Ronny thrusts Anokhi out of harm's way and dives into his fight with the partier whose jacket he stole. Anokhi's soundtrack of screams punctuates his flying kicks while the party goes on inside. Dispatching the man, he comes back for her, but she screams a warning to him - a moment too late, as his opponent gives him a hard crack on the head and he goes down......only to pop up again.
He knocks the man out, so he can turn his attention back to Anokhi. She asks him why he's doing this, and he tells her, "You called me. You've been calling me since a really long time ago." Edging away, she counters that she didn't even know him a long time ago. Unfazed, he replies that it's fine since she knows him now. Her edging away turns into him backing her up, and he asks her to play. She wards him off with feet-stamps and screaming entreaties, and like a magic spell, it works. She orders him to turn around, and he does, as if hypnotized. Telling him to stay right there, she makes a break for it, and facing away from her, Ronny's grin turns sharkish.
Anokhi leaps into a taxi, heading for her hospital, finally relieved to escape, but a motorcycle gives chase. To her horror, it's Ronny (of course). He pulls up alongside and her attempts to hide are met with a wink, bringing a full-on bout of screaming.
Girl's got some lungs, man.
She's dropped off at Kapurthala Hospital, and Ronny parks right behind her. She tries the hypnosis thing again, but it doesn't work, so she runs instead. He grabs her and tells her it's not fun playing pets anymore. Since he played with her, it's her turn to play with him. He doesn't have much time - unlike her, he doesn't know when he'll appear. Anokhi asks if he's a prison escapee. Ronny tells her it's a place that's even harder to escape, and way more cramped. While he speaks, he puts a helmet on her and tells her to hop on. But she's had enough - she really has to be in the hospital now, and pushes man and helmet away. He tries again, but she really loses her patience now and throws him off. However, when she looks at him properly, she notices the cut on his head and the lost look on his face, and softens.
This time, she takes his arm and drags him inside. Doctor Anokhi tells him to take off his clothes so she can tend to his injuries. It seems our Ronny is quite literal-minded because he totally strips, bringing on another horrified screamfest from Anokhi. Hilariously, her colleagues have their ears pressed to the door and they conclude from the tone of her screams that she isn't hating it - they might not be wrong, since between screams, she keeps taking peeks. Civilized (= clothed) again, Ronny notes that she's a psychiatrist, which isn't good. "You and I could have a bad fate," he tells her, and she snarks at him all, "Omona! You don't say!"
Ha, I like her.
Snatching her phone, he
programs his number into it, and makes sure she knows his name. He warns her that the person with his face and a different name is fake - there's only one Ronny, "So you must never forget my eyes." After a charged moment, Anokhi breaks away from him and exits, and runs into her senior, Dr. Park.
He scolds her for losing her patient, but right behind her, Ronny slams Dr. Park into the wall, only releasing him once he says Anokhi is allowed out with him. Dr. Park even barks at her to dress up and look pretty. While the doctors go off, Ronny gets a call from Chief Makkhan. He tells him he's found Dr. Singh - and he's right here in Kapurthala Hospital. Ronny takes the call pretending to be Shaurya. Dr.Singh plays Shaurya's old interview reels in his office, where he describes his violent Ronny alter. A knock at the door admits the devil himself, but Dr.Singh mistakes him for gentle Shaurya and greets him like an old friend.
Ronny-as-Shaurya (is that confusing yet?) asks the doctor if he's really pleased to see him, "Since you tried to kill me so many ways," he adds, discarding his façade. Ronny wrecks Dr.Singh's office, and crushes his glasses beneath a booted heel. He picks up a scalpel and muses it would be a good gift for Sameer (the suicidal 17-year-old boy-alter). "Or I could use it on you first," he threatens.
The doctor asks what he wants, and Ronny has a message for Shaurya : to give up on treatment, and stop thinking about getting rid of them. What if he doesn't want to give up, the doctor asks - what then? Ronny throws him back and gets right in his face: "Put Shaurya to sleep. Forever. So he never wakes up." Dr.Singh says that's impossible, since Shaurya is the master-persona. The others are creations of his mind, existing via his defense mechanism.
Dude! I don't think it's going to help to tell the violent guy he's not real!
Furious, Ronny chokes Dr.Singh, and avers that he is himself. Not Shaurya, but Ronny. If the doc insists on getting rid of him, or making Shaurya remember his past, he threatens to use the knife on himself, because if they go down, they'll damn well all go down together. Dr.Singh is on the brink of losing consciousness when Ronny spasms. He releases the doctor and his pupils dilate.
The red tattoo on his neck fades out...and he's Shaurya again. Both of them now recovered, Dr.Singh shares Ronny's words with Shaurya, and his alter's desire to be the master persona. Ronny is stronger now - he speculates that it must be because he's driven by some purpose. He also adds that Ronny seems to have found his first love. Shaurya is shocked to find out the alters can love, but Dr.Singh warns that with a personality like Ronny's, it's more likely to be obsession. If he's unable to attain his object, he could flip to violence and the object of his affections would then be in danger. Suddenly afraid Ronny's found Shagun, he starts reacting.
Anokhi is still waiting for Ronny in the hospital foyer. When she finally sees Shaurya come barreling down, thinking it's Ronny, she puts out a nonchalant hand, but he just goes right past. She yells to get his attention, and then looks expectantly at him, while he's all, Do I know you? She's dumbfounded by his reception and he places her as Crazy Nightclub Lady. He's so pleased to get something right (and yet so wrong) and expresses relief that she's safely back in hospital, but sorry, he has to run. "That's all?" She asks.
Put upon, she explains that he pursued her, and Shaurya is still factoring this up with Shaurya's encounters of her, remembering the airport episode where Pawan declared that she was sick in the head. So he's genuinely kind to her in his letdown, and tells her to be strong. He can't apologize enough, and I am laughing my head off as he exits.
Anokhi: "Was I just rejected?"
Shaurya arrives at Shagun's doorstep and she comes out to meet him. She's pretty surprised nerdy Shaurya seems to have gotten into a fight. As she reaches for his bandage, he clasps her hand and entreats, "If I surprise you with words and actions that are unlike me, ignore me." If he treats her badly or crosses the line, "Then it's not me," he tells her. He warns her to run away if someone with the same face but another name seeks her out.
This is so close to a confession about his condition.
She wonders if he's drunk, and suddenly Yash's voice calls out to her. She was having a glass of wine with him, she says, and invites Shaurya to join. Caught off-guard, he declines. But before he leaves, he turns back to her, and thanks her for calling him last Christmas: "Thanks to you, it was warm. I was happy." His smile is so sad.
Inside her apartment, Yash remarks at Shagun's boldness in going out to meet Shaurya when he's right there. She points out that he deliberately made his presence known, and Yash admits he was marking his territory. Shagun seems to like the idea that the two men should be at odds over her - she even reckons Shaurya will be more interested if he finds out she's a fox, because "childhood friend" is so passé.
Ah, so it's like that.
Driving home, Shaurya is haunted by Dr.Singh's words. Overwhelmed, he stops the car and pulls his rearview mirror towards him. Looking into his own eyes, he says, "Listen up, Ronny. You touch a single one of my people and you're dead." Gaining heat and feeling, he continues, "I would die to get rid of you - if I don't exist, you don't exist. If you become stronger, I will become stronger. Are you listening to me, you bastard?"
Chief Makkhan waits for him at home. Shaurya instructs him to prepare everything necessary for him to do his job right at ID Entertainment (which is a subsidiary of Sabherwal Group). He can't run back to the U.S., since Ronny would simply put him on a plane back, so the only way to beat him at his game is to play the game, head-on. Their short-term objective is the board meeting in three months. Until then, nothing untoward is allowed to happen. To that end, he'll put himself under strict CCTV surveillance, and other monitoring and security measures. By controlling his emotions and physical condition, Shaurya thinks they can prevent Ronny's resurgence. Lastly, he needs a doctor who can treat him in secret. Since Dr.Singh's safety has been compromised, it has to be someone else.
While interrogating her escapee patient, Anokhi is subject to Kanchan's cackling that although the doc lacks style, she appears to have the talent of bagging a man - even if she got dumped within two hours. Jokes about her "booking" (and immediate de-booking) follow her around the hospital all day and hothead Anokhi loses it pretty quickly. Just then, Ronny's (stolen) leather jacket is delivered to her, which fires her up even more and she throws it away immediately... only to fish it out of the bin a moment later.
The label shows it is Italian-made which gives her pause. She tries to call Ronny, but Shaurya is busy with meditation exercises and it goes unanswered. She bins the jacket again. Anokhi drives up to her parents' house... with the jacket stuffed in a bag on her backseat. She tells herself it's nothing to do with expectation or feelings - it's only because it's leather and made in Italy.
Uh-huh.
Her dad surprises her and discovers the jacket, which he thinks is his present. She protests, but he's already zipped himself into it, thoroughly pleased.
Just as she insists it's too small for him, her mom comes out, and mother and daughter are so happy to see each other, aww, it's adorable. When dad wants them to admire his jacket, both women yell at him, expressions identical. Anokhi and Mom chat together over barbecue prep, and Mom tells her Dad is as childish as ever, and they laugh at oppa Pawan who keeps giving himself nightmares because of his own writing.
Anokhi looks for her brother in his room, but it's empty. She's about to leave when a large panel catches her eye. Juuust as she's about to open it - and we can see a picture of football-playing Shaurya peeking out - Pawan leaps in and blocks her. The twins join Mom and they have a cute conversation about how many people he's killed lately. Mom worries about their jobs hurting them, and jokingly tells Anokhi to treat her brother.
Anokhi's cheesy proclamation about family being the best therapy gives Pawan his cue to start up a silly laugh-session, and both women join in until it's a party of loons on loon tablets, and that's how dad finds them. The family enjoy a winter barbecue, and later, Pawan joins his sister for night-time coffee on the veranda. Although her tone is brusque, she's concerned he's getting too caught up in his fictions, and warns him to separate reality and imagination, otherwise he'll get hurt. He reassures her he'll be fine, and explains how he has cover in his multiple personas.
Since Omega is the mystery writer, Pawan bhalla is free as a star (...I see what you did there!) to be himself. He reveals a third persona, Anmol, the ladies' man (Anokhi: "When did you become three??").
By separating himself into three people, his life is safe and comfortable: "You're right... like Jekyll and Hyde." She asks him if it's fun to live like that, and he tells her it's more of a defensive strategy against a cruel world. His talk of multiple personalities makes something click in Anokhi's head about her Ronny/Shaurya encounters, and she turns them over and over in her mind. She realizes they're different - it's in the eyes.
Shaurya reports to Chief Makkhan that all's quiet on the Ronny front, and they prepare for the board meeting that will be his formal introduction to the company.
They accompany Grandma Seeta and have a tense meeting with Yash and his father in front of the elevators. Shaurya greets his uncle, and the elders exchange barbs. It's clear there's no love lost between them and they take separate elevators. Grandma warns Shaurya not to be taken in by Uncle's false benevolence, as it's a calculated ploy to further his own ambitions. An Aunty hits a pretty putt on a golf course and is fawned over by her friends. This is Yash's mom, Gayatri. Her mood is spoiled when she overhears Madam Devi (Shaurya's mom), who's just arrived, bragging on the phone that her son is now VP of ID Entertainment.
She catches sight of Madam Gayatri and calls after her, addressing her as sister-in-law, but the woman completely blanks her and drives away. Madam Aastha catches up with Madam Gayatri in the café, though, as the latter complains into her phone about the other woman's crassness. Shaurya's mom wants to talk, and continues to call Madam Gayatri "sister-in-law" which needles her into snapping that Madam Devi isn't even in the family registry.
She retorts that there's not a soul who doesn't know she's Tez's wife, but Madam Gayatri's cutting words push her into a fury of hair-pulling, and she spits that with her husband still living and her son sole heir to Sabherwal, she'll dream what she damn well wants. Shaurya gets a visit from Yash in his new office. He greets him warmly, and although Yash's face and tone are also warm, his words have an aggressive undercurrent: They're at war now.
Yash adds that he saw him at the club: "You were dressed like a completely different person." Shaurya plays it off as a party stunt, but Yash warns him to be careful - all eyes are on him now. Anokhi parks her car at work, and enjoys Dad's text squeeing about the jacket, when someone calls her name. The next thing we know, Shaurya receives a call from Anokhi's phone, and a man asks for Ronny. It's Jacket Guy, who wants his jacket back, and everything had better be in it (like your drugs?), or his girl dies - he's got one hour.
Now we see Anokhi, tied up and gagged, and Shaurya hears her whimpering. But Shaurya has a meeting to prepare for, and goes back to his papers... for all of ten seconds. Heading out, he meets Chief Makkhan on the way, who tries to stop him from leaving. The meeting is much too important to abandon, he worries.
Heedless, Shaurya raids his apartment, tearing through bags and boxes to find the jacket, while Makkhan frets. Shaurya argues that somebody's in danger because of Ronny, and the aide points out that Shaurya-as-Shaurya has no idea how to fix it. And... this makes sense, prompting the idea to ask Chief Makkhan to hit him, to bring out Ronny.
But Makkhan refuses to hit his boss until Shaurya begs him, so after a few false starts, he finally gives him a good thump, and Shaurya goes down. The switch is induced - this time his irises turn gold - and when he gets up, he breaks out a big grin and a load of saturi. This guy isn't Ronny. Ha, his every mannerism screams "Elder brother," and so we meet the latest alter: Arjun Krishnamurti kannath.
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