Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! Page #4

You wanted to be on stage,

so why get me painted?

Look towards the gate

Shall we hunt the hunter?

Let's go

He's reporting to Watanabe

He's heading to Sukumar next

Watanabe is frightening

How long do we wait?

Sukumar's black car

He's locked it and run

Step aside

He's destroyed the evidence

and fled

Take all the documents you can find

Are you alright?

Didn't you say that Dr. Guha

was not coming back?

He's back

He's on the terrace. The Japs are

bombing the docks...boom!

Can you hear that, Mr. Bakshy?

Nails being hammered

into the British coffin

You killed Bhuvan and Sikdaar

I did everything

You know but won't admit it

- Why kill Bhuvan?

- Bhuvan was a traitor

Sikdaar a false patriot who was

going to inform the police

So you and Sukumar are plotting

something with the Japanese?

An enemy's enemy is a friend

Why kill Sikdaar?

Wouldn't you do a small

bad thing...

...for the greater good?

And the dead in the clinic? Where's

the greater good in that?

They're dead because of you

It's the price

We all want freedom. No one wants

to pay the price

And now?

If you go to the police, I'll kill you

If you survive, it's the end for me

What shall we do, Mr. Bakshy?

Byomkesh

My war needs soldiers like you

There's a car waiting

Come with me

Don't think

Ajit

Do middle-class folk like us...

...ever stand up for our country?

No, we go to the movies

Let's go to the Metro

Do it for your country

Why not join Dr. Guha?

He seems to love you

This map...

This map looks familiar.

How did the volunteer have it?

You should've been

my father's son

He was ashamed of me

I wanted to write

I was the shy skinny type

He came home drunk every night,

ranting

"The creator of India's top selling

formula is cursed with a son...

"...who failed High School

chemistry!"

- Hind Chemics make

- They sell it

My father invented the formula

But you said you didn't know

what he did

I meant in the last 3 years

Before that, he was...

...the head chemist at Hind Chemics

for 8 years

- Until...

- What?

Hind Chemics...

...fired my genius father

Because one of the components

in his formula was...

...opium

People got addicted...

...without knowing

Sales shot sky high

- When were you going to tell me?

- What's there to tell?

- You're hiding facts again

- But this is personal

Personal? We're solving a case

We decided...

We decided that you'd keep

nothing from me

- You're soft-headed

- You're soft-headed!

- We're arguing. Later

- One minute, Mr. Byomkesh

What is it?

Can I have some Bhuvan's

paan mix?

Just a little. Haven't slept for

three nights

Please!

Your father had magic

in his hands

I asked Mr. Bhuvan...

...so many times...

...what's in his paan mix?

He would laugh

And say...

"Pluck the fruit...

...don't count the branches"

Carry on arguing

I'm done

Who is it?

Can Satyawati be called beautiful?

Young gun

Young guns?

What did Sikdaar say to me

just before he died?

What did you eat before going

to bed?

The paan mix

Your father had magic hands

Opened my mind

Paan, lime paste, catechu

How do you like my painting?

If Bhuvan Banerjee was not

blackmailing Sikdaar...

...why did Sikdaar need

police protection?

And about your father's...

...paan mix. Why is it magical?

Genius, what brings you here?

Atanu

- I need your help

- Unlikely, Byomkesh

You sent me a note,

so here I am

But I can't do more

I'm not looking for a job

I want you to test something

Test what?

This paan mix

And my blood

They test your blood before

giving you a job here?

Never thought you'd stoop so low

You shoot up heroin and then

test your blood?

What's the farce?

Heroin?

My blood has heroin?

And this?

A paan mix is a paan mix.

Test it all you want

Never seen crystals like these

They are emPtY

They're empty?

I mean chemically

A mix of hydrocarbons, salts

Nothing in there. Useless

No heroin in the crystals?

Crystals? What crystals?

You tutored my wife Leela

so I helped

- You smell bad

- Your father was a genius

Byomkesh, some paan mix

for me

- You're a heroin addict

- I'm a chief accountant

Bhuvan used you like a guinea pig

A guinea pig?

Mr. Kauai

How's business?

Dull

Dull? How come?

No opium in the market

Can't buy any for love or money

Heroin is made from opium, right?

In your line of work

you must know dealers...

...who bend the law a little

You planning something that

bends the law a little?

Let's imagine

We tell them...

...there's a kind of heroin that

cannot be detected

It's like hitting the jackpot

for them

I don't get it

Doesn't look like heroin

Smell or taste like heroin.

Doesn't show up in a lab test

But once you take it inside

...it's pure heroin

What if this thing fell

into someone's lap?

He'd be very rich

Or very dead

You have this thing?

You know dealers?

Not a grain of opium

in Calcutta

Junkies wander the streets begging

No opium for him either

So where are your dealers?

- Have you told anyone?

- No

Wait here. I'll be back

Did Ching Ling just leave?

- Ching Ling?

- No

Ching Ling?

- What is it?

- Nothing

I know what you're doing

What am I doing?

You're playing and my father

is your plaything

Sometimes he's a blackmailer.

Or sometimes a traitor

And now he's a drug dealer

Your father made the drug...

...and installed the machines

at the factory. Why?

Ask Dr. Guha

Opium dries up in the market.

Where did it all go?

Add two and two

Is it my fault your father

expected more from you?

SorfY

Ajit!

Don't fight, Ajit. They're the police

Send my friend Ajit Banerjee

to me

Otherwise the police will never

find out why...

...the opium in Calcutta

has vanished

Tea?

What do you know about

the missing opium?

It's being cooked into heroin

Following the genius chemist

Bhuvan Banerjee's formula

A kind of heroin that can only

be detected...

...once it's in the bloodstream

Heard of Yang Guang?

And the Shanghai Green Gang?

Who hasn't?

Yang Guang was No. 3 in the

Shanghai Green Gang

He wanted to be No. 2,

so he came to Calcutta

He took over the Thailand-Burma,

Burma-Calcutta opium supply

He started running the

South Asian drug empire

Calcutta was in his grip

Then?

September 1939

A Green Gang team arrived in

Calcutta from Shanghai

They met Yang Guang at the docks

There was a fight

Yang Guang was finished

His eight-year rule ended

But now?

We fished out four Chinamen

from the river

Locals from the Green Gang

One man was still alive

Before dying he told us...

500 kgs of opium belonging to the

Green Gang had landed in Calcutta...

...and was hijacked

- The hijacker...

- Yang Guang

They say he's back

from the dead

Know anything about it?

No, sir

Before I found out, your goons

stopped me

How did you know I was looking

for the opium...

...belonging to the Green Gang?

We...

...have our ways.

I forgot. Sorry

May I leave?

If the heroin gets into the

wrong hands...

...and you hide it from me...

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