Final Episode - Selvi

SELVI
A more unsatisfying finish could scarcely be imagined.

At the end of the previous episode, Selvi receives a letter, which she barely glances at. After all the ceremonies are over, she opens the letter, and disovers it is from Tamarai! What does it say? A complete apology, how blind she had been, and how disappointed that Selvi did not come to see her in jail, so that she could apologize to her in person. She had all along misunderstood Selvi's sacrifice,and not heeded her warnings. GJ had come to jail to visit, but not her, just Maya.  He told her how he had managed to separate the two of us, and succeeded in treating me and sending me to jail.  He promised her that from now on he was going to live with her.  Selvi, my friend, my children should not be allowed to live with him anymore.  You must take them away from him and raise them yourself.

After reading this, the fat one heads straight to GJ's  residence.  There she shows him the letter. He crumbles as he reads it and at the end, tries to tear it up.  One would have thought she would have the foresight to take a Xerox copy instead of the original. Anyhow, she manages to grab the letter before he can tear it.  Then she proceeds on an elaborate definition of what a husband and wife relationship is, quoting from the Manu Smriti, no less. The kids show up around this time and are listening.  At the end of all this she says she will not let the kids stay with him anymore.  He says nothing she says that will be the appropriate punishment for him.  The kids speak with their feet and go up to her saying "Father is a bad man.  Let us go with Selvi amma." The three of them walked out of the house.

This gives new meaning to the expression, damp squib.