Kan Cicekleri episode 177

 Episode #177 Baran's Hard Day

Quick synopsis: The Baran pile-on. Gul has a hard choice. Dilan may have found the key.

Opening shot: The entire Karabey household is arrayed behind Baran and Dilan (excellent staging gang!), in opposition to Sabiha and her accusations. And it's Dilan who does the talking, facing off with Sabiha, refuting the lies and proposing the evidence is faked.* She has taken Baran's hand with the statement that this is her home, this is her husband, and she knows him like the back of her hand. Sabiha is believing lies.

Kudret steps in too.

Baran takes his hand back and kicks the box on his way into the house, leaving everyone else outside.

Hasan pipes up. Kudret's immediate response is, 'They're lies. Don't you know Baran at all?' Oof. Dilan feels that one.

Baran has a tantrum. Things--including a portfolio--go flying. He might Hulk out the way his eyes are bugging out and the camera focuses on his face. Dilan comes in. I love how she can always calm him down, or at least startle him out of his fit. He won't forgive her, but she just keeps agreeing with him so he loses some of his bluster. She leaves him with Kudret and Cihan.

Gul is having a bad day too. Azade-doom has threatened marriage to Silah or Kader is out of a job. Now this attack on Baran. What do you cry at more? I don't know, Gul. I'm stumped.

Who gets married to someone they don't love in this day and age? Well... She thinks if she confides in Dilan about Azade's ultimatum, she will go ballistic. Can confirm.

Sabiha is railing at women who can be so blind to men who are harming them. Ironic non, since we suspect someone has set this all up, including duping Sabiha herself to be a pawn in their game?

The Karabey boys are in the study, discussing things. Aunt-Catherine-Azade-doom must have her say in the conversation. She joins them saying if she didn't ask, they'd keep quiet and never say anything. She's not wrong. Kudret nods to Cihan to take grandma off. He and Baran decide they will take a meticulous approach, lay out all the lies and leave no doubts.

Gul helps Dilan examine the evidence from the box. 

We all agree, Gulsah was mentally unstable. Sabiha is proving to be. Even Firat is all, 'Baba, you can't possibly believe all this talk of Baran.' Hasan, the rat, gets an earful about it from Azade too. He backtracks. Everyone makes mistakes, right? And people can surprise you with the bad things they are capable of. 

'Oh you know that from experience, old man?' (Nice one, Firat. )

Azade disparages Sabiha and that sends Hasan into another snit. But then in a rare show of solidarity, (and maybe it's because it's happened like, a billion times before,) she wonders who Sabiha might come after next. Dilan? Firat actually gasps. But then he tells his grandma she's lost her marbles. That'll never happen. M-hm. K.

Derya shows up. "What did I miss?" Best line of the whole episode.

Hasan starts in again. Firat bounces. He comes across Baran. He's there for him, hand on shoulder, just say the word, cuz.

Baran sees Dilan going through the box of stuff and thinks she's on the bandwagon again. No, she's looking for clues to disprove it. He rehashes her suspicions about Serap.

Baran: Just like I told you, there was nothing going on.

Dilan: Just like I told you, she wanted it to be more than just friends.

(Still at an impasse.) 

D: It looks so real. Can you blame me for being shocked?

B: We are supposed to trust each other. I am done talking.

(Im-passe.)

Gul is crying on the patio outside the kitchen. Firat sits down beside her but she has had enough. Everything he does makes it worse. Whatever he thinks has happened, she's had it even worse than that. Now go take your help and shove it. Marry your wife and live happily ever after once you've made your alliance. 

Did it work? we wonder. Has he finally been jarred out of his wallowing by the vehemence of her words?

Dilan tries again. Let me help you sort through this stuff. He huffs and sifts through it. There's movie ticket stubs for a date when he wasn't even in Istanbul. He was in Mardin for a relative's wedding.

Serap calls; she remembers Gulsah. She'll look through her things and try to find some info for them. 

Murat has come to see Baran and Kudret. Who's Murat? Dilan wants to know. He doesn't answer and just walks out.** But we find out that he's the guy who knows the selling history of the guns used in the wedding night raid. They get an address. They send some guys.

Dilan and Kudret talk. Sometimes you are both right in an argument. She gets a Baba hug.

Hasan pushes Firat to accept Sabiha's offer. Gul weighs her options. Dilan demands to know from Baran what is going on. He walks off but when she tries to follow, she trips (c'mon gang, really?) and he catches her. Is that banter I see? Or animosity? Or, I-want-you-more-than-you-know?

Azade and Hasan are both rats, trying to get a rise out of Gul at dinner; she however, is steady-handed. (That's our girl!) Hasan starts in on Baran again, before he can even get a forkful to his mouth. 'And?' Baran demands? Hasan backs down. Baran does a sniff-thing instead of teeth-suck. Like the disdain didn't make it all the way down his face to his mouth. It still means Baran is in charge, no matter the gesture. I swear, Azade wants to smack Hasan upside the head, the look she gives him. He starts in again! Kudret's scowl could turn him to stone. 'Enough!' Baran shouts. Hasan's retort is basically 'neener neener neener'. I think he's 12. Hasan, you rat. Ugh, these boys.

In a rare show of weakness, Baran slams the door to the study and slumps back against it. It's all a little much.

Dilan brings dinner up to FrownyBaran in their room. He's going through the stuff in the box again. He's not hungry. Fine, she'll wait. Is that a hint of a smile on his face? And her expressions are delightful, full of mischief. He is! He's smiling!

Gul agrees to Azade's demands. She'll marry Silah.

Dilan remarks how Gulsah should have known better than to say he designed the wedding ring. (It's a big silver rose.) It's totally not his style. Oh, this catches his attention. He asks how she thinks he would have designed it. When she describes what she thinks he would do, she nails it.

Serap sends a photo. In the background, behind her and Baran, is Gulsah, stalking them from behind a tree.

Dilan thinks she has discovered the key to proving it's all lies. She throws her arms around him. He looks so confused for a moment. 

Aw, come on Baran, you know how this goes. Hug her back. Hold her tight.

Yelling at the tv:

*This is a scene where you can see Baran's John Kranski-ness. 

**I can't believe that after all this time, I'm analyzing his silent stalk-outs. Like he does here when Murat shows up. Because, he does it all the time. It shouldn't even peak interest at this point: It's a plot device; he's the head of the family and can do as he pleases. He's a grump; he is punishing her out of spite. Take your pick. But I'm going to say this time, specifically, he doesn't want her to know because he thinks it would upset her. I'm putting a little trust in you, Baran. Like you've shown us, that the FrownyBaran bit is usually because of good intentions that we just aren't privy to yet.

Teaser 178:

Dilan has been up late researching and cross referencing. She wakes Baran up, excited by an idea. He wonders, hasn't she slept yet? No, but she'll go to sleep now. He's left awake, thinking. He's crabby in the morning but she's chipper and won't be left behind.

0 Hagia Sophias chanted.