EPISODE 80: “Nightfall Directive”
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Black Squad – Episode 80
Title: "Nightfall Directive"
(After Gwalior, Black Squad's every move is tracked. General Virk strikes first. But one wrong move, and the shadows he commands might consume him too.)
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[COLD OPEN – CLASSIFIED WAR ROOM | NEW DELHI – MIDNIGHT]
High-level meeting. Panic.
General Amar Virk stands before a screen showing headlines:
"Illegal Black Ops Under MOD Uncovered"
"Ex-Soldier Danish Ahmed Dies a Hero"
"Is the Ministry Lying to Us?"
MINISTER (furious):
"Your cover's blown, General!"
VIRK (calm, calculated):
"My cover is not the problem. Their truth is. We cut the head, or we get devoured."
He opens a classified file marked: NIGHTFALL DIRECTIVE
Authorization: Lethal. No oversight.
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ACT 1: The Domino Killings Begin
Across India, MOD whistleblowers, journalists, and ex-officers linked to Falcon Archive begin dying mysteriously.
A journalist is found drowned in Pune, ruled "accidental."
A hacker who helped leak the Gwalior Drive is shot in Kolkata, made to look like a mugging.
A retired Major (Qazi's old friend) is burned alive in his farmhouse in Dehradun.
Qazi watches the footage, frozen.
IMRAN:
"He's wiping history. Anyone who's ever stood near truth."
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ACT 2: The Mole in the System
Zoya, while digging through intercepted MOD orders, finds something chilling:
Encrypted signal patterns sent from within Black Squad's safehouse logs.
A mole is feeding Virk their locations in real time.
Zoya (to Imran):
"Every step we take… he's already there."
Imran traces the signal to a satellite uplink device hidden inside a medical kit.
Reet gasps. That kit was brought in by their logistics officer, Lt. Nihar Kamat — a new recruit from Central Command.
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ACT 3: Zoya Goes Rogue
Before the squad can decide how to deal with Nihar, Zoya vanishes without notice.
Qazi receives a voice message:
> "I'm going to protect one person who never betrayed me. Don't follow."
She heads to Hyderabad, where Zahra Mir, her ex-partner in Army Intel, is in hiding. Zahra helped forge documents for Zoya after her suspension and knows dangerous things about MOD's illegal labs.
Zoya finds Zahra — scared, paranoid, and already wounded.
Zahra:
"They know I forged your transfer papers. I'm dead the moment they find me."
Suddenly — snipers attack. Zoya returns fire, grabs Zahra, and escapes via underground tunnels.
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ACT 4: Double Pressure
Back at base, Qazi must make a hard call.
A whistleblower in Lucknow has one terabyte of encrypted proof of illegal MOD shell companies laundering money into Virk's private war operations.
But at the same time — Imran intercepts an alert: a transport of 19 school children (from a military school) is being rerouted — last seen in the exact pattern Raaka used during the bus hijack in Episode 75.
Qazi:
"Damn it. They're baiting us."
IMRAN:
"We go for both."
The team splits:
Imran, Arjun, and Reet go to intercept the transport.
Qazi and Lt. Balan head for Lucknow to extract the data.
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ACT 5: The Interceptions
A) CHILD TRANSPORT RAID – Arjun's POV
Arjun leads a tactical ambush on the convoy.
They take out the lead vehicle using an EMP pulse.
Imran snipes guards silently.
Inside the truck: kids — alive, but drugged. A timed incendiary is counting down.
Reet disables the fire charge just in time.
Suddenly — a recorded hologram plays inside:
RAAKA's voice:
"Save who you love. Let the rest burn."
A drone explodes nearby. Ambush was the decoy. The real attack is in Lucknow.
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B) LUCKNOW – Data Extraction Mission
Qazi and Balan arrive at an old church turned safehouse. The whistleblower is already dead.
But his backup drive is inside a statue of Mother Mary.
They extract it — and MOD soldiers arrive instantly.
Gunfight breaks out.
Balan takes a bullet protecting Qazi.
Qazi pulls Balan behind a pillar and uses an explosive dart pen to destroy MOD surveillance.
They barely escape.
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ACT 6: The Offer
Back at HQ, Zoya returns with Zahra, injured but alive.
Qazi decrypts the Lucknow drive — exposing bank transfers, drug trials on soldiers, untraceable assassinations, and a folder titled "Project ROGUE – Initiator: A.V."
It's enough to bury Virk.
Then they receive a direct message from General Virk himself, sent through a dead MOD satellite frequency:
> "I offer you a seat at the table. Join me. Or die under it."
Attached is a video of A.C.P. Sulaiman Qazi — alive, but in chains, tortured, somewhere underground.
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[FINAL SCENE – THE VOW]
Qazi watches the footage of his father.
He grips his father's old badge.
QAZI (to the team):
"We finish this. We take down Virk. We bring my father home. And we burn the shadows."
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NEXT EPISODE TEASE — EPISODE 81: "Project ROGUE"
The squad prepares to go after Virk directly.
Zoya infiltrates MOD's biotech division to uncover "Project ROGUE."
Imran discovers a horrifying link between Raaka and a military drug trial.
A secret base is located — but it's under a volcano-like terrain in Arunachal Pradesh.