Kan Cicekleri episode 192

 Episode 192 Baran Knows

Quick synopsis: The mystery is gone; the cause remains. Baran goes batshit. The letter comes to light.

Baran asks Dilan one last time, please tell me what's wrong. What are you keeping from me? Talk to me. What 'family'?

And she does. She tells him: she's adopted.

Ooooohhhhh...and he's looking off to the side like he's calculating factors...

He's putting past things together now, this new filter for the information making sense of some things for him. But it seems like his only concern is for her, how they gave her up without a second thought. 

She trusts him. He's merciful. She doesn't want him to hurt her brother now that he knows.

Hanife is still on a rant. Lady, पर्याप्त.

Firat wants to know what's changed with Gul. Didn't they make up? Weren't they going to leave the past behind? But Gul is disillusioned. So many things are working against them, not the least of which is uncertainty that he will stay this new, just course. She tells him they're done. But she's not happy about it.

Dilan's confession changes nothing for Baran. He won't leave her. He would never give her up. For realz. They are her family now, she has them. 

Sabiha made First Dilan's favorite lemon cookies. She's bringing them to Baran's Dilan. This will be fun to watch, like Turkish Petite Madeleines. That bit of jewelry that dropped is still in the van. Baran looks to Dilan when Sabiha shows up. She gives the ok; he nods assent and goes into the house.

Cihan convinces Firat to keep at it. Firat is determined. So is Azade-doom. 

Now, Dilan is a daughter with no mum. Even Kudret can step in for her dad. But there's no one to step in for her mom. It pairs nicely with Sabia who is a mom with no daughter.

Dilan is really freakin' forgiving. I'm a little more with Baran. On the other hand, Sabiha is giving some really good advice to someone who's grieving, having just come out of a hellava not healthy grief bender herself. 

FrownyBaran is having a fit again. He's so pissed at her family. He breaks so much stuff in their bedroom that Cihan hears and comes running, thinking something happened. The room is in pieces. Chairs overturned, tables broken, glassware and pictures shattered.

Cihan can't figure out what made his brother so upset. He gets a tsk from Baran, not a full teethsuck. The pestering is well intentioned after all. But Dilan trusts only him with her secret. No other Karabeys can know she's adopted. He can't tell Cihan why he's so upset.

He tells him.

Good grief people.

Cihan, of course, agrees: Dilan and her well-being are all that matter right now.

Gul and Dilan commiserate. They split a cookie. They're at an interesting point too, Gul being constrained by her mother trying to protect her, and Dian wishing she had the same. Instead she had an awful not-her-mom who essentially sold her off to protect her actual children. 

Hasan and Firat visit Sabiha at her house. Firat signs the contract. Hasan doesn't angle to stick around, like for tea or something, which would be easy to do under the guise of celebrating the deal. Maybe he's over his crush?

Cevahir calls. He knew Firat signed. That thing that just happened. He knew. 

Maybe he is a vampire? We've never seen him sleep... I'll keep an eye out for a box of dirt.

Baran still doesn't trust Sabiha. Even though she's helping Dilan through all this. Knowing who her parents were would help too. But Seyit and Hanife are keeping that under wraps, saying they died, and what does it matter now. Thinking about it, Baran's jaw starts ticking. He's still very upset at how they treated her, as a child, and with how the truth has come out. 

Frownybaran is on the case. He takes off. He will find out who her parents are.

Dilan walks into their bedroom and sees the destruction. Of course she knows immediately it was him. And where he went.

Again, the banging down the door.* Ooooh and he's pretty nasty to them. He grabs Seyit by a fistful of shirt and tells Hanife to shut her face. (Now that I can get behind.) He says a few things to make them feel guilty--like how she was in dire straits so many times--but also this little gem: what if I'd ended up harming her?** It's a galling point he's making, and a little self aggrandizing, but I get it. He's known for being a hard ass and that's all they knew. And they still turned her over.

But then he pulls a gun. (Gangster! Right. *face palm* I forgot.) And that seems a bit much. A little too on the nose and maybe a little more like the thug he's alluded to. 

Maybe that's his point? Seems like overkill though. 

What is even happening right now?

Baran wants answers, that's what. Seyit can't tell him because it means exposing Hasan's part in his parents' shooting. Hanife brings the letter from Dilan's real father. When he reads it, still holding the gun on Seyit, he recognizes the name Hikmet Yilmaz. The man who took the rap for Seyit. 

Dilan is Hikmet's daughter.

That they did all this to the daughter entrusted to them is even worse. We're full-on SnarlyBaran now. Look OUT y'all.

Azade starts in about marrying Silah again. Call him, get this show on the road. (I'd like to see her and Nanny McPhee go head-to-head banging sticks on the ground sometime.)

Sabiha will foil Cevahir's plans and protect Dilan and Baran, even if she has to die to do it. (Foreshadowing or melodrama?)

Dilan bursts in on Baran holding a gun to her dad's throat. (Mark this moment folk, it's not a gun-to-head moment.) And she's ticked. Baran shakes it off. It's nothing.

This transition is spot on. Nothing my ass!

For all his bravado, now Baran will have to answer to Dilan. Except when he says why he's there, she forgets her anger and wants to know where her parents are. He gives her the letter. Her dad has died but her mom may still be alive.

Yelling at the tv:
*The first time it was heroic and yeah, I watched it a bunch of times. But this just seems excessive a second time. They're just sitting there, fer cryin' out loud.

**Ok, now I know this is a completely self indulgent rant about how he could possibly have done real harm to Dilan, but I think they would only make this observation in this show if the character of Baran wasn't so misunderstood. Similarly to how bad people never worry if they're bad. If you worry about it, you're probably not a bad person. So I think this is playing into the trope of the vendetta bride--the really awful version--where the woman would be tortured and killed and then sent back to the family. I hope he's proving that the Demir's actions are equal to what could have been the worst, most demeaning outcome for their daughter. Not only death but a complete denial of self, more property than person. (Gross.)

Like, he would never have done anything bad to her (I mean, he was mean, but not like this) but they all know the history of this tradition. And they did it anyway, fully expecting anything on the spectrum of bad to worse was possible.

No mention of the fact that his family insists on such a thing in the first place. But I digress.

Zippo Hagia Sophias chanted.

Teaser 193:

Baran brings Dilan to her father's grave. Hikmet took the blame for Seyit because he owed him his life. Something about a witness who disappeared.