Recap: Vansh And Riddhima go to the given address to rescue Annie. On the way, Vansh notices Riddhima’s suspicious behaviour and doubts that she is hiding something. On asking, Riddhima denies.
Meanwhile, Kabir’s father creates a rift on Kabir’s return in Dehradun. Rudra argues and calms the situation allowing all the Raisinghanias to stay. Vansh and Riddhima succeed in rescuing Annie but Vansh gets attacked. Riddhima takes him and Annie to hospital and in the hospital, she brainstorms about all the minor details, she found at the kidnapper’s place. A nurse comes and told her that Annie has got consciousness.
Chapter 63: “The Inquiry”
The episode starts with Riddhima going inside Annie’s room. She enters gently and goes near Annie who was resting with the support of her back. Nurse was checking her treatment. Riddhima signaled nurse and she went out. Annie was staring Riddhima with a little relaxed but serious expression. Riddhima came near her and gently caressed her hair, asking:
R: How are you feeling now?
A(low voice): Better!
R(calm and smiling): Remember me?
A: Yeah! You are Riddhima. Mom told me about you. (Emotional) Than….Thank You for saving my life! I….I don’t know what would have happened if you had not come.
R(turning serious): Annie! I know your state is not such to ask these type of questions but Its very important for me to know everything. Can you tell me exactly what happened with you all this while?
A(scared): I…I don’t remember exactly as they used to keep me caged in a room all the time and I used to faint much.
R: Why did they kidnap you? What was the….
Before Riddhima could speak further, Annie started crying bitterly.
A(crying): I don’t know! I don’t want to remember. It scares me alot. Please don’t ask anything.
Riddhima hugged Annie and held her hands tightly. She tried to convince her,
R: Look Annie! I can punish those criminals very well. I have the authority of doing this but I cannot do it until you help me out. Don’t you want those culprits to be punished? Don’t you want to stop further girls’ trafficking? Don’t you want to save other girls?
Annie in a confused state, broke the hug and looked at Riddhima in a confused way.
A(confused): Trafficking? Who other girls?
R: Weren’t you kidnapped by gangs who are involved in girls trafficking?
A: No Riddhima! I was…I was just kidnapped. I mean…It was a simple kidnapping.
R(confused): How can you say that? Can you tell me from the start?
A: Yeah I’ll try! (Taking a deep breath) Actually What happened is…when I was coming back home, some goons starting teasing me. They tried to snatch my bag and my phone. I was struggling to resist them but they didn’t leave me. And In that snatching, I slapped one of them.
She started crying but continued telling,
A: When I slapped him, it infuriated them even more and then, One of them suggested the others that rather than snatching my purse, they should kidnap me and demand the ransom money. And the very next moment, they made me unconscious and I don’t know where they had taken me. I got up the next morning and the first thing I saw, was those goons standing in front of me. They started torturing me asking me to call at home and demand ransom money. I kept on pleading them to let me go. I was begging them alot and in all this, one of my sleeves got torn and then they…..
She started crying more miserably. Riddhima understood what she was going to say and this horrified her as this was the only thing she was fearing about. She asked,
R: Did they…?
A(crying): No! They untied me and before they could do anything, I ran away from there.
R: Then?
A: I kept myself hidden in an unknown place as I was much scared. Those goons were behind me searching for me but I keep on running away from them.
R(confused): Why? I mean why didn’t you go to police station or took anyone’s help when you had run away from them? You could have just called us.
A: I was scared! I didn’t know what to do. Nothing came in my mind at that time. I just keep on hiding and running. But today, they found me hiding nearby and caught me. I was struggling to save myself from them when they beat me alot just sometime ago before you came. I don’t know what would have happened if you had not come.
This reason seemed illogical to Riddhima. She was trying to connect the dots but everything was totally messed up. She got no answers to the mysteries going on in her mind. To clear her doubts, she started questioning Annie again.
R: Annie! Can you tell me anything about those men? I mean there was a rich man in that place also. Who was he? Have you seen him?
Annie’s eyes widened but she normalized herself within seconds. Riddhima noticed it.
A: N..No! Who rich man? There was no rich man there as far as I know?
R: Haven’t you seen anyone? You said you were struggling to release yourself before I come. That man was also there sometime before I arrived. Didn’t you noticed anyone there?
A: No!
Annie was fidgeting her fingers and Riddhima noticed her behavior finding it much suspicious.
R(doubtful): Are you sure?
A: Ofcourse Riddhima!
R: So It means there was no other person, no girls trafficking. Some snatchers kidnapped you for money?
Annie nodded. Riddhima became quiet. She was just staring Annie observing her expressions.
R: Is there anything more to tell?
A: I don’t think so. If I remembered something, I will definitely tell you.
R: Sure!
Finally, with a frustrated face, she turned but Annie called her again,
A: Riddhima! Can I ask you something?
R: Hmm
A: What made you think that some rich man was there? Why would there be any rich man? Why did you ask me that?
R: I found a paid lunch bill there. It was of a five star restaurant and only rich people go there mostly for business purpose.
A: Maybe that is an old bill because I was brought there a little while before you come.
R: That bill was of that exact time only so it made me suspicious. Anyways, I think you are right. I am just overthinking.
A: How did you come to save me?
R: I got some clues. Someone gave us information about the address.
Riddhima thought to herself,
“It means she knows nothing about that person who gave us her address. Who was that person? Why did he helped us rescue Annie?”
Annie gave no expressions. Riddhima was continuously observing her. Finally, she thought to once again test Annie’s expressions so she asked another question. Annie was drinking water from the glass placed nearby on the table. Riddhima asked,
R: Do you know anything about Nayra?
Listening to it, Annie’s eyes widened and she started choking and coughing. Riddhima made her calm immediately.
A: Sorry! The water got into my windpipe!
R: Are you fine now?
A: yeah! Who’s Nayra?
She asked immediately not giving a chance to speak.
Riddhima replied,
R: Nayra is….(thinking something) Nayra is another girl missing. I thought maybe you would know something about her. Let me show you her picture.
Riddhima showed Annie, Nayra’s picture and once again, her expression took a turn from confused to shocked and then again said,
A(instant and serious): I don’t know her.