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Manohar: Sir, Karthik has also confessed to their crime.

Vijay: (With a Malicious grin) Constable arrests these two men and takes them to the holding
cell, they are going to jail for a long time.

Manohar: (Respectfully) Sir, Yes Sir.

The Constable picks Mohan forcefully and drags him out of the room. Exit Mohan and
Manohar
The inspector relaxes back in his chair and takes a sigh of relief having the contention of
catching another criminal Enter the Museum Curator Rajesh, A man in his mid-30s smiling
maliciously. He walks towards the inspector and shakes his hand

Rajesh: I can't believe you pulled this off.

Vijay: Don't think I did it from the kindness of my heart. I want my 50% share from selling
the painting. Although I am curious, when did you steal the painting?
Rajesh: (Smirks) I paid one of the waiters at the Gala to remove the painting, put it in a
garbage bag, and dump it in the dumpster. When the event ended, the garbage was dumped
outside the back entrance. There was less security at the back gate, so I recovered the painting
from there.

Vijay: What a master plan! And tell me how much money are we going to make from this?
Rajesh: Well, I found a buyer willing to pay 50 lakhs for the painting. We will make 24 lakhs
each. I guess you must make small sacrifices for the big reward. They burst into laughter
referring to the money deposited by the inspector into Karthik’s and Mohan’s account

Rajesh: Hey, I can’t take all the credit, your idea of depositing money into their bank
accounts was a master-stroke.
Vijay: Well everyone breaks eventually; all you need to do is keep pressing harder and harder.
Once they break like a twig, it is effortless to manipulate them to do your bidding.
(They both laugh, shake hands and exit from the door on the far right)

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