BLACK SQUAD – EPISODE 101: "404 – Hacker Unknown"
A Standalone Cyber-Crime Thriller
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[INTRO: NIGHT – CYBER CELL, MUMBAI]
A storm rages outside the Mumbai Cyber Crime Division as an urgent alert flashes on the central screen:
> "SECURITY BREACH DETECTED
ACCESS LEVEL: TOP SECRET
SOURCE: UNKNOWN DOMAIN | ENCRYPTION: UNBREAKABLE
TARGET: BLACK SQUAD DATABASE"
The camera pans to a frantic team of cyber cops trying to regain control, but the breach spreads like wildfire. A digital worm disables access to Black Squad's confidential case files, operatives' identities, and even pending mission data.
Then… the screen turns black, and a distorted voice echoes through speakers:
> "This is not revenge. This is remembrance. Raghav Anand never died. He was reborn."
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BLACK SQUAD HQ
ACP Sulaiman Qazi, now officially reinstated, reads the message silently. His face tightens with grim recognition. Standing beside him are Senior Inspector Imran Wani and Senior Inspector Arjun Rathore, visibly rattled.
Qazi (quietly):
"He was one of us…"
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[FLASHBACK: 5 YEARS AGO – RAGHAV'S LAST MISSION]
Raghav Anand – the genius analyst, quiet and brilliant – decoding terrorist networks for Black Squad. We see him in action, tracing darknet dealings, exposing corrupt bureaucrats. But during an undercover sting, Raghav is ambushed. The team believes he's dead in the blast… but his body is never recovered.
Qazi (in flashback):
"We lost our mind that day. Raghav was our shield in the shadows."
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[PRESENT DAY – BRIEFING ROOM]
Zoya Khan returns from recovery post the asylum case, leading cyber-surveillance. She shares intel that "404" – the alias used in the breach – matches code structures Raghav once designed.
Zoya:
"He left breadcrumbs… intentionally. He wants us to find him."
Arjun:
"Or he's mocking us."
The team begins a digital trailhunt: decrypting hacked police servers, tracing crypto payments, and backtracing signals bouncing across Russia, Dubai, and deep web shells.
Suddenly—
New breach.
All traffic lights in South Mumbai go red. Hospitals lose access to patient data. Every phone buzzes with one line:
> "Do you trust the system that abandoned its own?"
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[ACT II: DIGITAL WARFARE]
Zoya, Imran, and new cyber-tech expert SI Riya Sen engage in an intense back-and-forth digital duel. They decode one hidden file titled:
> "R_AGHAV_DIARIES"
It contains emotional video logs – showing Raghav's slow descent into rage. Isolation. Betrayal. The voice of a man who died inside when his unit didn't come for him.
Raghav (in log):
"I kept waiting. For rescue. For answers. But silence teaches louder than betrayal."
Flashbacks of a young Raghav, recording his logs while hiding in an Afghan drug lab. The emotional weight hits Zoya hard.
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[PLOT TWIST – BETRAYAL FROM WITHIN]
As the team gets closer, it's revealed someone from within the Ministry is feeding Raghav data—Deputy Commissioner Bansal, a bureaucrat once exposed by Black Squad. He seeks revenge by helping Raghav in return for digital blackmail immunity.
Arjun and Imran chase Bansal across rooftops during a late-night ambush, ending in a brutal confrontation on a train top.
Arjun (punching):
"You handed over the keys to a ghost!"
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[ACT III: SHOWDOWN – SERVER FARM, KONKAN COAST]
The final showdown occurs in a hidden offshore server facility along the Konkan coast. Raghav is there—physically—his entire body partially paralyzed from the incident years ago, now reliant on advanced neural interface tech.
When Black Squad arrives, he triggers lockdown. Laser traps, defense bots, coded explosives.
The action is intense:
Arjun dodging collapsing walkways.
Imran decrypting the explosive code in real-time.
Zoya fighting Raghav's AI-controlled drones.
Finally, Qazi confronts Raghav.
Qazi (emotionally):
"We never left you. We just never found you. But this… this isn't justice."
Raghav (angrily):
"This is truth. And now the world will know who you protect… and who you abandon."
He tries to activate the final detonation, but Qazi shoots the console. The system overloads and Raghav is electrocuted – fatally.
As the building collapses, the team escapes with the help of Zoya's backdoor shutdown code.
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[EPILOGUE: BLACK SQUAD HQ – THE CLEANUP]
Back at headquarters, media reports of averted national catastrophe fill the screens. Raghav is declared a national threat posthumously, but Qazi keeps a private file of Raghav's diary.
Zoya:
"He was a soldier before he became a ghost."
Qazi:
"We failed one of our own. Never again."
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[FINAL SHOT]
Qazi, Imran, Arjun, Zoya, and the entire team look over the city from the Black Squad HQ terrace – quiet, thoughtful, aware of how fragile the line between protector and threat can be.
A final line appears:
> "Episode 101 – '404: Hacker Unknown' – BLACK SQUAD RECORD UPDATED."
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Genres: Cybercrime | Psychological | Thriller | Action | Emotional
Legacy: Opens new doors for modern crime threats and brings psychological depth to past characters.