
Lastly, we’re only blessed with a small amount of Anjali but it’s a very significant moment. With this the audience is shown a manipulative side of her personality, making the character much more interesting. Speaking of Zoya, we last saw her giving herself a black eye and alerting Palukar, subtly, that it was her boyfriend likely high on cocaine. He quickly realizes that he had seen her picture before as someone associated with Gaitonde. Shortly after Patekar’s death, Sartaj goes through his wallet in memory and comes across a picture of his favorite actress, Zoya. Sartaj and his fellow officers end up shooting all involved with no hesitation, guilty or not. However, while investigating a routine theft, possibly related to the son’s murder, Patekar himself ends up killed by one of the thieves.

He tortures a lead in the case in order to relieve his anger, and then “feels like a real cop” again.

Enraged and disappointed in himself, he seeks to find the party responsible for the murder. Patekar, who took on a missing persons case for a young man’s mother, solves the case after the young man was murdered. In the present, Sartaj is back on the police force following his perjury about the young man who was killed. Taking back control, Gaitonde has regained his confidence and earned his wife’s respect and approval in the murder. Gaitonde kills the traitor and his brother (despite promising that he would forgive the brother) for good measure. The mole cites Bunty’s presence and religion as the reason for his betrayal.

With the help of then-officer Palukar, Gaitonde has a tape of his rival Isa’s niece’s wedding and discovers one of his own men at said wedding, making him the mole for Gaitonde’s gang. Now married, he finds himself impotent and has lost all confidence and control. In the past Gaitonde is at his absolute lowest following the deaths of both Kuku and Paritosh in such a short period of time. In episode 6 of Sacred Games, “Pretakalpa,” the parallel lives of Gaitonde and Sartaj become more similar to each other than ever before.
