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01x04 - Episode 4

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "El Turco". Aired: April 2, 2025.*
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Balaban, a soldier in the Janissary army, settles in Moena in northern Italy after the Battle of Vienna in 1683 and fights for the rights of the local people.

01x04 - Episode 4

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From Prince Bishop

Francesco di Paolo

Prince of the Autonomous

Province of Trento

and Bishop of the Holy Roman

Empire to the orphan Marco.

There have been disturbing

reports from Moena

the village I entrusted you.

I have learned that one of my men

was burned alive by the villagers.

I demand information and results.

Marco, remember that everything

my generous heart gives you

a word out of my true lips

can take away.

My future father-in-law should have

been a poet, not a prince.

- Are we responding, commander?

- Yes, naturally.

Write this.

You royal highness, excellency

high mighty prince

whichever title you prefer

your authority here is unshaken

and all is calm.

Have they arrived?

They haven't changed a bit.

Still that pack of wild wolves.

I don't understand what

you are doing, Marco.

Our camp was raided

but by whom?

A b*stard and tree clownish Turks.

Look around you, Knight.

Tell me what you see.

An army preparing for their siege.

I am not going back to the city

a simple soldier.

I am going back

a victorious general.

- We can start the siege today.

- Not yet.

Turks are ruthless enemies.

Before we take them head on

we have to creep in

and tear out their hearts.

"Wake up, my eyes

wake up from ignorance"

"Wake up, my too

sleepy eyes wake up"

"Azrael only claims lives

believe me"

"Wake up, my eyes

wake up from ignorance"

What is going on?

Why are they not working?

They didn't like his hymn.

"Wake up, my sleepy eyes

wake up"

The wall has to be

finished tonight.

- We are not touching those posts.

- Why not?

The giant over there.

He is casting a spell.

Look, he is blowing onto the posts.

Whoever touches them

will become a Muslim.

- You can't be serious.

- He can't trick us.

Decebal, do that without chanting.

"Wake up, my eyes"

Listen.

Your lives are in danger.

- Get going.

- Enough.

You can't touch me.

Maybe I haven't been

in forty wars like you

but I've been down

these fields for forty years.

You shout and sing

like you own the place.

Ordering us around.

This is our village, not yours.

You are helping us.

Thanks.

We're poor people

but we have got our pride.

Our families've been praying in that

church for three hundred years.

We sing chants there together.

That's what we sing.

We are ignorant peasants.

We don't know how to fight.

But we are not children

you can push around.

Of course you are not children

You're grown men

and you're sitting here

letting a girl doing your work

She is not one of us.

She is a Sciagurato!

"Hail, O Queen of heaven

enthroned!"

Executioner.

"Hail, by Angels

Mistress owned"

"Root of Jesse, Gate of morn"

"Whence the world's

true Light was born"

"Hail, O Queen

of heaven enthroned!"

"Hail, by Angels

Mistress owned!"

"Root of Jesse, Gate of morn"

"Whence the world's

true Light was born"

"Glorious Virgin, joy to thee"

"Loveliest whom

in heaven they see"

- Stop fooling around.

- Sorry.

"Fairest thou where all are fair"

"Plead with Christ our sins to spare"

Wait there.

We are by the camp.

Put this on.

I see you haven't changed

in all these years.

What do you want from me?

What kind of a question is that?

Wasn't I always your favorite?

Do you want the entire village

to know that?

Then get to work.

You know whom

to approach and k*ll?

This man you are going to k*ll

is the very heart of Claws.

You might want

to bear this in mind.

I used to be his favorite, too.

Yedder saw it from the hill.

They are getting ready

for the siege.

So, stop doodling.

Let's get back to work.

Then what?

We got villagers and farmers.

They got soldiers

who know nothing but that.

But you know that life

is not just about fighting.

They can't beat you, cause

you'll be fighting for that life.

Right?

Yedder.

You are going to clean

that up when we are done.

This is Moena.

This is our main gate.

You'll be in charge of

our first line of our defense.

First we'll hammer some stakes

outside for the horses.

We need more than

wooden fence posts.

I am gonna make metal clamps

and tie them together.

You two!

Give me more iron.

Wait, let me finish it.

You'll teach the archers

how to take aim.

I'll get them ready.

Release.

sh*t!

What matters in aiming

is not the target

but how much you want to hit it.

So, how badly do you wanna

k*ll a Turk today?

Decebal, we need bombs.

Mind the colors.

Red goes with green.

Strike!

Aim!

First position, strike!

Aim.

Now, we do all blindfolded.

I am just kidding.

Father, the church will be

an emergency shelter.

But most important

it's our alarm tower.

- Let's go.

- Come on. Move!

Come on!

Attack!

That all sounds great to me.

But what the hell

am I supposed to do?

Your job isn't to k*ll.

It's to heal.

We'll turn the inn into a clinic.

You tend the wounded.

And you won't so much

as poke your head outside.

We'll be ready.

When Marco attacks, people

will die but victory will be ours

because we'll be fighting

for each other.

We'll be fighting for a dream.

I meant it.

Clean up that table.

We'll see

If they need us to.

Elda!

Decebal.

- Does he know?

- Who?

- Know what?

- Your executioner.

Does he know that you are

in love with him, too?

What are you talking about

you lunatic?

What he did today

he did it for you.

I call that, love.

What difference

would it make anymore?

I am a Sciagurate.

He is a boy.

This is the symbol of our unit.

Me, Mete, Balaban

Yedder and Guido.

Do you know what makes us

Claws, Elda?

- How would I know?

- Because, we love each other.

Oh, you are being stupid now.

- There is no such thing.

- There is little, Miss.

Look and listen.

I am on the endless steps.

With the Bogatyr warriors.

I am scared and shivering.

The Ottomans have come.

They are going

to take me away.

- Did they kidnap you?

- They did, my little one.

They took me to a huge city.

There was a barracks there.

It was full of boys.

They have been taken

from their families.

All around us were knives, swords

daggers, bows and arrows.

They'll never accept me.

Because, like you

I am Sciagurato.

- I am cursed.

- No, you're not cursed.

One night, in the dark

four little hands

reached for mine.

Five kids clung onto each other.

We held all to each others' hands

and we never let go.

What I want to say is

- Guido!

- What?

- I love you, brother.

- Me, too, Decebal.

- Yedder!

- Yes, yes, me, too, brother!

I love you, too, you crazy lads!

Sleep now! We have

too much to do tomorrow.

You are not cursed. You deserve

love as much as anyone.

And if you love someone

Then, you have to tell them.

Don't be deceived by his looks.

He has a soft heart.

Always trying

to save someone.

When?

Tonight.

First, hone the knife

then, smear poison on it.

And then inject our poison

into the very heart of Claw.

These are made

of real Christian steel.

Throw these from

the top of the fence.

It pierces armor.

Look. This doesn't

have an iron tip.

The iron is inside.

That way it is faster

and more deadly.

This shield was used

in the Crusades.

Turks' maces

bounced right off it.

You don't just stab.

Give it a twist.

If you twist, it doesn't matter

how big they are.

Down they go. The Crusaders

don't know these tricks.

Which is why

we kept beating them.

Hey, that sword you are touching.

It's made by the finest

swordsmith in Austria.

- Who?

- Me.

You dumb f*ck, it was me!

You are being handed

a sword by a master.

I wish all the proper decorum

of this momentous occasion.

Get down.

May the Lord give strength

to your wrist.

If you just take that and go

that means a lack of respect

for the master.

Is that what you want?

Good job!

May your campaign

be victorious!

Gunther, Gunther!

Easy! Easy! Easy!

Hey! Hey!

Easy!

You talk a big game.

Come on, Janissary.

Let's see if you got

what it takes.

By God, El Turco.

Swing through the air

and the enemy

will take a step back

Meet a knight's blow!

What the

What the hell is that?

This, El Turco, is the last sword

forged by the finest

sword smith in the land.

It was made

for a gallant Turk.

If you try to kiss me

then, I'll slap you.

It has begun.

I expected.

God save us all.

Gloria.

She went home

to get some herbs.

I told her not to go.

Go, I got this.

Go!

People of Moena!

I can see them arming up

ready to attack.

They are in large numbers and

much better equipped than we are.

They deem us weak.

They are coming

to steal our homes.

But they are wrong.

We know how to fight.

We have spent a lifetime

battling cold, hunger

and disease.

Now we are all fighting again

and once again

we will fight together!

- Together!

- Yeah!

I just wanted to take a rest.

This isn't the kind of place

to take anything.

- Aren't you spooked?

- Why would I be?

- Three lettered ones.

- What three letters?

"Cinler"

The djinn.

Don't make me

talk about them.

They roam graveyards.

They possess people.

- Gives me the shivers!

- Scardy cat.

Of course I am scared.

Courage comes

out of fear, Elda.

You are doing it again.

Not making any sense.

You can't be brave

if you are scared.

If you're afraid

then you are a coward.

Not being scared

makes you a fool.

You can't be brave unless

you learn to live with fear.

- You can't live with fear.

- Yes, you do.

You'll find a friend, you tell him

how scared you are.

Is that what you all did.

The Claw?

No.

But I wish we had.

Tell me more.

Gloria!

- Gloria!

- What's the matter?

- Man, this is hard.

- What?

Love

Love is a real pain in the a*s.

A silent arrow pierced

one of us in the heart.

But he didn't die.

He fooled you.

Come.

I'll hold them off.

Go and get help.

Okay. Okay.

Okay.

Hey, f*ck!

I just realized something.

I am not scared of you!

No.

Decebal!

No!

I am sorry.

I don't wanna die.

I am sorry.

That's okay.

You'll be okay.

I came to help.

What side are you on?

I have never k*lled

anyone before, never.

Aren't you the executioner?

Don't you chop off people's heads?

That doesn't count.

It's not me.

That's not my hands.

It's the hand of God, not me.

What are you doing here?

Did you follow me?

No.

She wasn't in the village.

I looked but

Who wasn't there?

Elda.

Elda wasn't in the village.

So, he thought

she could be here.

What's the deal with that?

You know

The pain in the a*s thing.

You know, for a moment there

I thought you were a traitor.

I'll go and tell the people.

Thanks, Father.

Forgive me.

You Christians

can't stop being sorry.

Thank God

it's not a serious injury.

I lied to you.

About what?

- I've never told anyone that

- Never told anyone what?

That I really am a Sciagurato.

There is a curse on me.

- No, little one.

- No, you don't understand.

Everyone I loved dies.

My mother

I k*lled my mother

and I am cursed.

And if I tell him that I love him

he'll die, too.

And then, so will Gloria.

And I tried to help you

and now you'll die, too.

Get away from here. Please

Please, leave this place.

Get away from me.

I am serious.

Stay away from me.

I am serious.

Let me tell you a secret, too.

I lied to you, too, Elda.

I said "Marco kept

his silence to the end".

In fact, he spoke to me that day.

Yes, yes, you are right.

I am not dead, Decebal.

You will be the only one

who knows this.

My name is Marco

son of an Italian family.

I am tired

of being someone else.

Either I go home now

or this is over

and I die in my homeland.

Only you can set me free

my big-hearted friend.

Okay, now you are free.

Farewell, old friend.

Mete, I love you brother.

We are not cursed, little miss.

It's just that our hearts

are too weak.

It's your own fault.

You should never have

let that Satan free.

Help!

Help!

Something has happened

to the Turk.

Someone tried to k*ll him.

Help!

Hasan!

What happened?

- What happened?

- Decebal.

A group breached in.

They cornered him

at the graveyard.

Elda was wounded.

So, Decebal fought them off

and carried her to safety.

The Father went out

to let us know.

That's when

You should see the graveyard.

He took all of them head-on.

He would have taken the world on

for those he loved

and all it took

was a coward from behind.

Get out.

Leave us.

Heal him.

Use your herbs and potions

Make him better.

I can't.

He is gone.

Decebal.

My brother

- It's not your fault.

- But it is.

I should have been there.

I wasn't. I looked away.

I let them k*ll my brother just

because I fell for a silly dream.

Take that ugly thing off.

Why him?

I owed him.

A debt I could never repay.

Decebal was Claw's conscience

and beating heart.

We just tore out that heart.

May I go now?

Did it never occur to you

that one day, that little boy

would turn into this dragon?

"Darling, you would be

so proud of me tonight"

"My beloved, in Moena, everything

is going just as we planned"

"They are so desperate."

"They have joined forces

with Turks and witches."

"They think that would save them.

Poor things"

"We now have an uprising

on our hands"

"The past and the future have

come together in my little village."

"The sinners will now be punished."

"It is now time to burn and

destroy everything from my past."

Ready!

"This is just a start.

Together we will rule Trento."

Aim!

"We will set the world on fire

my love"

"and in those flames

we will forge our home."