A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
[Islamic call to prayer playing over loudspeakers]
[Islamic call to prayer continues]
[wind blows]
[thunderclap]
[rain falling]
[soft uplifting music plays]
[Atiye] The Tree of Life symbolizes unity with God.
Mother, father, child… They are one.
The womb is where the water first falls. This is birth.
They say the flowing water sounds like a baby crying,
if you listen carefully.
Then there's childhood, when we are innocent.
Then gradually we grow up
and the water calms down as we mature and become adults.
[Erhan] And this must be old age.
[Atiye] Mm-hmm.
And death.
Crossing the Bridge of Sirat to the Day of Judgment.
And then back to the earth
to begin a new life.
It's a wonderful cycle.
What's that look?
This fountain has been dry for centuries now.
And then you show up…
and all of a sudden the water has returned.
What you've done here, it's…
it's a miracle, Atiye.
[chuckles] Nothing less.
[Erhan] Aden?
Aden?
[eerie rumbling]
Aden, listen.
Whatever you have to do…
whatever it is that you need
in order to feel complete,
you have my blessing.
[wind howling]
[door slams heavily]
[suspenseful music plays]
[suspenseful music intensifies]
-[Atiye] Darling… -[Erhan] We're a family.
-[Ozan] She's my daughter. -[Atiye] Welcome…
[Ozan] Don't be afraid.
-[Melek] You and I have a lot in common. -[Atiye] It's a miracle, isn't it?
[Melek] You're looking for the piece that completes you.
[menacing drum]
[Erhan] What was happening there?
[sighs] I mean, what was Aden doing?
Atiye, wait. What is it? Do you know something?
I sense it.
She has to make a choice soon.
-What choice? -I don't know.
But whatever she has to do,
we have to stand by her, not be in her way.
[sighs]
You're her father.
One day, she'll know the love you have for her. Give her time.
And then we'll be a family.
Yeah. [inhales deeply] There's still the prophecy to figure out.
You any closer?
Not yet.
Though, from what we know,
the prophecy says that
the day is coming that will usher in a new world.
And the problem I have with this new world…
is that is can't be created…
without destroying the old.
-And I wonder-- -How does Aden fit in?
[menacing music plays]
[Melek] I thought we'd have the girl by now.
She should be in Göbeklitepe already.
-I couldn't get to her. -Hmm…
Erhan was there, and Ozan.
But don't worry…
you'll have her, by the end of the day. Your plan can go ahead.
You're that important, huh?
We'd be lost without you, is that what you think?
Do you have another plan?
[inhales deeply]
Well, if I did, what then? [scoffs]
What if I decided that you're not the only person who could do this job?
There's always Ozan.
[Selim coughs]
-You're the same, all of you. -[Selim coughs]
You forget who I am.
[Selim breathes heavily]
-I'm always two steps ahead of you. -[Selim coughs]
[Selim gasping]
Always.
[Selim coughs heavily]
[Selim] What kind of woman are you?
[knocking on door]
[Ozan] Mom, it's me!
-[knocking] -[Ozan] Come on, I know you're in there.
-Just a sec! -[wheezing] Ozan…
When I tell, I'll tell him what you've done.
[Selim gasps]
[Ozan] Mom.
[wheezing] Ozan!
-[knocking] -[gasping, coughing]
[Selim groaning]
[Selim groans]
[coughs, gasps]
[Selim gasps]
Ozan.
[Melek] What is it? What's wrong?
[Ozan breathes heavily]
Do you think I'm an idiot?
-Huh? -I believed you.
You're no different than all the others.
My father, Serdar, wasn't as bad as you said he was.
[melancholic music plays]
[sighs] He loved you, didn't he?
And that's why he did it.
[Ozan inhales deeply]
[Ozan breathes deeply]
[Ozan sighs]
Mom, I'm done.
I just can't take any more of this. I don't believe any of it.
[Ozan inhales deeply] Mom, it's…
It's just so wrong what we're doing here.
[Ozan sighs]
We're doing harm to the world.
Aden knows we took her from her family, but she hugged me anyway.
She loves me!
Atiye forgives me.
Is she wrong? For doing that? I don't think so.
I'm done.
Ozan, wait!
We have sacrificed too much to stop.
And what of your daughter? Aden will be raised by someone else.
You can live with that? Can you?
[Ozan cries]
[inhales deeply] Yeah, I can, Mom.
I'll do anything to see Aden happy and safe.
Got it?
Anything, Mom!
-[dramatic music plays] -[footsteps retreat]
[door opens and closes]
[Erhan] Umut!
[birds chirping]
Oh, it's you guys.
[sniffs] Come in.
[Umut sniffs]
[Umut] My mother.
We've been working on a prophecy,
and I think we may have found some new leads.
We thought you might know what our next step should be.
Why would I?
We were hoping you'd found something here.
[gasps]
I think you've come to the wrong person for help. [gasps]
Sorry to disappoint you, but…
[inhales deeply, exhales]
Are you alright?
It's just all this time…
everyone called me insane.
They would say, "You're being paranoid, that's all.
Nobody's following you around. That's all just in your head."
And then I'd find out my…
my whole family…
was brutally slaughtered.
[Umut sighs]
Would you look at all that?
There used to be a life here.
A life that should have belonged to me.
[melancholic music plays]
You know who this is?
My mother, my aunts.
There are so many faces,
so many photographs.
They're laughing… or crying.
[sniffs]
Or falling in love.
Raising children.
[sniffs] They're all just…
just going about their regular lives, and then all of a sudden…
[sniffs, sighs]
One day, they're all killed.
My whole line…
wiped out.
[inhales deeply, cries]
I'm looking at these photographs and I don't even know who anyone is!
[crying] All I see
are strangers looking back at me.
[crying]
I know, all of this, it's not easy to face.
-[Atiye] But… -But what?
All wounds are healed with time?
I hope so.
Our daughter, Aden, was reaching out to you in your dreams, wasn't she?
[Umut sighs]
It's because your history and your heritage was taken from you.
She wanted you to know where you came from…
who your people were.
[melancholic music plays]
Would you like to know more?
[inhales deeply]
[Umut inhales sharply]
[woman] My Umut.
[woman] You can't ever tell anyone we came here, alright?
[panting]
Here we are, my darling. Here we are, Umut.
[woman] And this is your home, where you'll always be safe.
[crying and laughing]
[sniffs]
[crying] Thank you.
[Atiye] I promise you…
we can overcome what happened in the past.
[Ozan] Do you think that all mothers are perfect saints, then?
[Melek] Of all the catastrophes ever inflicted on the world,
-mankind is the worst. -[Aden screaming]
[Melek] Violence, hatred, greed,
anger, war, pain…
[Atiye] Welcome, my daughter.
[ticking]
I saw a house in Umut's memories.
If we find it, her mother might have left something that could help us.
This house, what did it look like?
It was a big house on top of a hill and it was surrounded with trees.
Sounds like somewhere on the outskirts of the city.
We should look for it.
This breaking and entering is getting to be a habit with you.
Look.
I knew I'd seen it somewhere.
[mystical music plays]
[Umut] It's the key that was in my mother's hand.
Let's go.
You go ahead.
I have enough for me to work on right here in this room.
You do what you have to do.
[dramatic music plays]
[woman] I told you not to come.
I think it's that one over there!
[Erhan] The locals say that fire worshippers once lived in this house.
They say you can still hear demonic voices late at night.
And that anyone who dares go inside is driven mad and struck dumb.
Are there ghosts and goblins here too?
Who came up with these stories?
Whoever wanted to keep people away, scare 'em off.
[Atiye] Right. If the story is scary enough,
no one comes near the place and it stays a secret.
[Erhan] Exactly.
-There, you see? -The signs.
[Atiye sighs]
[eerie rumbling]
[mystical music plays]
[soft suspenseful music plays]
It's like no one's been here for years.
Wait!
[deep rumbling]
[suspenseful music plays]
[Erhan exhales deeply] Atiye, I have to tell you something.
If you're scared of the demons, don't worry, I'll protect you.
[Erhan chuckles, exhales deeply]
Look at this.
-What is it? -The same thing we saw at the beach house.
[rhythmic beating, buzzing]
[buzzing stops]
-Did you do that? -I don't know.
[rhythmic beating]
[Atiye] It's like it's emitting some sort of frequency.
[circle buzzing louder and louder]
[buzzing stops]
[rhythmic beating]
[circle buzzing, whirring]
I think these screens might be part of an encrypted form of communication
that I heard Serdar talk about.
[loud buzzing stops]
[Erhan] They deactivate whenever you come near.
We're on the right path. Let's keep going.
[mystical music plays]
[Ozan] Where's Aden?
-Will you please just go away? -Just let me see her.
-She's fine-- -Aden!
Shh! Stop shouting. She's here, she's fine.
-Good, I wanna see her. -I'm taking care of her.
What are you doing?
Look, I know you don't want me here.
But, listen, Aden needs me. I can't just give her up.
And I won't give you up either.
[soft music plays]
What's wrong?
[birds chirping]
It's nothing.
It's just a long time since you've been like this.
I was surprised, that's all.
Been like what?
You know, like…
like how you used to be.
[soft music stops]
Thank you, by the way.
Foe defending me when Erhan lost his cool. Thank you.
Don't mention it.
You didn't have any reason to trust me, but you did.
[inhales deeply]
I'm not really sure why I did it.
But the thing I really don't get…
is why after all these years you had to come back and get involved.
Ozan, we both know you've done some despicable shit.
Really terrible things. [inhales deeply]
I sit here trying to imagine how you could have the nerve to come back into my life
after all this time, I don't get it.
[inhales deeply]
[sighs]
[Ozan groans]
She loves me.
Who?
Aden.
See, the thing about kids…
they never ask you questions about what you've done
where you're from, who you are.
They just hug you and love you.
You know, she gave me the nerve to come back…
to you.
[sighs]
What if…
instead of going away and leaving you eight years ago,
I'd stayed and hugged you?
Would that have kept all this…
from ever happening?
I don't think you could ever understand.
[sighs]
And why couldn't I?
Because your family loves you.
[deep rumbling]
[door unlocks]
[birds chirping]
[door creaks]
Now I get the reason for all those stories.
[Atiye] It's the same fountain as the one in the monastery.
Everything in the universe has a projection of itself.
An opposite, a mirror image.
[whooshing]
[Atiye] Woman and man…
Fire and water…
The past and the future…
The sun and the moon.
Our joys and sorrows.
[Atiye] One can't exist without the other.
If you can interpret the ancient symbols,
really understand what it is they're trying to tell you…
and then internalize it,
you can control them.
You can work miracles.
[soft music plays]
Actually, we do know the meaning of these symbols.
And we pass that knowledge on from generation to generation,
even if we don't realize it.
[soft music continues]
[Erhan] It's in our collective consciousness.
It's in our genetic code.
[Erhan] They hid something in here.
[soft suspenseful music plays]
[Ozan] Remember how angry you were at your father
for not telling you about Erhan or your family or the accident?
Of course. I didn't talk to him for months, I was so angry with him.
[Ozan] I never understood that.
He… Your father…
He would have gladly walked through fire for you.
He would have done anything to protect you.
But if you look at my father…
he only used me.
He used his only son to get what he wanted.
[inhales deeply]
And I just let him.
I did everything he asked, thinking that it would make him love me.
Then she came along.
[Cansu] Who?
[inhales deeply, sighs]
Melek.
My mother.
[menacing music plays]
[knocking on door]
Hi there.
-Can I help you? -You're new to the neighborhood.
Sorry, I'm not feeling very neighborly right this minute.
-If you don't mind-- -I know your family.
Uh… the family that used to live here.
You must be the daughter.
That's right.
So, you… knew them?
Oh, quite well.
You have your mother's eyes.
May I come in?
Come in, of course.
[dramatic music plays]
[music stops]
-Lots of memories, huh? -Hmm.
And it reminds you that everyone has a place in this world.
That… everyone has a part to play.
After all, without Cain, there's no Abel.
There's no day without night.
You see that, right?
[clears throat] Can I offer you something? Tea or coffee?
[Melek] Some water, please.
-Right. -[Melek] Thank you.
[dramatic music plays]
[whooshing]
[deep rumbling]
[speaking Turkish]
[baby crying]
[crying more loudly]
[woman] Don't cry.
It's alright, my darling Umut.
[Umut cries]
[whooshing]
Hello?
Ma'am?
[Erhan] This is the key to unlocking all the mysteries of Göbeklitepe,
our daughter…
Everything.
[deep rumbling]
[fireballs whooshing]
[Atiye gasps]
-What is it? -Horus.
Horus? The Eye of Horus?
It's the eye in those symbols that Aden draws.
The Eye of Horus.
It's like the divine judge watching over us all.
It never sleeps… or blinks.
One eye's yellow like the Sun and the other's blue like the Moon.
You said… Aden had a choice to make, right?
Just like Horus, the… divine judge.
What if the choice she has to make is whether the prophecy comes true
and a new world replaces the old?
So, she's playing the role that Horus would,
fulfilling his mission.
Finally ushering in the new era.
Erhan, our daughter has the power to destroy the world,
if that's what she wants.
So, then that's the reason she was kidnapped.
They're hoping that she'll succeed where they failed.
So, either we kill our daughter
or the world as we know it will be doomed.
[dramatic music plays]
We have to… find out exactly when this prophecy is supposed to happen.
We'll find the answers if we take this back where it belongs.
[Melek] There is nothing in this world to be saved in the name of love.
[ticking]
[Melek] The time has come to destroy everything
and start life all over again.
[ticking grow faster]
[Ozan groans]
I understand, you must hate me for what I did.
What me and my mom did.
But she… said
it would make us a family again. [sighs]
[Cansu sniffs] I'm so sorry.
[Cansu cries]
I'm sorry I wasn't there for you and you had to go through all of that alone.
[cries] I'm so sorry.
[Erhan] When will the prophecy come true, Umut?
You must know what this tablet is trying to tell us.
It was your people who wrote it.
My people protected the ancient wisdom.
Now it's my turn.
Now everything is in its place.
They're here with you, your family.
There's a reason your ancestors kept this tablet hidden.
It was so it wouldn't fall into the hands of the enemy.
We're trying to prevent that as well.
[cell phone ringing]
Mustafa?
Listen, Erhan…
I got the autopsy report on Serdar.
[Erhan] And?
They have his killer's DNA, though they couldn't find a match in the system.
Because…
Erhan…
it's Ozan's.
-Alright, thanks for calling. -Hold on, there's something else.
Yeah?
[Mustafa] They found some other DNA on the body.
Belonging to a woman.
-A dead woman. -Who do you mean?
Serdar's wife, who's been dead for years.
Melek Yılmaz.
Thanks, Mustafa.
What is it?
Serdar's wife, Melek, she's still alive.
What?
They found two sets of DNA on Serdar's body.
Ozan's and Melek's.
I need to call Cansu.
[cell phone ringing]
[Cansu groans]
[cell phone ringing]
She's not picking up.
-Let's go. -[Erhan] Right.
I'll work on the stone, okay? Leave it to me.
[suspenseful music plays]
I'll check upstairs.
Cansu?
Cansu? Cansu?
-[Cansu groans] -Are you alright?
[Ozan] I'll do it! Get back! I swear I'll do it!
Just stay back!
Ozan!
Ozan, Aden's time is almost up now.
-Pull yourself together! She has to get-- -Stay away!
-[Erhan] Ozan, calm down. -[Ozan] You too, Erhan, stay back!
I swear I'll do it, Mom. I will!
Go on, my son.
-What? -Stop.
[Melek] Please.
Don't do this.
Am I even your son?
I mean, look at me. Am I yours? Who am I?
[Melek] This is not you, Ozan.
[Ozan crying]
[Melek] Give me the gun.
[crying] Just stop! Please don't make me do this, Mom. Don't make me!
[Melek] Ozan…
-Don't come any closer! -Calm down.
Get back!
-Stop! -Please don't do this, son.
Listen!
Aden's going to have something I never had.
A life, a good life, surrounded by people who love her.
-A family. -Ozan.
Don't make me do this, Mom.
'Cause I will!
-I will! -My poor boy.
-[Ozan] I'll do it! -[Melek] It's going to be alright.
We'll make it right. Trust me.
[Ozan gasping]
Ozan, son…
-[Ozan crying] -Come here.
Come here.
[Ozan crying]
The only thing that matters now is that Aden fulfills her purpose.
[dramatic music plays]
[Erhan] Ozan!
Ozan! Take my hand.
[Ozan grunts]
[Erhan] I'll pull you up! Come on!
Listen, Erhan…
Ozan! No, Ozan!
-[Ozan grunts] -[Erhan] Hang on!
[Erhan] Pull yourself up. Pull yourself up!
You have to stay alive.
For Aden.
Take care of her.
-Don't ever leave her. -Ozan!
-Make sure that she's happy. -[Erhan grunts]
[dramatic music plays]
[Erhan] No!
[melancholic singing]
[dramatic music stops]
[whooshing]
-[melancholic singing] -[high-pitched ringing]
[Cansu gasps]
[gasping]
[Cansu gasps]
[melancholic singing continues]
-[Atiye gasps] -[Erhan sighs]
[suspenseful music plays]
[suspenseful music crescendos]
[music stops]