First, you kill the governor...
and now you present his killer as a merchant.
Irredeemable.
Even Ural wouldn't be that stupid.
Then, who...
would besmirch my son's good name?
Those responsible for attacking the emperor's caravan
are also responsible for this.
May I enter?
Come in.
Commander Vasilius.
He's preparing for war already.
Using the governor's death as an excuse,
he requested a Byzantine army.
Has the commander lost his mind, Your Highness?
Candar Bey, now it all makes sense.
Don't worry.
Ural is innocent here.
The identity of the killer is clear.
It is clear, but...
This won't do. I've got to stop the war.
If I can't, there will be a bloodbath.
Okay, but...
how on earth will you stop this war, Your Highness?
Ural.
Ural will stop this war.
Summon the men.
We're going to the Karacahisar Keep.
As you wish, sir.
Artuk Bey.
This trial is of utmost importance if we are to regain our dignity.
Those against this might attack again.
Tell the alps to be on alert.
Don't let anyone near the inn.
As you wish, sir.
-Foreman Haçaturyan. -Yes, sir?
Carry on extracting the gold.
Don't worry.
My alps will be on guard day and night.
Get to it as soon as possible.
However, first you must melt the gold you have extracted
so that we may compensate for the merchants' losses.
As you wish, sir.
My precious little stones must have missed me as well!
Aleko, merchants with receivable accounts from the keep have suffered a lot.
Distribute the gold Foreman Haçaturyan melts among them fairly.
May God protect you.
Your generosity will surely make the merchants happy.
Where is Bamsi, Artuk Bey?
Bamsi...
He went to the keep, sir.
So he's going to conquer the keep before us.
From the inside.
Halt.
You again?
Yes, me again.
Now, make way. I've come to see Helena.
Wait here.
Eat over there, Turk.
Bamsi.
You may leave.
Bamsi, don't come again.
Don't come again.
I mean don't come here, to the keep.
Because every day at noon I go to the fountain by the walls.
You can find me there.
Is that so?
Deal.
Helena.
Do you know why I came to see you?
I thought I could ease your pain.
I brought news about your father's killer.
Did that bastard die?
No. I mean, not yet.
First there will be a trial, then he will die.
What are they waiting for?
We don't judge without a proper trial, Helena.
Also, we've to find out who was pulling his strings.
But don't you worry, they won't get away, not the killer, nor his master.
His master?
Who is that?
Ural Bey of Cavdar Tribe.
The assassin came from his tribe.
I'm looking forward to seeing them dead.
I'd like to see their faces when they are sentenced to death.
I'm coming to the trial, as well.
I will spit in the faces of whoever did this to my father
Spit you will.
You'll spit, I'll smash their faces in.
You are so funny.
How could anyone stay upset when you're around?
Don't be sad, then.
Plus, I'd never upset you.
Thank you, Bamsi.
I know I've got a lot to repay you for.
Repay?
What will you pay back?
There's no need.
If anything happens, I'll come and let you know right away.
Don't you worry.
Farewell, Bamsi Beyrek.
I must now talk to Vasilius.
Talk.
Sure, go ahead.
Talk to Vasilius.
Bamsi, you must go now.
Here I go, then.
I love it when everyone is in their rightful place.
Our brothers didn't deserve to die
because of this scoundrel...
He belongs in the depths of Hell.
Turgut Alp.
If we are talking about our rightful places,
then why don't you stay at the trough in front of my tent?
-You-- -Stop, brother.
What are you doing?
If it were up to me,
I wouldn't bother with trials.
I'd have punished you long ago.
If that's so,
then you don't need us.
Watch your mouth.
Or I'll cut your tongue off.
Get out.
You too. Leave us alone.
Your Highness, Emir Sadettin Köpek,
are you visiting your prisoner?
You reap what you sow.
I've told you repeatedly.
I warned you about our over ambitiousness and stupidity.
But look what you did.
You contested Ertuğrul to get yourself killed.
Both of your actions
disrupt the peace as well as Sultan's goals for this land.
Did I kill the governor, Your Highness?
Do you believe that horse crap?
No.
I know you didn't kill the governor.
Regardless, you're still responsible for numerous other crimes.
Everyone used your greed against you.
They used you as bait.
You know I'm innocent.
So get me out of here.
Çolpan is pregnant.
She can't bear the pain.
Your marriage has been disrupted as well.
Not to mention the fact that my father will soon die.
All at once,
the tables were turned against us.
God damn you, Ertuğrul.
May you be forced to endure what you made us endure.
Now are you cursing like the weakling you are, behind the back of the man...
you couldn't face like a reasonable man?
You are incorrigible, Ural.
You...
are a weakling.
Eat, sister.
You have to eat something.
Eat for your baby's sake.
I can't eat, Aslıhan.
Not when I'm a prisoner in my tent,
and Ural is in his current state.
I don't care about either of you.
I worry for your baby.
He's innocent.
You think we are guilty?
I don't know who is guilty and who is not anymore, sister.
But I know how greedy Ural is.
I know how much he hates Ertuğrul Bey.
However,
the more I think about how he sacrificed me to the bandits...
How could you say that?
How could you, Aslıhan?
How could Ural do that?
Do you think I'd let him?
You wouldn't let him, right?
Up until now,
I've done everything my father and brothers have asked me to do.
I lived to be worthy of them.
But my father married me to Emir Sadettin.
I even accepted that.
Now I can see that the only thing anybody thinks about
is their own wellbeing.
And poor Aslıhan moved heaven and earth to please others.
If my brother is a murderer like they say,
what am I going to do?
Where do I go?
I'd fall apart.
I'll die from grief.
We've been done in.
Me, my man...
We're both captive.
You all think we're guilty.
Eat, sister.
I'll keep my silence for now.
And talk when the justice is served
and the bastards surface.
Turgut.
Can you give us a moment?
Ural.
When...
I held you in my arms,
before the adhan,
before I even named you,
I wished for one thing
and one thing only.
I wished...
for God's help,
so that he may let me bring you up
to be an honorable bey.
Now,
I ask myself...
Just where...
did I go wrong and...
how did you end up like this?
Ural.
I didn't bring you up to see you like this.
I would rather...
die...
than see you...
in such a state.
Father.
I'm innocent.
I didn't kill the governor.
His Highness knows that.
I know you didn't kill the governor.
However, Ural...
your crimes are numerous.
Not just you.
We were all involved in too many crimes.
I...
spent my whole life...
on a knife's edge.
I made so many poor decisions.
However,
my decision to topple Ertuğrul...
was by far the worst.
Should we have surrendered...
to that sheepherder?
Whatever we did, we did for the sake of our tribe.
We fought for our honor.
That...
Ural.
That man you call a sheepherder
just defeated us,
and we are now among the many enemies he defeated.
My son...
He captured...
my son, my bride...
in their own tribe.
I know I don't have much time left to live.
I can feel the Grim Reaper coming.
However, son...
However...
if you really sacrificed your sister
and shed the blood of those innocent people,
and killed my brother Toktamis,
I won't give you my blessing.
I won't!
I'll die with disappointment.
Candar...
Bey...
If I have raised an ignoble...
evil murderer,
instead of an honorable bey,
shame on me!
Shame on me.
Father!
I'll get out of here.
You will see.
I'll do right by you.
I will get everything that we deserve.
Father.
If...
I die in this heinous plot,
take care of Çolpan.
Take care of your grandchild.
Father.
Aliyar!
Father. Aliyar!
-Aliyar! -Father!
Turgut!
Father.
Get him to the healing tent.
I am not...
I'm not a dishonorable man, father.
I'm not dishonorable!
I'm not...
What the...
What's that shorty doing over here?
You filthy bastard, what are you after?
The Mongols are on the defensive.
My time has come, Petrus.
I'll rid these lands of Turks.
While Sultan Alaeddin quivers in fear before the Mongols,
we will get what we deserve.
How will that happen when the emperor wants to protect the peace so much?
He just wants to stay in his palace in peace.
He doesn't want to be bothered.
However, there's something else that the emperor fears more than that.
It's mutiny.
Are we going to cause a revolt?
Yeah, if need be.
Remember this, Petrus. The public starts and ends wars.
If our honorable people
would like to avenge their master, who was murdered by the Turks,
nobody can stop this war.
Emir Saadettin Köpek of Seljuks is here.
He wants to see you.
Let him in.
Emir Sadettin.
Commander Vasilius.
Listen, Commander.
The truth isn't on that map over there.
It's in the soils of this land.
And if we fertilize that soil with blood,
then the fruit it bears will be bitter.
We are warriors.
Not some farmers.
We don't care about what's under the earth.
Although, we can help to bury those who want to go under.
We call such men murderers, not warriors.
Yeah.
And remember, Commander...
History
hates murderers.
Would you please tell me why you are in my keep?
Why do you ask?
Are you going to decide how to treat me based on my answer?
I can only treat you with my time.
I'm honored to have your time.
I came here
to tell you that your dreams of changing that map
will never turn out the way you want. I came here to tell you that.
That map has changed
throughout history.
But the people responsible for those changes were not dreamers,
but great commanders that saw the truth.
I am the truth.
It's the power
of Seljuks.
And you...
You think you are a great commander
in this small fort that you think is unconquerable.
You are forgetting something.
In this war that you're trying to start,
the first to die will be you.
Sadettin Köpek is not an honorable man willing to fight for God's justice.
You did well to take such measures, sir.
With this move, his hands will be tied.
He's got off the hook so many times, Artuk Bey.
This move will only slow him down.
If we don't find out his next move
he'll do worse things than those Mongol bastards.
Sir, may I enter?
Come, Bamsi.
What happened?
What's this get up?
Sir...
Köpek came to the Karacahisar Keep.
I saw for myself.
Why would he go there, Bamsi?
-Are you sure? -Yes, sir.
I went to see Helena.
I mean, I went to tell her about who killed her father.
Just as I was coming back,
I saw Köpek with his men entering the fort.
But I was hidden, nobody saw me.
Very well, Bamsi.
So you went to see Helena, huh?
Sir.
Speak of the devil, sir.
But why did he go to the fort?
If he didn't have a reason he wouldn't have gone, Artuk Bey.
The death of the governor surely upset the Byzantium.
They will want revenge.
And Köpek?
Köpek hopes to stop the war by paying a price.
And if we can't find what that price is
our efforts will be in vain, Artuk Bey.
How can we find out, sir?
He's the most discreet man I've ever seen.
His weakness is his pride, Artuk Bey.
Don't take your eyes off him.
As you wish, sir.
I shall watch him closely.
So, you don't want me starting wars.
War is the salvation of a dying country. I thought you'd know that.
If the plague spreads in a country,
only war can solve it.
Your country is sick.
The Mongols are spreading like the black plague.
And you come here and kill the governor,
instead of dealing with them.
I'd like you to know how very sorry I am for his death.
And for the attack on the emperor's caravan.
I'm sure you must have been saddened just as much as I.
So much so that
I'm sure you didn't even have time to think about who'd take his throne.
Somebody will take the throne soon.
Rest assured.
I have no doubt.
Never mind that.
Think about how you are going to compensate this.
I didn't come here to bicker.
Yeah?
I came here to give you an option.
I know all the games you played with Ural.
I also know of your dealings behind the back of the emperor.
Commander,
we both know it wasn't Ural who killed the governor.
If you want his throne that badly,
so be it, take it.
But if you want to start a war no matter what,
your armies will be destroyed before they leave Iznik.
I, Emir Sadettin Köpek, promise you that.
In short,
I'll give you the killer of the governor.
You'll take him to the emperor.
And you will be the new governor.
And you will stop this warmongering nonsense.
You're as cunning as they say.
I see that the Seljuks are
at the hands of a very crafty man.
I hope some day a man like yourself comes to you
and gives you the throne of Seljuks.
-So, we have a deal then? -I didn't say that.
Ertuğrul.
If he keeps prying into my business
I can't promise to keep the peace between our countries.
If you don't encourage Ertuğrul to start a war,
I can promise you that peace.
As for Ertuğrul, he will learn his place.
However, it won't be you teaching him.
Seljuks know how to deal with one of their own men.
Then, curb that wildcat properly.
If I see him running around my fort again,
I'll make him regret it.
I will attend that trial.
I'll take the murderers myself.
Then we might have a deal.
If that is all you want, come.
However, we will execute the criminals
that we judged ourselves.
Ural and Lakaris
will go on a long journey after the trial.
And you'll get those who are responsible.
Interesting.
There's a similar map on Sultan Alaeddin's table as well.
Yeah?
Is that so?
I'd like to see myself, when I come knocking on your door with my armies.
It'll be the last thing you see.
However, if you change your mind
I can send you a new one.
You can see your new borders, and dream from there.
I'll look forward to it.
Guards!
Subtitle translation by Tuğçe Erteki