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

EPISODE 5: "Relationship anxiety syndrome"

Anokhi 's father once told her that where he works, hundreds of stars land every day. Anokhi thinks, "That's where I met him. A man with an arm and a hand that can't feel pain." She wonders if that's why he's such a self-imposed loner and prefers not to be noticed.

She wonders whether his arm has been that way since birth or if there was an accident, and she promises Shaurya that she won't tell anyone his secret.
She offers to eat lunch with him, but he declines, then tells her that they're transferring from Terminal One today.

She assumes she's done something wrong like the last time she was transferred, so she demands an explanation from Kitty , but she just says that she doesn't have to come with the rest of them if she doesn't want.

When she realizes that the transfer includes Manager Alok and Shaurya, Anokhi snaps at Shaurya for not telling her and letting her get so scared.

She quickly packs, happy now that she's being taken along with the others.

A woman waits impatiently at baggage claim for her luggage, and she's embarrassed to see it's been tagged for inspection due to its contents exceeding the duty-free allowance.

Anokhi is a little awestruck when they arrive at Terminal Two, which is huge and beautiful. Shaurya sees her looking around, but instead of getting annoyed, he takes another look too. Anokhi giggles at Shaurya's adorably befuddled expression when he's followed by a cleaning robot.

The Terminal Two office is huge and impressive, but Shaurya barely notices - he's staring at Yash with a frown on his face. Anokhi is horrified to see Yash, who gave her a harsh dressing-down a year ago, then gave her a two-month salary deduction and threatened to fire her if she caused any more incidents.

During introductions, Shaurya only gives Yash the tiniest of nods then asks where his desk is, and Yash smiles to himself like he knows what that's about.

Manager Alok complains about how rude Shaurya is, then notices that Anokhi is missing. Ha, she's hiding from Yash, but she's found by her former boss, Team Leader Tez.

She dumps her entire desk's contents on the floor as she stands, causing everyone in the office to look over at her.

So much for keeping on the down-low.

Shaurya thinks about the other night, when he'd walked home and found Kitty waiting for him. She'd asked why he wasn't answering his phone, and if he planned to cut all ties now that he'd given notice. Shaurya had answered, "I don't want to live trapped in people's misperceptions of me. I want to be a nobody. That's how I want to live."

Kitty had quipped that he's too handsome for that, and had told him about the upcoming transfer to Terminal Two. She'd said that he'd be able to meet the person he's curious about... Yash Sabherwal.

The name triggers a quick flashback of a voice yelling "Big brother! Brooothherrr!" and someone on a scooter crashing head-on into a truck.

Shaurya had taken Kitty 's advice and come to work, but he keeps staring at his hand, then at Yash.
Anokhi interrupts his musings to ask for a moment, and she tells him frantically that between Yash and Team Leader Tez both working here, she's dead meat.

She explains that Yash gave her the salary reduction, and that Team Leader Tez hates her because she's a woman and is mean to his staff.
Then a voice behind her intones, "I can hear you."

LOL.

Whoops, it's Team Leader Tez. He tsks that only a woman would be so clumsy as to talk loudly behind someone's back, and Anokhi is all, "See?"
Team Leader Ramesh holds a meeting to introduce all the managers to each other. Kitty and Yash get to officially meet Team Leader Tez, and Team Leader Makkhan from Commercial Facility Services.

Kitty and Makkhan clearly know each other, but their relationship isn't good based on the way they immediately start sniping at one another (about Kitty 's supposed wedding and Makkhan's supposed divorce).

The new manager for Security is a bit late, and Kitty 's eyes go wide when she sees that Team Leader Vicky is also transferring from Terminal One. He flirts outrageously with Makkhan, but he's cool towards Yash.

He follows Kitty out of the meeting to ask why she's in such a bad mood, and she asks why he followed her to Terminal Two.

She tells him to go back to Terminal One, but he says vaguely that he can't. Kitty stomps back to her desk, thinking about how Shaurya confessed that Team Leader Vicky's interest in him makes him uncomfortable.
She'd reassured him that the move to Terminal Two would put him out of Team Leader Vicky's reach.

Meanwhile, Shaurya is sent to Customs, and on the way he runs across Anokhi on the phone with her friend Ahir, complaining about the new job and how all of the higher-ups hate her.

When Ahir doesn't say what she wants to hear, she tells him that she needs to hear "It's okay" and "You're doing great," because she's doing her best, but nobody ever says that to her.

Ahir says it's okay, but he adds affectionately that she's a troublemaker. He reminds her that things get worse when she's upset, and tells her to cheer up and get back to work.

When she hangs up, Shaurya approaches her, and she heads to Customs with him.
On the way, he advises her to stop worrying about what she wants to hear, and start getting rid of what she doesn't want to hear, like Team Leader Tez's sexist comments.

Anokhi argues that as an ordinary employee, she could get in trouble for telling a supervisor to stop saying such things, but Shaurya asks how she knows if she's never tried.

The lady whose luggage was marked for having too much undeclared merchandise takes her bags into the ladies' room to yank off the stickers.
She complains to security guard Reema, thinking she's a civilian, and Reema calls for Security to come check this out.

While rounding up abandoned carts, Anokhi hears the two arguing ("Do you know who my dad is?"
"If your dad is such a big shot, then you should be able to afford the taxes on the stuff you bought.") and she goes in to try to calm them down. They ignore her and the argument gets physical, ending with Reema getting bitten on the arm.

Reema lets go of the passenger and Anokhi grabs her around the waist, trying to stop her from dropping the customs stickers in the toilet.
The passenger is successful, then turns and slaps Anokhi across the face.

Reema grabs her again, puts her in a headlock, flips her to the ground, and holds her there until Security arrives.

Shaurya grows guarded when he runs across Team Leader Vicky walking with security guard Anmol.
Team Leader Vicky grins to know that they're both working in Terminal Two and holds out a hand to shake, but Shaurya just stares and his own right hand twitches involuntarily.

Finally he says that his hands are dirty from handling carts, and leaves without shaking.

He heads back to the office and goes straight to Kitty . She says that she didn't know Team Leader Vicky was being transferred to Terminal Two, and when Shaurya tries to quit, she tells him that everyone faces difficulties. He argues that he's different, but Kitty says that he can't run away forever.

She asks him not to do anything yet, and let her deal with Team Leader Vicky.

Suddenly they're distracted by Makkhan screaming Kitty's name.