Collateral Damage

***Collateral Damage*** is the seventh episode of second season of *The Family Man*.

It premiered on 4 June, 2021.

## Synopsis

*Raji is injured days before the D-Day and needs treatment. Simmering tensions between Suchitra and Dhriti hit a crescendo. Sajid bids adieu to Raji, for he has another, personal mission to accomplish in Mumbai. Meanwhile, Srikant is hit by another debilitating personal crisis.*

## Summary

An injured Raji is taken to Tigris Aviation in Chennai and attended to by Sajid. Kulkarni gets to know of the deaths of Milind in the police station attack, and Jebaraj at Point Pedro. The TASC team finds explosive detonators at Jebaraj’s house. Deepan is desperate to track down Bhaskaran, but Major Sameer pretends to know nothing of the matter. Sameer had sent Bhaskaran to Normandy in France to keep him under the radar. Sajid is busy building a detonator for their attack on PM Basu, and Selvarasan emphasises that Raji needs to fully recover, as she alone can fly the bomber plane safely.

Dhriti asks Mahima, her best friend, to cover up for her in case her mother Suchitra asks where she is headed. As she is heading out, Suchitra wants to know where she is going and when she will return. Enraged at having to always behave like an obedient child, Dhriti storms out the door, firmly convinced that her parents are divorcing. Suchitra tells the counsellor that she wants to break the truth to Srikant, but he strongly advises against it.

Kulkarni and Sambit desperately request PM Basu to reschedule her meeting with Rupatunga, but she adamantly refuses to change the date or venue. That evening Dhriti and her boyfriend Kalyan kiss in a multiplex in the mall. She lies to Suchitra that she is visiting Mahima’s place, when actually she plans to be at Kalyan’s. The two leave the mall with Syed closely following. Meanwhile Sajid has finished his work in Chennai and tells a recuperating Raji that he is leaving for Mumbai for some personal work.

As it gets late at night, Suchitra tries calling Mahima but she lies to her that Dhriti has just left her place. Some time later Dhriti has still not returned and Suchitra calls Mahima again, who confesses that Dhriti was out at the mall with her boyfriend Kalyan, after which she went to his place. Suchitra is aghast that Dhriti has a boyfriend, and that Mahima knows nothing about his contact details. She manages to inform Srikant of the situation from a visiting Arvind’s number. Srikant gets Ajit from TASC to track Dhriti’s number, which turns out to be from a local train. Srikant concludes that Dhriti has been kidnapped, and immediately leaves for Mumbai. He assures Suchitra that he will find their daughter no matter what. Meanwhile, Dhriti is shown to be lying unconscious in Kalyan’s house.

## Plot

*The scene names here are taken from the X-Ray feature in Prime Video (Scene 5 is the title sequence). Unlike in Season 1, they do not have descriptive names. They do not start their numbering from 1, as Scenes 1 and 2 are reserved for the Amazon Original intro and Disclaimer, respectively.*

## Trivia

* Some details of Raji are briefly shown on a wall in the TASC guest house in Chennai. Her birthday is 21 April 1988, making her 32 years old. Her full name is mentioned as Rajalekshmi Chandran (though it is previously mentioned as Rajalekshmi Sekaran in *Eagle*), and her father’s name is Chandran Asoka.

## External links

* Episode on Amazon Prime Video
* IMDb