Kan Cicekleri 194

Episode 194 Dilan Takes Charge

Quick synopsis: Firat is leaving. The dads keep their secret. Baran backs her up.

We have new opening shots thrown into the mix. Baran on a horse in the paddock and Dilan in the road by the fence remain.

There's a lot of scenes lately to counteract Dilan feeling alone in the world, like she has no one. Her old family isn't really her family, and the Karabeys--Baran in particular-- are spending a lot of time reassuring her. It's a two-pronged effort. First, there's the deepening connection she feels to Baran, and he to her. Quite frankly, they needed this after Sabiha's destructive machinations, to tell each other how much they mean to each other. And it's an even deeper sense, back to the beginning, from their first seeing each other when she would watch the horses on the way to school. There's an admission of an almost cosmic, fated connection. It makes me wonder if they are setting up a scenario where they actually met as children and felt a connection to each other.

Then there's this insistence that Dilan herself, through her own actions and character, is responsible for her place in their lives. Like a Beauty and the Beast storyline, she breathed life and love back into them all. She engendered their love and loyalty. She is deserving of it on her own merit. Her birth, while a secret in one family, is the reason another family exists the way it does. And we know the importance of being worthy to be a Karabey, and how Baran's and Kudret's interpretation of the ideology are based on merit, the goodness of the person. She is a Karabey more than she ever was a Demir.

It's as though there's been a trade, more than a life for a life--although that works too--in how each family treats the secret: one with guilt and shame, and the other with trust and care.

And still, they are like this close to kissing.

Kader really does just want it to all be over for Gul. Once she's married, has her own household, is away from these infernal Karabeys (Azade-doom and Hasan only)...it will all be ok. She gives her some bad advice though, which pains me: our hearts don't always show us the way; sometimes we have to show them. I feel like Ahmet would disagree. I'd like to convene the Mage Club and take a vote please.

In case we forgot, Gul remembers Firat telling her he's leaving. He feels like he's out of options. He remembers her saying she didn't love him while looking him in the eyes.

It ain't good, kids.

Cevriye is on board with fleeing. Cevdet is not.

Baran has an address for someone who was in prison with Hikmet.*

Kudret wants a word with Seyit. The word is safety; he tries assure him of of the Demir family's safety. For everyone. But Hasan...should they reveal  what he did? But Baran...he'll kill Hasan. And that would only bring more suffering. I have to say, it's weird that the dads are upset about one secret (Dilan's adoption) and agreeing to keep another (Hasan's treachery).

Or maybe not. People are complicated.

In this case, Dilan went through a bunch of crap and if Baran kills his uncle, she'll go through a bunch more. Stay silent for the kids, that's their plan. But what comes around, goes around. Kudret hasn't forgotten and he'll make Hasan pay. Don't worry about that.

Hikmet's wife visited him only once in prison. He told her their daughter was dead. She was devastated. He felt bad and if she'd come again, he was going to tell her the truth. (Curses!) So that means she hasn't been looking for Dilan.

(It's very windy in this scene. I think Baran isn't so much caressing her face as holding her hair down.)

Sabiha is still obsessing over Dilan's state of mind and rubbing her half of the medallion. Havin finds the jewelry that dropped in the van when Dilan rode with Sabiha to Ayten's grave. I think it's Dilan's bracelet. The same one she lost in the stables early on.

The visit with Hikmet's prison friend only left more questions: 

Why did he separate mother and daughter? 

Why did he tell her Dilan was dead?

(Was it to protect her from Hasan?)

I have questions too. All of them revolving around why Baran's parents were the target in the first place.

The bracelet goes into a drawer without Sabiha seeing it. (Curses again!)

Kudret talks to Firat about his decision to leave vs. fight for Gul. "Listen to me carefully," he says and then the camera backs away as he keeps talking. We don't hear the rest. Neither do Hasan and Azade, who are trying to eavesdrop. 

Dilan visits her brother one last time before the family skip town to leave. Him, she's always loved. 

Baran is still not a fan of all that the family did to her. He scowls, stares blankly back at the welcome, cracks his neck to the side a little. You know, gangster stuff. It's fun to watch this all be in defense of Dilan. He is constantly assessing.

Silah's family are over for the asking part of the engagement process.

Dilan goes rogue and runs back into the house, to her not-my-parents. 

Gul is taking a long time with coffees for Silah's parents. She is also not in the kitchen when Kader goes to check.

Dilan walks into the house like a boss--a Karabey--with all the authority that goes with that. She holds her hand up for silence, says they don't need to leave, that her family--the Karabeys-- will not hurt them.** She has full authority to make this statement, as the wife of the head of the Karabey family, and Baran confirms it by taking her hand.

What Kudret said before still stands, and didn't exactly lay the groundwork for this, because it could have been overturned by Baran. But Dilan's decree is an extension of his power and his resources--in her own right--as she commits them to keeping the Demirs safe, not just refusing to come after them. As was the previous case.

That said, they leave. They have no other business there.

Seyit follows them out, apologizes to her back. She won't forgive him for killing an innocent person; she still thinks he is responsible for Baran's mother's death. And he and Kudret agreed--they tell no one the truth, that Hasan did it. He can't correct her.

He gets the stink eye from Baran.

Still no sign of Gul.

Sabiha finally sees the bracelet. The one she gave her daughter, first Dilan. The one Havin found in the van. 

Okan found out Dilan's mom is in Istanbul.

Yelling at the tv:

*It's not an address so much as a tree by the side of the road, but whatevs.

**Baran and the boys wouldn't hurt Cevdet. They've already said so. But the vengeful factions might if they found out. That's what the Demirs were guarding against.

Hasan reminds me of a muppet. I think it's the mustache and round head.

0 hagia Sophias chanted.

Culturisms:

Nobody uses Sabiha's pool either.

Teaser 195:

Dilan has a picture of her father now. Does Baran think she looks like her dad? Maybe. But she's beautiful, too; must be like her mom.