Kan Cicekleri 209

 Episode 209 Dilan Faces The Music

Quick synopsis: Hasan has really done it (this time). Cevriye's loss. Havin's gain.

There has been a shootout at the Demir's. Baran is done with this nonsense, how it messes with their lives. Hasan is drinking coffee, relaxing after a job well done.

We're still not sure how everything ended. But here comes Baran in a slow walk around the corner. And he's got Hasan in his sights. Pretty soon the whole family is there, watching Baran hold his uncle by fistfuls of his shirt. Hasan feigns innocence. 

Really, my dude? We saw you there.

Kudret asks Dilan what happened.

Firat starts to intervene; Kudret backs him off.

Baran is fired UP y'all.

Azade-doom steps between the 2 men. 

Dilan speaks up. There's been bloodshed. Cevriye lost one of the babies in the terror of the shootout. We've missed the time from the initial gunshots through a hospital visit. Maybe they'll flashback like they sometimes do.

Kudret is shaking with rage.

Azade sticks to her guns (yeah, I know). The family was fooled. That's why Hasan did what he did. 

Hasan has big, round, puppy dog eyes. It's so gross.

Dilan brings it to a point: Did that baby's death abate your honor? It's a damning phrase.

And to boot, Dilan does what she always does: speak to similarities between people in an effort to create empathy and understanding. Azade is a mother too. She caused this for another mother. 

Everyone is moved. Kudret is fit to be tied. Dilan starts to falter and Baran's attention snaps back to her. He will meet out punishment later.

Azade gives Hasan a look like, I can't save you this time.

Kudret hauls off and smacks him! Like, a really big whack! It's lightning fast. And he's about to do it again when Azade begs him to stop. Hasan slinks away and as he passes each person, they all turn their faces away, one by one: Kudret, Azade, Cihan, Firat.*

Baran pulls Dilan  into a hug when he goes upstairs. Poor Cevriye. This isn't the first time, and it doesn't really matter who's at fault. It just sucks for her, over and over again. She's the real victim and the rest is just crap. They lost only 1 baby (of the twins) but it doesn't really matter. They owe this woman, all of them.

Baran is worried for Dilan and her family. He will make the culprits pay. Sabiha tries to call her but Dilan brushes her off. She'll go to the mansion. She directs Havin to find out everything about Cevahir's shipment.

Now Azade slaps Hasan. Hard. To be clear, she's pissed it wasn't Seyit and was a baby instead. The killing was never the problem. Baran was furious, she tells him. Hasan had better be careful.

The Karabey boys all agree: Hasan was in the wrong and deserves whatever is coming to him. 

Even Firat is freaking out about his dad. Gul says it best: the whole freaking lot of you are unbelievable. It's a bit of a wakeup call for Firat. He's followed in his father's footsteps so many times. He and Gul share a very sweet moment in re-pledging to do right by each other.

Dilan's family blames her...for letting the secret out that she was adopted and prompting the attack.** But she wants to see them anyway. Even if they yell and tell her to get lost again. They set out to leave but meet Sabiha in the driveway. Baran's not happy about it, but he'll wait in the car. Dilan relays the who and what of the situation. 

Azade gets a visit from Ahmet. They both stand with their canes. Of course he proverbs the hell out of the circumstance, specifically mentioning a time when--even if it's your due, forgoing it and offering forgiveness is preferable. Even mature. Forgiving at the height of your power is the highest power move you can make.

Bam! Ahmet needs no stick to bang, y'all.

Azade-doom is a thoughtful cobra as he melts away, back to where he appeared from.

Dilan will face Cevriye.

A word: all of this shooting and vendetta and dudes plotting, and we get to the poignant moment and it's two women. Like I said, they all owe Cevriye, but it's Dilan who steps forward to pay the piper.

Who run the world? 

For my part, Hanife can stuff it. She is more to blame than anyone. Cevriye ushers Dilan in. Baran sits with Seyit. Seyit blames Hasan, not Baran. He calls Hasan a murderer. That gets Baran's attention. Seyit brushes it off. Baran makes it clear; Hasan is his to deal with. It's a Karabey issue now.

Cevriye is the embodiment of the lesson: she won't seek revenge for her dead child at the expense of the one that still lives. They have put their entire dilemma in her; she is the physical manifestation of a vendetta. She contains multitudes. She's like the fool in a Shakespeare play who speaks truth at crucial moments but has no power to wield.

Havin finds the shipment manifest but Cevahir and his goon are on the way back. A phone call as they open the door is her saving grace. She escapes undetected.

The skinny on Cevahir is that he and his dad smuggled antiques. Even been arrested a couple of times but someone else always took the fall. (Seems to be a habit of his, having others take the blame.)  But the photos Havin took of the manifests...now they have proof. Sabiha isn't the least bit surprised.

Neither are we.

Kader finds a copy of Gul's marriage license photo in one of Firat's drawers. The earrings Gul is wearing in the photo give her away. The photo is recent. Kader wants to know why she had it taken.

The Karabeys are all lounging in the living room when the couple gets back from the Demirs. Hasan is ordered to move out. Baran banishes him to Mardin. Immediately.

Bye bye, rat.

I bet Cevahir takes him in.

No one speaks on his behalf as he says goodbye. They all go inside. No one sees Seyit with the gun. Until they all file back out. Dilan shouts at him. Baran yells to stop. Firat rushes forward and pulls his gun on Seyit. Kuret yells at Firat to stop. Dilan yells for the bloodshed to stop. Baran steps in front of Firat. Firat lowers his gun. Baran then steps directly in front of Seyit's gun. Kudret implores Seyit...they talked about this. Drop the weapon.

Baran edges closer.

Seyit fires.

Culturisms:

* Is the turning away of your face a typical, known insult in the Middle East? Or just in dizi?

The style of Sabiha's house is better than the Karabey's. Less ostentatious. Less gold. Is that betraying a prejudice for English style rather than the sultanesque aesthetic the Karabeys might be trying to evoke? Or, just a cultural difference in style in general?

Yelling at the tv:
**The blame they put on her is bollocks, of course. They gave her up, instead of one of their own kids. In so much as the vendetta makes sense at all, they've brought the wrath on themselves with that choice.