EPISODE 20 RECAP

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When Anmol finds Reema at her pottery class — using his trusty super-sensory Reema Tracking Beacon, I'm sure — things start out promising for the couple

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When Anmol finds Reema at her pottery class — using his trusty super-sensory Reema Tracking Beacon, I'm sure — things start out promising for the couple. He looks at her encouragingly as she works on her project, and she smiles bashfully at his attention......until Anmol looks over at the ceramic puzzle piece on the desk, that is. Instantly recognizing it, he asks urgently where it came from.

Reema answers that it belongs to her pottery teacher, which sends Anmol rushing out in a blaze of (over)emotion.

From his shocked reaction, Reema puts the (puzzle) pieces together, and we now confirm that the girl he'd been talking about in the last episode was in fact Kanchan, not Reema (sorry, Soeulmaters). (Refresher: He'd mumbled about in his sleep that he'd retreated because he was afraid he would hurt her.)

After sending her brother away, Anokhi wanders the streets with her sad piece of luggage. She pulls out her phone to call someone — perhaps Ahir, or maybe Reema — but gets no answer.

Anokhi tries to stake out a spot for herself in the subway station, but she's chased off by a drunken, belligerent homeless man.

At home, Kitty thinks back to how her mother interfered in her life, in much the same way she's interfering in Shaurya's now. Back before Kitty's marriage, Madam Sabherwal had attempted to pay off Kitty's boyfriend, insisting that someone of Kitty's standing needs to marry an elite type.

Kitty had angrily confronted her mother, saying that all she had ever wanted was a love like the one she had with him — nobody else can replace him. Madam Sabherwal had sneered that risking her status for love is a foolish gamble. "Do that in your next life."

Commiserating with Anokhi's situation, Kitty calls her... which is a good thing, because this occurs just as Anokhi collapses in the street from exhaustion. Worried passers-by crowd around her, and one woman answers Anokhi's phone.

When Anokhi awakens, she's in a guest room at the Sabherwal Mansion. Kitty greets her with affection and cheeriness, but there's a firmness to her tone as she reminds Anokhi that she'd told her to call if she was ever in trouble. She announces that Anokhi is her guest now, and will stay in this house until she's able to find a place to go.

Anokhi protests — it's too much of an imposition — so Kitty busts out the "But you'll hurt my feelings if you refuse" tactic, reminding Anokhi that she'd promised to think of her as a big sister, regardless of Shaurya.

Besides, Mommie Dearest is out of the country right now.

It IS a solution to her problems, so Anokhi agrees reluctantly, under one condition — she wants to earn her keep. She asks to be put to work.

You know, the French maid outfits are ridiculous, but I kinda like them. More to the point, I like how they, unlike the school uniforms, are not fetishized sex-kitten costumes. Sure they're funny-looking, but in a frilly, Pilgrim-girl way, not a skimpy lad-mag way.

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