TaaRey FF: You Cannot Fall In Love | EP. 6 PG 29 | - Page 17

He sizes up what's about to happen and interrupts the impending amputation (the Indian man's hand) by hurling his apple through the window with sniper precision, knocking down one of the minions. The men look out the window to see Reyansh boldly smiling up at them, who then hurls another apple, this time into the boss's face.

Proving his facility with Indian cooking Dev earns the right to stay, which comes with Raj's warning that "If you try to run away, you die." Reyansh looks curiously at the photo of a pretty girl Dev carries with him, Taani Shekawat, who he initially presumes is the man's daughter. But they share different surnames, meaning that for now, her relation to him remains unclear.

Reyansh acts as guide to Dev: he acquaints him with things like Raj's fearsome sleeping habits (always sitting up, with a gun at the ready) and shows him his now-improved skills at target practice. That's interrupted by the arrival of his father's men, who drag along that village woman with them. The woman who's become like Reyansh's surrogate mother and tie her to the target for her execution. Her crime: Her husband ran off with some drugs.

Worse yet, Raj orders Reyansh to be the one to shoot her, insisting that his rules be followed to the letter. When Reyansh balks, Raj takes out his gun, ready to do it himself. Reyansh knows he'll have to bargain his way through this, so he hurriedly proposes a deal "that he'll do the shooting. But if he manages to accurately shoot all the targets, Dad will relent and try exercising forgiveness, just this once." Dad agrees, and Reyansh prepares himself mentally, then fires. He shoots a few hanging fruit and the wooden target, then throws the gun away angrily, having proven his point.

Lying in his bed, he looks over at the photo of Taani, which he's apparently taken to talking to. He asks incredulously how he could be expected to shoot somebody he cares about, and muses, "You're probably off in that place called Mumbai, living happily, aren't you?"

At the same time, a team of gangsters infiltrates the compound, taking out a few guards and making their way to the inner rooms, where the leader spies Reyansh lying in bed. This is the gangster he'd saved Dev from, and they're here for some payback. Thanks to Reyansh's finely honed battle skills, however, he hears the telltale click of a gun and rolls out of bed smoothly, ducking in time to get Dev under cover before the attackers open fire.

Raj hears the commotion from a distance as he and his armed men are outside and races for the house, where the gangsters find Reyansh crumpled on the floor, playing dead. Reyansh waits for his moment, then leaps up and fights back, nimbly evading their attacks and finding safety behind a pillar.

But it's that woman, his surrogate mother, who fears for his safety and runs toward him to shout a warning. That gets her shot, and his shock is so tremendous that Reyansh doesn't even care about being exposed as he rushes to her crumpled body, sobbing at her to wake up. He's about to get shot through the back, not that he cares, when his father arrives and shoots his would-be attackers. Reyansh's grief quickly turns to fury, and he grabs a gun and leaps outside to get his revenge, vowing to kill them all.

He chases the three remaining gangsters through the fields, trying to fire and run at the same time. But when a telltale click goes off under his foot, he immediately stills, recognizing the ominous sound of a land mine being activated by his weight. Reyansh freezes, all the while keeping his targets in his sights, ready to shoot... if only he weren't out of ammo. His attackers realize their good fortune and raise their guns to shoot him only to be picked off by Raj, who's arrived to save his son.

Raj quickly gets to work on the land mine under Reyansh's foot, not betraying any fear while Reyansh sweats bullets. Dad gives him a reassuring look right before he launches himself at him and knocks him out of the way as the land mine explodes.

The blast takes off one of Raj's legs, and Reyansh carries him home on his back, crying frantically all the while, begging the doctor to help him. Raj bears the pain stoically and tells Reyansh to listen up: If he's about to die, he has something more important to address, and starts to explain the story of Reyansh's true father. Reyansh listens in shock as Raj tells him of the man who'd saved his life with his own, who'd been betrayed by his country, whom he'd vowed to avenge, who'd been Reyansh's father. He says in a half-request, half-command: "Put a bullet through the heart of your father's and my enemy."

He fades into unconsciousness but survives, and throughout his pain-fueled recovery, Raj is assailed with flashbacks of his life, begging his friend not to die while also apologizing to his wife. Reyansh finally understands why Raj had raised him the way he had, and why he'd trained him so fiercely. He contemplates the old photo of his mother that he'd taped back up at some point, now understanding that the other man is his father.

And then he goes to Raj for more information before committing to this plan of vengeance, and is told that there are five men who must be killed."And if I kill those five men, will you and I be able to live well again, in a place where nobody knows us?" Reyansh asks him. Raj nods. Reyansh hesitantly ask, "I'll ask one last thing. Is my mother... s-still alive?" "She's alive," Raj tells him quietly.That seals the deal. Grimly, he comes out of that meeting and tells Dev: "I'm going to change now. That's my fate."