Scribbled Stories (𝔼𝕂 𝕃𝔸𝔻𝕂𝕀 ⓑⓗⓔⓔⓖⓘ ⓑⓗⓐⓐⓖⓘ ⓢⓘ)

EPISODE 2 RECAP

Full of righteous indignation, Anokhi confronts Kitty about appointing Shaurya as her mentor, when technically she's the Senior.
Kitty points out that Shaurya is Anokhi 's Senior in the Passenger Services department, but Anokhi just accuses her of looking down on her because her previous team had her transferred.

Kitty keeps her cool, and tells Anokhi that if she wants to talk about pride, then she should do her work correctly, be on time, and stop making excuses.

Ouch.

She says that she doesn't care about Anokhi's past, she cares about competence, and orders her to stop talking about seniority.
Anokhi scurries away as fast as possible, back to where Ahir is waiting to gloat that he told her not to confront Kitty.

He agrees with Anokhi that she's lost Kitty 's favor, ha.
She gets a call from Shaurya on her walkie-talkie to come to the third floor, where a child was reported missing.

She hesitates before answering, then decides that finding the child is the perfect way to end her disastrous day on a high note.
She locates Shaurya where he's taking notes on the aunt's missing son.

She's frustrated when she finds out the "child" is in his thirties, but Shaurya says that the man forgot his schizophrenia medicaton.
He tells Anokhi to wait with the auntie while he talks to the security team, but Anokhi wants to go with him.

They bicker over who has seniority, the one who's worked there longer or the one who's the mentor.
Anokhi accuses Shaurya of giving her all the unseen jobs and taking the shiny jobs for himself, and he actually smiles when she says they should work together and storms off with her heels clicking in indignation.

Down in Security, the guard's wand goes off when he scans Shaurya's right arm, and Anokhi notices that Shaurya shows the guard something in his wallet.

He tells her to stay close for her own safety, and when she asks sarcastically if he's worried about her, he says he's just being a mentor.
He adds that he doesn't want to be in the spotlight because of her, and that he prefers to get by without being noticed.

Something prompts Anokhi to ask if they've met before their encounter this morning. Shaurya says he doesn't remember and asks if she's hitting on him, making her scoff and walk away, but the way he watches her go seems to suggest that he does know something.

When the airport employees learn that the missing "child" is a schizophrenic adult off his medication, they organize a serious effort to locate him.
They have difficulty as his mother said he's wearing a yellow shirt, but he has on a dark jacket over it, so security doesn't notice him even when they're looking right at him.

Meanwhile, Ahir referees a face-off between two airlines, the one whose plane landed early and one whose gate they want to borrow to allow the early passengers to disembark.

Ahir calls Manager Ramesh and puts him on speakerphone, but everything he suggests offends one side or the other, so he finally tells them to come to an agreement or he'll make their disagreement public.

Shaurya and Anokhi carefully search the terminal for the missing man, but it's not until Shaurya is checking the restrooms that Anokhi sees a man in a yellow shirt.
She disobeys his order not to split up and chases the man, unaware that she's following the wrong passenger.

The missing passenger is actually very near to Ahir and his conflict, growing anxious and paranoid without his medication.
Finally the airline with the gate relents, allowing the frustrated passengers to use their gate. The missing passenger notices that the plane at the gate isn't his flight, so he asks someone why the planes changed.

The airport employee calmly explains that it's just temporary, but the passenger's paranoia takes over and he screams that they can't do that.

Anokhi's pursuit of the wrong person has brought her near enough that she witnesses the altercation, and Kitty sees her, and the swiftly deteriorating passenger, on the security cameras.

Kitty notices that the passenger is wearing a yellow shirt under his jacket and calls everyone to the area. She sends Shaurya to find Anokhi when they realize she turned off her walkie-talkie, so he tries calling her on her cell, and she answers without speaking so that he can hear the passenger beating the airline employee with his bag.

Shaurya breaks into a run, as Anokhi confronts the dangerous passenger and tells him his mother is waiting for him. He accuses her of being a police officer here to arrest him and lock him up again, and he picks up a barrier pole and brandishes it at her.

Despite her pleas to calm down, he screams and swings the pole...Inches before it lands, Shaurya swoops out of nowhere, swings Anokhi out of the way, and holds up his arm to take the blow.
It should break his arm, but instead the pole bends on impact.

Looking up at him, Anokhi remembers why he looks familiar - on the day of her job interview a year ago, a car had flipped and hurtled through the air towards her, but Shaurya had pulled her to safety just like this.

Moving slowly, Shaurya lets go of Anokhi and holds out a bottle of medication to the passenger, saying softly that his mother is waiting for him.
The passenger drops the warped pole and Shaurya kicks it out of sight as Kitty runs up, but Anokhi already got a good look at it.

She sits at an airport cafe, thinking about the strange things she's seen Shaurya do, like pull her out of harm's way much too fast, stop a weapon with his bare arm, and attract her compass like a magnet.

She thinks about how her father said there's no such thing as coincidence, and that everything happens for a reason.

As Shaurya takes the passenger back to his grateful mother, a man disembarks from the early plane. Although Shaurya seems stunned by the sight of him, he walks right past Shaurya without even looking at him.

At the same time, security shows Kitty the video of Shaurya saving Anokhi , and how he stopped the metal pole with his arm.
Anokhi goes looking for the bent pole, but maintenance has already taken it to the trash.

She runs into Shaurya and calls out to him when he tries to ignore her, saying again, "We've met before, haven't we?"
He just says accusingly that he told her not to go off alone and cause trouble, because he wants to live a quiet life.

He says he doesn't remember her because they've never met, but something about his statement rings untrue. He walks away, and Anokhi thinks that they did meet that day, when he'd saved her from being crushed by the car flying towards her.
He'd pulled her out of the way, but the car had nearly fallen on them both.

Just like today, he'd put up one arm and held the car off them, as if it weighed no more than a feather.

Back at his desk, Shaurya notices blood on his cuff. He reaches for a tissue and a paper clip on his desk jumps up, sticking to his arm. Luckily, nobody notices, and he quickly removes it and goes back to work.

Watching the rain, Anokhi thinks, "It was you. I'm sure it was you."