01x01 - Galanthus Byzantinus

[bunniefuu]

[clattering]

[clattering continues]

[loud thunk]

JABBER 23, JABBER 24

MAY 1ST, MAY 28TH, JUNE 4TH

[beeping]

[beeping]

[sighs]

[exhales]

[takes a deep breath, exhales]

[watch beeps]

[man on tape]

breathing through that is also possible.

In fact, it could be mildly sour.

Yes, yes.

But we never show that.

They keep puffing their cigars.

Soaking wet.

Black-eyed peas making out during games.

Bunch of free will under the bed,

all covered in gravy.

- You should be cool about it

- [beeping]

and push them gently

with your computer finger.

Do the trees ever threaten the parachutes?

- Your mom should've told you about it.

- [eerie music builds]

Start creeping gently,

without losing your manners.

- [feedback whines]

- Rats in numbers you've never seen before

have become the rage in town,

aphorisms are worthless now.

If only I could earn some cash

from my love for the arts

- [beeping]

- I'd be free of eating from the garbage.

- But no sir, not happening.

- [shuddering]

They deprived me of my fingers,

just to keep me from counting with them.

But what I hadn't taken into account

was that I could breathe in

- all the dignity the beggars have buried.

- [pants]

Because you're afraid

of making physics your enemy,

- they act like you have no transparency.

- [beeps]

- The light permeability

- [tape stops]

[panting]

[tape player clatters]

[water splashes]

[breathing rapidly]

[man] Seven months.

Third week.

Synesthetic attacks.

JABBER 7

Negative for five weeks.

Intense dreaming

and daydreaming still occurring.

Elevated mental activity

with recurring hallucinatory episodes.

[breathes deeply]

Epileptic seizures have been

nonexistent for a while.

[sighs]

Level three.

Fifty seconds of jabbering.

104 degrees.

[sighs]

Oh, no.

[item clatters]

[pensive music playing]

[sighs]

[shudders]

[man] A semantic virus.

That's what we named it eight years ago

when the pandemic started.

[indistinct chatter]

[man] A contagious mental disorder

that spread through speech

from one ear to another.

ARDS.

Colloquially known as "jabbering."

We call it that because

people start talking nonsense.

That's the first

and most important symptom.

[distant siren wailing]

[man] After communication channels

broke down, financial depression.

Total collapse of the system.

Panic, fear, and chaos.

The world soon gave in to the pandemic.

[soldier on PA] everyone to observe

the rules and directions

without compromise,

and cooperate with the AEI

to fight back the threats

against the institution

[man] Even though

the promised cure did not come,

the Anti-Epidemic Institution continued

to enforce extraordinary measures.

When they announced that

they would divide up the cities

and create safe zones,

we realized

that we had crossed the Rubicon.

AEI

HEADPHONES FIRST!

[man] They ripped people away from

their families, friends, and loved ones

and locked them behind walls

inside quarantine zones.

Riots, sh**t-outs,

and general upheaval ensued.

[siren chirping]

QUARANTINE ZONE 17

[man] Using this a pretense,

one organization seized power.

The AEI.

[crowd clamoring]

[man] Maybe the birds are still flying,

and the sea is still salty,

but nothing is the way it was anymore.

[suspenseful music building]

[man] Neither am I.

- [tense electronic music playing]

- [automatic g*nf*re]

[man] I am Murat Siyavuş.

Suspended between the terrors of the past

and the despair of the future.

In a world where the AEI

has enormous authority,

where there is jabbering

and those who are afraid of it,

I have no place at all.

Why?

Because I couldn't jabber

even if I wanted to.

[music builds, fades]

[distant siren wailing]

LIFE IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THIS

REMEMBER KOCAELİ!

[electric saw whirring in background]

[Murat] When I first saw her,

it was in the afternoon

on one of the first days of the year.

[soft piano music playing]

[Murat] I wonder what it was

that charmed me.

Was it how she sat at that bus stop

reading a book,

without a care in the world,

while I was trying to sneak out

using the back roads,

to my mother's place,

where I desperately had to seek refuge?

Or was it that she reminded me

that in a world

that was once so different,

I was actually someone different?

I found myself staring at her.

As if she was some kind of remedy,

or a mathematical improbability

that had suddenly become probable.

Or the feeling of waking

from a pleasant dream

to a morning where that dream

had actually come true.

There were 30, 40, 50 feet,

maybe a light-year,

maybe a couple of inches between us.

[soft, echoing sigh]

[Murat] I was almost crying.

[heartbeat pounding faintly]

[music distorts, halts]

[industrial clanging sounds in background]

[soft music resumes]

Oh, there's no service at that bus stop,

just so you know.

[Murat] A flower budding

from under the concrete,

or the love a beautiful woman

Do either of them

make you feel alive again?

Do you still have a chance?

[music fades]

[soldier on PA] Curfew is in force

after 6:00 p.m. inside safe zones.

[siren chirps]

[soldier on PA] Curfew is in force

after 6:00 p.m. inside safe zones.

[ominous ambient music playing]

SECURITY

[exhales sharply]

[music swells]

[music fades]

AEI

SAFETY ANNOUNCEMEN

[metal squeaking]

[door shuts]

[exhales sharply]

[sizzling]

[door opens]

[soldering iron hisses softly]

[door closes]

[keys jingling]

Hi, Mom.

Sudoku, huh?

Oh, well done.

A little while

since you last brought some.

Did you get soap?

Oh. No.

[item clatters]

[sighs]

Hey, Makbule wants us to drop by tomorrow.

[soldering iron hisses]

[sighs]

[soft music playing]

"Galanthus byzantinus."

What?

Galanthus byzantinus,

a snowdrop specific to Istanbul.

Did you know that?

Murat, we're out of soap.

Stop looking at that book.

Come on, I just got here

and I can't go out for a couple days.

[Murat's mom] We have no soap.

- I would, but you know the rules.

- Please look at me.

We have no soap.

[pensive music playing]

[sighs]

[feedback whines]

[fast beeping sounds in Murat's mind]

Now what are you doing?

Son

[music intensifies]

Don't touch my Sudokus!

Get away from that.

[music fades]

I KNOW THERE'S NO BUS SERVICE.

THAT'S WHY I WAIT HERE.

[soft ambient music playing]

THE GIRL WHO WAITS FOR A BUS

THAT WILL NEVER COME

[chuckles]

[inhales]

MINIMUM COMMUNICATION

MAXIMUM SECURITY

DON'T SPEAK!

NO ENTRY WITHOUT HEADPHONES

ARDS SECURITY SYSTEM

[cash register beeping]

[boy] I want to go home.

[indistinct chatter]

[woman] Stop playing with those.

Okay. I've got it. Okay.

[boy] I wanna go home!

[woman] Open that, baby.

Okay, we're going.

[ominous music playing]

Sweetheart, what's with you today?

Put this on.

- [boy] I wanna go.

- [woman] Stop!

[beeping]

[woman and boy continue arguing]

[woman] Sweetheart, what do you want?

Son, stop it.

Listen, settle down, all of you!

Uh, sir, are you by chance an engineer?

Excuse me?

I hope you don't sacrifice the instinct

for friction to your massive matter.

[eerie discordant music playing]

[feedback builds, subsides]

[rapid ticking sound]

Infected!

[alarm blaring]

[people clamoring]

[woman] Where's your brother?

Wait! My son's in there!

My son's in there!

- [pounding on barrier]

- [woman] Hey! Hey!

Over here!

Please! Open the door!

Son! Son! Come on!

Rolling out of the straw,

sideways beyond the victimized slide.

If the transition stuff

is made to yell runny,

my crusts will dry out outstandingly.

Near third it have at down?

Open this door now!

Come on! It won't open!

[infected woman] If it's trout

for blue bronze, I love my noggin.

Marvelous is the answering desk

of greater grass.

The southwestern wind

of the train filters the basket.

Every day much of mine

is crispy when you dip into it

Come on! Open up, please!

The opening whistling

is the balance tingle.

How it whistles to the rain.

Let's get you out.

[woman] Help him! Please! Help him!

[infected woman] All slide to the side.

When the balance shifts sideways,

diagonal lines occur.

- Quietly, put two onions on it.

- [Murat straining]

If they ask you why the morass

was played when you passed by

[Murat] Pull! Let's go!

[infected woman]

a superior wrestling submarine.

- Suicidal scallions

- Sweetheart! [panting]

membranes when you're approximate

to the membrane.

[voice echoes] But perfection,

locates toward the egg.

And when you look at the egg,

you see only the egg.

[breathing shakily]

You'll see the tip of the pea.

When the tip of the pea whispers,

you should not listen to it,

what you listen to

is the look of the bread.

LIQUID SOAP

[infected woman]

When it collides with the olive oil,

- they shrivel up reciprocally.

- [Murat panting]

When they shrivel up

the two in their souls,

their creativity rises

from the ground to meet you.

[infected woman continues jabbering]

[sniffs, pants]

- [grunting]

- [alarm continues blaring]

[Murat] f*ck.

[panting]

[alarm continues faintly]

[panting]

f*ck.

f*ck.

[panting]

[siren wailing in background]

[sirens approaching in background]

[siren sounds distort]

[multiple sirens wailing]

[groans]

Oh sh*t!

Idiot!

Idiot!

[grunting]

[breathing rapidly]

NO ENTRY WITHOUT HEADPHONES

AEI TIP LINE

Hey, listen.

- That pine tree thing is exhausting, man.

- Not in the mood.

Hey, I'm trying to tell

you something, you hear me?

Why are you acting like

I'm one of those jabberers?

I'm opening my ears for you!

AEI

[siren chirping]

[indistinct radio chatter]

[ominous music playing]

ARDS PATIENT TRANSPOR

[banging on glass]

- Why are we here?

- Well, sir, you're cheerful today.

Serhat.

Okan from the tip line reported this.

He thought it would interest us.

Excuse me.

If I were you, I'd get out of there.

That place is bad for you.

What is it?

Well, some guy was exposed

to jabbering without headphones,

but left like nothing happened.

[man] I've never seen anything like it.

The guy didn't jabber at all.

He should've been infected

when he was near the barrier.

He stared right at me like he was

asking me to stop and not report him.

[official] All right.

Get this guy's contact information.

The man saved the life a kid, apparently.

[official] investigation.

Don't leave the crime scene unless

- Cameras?

- I have all the footage from inside.

Surrounding streets.

I wanna see the market from the outside.

- Yes, sir.

- Project X.

- Have you asked for the resident list?

- We're combing through the crew list, sir.

We're looking through it all.

- [music halts]

- [door opens]

[door shuts]

[feedback whining]

[Murat breathing shakily]

- [panting]

- [tense music playing]

[breathing rapidly]

[exhales sharply]

What's up, Hot Skull? Feeling better?

[apparition laughs]

Didn't you say that

Wernicke's aphasia was worse?

Huh?

[cackling]

What was it? Synesthesia,

hallucinations, and epileptic seizures?

I know.

You're feeling beat down.

Come on, just give up

and turn yourself in to the AEI.

Enough.

Oh, poor Murat. Aww.

Someone's letting himself slip up.

I'm surprised, Murat.

You got caught putting

headphones on that kid.

- Screw you!

- [music halts]

[Murat's mom] Murat?

Those meds that Ertem that gave you,

you remember where they are?

Okay.

[eerie music resumes]

[cat screeching]

[twangy guitar music playing]

[hinge squeaking]

- [lock clicks]

- [door opens]

WHAT IS PROJECT X?

WHAT IS A.R.D.S?

[door shuts]

ARTICLES ON ARDS PATIENTS

BETWEEN THE AGES OF 7-10

AEI

[exhales]

[beeping]

Tango, Alpha, seven, Juliet, Gold.

This is Alpha, Tango, nine,

Whiskey, Oscar.

Do you copy, Commander?

[Commander] Alpha, Tango, nine,

Whiskey, Oscar.

This is Tango, Alpha, seven, Juliet, Gold.

Commander here. Go ahead.

Listen to me,

I left the recipe with Şenel earlier.

You got it, right?

Thanks, Commander.

PROJECT X

Project X. Shall we go on?

[Commander] Hmm.

I must admit,

that team is really intriguing.

Find anything new?

Well, I've been

reading through their articles.

The ones who discovered

the jabbering levels,

who developed

the global system currently in use,

and who were able to prove that

the immunity in kids was a hoax

It's all them.

That crew is like a research factory.

IMMUNITY

It all stops after the fire.

Either they started jabbering,

or they died in the fire.

The only one whose whereabouts

is unknown is that linguist.

Murat Siyavuş.

Yeah.

The guy is like a Swiss Army knife.

Physiology, neurology, linguistics,

the whole nine yards.

I'm looking into it, but I don't think

it will amount to anything.

But I'll check out the hospitals tonight.

And I'll check out

the rehab center records

once I get my hands on them.

We'll check this off our list, Anton.

REHAB CENTER RECORDS

They're all ghosts.

They can't help the living.

[radio clicks]

Copy that, Commander Cevat.

[Cevat] Good luck, Anton.

Copy that. Commander out.

It's been eight years.

Unfathomable. It's been eight years.

SECURE BROADCAST - AEI TV

And for all those years,

our scientists have been working

non-stop on this issue.

But they're no closer to finding a cure.

Let's be honest.

[woman on TV]

How do you respond, Mükerrem? Are they

[Murat's mom]

We'll go to Makbule's tomorrow.

[news program continues]

Mom, I'm not going out tomorrow.

It'd be better if I stopped

going out for a while.

What's wrong with going out, huh?

What's wrong?

Someone follow you? Is that it? Huh?

Or stare at you suspiciously? What is it?

Just forget it.

[man on TV]

Where are those headphones now?

- That's the real question.

- [Murat's mom scoffs]

- [woman on TV] Kamil, I need to ask

- [TV cuts out]

Murat.

The world around us

is full of diseased people.

Some get better, some get worse.

Yep, and I also know

you had to go through tough times,

and it was painful for you,

but enough already.

Enough. Please.

Please, you have to let it go.

Snap out of it. And live your life!

I'm fine the way I am.

You expect me to believe that?

You're living like an onion.

Just sitting here and breathing. [gasps]

[Murat's mom sighs]

Come on. Light that.

[sighs]

[siren wailing]

[lighter clicks]

Murat, I made a promise to her.

That woman is miserable.

Just hear her out and see what she needs.

I'll mull it over.

ANTI-EPIDEMIC INSTITUTION

[intense ambient music playing]

[siren chirps]

ANTI-EPIDEMIC INSTITUTION

[metal detector beeps]

[metal detector beeps]

[card reader beeping]

[buzzer sounds]

ARDS PATIENTS ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS!

[beeping]

Anton Tarakçı.

Chief of operational units

for the AEI. Copy?

[female voice]

Please keep talking to confirm.

Anton Kadir Tarakçı.

Chief of operational units

at the AEI. Copy?

[buzzer sounds]

[door lock hisses]

Was that good enough for you yet?

[female voice]

Please keep talking to confirm.

m*therf*cker, if you don't open this door,

I'll come upstairs

and stuff that keyboard down your throat.

[beeping]

f*ck.

[metal detector beeping]

[Anton] You leave the records on my desk?

Fazıl Eryılmaz has decided

to honor us with his presence.

That's why security is tight.

They say he'll run

Marmara operations from here.

Naturally, Canan is here

with Fazıl as well.

What about the resident list?

Find anything new?

Having all the safe zones

checked like you want,

but so far, I've got nothing.

Sure about this?

Because, once again, we've gone rogue.

Camera footage ready?

Yes, it is, Chief.

[mouse clicking]

[mouse clicking]

[music intensifies]

The hell is he doing?

[chuckling] Sir, it looks like

the guy's head's on fire.

[Anton scoffs]

He put his headphones on the kid.

Check those headphones out,

see if anything comes up.

Yes, sir.

[birdsong recording plays]

Oh! You're here!

Oh, he's here! He's here!

Oh, my dear!

Come in!

Oh, hello, son!

I've been waiting for you for so long.

Come.

All right, all right, Makbule.

Come in, Murat. Come in! Oh!

- He's here!

- Come on, Makbule, come on.

[tense music playing]

[Makbule] You know how long

Behzat was quiet for.

I remember you helped Özgür,

bless his soul, for a while.

- [whispers] Jacket off.

- What?

[Makbule] Mercy on his soul.

Then you had your own troubles

to deal with, of course.

Until recently,

I would take him for a stroll.

The fresh air is good, isn't it? Anyways

This is big.

With the start of

the Ottoman Turkish thing,

we've been unable to go out.

- [sniffles]

- [Makbule] The neighbors are disgruntled.

I'm scared to death

that someone will report us.

He's worrying me, Murat.

- [yells] Dominioooon!

- [rumbling]

- [glasses rattling]

- [yelling continues]

[rumbling subsides]

[dogs barking outside]

[pensive music playing]

[sighs]

[barking continues]

Oh, son, we need your help.

- Aunt Makbule, Özgür is dead.

- [door opens]

[Makbule gasps]

- Did your hear it?

- Seriously, Grandma?

A person out there could be

sitting in the damn park and hear him.

[gasps]

How are you, Dad?

[Makbule sobbing]

The last exclamation was great too,

but this was on another level.

- Forgive me, I'd like to

- It's fine. [clears throat]

[Makbule] Last night, the whole place

reverberated because of him.

Our neighbors,

they were standing outside our door!

And we can't even take him to a doctor!

Grandma, please don't cry. Please.

[Makbule] For years, not a word,

not a single word, but now

[sobbing]

So, um, he's like this

all the time? I mean

Nothing related

to the ongoing conversation?

I don't know the meaning

of the words he says.

Well, to be honest,

I wouldn't want to limit the word

to anything specific,

but "dominion" is, roughly, "colony."

[Makbule's grandson]

Are you gonna help us or not? Look.

My grandma told me

that you have a special condition.

Something to do with Özgür.

A cure or something.

Murat, Özgür's the only one

who could help him.

Are you serious? You haven't told him?

Özgür's dead.

[tsks] But how do you know that, man?

How do I know what, Arif?

Were you at his funeral?

Did you see his body?

If he were alive, he'd come to me.

End of story.

Please, listen.

I know he's alive. Believe me.

I need you to trust me. I'll prove it.

- How the hell do you know that, Arif?

- How else, Murat?

Those Plus 1 people, of course.

I'll tell you, all of this

is coming from that little b*tch.

Listen, if you go there again

I'll break your legs! I swear! You won't!

Grandma, I've been I've been

looking into this and I won't let it go.

I'm meeting this guy Erol tomorrow.

- He's a jack-of-all-trades.

- Oh!

[Arif] He could get into

AEI's intelligence data.

Maybe erase it for the right price.

I'm gonna learn

what happened to Özgür eventually.

[Makbule sobbing] Arif?

Don't go, don't go!

- Arif, don't go! Please, don't go, my boy!

- [door opens]

[door shuts]

[Makbule sobbing]

[Murat's mom]

It's okay, Makbule, it's okay.

[sobbing]

Come on, Makbule. That's enough.

Oh, dear God! Oh God

Makbule, enough!

[sobbing quietly]

[Makbule sobs]

[Arif] Hey, Murat!

Um look at his arm there.

[Arif] Check out this funnel. Look.

Identical.

Where did this come from?

Her friend pulled it off of a jabberer.

[Murat] The only person

who can turn me back to the way I was.

The one who gave me this skull. Özgür.

Is it possible that he's alive?

[Murat] Thank you, Mom, really.

Better hurry or we'll miss the curfew.

Get your headphones on. It's not safe.

[man] Murat!

Murat, hey!

[chuckles] Everything's fine, sir.

No worries.

I was waiting for you because, obviously,

you'd come in through

the coal cellar at this hour.

Sezgin, what is it?

Uh um some guys were here earlier.

I bet they were with the AEI, Murat.

'Cause they were asking

for the resident list.

What does he want?

- AEI

- Shh.

- It's nothing. Don't worry. It's nothing.

- Huh?

I need to talk to him.

Just go inside. I'll be right behind you.

Go on.

Go.

[exhales]

Yeah?

Well, Murat, it's this pine thingy.

I wanted to talk about it

with you yesterday.

I can't keep doing this anymore.

- What do you mean, you can't?

- I mean take your pine, and I'm out.

I've been getting shivers

down my spine since yesterday.

And now this list thing comes up.

It's like traffic lights. Red then green.

And what if they ask me about it?

I don't have an answer for it.

And besides, I don't see any whiskeys

coming like they used to.

No whiskey for you.

Where's the red one?

- At the front gate.

- At the front gate? Go get it.

You want me to get it?

I'm waiting, Sezgin.

All right.

[ominous music playing]

[sighs]

[music fades]

[bottles clinking]

Hey, what was that all about?

Anything to do with you?

I don't know, Mom.

It's not likely, I mean.

Officially, you don't really live here.

We've seen to that.

Although, you can't be too careful.

[sighs]

So I hid an escape plan

under the dead plant.

[scoffs]

Under the dead plant.

Well, no one

will look under that sad thing.

[somber music playing]

Do you Do you still have hope?

In what?

In me.

Are you serious, son?

I don't know what you're looking for,

but it's frustrating.

You know I want to get rid of this skull.

I can't take it anymore.

Then get off your a*s

and do something about it.

[bangs table]

[music fades]

[dog barking in background]

[soft ambient music playing]

JUNE 5TH - GALATA

[Murat on tape] I keep recalling

what Özgür told me tonight.

[feedback whines]

We may never be able

to find a cure for this disease.

Still, it's worth continuing that search

just to keep people's hope alive,

or something like that.

[songbird sings]

[chuckles]

Is this really how that jerk

is trying to keep us inspired,

or is he really just a hopeless romantic?

[woman] Oh, come on,

he just said that to impress Elif.

Or could be he's gone

overboard with it recently.

That's possible.

- I was recording that.

- Oh. You should've said so.

I'm really sorry.

I'm really sorry!

[recorder clicks]

Just start recording now.

- Huh?

- Start recording.

[recorder clicks]

Give it here. [clears throat]

But tell me, who are we, Murat Siyavuş?

[chuckles]

You, me, Özgür, Elif.

Look, we do our job.

But we don't work

so we can let future take its course.

We do your job in order

to shape the future for the better.

[laughs softly]

We expose ourselves to risk

to help the exposed.

Well, if that isn't hope,

then I don't know what is. Huh?

- Wow, I like that.

- [recorder clicks]

- Hm?

- Mm.

I wonder if for my next recording,

I should say that was my idea.

[woman] Hmm.

- How should we do it?

- How should we do it?

- Hm? Mm.

- [Murat] I could pay a royalty. Mm?

[tape player clicks]

[player rewinds, clicks]

[woman] We expose ourselves to risk

to help the exposed.

[takes a deep breath, exhales]

[footsteps approaching]

You okay?

Going out?

I think I'm gonna go out

and give life a chance.

Gotta do something, Mom.

[pensive ambient music playing]

[keys jingling]

I'D LOVE TO GET TO KNOW YOU.

I'LL BE AT THE BUS STOP AT 2 P.M.

[Murat] Did you know that a snowdrop

has broken through the sidewalk

across from the bus stop?

Exposing itself to life.

Isn't that what the snowdrop

is trying to encourage us to do?

TO THE GIRL WHO WAITS FOR A BUS

THAT'LL NEVER COME

- [radio chirps]

- [Cevat] Alpha, Tango, 9, Whiskey, Oscar.

This is Tango, Alpha, seven, Juliet, Gold.

Have I just missed you,

or are you still there?

- [tense music playing]

- [door shuts]

[Cevat] Anton?

I'm here, Commander. Anton listening.

I checked the hospital records.

That Murat Siyavuş guy

was admitted to the emergency room

numerous times after the fire.

The last time

was on April 4th that same year.

Then he vanished into thin air,

but you already know that.

So, you can cross him off.

[sighs]

Thanks, Commander.

Why was he there?

[Cevat] High fever.

High fever just in

the cephalic area of the brain.

[pen scratching]

They released him

after giving him an antipyretic.

HIGH FEVER

Six, eight, ten, twelve,

fourteen times to be exact.

Fourteen times?

How was it not affiliated with the body?

It was only in his head.

[music intensifies]

[Cevat] Anton

[door opens, shuts]

Anton?

IMMUNITY - REHAB RECORDS

HIGH FEVER - 14 TIMES

It's like your father

is holding his breath underwater

and every time he yells,

he's coming up for air.

My guess is that

the disease is fighting back

and still trying to infect you.

Now, who's Erol?

I'd like to meet this guy.

Sir. I have the room ready.

Murat Siyavuş.

After the fire, the guy repeatedly

went to the emergency room

with a high fever in the cephalic region.

The cephalic region?

Repeatedly.

Do you really think that's possible?

Do these cameras have

thermal imaging capabilities?

Yeah, they do, sir.

They were used to measure fever

before the epidemic.

Show me.

[mouse clicking]

[keyboard clacks]

[typing on keyboard]

[computer beeping]

[music intensifies]

What the heck?

I want this guy's identity

and his address.

Use the other cameras

to find out where he went.

- [typing on keyboard]

- Got anything from the headphones?

Nothing, sir. I gave it to Metin

to see if he could find anything.

[music fades]

Mr. Murat, after this scourge appeared,

we've striven in these dystopic times

to procure services for our people.

For years, we've been offering

all kinds of services for our people.

Information, lost and found,

interregional transportation,

mobile phones, electronics,

analog devices, home appliances,

sanitary plumbing,

maintenance and repairs,

even carpet cleaning, among other things.

Here is my card.

Now, what I've told you so far

is routine business,

but we also have

some pretty things, my friend.

Not gonna tell you

all of them, but I can say

that we have

almost anything you could want.

Anything.

The sky's the limit. Huh?

We're very connected.

Our network is wide.

Money will solve

all your problems, my good sir.

- Hold on.

- [Velcro tears]

Allow me to present our à la carte menu.

SERVICE PRICE LIS

Arif told me that search logs could

Those can be erased. Nothing to it.

- They could?

- Right away.

- Right away?

- Sure, sure, sure, no trouble.

Okay. That would be amazing.

Okay, and if you want us to,

we can get rid of the body for you.

No worries.

[chuckles]

Um, we want to know

if a certain person's still alive.

No problem. I can check that out.

Uh what's it cost?

Ah!

Yes, well.

Finding someone,

information, four, we get that,

give some to our guys, eight.

Once you get Kamil involved, it's 42.87.

The other one's a fixed price.

Plus the erasing.

Çetin Nazlı will ask

for something around 2,000

[muttering] Carry the one

That's like 187

A total of 7,360. Yep.

In total.

I can take care of this for you

for seven and a half. That simple.

And we'll come up clean

on the other side. Okay?

But we don't have that kind of money.

Ah

[pensive music playing]

Gentlemen, seriously,

if you are unable to afford this

Huh?

You sure?

Ah. Well, let me present you with

a sneak peek of our self-service menu.

The aim is to minimize the risk

to a probable minimum

SELF-SERVICE AVAILABLE

and offer you a good bargain.

However, I should tell you,

if things go south,

neither I nor my crew would admit

to knowing you. Remember that.

This is nothing.

A system password for 400.

And 250 for an ID number

with an institutional code,

and that makes 650 for you.

How would we even begin?

You just log on

and check it out by yourself,

delete and edit by yourself. Boom.

But there might be just a tiny hitch.

The guy who'll open the door

for you at the AEI,

he leaves work in 45 minutes.

And next time a member of my crew

is assigned in that building, well,

I've got no clue. Know what I mean?

Man, you know the situation we're in,

and I don't have time.

I can't afford to wait.

Then you better take care of it now.

Easy-peasy.

Who's going in?

Oh, those are nice headphones.

So where'd you get these beauties?

I had a pair like these.

Earned a pretty penny from them.

Metin, shut up and get to the point.

Well, these are custom-made ones.

The AEI used to have them

manufactured for research crews.

But that isn't common knowledge.

Those tech guys,

they don't know anything about it.

There should a serial number

under the headband.

[Metin] Ah-ha.

[tense music playing]

Write this down, sir. Take this.

[Anton] Tell me.

Eighteen, dash

oh, sixteen, dash, twenty-eight

INVENTORY SEARCH

[Metin] Dash, T-13.

[typing on keyboard]

Each pair is registered to an employee.

[clicks mouse]

PERSONNEL FILES / MURAT SİYAVUŞ

[music intensifies]

STATUS: UNKNOWN

[music fades]

All right, now

All the information's here.

All you have to do

is go into the fifth booth.

And please, don't confuse the booths

'cause my guy only works that one.

Look at the camera and say,

"Blackbirds sitting in a tree."

- Remember that, okay?

- "Blackbirds sitting in a tree."

Exactly. You ready? Come on. [claps]

Move. We only have 20 minutes left. Go!

[tense music playing]

[computer beeping]

The jabbering is creating a reaction.

His head heats up

because of the g*dd*mn jabbering.

Can you see it, Serhat?

Olcay, leave us.

Right away, sir.

I don't believe it. This Murat

He's immune.

[metal detector beeping]

[Erol] You'll be tested for jabbering

at the entrance.

You are Hakan Kirmen,

a former AEI employee with full access.

Once you get in,

find the archive room, go in there.

That's the door next to the server room.

When you open the interface,

you need to enter the ID number,

password, and boom, you're in.

[buzzer sounding]

The fifth anniversary

of the Kocaeli incident.

All of you know that

we won't allow any memorial service

or any marches this year.

We'll be opening

a state-of-the-art laboratory.

This laboratory will take us that much

closer to a cure for the disease.

The most important facility

in Europe for the AEI.

A science base.

We don't want anything

to potentially ruin the opening.

Understood?

[female voice] Please begin speaking.

Blackbirds sitting in a tree.

Blackbirds sitting in a tree.

Please keep talking

[buzzer sounds]

Uh Hakan Kirmen.

Hakan Kirmen.

Officer at the AEI. Officer.

[buzzer sounds]

Keep talking to confirm.

[buzzer sounds]

[Murat] Uh, a technical glitch, I suppose.

[whispers] Blackbirds sitting in a tree!

[buzzer sounds]

Now, Plus 1 and other organizations

won't be allowed to protest

or disrupt the opening.

I urge all units in Operations

to take great care

during the grand opening.

That is our sole priority, people.

Good luck.

Fazıl, sir. I'm Anton Tarakçı.

Anton, my former colleague,

is a first class chief in Operations.

Project X, sir.

I assume you know about this.

[ominous music playing]

Özgür Çağlar's team. Murat Siyavuş.

He could be immune to the disease.

All employees of Project X

They either perished in the fire

in the old laboratory, or

Nobody knows what happened to Siyavuş.

I will tell you.

They died or started jabbering.

Yesterday at a super

[Fazıl sighs]

[intense music playing]

Sir. At a supermarket yesterday,

someone took off his headphones

and put them on a child

just to protect the boy from jabbering.

So for a long duration,

he was exposed to jabbering.

Except he didn't jabber.

Those headphones

were manufactured by the AEI.

Murat Siyavuş. That's his full name.

You know, there are people

who plug their ears

with soaked bread, right?

Maybe that guy was one of those,

or the jabberer wasn't a real jabberer.

Those are all possibilities.

But your story is not one of them.

You're not one of those people, are you?

'Cause it seems like you didn't

hear a word of what I just said.

Sir, please. I'm aware that

Headphones cannot be evidence.

Those headphones could be anybody's.

What's worrying is just how

a man of your position

could start a rumor of a sensitive subject

that could foster unrest.

Especially with the briefing

on the opening.

How could you behave so irresponsibly?

And waste the time

and resources of this institution.

Someone's immune. If they were

Choose your next words

extremely carefully.

No one's supposed to deal with things

out of their jurisdiction. Dismissed.

- Fazıl, please

- Dismissed.

Sir, excuse me.

We used the footage

to locate the building complex

of the guy from the supermarket.

He's been living with his mother

under a false name at this address.

Get the guys ready.

Sir, but didn't you hear

what Fazıl just said?

- We can't bring this guy in.

- I want a small and reliable team.

We'll take two vehicles for the raid.

[huffs]

[intense music builds]

Dude, what the hell are you doing?

You're gonna get us both caught.

This is Administration.

I let you in. It was me!

Ah, well, the building's changed a lot.

Look, the archives are downstairs.

Get in and out!

All right.

[gasps]

[computer beeping]

[clicking mouse]

AEI

[sighs]

PERSONNEL FILES

ÖZGÜR ÇAĞLAR

[exhales sharply]

STATUS: DECEASED

[ominous music playing]

[inhales sharply]

AUTOPSY REPOR

EXTERNAL EXAMINATION

INTERNAL EXAMINATION

[clicks mouse]

[sighs]

[soft gasp]

[exhales]

[Murat sighs]

VIDEOS

RECORDING 1

[music intensifies]

[keyboard clatters]

[whispers] Oh God

No. No. No.

[Murat breathing rapidly]

Jesus

Delete and quit.

[panting] Delete and quit. Come on.

ENTER PASSWORD

Delete and quit!

ACCESS DENIED

Oh sh*t.

Oh sh*t.

ENTER PASSWORD

[gasping]

[breathing rapidly]

- [typing on keyboard]

- [computer beeps]

[whispers] sh*t!

f*ck!

f*ck! [panting]

Oh f*ck!

[computer beeps]

[sirens wailing]

[dramatic music playing]

[sirens chirping and wailing]

[brakes squeal]

[Arif] Bro, bro.

Hey, what's going on?

Did you find out about Özgür?

Did you delete it?

He could be alive.

Would you believe me now? Come on, man.

[panting]

Hey, man.

[siren wailing in background]

Hey

Hey, man

What the hell?

Did you wipe the information?!

[knocking loudly]

Anti-Epidemic Institution.

Murat Siyavuş. Is he here?

He's not here.

Sure. Just let yourself in.

Sir, I'm also loyal

to the institution, like you.

I told him many times. He wouldn't listen.

By the way, there's better places

to wait for him to come back.

The old coal house for example.

He'd use that entrance coming back.

[Murat's mom]

What do you think you're doing?

I know about your son's condition.

When did his head start to heat up?

Well [scoffs]

He got a fever when he was

five months old, I think.

You know, it's possible

that he's the only person

with an immunity against ARDS

on the face of planet.

You think that's something to joke about?

Sir, I'm sure he'll answer

any questions that you ask him.

Um, I left tea on the stove.

Just a second.

[man on radio] South part's all clear.

All searching the perimeter.

[Serhat] Sir.

Security said that he'd use

the old coal house entrance at this hour.

Clear the front gate.

I don't want him to get spooked.

I'll send a unit

to the coal house entrance.

- We can get him there, sir.

- You're not to harm him.

I want a clean job.

I'll say it again. Do not harm him.

[soft ambient music playing]

[ominous music playing]

[music intensifies]

[water pouring]

[kettle lid rattles]

[indistinct radio chatter]

[exhales]

Do you want one?

Oh.

[Murat] I'm walking against the wind

just to feel that I exist.

But why not disappear?

Why shouldn't I just let myself go?

Why not give in to the thing

that wants to destroy me?

[man on radio] Subject has entered

premises from the left.

I repeat, he has entered from the left.

[Anton] Let him through. Leave him be.

[tense music building]

[music intensifies]

[Murat] So, this is it.

[man on radio] Subject is not moving.

[dramatic stinger plays]

[man on radio] Subject has moved.

[emotional ambient music playing]

Get caught and you'll forever be parted.

[wind blowing]

[whispers] Get caught

and you'll forever be parted.

[Murat grunts]

[handle squeaking]

[whispers] sh*t!

[panting] sh*t!

[pulsing electronic music playing]

[music halts]

[tense music playing]