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Do you call that a knot?

Tie it properly!

These rugs are for Hulagu Khan, Khan of Khans.

-Not to the tent of some shepherd. -What else can we do?

Are we meant to work our fingers to the bone for that wretch Alıncak?

Do you think anyone cares, Selcan Hatun? Just do your job.

Shame!

Are you not ashamed of what you've become, just for the sake of power?

What have we become, Selcan Hatun?

What have we become?

The Mongol tyrants have plundered our lands like hungry vultures.

But it's not enough that they've ravaged our country,

now they're making us make gifts for that devil Hulagu!

And you serve willingly in the face of this persecution.

Tell me.

Do you think Allah will not one day hold you accountable for this treachery?

Remember...

you'll answer for this in the afterlife.

That's no concern for a woman. Do your job.

Everyone, back to work. Come on!

Do you really think you're going to make it out of here alive, Ertuğrul?

If I don't survive this, neither will you.

You'll be a seen as a feeble commander who was too inept to fulfil his duty

and I doubt Hulagu Khan would feed your corpse to his dogs.

I have the chest, don't I? What else was I supposed to do?

Do you really believe I think you're only here for the chest?

What about all that Anatolian gold?

What of it?

Didn't Hulagu Khan tell you to get that too?

I told you, no one can take from me that which I do not want to give.

I rescued my son by force so that you would fully understand that.

Now, if you decide to be smart about this,

I'll find you the gold just like I found the chest.

If not, you won't get your hands on the gold

because you won't leave here alive.

Men, drop your swords.

That's why I invited Dragos here as well.

Now, tell me. Who has the gold?

Dragos doesn't have the gold, and neither do I.

But I know where it is.

Then tell me, where is it?

You told me Ertuğrul Bey had the gold.

Ertuğrul was our enemy and we believed he had stolen it.

That's why I blamed him.

I wanted to direct you to him.

Tell me then, how will you find the gold?

Secrets are precious, Alıncak. They lose value when shared.

And that secret is mine.

Don't get involved.

I'll bring the gold to you just as I brought you the chest.

But I have a condition.

What is it?

I want Söğüt and my beylik returned to me.

You don't want to be the margrave?

I want no such title from you.

If I choose to take it back, I won't take it with plots...

but with the might of my sword,

just as I took my son back.

A wise enemy is better than a foolish ally.

You have your tent.

When you bring me the gold, you'll have Söğüt as well.

Artuk Bey.

Alps!

Come with me.

Oğuz, go to the secret place at once.

-Have them bring Osman somewhere closer. -As you command, Bey.

Bey, I know you will have taken every precaution before coming here.

But we also took steps to ensure you'd have support here.

He had no choice but to let me live after hearing about the gold, Artuk Bey.

But good work, anyway.

They should be reminded we're never more than a few steps away.

Very good, Bey.

But... there's something I still don't understand, Bey.

Why did you give them the chest?

Don't worry, Artuk Bey.

We held onto the important information it contained.

The information I gave them is useless.

Mengü Hatun told me to give this letter to you.

My brother threw Süleyman into the dungeons.

He managed to escape but he has been sentenced to death.

Süleyman is safe now. He's at Karahöyük Cave.

Since the problem has been taken care of, I can return to my castle.

Commander Alıncak.

How can you trust him?

And you're returning Söğüt to him.

Are you really going to let him walk free?

If you're unhappy about him walking out of here,

you should have taken steps to stop him.

It's obvious why you couldn't find the chest or the gold.

Your incompetence will see many more things slip through your fingers.

Can't you see it?

It's zigzagging all over the place like a lame mule.

That's how this pattern is worked, it goes across.

You have an answer for everything, everything!

I only wished you showed as much skill in your work.

Hear that?

Unless we talk back to you,

you'll have no one to point out your mistakes, Sırma Hatun!

-What is that meant to mean? -Don't you see, İlbilge Hatun?

We've worked like slaves since dawn.

You know we are skilled, you know we work hard.

What do you two sisters do?

These rugs aren't made with harsh words.

They're made through hard work.

Since you have nothing useful to say,

why don't you keep silent and let us work in peace?

You're the last person who can preach such a lesson!

As I have responsibility for the women of the tribe, then I can command you.

I don't like these rugs. Start again from scratch!

We will not start all over again.

I am ordering you and you will do it! Immediately.

Fine. If you want them remade from scratch,

you can get your sister, you can sit down side by side,

and you can remake them yourselves.

If that doesn't work, you can make them again.

Because we're not going to lift a finger to do it!

You will weave them! Are you refusing to work?

Yes, I'm doing just that.

Then go and find your son.

Find your lazy husband hiding in the mountains.

-You witch-- -Selcan Hatun!

That only happens once.

I won't allow it to happen again.

May it be good news.

-Welcome back, Ertuğrul Bey! -Welcome back, Ertuğrul Bey!

-Welcome back! -Can you see?

-Ertuğrul Bey, welcome. -Welcome back, Ertuğrul Bey.

-Welcome back! Welcome back! -Welcome, my bey.

Father!

Osman.

My Osman!

Ertuğrul Bey has returned! Osman is with him.

-Praise Allah! At last! -At last!

At last!

My Osman! My brave child! Praise Allah!

Welcome home, Osman.

Thank you, Allah.

My Bey, welcome back!

Come on! Come on!

Be thankful for Ertuğrul Bey.

-Welcome home, my bey. -Welcome back!

Oh, my brave son! My brave son! Praise Allah!

At last, at last!

-Welcome home, my bey. -Thank you, Artuk Bey.

My boy!

-Welcome, my bey. -Welcome back!

-Welcome home, my bey. -Welcome home, my bey.

Thank you.

How are you, son? They didn't do anything to you, did they?

My father's sword destroyed their trap, Grandmother.

Son.

-Welcome. -Thank you, Mother.

Welcome back, all my children.

May your sword forever strike terror in the hearts of tyrants, son.

Thank you, Mother.

Why are they standing in front of the tent, Mother?

Beybolat has forbidden us from entering the tent, my bey.

Since he became margrave, they have tormented us every way they can.

Both them and their women.

You can't go in, Ertuğrul Bey.

The margrave, Beybolat Bey, has forbidden it.

You know the rules.

Don't resist and make it harder for everyone.

It seems I broke your unjust rule.

I don't care what you forbid.

If you push me any further,

I'll take your head as well, be sure of it!

We do what we're ordered, Ertuğrul Bey.

Whatever the task given us, we do it.

Never again try to torment us...

using the power the Mongols have given you.

Not even Alıncak himself could take my tent from me.

Now, get your alps and leave this place.

And tell your margrave,

little stones such as yourself,

will be no obstacle as the gathering flood of our fury breaks over this land.

Go.

Long live Ertuğrul Bey! Long live Ertuğrul Bey!

Long live Ertuğrul Bey! Long live Ertuğrul Bey!

Long live Ertuğrul Bey! Long live Ertuğrul Bey!

Long live Ertuğrul Bey!

Long live Ertuğrul Bey!

Long live Ertuğrul Bey!

Long live Ertuğrul Bey!

Long live Ertuğrul Bey!

My Bey, I'm so glad you found my nephew Osman.

You saved him with your sword.

But how did you escape the clutches of that scoundrel Alıncak?

When I undid a knot with my sword, I tied another elsewhere.

They know only I can undo that knot, Selcan Hatun.

My Bey, I am so thankful Osman is here. And you, too.

But Süleyman is nowhere to be found.

Do you know where he is?

Rest assured.

I have not abandoned my nephew to the jackals.

Süleyman is safe.

-Thank Allah. -Thank Allah.

Where is he, my bey?

I've said enough for now, any more may jeopardize his safety.

If a people's bards are silenced, the call to prayer is also silenced.

Pick up your instruments and play for us

so that the world knows we will never be stopped or silenced.

Of course, my bey.

The very lands bless your banner

Cover these mountains like smoke

The seas salute you

Walk like the clouds in the sky

March on, alps, march on

March on, alps, march on

Cover these mountains like smoke

Walk like the clouds in the sky

They bent the knee To the sound of your arrows

The thunder and the lightning

The killers' wrists dry up like deserts

As soon as they see you

March on, alps, march on

March on, alps, march on

Cover these mountains like smoke

Walk like the clouds in the sky

That chimney which gives out smoke

Screams used to come out of it Before you arrived

If you had been late The screams of the innocents

Would have been heard everywhere

March on, alps, march on

March on, alps, march on

Cover these mountains like smoke

Walk like the clouds in the sky

March on, alps, march on

March on, alps, march on

We will march on!

We are the sons of brave men...

whose tents and banners were the sky and the sun.

We have a thousand years of honorable history behind us.

This history, together with our faith,

will steer us through the next thousand years!

We will march on!

And with every step we will crush the heads of the oppressors!

What we disregard today will return to haunt us tomorrow.

We will never surrender!

We'll never surrender!

We won't give up!

We won't despair!

We won't retreat!

We won't retreat!

If we ever show fatigue or weakness...

may we be cut down by our own swords,

and find ourselves buried in the cold, black earth.

May our swords go in clean and come out red!

Go in clean and come out red!

Go in clean and come out red!

Go in clean and come out red!

I'm so proud of you, brothers.

Peace be upon you.

-And upon you. -And upon you.

He resists our authority just because he got his tent, huh?

He insulted us publicly, my bey.

He said that little stones like us couldn't stop the flood of their fury.

And where was your sword while he said all that?

When I destroy them...

they'll see who the stone is and who the flood is.

You still haven't found Süleyman?

We will, my bey. We're looking everywhere.

I don't want to hear of your hopes, I want him found, Yınal!

When I have him, I'm going to make an example out of him.

Leave us. Go!

Alıncak had Ertuğrul in his hands and he walked away unharmed.

The Kayıs will be unbearably smug.

We respected them, offered friendship and kinship!

If not for me, Alıncak would have taken their heads!

I have no choice now.

You're right, brother.

We can no longer be soft like dough, we must become as hard as steel.

They lost their frontier beylik, yet they're still so proud.

You saw how Hayme Hatun and Selcan Hatun behaved.

They're impossible, even in the weaving tent.

And they celebrated the fact their boy escaped.

Could they be any more disrespectful to the margrave?

I'll come down on the Kayı Tribe like a nightmare in the night.

I'll show them who has the power, the might and the title.

They don't know me yet.

Blood it is!

If blood must flow, so be it!

Don't leave the women alone.

You're the sisters of the margrave.

Commander Alıncak gave you a task.

Show no mercy to any of them.

Those rugs will be made.

Hulagu Khan's orders, my bey.

The Mongols have made a deal with the Byzantines.

The Byzantines will give İzzeddin Keykavus to the Mongols.

He had sought refuge with them.

Hulagu Khan commanded Alıncak to find Keykavus and deliver him to him.

İzzeddin Keykavus used to rule with his brother Rükneddin Kılıçarslan.

When Kılıçarslan became sympathetic to the Mongols he was overthrown, Bey.

Keykavus was betrayed because he refused to sell his soul to the Mongols.

But his rage caused him to make mistakes.

While the Turkish tribes respected him and would have welcomed him,

he instead sought the protection of the Byzantines.

At one side we have a rightful Sultan who obeys the Mongols,

and who can't even make his own vizier obey him...

and on the other side, Keykavus, who chose to run to the Byzantines.

How did our state fall so far, my bey?

Because our statesmen don't act out of principle or for a cause,

but are motivated only by what might fatten their purses, Turgut.

If they had rallied around a righteous cause...

would it have come to this?

Why does Hulagu want Keykavus, Bey?

Keykavus is well liked by the Turkish tribes because he didn't obey the Mongols.

That's why Hulagu Khan wants to execute him;

to intimidate those Turkish tribes which are considering rebellion.

So, should we alter the orders again and stop them taking him, Bey?

On the contrary.

We'll make sure he gets the orders, Turgut.

Why would we let Alıncak get the orders, Bey?

If we know exactly what Alıncak is going to do,

it will make it easier to get their before him.

Our swords will never be enough

if we are to destroy Alıncak and drive the Mongols out of this land.

However hard we hit them, they'll only come back with more men.

That is why we're going to destroy Alıncak's reputation instead.

We'll disrupt every mission entrusted to him.

He'll fall out of favor because of us.

We'll make sure that every task he's given is doomed to fail.

When Alıncak lets someone as important as Keykavus get away...

his reputation will be in ruins.

If Keykavus...

was executed by the Mongols the effect on the Turkish tribes would be profound.

We must prevent it else their interest in rebellion will fall away completely.

Alıncak will go to get Keykavus.

But... we'll be there before him

and save Keykavus from their evil intent.

And when Alıncak sees he is too late, he'll be beside himself with rage, my bey.

We'll destroy his reputation piece by piece.

Alıncak, who came here with an ego as big as a mountain...

will be swept away like dust.

Mergen, Alıncak will get his orders at dawn tomorrow.

As you command, Bey.

Tell the bell-ringer I want him to meet me on the road to Alacatepe.

I have something to say to him.

As long as there's a Turk in Anatolia...

this war will be fought until it is won.

-Very good, my bey. -Very good, my bey.

Subtitle translation by Berk Meydanlı