Kan Cicekleri episode 165 part 2

 Episode #165 Late Night Visit - Part 2

Quick synopsis: Kudret keeps trying. Dilan doesn't get hurt. Dilan's Goth box of mementos.

Hasan makes a play to free Turgut. The guard who's sweet on Gul says no. He slinks away and calls Sabiha.

Kudret keeps pushing to get those crazy kids together. Come here, he says. Sit in the gazebo, he says. Your postponed trip to Italy, maybe now? He suggests. You seem so worn out from the past few weeks. Sure, they both agree, under duress. Actually, Dilan adds, that would really be great, to take some time for just us. Baran is surprised. Stay here and chat, Kudret says. Then leaves.

Dilan asks about Baran's wound. He gets mad at the show of affection. His father is gone. She doesn't have to talk to him.

He can't understand her problem / secret so his scope is narrowed to seeing everything through that one filter. She walks off, but hears some rustling in the bushes.

She calls out for him, alarmed. Suddenly the secret doesn't matter and he is off like a shot. She's laying on the ground. She comes around as he pulls her up.

OMG. It's a cat. In a tree. You guys. Srsly. 

They feed the cat and she comments how they make a good team. Oops, ran up against that boundary again. Everything runs through the you're-keeping-something-from-me filter.

Kader saw an old classmate of Gul's at the market. Firat overhears about the notes the handsome and tall Salih passed her in class. Oooh, and Salih wants a date. Oh, Firat-bey. Did you want something? Head outside and I'll bring it, says Kader.

Sabiha brings over a box* of Dilan's things she "left". Dilan tells her to get lost. Was the knife not a clear enough sign for you? Get out of our lives. Baran sees her take the box (of her stuff, geez FrownyBaran, back off). Sabiha will leave but she has one last question.

Yelling at the tv:

* That box looks like a Goth dream. Who has a black lace box just laying around? Sabiha, you weirdo.

1 very close up, thus loud, Hagia Sophia chanted.

Baran's attitude has me a little miffed and confused. Where is the "I'll never stop loving you in a million years" Baran? The changed man Baran? I think that's what bugs me about his return to throwing things in a fit and getting all defensive again, telling her she can stop the act. He was supposed to have grown beyond that. After having grown up in the vendetta doom household atmosphere, loving Dilan changed him. 

One thing this show has always done really well is to not make the back and forth about nothing. Any flipflopping of viewpoints or feelings inherent in these kinds of shows--necessary really--has always been a careful ministration of interlocking events. We love when one person comes around only to find the other one has just uncovered a truth to change their mind to the opposite. But this show, while using all the normal devices like eavesdropping and partial info, has always done this dance really well. And it's like they just said, meh, he's just mean sometimes again.

Maybe I've forgotten the whiplash from earlier in the show. But I'm not seeing the motivation for the mood swings anymore. Maybe witnessing Dilan exit through Sabha's gate affected him more than I realized? It's a strange piece in an already incongruous puzzle. And it has all the trappings of falling on the side of traitorous and damning rather than innocent and driven to desperation. Especially after all the lies she's told him, then recanted. Now maybe they were actually true? I guess I get it. 

His words to Cihan about not acting impulsively come ringing back. And that would make sense. He wants to gather more intel before passing judgement. He hates when he doesn't understand the motive. He can forgive lots of weird and damning behavior for pure motives. But he doesn't know on which side this action falls, and it's eating him up. 

I can't believe I'm going to say this, but is this a set-up where Dilan gets hurt again and that's how he finally finds out the truth? And he is so distraught that she's been the victim and how she was trying to save him--all the things--and that's how he rededicates himself to her? I'm all for the change of heart, but can we not have this rely on hurting the girl being the only answer to their problems?