Kan Cicekleri episode 179

 Episode #179 A Cliffhanger

Quick synopsis: Sabiha's got a gun. Firat needs a friend. Kudret gets real.

Baran is mad. But he was so attentive and worried on the way home. Maybe the two aren't mutually exclusive? 

Best line: I rule the entire family but I cannot rule you. 

No kidding, B. Pretty sure that's a good thing.

Dilan just wants the whole thing to be over. She tells him Sabiha is dangerous to him, more than he knows. Everything Dilan is doing is to end this.

Oh that's news. What does she mean by that? How does she know this? 

She plays it off but he knows something's up.

OMG. Another button lost. Dude needs a better tailor. 
She'll sew it back on. No, he'll do it himself. (I think we all know that's not true.) He relents. Fine, but hurry. He and Kerem have plans. And no, he won't take his jacket off. So she is this close again. His hands cover hers for a moment as he helps her.

Sabiha and her gun are still shutting Havin out. She finally opens up when Havin threatens to break down the door. It all ends today, Sabiha says. She dismisses Havin with enough cash to start over. It's evident this is either prep for a suicide or and action leading to prison. 

Dilan figured the truth would work, knowing Gulsah made it up would end her grief and the revenge. How'd that work out for ya? Baran wants to know. It didn't, obvs. And why? Because people get entrenched (he should know) and don't want to admit their mistakes. He knows this, (told ya) and also knows Dilan went there alone. A recipe for disaster. I suspect some of the anger is fueled by fear for her safety. 

Yep. What if something had happened to her?

Firat needs a friend. He seeks out Kudret. Gul is getting married and he's going to cry. He's devastated. Kudret tells him to follow his heart. (Firat is getting married tomorrow.)* Baran drops this bomb: Dilan and I are not attending.

Kerem brings a file of info on the company that designed Gulsah's ring. Baran tells him Dilan said Sabiha is dangerous and that's the first time she's said that. They're on the right track, but they have to hurry. 

Kudret is going to see Fikri. 

Gul brings tea to Dilan and they talk about boys. Baran will forgive you. Are you really going to marry Silah? 

Sabiha texts an invitation: come to the cliff where Gulsah died. Come alone.

And she's going to do it, that dope. Even though she knows what trouble it will bring. Just because it says 'come alone' doesn't mean you listen! D, c'mon. 

She's afraid of what Sabiha will do in anger if Baran is there too. Still.

Plus, "It will end where it all began" basically means one of three things: 

1. Dilan is going over the cliff, or

2. Baran is, or

3. Sabiha is.

Silah brings flowers.** He does a hand to forehead kiss to Azade. Kader won't though. She asks Azade-doom if she pressured Gul. Azade denies it, but a little too vehemently. Poor Silah. He is so in love.*** 

Fikri is being held in...an abandoned warehouse maybe? Someplace disused and warehousey anyway. Kudret is not a small man, even compared to Fikri, who is hired muscle. And it's pretty apparent where Baran gets that frown. Paired with Kudret's calm demeanor though, it's chilling. And what does he pull out of his pocket? A gun? Nooooo. Not the man who has been at this for years, who grew up in it. A pencil. That's what comes out of his inside jacket pocket. Like Baran says, it's all about how in control you are, how much force you choose to show. Dude is so stone cold he only needs a pencil to make his point. (And now we also know where Baran's habit of snapping pencils comes from too.) The threat is effective: Fikri will tell them who wanted Dilan shot. But he will only tell Baran.

Dilan calls Baran on her way to the cliff. Whew!

Her phone dies mid-call. Oh no!

Baran calls the mansion. Kader tells him she left. 
The movie tickets are fake and now Havin knows. She also knows about Sabiha's gun box. And sees the gun is gone. She calls Baran. 

There's a gun, a cliff, and Dilan, all in play. They are both now racing to get to them.

Firat wants to talk to Gul. Please. Reconsider. (But will he? He's getting married too...)

Dilan makes a valiant effort at trying to make Sabiha understand but everything she says only has her dig in deeper to the lie. She can't let it go. In the end, she pulls the gun out of her purse. 

Baran is terrified on the way there. 

Sabiha wants Baran to suffer loss like she is. 

At the last second, Baran strides between them, grabs the barrel and points it at his own head. He throws a file of evidence down at her feet. In it is a series of photos that show the progression of the photoshopping from a selfie of Gulsah to the photo of her and Baran. Sabiha remembers taking that selfie with Gulsah.

The gun is still inches from Baran's face.

Yelling at the tv:

*Hats off to the woman who plays Derya. She is consistently smug and awful and that's hard to do. Nobody wants to be the obvious villain. 

**When I saw Silah blurred in the background behind Gul, I thought that was Firat coming up the drive. That was a bummer.

***Silah looks like a young Elvis.

0 Hagia Sophia's chanted.

Teaser 180: On the car ride back, Dilan has a panic attack. They pull over. She feels terrible, partly because she knows he'll be angry with her again. He's not. He was just so scared something would happen to her.