Kan Cicekleri episode 165 part 1

 Episode #165 Late Night Visit - Part 1

Quick synopsis: Dilan makes a move. A more intimate change of the bandage. The Karabey boys might have a problem.

Dilan has. A knife. To Sabiha's throat. She is laser focused on one thing: Sabiha will never touch Baran again. Viran comes in, gun drawn. I really think Dilan is going to cut her. She has that crazy look about her and she really has nothing to lose at this point. After a lot of criticizing from Dilan, and a promise to leave her the heck alone, she relents and takes the knife away.

Sabiha's 1/2 of the medallion falls out of her shirt as she's catching her breath. It hangs down but she clamps her hand over it just as Dilan glances at her. Perfectly choreographed, gang!

Viran hasn't let up and Dilan stares her down, forehead to the gun barrel a la Baran.* Viran relents and Dilan walks out.

But someone in a hoodie is watching her leave Sabiha's house.

Sabiha is shook up. She is struck again by the similarity to Dilan and Gulsah, her 2nd daughter. Who was, I guess, similar to Dilan in many ways: innocent, guileless...and also in love with Baran? This whole Gulsah backstory is strange to me still. She's feeling guilty about pushing Dilan this way. Dilan was not even nervous about what she was doing; her hands never shook. Creating another tragedy isn't what she wanted. She'll just focus on Baran from now on. (Great. What a relief that is.)

Gul is cleaning the kitchen, remembering her encounter with a regretful Firat, and squeezing the life out of a washcloth. That's right Gul. Squeeze his cold, black heart. He, meanwhile, has kept the earrings she gave back.

Dilan sneaks back into bed and falls asleep, Baran none the wiser. 

Wanna bet?

Baran is awake! And it was him in the hoodie! A teeth-suck. He's vexed. He vows to find out what secret she is hiding. Very Soon. #trap?

Viran's hair is down! Y'all. She looks like a completely different person.

Dilan has a nightmare that Baran is dead. She wakes up yelling, "Don't leave me!" and he's confounded but also worried. And...grateful? But's she's really shaken, clinging to him again. She sobs that's she's so sorry. He uses a breathing trick his mom did for him when he had nightmares. He holds her hands in his as they sit facing each other on the bed.

And now, the good part from the teaser. Yowza.

He can't change his bandage by himself in the bathroom. She's upset with him. Why didn't he wait, and darn it, she's coming in, so look out. She peels off the bandage he used and dabs at the wound (which still looks terrible) all the while barely even inches between them, sometimes foreheads resting on each other. They want so desperately to be close to one another. He smells her hair. Gulps a little. Remembers her apology. Small teeth-suck. Not quite willing to trust her again. Another little gulp. He was totally going to lean in. Their mouths are so close...

Buttoning up the shirt again, this time from the top down...

It has an effect. 3rd little gulp. Shuddering breath.

But he just can't let it go. FrownyBaran asks, "Where do you go last night?"

Ohhhh, that...

Because if she's visiting Sabiha, he doesn't trust this revived concern and tenderness. It's a reverse of what he thought was the case. He's had to reevaluate so many times. She was kidnapped; she left. He rescued her; she played him. Option #1: Thought she was kidnapped / tricked you for revenge vs. Option #2: Is she in cahoots / or she loves you still. Still too many mixed signals for him to be sure.

Dilan and Gul confab. Dilan is so tired of all the deception. They compare their situations and how they are so similar. Love the guy, can't tell him (still not sure why in Dilan's case). They continue to grow onto more common, cousinly, ground.

Baran storms into the study smacking things around and breaking shit again. Dude. No grown man should have that many regular tantrums. Kerem confronts him. Why you trippin', bro? It's her (it's always her) whom he trusts and loves--nope, didn't almost say that out loud.

Kerem: Have you tried talking to her?

And this, this is why I love Kerem. That's basically always his advice. We're the same, he and I. And class, what do we know about Baran taking Kerem's advice? Nope. Nada. No-go. In fact, he'll do exactly the...anyone? Anyone? Buehler? Opposite. He'll do the opposite.

For now, more investigating: all her company's investments. On his desk asap. (Why? You're just going to throw it off again.)

We see Dilan in full religious attire with just her face and hands showing. It's the most religious we've seen her. Aside from the yearly memorial for Ayten, we haven't seen too much. Just the occasional prayer for guidance. And while those aren't without weight, this noticeably stands out. It seems set up to contrast the wild-eyed, out-of-character Dilan who almost knifed Sabiha. A return to what that character is known for: truth, humility, forgiveness.  There could also be some honor your husband stuff in there too, I'm not sure. And if her late night visit with the knife put the audience off, this seems meant to rehabilitate that opinion.

The Karabey boys are having a confab too. Dilan brings them tea to the study and overhears that Turgut is just the patsy taking the blame. Cihan is jumpy, chomping at the bit. Baran says wait. They need Turgut nervous. Acting impulsively will only trip them up. It gets heated when Cihan insists. Baran doesn't like yelling at his little brother. Kudret is worried too, though. They'll keep an eye on him.

Culturisms:

* Is putting your forehead on the gun barrel a common move in love gangster dizi? Or just this one?

Why do they fold their hands like that when they sleep? Ditto love dizi?

Yelling at the tv:

How do they sleep with all the lights on all the time? Have I mentioned this? Or is it just a production thing and needing light to shoot the scene?

Their new bed comforter looks like they are sleeping under rocks. It's like an Elvish cloak concealing them.