Saurabh Patil

* Post-Surgery
* Pre-Surgery

> "Hum bhi chal rahe the ... saaye bhi wahan the ... ishaare the kitne ... samajhdaar kahan the"
> (English: "We too were walking... the shadows were there too... there were so many signals... where were the wise ones?")
>
> Saurabh revealing to dying Kabir

**Captain Saurabh Patil** was a former RAW agent-turned-terrorist who worked for Rizwan Ilyasi as his mole in RAW and later his Pawn (प्यादा), one of Rizwan's undercover chess pieces.

## Biography

Saurabh becomes a member of a Kabir's Elite Shadow Unit consisting of their captain Kabir Dhaliwal, Muthu, Prateik, Aditi Nahta and later joined by Khalid Rahmani, all working under Colonel Sunil Luthra for R.A.W. They're all working undercover during the War on Terror to apprehend ISIS targets. He **betrayed the country** for the **huge paycheck** which he was getting from Ilyasi. Saurabh has no concern for human life, and only desires the profit he can gain from selling his friends out. He has no remorse for hurting individuals, and even takes pleasure from doing it.

### Capturing Basheer Hassib

After finding out **links** with **Rizwan Ilyasi**, Kabir and team goes to **capture Basheer Hassib**, a **militant rebel commander** in **Iraq**. Kabir acts as a **decoy** and allows Hassib to capture himself and to **take Kabir to his hideout**. As Kabir is taken to hideout, the location of the **hideout is revealed**. Khalid **barges in** his hideout with an **armoured vehicle** and kills Hassib's men followed by other team members including Saurabh, Aditi, Prateek and Muthu. The four of them have a minor role in the fight.

### Marrakesh Mission

After capturing Hassib from an ISIS controlled area in Tikrit, Kabir's team goes after Ilyasi at Marrakesh where Saurabh reveals himself as the mole by killing Prateek and Muthu. He also tries to kill Kabir, but Khalid shields him taking the bullet. This starts a rooftop chase with Khalid chasing Saurabh. After a long run, Saurabh ends up at an ocean facing cliff. Khalid overpowers Saurabh in the fight by Ilyasi gets there with his men and shoots at his back killing Khalid.

### Becoming Khalid

Realizing he's compromised, Ilyasi improvised his plan since killing Khalid gave them an advantage. Ilyasi decided to make Saurabh look like Khalid with the help of a plastic surgeon Dr. Mallika Singhal whom he seduced to disguise Saurabh with expensive facial and vocal surgery to look and sound exactly like Khalid. Saurabh takes Khalid's place by being shot unconscious by his own men and the disguised traitor goes back to his work, claiming that Saurabh is dead and that Khalid survived.

### Confronting Kabir

After Kabir kills senior analyst V.K. Naidu, Colonel Luthra assigns Saurabh (Khalid to the outside world) with the task to track down and stop Kabir. During the investigation, Kabir gives him a call, threatens that if "Khalid" comes between Kabir and his target, Kabir wouldn't hesitate to take him down.

After the brief meeting about finding Kabir who killed Jimmy Shroff, Kabir confronts "Khalid" in the metro but is unable to pull out his gun because of the looming risk of hurting civilians. Kabir gives two options to Khalid, He will either tell his motive or his next target. Khalid chose to know his next target, Dr. Utpal Biswas.

Dr. Utpal Biswas was **ISRO's chief** for 9 years and was also one of the **key people** in launching **Brahma Defence Satellite**. Khalid is sent to **Portugal** to escort Dr. Biswas back to India. On their way to India, the escort convoy **gets attacked** by Ilyasi's men. Khalid's vehicle gets wrecked. Kabir snipes and kills all of the Ilyasi's men present at the site and **takes away the drive**. After Khalid accidently **shoots Dr. Biswas**, Kabir runs away in a bike and is successful in escaping Khalid.

### Joining Kabir

After the failure of Dr. Biswas's escort, Khalid reports to Colonel Luthra, that Kabir escaped with a drive about which the RAW had no information. Furious Luthra kicks out Khalid from the team (the team responsible for stopping Kabir) and makes Saini in-charge. Khalid then looks up to the details of **Kabir's last mission on Italy**, where he finds out about **Naina** and tracks down Kabir through Ruhi to understand his **motive**. Kabir, not knowing the imposter's identity shares the info with Khalid to help him find the fourth traitor. Having made contact with Kabir, the RAW flags Khalid too and starts open fire. The duo escapes after the gunfight.

While on the way to get the drive (which he gave to Aditi to decrypt and to place a tracker), Aditi informed Kabir of a missing vial of TTX in the RAW HQ for which no log record was submitted. After connecting all the dots, Kabir was almost sure that Khalid may be Saurabh. Kabir handed the drive to Khalid to keep it safe until they got to Colonel Luthra but Khalid poisoned Kabir and revealed himself to be Saurabh (Pawn - प्यादा).

### Final Step At Arctic

Saurabh takes the **drive** to Ilyasi after he thought he killed Kabir. Saurabh and Ilyasi board an ice-breaker vessel armed with an **Anti-Satellite Missile** to the Arctic. Rizwan offers him to initiate the missile launch. Kabir skydives and lands on the deck of the vessel, but Kabir was too late as Saurabh had **already launched the missile**. Kabir proceed into the vessel killing any of Ilyasi's henchman at sight. Kabir confronts Saurabh and Ilyasi and he tells that he was suspicious of Khalid (Saurabh) and knew all of his intentions. He also revealed that the **drive**, which he gave to Saurabh had a **tracker to locate him** and it was **programmed** to lock onto the **coordinates of launch** **site** i.e. the vessel.
Kabir took **Ilyasi hostage** and ordered Saurabh to drop down the gun Instead **Saurabh killed Ilyasi** and **escaped in a car**. Kabir also got of of the vessel in a car just seconds before the vessel was **destroyed by the missile**.

Kabir chased Saurabh to an **abandoned church**. He confronts Saurabh who puts up a stand, causing a **bloody fight** with Saurabh impaling Kabir's hand with a blade. Kabir fist fights and beats up Saurabh, **declaring that he tainted Khalid's face**. He back kicks Saurabh over the floor ledge and brings down a supporting structure, **crushing the entire building dome on him**.

## Abilities

* Deception
* Master Tactician
* Master Marksman

## Relationships

### Allies

* Dr. Mallika Singhal
* V.K. Naidu †
* Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Shroff †
* Dr. Utpal Biswas † - Accidental Victim

### Enemies

* Oslav
* RAW
	+ Colonel Sunil Luthra - Former Superior
	+ Kabir Dhaliwal - Former Superior turned Enemy
	+ Aditi Nahta
	+ Khalid Rahmani ✝ - Victim
	+ Prateik ✝ - Victim
	+ Muthu ✝ - Victim
* Rizwan Ilyasi ✝ - Ally turned Victim