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We have a sudden transition to the inside of the concert hall where Manav is winding up to give us our next musical number, "Jab Pyar Kiya..." Let's take breather from all the tension and relax for a bit.
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Actually we don't get much of a respite, since we have some plot while he's singing. Shanti tries to get in to tell them what she's learned, but the throng of people jamming to the tunes prevent her from getting close enough to anyone that can hear her. Someone taps her shoulders from behind, and says that there's a call for her from Nupur in the campus phone booth. This should raise the eyebrows of all of us in the audience, and Shanti has a weird, "This can't be good" look on her face as well. She rushes out to get the phone while the song winds down without her.
Outside,
Shanti gets into the booth and picks up the receiver. The voice on the other end
does resemble Nupur, but Shanti is in a bad mood. She tells the caller that
she's had enough jokes for now, and doesn't want to hear it. The voice says they
are Nupur, and they are dead. Shanti tells them to shut up and leave her
alone. She tells the mystery caller that she knows Disha is already dead. As she
does this, we can see the glass top of the booth. Several crimson droplets begin
to pool together as Shanti looks up and notices them. She looks past them
through the roof, and sees Kabir's body on the minute hand of the large clock.
It's been half an hour since we last saw it, and now the hand is pointing
straight down. Kabir's body starts to slide off of the hand as Shanti dives out
of the way. The corpse comes smashing through the glass roof and lands in a
messy pile on the bottom of the booth.
Badly
shaken, Shanti does the smart thing and runs off into the woods. At night.
Alone. She takes a breather next to a large tree, and notices that she can hear
soft footsteps approaching. She creeps around the tree to see if she can spot
who it is before they get too close. There are several moments of Shanti looking
one direction, and Disha's specter appearing just behind her. After a few close
calls, Shanti finds herself almost nose-to-nose with Disha, which sets her off
running again.
She finds herself on a deserted street leading away from the campus. You know, that place with lots of people and lights and safety. She heads away from all that and goes deeper into the darkness. She runs and runs until she can't go any farther, then collapses on her stomach in the middle of the street. She lies there with her eyes closed for a minute, then something causes her to look up. She slowly cranes her neck to see what's in front of her, and is rewarded with the sight of Disha standing right in front of her.
This
is enough to get her running again, and she takes off down the road. She notices
a small shrine to the goddess
Kali on the side
of the road, and she drops to her knees to ask for help. After she has said her
prayer, she slumps over onto the road again, completely spent.
A moment later, we see a shadow stretching out over the road as a figure approaches Shanti's unconscious form. Just as it gets close to her, she reveals herself not to be Disha, but a new friend - Sunita. Sunita cradles Shanti in her lap and eventually manages to calm her down. That's enough tension for one night, so we cut to the next morning.
We see the outside of a house that I don't recognize, so we'll assume this is Sunita's place until I hear otherwise. Inside, Shanti is camped out on a sofa and is mumbling to herself about Disha. We see the rest of the gang is there, including a doctor who tells us that Shanti is in shock from a traumatic event, and will likely not be able to speak coherently for a while. She should be fine after she rests up, and he leaves them some medicine for her.
Manav thanks Sunita for calling them, and asks how she knew to do so. Sunita says that she got his number from Shanti's cell phone, then introduces herself to them. Akshay and Talli recognize the name - she's a well-known astrologer in the area.
