Parvati realises that she has her work cut out for her.
Aman is wondering if his boss is mentally unstable. If he isn't wondering that, he should be. Rudra is hanging on by a very slim thread.
The episode -
Starts with continuation of last night's scene ... Rudra's turn to have nightmares of his mother leaving ... Paro's turn to shush him, calm him ... finally soothe him with a murmured 'shaant.' And he sleeps peacefully like a baby in his mother's lap ... and so does Paro.
Another role reversal ... although Paro had it far worse that Rudra ... she slept on the cold bare floor, alone, abandoned, with no one to comfort her ... but here she stays with Rudra, giving him comfort, a soft lap to sleep on, a motherly hand on his head.
Mohini is back home, happy to have gotten rid of the three thorns in her life. Maithili starts asking some awkward questions, Mohini quickly shuts her up.
Interesting ... will Maithili actually use her brains to help Paro sort out the fire mystery?
In the morning, Rudra is back to rudra mode ... along with a hangover, most likely ... accounts for the extra grumpiness. In his grumpiness, he snaps at Paro, asks her why she's hanging around when he told her to stay away ... she replies, simply ... because he didn't let her go. Rudra doesn't have an answer. Maybe because he knows she's speaking the truth.
Paro tries to vouch for Thakurain maasa ... though she knows Rudra won't be in the mood to believe her ... Rudra is more upset about the fact that she calls Thakurain her mother, and that the Thakurain was like a mother to her. So Paro got all the love that he missed out on. Another thing to hold against her.
Rudra is now behaving like a tantrum throwing five year old ... Mommy loved you more than she loved me.
Paro gets him food ... he complains she must have poisoned it. Paro obviously decides that the best way to deal with a sulky cantankerous child is to humour him, so she tastes the food for him ... there, it's only vegetables, they won't poison you, they're good for you, now be a good boy and eat up.
Paro is at her wits end, how to deal with this big sulky bear ... she thought he would be happy that she turned against the Thakur and believed Rudra ... but now he's angry that she didn't believe him earlier, and he actually believes she could harm his father ... an accusation which doesn't even make sense.
Don't worry, Paro ... nothing Rudra is thinking or doing these days makes much sense ... even Aman seems to think the same, as he tentatively asks his boss if he really thinks Paro is guilty ... Rudra gives him a long lecture for his pains, on how the BSD trained them to believe all beautiful women are not to be trusted.
Could almost see Aman shaking his head at that one ... did he miss that lecture? Or is his boss missing a few marbles here?
Paro goes off to the temple seeking some divine help, since the only person on earth who could have helped her, is currently comatose.
I thought Paro was supposed to be closely guarded by the BSD as she is prime witness. Or is the temple in the BSD compound?
And so he does ... enters the haveli as though he's entering the dentist's office to get a tooth pulled ... lets Aman go ahead to do all the work, and defiantly tells his mother's smiling picture ... you can't hurt me any more, this is the end of our bond.
It isn't, of course.
The false bravado in his words exposed, the hurt begins again, as he sees Aman pulling out all his mother's sarees and an old picture album. Not so old ... it has new pictures of his mother with a smiling Paro. Paro, the girl his mother looked after like a daughter ... the girl who got his share of motherly love, while all he got was his father's bitterness and poisonous hatred for beautiful women.
Aman finds the black book ... would have thought Tejawat took it with him ... but fortunately Tejawat's intelligence level suddenly dropped to that of the BSD.
And Rudra crumples the picture of the two women ... the two women who have betrayed him.
Danveer brings Dilsher home ... now that will drive Mohini up the wall again! 😆 Samrat and Maithili are there for help. Rudra goes to the temple to get some prasad.
Paro in the temple, praying for divine help ... a sweet scene, where the fatherly panditji explains to her the Shiv Parvati story ... and how Lord Shiva, Bholenath, can be as gentle and innocent as a child ... he will forgive Parvati, if she begs for forgiveness.
Don't quite know why Paro should beg for mercy ... after all, she was deceived as much as Rudra was, even more so ... Tejawat is the true culprit here.
But Paro draws strength from Bholenath's story ... as Bholenath forgave Parvati her mistake, so will Rudra forgive her ... she just has to beg him long enough and hard enough.
Umm Paro ... how about trying to find out who started the fire side by side? After all, you believed the truth only when confronted with it ... Rudra will be the same.