"The body is in your house. But the house has six cameras. Two are fake. The real ones don’t record audio. So here’s your drishyam: you were not home. From 9 PM to 11 PM, you were at a dhaba 22 km away. The waiter remembers you because you argued about the price of chai."

"I’ve killed forty-three men. Every one of them, I looked in the eye. But this one… this one fell in my home while I was shitting in the other room. And now the cops — the same ones I own — will have to arrest me. Unless..."

Rain hammers the torn screen. Gaitonde walks down the aisle. A man in a grey sweater sits alone. No fear. No respect. Just eyes that have watched too many films.

"How do you think like this?"