The Night Manager Season 1 – TV Series

Episodes 01

“Zakhm”

Former Indian Navy Lieutenant Shantanu “Shaan” Sengupta, is currently working as a night manager in a premiere star hotel in Dhaka, amidst the Rohingya genocide in 2017. He is approached by Safina Kidwai, wife of the majority share owner of the star hotel, Freddie Rehman, to help her escape to India. Upon his refusal, she steals his phone and discreetly records a meeting between Shaildendra “Shelly” Rungta and Freddy, about buying and smuggling illegal arms into Bangladesh. She also takes pictures of the paperwork and returns the phone to Shaan, so that he can view everything. Upon seeing everything, he contact his friend, Vikram Bhagwat, of the Indian High Commission in Dhaka, to share the information and evidence. Vikram, sends the information to RAW officer, Lipika Saikia Rao, who is the in-charge of Bangladesh, in New Delhi. She has been keeping tabs on Shelly and believes that the evidence she received from Safina and Shaan is enough to officially go after him. She requests Shaan to keep Safina safe for a night, till she arrives in Dhaka the next afternoon. Meanwhile, both Freddie and Shelly come to know about their meeting being leaked; Shelly asks Freddie to kill Safina. He, along with his men, search the entire hotel for her. Shaan takes Safina to a new wing that is currently under construction in the star hotel, for safekeeping. The next day, as he goes out to get food for Safina, he calls Lipika to inquire about her current whereabouts, however, Lipika realizes that her phone has been bugged and orders Shaan to hurry back to Safina. He comes back just as Safina falls to her death from the wing. Her death is ruled as a suicide by the local police, who say that she stole jewelry from the high-profile guests in the hotel and jumped as she was caught. This devastates both Shaan and Lipika, knowing completely well that both Freddie and Shelly were behind her death. This prompts Shaan to leave his job.

Two years later, Shaan now lives a reclusive life in Shimla, working as a night manager in a star resort. He is constantly haunted by his failure of not being able to save Safina back in Dhaka. However, one day, his superior tells him that Shelly, along with his associates, is coming to stay in the resort for a few days.

Episodes 02

“Mission”

After Shelly and his team arrive, Shaan collects strong information, from the trash in his room, and mails it to Lipika. Over the course of his stay, Shelly constantly runs into Shaan. Each time, he is impressed with Shaan’s demeanor. He even gives his coat to Shaan, as token of remembrance, as he leaves the resort. The next day, Shaan is visited by an undercover Lipika, who has now been demoted to the archives section of the agency. They both decide to infiltrate Shelly’s syndicate. After a dramatic set-up orchestrated by Lipika and her co-worker, Sarang, Shaan is able to reach Sri Lanka, by posing as an international runaway, to get close to Shelly.

He saves his son, Taha, in a fake kidnapping planned by Lipika. However, to further make it look real, he purposefully gets injured. Upon seeing and searching Shaan, both Shelly and his righ-hand man, Brij Pal alias BJ, find a Sri Lankan passport with a different alias, on him. They decide to take him with them, for his recuperation

Episodes 03

“Mehmaan”

Shaan, as a result, successfully infiltrates Shelly’s gang and succeeds in creating chaos amongst them. Shaan eventually finds out that Shelly is on the verge of bankruptcy and plans to go to Riyadh, to meet Bargati, an oil baron, with the hopes of making a deal with him. He also finds out that he has an Indian partner going by the alias, Indra Dhanush. Using Shelly’s lawyer, G. V., Lipika plants a set-up in Riyadh, to get BJ arrested, under homosexuality, which is banned in the Middle East.

Episodes 04

“Sweetly-waala”

After it is successful, Shelly, with no other way out, offers Shaan the CEO position, which was previously occupied by BJ, for 30 years. Intending to take him out from the inside, Shaan happily agrees to the offer.

Episodes 05

“Abhimanyu”

Lipika’s team shows Danish that Shelly has a man named “Indranush” working with him, and calls made to someone in RAW, implying that Mittal is Indranush. Lipika & Danish goes to Mittal’s boss, with copies of notes with GV’s handwriting on them. Meanwhile, Shelly gives Shaan the new identity of Abhimanyu Mathur, the new CEO of Shelly’s agricultural front, replacing BJ. Shaan’s retina scan is also used to authorize Shelly’s bank transactions. Shelly takes Shaan with him to set-up a deal. GV comes a day later, and is picked up by Shelly & Jayu, while Shaan sleeps with Kaveri. Shelly shows GV that Lipika had a copy of his notes, and kills him. Meanwhile, Mittal talks to Lipika and Danish, and tells them that while he is Indranush, Shelly is supposed to be working for him, not the other way around, and tells Lipika to shut down her operation. Lipika tries to get Shaan out, but he refuses, escaping with Shelly & his crew.

Episodes 06

“Magic Trick”

Mittal wants the name of Lipika’s inside man, but she refuses, so he sets up a committee hearing regarding Lipika’s operation. Meanwhile, Shelly tells Shaan that someone in his crew is working for Lipika, but can’t figure out whom. In Dubai, Shaan performs a weapons demonstration to a handful of generals, as well as a stranger, Mr. “What’s in a Name.” Shelly uses Kaveri to convince Shelly that BJ is working for Lipika, and kills BJ, claiming he was trying to escape. Shaan sends a list of trucks to Lipika that he believes contains weapons. Danish sends the info to the US Military, but they only find oil in the trucks. Later, on Shelly’s plane, Shelly tells Shaan that the only weapons he brought to Dubai were ones for the demonstration. The actual weapons are held elsewhere, where they will finalize the weapons deal. When Shaan wakes up, he learns that they’re now in Dhaka, and are going back to the same hotel he worked at. Meanwhile, Lipika comes home to find her husband brutally injured, and is nearly killed by one of Shelly’s men.

Episodes 07

“Imarti”

After Lipika & her husband narrowly escape death, she finally convinces Mittal that Shelly cannot be trusted. Mittal gives her 48 hours to get hard evidence on Shelly to take him down. In Dhaka, Shelly introduces “Abhimanyu” to Freddie. Shelly reveals that they’re finalizing a deal with Mr. “What’s-in-a-Name”, who plans to use the weapons on India. They receive half the money, and will receive the other half after showing the weapons tomorrow. Shaan asks Kaveri to give him the code to Shelly’s safe, so Lipika can infiltrate while Shelly’s partying. After Freddie gets too drunk, Shaan takes him home, where he kills him for revenge on Safina, and learns the location of Shelly’s weapons. Meanwhile, Shelly receives a call from BJ’s spy, who tells him that Taha’s kidnapping was a set-up. While trying to use Shaan’s retina scan, Shelly learns that his phone was swapped. Shaan shows What’s-in-a-Name that he rigged the explosives to blow, destroying all of Shelly’s weapons. When they return to the hotel, Lipika greets Shelly, who believes Mittal will help him. However, evidence recorded by Shaan gets Shelly arrested instead. Shelly assumes that he’ll escape prison, until the officers in his van leave, and What’s-in-a-Name’s right hand man starts driving the van instead. Kaveri is free to go home to her son, and Shaan goes to the hotel wing where he stayed with Safina, happy that her killers have been brought to justice.