A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
[thunder rumbling]
[wind howling]
-[hissing, whispering] -[owl hoots]
[soft grunting]
[bird caws]
[grunting continues]
-[tense music plays] -[hissing, whispering stops]
[bird calls]
[thunder rumbles]
-[people calling] Arda! Arda! -[dog barks]
-[calling continues] Arda! Arda! -[tense music plays]
[woman] Where did he go?
-Arda? Arda, there you are! -[dramatic music plays]
Arda, where were you? Where have you been?
-[woman] Oh Arda, I was so, so scared! -[people clamoring]
Oh, my baby.
[music intensifies]
[atmospheric music plays]
[bird calls]
[dog barks in the distance]
When I was a kid, I would make a wish every chance I got.
Blowing out birthday candles, shooting stars,
a ladybug landing on my hand…
Somehow I lost that innocence.
I want to get it back tonight.
That feeling that every wish is a miracle just waiting to happen.
Let's both get it back, okay?
May every wish made today come true.
That includes you.
[soft music plays]
[sighs] Come down by the firepit, everyone. It's time to eat.
[man] Red wine? Or white?
-[woman 2] I say red. -[Erhan] Why not both?
[man] Just wine?
[Erhan scoffs] No, of course not. It's Hıdırellez.
[soft music continues]
[Atiye] Once upon a time, in the land where the Aegean Sea meets Anatolia,
there lived a goddess.
She was the goddess of fertility and the harvest,
and she brought about the change of seasons.
[soft music continues]
[music grows suspenseful]
[Atiye] The goddess would turn fall into winter,
and winter into spring.
But then, one day,
someone came and stole the goddess's most precious thing.
The apple of her eye.
Her daughter.
[soft music resumes]
[Atiye] The goddess searched everywhere for her,
day and night, year after year.
She wandered the Earth, hoping to find her missing daughter.
But her wish was never granted.
Everywhere she looked, she came up empty-handed,
and her sorrow was unbearable.
And then, one year, spring never came.
The goddess had stopped changing the seasons.
I was once told, a long time ago, that words are deeds in themselves.
The moment they leave our mouth, they create a new reality.
Atiye?
[soft music continues]
[Atiye] But wishes are like that too.
That's why I'm making this wish tonight.
I wish for spring to come again.
[birdsong]
[sighs]
[takes deep breath]
-[bee buzzes] -[water running]
[door closes]
-[Erhan] Good morning, love. -[Atiye] Good morning.
Is that your Hıdırellez wish?
Here, let me see it.
Ah, a wish has to be kept secret. It won't come true, otherwise.
I didn't know you were superstitious. [chuckles]
What will you do with it, then?
-[inhales] It goes in the stream. -Hm.
From the earth to the water.
Hey, don't you have a morning lesson?
Oh, yeah. I should be going.
What are you up to?
I have an art therapy session.
Okay. Take care.
[soft music plays]
-[teacher] One, two, three. -[maracas rattle]
[teacher] One, two, three.
One, two, three.
-[soft music continues] -[children chatter]
Atiye.
-Hi. -Morning.
We have a new student named Arda that we want you to work with.
A special needs student. He's waiting for you.
Thank you.
-[children chatter] -[birdsong]
-Hi there. -Good morning.
Nice to meet you, Arda.
I'm Atiye.
[suspenseful music plays]
[faint chattering from outside]
So how would you like to try some painting?
Here.
-No! -Whoa, sh. Just calm down.
Everything's okay. I won't touch you, alright?
-[soft grunting] -[tense music plays]
Will you look at me, please?
[Atiye] Will you look at this card?
[music intensifies]
[grunting stops]
[heartbeat pulses]
[Atiye] Good boy.
Whatever is up there, it's also down here.
-[heartbeat slows, fades] -Anything that's out there…
is also in here.
[music swells]
Let it go.
-[soft music plays] -Good boy.
That's very good.
-[seagulls call] -[chanting]
[phone rings]
Hello?
[man 2] Professor, you're not coming in? Are you not teaching your class again?
You can handle it.
-[man 2] But, sir, I… -I said, you can handle it.
-[traffic in background] -[chanting]
[chanting intensifies]
[tense music plays]
Hello there.
[music fades]
[door opens, closes]
Surprise!
[both laugh]
-Cansu! -[both laugh]
You'd better have missed me.
I did. When did you get here?
Just this morning.
What do you think of my masterpiece? It's brilliant, right?
It's certainly a unique interpretation.
-[splutters] How rude! -[both laugh]
-Did you have your hair cut? -Just a little bit.
And you lost weight, too.
Oh, very good. Nothing gets past you, does it?
It's just 'cause I so seldom see you. How long has it been this time?
Not that long. Maybe three, four months?
Huh. Not long for a nomad like you, I guess.
So what brings you here? Love? Work?
I came here to see you, because I missed you a lot.
Welcome home, then, sister.
-[Cansu] Mm, thanks. -At least for now.
[heartbeat pulses]
[atmospheric music plays]
What, is that for me?
Thank you, Arda.
[music grows suspenseful]
-Oh, sweetheart! Let me get a look at you. -We've missed you around here.
[Mustafa] Oh, I'm so happy you came.
-I missed you so much! -So am I, Papa.
I missed everyone, too. [chuckles]
So how long will you stay this time?
Well, she's so unpredictable, you never know. I just thought I'd ask.
[sighs] I missed you a lot too, Mom.
I hadn't really thought about it, but I just got here,
so we'll deal with that later.
-Well, come in. -Yes, let's sit down.
[birds hoot]
[ominous music plays]
-[waves crash] -[atmospheric music plays]
-Did you dress this? -Yes, dear.
Erhan said you started painting again.
[Atiye] Mm.
It would be so nice to see you exhibiting your work again, Atiye.
I don't think so, Mom.
[crackling]
[atmospheric music plays]
[crackling]
-[Cansu talks indistinctly, echoes] -[crackling continues]
[indistinct, echoing dialog]
-[soft music plays] -[Cansu, muffled] I had the best wine…
[crackling]
I know this isn't your favorite, Cansu,
but you didn’t give us much notice that you were coming, hm?
If you're gonna show up out of the blue,
you have to make do with what you get.
It looks great.
[crackling]
[Cansu] So, dear family…
Any big secrets that you've been keeping from me?
Come on. Now's the time to come clean.
-[sighs] Cansu, must you? -She's right.
Tell 'em, if you got 'em.
[kisses loudly]
Okay, so I guess you don't have any. [chuckles]
-Welcome back. -Yes.
It's good to be here.
-[Mustafa] Welcome home, darling. -[glasses clink]
[distant music, chatter]
Full moon?
Looks like it.
So, you don't know when you're leaving?
Hey, listen. I'm gonna leave now if people keep asking me that.
[both laugh]
Cansu?
-Yeah? -Look…
I know you have a sister to confide in, but…
I'm here for you, if you ever want to talk.
Yeah, I just might. You're good at this.
-At what? -You know, the big brother thing.
-[both laugh] -Thanks.
[Atiye] Yoohoo!
What are you up to?
Oh, we got sent to the kids' table.
-[Atiye] Oh… -Join us!
[Atiye exhales]
I want to say something.
People think that I don't take things seriously,
or like everything's just a big joke to me.
Which is true, actually. Otherwise life's too crazy. [chuckles awkwardly]
Um…
But what I'm trying to say is this:
I'm not the silly little kid sister anymore,
so if something important needs to be said, then say it. I can handle it.
[both laugh]
Listen to you!
My little baby sister, when did you get big and grown-up?
Of course, we'll tell you everything.
-Come on. Let's not go overboard now. -Alright, sorry.
I'm curious about Serdar, for one thing.
Do you keep in touch? How's he doing?
He's in hiding. That's all I know.
We're trying not to go anywhere near him, for his own good.
We don't see him anymore.
That's all in the past. Over and done.
We've moved on.
So, Cansu…
I wonder if Papa still locks the liquor cabinet?
[Cansu] I don't know. You live here.
Go sneak us a bottle.
We don't have to sneak it. We're not in high school anymore.
[Atiye] Oh, come on!
This is the kids' table, isn't it?
Ah… Well in that case, I'd better get to work then.
-Don't move. I'll be right back. -[chuckles]
-[sighs] -That's your specialty, isn't it?
Getting into locked places.
She's your sister. I don't know.
-[waves crash] -[atmospheric music plays]
-[music fades] -[distant traffic]
-[violin plays] -[seagulls cry]
["Lady" by Deniz Kirci plays]
♪ Trying to keep The wind out of your hair ♪
♪ Smiling at the boys 'Cause it's what you do ♪
♪ I watched you Putting on your show for him ♪
♪ Is it really that simple? ♪
♪ Auburn hair and brown eyes ♪
♪ You look so happy I hope you are ♪
♪ Baby, if I'm way… ♪
You're late.
What did I miss?
♪ …could you forgive me? ♪
♪ Lady… ♪
[Ozan] A lot.
♪ …got a way with words ♪
♪ Baby, the things I do for you ♪
♪ You ♪
♪ You told your mother That you don't smoke ♪
[chuckles] Okay.
♪ But you only do it So she won't worry ♪
♪ Say you're a little bit tender But hard to love ♪
♪ Looks like you never asked me ♪
[sighs]
I'm going to bed.
So tell me what happened.
When?
[exhales]
While we were eating.
-Oh, you noticed. [inhales] -Of course I noticed.
I was hearing things again.
The same as last time?
This was different.
It sounded like… Like something was on fire, or burning.
What do you think?
Could this be it?
You said you were waiting for a sign.
Let's wait and see.
But what if it is?
What if it's our daughter?
I feel her, actually.
[chuckles]
Really?
Alright, listen. I want to know everything, down to the last detail.
Tell me everything.
Whatever it takes, whatever I have to do,
wherever I have to go, I'll take care of it.
I don't want you getting hurt.
You can't. We talked about this.
How so?
I carried her.
In my womb. I gave birth to her. She's part of me.
She's my daughter.
They didn't just steal her from you, they stole her from us.
The two of us.
When you got lost, I thought you were dead.
I thought I would never see you again.
I can't bear the thought of ever losing you.
Don't worry. You're not going to.
[soft music plays]
-Atiye… -Erhan.
I'm not a porcelain doll you need to keep safe from the rest of the world.
Atiye. They stole our daughter.
Not many people could have handled that, or survived having to carry that burden.
But we did. We got through it.
Maybe it's no use trying to protect you from evil,
but I won't give up.
[Erhan exhales]
[soft music continues]
[dog barks in the distance]
[wind blows]
-[sniffs] -[tense music plays]
Something's on fire.
[wolf howls]
-[soft music plays] -[wind blows]
[birds hoot]
[panting]
[atmospheric music plays]
My baby.
[atmospheric music plays]
[fire roars]
[Atiye gasps] My baby!
[panting]
No!
[sobbing] Oh God, what's going on?
[Atiye sobs] No!
Help us, someone! [sobs]
[wails]
[gasps, pants]
[soft crackling]
[waves lapping]
[sighs] Oh, man.
[sighs]
Why don't we just stay out here like this all day?
Mm, okay.
Hm. Sure.
[both chuckle]
So, are you staying? Or are you gonna bail on me again?
-Me? -Yeah.
[both scoff]
I get it.
Living like this… Spending all day on a yacht…
In the fresh air… Miserable, isn't it?
[laughs]
You just can't leave the city, can you?
Huh?
[chuckles] Where exactly are we going with this conversation?
I'm a little lost.
[sighs] If you don't want to live out here…
We could always rent a place together in the city.
[chuckles]
[exhales]
-How long have we been together? -Ozan…
Do you know how long it's been?
-Of course I do. -Three years.
Yeah, three years.
-And we're not breaking up, right? -[both chuckle]
-So, what are we? -[exhales]
I mean, I'll take it.
Yeah, I don’t mind. [chuckles] If this is all there is…
-I'll take it. -[chuckles]
[inhales] I don't know about you, but I'm boiling. Wanna swim?
Or look, maybe let's have another drink.
-What? -What?
-[exhales] -Were you serious?
No, not really.
You were, weren't you?
-Now you're upset. -[scoffs]
[Ozan] What would you say if I was serious?
[chuckles]
-I would say… -What?
[chuckles] I would say I've screwed up.
I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, and you've been there to see most of them.
[Ozan chuckles]
-But I straightened out. -[chuckles]
I promised myself that I would never owe anything to anyone again.
-Except you. -Is that right?
You are my weak spot.
So, take it all back.
Take it back.
[chuckles] Fine.
You're right again.
What the hell?
[sighs] If I could just get back into Göbekli Tepe again,
if I'd have spent more time in that cave,
I might have found more writings like these in there.
[sighs] And now those assholes have closed off the whole hill.
We can't get anywhere near it, let alone excavate.
That's what Hırgit does.
Count on him to do whatever it takes to tie you up in knots.
And he doesn't care if people get buried alive in the wreckage.
These characters…
As far as I can tell from tracing these characters back,
they don't exist before 300 BC.
The time of Alexander the Great's campaign in India.
Like other languages, this one was spread by conflict.
I know. I got the dozens of files you sent yesterday.
Yeah? And what?
I'm, uh…
finding it difficult.
[Serdar] These languages have different levels.
When they brought me into the organization,
this is not the one that I learned.
Well for example, this relief depicting Alexander's war with the Persians.
This writing here?
Are you saying you can’t figure it out, because it's in a different language?
Or 'cause it's at a different level of it?
I've been looking for the people who took my daughter for eight years, Serdar!
Anything we can find out brings me one step closer to finding her!
So you stay here until you figure it out!
[sighs]
You still don't trust me, do you, Erhan?
[scoffs] Of course I don't trust you. Are you kidding?
[soft music plays]
Atiye would trust me.
Watch yourself, Serdar. She doesn't know you and I are even speaking.
[exhales]
Süveyda.
Do you know what that is?
[atmospheric music plays]
-[water pours] -What is it?
Supposedly,
it's a small, black spot on the heart.
[exhales]
They say…
…our soul comes in through it when we're still in the womb.
[Serdar] And our soul leaves the same way when we die.
All of our essence resides in this one small spot.
That means our conscience does too.
[soft music plays]
[Serdar] I darkened my heart, Erhan.
I forgot my essence, my core.
It was Atiye who saved me.
She reminded me who I was.
[Serdar] Who we all are.
I won't go back to that life again.
Never.
[Serdar] Never.
Atiye heard something burning.
[Erhan] The crackling sound of a fire.
Is that helpful?
[rock music plays]
[doorbell rings]
[Atiye] I saw her, Mom. I saw my daughter. She's alive.
But she was so different than I remember.
[birds sing outside]
[Serap] Atiye, remember dear,
our physical appearance is different in different lives.
It's our soul that's important.
-Last night, I saw you in a dream. -[Atiye] Yeah?
I woke with a pain in my heart. That's why I came.
You were in a forest.
A dreary place.
You were running around, shouting, like you were searching for something.
Yeah, my daughter.
I called for help, but no one heard.
Oh my dear, that frightens me.
I think this could mean that you're in real danger, Atiye.
[inhales] If I am, I'm not worried. I'm sure you'll be there to help me.
Of course I would be. I'd give my life for you.
You should know me better than that, Mom.
Someone took my daughter from me, and I don't know why they did.
Do you think anything frightens me anymore, Mom?
It's no coincidence you and I had the same dream.
It's our blood calling to us.
-[atmospheric music plays] -[Atiye] It's your duty as much as mine.
So this time, I really need your support.
I was scared.
Yes, I ran.
I wanted to protect you.
But…
But then…
Anyone could see that your fate was inescapable.
You're right.
You will do what I never could.
You won't remember it,
but you told me once
that this was the seed that would make everything flourish again.
And what does Erhan think about it?
Don't worry, Mom.
She's my daughter. She's trying to show me the way.
All I have to do is follow the signs she's left.
[ominous music plays]
[Serdar] Life…
Sutima…
That's not right.
It's death.
That's it.
That's it. Erhan, look at this. Look!
[atmospheric music plays]
"Birth begins with death,
and our last day is the beginning of our first."
-The inscription on the relief. -What is that?
Reincarnation, or something? What's it mean to you?
Nothing. I have no idea.
You worked with these people for years. This means nothing to you?
After all this time, I realize I really knew nothing about the organization.
Yeah, but you knew how to fuck up our lives well enough.
Skip it, I'll do it myself.
Erhan…
Erhan, wait. Wait, please!
You're angry. It's understandable.
[Serdar] You're angry at these men, me, the world.
But please, take it from me.
You mustn't let this anger take control over your life.
There's nothing wrong with what I'm doing.
I'm trying to find the guys who ruined our lives.
I thought I was doing the right thing, too.
[Serdar] I just wanted to get my wife back.
[Serdar takes deep breath]
But yes, alright.
Maybe you're right, I don't know. [sighs]
But that's not what matters.
[Serdar] What matters are the people around you.
The ones who actually need your love.
Don't…
Don't take that away from them.
That's what being a father is all about.
And I learned that too late.
Far too late.
Thanks.
[sighs]
-[birdsong] -[children chatter]
[teacher] One by one. Single file.
[Atiye] Ah!
-Could I speak to Arda for a second? -Yeah, sure. Of course.
You gave me this yesterday, remember?
Can I ask you why you gave it to me?
-[Atiye] Did someone give it to you? -[atmospheric music plays]
-[waves crash] -[atmospheric music continues]
[suspenseful music plays]
[Arda, hesitant] The gift… A girl… A little girl…
The girl had long brown hair, right?
[hesitant] Tree… There…
[leaves rustle]
-[eerie music plays] -[birds caw]
[owl hoots]
Birth begins with death,
and our last day is the beginning of our first.
[sighs] Birth begins with death.
[suspenseful music plays]
"That Umut Yazıcı escaped the cave-in alive was considered a miracle."
[tense music plays]
[Erhan] The secret of Göbekli Tepe. It's what my father tried to solve.
Now, years have gone by,
I've become a father myself, and I'm still trying to solve it.
But as of now, I can say there's one thing I'm convinced of.
That Göbekli Tepe is directly linked to the life cycle of the human race.
Atiye?
-[birds caw] -[suspenseful music plays]
Some scientists claim time doesn't flow in a progressive, linear way.
[Erhan] That time is a circle or a spiral.
[inhales deeply] I've got a theory of my own about that.
What if that was the case with life, too?
[atmospheric music plays]
Atiye?
[Erhan] In other words, birth, life, purgatory, death…
They don't have to be lived in the order we're taught,
and the temples at Göbekli Tepe are vehicles of this cycle, and more.
There's something beyond that.
A mystery.
Some ancient knowledge, hidden somewhere.
There has to be.
-[suspenseful music plays] -[chatter]
[Erhan] Sometimes a secret is so big, so powerful,
that you ask yourself, "Is it really worth going down that road?"
"Is it worth risking everything?"
"The past, the future, the present?"
[phone chimes]
[tense music plays]
-[suspenseful music plays] -[birds caw]
BIRTH BEGINS WITH DEATH
[chuckles]
[Erhan] What if the people trying to keep this secret have a good reason to?
What if it's a secret that shouldn't be revealed,
because doing so will result in darkness, not enlightenment?
What do you do then?
-[soft music plays] -[wind whistles]
[Erhan] But if it's the truth you're after,
if you're holding the key to knowledge that will change the world,
you can't give up.
You can't run when you see danger.
You have to continue to believe, even in the darkest moments.
[soft music continues]
So I will continue.
Because solving this
is the only hope I've got now of finding my daughter.
[inhales shakily]
[sighs]
[soft music continues]
[wind blows]
[music grows suspenseful]
Darling? Aden?
[music intensifies]
[atmospheric music plays]