Crimes Aaj Kal Episode 9, titled The Missing Links, provides an insight into how terrible things can turn out if parents oppose teenage lovers. The crime show hosted by Vikrant Massey and directed by Subbu Iyer, like Anup Soni’s Crime Patrol, dives into the criminal world where teenagers and young adults become culprits for various reasons. The Amazon miniTV series dropped the first three episodes on March 24, 2023, and from then on, every Friday, it will premiere one episode.
The series focus on real crime incidents and, with the help of actors, shows the chilling cases visually to the audience. With gore and violence packed, Crimes Aaj Kal gets on, bringing to light the backstory of the culprits and where things went wrong.
Some cast members are Shailendra Yadav, Praveen Gaur, Bushra Shaikh, Sejal Jaiswal, Jay Malhotra, Vikas Parekh, Narasimhaa, Darshan Dave, Mohit Duseja, Simran Tomar, Bhairavi Raichura, Atharv Manoj Padhye, Het Thakkar, Sandesh Nayak, Revathi Iyer, Nayan Jadhav, Namrata Kadam, Naveen Tyagi and more.
Produced by Vipul D. Shah’s Optymstix Media, each episode features a different crime story where the truth will be unravelled only at the end. Vikrant Massey starts and ends the episodes with an open-end introduction and a final moral message to take home.
– Crimes Aaj Kal Episode 9 Review Contains Spoilers –
The episode starts with a teenager, Geeta eloping from her house. Her written letter is found by her parents, and it’s understood that she has been seeing someone and decided to live with him. Geeta’s father, who has political influence, seeks the cops, and the search begins. Through Geeta’s sister, we find that she has been talking to a guy called Ashish. With this hint, the police try to figure out where Geeta went.
However, during the search, a girl’s corpse is found in a building, and it’s none other than Geeta’s. After getting brutally smashed into the wall, Geeta suffered from a skull fracture and multiple other injuries. Police rule out Ashish through Geeta’s Friends Page. When the police interrogate Ashish, it seems like Geeta has never met or even texted him.
At the same time, there is another missing case of a girl named Jhanvi, who is linked to Ashish. Jhanvi and Ashish have been dating, but on March 14, the girl went missing. The police find call logs of Geeta and spot a number that has been bought by Ashish. This makes the police finalise that Ashish has two numbers through which he has maintained his relationship with both girls. As expected, Ashish is arrested. But, even after showing him evidence, Ashish presses the police that he has no clue about all the calls.
Meanwhile, we learn from Geeta’s mother and her sister that two years back, Geeta was in a relationship with a guy named Pratap. Apparently, Ashish also mentions his friend Pratap as a witness to prove his innocence. The police realise that if they find Pratap, the truth will come out.
After the search warrant goes out, Pratap is finally found in a hotel room with Geeta. Hence, it’s revealed that the corpse is actually of Jhanvi and not Geeta. To live their life, both Pratap and Geeta plan to elope and make it look like Geeta’s dead so their parents won’t interfere. Sadly, Jhanvi and Ashish become their scapegoat. Initially, Pratap intended to kill Ashish as well but ended up taking only Jhanvi’s life since Geeta’s parents are the toughest.
Great Execution of the Plot
The one-hour episode had a chilling ending because it’s a sad reality. Usually, eloped lovers are killed, but in this case, the couple kills someone else to save their life. As said, there have been events similar to this happening in the last few decades, and it’s cold. The director has done a brilliant job of keeping the mystery of the episode perfectly in the box until the end. While it might be easy to spot out Geeta isn’t dead, there were scenes where I convinced myself that Geeta is dead and was murdered by her father. But surprisingly, the ending had other plans, and it was good.
Crimes Aaj Kal Episode 9 Final Thoughts
Compared to the first few episodes, the recent ones are really building curiosity. Almost 6 to 7 episodes were social-media themed, but thankfully, the new ones are unique and fresh. The cast members are completely new, and seeing their good acting skills makes the crime series a great watch.
Crimes Aaj Kal is streaming on Amazon miniTV.
Also read: Crimes Aaj Kal Episode 8 Recap and Review: Young Teenager’s Wrath Holds a Cold Mystery