Kan Cicekleri 206

 Episode 206 Everyone Knows

Quick synopsis: The family finds out. Gul is not happy. Buy the shares already.

Cihan wants to take a photo of them all together at breakfast. Hasan uses it as an opportunity to out Dilan as adopted, in his not-subtle yet off-handed way, thereby lighting a powder keg.

Azade-doom goes boom.

Cihan puts his head in his hand like 'oh boy, here we go'. Kudret is pissed and scowling. Baran has hold of Dilan's hand and looks like he's about to throw Hasan out the house.

Hasan elaborates.  The Demirs tricked the great Karabey family. vy vy vy

Azade asks (yells) if this is true, that they took some rando girl into their home.

Oh, but there's more.

Hasan knows just whose daughter she actually is: Hikmet's. 

Sabiha picks that moment to phone Dilan. She's not picking up. (Obvi.) Sabiha decides she will go to the mansion.

No, she won't. Cevahir chose that moment to pay her a visit. 

Hasan keeps going: Hikmet covered up Seyit's crime. That's whose daughter they have.

Kudret is the first to break. He slams his fists on the table and tells Hasan to Shut. Up.

Dilan would pull her hand away but Baran holds it tight.

Azade-doom is going to kill them, the people who tricked them. The way she is yelling, I bet she wishes she had her cane.

Baran lays down the law: No, and no. To any of it.

Ope! She does have her cane. Bang. Bang. And she drops the wedding day bomb:

Didn't Dilan run away on her wedding day to get her revenge and play us all?

(What a cluster f---.)

Kudret, Firat...everyone but Cihan and Baran look surprised.

Baran finally pulls his hand from hers to to jump up and bang on the table. Now everyone is on their feet.

Whew boy.

Cevahir makes himself at home at Sabiha's house. He did not hear any of Sabiha's conversation with Havin about Dilan. He does want to know if his edict was followed. Did she buy Firat's shares yet? She promises to before he gets murderous.

Baran grabs Dilan's hand again almost immediately. And pulls her behind him, shielding her. More yelling. Dilan finally goes upstairs. Kudret gives a nod to Baran. Go. He'll handle things down here.  Firat and Gul split too. Firat also sees it as trickery. Gul brings perspective. She has only sympathy.

Dilan gets big hugs and comfort from Baran.

The problem is that the vendetta is what drives Azade's life. And Dilan has slowly been chipping that away. First with the marriage, then remembering Ayten less morbidly, Kudret getting better...all these things--though she may be happy about some of them--they incrementally undo her identity. Without that vengeful fire in her belly, what does she have?

Firat is outside when Sabiha walks up. Wearing a blue dress and with her hair down. She tries to convince Firat he can pay his part of their partnership, the one that is much more beneficial to him than her, with his shares. 

I wondered how she was going to broach the sale.

Nope. No deal. 

Dilan walks out and Sabiha calls to her but she doesn't hear. Does she have a problem? she asks Firat.

Oh lady...

Just family stuff, Firat answers.

Baran has come back down. And he has questions:

1. Why did you do that?

2. You don't share stuff like that at the breakfast table, don't you know that? Aren't you supposed to be an elder? (That one cuts.)

3. What's your purpose?

4. Are you acting alone?

5. Why didn't you talk to me? I stayed quiet for a reason. Did you think of that?

He is vibrating with fury.

Hasan gets a call from Cevahir. They need to meet.

Kader checks in on Dilan. She's the mom again. 

Gul confides to Firat that she doesn't like Sabiha. He wants to know, is there something Gul knows that he doesn't? It means something to him, his wife's opinion. He won't forget it.

The Karabey boys are worried about the trouble Hasan and Azade could stir up. Cihan is in charge of sending some guys to watch over the Demirs.

Cevahir is really antsy for Firat's shares. He is supposed to buy them off Sabiha after she gets them from Firat. (Good lord, people.) He doesn't have much time. (That's a curious new timetable.) But Sabiha, rather than being intimidated, takes this as a sign that she needs to be rid of Cevahir sooner than she'd planned. He must have a secret they can exploit. Havin will find out.

She has a good point. Now I want to know too. What is with that guy?

Kudret finally gets the full truth about Dilan being kidnapped and saying she left instead, all to protect Baran. He understands now why Baran is distrustful of Sabiha. 

Cihan is also in charge of Kerem's computer and getting the Sabiha dossier. He's really coming up.

When the guys are finished, Baran comforts Dilan some more.*

Hasan and Cevahir have a meeting too. They are moving ahead with a shipment, whether or not it meets Baran's high ethical standards for doing business.

Havin has been listening 2 tables away. That's what Cevahir gets for working en plein air. Go get 'em, weird girl.

Seyit and Kudret have a meeting. They discuss the bodyguards and Dilan; is she ok? Kudret calls him off with a weirdly snarky, "No one will touch her while Baran is alive."

(I have questions. Like, why specifically mention 'Baran' and 'alive' in the same sentence?)

Seyit feels like the longer they keep Hasan's secret, the more his evil grows. He wants to tell. Kudret says no. If he does, Kudret will deny it.**

Hasan is back in time to witness them talking. So does Azade-doom. He pushes the idea of taking out Seyit for tricking them. His gamble on saving face as a motive backfires though. Azade forbids him from making their humiliation known to the wider world. She is especially hissy and cobra-like. For realz. It's practically Parsel-tongue. Outside this edict though, he has free reign. i.e. Seyit is going down.

Firat and Gul have a secret meeting. He is waxing poetic on what they'll be able to do once everyone knows they are married. It's very cute.

Kader overhears everything.

Hasan fills Azade in on his plan. No one will trace the hit back to them...yadda yadda. They are on the patio discussing their nefarism. 

(Why are these people always out in the most obvious spaces?)

Azade-doom takes a Hammurabli approach: since we were surprised by her adoption, this will be our surprise for her! Their evil banter is overlay for the couple gazing lovingly, unshakably, at each other.

Yelling at the tv:

*There's a new, covered swing on the Karabey patio. Dilan uses it when remembering the fiasco that was breakfast.

**This is huge for him. Imagine Kudret and Ayten had as great a love as Baran and Dilan. By all accounts, accurate. And instead of telling the world what a rat his brother is, he will deny the truth in favor of coming full circle. They need all the facts, these men, and though it has to be killing him, Kudret won't sacrifice a just conclusion.

They must have dyed Baran’s hair again. It's matte dark.

Kan Cicekleri 205

 Episode 205 Sabiha's Protection Racket

Quick synopsis: Mourning a mother. Firat almost spills the beans. Hasan actually does.

Baran is ticked Dilan took off again to Sabiha's and I can't even feel bad about it. Damn straight bro. 

Sabiha doesn't recant her lie that Dilan's mom is dead. I still say she should enlist Baran. I'm going to channel Kerem for a minute: Talk to him!

Dilan and Sabiha have a heartbreaking conversation that I am just not up for. Am I hardened? Maybe. Like, just spit it out already. Also, I can't take another heartbreak episode. Bah.

Oh Gul, no....don't do it. Don't fall for Hasan's crap again. Firat doesn't get the chance to explain what she thinks she just overheard because Kader walks in and he has to bounce or risk her finding out about them. 

Sabiha tells Dilan about her mom though. It's heartbreaking (did I mention?) but also comforting. She proposes they become surrogate mother and daughter to each other. This seems like a nice compromise but it won't help the original fear that started the lie. If Cevahir finds out how beloved this surrogate daughter is, won't that be exactly the same situation?

Dilan is amenable to the idea. Sabiha tells her more about her mom. Dilan wants to know, got any photos of her? 

Now that's a million dollar question...

Baran shows up. It's clear looking at the two women that something has happened. And he's comletely disarmed when Dilan just walks up to him and lays her head on his shoulder in a hug, needing comfort. She tells him her mother is dead.

Gul finds an apology bouquet from Firat in the living room. He is peaking from around the corner as she discovers it. 
I love it when he's basically a big kid. 

Gul keeps a hard line though; he visitied his ex-fiancee without telling her. He was wrong. She leaves and Cihan continues the argument with him. 

You know what would take the wind right of this whole fiasco?  If Firat gave the shares to Baran. Or even Gul. He's got a good heart. That isn't the question. It's the not telling them that's the problem. 

But maybe Derya wouldn't have sold them--or Cevahir wouldn't have told her to--if they'd known he was an agent of Baran's. 

Baran is pretty upset with Sabiha. If she knew the truth this whole time, why hide it from them? 

What I want to know is, how is she going to come back from this lie? Like, 'no wait, not only is your mom not dead, but surprise! It's me!' That will be a hard pill to swallow.

Sabiha fakes having researched into Esra after they left. (Plausible.) Havin is still sure the time for the truth will come. 

Kudret greets them when they return home. He can tell it's not good news. Poor Dilan. All that time and energy and now there's no hope of a reunion at all. Baran is very supportive.

Gul is being pretty hard on Firat. He decides is she won't forgive him, he'll...he'll...tell her mom they got married! I dare you, she says. I don't believe anything you say anymore.

I bet he does tell her. I mean, is he a man of his word, or not?
Buckle up, Buttercup.

Father and son talk it out, about Dilan's situation. Baran feels awful.

Where's Ahmet?

He is also so sure Sabiha is still hiding something. That man's instincts are spot on. I suppose that's why he's the head of the family. As ever, he'll track don the facts of what Sabiha told them about Esra's life. Kerem said he backed up all his computer data so maybe Baran can start there. Kerem! That guy. *sigh* No one could beat Kerem for digging.*

Now that he's got a plan, Baran feels better.

Firat walks into the kitchen and starts talking to Kader. He and Gul have been texting. She shoots him a message to stop. She gives; he wins. He's forgiven.

Now they are both sad about losing their moms. He fed Dilan soup, but he hasn't eaten. They go to the kitchen. They will cook together. Hair up, sleeves rolled up. A reprise of their onion argument. Lots of inner monologue with looks.

Sabiha needs to keep Cevahir off any notion that Dilan is important to her. She'll buy Firat's shares. And if Cevahir ever even thinks about hurting her daughter...she'll kill him.

Dilan puts photos of her and her mom in their new family albumn. 

Gul truly forgives Firat, not just under duress.

Kudret expresses his condolences to Dilan. She is making breakfast for everyone. Azade-doom and Hasan the rat are not impressed. Baran and Kudret talk some more. Hasan eavesdrops. He discovers Dilan is adopted. And who her real parents are.

Oh boy.

He jumps through all the predictable, conclusional hoops.

Breakfast is an interesting affair. I keep forgetting Dilan cooked in her family's restaurant. Cihan wants to take a selfie with everyone. Hasan opens his big mouth: Fortuitous that Dilan is in this photo, non? Given how the Demir's tricked them and she's adopted?

Dilan drops the plate she's serving from. Baran catches it. He brings her around to her seat at the table, at his side. Hasan has his full attention. Baran takes Dilan's hand. 

Azade-doom is a hawk. Kudret's face is murderous. 

We end on a split screen of Dilan and Baran's faces, one cast down and one glaring.

Yelling at the tv:
Sabiha's got a lovely sun porch. She and Dilan have their conversation there.

There's a beautiful, deep purple bed set on their bed now.

These men have incredibly long eyelashes. Damn them. 

*This is the first time they're getting into Kerem's computer?!? For realz? Isn't that the first thing you do in a situation like his? I mean, how has Baran been doing all Kerem's work since his death? 

Culturisms:

There's a lot of scent and smelling that happens in this and recent episodes. Like smelling your mom's scent when she hugs you. I understand the comfort of that concept but I'm not sure if the show is playing it up for this particular plot point or if this is a larger, cultural meme.

Teaser 206:

Dilan is remembering Azade going full doom  on those that trick the Karabeys. And not on her behalf.