IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack (IC 814: द कंधार हाइजैक)

Yes, Mehta.

He likes you. He tells you everything.

Talk to him.

Find out what he knows about the hijack.

Whenever you visit, the tea is of better quality.

What's going on, Masood?

Pardon?

By God, I know nothing, Mr. Mehta.

Honestly?

Tell me.

Have I ever lied to you?

Yes?

Yeah, I know.

Okay, fine.

IB, RAW, NSG, Airport Authority, all confirmed.

MEA also.

-The Minister is coming. -The Home Minister?

Sir, you'd know…

We can't let the plane reach Kabul.

We have to end this thing here. In India.

They don't have enough fuel to get to Kabul. They'll have to land.

-Mr. Verma. Ranjan Mishra. -Yes, sir. Okay.

Sir, I'm at the Airport Authority control room.

I'll see.

We'll try to talk to the Captain, sir.

Sir, come. We're still showing "flight delayed" at the airport.

Good enough for now.

-Good evening, sir. -Where are they? What's the situation?

They're here.

To land in Delhi, they must start descent here.

Can I talk to the pilot?

Listen. Just listen to me, Ram. Listen carefully.

Find out by tonight where that driver took those five men.

Buy him, beat him, drug him, but find out. Okay?

Who were those five men? Where are they now?

Where did you take them? Who are you working for?

Where are they now?

Where did you take them? Tell me!

IB has moved Masood Azhar to another prison cell.

-Don't mention it yet. -Of course I will.

Nandini!

Nandini, this is privileged information. Government secret.

If the public finds out, there'll be an outcry.

Can I do my job, please?

Forget your job! There are other priorities - responsibility, duty.

You and your principles and ideals.

The Prime Minister's office has called a crisis management meeting.

-Has he landed? -Landing.

Cabinet Secretary Vinay Kaul set up the meeting. Can I at least write that?

Bitch.

That, to me, means a ferocious woman.

Thanks.

Take off his blindfold.

Where did you take the five men?

Who's paying you?

ISI?

The cable came ten days ago from RAW, Kathmandu.

Don't recall, sir.

Ram sent several cables from Kathmandu recently.

If I remember, there was a mention

of Amjad, alias, Doctor.

Sir.

See, I told you. Amjad Farooqui.

He's in Kathmandu. Cited and verified by multiple sources.

He's been active in Bahawalpur for six months.

The question is…

is he on this flight?

Amjad Farooqui is too big

to be on a hijack, sir.

Lower ranks do the hijacking. I mean, the dispensable ones.

The scapegoats.

The wedding is the day after tomorrow? Right?

Sandhya is leaving with the kids.

No, I'll head directly to the airport after the CMG--

Hello?

CMG?

Mother, whenever there's a crisis of any kind,

all department heads meet to decide on a plan of action,

and find a solution.

These three entry points are not visible from inside the aircraft.

The first is here - hatch door.

The second is here, and luggage hold at the back.

I hope by now they know the number of passengers and hijackers.

Unbelievable.

No one saw this email from Kathmandu?

The emails were from the Investigating Officer.

They thought Ram copied it just for our information.

You were copied in too.

When you get information, read it.

When do we get the passenger list?

How many women? Children?

-Any VIPs? -Go. Just get it.

All these cables are from Kathmandu.

I don't think we should put it out now.

I know Kaul sir is fuming, but…

it won't look nice if we're the only ones who noticed.

-But that's a fact, sir. -We saw it late too.

-At least we noticed it. -Yeah, but…

Kaul.

Vinod.

J.P., I must say I'm rather disappointed.

We must inform the PM. This is another disaster.

Zero intelligence. Zero warnings.

We get attacked in Kargil, and we aren't informed.

Our plane gets hijacked and we know nothing.

Later the reports will read,

"RAW kept IB in the dark. IB kept RAW in the dark."

They are not descending, sir.

-I don't think they'll land in Delhi. -One minute.

Yes?

Okay. I'm coming.

The PM has landed.

Sir, the minister has arrived.

The minister is here too.

What do we tell him?

What's the status, Vinay?

I hear you're receiving the Prime Minister at the airport.

I plan to leave after convening the CMG.

Spoken to the Home Minister?

He knows about the meeting. I'll call him on the way.

I've spoken to him.

If you have, what more could we want?

-Sir, congratulations. -Thank you.

Granddaughter. Half an hour back.

Congratulations.

-Congratulations. -Excuse me, sir.

Sir, RAW made brief contact with the Captain.

There are at least five hijackers.

They have knives, pistols and possibly a hand grenade.

Excuse me, sir. I've something more. I'll be back.

The tape recorder.

Sir, we were unable to contact station chief Chauhan.

But we spoke to IO Ram Chandra Yadav. Please listen.

I'm not going, and neither are you.

This is no ordinary mission.

The plan must be followed.

This is not the time to get emotional.

You aren't emotional because no one close to you is involved.

I'm not asking you, I'm informing you that I'm going.

Brother, you don't understand.

You haven't been trained.

You could mess things up.

Amjad, this is non-negotiable.

Don't take my name, Chief.

My brother is stuck there, and you're jumpy about names.

If I must die, I'll die. But I'll take 150 lives with me.

Can I ask you something?

What do you people want?

It's not in your power to give it. So mind your own damn business.

Sir, this Amjad that we hear on the tape is Amjad Farooqui.

Also known as "Doctor."

A brutal militant. Educated in a madrasa,

used to work for the ISI.

But now he's with Mullah Omar. And Osama also likes him.

Sir, he became famous for massacring 400 people in Herāt, Afghanistan.

The Americans call him The Butcher of Herāt.

And I believe he's on this flight, sir.

When the Taliban was overthrowing the Afghan government,

Amjad Farooqui supported the Taliban.

So he became very dear to them.

If this hijack is all about freeing Masood,

then who wants him freed?

The ISI was clearly involved in the planning at Kathmandu.

Amjad and ISI working together?

Impossible.

Sir, I agree with IB and RAW that the ISI may be involved,

but Amjad would never work with the ISI.

-They won't make it to Kabul. -What?

Excuse me, sir.

They don't have enough fuel.

At the speed they're descending,

-they'll never make it to Kabul. -No, sir.

Amritsar or at most Lahore.

Delhi Control. This is IC 814. Connect to Lahore.

They want to take the plane to Lahore.

IC 814 requesting contact to LHE.

Don't connect them to Lahore.

That's their plan. If they connect to Lahore, it'll be a problem.

Exactly.

25,000 feet.

IC 814. You do not have landing permission in Lahore.

They're lying.

Tell them to connect you to Lahore. Right now.

IC 814 here. Connect to Lahore.

So?

What are our choices?

We have Amritsar.

Once they land there, let an NSG operation take over.

Game over. Right, Ravi?

Of course, sir.

If they land in Amritsar, we must storm the plane.

I'll get ready.

Sir,

let them speak to Lahore ATC.

Pakistan will not allow this.

-And they'll have to land in Amritsar. -What if Lahore gives permission?

Pakistan can hardly be trusted.

Exactly.

DRS, let me talk to Pakistan.

There's no dialogue with Pakistan right now, but I can start it.