I liked the episode for few reasons so putting this up before msin puts her review thread.
Pakhi is ill equipped to take decisions. We discussed a lot about her psychology here in this forum before. Some say she is a single spoilt child, she is selfish etc. etc. But I stick to my point that her behavior borders on sociopathy. She has utter disregard of every thing that makes a conducive environment for people to live in. Selfishness, arrogance and disregard of consequences everything will be part of this behavior. She is not someone who can listen to her parents also if they say something. Such people will not learn anything from the past. They will turn more bitter when they fail. Though writers fail to maintain consistency in characters, one thing they made consistent with Pakhi is her dellusional thinking, selective hearing.
This has been her pattern with Virat. If you see all their past conversations, first she uses Samrat as bait, or her own misfortune. Then Virat starts feeling for her and offers few words as solace. Then she takes the conversation to their shared past trying to cross the line. Virat cuts her short, initially without knowing her intentions, but in later episodes to stop her from talking rubbish. Then see how she flips. She used to accuse him of betrayal leaving Virat confused. Normal people like Virat and Sai believe that the setbacks Pakhi has faced will change her. So they give her chances. But they dont know that Pakhi is psychologically challenged. She doesnt feel the need to change, to confirm to the setting of a family and society. She doesnt feel empathy for others feelings. She has an issue that is deep rooted which only trained professionals might understand not normal people. (Though being an IPS virat should have sensed her criminal behavior 🙄)
Today, without guilt she convinced Mansi to go to CN, while the reason to go there is completely opposite to what she told Mansi. The mom was seen so uncomfortable. Thats how a normal person feels. One more thing Pakhi has is pathological lying. The way she used Sai's attitude and praised it for its worth now shows how she always knew Sai was right! It is very hard to explain what her mindset is but I will try. She is making fool out of everyone by quoting the facts so people will think she has this realization about her misdemeanor with Sai in the past. It is easy way to make people trust her. She is invalidating herself by accepting that her arch enemy was always right. And she is now trying emulate her! When she does that, who will fall for her immediately.? The people who love Sai the most. Ashwini, and Virat will fall instantly. See no one BK, Sonali and Omi are buying it. Why because when they hated Sai, they hated her with all their might. They were not playing double game. They would not go back and say, Sai was great. That is normal "grey" behavior. BK didnt like what Sai did before. She is still on the same ground. Can you see what I am saying here .
OK so whatever, Pakhi is successful to turn team Sai on her side. Sai almost convinced Virat about Surrogacy. She still knows Virat will turn things upside down for her, so she is back to using her husband for convincing BK. I felt so natural with how they spoke about Samart's birthday. Virat is definitely selfish in his own pain. The dude completely forgot about Sam's vaada in his child's loss. Sai puts others ahead of her loss. By now it should be understood that Virat gives two hoots to Pakhi. I dont think he will do anything specific to Pakhi if she carries his child. Thats where Pakhi will get the shock of her life!
BK again proved to me that she believes in quality when it comes to DILs. Though Pakhi was her choice, Sai was her pride. She would not trade any other woman’s 'egg' for Sai's 😃. She is obsessed with the best Chavan product. So she will recommend surrogacy. She didnt even entertain the idea of 2nd marriage. Not sure what she will say if Sai had lost her ovaries too 😲. May be then she would go for another egg, may be. I wanted Ashwini to spend time with sai and i am happy with that scene.
My prediction according to today's episode is that surrogacy is possible. Sai will convince everyone including BK who is no mood to tolerate Pakhi. She will not want the womb of that woman also who cursed her grandchild. :) But Sai will convince her. I know this is something we dont want. But Sai is being in character here. She always thought about others first. and now she trusts her husband fully. However, she should stop Pakhi after she finds her true intentions. For now, I dont see Virat doing bidding for Pakhi even if she carries his child. Thats where Pakhi will go Popat.
ps: I can see only pakhi’s destruction going forward.