The episode begins with a young Captain Karan exploring the valleys of Srinagar. He befriends a local Kashmiri boy. They meet each other often and grow close.

One day, Karan gets orders from the Air Force to attack a location which has confirmed enemy and anti-establishment activity. As Karan flies over the location, he recognises the bombing spot as the school of the Kashmiri boy. He repeatedly informs his officer incharge that this is the wrong location but the officer refuses to listen to him. Karan lies about the bomb release failure to save the school but another fighter plane flying along with him goes ahead and bombs the school.

Later he resigns from duty and becomes guilt ridden when he begins to think about all the innocent lives he might have unknowingly taken. He disagrees strongly with his Senior Officer’s opinion of considering innocents as collateral damage and that people who serve the Force are just weapons.

Flashback ends

Now, Captain Karan is tense and is talking to his dead co-pilot. He says after landing when their recorded cockpit conversation is heard, everyone will think he killed both the other pilots and will declare him as a terrorist. He later switches on the radio with ATC. At ATC, He and Kiran have a smooth conversation. Though Karan assures her that he will go through the emergency landing, Kiran is still skeptical about him.

Flashback of Kiran’s days as a hostage negotiator in the army.

Kiran is portrayed as a precocious candidate in the army. She performs better than her male colleague and is very head-strong. Due to her pregnancy she refuses a promotion and decides to  return after the leave to get a desk job. She wants to study criminal psychology later. 

While on leave she is asked for help in an active hostage scene. Even though she is heavily pregnant, she lies to her husband and tells him that she is going to be safe and leaves. 

Kiran expertly handles the situation and gets the terrorist killed and saves all the hostages.

Flashback ends and we see Kiran back at the radio communication trying to figure out Captain Karan’s intentions. She asks him to connect her to Captain Joe. Captain Karan tells her that the intercom of Joe’s room is disconnected and asks her not to disturb him again as he is preparing for the landing.

Karan is seeing flashes from the time when his Air force Senior Officer was screaming at him for not going through the orders to bomb the school. He says to himself that real pilots don’t take lives but they save them. He says that right now he needs to protect 300 lives of the passengers from himself.

Back at the economy class of the plane, Siddharth is walking around the plane when Krishnamurthy’s kundli drawings capture his attention. He goes ahead and sits with him.

Kiran tries contacting Captain Karan again and asks for Captain Joe. Captain Karan tells her that he is in between the landing procedure and disconnects the call. Kiran now tells the Anti-terrorism Squad, ATC that Karan is not to be trusted and that Joe is either dead or held hostage.

Back at the cockpit, Karan, sensing the change in Kiran’s tone of questioning, becomes convinced that Kiran has figured out his lie about Joe.

In the economy class, Siddharth and Krishnamurthy are deep in a conversation about spirituality. Siddharth tells him that he has all the luxury of the world and has achieved unparalleled success and now he just wants to know when he will die. Krishnamurthy refuses to tell him the death date and says that the answer to this question has caused grief to many. Siddharth says that if he cannot give him the answer, Krishnamurthy can at least teach him the basics of astrology so that he can figure out his fate on his own. Krishnamurthy accepts Siddharth as his student.

We see Krishnamurthy’s flashback and we learn that he had read his charts and knows that he is destined to die in a foreign land because of heart failure.

Karan in the cockpit is close to landing. He is getting increasingly worried that he is going to be blamed for the deaths on-board. He has a change of mind and formulates a strategy. He connects with Kiran and tells her that he has some conditions before he lands the plane. The moment he says the word ‘condition’, Nilesh Kale, the head of ATS interrupts Karan. Kale tells him that they are not going to negotiate with him. Karan gets irritated when he learns that ATS is on call with him. Karan tells Kale that he isn't the type that negotiates either and ends the call.

ATC suddenly sees Karan’s plane start ascending. Captain Karan is now angry. He is not going to land the airplane.

Episode ends.

What I liked about this episode was the interesting pasts of Karan and Kiran’s backgrounds. But they were written with an extremely slow pace and did not add to the plot of the present timeline. 

Tyagi and Giselle’s conversation was boring and was being clearly used to increase the run-time of the episode.

Krishnamurthy and Siddharth are now spiritual buddies which again is so off-putting for a thriller drama.

Captain Karan and his sinister actions and thoughts are the only interesting parts to see in this episode.

Episode Rating 3/5