Kan Cicekleri episode 154

 Near Death Experience

Quick synopsis: Sabiha visits the mansion. Hasan and Azade decide there's a price Dilan must pay for her betrayal. Baran to the rescue.

Azade has just overheard Dilan tell Baran again, "I wasn't kidnapped. I left." Azade practically has a heart attack on the spot she's so mad. So, no, there will be no good-natured conspiring with Kader to get these crazy kids back together. She confides in Hasan what she's heard and bam! we're off again. They decide she must die for how she's treated Baran--mostly that she tricked the family cuz it's all about pride of the Karabey name with these 2--and with a Nanny McPhee-like pound of her cane, just like that Azade-doom* is back, baby.

Also, Hasan, you rat.

Baran is in the study wondering, why can't I give her up? And quite frankly, I've been wondering the same thing myself. Dilan is ruthless in her efforts. They are equal to the love they stem from, trying to keep him from harm. But geez, it's killing me.  Aside from the fact that this is the point of the show, I keep thinking, 'Dude, just throw her out already, and let's get this show on the road. Next plot point of reconciliation please.' He pulls out a book, and is musing over it, and this is where I wish the subtitlists would go just that extra little step more and throw in a few lines for the books, notes, and documents we see. The impact is not lost on non-native speakers any more than other cultural and language tidbits are--which is to say, we get the gist--but this book seems to have a particular significance. Is it the one his mom left notes in? It looks different. The story of pride that ruined a love? Maybe. I'll see if I can't snag the title and plug it into Google Translate. Or if you know, tell me.

Kerem visits and I'm hopeful he will talk some sense into Baran, like, go talk to your wife bud, but he actually suggests giving her up. It's hurting Baran and he doesn't want his best friend to be sad anymore. But because Baran always does the opposite of Kerem's suggestions, he doubles down, refusing to let her go. And, what Kerem actually came in to say was that Sabiha wants a meeting. This peaks Baran's interest. Let her come.

Sabiha comes to the mansion for the meeting, and lets Baran know his father is looking into her. Kudret joins them and Sabiha has an answer for each of the questions they ask hoping to put holes in the story that Dilan went willingly. In the middle of a shoot-out no less, when she didn't know if her family was alive or dead. But Sabiha answers everything smoothly, seemingly having a perfectly reasonable explanation. It's an oddly symmetrical situation to the Metin subplot when Dilan's old professor hears she's a vendetta bride and tries to help her escape. In that case we knew she didn't want the help, and here we know the help is a lie. One has good but unnecessary intentions, and the other plots nefarious revenge under the guise of aide.

Sabiha is setting the stage for snatching Dilan away again, and under a claim that Baran will not be able to contest.

They come across Dilan as Baran walks her out and as Dilan tries to pacify Sabiha saying she'll come soon (the implication being, so please don't kill him). It has the effect of setting Baran off and he delivers the final blow: I wish I'd never met you. I wish I'd never brought you here. Get out if you want to go.

Et voila. She is packing her bag. 

Firat sees Baran storm off, follows him and catches up with him at the seaside. He truly is concerned and we see Kudret's attention to Firat paying off in other ways: he wants to be there for his cousin. 

We know Baran is serious about kicking Dilan out because he has ordered his men to leave Sabiha's house. Viran confirms it. 

An aside: At one point in their conversation Kerem tells Baran, "You know that weird girl Viran that's always with (Sabiha)?" and I cracked up. Viran-the-weird-girl it is.

But  Viran-the-weird-girl has other news too. On the way out of the mansion, Hasan has grabbed Dilan, muscled her into a car, and is taking her off to kill her. Sabiha is alarmed because killing an innocent woman isn't what she planned, plus we know that Dilan is likely her daughter because of the 2 halves of the medallion. So good call, Sabiha, you'll thank yourself later. It's Sabiha who calls Baran to spur some action to save Dilan. Firat is there when the call comes through. Baran tells him the trouble is Hasan, and Firat sees more of his father's bad choices. His disappointment in him grows.

Hasan's plan is to hold Dilan at gunpoint on a cliff until she jumps (you're still guilty, Hasan you rat) and Baran arrives just in time to grab her and pull her back. We see the same frantic concern from him for her well being as we did for him after her nightmare, and a fevered kiss to her temple.

But! If Hasan didn't tell Viran he'd kidnapped Dilan (Again! Good grief with the kidnapping Dilan y'all) then that means...there's another mole in the mansion!

Yelling at the tv:

Azade-doom came about as a nickname when the family started to realize that she had raised them in this house of doom and gloom. I think one of them actually says "doom" at one point. And, in an am-I-psychic culmination, when Azade went to Berivan's house, they were literally standing across a bridge from one another, a la Khazad-dum, Berivan brandishing her gun like Gandalf's staff, as she yelled at Azade the equivalent of "You shall not pass!" Thus, Azade-doom was solidified as her official nickname for her doom and gloom phases. It truly was a stunning moment when the silliness I joke about actually played out in the plot.

Teaser 155:

We're back to him being at odds with his family to protect her.

But actually it isn't about protecting her, it's about keeping the Karabey name spotless from this scandal. (Liar. It was for love.)

And "we are fellow prisoners in this jail cell of a room".

Also, was there some product placement for the little pot of cream he tosses at her for her ankle cut? The name seemed prominent in the shot.