<Tr> <Th> No . </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Written by </Th> <Th> Original air date </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> "Ashwathama" </Td> <Td> Vikramaditya Motwane & Anurag Kashyap </Td> <Td> Varun Grover </Td> <Td> 6 July 2018 (2018 - 07 - 06) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="5"> <P> The episode is named after the Hindu legend Ashwathama, who was cursed to suffer human life till eternity, in a way making him invincible . </P> Old time gangster Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) kills an unnamed woman who taunts him about the secret she kept for 20 years . A gunman enters a restaurant, killing almost everyone . Sartaj Singh (Saif Ali Khan), an honest policeman, faces departmental enquiry related to a teenager wrongly shot dead in an encounter by his senior, Parulkar . In the same evening, he gets a call from Ganesh Gaitonde, who starts narrating his journey from being the son of a pious and simpleton Brahmin to becoming a feared gangster of Mumbai in the 80s . Unaware of his true identity, Sartaj ignores him until he drops the name of Sartaj's father, constable Dilbag Singh, in the conversation . RAW listens the whole conversation . Sartaj tracks Ganesh Gaitonde to a small but heavily secured warehouse in a mall, and forces his way through a bulldozer . He confronts Ganesh Gaitonde, who reveals that Mumbai would be destroyed in 25 days and only Trivedi would be saved, and fatally shoots himself . </Td> </Tr> <P> The episode is named after the Hindu legend Ashwathama, who was cursed to suffer human life till eternity, in a way making him invincible . </P>

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