Scene 14 – It’s Big Time Buddy!

PDSC settled into a comfortable couch and sipped his beer at TV. These were small time rogues. Not much money. Just the satisfaction of some dadagiri. He looked at the video camera. Was it really the ACP's machine? He picked it and inspected it. Odd. One of the connectors had a broken wire. He checked and found it was not a digital camera. Damn. Old tape camera. He rewound the tape to see what was recorded. He sipped as the tape whirred back and started to play. The images started to show and PDSC watched. Vaguely bored. And then it happened. He saw a familiar face. Voices. A conversation on phone. Damn! He couldn't believe what he was seeing. It was just unbelievable, what he had chanced upon. This was something really big, the ramifications will be huge. Will involve the country at large. Maybe finally a chance to be on the national stage, forget even local locality popularity. He could become a national hero overnight. The image changed. Now he saw a terrified face of Vince diving towards the camera. And then it went blank.

Gulping down the beer PDSC hurried out, calling the Cop who located the camera. Where had he found the camera? As he got the details he rushed to Ayah Park. The bush. He looked inside. And there it was. A broken wire. Apparently the camcorder had been planted there to record something. Who would have done this? He had to find whoever was operating this. There could be more information. He could then plan his action.

He whipped out his cell phone again. Call the local electronics guy. Find out who bought surveillance equipment in recent times. Not Corporates. Any individual. He didn't think any corporate would be involved in this. Fifteen minutes. The information was on hand. Six hotels had bought equipment. Mostly for CCTV. One individual name stood out. Purchase on credit. The buyer had to give his personal information. PDSC smiled. Not just the address, he could get his entire jathaka now!!! Its big time buddy, he told himself.