EPISODE 8 RECAP

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Shaurya struggles in Anokhi's grip. He forcefully frees himself, which surprises Anokhi and Chief Makkhan. They simultaneously exclaim, "Ronny?!"
"I'm Shaurya!" he yells at them. They're not used to seeing gentle Shaurya mad. As if he isn't there, Anokhi and Chief Makkhan discuss him, worried his fit of temper might provoke a switch. He insists that he's not annoyed, but when Anokhi encourages him to express his feelings, he bellows at her. Anokhi and Chief Makkhan reel and ask again, "Ronny?!"

Hahaha.
Shaurya drops a ton of reading in front of Anokhi, and enjoys her dismay. They include his patient histories from Dr.Singh, detailed profiles on each alter, and his personal diaries from the last eleven years. Anokhi asks where she'll be living - is it somewhere nearby? She hasn't looked at the contract yet, so they explain that since she needs to keep an eye on Shaurya 24/7, she has to live with him. She has a little meltdown.

Composed again, she asks what they'll do about when he's at the office. Chief Makkhan cryptically mentions a disguise while Shaurya is a picture of innocence. Haha, he's relishing this so much. It must be the first fun he's had for years. Outside, the chief asks Shaurya what'll happen if she turns it down. He repeats Shaurya's earlier words about not letting her get close to him, and notes how Shaurya contains his own emotions so strongly - but for the first time in eleven years, Chief Makkhan saw him get annoyed because someone got past his walls.

(Shaurya: "I didn't get annoyed!") His parting advice to Shaurya is, "Don't lose her." Shaurya catches Anokhi trying to sneak away, but he pulls her back by the collar.
Anokhi: "Ronny?!" "I'm Shaurya," he says, and marches her back in. She complains about the "slave contract" (apparently the disguise is to be his "secretary") and he says it's her fault for not reading it first. He tells her to check her account, and the amount deposited makes her eyes pop. If she takes the secretary-guise, he offers to double it.

She laughs in his face and even refuses triple (though it clearly pains her) and tries to run. He holds her back again, and reminds her that they agreed that she can't turn back, and he can't send her away.
Maybe she's looking for a way to stay now, because she's grinning madly at him the whole time, no longer refusing. She feigns a leg cramp as an excuse, and he goes along with it.

He kneels at her feet to massage it out, and they share a sweet moment. Chief Makkhan brings Grandma Seeta up to speed on Shaurya's trustworthy new doctor. She orders him to investigate her background anyway. Before leaving, he asks if she actually knows what ails Shaurya. Instead of answering, she tells him his discretion was a big part of why she employed him and saw to his education.

Hm, so she owns him?

She warns him not to hold hands with the other side, and to stay with Shaurya. Yash's interview with Dr.Singh proved unfruitful. He had tried to probe for information on Shaurya's condition, having noted his strange behavior. Yash's guess is drugs or alcohol, and he pleads worry about his cousin. Dr.Singh merely explains Shaurya away as one of his many students - a scenario Yash doesn't buy. He thinks Shaurya is trying to outmaneuver him for control of the company. He's surprised to receive a call from Shaurya's blind date, Priyanka, who asks after his and Shagun's relationship.

He looks for Shagun, and orders her to apologize to Priyanka, so as to quell the rumors going around about her. He censures her for making a scene at Shaurya's blind date, despite her engagement to him. The juicy story causes people to question her motives, especially since Shaurya emerged as the prime successor to the company. Livid, she says she did it for Priyanka's sake, because she couldn't stand Shaurya coveting her friend's stocks.

Yash wants to cut off the rumors by getting engaged already, but his mode of proposal upsets her. He shouts that she's the one showing him up and making a making a mess of his engagement.

Oh you two are as bad as each other.

Shagun flips out and tells him she's not getting engaged until after the shareholder meeting. Meanwhile, Shaurya tutors Anokhi on the alters' personalities, and she's particularly interested in the two she hasn't met, Rohit and Nicky. He also familiarizes her with the people he needs to hide his illness from at all costs, including Grandma and Yash's dad.

He authorizes her to use any means necessary to keep the alters in line. She meets the instruction with a cute salute, distracting him into a warm smile. It brings Chief Makkhan's question back to his mind, whether he's confident about keeping her at a measured distance. The next slide is Yash and Shagun, whom she teases him about - she's so pretty, he must have like-liked her. The doorbell saves him from responding. It's Shagun.

Upset, she beats on him for making her into the "protagonist of a makjang drama" - isn't she his first love? Who is really in his heart - is it that woman, Anokhi bhalla? Inside, Anokhi has her ear to the door and listens in shock. In answer, he calls Anokhi to come out.
Ooo.
Reluctantly, she complies, and he makes a show for Shagun...who answers him with a slap. Anokhi tries to explain, but Shaurya wordlessly holds her back while the other woman leaves. Examining his face, Anokhi offers to be his drinking buddy if he's not okay. He just tells her their lessons are over for the day.

At the Bhalla house, Mom and Dad mope and pick at their breakfast, worrying about Anokhi. Pawan, on the other hand, is all appetite and scolds his parents for their over-concern - that's why Pawan is all messed up inside, he says, taking on everyone else's pain as well as her own. He leaves the table. Instead of working, Pawan looks through old photos on his computer and each photo brings up a memory.

A childhood snap takes us to little Anokhi and Pawan. Mom urges them to smile - they're oppa and Little sister now.

Awww Mom, I love you.

Dad joins their hands and Anokhi smiles shyly at her new brother. But he throws her to the ground with a glower, so she launches herself at him in a retaliatory headbutt, as the parents try to break it up. The memory makes Pawan smile. Next is high school, where their fighting relationship continues, although it's now full of affection (sort of), as Anokhi grabs him by the throat for stealing her homework.

The arrival of her crush saves him, as she goes all googly-eyed. But later, Pawan catches the guy getting kissy with another girl, and protects his sister from seeing it. Mom bursts into his room and he slams the laptop shut. She confronts him about his nekky posters and grabs the computer out of his hands. She's subdued when she sees what he's really been looking at. He totally plays it up and runs off wailing like a toddler.

Lol.

Dad starts to ask Mom something to do with the twins, mumbling something cryptic about rumors abounding about "that family," but she shuts him up.

Chief Makkhan updates Shaurya about the Omega fan club reading, which is today. Anokhi pops in to make coffee, and her ears prick up when she hears her brother's name. Chief Makkhan hasn't been able to procure a photo of the elusive author, but shares the rumors he heard (from Pawan, ha) of Omega's "Hritik Roshan's-level looks." Anokhi sprays her coffee all over Shaurya in incredulity.

HAHAHA, say it, don't spray it!

Shaurya maintains his careful indifference to her and suggests to Chief Makkhan that they head out for the event. But Chief Makkhan has an unavoidable appointment and excuses himself, so both men turn to Anokhi, who wails at her bad luck. Lol, Chief Makkhan just appointed himself Chief Wingman.

Chief Makkhan recites Rule 2 of the contract that stipulates that she has to be by Shaurya's side 24/7. She counters with Rule 4: Except while they are secretary and VP, she and Shaurya have equal standing. So her condition for going along today is that she gets an hour of counseling with him each day. Not for treatment, she tells him: "Let's be friends."

She badgers him until he finally agrees. Chief Makkhan's appointment is with Shaurya's mom. She doesn't mince her words and asks him whose side he's on - is he Grandma's spy, or is he faithful to Shaurya? She warns him that he'd better not backstab Shaurya.

Pawan's mom watches him from afar with concern. He wishes his sister had stayed after all, chaebol doctor or not. His editor calls to tell him his fan club reading is on. But he has a bad feeling about it and warns Pawan not to go, since it might risk his cover. ID Entertainment is going all-out to try and secure the film rights for his books, he adds. Pawan casually confirms that that's a Sabherwal subsidiary. The reading is atmospheric and lively. Among the audience, Shaurya is on the edge of his seat, caught up in the mood.

Aww, that unguarded laugh.

It concludes, and Shaurya turns to Anokhi to share his excitement...HAHA WHAT. He wonders if being all covered up isn't more noticeable, and she warily unwraps - just as Pawan bounds in. She panics, almost spilling his secret identity to Shaurya. She makes a save by saying her brother is Omega's fan - but she can't be seen by him because he thinks she's in the U.S. Shaurya catches her panic now, too, and helps bundle her out. Pawan spots Shaurya and calls out, "Arjun!" The two escapees freeze, and Shaurya tells her to run while Pawan pounces on him. Shaurya distracts him from Anokhi by grabbing his ears in greeting.
HAHA.

Pawan squirms in his clutches and points at all the people. Once he's sure Anokhi got out safely, Shaurya lets his ears go with an apologetic laugh. Away from the hubbub, they have a quiet conversation. Shaurya tells Pawan that he came looking for Omega, and is surprised to find him a fan. Pawan mentions two books in particular. One is the "Switched-twin Murder Case," and the other is "The Child in the Basement." Those happen to be the only ones Shaurya hasn't read.

Pawan outlines the plot of the latter: A boy and a girl became like siblings after an accident. It then sounds like the story Anokhi told Shaurya about herself - a girl who is afraid of basements, whose parents send her there on chores to cure her of her fear. Pawan adds more, and we're given a flashback with little Anokhi and Pawan. Every time she had to go down there, she took him, too - and he would go, despite his own fear. But eventually, he began to question why he was afraid.

Although he discovered the reason, the girl never remembered. The boy, Pawan says, made it his mission to find her lost memories. Shaurya becomes increasingly agitated by the story, and relives his fragmented memories of his own nightmare - basement. He nearly collapses, and Pawan runs to get him water. Sweat beads on his face, and Shaurya struggles to stay conscious. Then, a hand takes his - it's Anokhi. Pawan returns to an empty room, and he goes out just in time to see her get Shaurya into his car. He frowns, "Anokhi?" He runs after the departing car, but it's already out of his reach.

In the car, she tells Shaurya to hang in there. He clutches his head, and she keeps up a stream of reassurance. She's worried when he knocks out, and keeps calling his name. His head snaps up, and...it ain't Shaurya anymore. With a head-toss and a ton of attitude, this has got to be Sameer's twin, Nicky.

S/he orders Anokhi to stop the car, and complains, "Girl, you're so noisy! Stop talking! Close your mouth!" The bossy alpha-teen girl-talk coming out of Priyanka's mouth is...omg I'm dying - I don't know what's funnier, Nicky's scolding or Anokhi's startled compliance. Anokhi recalls what she knows about Nicky.

Dr.Singh nicknamed her the "manager of suffering." When Shaurya is extremely distressed but needs to keep his head down, she absorbs it. Shaurya considers her the most dangerous - a boy-crazy, idol-chasing sasaeng fan. It's hilarious how outraged he is by her behavior. Nicky filches Anokhi's hair clip, and we see her as she sees herself, in pink lipstick and a pink school uniform blazer. She agonizes over her middle aged male's face. Anokhi is speechless. Suddenly spotting an idol-oppa, she's out of the car in a flash. Oh man, that flaily, girly rushing.
HAHA.
Anokhi gives chase.
There's a fanmeet for idol group "Rocking" (special appearance by Arijit Singh), and they explain how their edgier music attracts more male fans - and look, here's one of them now! Nicky pushes her way to the front, squealing for her oppas...except to the rest of the world, she still looks like Shaurya.

She nearly dies when she's invited on to the stage. Her moment is interrupted by Anokhi, who gets her with a missile to the head. Oh no, now it's on: It's a catfight, with hair-pulling and screaming. A crowd surrounds them, filming and snapping photos (not good!), shocked that a guy is beating on a girl.

Nicky gets out of Anokhi's grip and runs for it - thwack into a post. On a subway station bench, Shaurya comes to. With tissue-plugs in their noses, he struggles with the hair clip while she explains the situation. The car got towed, it was cold, she couldn't take him to hospital...so here they are. He apologizes, the weight of the world back on his shoulders.

Anokhi asks what his extreme suffering was that brought Nicky out. Was it something Pawan said? Or Shagun? But then she cancels her questions, since they're not friends, and he doesn't answer them anyway - she'll settle for being rich. Or asking Ronny, because at least he talks to her, "Although the problem is that he says what he wants." She's ready to go, but he catches her arm.

Sitting back down, he hesitantly asks if she wants to go for a drink, and reminds her of her offer to be his drinking friend. She replies that he doesn't like drinking or friends. Still faltering, he says they could start those counseling sessions. Anokhi is impressed by how much alcohol Shaurya can put away for someone who doesn't drink, but figures that Ronny and Arjun must have done his body's share.

He tells her they're in session and she can ask him questions - but first he apologizes for the night before. That friend, Shagun, was his cousin's fiancée, and he confirms she was his first love. But when he found out she was being nice to him in order to get closer to Yash, he was hurt, and moved on. Anokhi observes that he didn't look like he was over it.

But he explains that he's never taken anyone into his heart since his diagnosis, afraid of putting them in danger. But when he sees Shagun, he remembers the time when he was able to love someone freely - maybe it's really the freedom to love that he loves. That actually explains a lot. He asks if that answers her question.
Anokhi: "I...didn't ask."

HA. Way to undercut the deep moment, lol.

Shaurya marks that they're halfway through their session, but Anokhi objects - that was just a conversation, not a consultation. If he wants counselling, they can start now. He reaches for her wrist and, tapping her watch, tells her to take note. "January 29, 2015," he notes as he waits for it to strike the hour exactly. "10 o'clock. First consultation... commence." The echo of Ronny is not lost on Anokhi. "Ronny?" she asks him. His exasperation is never going to get old: "I'm Shaurya!" He wonders if she's secretly hoping for Ronny to appear, and she teases him for being all jealous of himself.

Flustered, he denies it. They walk home, and Shaurya asks her why she stayed by his side. "Was it pity? Or so you could meet Ronny through me?" She thinks about it, and gives two reasons. Firstly, Sameer. His "Kill me" message seemed to her like a call for help.
Secondly, Shaurya himself.
When he told her he wouldn't return the ball that went over his castle walls, it made her realize how much he needed her. He asks if she isn't afraid of all the people living inside him.

She's not - she wants to be close with all of them, and she has things to say to them. "From now on, instead of 'kill me,' ask, 'heal me,'" she tells him. Being healed doesn't mean they'll die, she says. Rather, they'll carry on living in him - she points to his heart. But instead of being scattered fragments, they'll be a connected puzzle, fitting together to make a wonderful picture.

"With the name of Shaurya, you guys will become an even more wonderful person," she finishes. He stares at her, heart in his eyes. Clasping the hand she's pointing at him, he leans in and kisses her. When he pulls back, she searches his eyes. He smiles at her and says unasked, "I'm Shaurya." He draws her close again, this time slow and deliberate.

She closes her eyes - and Ronny's threats about messing with his woman rise in Shaurya's mind. He pauses, but looking into Anokhi's eyes, he kisses her again anyway.


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