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Episode 3: Who is it?
26th November,
23:20 IST
Fort Chambers Terrace,
MUMBAI.
Storyteller: Did you shoot him?
Vipul : I didnt know what to do? But it was for the security of this city and country. I couldn't hesitate, my hands were trembling and it was the first time I held a weapon in my hand. I cannot allow anyone ruin thousands of lives in my city in front of my eyes. I held the pistol firm in both my hands. He tried to escape, but I didnt delay. I pulled the trigger. First time in my life, I felt the jerk on my hands, of the shot that killed him. That jerk and sound had shook my body but now my body was firm with responsibility to protect my country.
S: Don't worry, I am sedating you with a drug, you will be asleep for few hours.
Vipul falls asleep, but whatever happened in last 30 hours will always terrify him in dreams.
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30 HOURS AGO
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25th November,
17:30 IST
Vipul Mahajani's Residence
Navi Mumbai
Vipul is clueless about how to figure out whether Samidha is involved in the conspiracy. Thinking about the same, he gets frustrated.
And the door bell rings.
Vipul opens the door, and theres no one around. He looks everywhere, finds nothing.
About to close the door, he hears a sound of phone ringing, it's not from inside but from the outside of his house. He follows the sound in his lawn. It's from his car. He finds a phone wrapped in plastic and stucked below the rear side of his car. He is worried if it's something like a detonator. He removes the phone from there, until then the call is missed.
The phone rings again, and Vipul recieves it.
Vipul: Hello
Storyteller: We have a problem Vipul.
Vipul: What happened?
Storyteller: You are been followed and traced by someone from the intelligence. You need to figure it out.
Vipul: What? How can you say that?
S: Your data on your security server was locked until today, Someone has acquired your pins, maybe through your laptop or smartphone.
V: What? How is it possible? How do you know this?
S: We have an intel that someone has accessed your data, I will send you the activity details on this phone, if you can back trace it, find the guy behind this.
V: This is impossible, if this has happened, it will be a terrible loss.
S: Don't panic Vipul, it's not too late. Most probably there would be someone from the intelligence involved so it's going unnoticed. If we find the person, we can stop the misuse of that data.
V: I will try. (Hangs up the phone)
Soon there's a message on the phone.
Vipul looks the activity and finds that the computer which has accessed the data is logged in with an intelligence profile, so it can't be accessed or back tracked through a phone.
Vipul has to illegally dwell into this from a PC. So, he opts for a cyber cafe.
25th November,
18:05 IST
I-Connect Cyber Cafe
Navi Mumbai
Vipul enters the cyber cafe, He fakes IP online and enters the database of intelligence, which is illegal as Vipul is no more authorised.
Vipul tries to get the user id identified. Failing few times finally, he succeeds to get the information on server of military database. The page with information of the user is loading. And the profile loads.
The name reads as
Priya Jadhav,
2006-2010, field agent
2011-present, active in desk operations.
And the photo loads.
"Oh My God" Vipul exclaims in shock as the image of user resembles to his wife Samidha.
Vipul leaves the cafe and drops a text to Storyteller telling what he discovered.
Storyteller calls Vipul
Vipul: Did you read the message? This is impossible.
S: Listen, you don't have to panic. Just do what I say.
Vipul: What?
S: Do you think she can get your pins or codes?
V: No, it's impossible. I haven't shared or kept it like that. The codes are encrypted. Those are series of pins. And there is no program to decode it. Because I have myself encrypted it with totally different languages. It can be decrypted by me only, that too only on my laptop.
S: Have you decrypted those files recently?
Vipul: Ahh, Ya! I do it once a fortnight so that I don't forget how to decrypt it.
S: When was the last time you did it?
Vipul: Yesterday night.
S: Fine, I will drop you a parcel. Keep your laptop with you & sleep in your backyard tonight. We can still stop your data misuse.
V: Ok.
Phone hangs up.
25th November,
19:00 IST
Vipul Mahajani's Residence
Navi Mumbai
Vipul reaches home, and washes his face and tries to look fine, but somewhere inside he is shattered. He tells Samidha that he wants to stay at backyard overnight. He knows he can't face Samidha like before. Samidha understands that something is wrong so allows him privacy.
Vipul with his laptop, phone and gifted phone waits for the parcel from Storyteller.
Around 02:20 AM,
Vipul wakes up hearing some noise. He finds 2 small boxes crashing in his backyard from no where. He opens the boxes, and finds a network jammer and system checker software CD and guide.
Vipul doesn't understand what it's for. Vipul realises that this to examine his laptop, but he knows that damage is already caused. Atleast he would know how this has happened? And maybe he could stop the data to be misused.
He activates the network jammer, to stop any transmission if there is any. And starts system checks. He finds that there are many programs using a cellular data, but he has not connected any WiFi or dongle. He comes to know that someone has installed a hardware inside the laptop to be able to always keep transmitting. He finds a suspicious program which is trying to transmit live data from the laptop. He opens the program with his skills and finds out that the program is transferring all the data to a cloud account. He tries to get the details of the cloud account. And finds out that the account is owned by M.S.Mishra, who happens to be Vipul's colleague at Signals Intelligence and core member of founding committee of NATI (National Agency for Technical Intelligence)
Later just like Vipul, Mishra also had to leave his position. And presently works as security supervisor in NATI.
Vipul knows that this is a scam, they are not doing this for government. This is definitely for something else.
It reminds him of the purpose of attending the movie on the day when Timothy died, it's just to bug his laptop with this transmitter and install this program. And the 6th person in theatre, it must be someone sitting besides Samidha for exchanging some information.
But who is it? Who is behind all this? What are they planning? Is Samidha a secret agent? Or a fugitive? Are Mishra and Samidha both involved in this?
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