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Who is this coming?

Let it be good news.

It's the alps, Mother.

There's someone behind them.

What's going on?

They're carrying a wounded man.

A wounded man?

Stand aside.

Turgut Bey!

Turgut!

Mother!

Turgut!

My son! My son! What happened?

Son, what happened?

What happened? Artuk Bey!

İlçin Hatun!

Turgut is badly wounded!

You must tend to him immediately!

Take him to the healing tent.

-Hurry! -Come on.

-Come on. -Come on!

Who did this?

There was a fight, Mother Hayme.

We have many martyrs.

Dumrul and Mergen are dead.

What did you say?

Where is Ertuğrul Bey?

I asked you a question, Melikşah!

Where is your bey?

Ertuğrul Bey...

was captured and taken, Mother Hayme.

Father.

Gündoğdu Bey and...

Gündüz Alp have gone to find Ertuğrul Bey.

Raise your head, Melikşah.

We don't bow our heads.

We take heads!

Who did this?

Beybolat.

Isn't that bastard dead?

No, Selcan Hatun. He ambushed us with the Mongols.

Brave Kayı men!

And brave women!

Listen to me.

Now is not the time to cry and despair.

Whenever we were in trouble, our bey ran to help us.

Now we will help him!

-Yes, she's right! -Yes!

Alps of the tribe!

Go and search for your bey!

Women of the tribe!

Take up your weapons and get yourselves ready for battle!

If...

those bastards...

dare to attack our village...

we will fight to the death.

We will fight until the last drop of blood falls from our bodies! We will fight!

-We will fight! -We will fight!

Come on!

Make some healing balm, İlçin Hatun. We must cover the wound.

-The bleeding won't stop, Artuk Bey! -Wipe it clean with the cloths you boiled.

Prepare the branding iron. We'll cauterize it.

How is he, Artuk Bey?

Will Turgut live?

We'll cauterize the wound, Hayme Hatun. But it's deep.

The traitor who did this stabbed him in this area

so as to inflict maximum suffering.

It was Beybolat who stabbed him.

-The iron is ready, my Bey. -Excuse us, Hayme Hatun.

Bring it over, İlçin Hatun.

Be very careful now.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

Ya Şafi.

Ya Şafi.

-Allah. -Ya Şafi.

Help us, Allah.

Ya Şafi.

Ya Şafi.

Does your neck hurt, Ertuğrul?

If you try to lower your head,

or if you fall asleep and your head falls,

the fork will stick in your throat and kill you.

But then, if you stay like this, the pain will drive you insane.

So I have given you two options, pain or death.

Speak and be saved.

What you call death...

I call martyrdom.

Anything you try to scare me with only gives me courage.

If you want...

you can tear me apart.

You won't see any pain in my face.

I, however...

will get to watch you go mad...

for failing to bend me to your will.

What glorious words.

But not the words I wanted to hear.

You will tell me what you took from Alıncak.

His life?

I fed him to the vultures.

You're only tormenting yourself by stretching this out.

Tell me...

what are you planning with Berke Khan?

How is Sultan Keykavus involved?

What's inside the chest?

If you want to know... go after it.

But...

your fate will be the same as all the others who tried to find it.

Your fingers have been the ones pulling the strings.

I'll break those fingers...

one by one.

But you can't have done it all by yourself.

There's a great power behind you.

Who is that?

True. There is.

My God.

My heart.

My sword.

And the gold? What happened to it?

Did you send the gold that rightfully belonged to the Mongols to Berke Khan?

Even if I knew where it was I wouldn't tell you...

I'd tell Arıkbuka.

But then you'd try to kill him to get the gold anyway.

Just like you tried to kill Alıncak.

What are these black words scratching at my ear?

Are you not going to tell him...

that when we caught Alıncak, the first arrow to hit him was yours?

Are you going to deny trying to kill him, Albastı?

He's right. I did.

I did it to prevent Alıncak being taken captive.

So that he couldn't expose our secrets.

Anyone in my place would have done the same.

If Alıncak could be resurrected, he'd thank me.

You know that.

A true and honest word...

cuts as sharply as a knife.

The arrow you fired at him

pierced my heart too.

But... you're right.

If you had let him live,

and left him to the enemy, that would have been a crime.

It's clear that making you talk

will be as difficult as turning steel into dust.

But my strength has no limits.

You will writhe in agony until the moment you run out of blood.

Welcome, Abdurrahman Alp. What is it?

Thank you, İlbilge Hatun.

What is it? Is it something important?

İlbilge Hatun, I'd rather discuss this with you in your tent.

All right, come in.

-Go on. I'm listening. -İlbilge Hatun...

Ertuğrul Bey and our alps were ambushed.

An ambush? What happened?

We lost many alps.

Ertuğrul Bey was captured and taken by the enemy.

What enemy?

Albastı.

Albastı?

How could he fall down a cliff with that wound and survive?

Mongol spies saved him.

They were the ones who attacked Ertuğrul Bey.

They have Ertuğrul Bey now.

What are you saying, Abdurrahman Alp?

He heaps more shame upon us.

I'll make him pay for this.

Gündoğdu Bey went after them. He'll find them sooner or later.

We'll remain with your tribe for now.

Then we'll join the search for Ertuğrul Bey.

Do not talk of this to anyone for now.

I'll increase the number of guards.

Allah, protect Ertuğrul Bey from evil.

Our scouts sent word. They've seen the Kayıs searching the forest.

Brother.

Gündoğdu.

It is so much easier to hunt when my prey comes running to me.

Shall we go back and surround them?

No need.

We'll set the trap and wait for them here.

When Gündoğdu gets close enough, we'll attack them.

You hide in your holes...

like the cowardly jackals you are.

Neither I...

nor my brother, will ever fall into your traps.

Don't push yourself, Ertuğrul.

That fork might pierce your throat and you'll die.

And that would make me so sad.

I still need you.

No one will ever find us unless we want them to find us.

Leave something that will lead Gündoğdu to us.

Leave it at such a place that they'll reach here at the red dawn.

What should I leave for them?

It must be something they will recognize.

When your brother finds a piece of you,

I wonder how quickly he'll get here.

To find out whether you're dead or alive

he'll rush here as if he's lost his mind.

You're only inviting...

your own death.

It's my job to play with death.

Let's leave him a sign then.

A bloody piece of you.

This is the piece.

And now, some blood.

Do it like I said. Choose the location wisely,

I don't want them getting here before dawn.

It's time to get some sleep before my prey arrives.

May I come in, sister?

Come in, Sırma.

What's going on, sister? You've posted additional guards everywhere.

The usual precautions, Sırma.

Nothing for you to worry about.

Abdurrahman and other Kayı alps being here is not usual, sister.

What's going on? I have a right to know.

Ertuğrul Bey.

What about Ertuğrul Bey? Has something happened to him?

Ertuğrul Bey has been captured.

The entire frontier is on alert. That's why I've taken extra precautions.

Who would dare do something like this? Who could capture Ertuğrul Bey?

The Mongols.

The Mongols?

-How do you know? -Abdurrahman Alp told me, Sırma.

What will we do?

I'll do whatever's necessary.

You should continue to attend to your work.

As you wish, sister.

You pursued the wrong things, Ertuğrul.

If you had been on the right side, the Mongols wouldn't be here and...

you wouldn't be in this state.

I would sacrifice my life

to remain true to my cause, Albastı.

Those who have set you on this course will lead our state into the abyss.

They will destroy it, and traitors like you will help them.

I knew the state before I knew my father, Ertuğrul.

There is no place I've not fought, bled and killed...

for this state.

I've even put up with...

the Mongols for it.

And you think I will destroy it?

This state...

didn't raise the kind of traitor who would raise his sword against his own people.

Those who you believe are the state...

are the wolves who gnaw at the tree.

I put my back against that tree to keep it from toppling.

My bones cracked under the burden.

I've put up with everything to save it from being crushed under Mongol boots.

It's those who you believe to be the state

who left us all alone, Ertuğrul.

A jackal can't lead

a pack of wolves, Albastı.

Because you chose treachery and put your own pride above everything,

you now stand alone.

You now run with hyenas.

But...

remember that...

when the haze clears from the field...

all you will see will be our claws.

Who are you, Ertuğrul?

Who is the power behind you?

Scorpion.

A scorpion approaches.

How did you know that that scorpion was there?

Being strong isn't just a matter of being tough, you also have to be sensitive.

Sensitive enough to sense a scorpion coming towards you while you sleep.

The sky god Tengri made even the deadliest creatures

useful for something.

This scorpion will help us.

Our men left the scrap of clothing.

Good, then a feast of blood awaits us after dawn.

Take this scorpion.

Extract its poison.

When Gündoğdu arrives it might prove useful to me.

You'll soon be seeing your brother, Ertuğrul.

And you'll be seeing your blood brother Alıncak soon.

There will indeed be blood after the red dawn.

Swords will determine who drowns in it.

True. But you won't be here to see it.

Take him and leave before dawn.

Go to my secret cave and wait there.

Just in case. He must not be here during the fight.

I'll lure Gündoğdu here and trap him.

Will you still not speak, Ertuğrul?

Speak, to prevent your brother being tortured like you.

The power that could make me speak has not yet been born.

The torture that could break me has not yet been devised.

You can hold your head up now.

But what will you do when you become tired?

Show us their tracks.

Allah, show us their tracks.

Allah, show us their tracks, show us their tracks, Allah.

Where are you, my bey?

My bey, my bey.

My bey!

No, no. There's no sign of them.

No tracks! Nothing! There's no sign of them!

My bey is gone and there are no tracks.

Bamsı.

Gündoğdu Bey.

We're just wandering around in the dark.

I know we can't give up.

-I do, my bey, but-- -But...

The dawn inevitably follows night.

Isn't that right, brother?

We can't give up hope now, we won't give up hope.

Very good, my bey. Very good.

I won't give up. I won't give up, my bey.

Someone's coming, my bey!

Gündoğdu Bey! Gündoğdu Bey!

Gündüz Bey's found something.

Good. Let's go, quickly!

My Bey, the dawn is inevitable, just as you said, my Bey.

Allah willing, let's go! Let's go!

Welcome, Turgut.

Where am I?

Where am I, Hodja?

You're far away and you're close.

It is neither yesterday, nor tomorrow.

You're here, Turgut.

Why...

Why are you planting a rose?

I was told we have many martyrs.

I'm planting roses along their path.

Did I...

become a martyr?

A martyr is a witness.

If you don't know what you're witnessing, then this is not your time.

When you see it, you won't have any questions.

That is, instead of asking questions,

you'll simply enjoy the gifts of Allah.

They won't bloom...

until their time comes, Turgut.

What does that mean?

Your roots are still to be buried and watered.

A rose will grow tall and bloom in caring hands,

but those who seek to uproot it will feel its thorns.

You were once a heartbroken, orphaned child.

Allah raised you up, and made you his warrior.

You became an alp, and then rose to become bey.

Most importantly of all,

you shed your blood on the battlefield in the wars against our oppressors.

There will be more battles to fight,

and more tyrants to kill.

As there are still those who would seek to uproot Allah's cause,

it falls upon you to pierce their skin with your thorns.

I have killed many enemies...

on the field of battle.

But...

this time I am very badly wounded, my teacher.

What plant or medicine

could heal me this time?

Medicine and plants

are only the means, Turgut.

Nothing happens without Allah's will.

Abraham was thrown into fire.

Fire so hot it would melt steel.

But because Allah did not wish it, the fire didn't burn Abraham.

The knife would have cleaved a tree in two.

But since Allah did not wish it, the knife did not cut Isaac.

Now, without Allah's will...

that wound cannot kill you.

Come, Turgut.

Drink some water.

Refresh your roots.

Water is mercy.

It's a blessing.

It is clean and it cleanses.

It heals.

The name "Hayy" means, "he who gives life to everything".

Drink in his name, Turgut.

Drink in his name.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

Hayy!

Oh Allah, you bring the day and the night.

You light up the sky with the stars.

With your unlimited power,

you can create anything.

You help with our hardships.

You have a solution for every problem.

Everything belongs to you.

When Eyyub was hurt, his family feared that he would never recover

from such grievous wounds.

But Eyyub himself did not give up hope

and reached out to you.

You were the one who healed him.

Now heal this brave man

who was willing to give his life...

in the fight for your holy cause.

You said...

"Pray to me so that I may answer".

Please answer our prayers, in the name of your messenger,

Muhammad.

Please, accept our prayers,

and in your wisdom act upon them.

Accept them, oh Allah!

Accept them!

Amen.

Subtitle translation by Berk Meydanlı