Dharmayuddhaya

During a nature camp in Manudampura, Achini is secretly filmed in a bathroom by a hidden phone belonging to Shane. The footage becomes leverage for Shane to threaten the family. This incident seeds fear and sets off a chain of coercive events.

Shane pressures Achini to open a store room door at night, threatening to post the incriminating video if she refuses. The coercion demonstrates Shane's predatory intent and escalates the conflict. The family braces for the consequences of exposure.

Rani confronts Shane about the video, but he doubles down and tries to coerce her into sleep with him. The confrontation reveals Shane's dangerous and controlling behavior. This raises the stakes for Achini and the rest of the household.

In a moment of panic, Achini strikes Shane on the head with a pipe, killing him and breaking his cell phone. Realizing they are in trouble, the family hatches a plan to cover up the murder. The scene pivots the story toward a calculated deception.

Rani and Achini hide Shane's body in a compost pit, with their younger daughter Sachini as an eyewitness to the event. The concealment effort is meant to prevent discovery and protect the family. The moral weight of the act haunts the household.

Harishchandra decides to shield his family by manipulating the timeline and evidence. He removes the broken phone and drives Shane's car away, creating a decoy that he hopes will mislead investigators. His actions signal a deeper commitment to the lie.

Harishchandra sinks Shane's car in a river to sever the link to the crime scene. This act intensifies the cover-up and tightens the circle of deceit around the family. The disappearance of the vehicle becomes a key clue for investigators.

To create a plausible alibi, Harishchandra and his family participate in a meditation program in Matale around August 2, with additional outings to a movie and a restaurant. The plan is to show they were elsewhere when the murder occurred. The timing of these events becomes a central focus of the investigation.

Vishaka begins probing Shane's disappearance, questioning business owners and tracing alibis while cross-checking the car rumor. Her team pieces together the initial timeline and grows suspicious of the family's whereabouts. The search widens as inconsistencies emerge.

Harishchandra presents bills for a restaurant, movie tickets, and bus tickets to back up the claimed alibi. Investigators verify these receipts with the owners, who confirm the sequences. The lead initially seems solid, complicating the case for the moment.

Vishaka learns from Therō that DVDs exist about the Matale program, exposing the alibi as a fabrication. With this, she moves to arrest Harishchandra and his family, while Vimal uses force to extract the truth from interrogation. The investigation shifts from accident to deliberate deception.

Sachini, under pressure, reveals what happened, but the digging yields only a calf carcass in the compost pit. The missing Shane remains unaccounted for, complicating the murder narrative and suggesting the body was moved. A closing flashback hints that Harishchandra may have hidden Shane's body in the foundations of the police station.