Kan Cicekleri episode 168

Episode #168 The Secret Code

Quick synopsis: Dilan skips an argument. None of your beeswax, Firat. A secret code revealed.

Cihan found out Baran went to meet with Turgut and he is anxious. Dilan tries to calm him down, again. Zumrut is in touch with info on a nurse named Gulten; Dilan should talk to her. Someone else gets to Turgut first. He misses his meeting with Baran.

Firat is playing she-loves-me, she-loves-me-not with a stick. Kudret sees him and (hand on shoulder) checks in. His advice is to think on what he might have done wrong in love. But, what if he didn't do the wrong and it was done to him? 

"Ah, son..." (bring it Kudret) "That's what I mean. The mistake is never one-sided." Don't think about the wrong done to you. You can't do anything about it anyway.* Think about your own actions. He continues to build him up, offering encouragement. Basically, teaching him how to be a well-adjusted adult.

Dilan is reading the book when Baran returns from his hijacked meet-up. Rather than fight again, she feigns sleep. She fakes being asleep! Like, we see her make the decision to just...nah, no thanks. It's beautiful. He comes in hot-tempered and yelling but is disarmed by her asleep *wink wink* in the chair. He tries to take the book but she holds fast.

Are you faking it?

One eye opens. I don't want to argue, she replies.

Disarmed again.

He starts in again about not doing anything without asking him first, blah blah blah. And she retorts, oh yes, Baran knows best. And (this is great) that's all well and good but you should remember that now you're dealing with Dilan Karabey (with echo effect). She takes that and throws it right back at him, and rightfully so. And you can see in his face, he's thinking, "Oh really?" but he's damned impressed, in spite of himself.

She literally breaks free of his hold on her arm and faces off with him. And her reasons are sound: she doesn't want their family to be hurt or sad. 

Disarmed yet again.

He insists, more mildly now, that she consult with him at least. This marks a change in his approach, an invitation to be a part of, rather than governed by, the plan he has. It implies trust that she will come to him and a willingness to listen.

Hasan (the rat) rats her out to the family. It was her, she let Turgut go. She admits it. Baran stands by her. Sort of. He's not mad now but she should have consulted him. Even as he tried to mediate the transgression in front of everyone, it's still damning in the eyes of the family. Kudret stands up for her though. They don't have all the facts.

Sabiha, meanwhile, tells Turgut to disappear. It was her guys that nabbed him. Leave his family, leave everything behind.

Gul and Dilan decide to try to figure out Sabiha's next move.

Baran insists to Azade-doom that Dilan was right in her actions.

Cihan thinks prison would have been an ok price to pay. My dude, think of your family without you.

Dilan wants to see what Baran has on Sabiha so she is searching the study when Baran walks in. She breaks from his grip again. (Seriously, FrownyBaran, enough with the arm-wielding.) Neither will give an inch.

Baran: Don't you get sick of being questioned?

Dilan: Of constantly being accused of everything? Don't you get sick of accusing?

Baran: No! Because whatever it is she's hiding, he'll find it. "I'm so close." (He really is.)

Seyit found out about Gulsah being in a traffic accident. It's just that, but he relays it to Dilan anyway.

Kudret takes Cihan out for target practice. Bottles? No problem. A bird? Nope, can't do that. Taking a life is not so easy, yah?

Well played, Baba, well played.

Firat overhears a call between Gul and Silah. He demands to know what's going on. None of your beeswax, Firat. Don't be a toad.

It's bedtime and Dilan is reading the book but stops and puts it away when he comes in. It bugs him. What's in that book?

She's asleep but he is most definitely not. He just can't let the thought of that book go. NosyBaran. And really, isn't this what we've been waiting for him to do?

He takes the book to the study, for privacy. SneakyBaran.

It's a code! SneakyDilan.

She's circled letters and he writes each one down, in order, in a separate notebook. He works on it all night. And discovers it's her love letter to him. When she was kept from him. Kept from. And he figures it out. It's similar to the dream sequence they shared at Cihan's play.

He goes back up to their room, rejuvenated. Hair caressing, forehead kiss.

Yelling at the tv:
I swear, I'm going to start counting teeth-sucks rather than Hagia Sofias.

Culturisms:

*I often get the feeling the advice from Kudret and Ahmet is a lot like the life lessons from Little Women. Here's a life circumstance, here's how to work through it. I take issue with some of the show's controlling behavior, but the advice is *chef's kiss*.

It took me a long time to figure out what that fence by the pool is. It keeps people from walking out onto a garage roof and taking a tumble.

Teaser 169: 

Guests are coming to the mansion. Party?

Firat is with you, Baran. He's got your back. They are united as a family. 

Baran hasn't let on that he knows about the secret message in the book, but he bought new clothes for her. Clothes befitting his wife. He moves in a little closer and repeats. His. Wife.