Back in the hotel, Vish puts out the candles in an admittedly cool way by
waving his hand close to them. He fades quickly into another memory of when he
was married.
Vish
pulls up to his front gate, and asks the guard there where the other car is. He
tells him that Madhu has gone out, and left about 4pm. He goes into the living
room and begins watching the clock. After about an hour he gets up and starts
walking along the railing on the balcony like it was a balance beam. Eventually
Madhu comes in, and he drops down from the balcony and lands right next to her.
She is startled and drops her bag of groceries. As they both drop to pick
everything up, he begins asking her questions.
She tells him where she went and when. He notes that almost two hours have
passed since she says she left to go to the market. He claims that it doesn't
take that long to make the trip. He asks if she only went to the market, or if
she went somewhere else as well. She says that it was only the market, and that
she was delayed in her shopping. He looks irritated, then tells her they're
going and drags her out the door.
They
pull into the supermarket's parking lot. He begins dragging her up and down the
aisles, and she picks out all the things she got on the trip she just made. The
longer they're there, the more distressed Madhu looks. They finally finish and
head out.
On a mildly funny note, it looks like the extras in the scene were real
shoppers at the market. While none of the employees act weird, there are several
occasions where shoppers quickly get out of the couple's way, or others that
look over their shoulders directly into the camera.
When they get home, Vish looks at the time and notices that it took them 55
minutes. He wants to know where she was for that additional hour that she was
away from home. He taunts her by asking Alex the dog to ask her where she was
all that time. She starts crying and tells him that she really was delayed. She
ran into one of their acquaintances while she was out, and was held up while
talking to her. He asks why she didn't tell him that earlier (and that is a
valid question), but his behavior was still way out of line.
He tells her that everything is okay, and she kneels down to be hugged. I'm
not sure why she'd do that, but anyway.
The flashback ends with Vish still sitting in his hotel room looking like
he's reliving the best moments of his life. Sick, sick man. However, we need
more evidence of his madness, so we have another memory sequence.
This
time, we see him chambering a round into his bolt-action rifle. He's trying to
give Madhu shooting lessons, but she doesn't want to do it. He tells her that
she must learn how to shoot, and forces her to try shooting at some pop cans. He
goes over the basics of how the sights work and tells her to take a shot. She
does, but misses the cans and instead blows up a bottle that's on the table.
He looks annoyed, then pulls her over to the table and sets her in a chair.
In a moment that had me dumbfounded, he sets an apple on top of her head then
moves back to his shooting position. He tells her that she looks sullen, and not
to move. After a few tense seconds, he fires and the apple explodes. She shrieks
and holds her ears while Vish looks smug.
He
tells her to get up, then hands her the gun and sits in the chair himself. She
tells him she doesn't want to do it. He can't understand why she's so scared,
since it's him that will die if she misses. He tells her how to prepare the next
round, then puts another apple on his head. He goads her into finally pulling
the trigger, and she manages to hit the apple. He doesn't even flinch as it
blows up. He reaches down and picks up a piece of the shattered fruit and eats
it. He praises her for the good shot, then they walk off.
As they're leaving the yard, their next door neighbor comes over to invite
them to his wife's birthday party that evening. Vish tells him that he doesn't
go to parties, and that he'd like the neighbor to leave now. Alex barks at him a
few times and he takes off.
