Sense & Sensibilities

Present

Every new day brings a different energy in the team. Sameer will square his shoulder and take anything heads up. Rawte don't care – nothing can phase hin anymore. Chotu has seen some drastic things in his commando time, hence his thoughts always goes to decapitated head and body mangled beyond identification, and it's always a relief when it's a seemingly normal case – as normal as a loss of life can be. Shree is curious, Liza prepares herself for upcoming task by making a list on her MacBook. Aisha has this face "what fresh hell is this" and always one dry comment away to describe a case, but she bites her tongue – not that open with the team yet. Riya usually perks up at every case. It's new, a lot of opportunities to learn victim and suspects and justice system and how to use her own skill to solve it. She don't mind the late nights or dragging interrogation or going through pages of case study for fifty times in a week. She enjoys the work. Dustin sir once said she will get tired of blood and gore, that didn't happen yet and she can't imagine it ever can be.

There are some water contamination cases all over the state (which the team will find out later) and it only caught national front page when the city had a major incidents with left 25 dead and 159 in hospital. Initially the police was handling, later it was all hands on desk as every agency rushed to find out the root cause of the chemical. It was Riya's point to cross check old cases, and Liza soon found out it's the same chemical which was used for every contamination. They had.... A serial poisoner? A freaky co incidence? Only time can tell.

1 week after the case, Riya watched curiously as her Mother walked through the ETF hallways with some other men and vanished inside Rathore's cabin. If they didn't know it was her mother, they couldn't even tell the two bad any sort of relationship. The former didn't even glance at her, there was no emotion between the two. Arjun had heard once her mentioning on the strange relationship between the two, yet he wondered what's actually happened between the women to have this coldness.

Rathore joined the team after a few hours, face grave but lips sealed shut regarding the long meeting he had.

Riya had witnessed multiple times how the team function as a well oiled machine, and during the grave crisis with a fear that this contamination can happen again with anyone of them dying she saw that once again. Patil, Aisha along with Rawte were a brilliant team on ground, effectively tracking the exact point in time and the possible person who started it all. The unexpected tip from Rathore that this virus might have escaped a lab somehow helped the team,hence Shree ran a search and Liza sent samples across the country to track this virus. Anyone who invented, worked or came in contact with this was a suspect.

She started the profiling- male between 30- mid forties, high intellect and possibly well read in STEM streams. With a job which allows him to move across the country. A mild mannered quiet man – the logic behind this was to blend into the society so that he don't attract attention. Why is he doing this? To make a statement. Media circus and nation wide manhunt will fulfill his agenda and he will be pleased that his work is public. The only way forward is to increase the scale – more deaths, bigger scandal. The endgoal has to be his own death, the biggest sacrifice he can. It will be about his agenda, but mainly about himself. He will be self centred and egoist, and a slight hint that law enforcement is inching closer to him will be an insult to his genius mind. If he senses danger, he will lash out and act violently.