Rajiv: One may say she’s a gospel type.
[Enter: Rangaiah]
[Rangaiah hands over a business card and tells Rajiv that Rau had come to see him (mime).]
Rajiv: Think of the devil and here it comes. Would you please excuse me for a moment?
[Slesha nods her assent.]
[Exit: Rajiv with Rangaiah.]
Rajiv (voice over): Congrats Rau my old boy! Let me take a hard look at the justice in the making. Why, you haven’t changed a wee bit really! Why, I would’ve recognized you in a crowd. Though I’m expecting you, it’s Godsend in a way. I’m in a soup right now, well, not the one your client is brewing for me. Won’t you help me for old-time’s sake?
Rau (voice over): Why, what’s the other bother?
Rajiv (voice over): I can be booked for rape anytime now.
Rau (voice over): Oh God, but how come!
Rajiv (voice over): I’ll tell you but first help me see the back of my tormentor.
[Enter: Rau (in lawyer’s suit) led by Rajiv.]
Rau [to Slesha]: You here!
Rajiv: Do you know her!
Rau: Well, as much as a man would know his wife, no more and no less.
Rajiv: Nothing is truer than fact being stranger than fiction, isn’t it?
Slesha: Maybe, but can I take it Mr. Rajiv, that you’ve engaged a lawyer in advance anticipating the complaint?
Rajiv: Come on Inspector, you know that’s not the case. Wouldn’t you know that your husband and I haven’t seen each other for ages?
Slesha: Lawyer garu, is it such a coincidence that you come to see your long lost friend when I’m acting on a complaint of rape against him!
Rau: So what?
Slesha: How does that answers my question?
Rau: What if it doesn’t?
Slesha: Don’t you know criminal investigation warrants citizens’ cooperation?
Rau: I came to see him at his wife’s behest.
Slesha: Is it for negotiating the terms of separation?
Rau: I can’t satisfy your curiosity as it’s a matter of client confidentiality.
Slesha: We will come to that later. [Turns to Rajiv] I would like to talk to your wife.
Rajiv: She’s not at home.
Slesha: Can’t I guess that much. Where is she now?
Rajiv: I don’t know about it myself.
Slesha: So, the plot thickens even more, isn’t it? Is it possible that after raping your friend’s wife, you had murdered yours to eliminate the witness to your crime?
Rau: Inspector, don’t let your imagination run amuck. Know she’s very much alive and kicking.