Kulhaadi Ka Raaz
Air date: 30 Nov 2014
Scene : A house
A hooded figure enters a dark bungalow with a torch and starts looking for something. The mistress of the house returns from a party speaking to someone on phone. She hears a noise and someone gasping. She turns on the light and sees an unconscious lady under the dining table. She screams to her husband Sushil. Sushil tells his wife (Shobha) that he doesn't know who she is. Shobha notices blood oozing from her head. Sushil goes up to get his phone to call the police, as Shobha's phone has no charge. Shobha looks around the house to see if there is anyone else in the house. Sushil comes down with his phone and looks under the table but the lady is missing. He bends down to check properly under the table when something sharp hits his head. They invert the table and see a sharp metallic object jutting out of the wood.
Sushil and Shobha send the table to a diagnostic centre to take an X-Ray and find what's inside. The X-Ray reveals that there's an axe embedded in the wood! Shobha says that since the table was a 200 year old antique table costing 2 lakhs, the axe could also be an antique axe and could cost 2 Cr! Shobha and Sushil call a carpenter and ask him to cut open the wood and take the axe out. Shobha and Sushil are all smiles thinking this could bring them a fortune. They take it to an expert who examines it. Meanwhile a lady is observing them from a distance. The expert notices something fishy about the red substance stuck to the axe and tells them that he needs time to give them more information.
Scene : Lab
The axe is on Salunkhe's table and he's examining it. (Assuming that the antique expert who is Salunkhe's friend decided to inform CID) Salunkhe says that the edge of the axe has fresh blood and the inside part has old blood. Tarika says that looking at the quantity of blood it's possible that the injured person was killed. Abhijeet decides to meet Sushil and Shobha.
Salunkhe explains with illustrations how someone might have killed someone and put the axe into a hole in the trunk of the tree. Over the years the tree grew and the sap covered the axe (like a fossil) After a few years the trunk was cut and made into a table which had the embedded axe in it. Salunkhe says that the entire process could have taken 8 years and the murder may have happened 8-12 years back.
Scene : Sushil's house
Duo (😃) and the rest of the team interrogate Sushil and Shobha. They both explain about the girl thief and how she had vanished. Abhijeet asks them to make a sketch of the vanished girl. Daya asks for the name of the store where they had purchased the table. The lady says it is Old Classic Antique Store'.
Scene : A house
The lady who was injured in Sushil's house applied a bandage to her injury. A man comes in and asks her where she was al night. She tells him that CID has got hold of the axe. The man is shocked and asks the lady Maya to keep out of trouble. Maya tells him that he has only given her pain and asks him to stop pretending to care for her. The man apologises to her. (God knows for what)
Scene : Antique store
CID team shows a picture of the table asks the shopkeeper if he had sold it to Sushil. The shopkeeper says that it was indeed he who sold it and tells them that it's a 200 year old table. Daya tells him that there was an axe embedded in the table's wood. The shopkeeper says he has no idea about the axe. Daya asks him where he procured the table from. The shopkeeper goes in and tries to make a fake invoice when Daya catches him red-handed. The shopkeeper admits that he made the table in his workshop and gave it an antique look and that the table was not an antique one. Sachin asks him where he got the wood to make the table. He says he gets all his wood supplies from Jefferson Timber Depot. Daya asks his team to arrest the shopkeeper and his employees for cheating customers by selling non-antique furniture.
Scene : Jefferson Timber Depot
CID team asks the owner where they had procured the Seesum wood (of which the table was made) He says that he doesn't sell that wood as it's very expensive. CID team questions Uday how Old antique store had obtained Seesum wood from Jefferson when they officially don't sell it at all. Uday admits that he had unofficially sold it and had got it from Mahagiri jungle
Scene : Mahagiri Jungle
CID team enters the jungle where they meet the forest officer Vikram. Daya explains about the table and axe. Vikram tells him that some people had indeed stolen some Seesum wood. He says that there are some villages and farm houses in the jungle and someone may be knowing about it. Daya decides to investigate.
Scene : Bureau
Abhijeet asks for an update from the team about the case. Purvi shows the sketch of the lady who entered Sushil's house and that she has no criminal record. Dushyant explains about Mahagiri jungle. Abhijeet asks if there was any missing report recorded 12 years back. Shreya says that there's no record but there's a farmhouse which has been locked for 12 years and that the owner of the farmhouse Prem Kumar had vanished many years ago and that he was an antique dealer.
Scene : Prem Kumar's farmhouse
Daya, Sachin, Freddie, Purvi and Pankaj arrive at the door to see it full of cobwebs. Freddie and Pankaj say something about aatma. Daya opens the door (with a knife, not his usual kick) Sachin finds a picture of Prem Kumar with his daughter Sona. There's some noise from inside. After some searching they find an inner room with beds and liquor glasses. The bed was warm indicating that someone had slept in it a few minutes back. The door above them is locked by someone. Daya runs to find who it is. Freddi and Pankaj run in the opposite direction and they bump into 2 guys. Daya asks them who they are. The guys say that since the house was locked for a long time they decided to make it their own home. They reveal that there's another guy with them. Meanwhile Purvi calls Daya and shows him an axe which looks identical to the one found in the table. Suddenly there's a bad smell and Daya tells Freddie and Pankaj that their clothes are smelling due to dirt and asks them to wash them. Freddie and Pankaj go to a nearby well and draw water from it. They are shocked to find a piece of a skeleton in the water. They both scream and run.
Scene : Lab
The skeleton is placed on the table. (Assuming that Daya and party pulled out the skeleton from the well and brought it there.)
Salunkhe shows a mark on the neck of the skeleton indicating that he was probably struck by an axe on the neck and that the dead man was 35-40 years old.
Tarika reconstructs the face of the skeleton and it's none other than Prem Kumar.
CID team wonders where is Sona.
Scene : Bureau
CID team members make calls to the friends and relatives of Prem Kumar. No one knows anything. Meanwhile an artist is sitting with a computer, doing some photoshopping to estimate what would Sona look like after 12 years. (From the photo found in Prem Kumar's house when she was 8) The team is shocked to realise that the girl is none other than the girl who had entered Sushil's house.
Abhijeet asks for the photo of Sona to be published in all papers.
Scene: DM Boarding School
The principal identifies the girl and says that her name is Maya and that she had completed her 12th from their school. Daya asks her as to who used to pay her fees. the principal says that Maya's father is alive and that his name is Raghunath. Abhijeet and Daya stand and discuss about what's happening(how rare is this! But very pleasant to see 😊)
Scene: Raghunath's house
CID team break into the house and find everything in a mess. Shreya finds Raghunath dead behind a sofa. CID team wonders who had come to know that they were going to visit Raghunath and had killed him before they reached there.
Daya says that the person who killed Raghunath was probably the same guy who killed Prem Kumar. Daya asks Nikhil to find Maya's number from Raghunath's phone.
Scene: Road
CID team is driving on a deserted road. Nikhil keeps trying Maya's number but there's no response. Daya asks Nikhil to trace the phone's location.
Scene: Lakeside
A man is forcibly dragging Maya towards the lake. Maya struggles but he ties a huge rock to her body and pushes her into the water with the rock.
CID team arrives and looks at the man. He's none other than the forest officer Vikram. Nikhil jumps into the water and saves Maya. 👏 Daya slaps Vikram.
Scene: Confession
Vikram says that he cuts trees illegally and Prem Kumar came to know about this. Prem was about to complain to the authorities, so Vikram killed him with his axe. He asked his assistant Raghunath to get rid of Sona and clean up all evidences but instead of killing Sona Raghunath hid the axe in a tree and looked after Sona (as Maya). Daya delivers the phaansi dialogue.
Maya tells Daya that she had seen her father's murder happening. She fainted and hit her head while falling which caused amnesia. Later she started regaining little bits of her memory. She asked Raghunath who she thought was her own father. He didn't tell her anything so she investigated on her own and found out the truth. She went to the farm house and when she saw the axe she remembered everything. Raghunath told her where he had thrown the axe. She wanted to hunt down her father's killer and so she had traced the whereabouts of the tree (which was cut down and made into a table and reached Sushil's house!!!! 😕)
Daya tells Maya that it's good that she didn't commit any crime in her rage and that one should take CID's help and not take law into their own hands.
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