Black Squad – Episode 71
Title: "Operation Iron Road"
[COLD OPEN – EXT. MUMBAI CENTRAL BUS TERMINAL – 6:30 AM]
A crowded, buzzing morning. Buses honk. Passengers rush. A state transport bus prepares for departure to Pune. Inside, we get quick flashes of passengers —
A couple on vacation,
Two schoolboys with lunchboxes,
An old man reading a newspaper,
A woman in a burqa holding a handbag close,
And one quiet man in a cap—alert, scanning. He's the undercover DRDO logistics officer, name classified.
The bus starts. Outside, a van pulls out silently behind it.
[CUT TO – INT. BUS – LATER]
The road winds through outskirts. After passing Panvel, three men in passenger seats stand up. The fourth is the bus driver, who turns and locks the doors.
HIJACKER #1 (shouting):
"This bus is now under our control. Sit down. No one moves, no one dies."
One of them smashes the cameras. Another places a jammer near the windshield. The bus goes off-route, veering into the Sahyadri forest stretch.
[TITLE SEQUENCE – BLACK SQUAD]
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ACT 1: HIJACK
[INT. NEWSROOM – 10:45 AM]
Major breaking news. A video message is aired:
Four masked men with guns stand in front of the terrified passengers.
MASKED MAN:
"You have six hours. Release our comrades from Mumbai Central Jail. Or every one of these passengers will die. First execution at 3 PM."
Nationwide panic. Media chaos. The Maharashtra ATS fails to track the bus. No digital signal. CM calls New Delhi.
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ACT 2: BLACK SQUAD REBORN
[INT. MINISTRY OF DEFENCE HQ – DELHI – WAR ROOM]
Central Intelligence reveals the DRDO officer's presence. The stakes are now national security.
A decision is made:
"Reactivate Black Squad. Effective immediately."
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[INT. BLACK SQUAD HQ – MUMBAI – 12:30 PM]
The HQ is silent, dusty — unused since A.C.P. Qazi and DCP Shamsher Singh were lost. But the lights come on.
Enter: Inspector Imran Wani.
Now in charge. Calm, methodical, carrying the emotional weight of Qazi's loss but determined.
Behind him walks in Arjun Rathore — eyes fierce, impatient, carrying his old gear bag.
ARJUN:
"Back in hell, huh?"
IMRAN:
"Only this time, it's ours."
They are joined by:
SI Reet Kaur – brilliant with surveillance, sarcastic, focused.
SI Danish Ali – silent sniper, loyal, excellent in field tactics.
Imran opens a secured file: OPERATION IRON ROAD.
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ACT 3: THE INVESTIGATION
[INT. BLACK SQUAD HQ – OPS ROOM]
Imran traces signal patterns before the GPS cut off. He uses triangulation from metro tower lags to guess a probable location near Karnala Fort, 70 km from the last known point.
Reet hijacks a feed from a wildlife drone network operating in Karnala Bird Sanctuary. One feed catches a dust trail near an old abandoned watchtower.
Meanwhile, Arjun visits Thakur Bhai, a jailed arms dealer. Uses aggressive interrogation:
ARJUN (pressing his face into bars):
"You sold jammers to someone last week. Name. Or I'll let the people think you're one of them."
Thakur reveals the buyer: a Dubai-based private militia, known for targeting Indian defense convoys abroad.
Imran cross-checks — the prisoner exchange is a decoy. The real aim: extract the DRDO officer and the encrypted satellite defense chip he's transporting.
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ACT 4: THE RAID – KARNALA FORT
[EXT. KARNALA FOREST – 4:15 PM]
Black Squad moves silently through dense forest.
Danish goes into sniper position on a ridge.
Reet uses a portable scanner to detect the jammer frequencies.
Imran finds the explosives rigged beneath the bus — recognizes the wiring from a similar case he solved with Qazi.
ARJUN:
"You good?"
IMRAN:
"I'm doing it Qazi's way."
[INT. WATCHTOWER RUINS – SAME TIME]
Inside, hostages are tied. The DRDO officer is separated — tortured.
The mercenary leader is ex-Indian Army, dishonorably discharged.
Merc Leader:
"Your country left me behind. Now I'll sell it."
Black Squad STRIKES.
Danish takes out outer guards.
Arjun goes full assault, disarms two mercs, fights one hand-to-hand.
Reet neutralizes the jammers.
Imran carefully disables the bombs.
One slips through and tries to shoot a child hostage — Arjun takes the bullet in the arm but saves the kid.
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ACT 5: AFTERMATH
[EXT. FOREST ROAD – 6:10 PM]
All passengers safe. DRDO officer secured. Chip recovered.
Media arrives, but MOD orders full blackout. The mercs are taken to a black site.
[INT. BLACK SQUAD HQ – NIGHT]
Imran places a photo of A.C.P. Qazi and DCP Shamsher Singh on the wall. Under it: "For Service Beyond Duty."
A Ministry of Defence officer arrives with a folder.
MOD OFFICER:
"You're official now. National jurisdiction. Permanent task force. Welcome back, Black Squad."
Arjun, bruised and bloodied, looks at the badge left behind by Qazi.
ARJUN (softly):
"Hope you're watching, sir."
FADE OUT.
BLACK SCREEN TEXT:
Black Squad is back.
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Great — let's continue and conclude the Phantom Caller arc in Episode 73, giving the storyline a powerful ending while keeping it self-contained. Here's the full detailed episode:
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Black Squad – Episode 73
Title: "Shadow Protocol"
(Conclusion of the Phantom arc — mystery, betrayal, and action)
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[COLD OPEN – INT. BLACK SQUAD HQ – NIGHT]
Phantom (Viraj Rana) sits cuffed in the interrogation room. Bloodied but smirking. A constant audio buzz plays in the background — a subtle frequency jamming their recording devices.
IMRAN WANI stares at him from across the table.
IMRAN:
"Who is the publisher?"
PHANTOM:
"The one printing stories you don't want told. He's already inside."
Suddenly, Phantom starts convulsing — Reet rushes in. A capsule embedded in his molar triggered remotely.
PHANTOM (gasping):
"Too late."
He dies on the spot.
Cut to black.
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ACT 1: THE INTERNAL MOLE
Imran suspects Phantom wasn't working alone. His access to secure data, especially the DRDO officer's movement from Episode 71, had to come from inside the system.
They pull all logs of military and intelligence access around the times of the past murders. Reet runs a cross-check with Phantom's external login patterns.
One name overlaps every time:
Col. Ashwin Rao — current Joint Secretary of Defence Cyber Command, formerly a close aide to Shamsher Singh.
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ACT 2: THE TRUTH BLEEDS OUT
Reet finds that Ashwin Rao used a hidden protocol – "Shadow Access" – a backdoor into defense and civilian records, allowing Phantom to:
Identify whistleblowers
Monitor Black Squad's reactivation
Remotely kill (as seen with the molar capsule)
Arjun:
"So this bastard was Phantom's handler?"
Imran:
"No. He was the real Phantom. Rana was just the call."
The real Phantom… was a ghost in uniform.
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ACT 3: INFILTRATION
They locate Rao at a private island villa off the Konkan coast, preparing to flee with forged documents and $20 million in crypto.
MOD refuses to send backup, fearing embarrassment. Imran makes a bold call:
"We're Black Squad. We don't need permission to finish what we started."
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ACT 4: FINAL MISSION – THE RAID
Black Squad infiltrates by night.
Danish swims in via underwater stealth to disable perimeter alarms.
Reet hacks the island's solar grid, blacking out power for 7 minutes.
Arjun and Imran go in through the east wall — the most vulnerable access point.
Inside the villa, Ashwin Rao sits calmly, waiting with armed guards. He expected them.
ASHWIN RAO:
"You want justice. I made profit. One of us is a fool."
A violent shootout follows:
Danish snipes two guards from a tower.
Arjun goes hand-to-hand with Rao's bodyguard, barely surviving.
Reet remotely closes escape doors, locking Rao inside.
Imran confronts Rao directly.
Rao reaches for a gun — Imran doesn't hesitate.
IMRAN (shooting him):
"This story ends with your silence."
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ACT 5: PEACE AFTER THE NOISE
Dawn. Mumbai.
News quietly reports Ashwin Rao's "suicide." The government buries the story to avoid international scandal.
Inside HQ, Imran, Arjun, Reet, and Danish sit together. No cheers. Just quiet.
REED:
"You think they'll ever know what we did?"
ARJUN:
"We know. And we're not done yet."
IMRAN (looking at Qazi and Shamsher's photo):
"We just closed a page. But the book's still wide open."
Final shot: A list on the screen — new encrypted names begin to appear under "Unfinished Business."
BLACK SCREEN:
"CASE CLOSED."