02x08 - Episode 8

[bunniefuu]

[melancholy piano music playing]

[wood creaking]

[Yıldıray] Let's go, gentlemen.

We don't have much time.

[man 1] Of course.

- Elif!

- [Elif] Yes?

Hurry up, dear. We should

head to the airport a little early,

just to be safe.

- [Elif] Okay.

- All right.

[sniffles]

[sniffles]

[sniffles]

[inhales shakily]

[tense music playing]

Pack these up properly, will you?

It's coming undone. Do you see that?

[dialing]

[line ringing]

Osman?

Meet me by the Camondo Steps

as soon as you can.

[emotional music playing]

Osman

I'm leaving for Vienna today.

What?

I have a flight today at 4:00.

I'm leaving then.

You're not coming back?

Mm-mm.

I thought we would have more time.

I thought so, too.

We had so much left to do together.

We could run away.

Couldn't we?

I'm not sure that's gonna work.

What are you talking about?

There must be something you can do.

Please, I don't want to go.

I wanna stay here with you.

Osman, you can help me.

You have a plan for everything,

so help me, please, Osman.

Please don't let me go!

Please don't let them

take you away from me, please!

I could do it,

but it wouldn't be right.

You have a bright future ahead of you.

That's why

you have to go.

You mean it?

It's what's best for you.

[scoffs] That's bull.

What the hell were we thinking, anyway?

As if we had unlimited time

to find such deep relationships again.

That's very true.

You know, after all these years,

I don't know if

I did the right thing or not.

["Zor" by Nev playing]

[Osman] You should go.

This is your dream

we're talking about here.

Okay.

You're right.

I'll go.

But I want you to come find me.

Don't forget about me.

Always remember

there's somebody who loves you out there.

You told me I should play for myself,

but I'll always

be playing for you instead.

I swear that I'll come find you.

Goodbye.

[sniffles]

[sniffles]

[dramatic choral music playing]

[Necdet on PA] Attention, everyone.

EXAM DURATION: 120 MIN

These are the final practice exams.

The scores you get today

will probably be

the scores you get on the real thing.

This is your future.

There's nothing more important.

This is your life.

You're nearly out of time.

Hey, focus.

SOCIAL STUDIES

[Burcu laughs]

ISTANBUL TEPEBAŞI HIGH SCHOOL

I'll handle him.

All right. I'll see you in there.

Well, well, well!

[Burcu] Good morning, sir.

Morning.

So you've returned.

Mr. Altuna, what an honor.

We kept your old seat warm.

Welcome back.

Please, come inside.

This is great.

[laughs]

Shouldn't you be taking the exam?

I thought that was your thing now.

Yeah, I'm studying, sure,

but I'm not wasting my time

with a fake exam.

f*ck that.

We already have to do it one time.

When is this exam thing gonna be over?

I'm sick of it.

What's up?

Everything okay?

[indistinct chatter]

- Why's everyone hanging around the boards?

- Hey.

HALL OF FAME

- [boy 1] Excuse me.

- I can't believe this.

Excuse me.

Why is she always asking me for help?

- It's okay.

- I know.

- It's okay, totally fine.

- Let's just sit down.

I'm fine, okay? Let go of me!

[boy 2]

You're just freaking out. It's okay.

[boy 1] It itches.

I'm itchy all over,

I can't stop scratching. Get away.

- [girl] He needs help.

- [boy 1] It's too much, I can't stop!

I can't stop, it's too much.

Ah!

[all clamoring]

[boy 2] Back up, please,

he needs some space.

- Move it, move it. Move!

- [boy 1] I can't stop it!

Come on, guys, move. Move!

- I'm a failure! I failed everything!

- It's okay.

Listen, we're here now, it's all right.

Give us some space.

- Please move. Please move.

- I'm all itchy, I can't stop!

[girl 2] I'm so f*cking stupid!

I marked my answers in the wrong column!

[sobbing] It's all over! My life is over!

[Kerem] Yo, listen up!

Everybody, listen!

Hear me out for a second.

I wanna know

how many people here are sick of this.

- Yeah!

- It's bullshit!

Do you think it's fair

that our lives depend

on us scoring well on some f*cking exam?

- No!

- No way!

Take a look at this guy.

They're trying to drive us crazy!

But I'm saying that

no one should be able to do this to us.

- [students] No one!

- No f*cking way!

[students] No f*cking way!

[Kerem] f*ck the exam,

f*ck the scores, f*ck everything!

Time to burn this f*ck down.

- [students] Burn it down!

- That's right!

Burn it down! Burn it down!

Necdet can go to hell,

him and everyone else in this school.

[students] Yeah!

Are we gonna let them

control our lives like this?

[students] No way!

Life's not for exams, life is for us.

This is for us!

[students chanting] It's for us!

It's for us! It's for us! It's for us!

It's for us! It's for us! It's for us!

[yelling] Riot!

[all cheering]

[students chanting]

Riot! Riot! Riot! Riot! Riot! Riot!

Riot! Riot! Riot! Riot!

Riot! Riot! Riot! Riot!

[all yelling]

[Kerem screams]

[boy 3] Let's go!

["Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien"

by Edith Piaf playing]

[all yelling]

[light bulbs exploding]

[song stops]

[alarm buzzing]

[all yell]

[song resumes]

ASSESSMENT EXAM

[song playing on stereo]

- [song stops]

- [muffled yelling]

What the hell?

- [glass shattering]

- [riot sounds]

[yelling]

Holy sh*t.

[Necdet panting]

Come on, come on. Pick up.

[telephone ringing]

[loud stomping]

Please, God, no.

[all yelling]

Everyone! What's going on?

What's going on here?

Whoo!

Stay back!

[banging on door]

Don't come in here!

[banging continues]

Just stop! You'll regret it if you don't!

Just leave me alone, please!

Oh, sh*t!

[rock music playing]

[students yelling]

[student whooping]

- [loud banging]

- I'm begging you, can we talk about it?

Let's just talk it over, guys!

We can work this out, I promise.

Please don't hurt me!

[students yelling]

[Kemal] Everybody, calm down.

Calm down.

Hey! Hey, that's enough! Come on!

- [students quiet]

- Hey, sir, it's me, Kemal.

Kemal, I'm

I'm coming out. Will I be all right?

I promise, sir. You can come out.

All all right, coming.

[Necdet] You there?

[Kemal] Come on out, sir. Let's go.

[boy 4] Boo, Necdet! Boo!

- [students jeering]

- [Necdet] Ah! Stop it.

Come on. Let's go.

[Necdet] Please!

[Kemal] Come on, boys, move.

[Necdet] Monsters!

[students yelling continues]

Thank you for protecting me.

I'm protecting the kids, actually.

It's time for a change around here.

[tires squeal]

[sobs]

[students yell happily]

[laughs]

[rock music continues]

[inaudible]

YOUR ONLY GOAL SHOULD BE TO SUCCEED

[ship horn blaring]

[indistinct chatter]

[rock music playing]

[man 2] Effective immediately,

Necdet Karakış

will be removed from his position.

We will conduct a thorough review

of all of his decisions as principal.

If necessary,

many of those decisions may be reversed.

Welcome back.

Here I am.

[Işık] Well?

[all laugh]

You did okay, right?

I mean, look at the yacht, huh?

- I managed to scrape by.

- [all laughing]

Shut up.

I'm sure you all have careers as well.

Yeah, right, a career spent between

prisons and courthouses and not much else.

You're very humble, at least.

- Mmm.

- No one thought we'd become anything.

Well, you always had lots of potential,

but us, Kerem

[chuckles]

It didn't matter. All those things

people said about us weren't true.

Of course not.

That's what society always tells you.

They don't want you to become anything.

But what do they know?

I think you should tell them

to f*ck themselves, and move on.

Well, we sort of did that.

Yeah. I mean, sort of. [laughs]

- I did buy a house in Vienna.

- [Eda] Oh!

- Oh!

- [Kerem] Nice.

I'm there every year.

And you must have

kept in touch with Elif, right?

- Huh?

- No.

I couldn't call.

But I kept going back and forth to Vienna.

I walked through the streets,

sat in the cafes.

I guess I thought I would run into her.

[Kerem] So, your love for Elif

turned into a love for Vienna?

[Osman] S omething like that.

I guess I changed.

I'm not the same as I was.

[crowd applauds]

[plays "Revolutionary Étude

Op. 10, No. 12 in C minor"]

You should call her.

No, that wouldn't be right.

For all we know,

she could be single, couldn't she?

That's right. Just call her.

Uh, where's the real owner

of this place anyway?

[Eda and Kerem laugh]

[exhales]

[telephone ringing]

[man 3] I can have a draft

ready for you by Sunday

I'm surprised.

I thought you were

going to write about love.

Hmm? Sinan?

I had to write this story.

Is it bad?

Who are they?

They're obviously real people.

If it's truly a personal story,

then who are they?

They're my friends.

[Işık] I honestly

don't know if he'll come.

I hope he does. Make his peace at last.

It's like he's completely written off

this place as part of his terrible past.

I want him to see you guys.

He might remember that

good things happened here as well.

Hell yeah, they did. We changed

the world just by sitting around here.

And ourselves most of all.

[all laugh]

Do you think he's gonna show up?

Well, when his parents died,

he inherited this place from them.

Hmm.

But like I already mentioned before

it's just another part

of his painful childhood.

What did you tell him

when you asked him to meet us here?

I'm sure you knew

exactly what to say to him, of course.

Just once.

I asked him to meet us just once.

I promised not to bug him, but

Come on,

what's the matter with that idiot, huh?

He should come.

[all laugh]

[editor] These are some friends

you've got. Are you still in touch?

No.

We drifted apart.

Why's that?

If they were mine,

I'd never let them get away from me.

What about the house?

Do you still have it?

The "incredible woman"?

We still have her.

[chuckles]

And she's just as incredible

as she was then.

- But the house

- You should go back and visit.

What you've written so far

is just from memory.

I can't tell you everything as it was.

I can only tell it like I remember it.

Well said, Charles Dickens.

Go to that house.

Remember.

Refresh your memories

and then come back to me

with another draft of this.

Because I think

there's still a part of this story

that you're not telling the readers.

Hold on, I'm getting more wine.

- Elif comes up and you run away?

- I'm not running away, I'm coming back.

[Işık] Mm-hmm. [chuckles]

[Sinan's mother]

I'm not sure about selling.

[Sinan's father] But we agreed.

Things are tight. I need the money.

[grandfather] No! They won't f*cking sell!

[Kerem] Are you sure he's alive?

[Sinan] He's always like that.

Grandpa.

[Işık] I've never

noticed that picture before.

I just love seeing

cute old couples together.

[Sinan] What are you doing with that?

I'm keeping that one.

You know, I never realized just

how much I love that cute old couple.

[Eda] Is that your grandpa's bird?

What are you doing?

The thing can't survive all by itself.

[Sinan] He's just gonna

have to find a way to live.

[laughter]

- I think that'll work out.

- [Osman] More wine?

- [Işık] Yes, please.

- [Eda] I'll have some too.

- Mmm. This is good.

- [Eda] Our sommelier here.

Thank you.

[Eda] Oh, my God!

No way.

Look who finally decided to show up!

[Kerem laughs]

[emotional music playing]

[Eda laughs] Hi!

[sighs]

It's good to see you.

[Kerem] So

Since we're here, we should talk.

Why is this house empty?

It's for sale.

You're staying with your dad, aren't you?

That's right.

He's not.

That's not true.

This guy's been sleeping

near the school for months,

and he didn't tell any of us.

- What?

- What the f*ck does that mean?

Why the hell didn't you tell us?

We're your friends.

Don't you know we care about you?

You weren't supposed to tell them.

I couldn't just keep it to myself, Sinan.

It would be wrong not to tell everyone.

Why didn't we see that?

Oh, come on, we couldn't

possibly have seen this coming.

He's been lying to our faces.

Why the f*ck did you lie to me?

Huh?

Why didn't you say something?

And what was I supposed to say, huh?

What can you do about it?

What could any of you

have done to help me?

Because I didn't need your pity.

What else is there?

Come on.

We're just some f*cking group of children.

Sinan, but maybe we could have helped.

But you couldn't have, Işık.

Just accept there's

nothing you could have done.

Why is that so hard?

There's nothing that any of you

could have done about this shitty life.

- It's completely hopeless.

- [Eda] He's right.

What could we have done? Huh?

We don't have any money, nothing.

What could we have done for him?

Eda, you don't have to be so dramatic.

We should've realized he had a problem.

You couldn't have realized anything.

Just think.

Our friend was dying,

and we didn't see it.

- Kerem, what are you saying?

- Shut up, man, enough!

Why should I shut up?

It's true, you were dying.

He was living in a storage room.

The place caught fire.

He was drunk, of course.

You know Sinan, he's always drunk.

You told me you were doing okay, Sinan.

I wanted to believe you.

And the whole time you were lying.

It was all so much worse than I thought.

You know what this proves?

Our friendship isn't worth anything.

If we can't even handle this,

what good are we?

It's just a romanticized,

stupid fantasy all of us are having.

A toxic friendship.

Let's face it,

we're not good for each other.

We just bring each other down.

[Sinan] Exactly.

Friendship is just a lie.

All relationships are.

We're just fooling ourselves,

trying to validate each other's feelings.

[Işık] Was that true?

I mean,

was that all we were doing?

Not at all. No way.

Not at all. We were being complete idiots.

Did any of you ever have

a relationship that important again?

No. Never.

Mm-mm. Nope.

I sure haven't.

All right, it's settled, then.

Let's just cut it off.

Seeing how we're all toxic to each other,

we shouldn't be friends anymore.

And what if we hadn't?

What if we had all stayed together? Hmm?

Everything could've

been totally different.

We didn't really know

what we had in each other.

Our friendship wasn't a pit,

it was a shelter.

I agree.

The more we're together, the further

we drag each other down into the pit.

It's obvious at this point.

Why would Sinan go through

this kind of terrible thing for months

if we're not a toxic influence,

if we're not just

enabling each other that way?

I was so wrong.

And we left him behind after that.

Just thinking about it

makes me really angry.

We just turned our backs on him

when he needed our help.

[Osman] So what happened to you?

I managed. Really.

Sinan. Come on in.

I need help.

You're asking me to help you out?

Great.

What can I do for you?

I need somebody to co-sign for me,

to rent an apartment.

On one condition.

I thought you would

always help me no matter what.

Now there's conditions?

Something like that.

You're taking the exam. The college exam.

We have a deal?

["Manzaralar"

by Düş Sokağı Sakinleri playing]

"Altuna."

Here you go.

Sign there.

And you sign here.

These are yours.

APARTMENT FOR REN

[Işık] Exam day finally arrived.

I remember that morning.

["Ben Nasıl Büyük Adam Olucam"

by Pinhani playing]

EXAM ADMISSION TICKE

- Okay, I have to go now.

- Here, eat this.

Mom, what are you doing? I'm not a horse.

For energy.

Thanks for the water.

Wish me luck, you guys.

[kisses]

[Kenan] Here we are, then.

Listen, Kerem.

They don't let you leave the exam

for at least 15 minutes.

So don't cause

too much of a scene, all right?

All right, then.

[Kenan] Go on inside.

[girl retching]

I don't even know why we bothered to come.

As if he'll do well.

[Eda] We took the f*cking exam,

after all that,

and without each other's help.

PRINTING - PUBLISHING - DISTRIBUTION

EXAM RESULTS ARE IN

[woman] Işık!

Işık!

- I'm coming. Mom, what happened?

- It's amazing!

Did I get in? Come on, let me see.

In spite of everything.

- I did.

- My baby!

Oh! You did it! [laughs]

My love.

I'm so proud of you.

I made a mistake.

I was wrong about you.

Please forgive me.

[Işık mother sobs]

- [knocking on door]

- [Eda's mother] Eda!

- Yeah, one second.

- [Eda's mother huffs]

- Did you get in, Eda?

- [continues knocking]

Eda, open the door, come on!

Eda!

We're dying out here!

Let us know what happened!

[gasps]

- Eda?

- Oh, my God, I did it. I did it!

I did it! Yes! Oh, thank God! I did it!

- Eda! Eda, what's happened?

- Hell yes!

I did something right, for once.

[sighs]

Osman!

[laughs] Osman!

Osman! You got in, son!

You got into college! You did it!

[laughs]

Not too shabby.

There's no way.

What?

Kenan, tell me what it is.

I'm double checking.

We've prepared ourselves for this.

Please don't get angry, all right?

Well, would you take a look at that?

Oh Kenan, enough already.

This shouldn't be a surprise.

He didn't even study.

Please don't blow up.

He's in the top 100,

one of the highest scores.

[laughs]

Really?

She's right.

As long as we keep ignoring this exam,

it's going to crush us.

If that's what you think,

why don't you study?

I can't. I can't study.

When I see a book,

I feel like I'm dying. I get nauseous.

It's just not for me.

- [Osman] Let me talk to Eda.

- [Kerem] About what?

[Osman] I don't know, in general.

- Can you record these for me?

- Why?

I need it. I'm gonna come

and get them from you every day.

[Eda] Who knows where

you're gonna sell this sh*t?

[Osman] I'll figure something out.

Literature review.

I'll bring you a history lesson next week.

[Eda on tape] Humans are the only animals

who use their minds to reason

about their environment.

They can perceive and identify

an enormous diversity of the objects

around them.

We can see this clearly in example B

Muscle fiber is made up of multinucleated

cells inside the muscle bundles.

If we do this correctly,

we can track changes

across several variables

instead of just one.

Social actors experience their

individual changes through social life.

[Kenan] Kerem.

Come here.

Come here.

The results are in.

- How'd I do?

- [Kenan] Take a look.

4283

[laughs]

sh*t.

- [laughs]

- Well done.

[emotional music plays]

I'm proud of you.

Thanks, Dad.

[Kenan] Going to the gym?

- Yeah.

- Off you go, then.

Well done.

[Eda laughs]

How is it that

no one ever bought this place?

- Maybe because of what you did to it.

- [chuckles]

Ah! [chuckles]

[upbeat music playing

BUILDING FOR SALE BY THE OWNER

[shatters]

[Osman] Come in.

Watch your step.

This is it.

There's a room back here,

if you want to take a look.

Hmm?

What the hell happened here?

So do we have a plan?

Perhaps. I'll try my best.

But let me get this straight.

You don't want this place to sell at all?

Exactly. We do whatever it takes.

Nobody will ever move in.

Okay, then.

[Eda laughs]

Oh, so that's why it never sold.

Pretty much.

We spread the word

that the ownership was contested.

Nobody wanted to touch it.

You didn't have to do that, but thank you.

He's the same.

[all chuckle]

But how did you two end up together?

Hmm

Well, let's see.

You know.

I invited all of you to our wedding,

but none of you responded.

Yeah, well, maybe it was simply

that not enough time had passed.

We hadn't confronted our own issues yet.

Also, who gets married at 23?

To be honest, it was kind of weird.

- [all laugh]

- [Kerem] He's right.

I still want to know, what happened?

[bird chirping]

[keyboard clacking]

[doorbell rings]

Sinan.

- I finally found you.

- Işık?

I've missed you.

["How They Fall"

by Sophie Fetokaki playing]

Come in.

Oh, Sinan,

you have such a nice place here.

Um, are you hungry? I'm making pasta.

Yeah, sure.

Okay. Want something to drink?

Sure.

Great.

- Make yourself at home.

- Okay.

Can't hold on, just have to go ♪

To where I know ♪

Far beyond my home ♪

Right or wrong, we hear them fall ♪

Like a room in so many tears ♪

Because we're getting near ♪

Right or wrong, know how they fall ♪

With the wind in my sky above ♪

It's only me and I ♪

In the end, I guess I was lucky for once.

- Oh, well, well, well.

- [Kerem] Such a romantic.

You hear what happened at school?

There was a scandal

for the first time since we left.

- Yeah?

- [Eda] What happened?

The students were upset that

their legendary principal was retiring.

And how do you know that?

[melancholy music playing]

INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY

DEVELOPMENT CLUB

[indistinct chatter]

- [boy 5] Hey, shut up.

- [boy 6] What's going on?

But, sir, is it really true?

Everyone, calm down.

These are the rules, I just follow them.

There's nothing I can do.

You can't leave.

Everyone here wants you to stay.

I mean, what kind of principal

would leave his school like that?

Exactly.

We can't bear to think about

what this place will be like without you.

There must be something else we can do.

[boy 7] There must be.

There has to be a way.

Listen, even though I'll be gone,

I'm still gonna be keeping my eye

on every single one of you.

After all, that's what teachers do.

That's right.

What else could we do?

But please, ma'am.

Oh, you guys.

We appreciate it, really.

But sooner or later,

this day comes for everyone.

But not for you.

It doesn't seem possible.

The two of you have just

given so much to this school.

I know you changed my life,

and plenty of other lives as well.

Please, we don't want you to leave us.

Please don't retire this year, ma'am.

That's so sad.

I feel really bad for those two.

Don't worry, they'll be all right.

They're gonna sort it out again.

Kerem, do you still have an office

in the city? I saw a sign driving by.

[Kerem] That's right.

Two, in fact. Opening a third.

[Osman] Good.

You, Eda?

You're working in New York, right?

That's right.

Well, graphic designers

can get a lot of work there.

I come back all the time, though.

My cousin has kids, I look after them.

So, I'm still around.

That's enough networking for one night.

- Yes, of course, bring it in.

- I can't help myself.

- Cheers, everyone.

- Cheers.

Don't you remember who this guy is?

- Networking with a handful of hazelnuts.

- [all laugh]

I like how they taste, is that so wrong?

Well, I hope not,

you were always shoveling handfuls in.

Well, here. Have some.

I can't believe he's still got them.

- This can't be real.

- Give me some.

Here.

Ah! Thank you.

[all chuckling]

- [Eda] Osman.

- What's up?

Why don't you call Elif right now?

Oh, come on.

This is just the wine talking now.

- [laughing]

- It's not, I swear.

I'm drunk too, but I agree.

You should call her.

Go on, call her.

You know what? I bet you have her number.

I do.

- Come on, then!

- I knew you would. So call her.

Osman, come on! Where's your phone?

Call her right now. I can't believe

you waited this long. Call her already!

- Come on, man.

- Come on, we know you want to.

- There it is, he really has it.

- See? I told you.

[line ringing]

[Elif] Hello?

- [gasps]

- [rock music playing]

Wrecking ball

Gonna strike it when you're falling ♪

Love is all

We need to get it rolling ♪

Don't look back, cut me some slack ♪

I got a wrecking ball that's

Gonna strike it when you're falling ♪

Wrecking ball

It's gonna hurt you when you're falling ♪

Ooh, love is all

We need to get it rolling ♪

Don't look back

You gotta cut me some slack ♪

I gotta tell you if I do roll

Baby, don't ever look back ♪

Don't look back

You gotta cut me some slack ♪

I gotta tell you if I do roll

Baby, don't ever look back ♪

["How They Fall"

by Sophie Fetokaki playing]

Can't say that I haven't kept ♪

For the years, silent fears ♪

Days have passed

And yet I know ♪

A quiet home from this whole game ♪

Long ago ♪

Right or wrong, we hear them fall ♪

Like a room in so many tears ♪