Kan Cicekleri episode 174

Episode #174 Sabiha Tells All

Quick synopsis: The campout continues. Who did the what betrayal now? Baran is a killer, maybe.

Dilan and Baran are stargazing during their campout. He takes her hand and together they are pointing at the North Star. They are. Nose to nose. No Joke.

Sabiha and Havin are...watching them??? From the tree line. It's as weird as it sounds.

Wait a second. Now there's someone watching Sabiha watching them. And he's taking a photo. And texting it to someone.

Kudret is reading in his room. He is interrupted by a ping on his phone. It's the photo of Sabiha watching them. It's Kudret's man following Sabiha, for Baran and Dilan's protection.

Gul is confused about what she overheard Derya say to Firat. What betrayal is she talking about? She would never! Firat walks into the kitchen, head down, and is surprised when he looks up and sees her. She almost asks him, but then leaves instead.

Still no signal for roadside assistance for Baran. (Not really.) Guess we'll have to sleep here. In this magical night, where neither of us is sleepy. Chilly though. Baran brings a blanket from the truck.* It's for her. He doesn't need it. She shares anyway.

Sabiha is back home and she is losing it, y'all. Their love is so stubborn! Everything she does only throws them more together. She's flingin' things around the room, giving Baran a run for his money.

Baran and Dilan wake up and just cuddle for a bit, but then are interrupted by Baran's phone ringing. Ooops. Guess he's got cell service after all. Eh-hem. The jig is up. And guess what? Nobody cares! Smiles all around.

Gul confronts Derya instead. What betrayal? Ooooh, Derya gets that nasty grin going. She doesn't answer to Gul. Now bring her some coffee.

They are back at the house. Baran is smiling. Smiling.

Kerem has also dropped by. There's a development about Gulsah. We don't find out what it is.

Sabiha has a silver rose ring that was Gulsah's. It looks very similar in style to Dilan's hair clip. And...a wedding dress? Ordered but never picked up. Delivered after Gulsah's death. 

Dilan is out of the shower and brushing her damp hair.

"Let me," says Baran. He tells her, she is the first woman for whom he's done this. All his firsts are with her. But she was so terrible to him, she replies. How can he say that?

"Pain that comes for you is a gift." (Uhhhh, I wouldn't say that, exactly.)

But this is a very intimate thing, the hair brushing.

He pulls out his mother's scarf, the inspiration for Delal. He gives it to her again, apologizing for what he said before. He doesn't even get the full apology out before she throws her arms around him in forgiveness. He drops the scarf to the bed and pulls her tight to him. Kisses her cheek. They are clinging to each other, to their new beginning..

Hasan and Derya plot to convince Azade-doom to throw Gul out. But she ain't buying it.

Seyit has news. There is a record of Sabiha before her marriage. I'm not sure why this is important, but I've filed it away for later. Let's hope Dilan does too.

Kudret shows Baran the photos his guy took. No sound, but a full-beard-grimace-teeth-suck from Baran.

Gul confides in Dilan about the supposed betrayal. Sabiha calls while they are talking. She will tell Dilan everything about Gulsah. Gul is skeptical. (She's got good instincts, does our Gul.) Dilan tells Baran about the offer. She wants to go; he is very against it. They'll go together, he proposes. He'll stay by the gate. She wears Ayten's scarf as a talisman. Baran is pleased. 

It's good to see them back on the same page. It feels like after all this time, they are finally almost back to wedding level comfort with each other.

Hasan harasses Firat about his upcoming marriage to Derya; think of all the things it will get them. It just exacerbates everything about his life that he's sick of: his dad, Derya, the scheming, the animosity with Baran, the constant trying to live up to someone else's standards. But he's worn down too and it's just easier to give in.

Actually, Azade does buy into Derya's distress and subterfuge. (Again.) I think she plans to marry Gul off to Silah. She does! That's totally her plan. By her reckoning, Gul is the problem. Kader stands up to Azade-doom though and puts a stop to it. She won't let Gul marry someone she isn't in love with and she won't ruin that other person's life with a loveless marriage. And she does it so calmly too. I'm reminded of Azade's previous falling out with her and how Baran had to practically beg Kader to come back. It's like the worst happened, and since then, Kader just isn't interested in the bossy pushing around anymore. She just very calmly and plainly tells Azade, no. She gets to be in the mage club with Kudret and Ahmet.

Dilan is at Sabiha's, in the shrine bedroom. There's a letter (in Baran's handwriting?) and a photo of the two of them next to each other. This seems like a big deal but it's all pretty circumstantial so far. In the photo, they're not looking at each other, not even close. It could be a photo of two people walking one behind the other even. But the letter though, if it's even Baran's handwriting, the letter could be damning. It says you are my first love and you'll be my last. How to verify it's from him though?

It does come across as pretty definitive to Dilan and the background music though. Maybe I missed something in the dialogue that didn't make it to the sub titles. 

What the hell. I'm so confused. All that hair brushing talk seems like a farce now. 

And out comes the ring. He made it. And proposed with it.

What. The. Hell.

Outside, Baran is getting antsy. FrownyBaran stares down a guard. No words, just stares. Poor guy cracks and opens the gate,

Dilan sees the wedding dress.

Gul has had enough. She finally confronts Firat. She demands to know, what betrayal?

Sabiha takes Dilan outside. Baran follows them across the grounds. She takes Dilan to her hole in the ground. It's her open grave for her daughter, never to be filled. (It's starting to get Crazy Lady in here again.) 

Baran can see them but can't hear what's being said. 

He led her on and then dropped her. Gulsah died to keep Baran from leaving her. Sabiha shouts, he's a killer! Dilan looks at him, horrified.

Yelling at the tv:
*Seriously, so much camping gear.

It's a night  shoot because of the star gazing. Sabiha's makeup is a lot heavier and darker.

Culturisms:

We never find out anything about Kader's and Azade's husbands. Not needed for the plot? Did I miss something that wasn't in the subtitles for me to read? We don't know about Firat's mom either. So I don't think it's a gender biased thing.

Teaser 175:

Dilan is freaking out. All the things he told her about being his first love are a lie. Baran is bewildered. What's wrong? She won't talk to him. She Is plagued by the idea that she married a cold-blooded killer. Baran is convinced he's close to discovering Sabiha's past.