Black Squad – Episode 64: "Dead Letters"
(The Architect turns the past into a weapon)
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[Opening Scene – Crime Branch HQ, Early Morning]
Mail arrives. A strange brown envelope sits atop the usual files.
No address. No return name. Just a wax seal with a strange sigil:
A hand holding a mirror.
Murshad opens it slowly. Inside:
A single photo: A 14-year-old boy lying in an alley, eyes open, lifeless.
A note typed on an old typewriter:
"You never closed this file. You just buried it."
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[Scene 2 – Conference Room]
The team looks stunned.
Zoya (reading case ID):
"This was… 4 years ago. He was caught in a crossfire during a gang bust. We never found who pulled the trigger."
Imran (haunted):
"Qazi kept that file open. Till the day he died."
Murshad pulls up the archived file. The name of the boy:
Samir Qureshi.
Arjun:
"Why this kid now?"
Murshad:
"Because this case broke our belief. And the Architect wants to finish what guilt started."
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[Flashback – Episode 10 Unseen Case Files]
The gang bust from years ago. Screams. Bullet rain.
The squad raids a drug factory. A child screams in the chaos.
Gunfire.
A single shot—no one knows where it came from.
Samir dies.
Qazi (flashback):
"We fight evil, but tonight... it looked a lot like us."
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[Scene 3 – Present Day]
The Architect leaves a voice message on an old police frequency.
Architect (distorted voice):
"Guilt is a parasite, Murshad. You buried the case… but the rot stayed."
"Let me help. Tonight, I'll show you what it feels like to relive that night. Same block. Same hour. New child."
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[Scene 4 – Racing the Clock]
The team scrambles to retrace every detail from that past raid:
Layout of the old block
Surviving witnesses
Old gang members now free
They trace a name: Majid Iqbal — the same gang's ex-leader, now released last month.
Arjun:
"What if the Architect's working with him? Or worse… was part of that gang?"
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[Scene 5 – Action: The Return to Hell]
The squad raids the exact same building from years ago — now empty, derelict.
Suddenly, voices echo — a live stream begins on multiple screens inside the structure.
A boy is shown tied to a chair, blindfolded.
Time ticking on screen: 00:20:00
Architect (on-screen):
"Let's see if guilt sharpens your aim or blinds it."
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[Scene 6 – Chaos and Ghosts]
The squad splits:
Zoya disarms motion-triggered traps
Arjun handles a rooftop sniper trying to recreate the crossfire
Imran locates the hidden room where the boy is kept
Murshad finds a wall covered in past Black Squad case photos — some defaced
A trap triggers gas — and hallucinations start.
Murshad sees visions of Qazi. Samir. Himself, years younger.
Qazi (vision):
"Don't chase ghosts. Lead your men."
Murshad snaps out of it.
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[Scene 7 – The Save]
Imran busts the door down — boy rescued just in time.
Arjun shoots the sniper mid-aim.
Zoya:
"Trap neutralized."
But one last screen lights up:
Architect:
"Bravo. You saved him. Too bad about the next letter…"
Cut to:
A new envelope already on Qazi's old desk.
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[Final Scene – Black Squad HQ, Late Night]
Murshad holds Samir's file. He closes it. Finally.
But beside him lies the unopened envelope — marked:
"Case #17: Rafiqa – The Forgotten Mother."
Murshad (to himself):
"We close the past… or it closes us."