her brother to get the dog's food.

While she waits, Anokhi receives a visitor : Ronny apologizes for being late. He wants Anokhi to run away with him, away from their terrible memories. Both of them remember their childhood promise to run away together somewhere far away, and deliberately echoing her past self, Anokhi says she doesn't have money. Ronny acknowledges it with a smile and repeats his reply then - he has lots. She takes his outstretched hand.

Pawan finds out by text from Anokhi that she's left with Ronny. Another message tells him not to worry, she can handle Ronny.

They drive, while in voiceover, we hear the rest of her message to Pawan. She tells him how Ronny is the most wounded piece of Shaurya. She's connected to him by a common wound, so examining his is the same as examining her own, and that's what she means to do.

Ronny asks Anokhi where she wants to go - her wish is his command. She asks him why he acted like he didn't know her when they first met. Ronny didn't want her painful memories to surface, and confesses that he hoped she would choose him with or without them.

He asks if she already remembered everything, and she's surprised that he knows about that. Ronny explains how he shared memories with Shaurya. Anokhi finds out Shaurya discovered the truth about his/her name, and Ronny says the shock was so deep it made him check out. Anokhi asks how he came to take the name Shaurya, and we go back to the day of the fire.

Little Ronny throws a lit match on the spilled kerosene. The fire catches immediately, whooshing under the locked door, into the basement room where his dad and Anokhi are. Dad struggles out, and catching sight of his son, calls out, "Karanvir!" One look at his face makes Dad realize Karanvir must have set the fire. But the boy faints, and choking on smoke, Dad brings him out. Karanvir comes around and cries for Dad to rescue Shaurya.

Dad passes his son onto a firefighter and runs back inside. Karanvir is rushed to an ambulance, unconscious, while a paramedic tries to rouse him. She repeatedly asks him his name. Struggling, he replies, "Sha...Shaurya. My name is Shaurya." Oh.

He cries inside that it's his fault. Dad returns to the inferno for Shaurya, frantically calling her name.

Grandma's voice narrates the last thing Dad said before his coma: that when he went back for her, she was already gone.

We see Anokhi's mom at the scene of the fire, hurrying away with a hidden bundle - the girl, Shaurya.

Grandma's voiceover continues : Some days later, she got a letter from a friend of Sridevi, asking her not to look for the girl.

In the fiery basement, Dad collapses. In the time following the incident, Karanvir doesn't respond to his name, no matter how much his mom calls him. She tries, "Shaurya?" and he turns around immediately.

Oh my chills.

Mom gathers him up in an embrace. With tears in her eyes, she agrees that he should forget everything - the fire, his father, the girl and what happened in the basement, even his own name. He can just be Shaurya, the sole heir to Sabherwal.

In the present, Ronny tells Anokhi that young Karanvir believed she had died in the fire that day, and out of his despair and guilt, his mind created an alter in the image of her seven-year-old self. Anokhi finally understands the mystery of "Nicky," a personality who had been dormant until Shaurya met Anokhi again now.

Anokhi asks if the fire happened because of her. Ronny replies that it was to save her. She argues that he could have died, but he smiles that she lived.

We cut back to when Shaurya found out the truth about who set the fire. Grandma realizes that his mind must have broken back then. He stumbles out, head ringing. Memories loop and mix. Little Anokhi's voice inviting him to play overlaps with mom's telling him to stay as Shaurya. His child-self pounds at the basement door and Dad punishes Anokhi.

Ronny revisits the memory of the scene of the fire, the first time he appeared. Looking over his younger self with sad satisfaction, he thinks, "The one who saved that child was me."

Anokhi worries that Shaurya's DID happened because of her, but their conversation is cut short when Ronny gets a phonecall from Alex, the U.S. friend Yash was investigating. He tells Ronny that he was offered half a million for his secrets. He needs the money, but he wants his friend to make a better offer, and they arrange to meet.

Yash's secretary reports to his boss about their offer to Alex, and also tells him about the man's gambling debt. Alex claims to know explosive secrets about Shaurya that will ruin Sabherwal, and will go to the papers unless they buy it. Yash is reluctant to go along with his terms.

Ronny tells Anokhi that Alex is a parasite who's lived off threatening Shaurya since high school. While he rants about killing him, Anokhi thumbs off a secret text to Chief Makkhan about Ronny, Alex and where they're going.

They arrive at the meeting place and Ronny tells Anokhi to stay in the car. She tells him to stay - she'll deal with this. Even though her contract with Shaurya was terminated, her deal with Ronny stands, which means no violence and no ruining reputations. She reminds him that he said her word was law. Trapped by his own promises, he can only curse.

The darkness of the warehouse makes her nervous. She looks for Alex, who suddenly emerges from the shadows. She introduces herself as Shaurya's secretary, and he tells her to double Yash's offer. But giving her a once over, he leers that he could take Yash's money if she'll get friendly with him. Anokhi backs away as Alex steps closer. She flails madly, and somehow (lol hooowww?) she ends up with her fingers rammed up Alex's nose. He bleeds and swears and oh my god, help, I'm dying so hard here.

Outside, Ronny paces and curses, but Anokhi's scream sends him inside. Alex has her backed up with his hand over her mouth when Ronny flies at him. He pulls out a knife, and Ronny blocks it with his bare hand. He's so enraged Alex messed with his woman that he begins to choke him. He's deaf to Anokhi's entreaties to stop, and she screams, "Shaurya!" The effect is immediate - Shaurya returns.

In the car, Anokhi bandages his hand. While she chatters, he just stares at her. Finding his voice, he asks if she remembers about the name "Shaurya." He apologizes taking over her name. He tells her, smiling, how much he likes the way she calls his name. She asks him not to be sorry towards her. Among her painful memories were also good ones, she says, such as her mom rescuing her, and little Shaurya Shreeman who kept his promise to meet her every night.
When she was scared and alone, he was there for her : "The reason why my mind wasn't shattered into pieces was probably because of you, Shaurya." Crying, she apologizes. Because of her, his mind was shattered. She acknowledges how hard he struggled against his other personalities, in order to protect that name.

"So I'll give it you as a gift, the name 'Shaurya,'" she tells him. He wells up. She instructs him to answer confidently, "I'm Shaurya," when anyone asks, just like he used to. He wipes her tears, and the background song is perfect : "Although I can't say 'I love you'...I love you."

It's late by the time Shaurya drops Anokhi home. He says goodbye (but why does it still sound so final?) by telling her to be well. But everything he wishes, she turns back on him : He shouldn't be in pain anymore, or have nightmares, or worry about her. After she leaves, Shaurya clutches his ringing head.

A moment later...oh lol, it's Arjun Park! Dad (who finally meets the real Arjun) runs into him, and is so pleased that he keeps clapping him on the head with excitement, much to Arjun's disgruntlement. Arjun perks up at the mention of fishing, and the two brothers fall into easy banter.

Dad takes him in for a drink, and they call the (very confused) kids to join them. Dad wants to adopt Arjun as his little bro instead of Pawan's friend, and Arjun immediately calls Dad 'Big brother'. Dad is so happy that he orders out the special liquor, which Pawan objects to since Dad doesn't even give it to him.

Arjun compliments Dad, saying that his daughter grew up well because her dad was so great. She's strong and has a loyal heart - but, he confides, she really can't dance. Dad is suspicious that they're dating, but Arjun easily dismisses it, telling big brother to perish the thought.

Just as he's about to drink the hallowed liquor, his consciousness interferes. He struggles to just take one sip, but ultimately fails. He spills the precious drink and knocks out. This is the twins' cue to rush him away before he exposes himself.

They deposit him on Pawan's bed. He asks Anokhi what's going on. But she's as confused as he is, and they leave to discuss it.
On the bed, Ronny twitches and comes around.

But I'm thinking that ain't Ronny...

Over tea, the siblings try to figure it out. Anokhi thinks that because Shaurya has been going through so much lately, the instability of his core made the alters come out. Pawan offers his writer's point of view, that it's his subconscious way of staying around Anokhi, since he can't do that when he's himself. But he also thinks the alters are the right people to regulate him in his shaken condition.

Returning to his room, Pawan is shocked to find it empty. Anokhi, on the other hand - ohh it's Sameer! Wearing Pawan's glasses, lol.
She's happy to see him, and the way he calls her older sister squeezes my heart. He's been reading Omega, but he doesn't like it - it's too lightweight, "It feels like a gash on my soul." He confides that he wants to write a beautiful poem, but worries that time isn't on his side. Her face fills with sorrow.

She asks him why his name is Sameer. He tells her about the first time he attempted suicide in high school. It sent shockwaves through his mission school, where he was then baptized and given a Christian name ("Sameer" is the Indian version of "holy"). He also tells her that he always wished he could be his sister, Nicky (who, like her namesake Jonah, thirsts to live).

Sameer thinks Shaurya is done with thoughts of suicide now. Since he doesn't know how much time he has until he disappears, Sameer wants to say his goodbyes. He comes over to Anokhi and crouches until their eyes are level. He leans in and drops a chaste kiss on her cheek.

Pawan bursts in at the wrongest moment. He bellows at "Arjun Park" for hitting on his sister and flings poor Sameer to the floor. But when Anokhi tells him it wasn't Arjun, it's too late - Sameer is out, and..."Oppa~!" squeals Nicky.

Pawan covers his ears and tries to pretend her away, which obviously doesn't work. She tackle-hugs him to the floor, intent on showering him with kisses, while Anokhi laughs at him.

Clad in her favorite bunny pyjamas, Nicky presides over the twins' argument about where she'll sleep. Anokhi says a man can't sleep in her room, while Pawan splutters that he certainly can't have a girl in his. Nicky tires of their squabbling and makes an executive decision - Oppa's room it is! The siblings vehemently object, leaving only one way to resolve their impasse...Rock, Paper, Scissors : Anokhi loses.

Nicky primps in front of Anokhi's mirror, which makes Anokhi suspicious. What's she getting pretty for in the middle of the night? She suggests they go out for ssambap, which Anokhi doesn't even need to shoot down. Next, Nicky oh-so-casually says she's off to the bathroom, but Anokhi's got her number - she knows Nicky is looking for any excuse to be with Oppa. Nicky's frustration at being foiled makes her claim the bed, but Anokhi orders her to the floor.

Oh my lols, Nicky getting schooled is gold.

But this girl isn't one to give up, and her next excuse for a trip is water, for her raging thirst.

Thirst for Oppa's blood, you mean.

Anokhi decides it's time to take emergency measures, and uses some cord to tie Nicky to her. Anokhi warns her not to dream impossible dreams. Still pining for Pawan, Nicky eventually falls asleep. But she does dream of Oppa, and a jerk of the cord lands Anokhi on the floor.

Still asleep, they inch closer together, and Anokhi slips into a dream of the first time she and Shaurya met as children. Laughing and playing, they tumble down beside each other, face to face, just like Anokhi and Nicky now.

Shaurya wakes up, himself again. His eyes widen to see Anokhi beside him. He tries to make sense of his bound wrist, but the bunny pyjamas answer his question. He settles down again, and watches Anokhi's sleeping face.

Her eyes open. "Nicky?" she asks."I'm Shaurya," he replies, and I've never been so happy to hear that line. She lets out a happy sigh. He tells her how the words he's said and heard the most in his life are that name, Shaurya. He feels like the two of them have always been connected through it, even though they parted in their childhood.
He explains that he sent her away because he thought it would be too painful for him to see her in pain while being next to him. Instead he found it was worse when she was away from him. In other words, "Don't go. Stay with me," he asks her now. He folds her hand into his.

Suddenly, the lights come on and OMG PAWAN STOP INTERRUPTING THE MOMENT!!

Shaurya and Anokhi spring apart, struggling with their bonds while Pawan looks on with interest. He asks what's going on. Shaurya tries, "Oppa?" but forgets his voice. In an adjusted falsetto, he makes an excuse to leave. Pawan (totally on to him) blocks "her" and asks if she's going out dressed like that. It looks like the answer to that is "yes." Bunny Shaurya makes for his car and Pawan wonders how a highschooler is going to handle driving it. Anokhi cringes on the sidelines while Oppa has his fun.

The moment they've seen Shaurya off, Anokhi tries to escape, too. But Pawan holds her back. That was Shaurya right? He boasts that he knew it wasn't Nicky since there's no way she'd have been able to leave him.

Alone later, Shaurya and Anokhi separately think about their moment with quiet elation.
Shaurya shocks the board the next day by showing up to take charge of the Sabherwal shareholder meeting.

In his office, Yash fumes at this turn of events. But his mood lifts when he receives a piece of mail from Alex, and finds a locker key inside.

Shaurya tells Grandma he'll do his best at the company, but she should temper her expectations. He says it's not a show of modesty, but a warning. He plans to do everything his own way, and then leave on his own terms. Strangely, Grandma doesn't look displeased at his fighting words.

Uncle tells Yash that Shaurya is a fake who took on the identity of the missing child 21 years ago. Yash is floored by the revelation, but Uncle chuckles that with Sabherwal, anything is possible. Yash asks the important question : What happened to the real Shaurya? Uncle must tell him, because once alone, Yash ponders over Anokhi bhalla, "the real Shaurya," and wonders what Alex's key unlocks.

Shaurya returns to his office, and is met by Chief Makkhan - and Secretary Anokhi. She greets him brightly and Chief Wingman explains that he took her on because of her proactivity, blah blah (riiight) but leaves it to Shaurya to decide whether she's hired or fired. He leaves the lovebirds alone.

Shaurya walks right past her, and she catches his arm, reminding him he wanted them to stay together. But he didn't mean resuming her doctor duties on a defunct contract, he points out. Playful Anokhi urges him to just write a new one - one that omits the "thou shalt not fall in love" clause. Instead, it should say, "Parties A and B, no matter what trial they face, get through it together."
Grinning, Shaurya declares the reset with a snap of his fingers. Then he calls "Start!" and holds open his arms to her.

Dying of cute.

They're both so happy but Anokhi, still plays hard to get. She teases him for being desperate, but he just laughs and spins her around, into his arms.


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