BLACK SQUAD — EPISODE 116: THE SEALED ROOM
Genre: Suspense Thriller / Investigation / Detection
Setting: Mumbai, Present Day
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[OPENING SCENE]
INT. MUMBAI - ABANDONED COLONIAL BUNGALOW - NIGHT
An old colonial-era bungalow stands under a moonlit sky. Its windows shuttered, paint peeling, forgotten by time. Two beat constables shine flashlights across the front yard.
CONSTABLE 1 Sir, we got a 911 call… someone screamed inside.
They approach the door. It's bolted. No sign of forced entry.
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[TITLE SEQUENCE] BLACK SQUAD: EPISODE 116 — THE SEALED ROOM
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[SCENE 2]
INT. BLACK SQUAD HEADQUARTERS - NIGHT
ACP Sulaiman Qazi, aged, battle-worn, reads a case file. Senior Inspector Imran Wani paces. Arjun Rathore checks his weapon. New team members Inspector Sachin and Sub Inspector Shreya exchange uneasy glances.
ACP SULAIMAN QAZI An abandoned house. A body inside a room… doors locked, windows sealed. No sign of entry or exit.
IMRAN Classic locked-room murder.
ARJUN If it's murder.
SULAIMAN We'll find out. Squad — move out.
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[SCENE 3]
INT. ABANDONED BUNGALOW - NIGHT
Flashlights slice through the darkness. A constable leads them to the first floor.
CONSTABLE We didn't open anything, sir. As you ordered.
A wooden door, padlocked from the inside. Through a crack: a figure slumped on the floor.
IMRAN Break it.
Arjun kicks it open.
Inside: a man, dead. No wounds. No weapon. No blood. One window, bolted shut. A diary on a nearby table.
SHREYA How the hell…?
SULAIMAN Search the room. No one leaves till we know how he died.
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[SCENE 4]
INT. SEALED ROOM - NIGHT
Dr. R.P. Gupta arrives with a forensic kit.
DR. R.P. GUPTA No visible injury. Possible asphyxiation. Need the lab to be sure.
Imran lifts the diary. Pages filled with ramblings.
"They watch from the walls… voices whispering…"
IMRAN Mental trauma? Or someone drove him mad.
Arjun inspects the window. No tampering.
ARJUN This room was sealed. No one in, no one out.
SACHIN Unless the killer's still here.
SHREYA Not possible, sir. We checked the whole house.
SULAIMAN We'll re-check. Every inch.
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[SCENE 5]
INT. BLACK SQUAD HQ - NIGHT
Imran and Shreya scan CCTV footage from the street. One frame, 3 hours before — a figure in a long coat.
SHREYA Zoom in.
A hooded face. Unidentifiable.
IMRAN Someone went in… but never came out.
ARJUN (V.O.) Unless they never left.
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[SCENE 6]
INT. ABANDONED BUNGALOW - BASEMENT - NIGHT
Arjun and Sachin search the basement. A hidden hatch. Recently disturbed dust.
ARJUN Found something.
They descend. A tunnel. Old, crumbling.
SACHIN Escape route.
ARJUN Or entrance.
They follow the tunnel.
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[SCENE 7]
INT. TUNNEL - NIGHT
A small chamber. Ritual symbols. Old news clippings about disappearances.
SACHIN This guy was into some sick stuff.
A voice echoes faintly.
VOICE (O.S.) You shouldn't have come here.
A shadow moves. Gun drawn, Arjun fires. A man falls.
ARJUN Clear!
It's the hooded figure.
SULAIMAN (RADIO) Status?
ARJUN Suspect down. Moving up.
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[SCENE 8]
INT. ABANDONED BUNGALOW - NIGHT
Interrogation. The man confesses. He'd drugged the victim, staged the sealed room with a mechanism triggering door locks.
SUSPECT I made him believe voices spoke to him. Isolation breaks a man.
IMRAN Why?
SUSPECT He took everything from me.
Turns out the victim was a retired judge who convicted his brother years ago. Revenge.
SULAIMAN All for vengeance.
DR. GUPTA Cause of death: respiratory failure, induced by airborne toxin. Released through a hidden vent.
SHREYA That's how he did it.
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[CLOSING SCENE]
INT. BLACK SQUAD HQ - DAWN
Squad debriefs. Case closed.
SULAIMAN Lesson, everyone. Evil hides in plain sight. Even in sealed rooms.
The team disperses. The city awakens outside.
CUT TO BLACK.
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[END CREDITS]
BLACK SQUAD: EPISODE 116 — THE SEALED ROOM
The city's shadows hold endless secrets… and the Squad will be there to unearth them.