Episode 108: “Voices in the Walls”
Black Squad – Episode 108: "Voices in the Walls"
Genre: Psychological Crime Thriller
Setting: A lavish yet eerily quiet mansion in South Mumbai
Tone: Dark, unsettling, gripping with twists and realism
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PROLOGUE – THE INCIDENT
Interior – Mansion Hallway – Night
Thunder rumbles outside as the camera slowly pushes through the narrow hallway of the Malhotra Mansion. Dim yellow lights flicker above the marble floor. A woman, Anika Malhotra, 28, wealthy, fragile-looking, stumbles barefoot through the hall, whispering.
Anika (whispers): "They're in the walls… they're watching me…"
She turns suddenly, eyes wide in fear. Faint murmurs echo – indistinct whispers like static. She starts clawing at the walls, desperate.
Cut to her standing at the edge of the second-floor balcony. Her eyes are hollow.
She lets herself fall.
Smash to black.
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SCENE 1 – BLACK SQUAD HQ – MORNING
ACP Sulaiman Qazi, now back at the helm, is reviewing the fresh case files. Imran Wani, Arjun Rathore, Zoya Khan, Dr. R.P. Gupta, and newly introduced officers Sub-Inspector Shreya and Inspector Sachin are present.
Zoya: "Suicide or something else?"
Dr. Gupta: "The body had no signs of hesitation trauma. But here's the kicker—residue of a psychotropic drug was found in her system. Not street stuff. This was synthesized."
Qazi: "And the family?"
Imran: "She lived alone after her father died last year. Inherited everything. Mansion's under CCTV surveillance… but the footage is corrupted."
Arjun (frowning): "Corrupted how?"
Imran: "Just static when she jumps. The entire night's recording is missing audio."
Qazi: "Let's move. We're heading to the mansion."
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SCENE 2 – MALHOTRA MANSION – MIDDAY
Interior – Mansion
The team walks through the house. It's pristine, luxurious—but lifeless.
Shreya (noticing): "Too clean. Like it was staged."
Sachin taps the wall near the stairwell.
Sachin: "Hollow…"
Dr. Gupta: "No signs of forced entry. But I found traces of microscopic wiring in the study walls."
Imran: "Speakers?"
Dr. Gupta: "More advanced. Voice modulating tech. Someone was projecting whispers into her room."
Zoya (tense): "She was being psychologically tortured."
Qazi: "We're dealing with someone smart. Someone rich."
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SCENE 3 – DISCOVERY IN THE BASEMENT
Arjun uncovers a hidden door behind a library shelf.
They step into a soundproof control room. Screens, wires, audio consoles. An entire setup to manipulate perception.
Imran (angry): "This wasn't paranoia. It was planned madness."
Qazi: "Check if there's any recent access logs. IP traces. Names."
Dr. Gupta pulls a hard disk.
Dr. Gupta: "I'll decrypt it at HQ."
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SCENE 4 – A NEW TARGET
Night – A girl named Avni, 22, is seen sleeping in her South Mumbai apartment.
Suddenly, a low whisper:
"You don't belong here…"
She wakes up, panicked. Her lights flicker. She calls the police.
Cut to: Black Squad rushing into action.
Zoya: "This is the same pattern."
Qazi: "It's a serial psychological manipulator."
Arjun: "They aren't killing. They're pushing the victim to self-destruct."
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SCENE 5 – BREAKTHROUGH
Back at HQ
Dr. Gupta reveals decrypted files. The mastermind is Jayant Rao, a failed sound engineer turned recluse. Previously worked on military-grade sonic warfare research.
Dr. Gupta: "He built a prototype to trigger auditory hallucinations. Got rejected. Disappeared from the radar five years ago."
Imran: "And now he's using the city as his experiment ground."
Qazi: "Where is he now?"
They trace him to an abandoned theater in Mazgaon.
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SCENE 6 – FINAL CONFRONTATION
Interior – Abandoned Theater
Inside, they hear faint voices. Whispers. Paranoia creeps into the team. Shreya stumbles, confused.
Arjun and Imran push forward through the maze-like setup. Wires. Speakers. Mirrors.
They reach the control room.
Jayant Rao (calmly): "Do you hear them too? They're inside all of us."
Qazi: "You played God with people's minds."
Jayant: "No. I just wanted them to listen."
A brief scuffle ensues—Jayant triggers a sonic burst, disorienting the squad—but Zoya uses a frequency disruptor to shut it down.
Jayant is arrested.
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SCENE 7 – EPILOGUE
Interior – HQ – Briefing Room
Imran: "Avni is recovering. But she still hears whispers in her sleep."
Dr. Gupta: "Psychological scars. Even if the voice ends, the memory stays."
Qazi: "We caught the criminal. But the crime will echo."
The camera slowly pans across the Black Squad team, silently reflecting.
Cut to black.
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Episode 108 Ends.
Tagline: "Sometimes, the deadliest crimes aren't seen… they're heard."