(sombre music)
(ominous tone)
(engine starts)
(energetic music)
(music fades out)
You go ahead in the car, Shobha.
I'll join you later.
- Where are you going, Dad? - It's nothing.
I've just got a quick errand to run.
(car engine starts)
(car drives away)
(mysterious music)
(mysterious music rises)
(ominous tone)
(vehicle engine starts)
(energetic music)
(music fades out)
(mysterious music)
(mysterious music rises)
(ominous tone)
(energetic music)
(title music starts)
(music fades out)
(footsteps)
Ah! There you are!
Where were you, Dad?
I went to meet a couple of my friends.
Which friends?
Which of my friends do you even know?
Aaru dear! How are you?
Come, come!
Come!
(mysterious music)
(music fades out)
Aaru!
Good night! Ta-ta!
Mom...
Good night, Mom.
Good night.
- Good night, Dad. - Good night, Rosu. Sleep well.
(ascending footsteps)
(mysterious music)
(ominous music)
- (sudden tense tone) - (gasps)
Shh!
Mom!
Dad!
Mom! Wake up, Mom!
Mom, wake up!
- There's someone over there! - What is it?
- Who? - What?
There's someone over there!
- Where? - There!
John...
Rosu, where is he?
Go and take a look, John!
(energetic music continues)
(footsteps thudding on stairs)
(scuffles break out)
(scuffles continue)
- (sharp scream) - (loud thud)
(footsteps descending)
(tense music rises)
Mom!
Move aside!
- Let go! - No, no!
No!
- Move! - Let go of me!
- (slaps) - (screams)
- Mom! - Come here!
Dear...
Let go of me!
Leave me! Mom!
(muffled screams of Rosu)
(energetic music rises)
Rosu!
(gasps)
(dramatic music rises)
Mom! Mom!
(dramatic music continues)
(music fades out)
Dad!
(cries)
(dark music rises)
(dark music continues)
(ominous music)
(Shobha) John!
(comforting music)
Mom!
(dark music rises)
Please! Please!
(gunshot)
- (gunshot) - (gasps)
(heroic music rises)
Mom?
(Jerry) No.
That is not your mom.
(music fades down)
(glass shatters)
(baby cries)
(Roslin) Allen was their favourite child.
(Shobha) I will not let the death of my son Allen go in vain.
(music fades out)
(approaching footsteps)
Sir!
So,
let's get started.
We received a tip linking these two individuals in these photos
to multiple crimes.
Our task is to uncover the truth behind it.
John Tharakkunnel...
and his wife, Shobha John.
They run a farm in Anayirangi.
They are our suspects.
Their story began 18 years ago
in another place, far from Anayirangi.
(Police Chief) A Christian family once lived in that area.
Shobha had worked as a maid in that house for many years.
She had been there for nearly eight years
and was treated as one of the family.
Back then, John worked as a driver for a foreigner.
John and Shobha fell in love.
That family took responsibility for conducting their wedding.
Especially their only daughter, who was also Shobha's friend,
Angel.
Shobha and John had a son named Allen.
And Angel and her husband had a daughter.
Roslin.
(Angel) Baby,
we're heading to church. We'll be back in a bit, okay?
Shobha!
(Police Chief) And then one day,
Angel and her family left baby Roslin in Shobha's care
and went to church.
(speeding truck)
(crash and glass shatters)
(sombre music)
(Police Chief) That unexpected accident
marked the beginning of a new chapter in Shobha's life.
(sombre music continues)
The other three members of the family died on the spot.
Angel, who suffered a severe head injury,
was on the brink of death.
With everyone in her family gone
and her own death drawing near,
Angel made a decision for her daughter.
Lying on her deathbed, Angel wrote her will.
If she dies,
all her wealth and properties will go to her daughter, Roslin.
However, until Roslin turns 18,
the complete control over the management of those assets
will be entrusted to
Angel's most trusted friend, Shobha, who will be raising Roslin.
If anything happens to the child before she turns 18,
all the wealth will be transferred to a charitable trust chosen by Angel.
It was that very will that turned Shobha into Roslin's mother
and the custodian of all the assets.
(sinister music)
But Angel had been wrong...
about Shobha, whom she had trusted completely,
and about predicting her own death.
(sinister music continues)
The thought that the fortune that had come
into their lives for the very first time
was about to slip away from them...
was too much for Shobha and John to bear.
(muffled screaming)
(sinister music)
(screams continue)
(sinister music continues)
After that incident, Shobha and John left that place
and moved to Anayirangi, where they live now.
A new beginning.
A new life. (scoffs)
They began living there with the two children, as one family.
Poor little Roslin grew up with them there, as their younger daughter.
This Roslin...
is 17 years old now.
She still has no idea
that the people raising her are not her real parents.
If the leads we've received are credible,
after Roslin's 18th birthday,
she will be murdered.
Sir, if you don't mind...
how did we get this lead?
(Police Officer) It was second-hand information.
We're assigning you this case to verify its credibility as well, Jerry.
It was a lady.
Mrs. Mary.
(Police Chief) Mary Jeena.
(mysterious music)
Mary used to be a nun at the Anayirangi church.
She had an affair with a young man who would visit the town occasionally.
Later, she left the convent.
But she continued the affair in secret.
She came to the station the other day, saying the man had gone missing
and that she suspects he may have been killed.
That young man's name was...
Antony.
Antony...
You need to stay there and take charge of everything.
Antony stood by John in everything, like a shadow.
Years later, his relationship with Mary began,
and it brought significant changes in him.
He too began longing for a better life.
Antony believed that, once Roslin turned 18,
through the transfer of the property that would somehow take place,
he too would receive a share
of the vast wealth that Shobha and John would inherit,
and that it would change his life for the better.
That was the level of trust he had in Shobha and John.
(sinister music)
However, to Shobha and John,
their only son Allen meant everything.
All their patience, their hard work, everything they did was for him.
In front of the townspeople, they pretended
that they treated their son and daughter equally.
But Roslin was only an investment they had to look after
for the sake of themselves and their son.
But one day...
shattering all their hopes,
Allen died.
And it happened
while he was trying to save Roslin from drowning.
(melancholic music)
That single incident
threw all their plans off course.
Especially,
Shobha's plans.
Her son's death derailed Shobha's life.
She reached a point where her mind began to lose itself.
And the belief
that Roslin was responsible for Allen's death
drove her into madness.
(melancholic music continues)
They tried several kinds of therapy.
Nothing worked.
None of it could suppress the spite and hatred she carried inside.
After the girl turns 18,
on the first memorial day of their son that follows,
they are planning to kill her on that very day.
The person they approached to be an accomplice in that murder
was Antony.
(Antony) Murder?
Murder will be...
Are you absolutely sure this is how you want it?
If we are getting what we want anyway,
do we have to?
If we commit such a terrible crime,
the burden of that sin will be too much to bear.
(sinister music)
Oh!
So, are you aware of what "burden of sin" means, Antony?
Were you really weighed down by guilt all this while, Antony?
(sinister music continues)
Is this the first time that you are hearing of this, Antony?
No.
Eighteen years ago,
when we did something similar,
did you feel this so-called burden of sin and guilt then?
No.
What was the reason?
When you did it back then,
it worked out in your favour too, Antony.
Now, when there's nothing new for you to gain from it,
suddenly this unnecessary guilt starts showing up.
Now, listen to me well.
Whether it was then or now,
I have never once felt any burden of sin.
And about Angel...
Roslin's mother.
We went to the same school
and were in the same class.
Back then, it was my mother who worked as a maid in that house.
I was always better than Angel in studies.
So, to help her study and prepare her notes,
she would make me sit beside her.
With her,
in her room,
on her own bed.
She never treated me like a maid's daughter.
We were just two friends.
That was it.
Until my mother died.
After my mother passed away,
my studies ended.
I became the maid in that house.
Never mind that.
I accepted that as my fate.
But that Angel who had been so close to me until then...
My friend, Angel.
I never saw her again.
After that, she never let me sit on the bed beside her.
A maid stays a maid.
And a madam is a madam.
(sinister music continues)
And that Madam Angel
had this strange new expression and a different way of carrying herself.
I couldn't stand the sight of it.
And now Roslin...
She is slowly beginning to have that same look.
I will not let the death of my son Allen go in vain.
Without answering for his death,
no one should expect to claim any share of that wealth.
Antony...
I won't allow it.
We don't want money earned like that.
Hey, I don't actually have to do anything.
I just have to look the other way and stand with them.
They've already planned everything.
- Don't do this, Antony. - (sighs deeply)
Mary, I can't let go of everything I've waited all these years for.
If I refuse now,
they won't even give us what they already owe us.
Besides,
if we handle this wisely,
it could be a fresh start for us.
I'm going to demand a bigger share.
We have to escape from this place.
Once this is over,
we won't have anything to do with them again.
It's been two months since Antony disappeared.
There's been no word from him since.
Kavitha...
You know her, right?
Yes, sir. She is my relative.
So, your shadow work will be easy this time.
Kavitha and Shobha know each other.
So you can infiltrate through her.
Well, Shobha...
I forgot to tell you something.
I need your help.
(energetic music)
(energetic music continues)
KERALA POLICE
(Jerry) There were three things that we needed to investigate.
First, whether Mary's story was true.
The house where Shobha worked as a maid.
Where was it? Who all were living in that house?
For that, the first thing we had to find was the will.
We cross-checked all the information mentioned in it.
The place,
the house, the deceased family,
and her real mother.
Everything matched.
(energetic music continues)
(Jerry) Secondly,
Mary's lover.
That missing person case.
As soon as I located the house, I was certain
I would find the corpse if I dug deep enough.
Third,
how are they planning to murder Roslin?
We already know the date.
The death anniversary of their elder son, Allen.
But how will they do it?
What is their plan?
So,
is Shobha going to kill her with her own hands?
Shobha and her husband...
are not who we thought they were.
(Mary) Their second child
was not an accidental birth.
John...
I want another child.
(sinister music)
(music fades out)
No.
They won't kill her with their own hands.
Shobha might want to.
But John...
He's more practical.
(Jerry) If they've fooled everyone
with their goody-two-shoes act and waited this long,
they must have another plan in place.
(John) This Rose valley...
we are transferring its ownership to you, dear.
What happened? Aren't you going to hug me? (laughs)
Hi, Jerry! Come!
Sit, Jerry.
I will get the cake for you.
(Jerry) Yes, sir.
I don't know whether it was done the right way.
But the property transfer is complete.
All the wealth is in their name now.
(tense music)
(Jerry) Tomorrow is our D-day.
We might need your help.
A backup.
Sure. Just keep us informed.
(tense music rises)
(Jerry) They're planning to stage it
as a murder committed during a robbery.
A perfect staging.
Hey, it's time.
He could get here any minute now.
Before that, we need to take Roslin somewhere safe.
Okay.
Move the vehicle.
(thrilling music rises)
(thrilling music continues)
(gasps)
Jerry!
(scuffles continue)
(gunshot)
(music fades out)
(ominous music)
(energetic music rises)
(police sirens wailing)
(music fades out)
(triumphant music slowly rises)
(soft music)
(cop) Get the child into this car.
(sinister music slowly rises)
- Good night, Dad. - Good night, Rosu. Sleep well.
(dramatic music rises)
(music fades out)
Was this just a bad dream?
(mysterious music)
(music rises)