[footsteps approaching]
[Chitrabhanu] Hey, Zooni. Where are you?
The new supply of blood from upstairs has come.
[eerie music playing]
[opening theme music playing]
Sreela put our whole way of life at risk,
just so she could enjoy one night of freedom.
Signs are the same. Decapitated head, cloves of garlic,
and the mark of that witch engraved on her nose.
Those damn Cutmundus are behind this.
There is no doubt at all that Luna Luka and Biren Pal
are still out for her blood.
I'm not your ruler. I am your protector.
And that's why I've decided
that the manhole through which we go to the upper world,
will be closed from today.
Only AD and his men will be allowed to come down
but the rest of you cannot go up there.
And remember one thing.
You're all very special.
Each one of you was chosen to lead this second life.
Try and live it wisely.
[gasps]
[crying]
Maybe that virgin dentist conspired with the Cutmundus and--
No, Meera.
Roy isn't capable of this.
He's a very simple guy.
He thinks I am a normal girl.
It's possible he's just pretending, Rumi.
It could be an act.
Maybe his clinic, his chamber, the whole thing is fake.
He's just a bloody Cutmundu who took one look at your tooth, realized…
-What are you saying, David? -…what you are.
Roy would never do such a thing.
If someone like Mir Ja'far could turn on Siraj
in the Battle of Plassey…
anything is possible.
Humans can never be trusted!
I know that.
But he didn't do it.
How can you say that for sure?
[sniffles]
[exhales deeply]
Because he was with me that night.
I was the one who got him out of the clinic.
But why?
I don't know.
I thought Sreela wasn't ready yet.
She didn't even know to suck or bite someone.
I was worried she might end up killing him.
So what if he was killed?
He's just a human.
He is not one of us.
So whatever happened to Sreela could have--
Should have, should have happened to me.
My head should have been cut off, not Sreela's.
-Rumi. -No, Meera.
She was terrified of going up there.
I talked her into joining the Tigresses.
This is… This is all my fault.
We are all to blame.
Sreela was too inexperienced but…
our lust for blood made us blind.
I'm going to go up there, find them and make them pay.
[David] It's too dangerous.
Ora is right.
The conditions up there hasn't improved yet.
But conditions change, David.
And I am the one who's going to change it this time.
I owe this to Sreela.
Let her go, David.
We never got the chance to avenge the ones we lost.
Don't try to stop her.
But how am I going to go up there?
Ora sealed off the only exit we have.
There is another way…
to go up there.
THEY EXIST
[Judhajit] What are you looking for in the drawer, Kartik?
What's left off your father's dignity?
No, sir, it's nothing.
If it's nothing, then why don't you do some work?
[Kundu] A headless dead body. Can you believe that?
These early morning prank calls are getting ridiculous.
Hey, what's the discussion?
Nothing, sir. Just some drunk idiot talking nonsense.
It's nothing important.
I know you will make a great OC one day. But I am the OC now.
So let me decide what's important and what's not.
Sir, a fire broke out at Kumartoli.
So then tell them to call the fire brigade.
Sir, the eye witness said that he saw a dead body of a woman,
without a head, and it just self-combusted.
-[Judhajit] Self-combusted? [laughs] -Yeah.
[reporter] We have some breaking news.
A body was found burnt in…
The burnt corpse was found in the area.
It was found here late at night,
and the neighbourhood has been in an uproar ever since.
Were you really inside?
I swear on Ma Kali. I was inside, sir.
My grandfather Romit Pal works there making statues.
Pal? My name is also Pal. Kartik Pal.
Oh, my grandfather also makes statues of Lord Kartik.
How about that? It's such a small world.
So, Ms. Pal, think carefully for a minute and tell me whatever you saw inside.
[girl] I smelled something burning so I came running inside.
I saw her body but there was no head. Just like the Goddess Chinnamasta.
And her body was burning as if it was made up of kerosene.
So no one set it on fire? It started burning?
Yeah, on its own.
-[AD] Sugar in your tea? -No.
-Milk? -Black.
How was the body disposed off?
-Lemon. -What are you saying?
-You didn't apply garlic? -Two drops please.
Oh.
[chuckles]
-Here. -Thank you.
You still haven't told me what their current address is.
I've told you before
that when I find out where they are, the first thing I'll do
is take you there myself.
You just delivered her head to them.
And now you're trying to tell me that you don't know where they're hiding?
You really expect me to believe a single world you just said?
Belief, Luna di, is a very relative thing.
For example, I believe in Almighty God.
But you…
So now who is to say who is correct?
Right now, it would be correct to say…
This tea is excellent.
[laughs] Correct.
This Darjeeling tea is from my own tea garden in Mirik.
But I thought you were into healthcare, Mr. Adi Deb.
I'm into all kinds of care.
-So what happens now? -About?
Do I sit at home and just wait for the next member of that clan
to crawl out of hiding like that girl?
Considering the brutal way in which you dealt with that girl…
[squelching]
I don't think they're going to come out of hiding any time soon.
I did what I thought was necessary.
Hmm.
So if you could just tell me where they're currently hiding them--
Where does this come from?
Why do you feel such hatred towards them?
Well…
We all have our reasons, don't we?
Like…
What was your reason to have that girl decapitated?
Mr. Deb, why do I have this niggling feeling
that you used me?
By the way, I know where you live.
I'll send you some of my Darjeeling tea.
[upbeat music playing]
[Bishwabijoy] What?
I've already sent the full report to the police.
Yeah, they must have been Shyampukur police.
I'm from Lal Bazaar.
I need a fresh statement.
The case is quite jaundiced. The results are very confusing.
I mean, how did the body catch fire?
-What ignited it? -Can you please wipe your mouth first?
And how the hell can you eat lunch here, man?
So you think the body's self-combusted, yeah?
When did I say that?
But it's quite possible.
Could it be because she had photo-sensitive skin?
Okay. What else does the report say?
Uh, her stomach…
had no food in it.
There was only blood.
Different types of blood all mixed up together.
As if she drank blood from a lot of people.
How old do you think she was?
-My guess would be-- -Your guess?
Yeah, she's got no head.
Her body is all burnt.
There's only 50 to 60 percent of her left. All I can do is guess.
-Name? -Mine?
Well, I can't ask her, can I?
Bishwabijoy Chowdhury.
So, Chowdhury sir, take the 50 to 60 percent of her body
and send it to the Genomics Institute in Kalyani, hmm?
-For what, sir? -For Genome Sequencing.
I'll place a request from headquarters. You go ahead and send the body.
-Uh-- -Look, Chowdhury sir…
Get this done quickly.
Or your lunch will go viral, right up to Lal Bazaar headquarters.
-[thunderstorm rumbling] -[rain pattering]
[man] You took so long today.
I work inside, in case you didn't know.
Don't get mad, baby.
One second.
For you.
What's this?
This rose won't die.
Close the umbrella. It stopped raining.
Rumi.
-Doc Roy. -What are you doing here?
What do you think I'm doing here?
Um, I think you are…
here because…
I'm getting ready to replace your receptionist?
-What? -In all this time, I've seen her once.
She's never here.
Yeah, well, she left for the day.
-So I was just-- -Cooking something?
Yeah. [laughs]
I was just marinating the meat for tomorrow's episode.
I'm sorry I disturbed you.
No, no, no. Nothing like that. It's just that the…
lock outside is still broken.
So when I heard a sound, I came out to see--
How did the lock break?
Lock… Well, actually, I think someone broke in that night.
The night we went to the theatre.
Broke in?
Yeah, but it was nothing major. Everything is fine.
-Doc Roy, you can tell me what happened. -But it wasn't anything serious.
There was just some dents in a few places.
-Dents? -Yeah.
Is anything missing?
No, nothing major. Just a pen.
Actually, not just a pen.
It's a family pen. Belonged to my Grandpa,
and I think I probably misplaced it.
Doc Roy.
I think you should go to the police station
and file a report for robbery.
Ah! Police report?
Rumi, I think you're overreacting a little.
-I'm overreacting? -Yeah.
All right, don't go.
Next time, they'll put a dent in your head.
[laughing]
So you're being serious.
Uh… [stutters] Why would there be a next time?
I mean, what's this place that would keep bringing them back?
You, Doc.
You're very precious, Doc Roy.
Me?
Let the police find out who came here and why they came here.
Rumi, I don't think that's necessary.
It is necessary.
I'll do it.
Hmm.
Since you are here now then, can we go out?
Uh… [chuckles nervously]
Let's go.
Yeah, yeah, a little lemon juice.
That's enough. Give it to me.
Yeah.
Mmm.
Mind blowing. Keep them coming.
At least have one phuchka.
Tempting but no.
Oh, I'm sure you're into pani puri.
Actually my gum is still hurting.
Yeah, I completely forgot about your tooth.
If I had known you didn't want phuchkas,
I would have taken you to some other place.
I didn't know that out of all the places in the world, you would bring me here.
Why? What's wrong with…
this place?
Nikhil used to bring me here, too.
[stutters] Nikhil, who? Your husband?
So, you think I'm married?
I don't know.
-I'm guessing. -Nikhil was my boyfriend in college.
We'd come here every evening and complete to see who would eat more phuchkas.
And then, he would drop me back home.
Home? So…
Do you live around here somewhere?
Then should we leave?
Can we?
-This? -Hmm.
-This is your house? -Was.
First my life fell apart, now this house.
Seems right.
Uh, but it's clearly written trespassers are not allowed.
I have never come back even once in all these years.
Rumi, I… I don't think we, we should be here.
That's what he said.
I want you to get out of here now.
What have you done, Rumi?
So much for education and sending her to college.
Mom, I'm sorry. I never thought that he would leave me
when he found out about the pregnancy.
That boy did the right thing. Who's going to want you?
Get out of here. Get out!
Where will she go in this condition?
She should have thought about that.
[crying] Mama, I'm sorry.
Please, please I made a mistake.
A misspelt word is a mistake, not a pregnancy.
We have to take her to a decent clinic and get a proper abortion done.
You should have drowned yourself in the Hugli river
instead of coming to us.
That would have been less painful.
Chi!
Why do people have kids if they're incapable of loving them?
Um…
I guess having kids
is a basic instinct.
So because you have a basic instinct, you just have them?
Then order them around for the rest of their lives?
Where they should go, who they should meet,
who they should sleep with.
Our parents get to decide that.
That's just great.
If you look at it from their point of view, then they're right.
I mean…
So you would force your children to take up dentistry, too?
My children…
could never become dentists even if they wanted to
because by then I would have dragged my family's reputation through the mud.
The Dental Association will bar the Roys.
Come on, Doc, you're not that bad.
Come on, Rumi. You know, you've seen me naked, so.
"Naked" as in figuratively speaking.
That's what Ian said, so I just…
-Ian? -Ian, he is my best friend.
You should definitely meet him, yeah.
[chuckling]
It's getting late. I should go.
Otherwise, I'll miss the last train to Dakshineshwar.
Um… Okay, so…
Once again, I'll have to imagine where you stay or…
who you have phuchkas with.
[both laugh]
It's fun, isn't it?
I have my car. I can drop you.
Maybe next time.
[pensive Hindi song playing]
I never thought my old eyes would witness such a scene again.
To celebrate, let's have another biscuit.
You may not be afraid of old friends, but diabetes can be scary.
Who cares? We are too old to be scared.
-Is anyone else joining us? -Out of all the phone numbers I had,
five of them are no longer with us.
Two of them have moved away and the remaining two,
their numbers are out of order.
Okay, then. Let's carry on.
After so many years, a fresh kill.
Oh, boy, It was a good hunt.
[all laugh]
-Cheers. -Yes.
But this time, we have to expose them for what they are.
Everyone needs to know that this is real.
Don't be silly, Falguni.
If we set out to expose these creatures
we'll end up suffering the same fate as our poor Biren da.
By the way, where is Biren da nowadays?
Still living in his old house, probably.
Lost in his world.
But a few days ago, his son came into the library looking for a book.
You know, the Anatomy one. He is also a policeman.
You think he'll help us?
I mean, frankly, we need some young blood in this group.
I don't know about young blood,
but we all definitely need to visit a doctor.
For Jamal Bhai's cataract.
-Oh, that's right. -Falguni di's arthritis.
-[laughs] True. -Our dear Colonel's hypertension.
-And Haru da's asthma. -[laughing]
Once those monsters get their hands on our medical reports,
then…
they may suck our blood like mosquitoes,
but they'll swat us way like we are flies.
We are not 25-year-old youngsters anymore.
We can't take them on like we used to.
I agree with you, Utpal da.
The Cutmundus need…
fresh and young recruits for the fight ahead.
And I'll find them.
In the meantime, could you please do me a little favour?
[dramatic music playing]
[AD] You can leave.
Hey, stay right there. Three feet away.
I'm not wearing my shawl.
Adi babu, why would I hurt you?
After all, you're my ticket to stardom, right?
Okay. So tell me, how did everyone down there like the gift?
You managed to accomplish what no one else could.
You woke Ora from his slumber.
It was about time.
Ora has invited me to attend Sreela's last rites.
Last rites, really? For a head?
-[laughing] -Shh!
-Shh. -Softly.
Tell me.
Has Ora said anything to anyone?
He scared the shit out of everyone.
No one's going to dare to come up again.
They don't want to lose their heads, right?
Ah… I don't believe you, Amar.
You said the same thing after the Abdul Hakim incident.
But like blattodea they keep coming back up one after the another.
-Blattodea? -Cockroaches.
Cockroaches.
Who are these fools who aren't even remotely afraid of losing their heads?
Rumi.
-Number 30. -She thinks she's some kind of rebel.
She instigates everyone.
She gave Sreela the dentist address, which I then passed on to you.
But without proof, there's not much I can do.
I'll get that for you.
Rumi thinks she's better than us.
I would love to see her wings get clipped.
Hmm.
Unload the blood.
Why can't you just let me go?
It's better to die than live this kind of life.
If I had been in your place, what would you have done?
-You'd let me go? -Gladly.
And anyway,
What's so special about you?
Once I'm dead and gone…
That's it.
End of story.
But you…
and those packets of hemalin…
have kept me alive.
Only die a thousand times a day.
When the doctor first told us that you have the sickle-cell disease,
he said you would only live for another two years maybe.
-It's been 18 now, momu. -Hmm.
Yeah, 18 years.
And hopefully, a time will come when we won't have to pump
this hemalin inside you anymore.
You'll be completely cured by then.
You're completely mad.
Or a dreamer.
[sighs deeply]
I'm both, momu.
In order to keep this world between life and death turning,
one needs to be a little mad.
Yeah, I'm listening, Go on!
[Bishwabijoy] Her genome size is like of a human being.
But the number of jumping genes is actually very high.
That's why her eating habits are unlike that of a human.
That means she only drank blood, huh?
[Bishwabijoy] Just hear me out first.
Yeah. So…
due to this gene mutation,
the sun's rays cause an ext…
Means she was allergic to sunlight.
Okay. Do you know anything about her life cycle?
[Bishwabijoy] One second.
The cells in their bodies are constantly dividing.
And that's why they never age or die.
The reason for this is that they have a special gene, Oxo.
Ever since she attacked me, my appetite, thirst, sleep,
exercise,
everything's screwed. And my skin,
it's peeling off like the skin of a lychee.
Have you shown it to a doctor?
Yeah, I did, but even he doesn't know,
what's going on inside my body?
-[Badshah] Hello. -Hello, Badshah.
Yeah, I am Sub-Inspector, Kartik Pal from the Lake station.
-[Badshah] Yeah, sir. -Listen, can you meet me this evening?
[fire crackling]
[Ora] I never got to know Sreela very well.
You've been in deep slumber for so long, Ora
that you don't care about your family anymore.
I've had to take on the added responsibility of watching over them.
It is not my job to watch over them, AD.
But to keep them hidden from hateful eyes.
And you plan to do that by sleeping all the time?
Hmm?
You know very well that it's necessary for me to hibernate
if a blood supply stops like it did during the emergency in the '70s.
So you'll send your clan members up there again to get blood?
Control your comrades, Ora.
I worry so much about all of them.
You, and worry?
You're just here for her blood, AD.
[scoffs]
Sometimes I wonder if there's any difference between you and us.
The difference, dear Ora, is
I make sure your stock downstairs is always full.
And in return, the blood I ask for is always in short supply.
And I am not running a charity here, you know.
I shall see you.
And don't forget, Ora…
how and when
this whole story began.
When it all began, I was right here.
You were not.
[laughing]
[continues laughing]
[Judhajit] You aren't bothering, madam, are you, Kundu?
No, sir. She's here to file a complaint.
Madam, why only one complaint? You can file a 100 complaints.
This is why we come to work.
Just tell us what you want. It'll be done.
-You? -Well--
What are you doing here?
I didn't know you worked here.
Do you know her?
Does this have do with that party?
No, I came here for another reason.
Uh, Kartik…
Kundu is handling madam's complaint.
Madam, you can tell him.
Go on. Tell him. But first tell him your name.
Rumi.
So tell us what happened, Rumi madam.
So, actually, the robbery took place in my boyfriend's clinic,
and the CCTV footage shows the robbers but we have no idea who they are.
So I was wondering if someone could come with me, see the footage,
take finger prints and help identify them, you know.
-Where is this clinic? -It's close by.
Two buildings after Ahindra Mancha.
There's no need to worry, madam.
-I'll come in the morning and check. -Morning's not possible.
I was hoping someone could come with me right now.
You know, my boyfriend, he's really worried.
Worried? Kundu, go with her. It's just five minutes.
Sir, I'm going for my cousin son's naming ceremony,
-You're also coming, right? -Right, right.
-Kartik, you go. Go with her. -Why him?
No. I mean, he must be very busy, right?
[laughs] Amazing.
Even you figured out how useless he is.
Aye, Kartik. This is a wake-up call.
Don't worry, madam. He'll handle it.
Yeah, I'm sure. Thank you.
Take the car and treat madam to some tea on the way.
Not your kind of tea.
[mutters under breath] Fucking asshole.
So Rumi mam,
you keep a weekly fast for your boyfriend.
You come here and report a robbery on his behalf.
Do you pack his lunch box for him, too?
I can't tell if this is jealousy or judgement.
You tell me, is this love or some kind of prison?
Being modern and independent doesn't mean
I can't do something for the person I am in a relationship with.
-I meant control. -Before bracketing women
into these stereotypes,
why don't you take a good look in the mirror
to see what kind of man is looking back?
This is a wake-up call, Kartik.
So you were joking?
You got me there.
Well, actually, the thing is, all my life,
I have watched my mother following my father around all the time.
And my dear father never looked at her even once.
He was always lost in his own world.
And then one day, the poor woman killed herself.
And that's why when I see such couples
where one person does everything for the other one,
it pisses me off.
I can't stand such relationships.
That's what I see in my mirror.
If that's the case, then I have to congratulate you.
Your girlfriends must feel very lucky to have you.
Girlfriends?
What makes you think I'm not a married man?
No marks of domestication, my lord.
Good point.
But girlfriends?
You think I have more than one?
It's your vibe.
I mean, rugged, unshaven look,
leather jacket with a bottle of rum.
I'm pretty sure you have one hidden in every corner of Kolkata.
Oh, come on.
Looks like the guys you know don't make you happy.
And you're quick to judge the ones you don't know, right?
I want justice, my lord.
You mean, my lady?
[cheerful music playing]
Your boyfriend is a dentist? You didn't tell me that.
I did say he's a doctor.
He is not a doctor. He is substitute for a toothpaste, madam.
Come on, my lady.
Police?
[Rumi] He's here for the break in.
-But the doctor never filed a report-- -Where is he?
I'll go get him.
I'll just go and check the CCTV footage.
Oh, yeah. It's on this computer.
Yeah.
Rumi.
Doc Roy.
What's happening here?
This is inspector Kartik Pal.
-Sub-Inspector. -From the Lake station.
And you're her dentist boyfriend?
Boyfriend? Boyfriend?
He's here to investigate the break in from that night.
Investigate?
Why, why? [stutters]
One sec, Rumi, could I just speak to you alone for two minutes? Please?
Excuse me.
Oh, could you please shut the door?
Rumi, what are you doing?
What am I doing?
If my Baba finds out the police were here--
Why tell your father that the police were here?
Not… Not me. The receptionist over there.
She gives my Baba an hourly report every day.
So tell her not to include this in her report.
But why call the police at all, Rumi?
I mean, I told it wasn't necessary and then you had to--
-I'm not disturbing you, am I? -Not at all.
Please, come in.
I've put the CCTV footage on my pen drive. I'll go through it by tomorrow.
Okay.
But CCTV footage, why?
Whoa!
There are no cameras here, right?
You'll have to tell me what happened here.
Me? How am I supposed to know? What I…
But your receptionist told me that there were a few things
missing from around here.
Missing? No, no. There's nothing missing.
If nothing's missing, then how can this be a robbery?
-That would make it trespassing. -Sub-Inspector, all is normal.
Yeah, there's a pen missing.
Pen?
[Kartik laughs]
Sounds like an educated robber.
[chuckles]
-[grunts] -Hey, careful.
[groans]
So, Mr. Dentist.
Do you just break teeth or can you fix things too?
Excuse me?
I cut my foot and it's showing no signs of healing.
Could you do something or is the mouth your only area of expertise?
Hmm. Show me. Hey, you…
That's my desk.
-Check this out. -[Roy] Blood.
Blood.
It's quite a deep cut. How did you get this?
It's a very strange story.
You know, the party that happened at Chinatown?
You also went for it.
How did you know that I went to the party at Chinatown?
-She told me. -How does she know?
What happened at the party?
Remember the man who was attacked?
Believe it or not, his attacker's long tooth caused this.
It went through my shoe and pierced my foot.
A cut like this cannot be caused by a tooth.
This was no ordinary tooth. I wish I had it with me.
I would have shown it to you.
And the poor guy who got attacked, I…
Fuck, I had to meet him.
-Hello. Badshah. How are you, bro? -[Badshah] Hello.
[Badshah] I checked myself into Chittaranjan Hospital.
Okay, very good.
Do one thing. Give me your room number.
-[Badshah] Room 302. -Okay.
Now get some rest.
I'll just give my dad his medicines and be there in an hour, okay?
-[Badshah] Okay. -Okay.
That's the victim I was talking about.
His condition is so bad that he's admitted himself into Chittaranjan Hospital.
-Sounds scary, -Yeah, it's very scary.
That's an ointment and some antibiotics for you.
-Yeah. -Take it regularly or…
go to a real doctor.
[chuckles] Thank you.
Rumi, I'll check the CCTV footage and get back to you tomorrow, okay?
Bye.
[loud groaning]
[groaning]
[continues groaning]
Hey, Badshah. Hey, hero.
Hey, did you just… Huh?
-[snarls] -Hey!
[intense music playing]
[growling]
[groans]
[groaning]
[closing theme music playing]
[pensive Hindi song playing]