01x08 - Episode 8

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[Episode 8]

Wait here.

The sword that overthrew
the Gök Khanate!

Rise, and give your father a hug!

Did we do it?

We did it.

Alpagu Khan abdicated the throne.

He announced an assembly.

We won.

So what are we going to do now?

Shall we wait for the assembly
to ascend to the throne?

Don't you know your father?

He can't be patient until the convention.

What do you mean?

Father!

You are gonna do something!

What are you going to do?

The impostor claw
that attacked your father,

who showed his wound
to the congress...

-Do you think...
-It was Kirchichek.

I want to go back
and k*ll both your uncle her.

Let's save my father's life first.

How long until we reach that Dağ lands?

We'll reach before sundown,
but seems like your father can't hold on.

He will hold on.

He has to hold on,
and we'll defeat Balamir, or none of us...

None of us...?

...can return to the Gök Palace.

Akkız.

My Khan.

State Advisor,

where is our Khan?

Our Khan,

has gone to the Dağ, my Ulu Ece.

What do you mean?
The convention is assembling!

Did he go to the Dağ
when he has to fight Balamir?

Why did he not tell me?

Did that Dağ girl take him?

Künata will treat his wound,

without healing that wound,

my Khan cannot fight Balamir Yabgu.

I...

I poisoned Tutkun.

What!

Tutkun!

Tutkun!

Tutkun, look at me, Tutkun!

Tutkun!

Open your eyes.

Tutkun, please!

Look at me!

Tutkun!

What have you done?

What did you do
right before the convention?

How can we explain this to Çolpan?

What have you done?

What did you give her?

What poison?

I don't know what poison.

I applied it on the brush.

Tutkun.

Tutkun , you can't die.

I forbid you to die, Tutkun!

They mixed mandrake with ragweed.

No escape.

But I have the antidote.

Bring it!

Bring it now!

If we can reach an agreement,
why shouldn't I bring it?

Woman, I will k*ll you!

I will k*ll you!

I will k*ll you!

Temur, Temur!

You may k*ll me.

But the Dağ girl dies too.

If the Dağ girl dies,
the law will k*ll Günseli as well.

Even if you sacrifice her,

Cholpan Khan withdraws
her support from you.

Right when Balamir Yabgu
has convened the assembly,

you don't want to lose
the support of Cholpan Khan.

Isn't it, my Ulu Ece?

Are you threatening us?

How dare you!

I do not threaten.

I bargain.

You Turks,

love to bargain.

I would say let's get on a horse too,

but there is no time.

The girl is dying.

Tell me.

What do you want?

Prince Kaya

will marry this woman.

But will not be a candidate
at the convention.

The khan candidate from the Gök Palace,
against Balamir Yabgu,

will be Temür.

Are you crazy, woman?

If Cholpan doesn't vote,
neither of you can become khans, Kaya!

So, Is the Dağ girl dying,

or living?

Enough, enough, enough!

Yes, I'll do whatever you want,
alright.

Just get that antidote.

Fine, I'll do everything.
I'll do anything.

Open the door.
Open that door!

Hold on, Tutkun.

Will the antidote work?

If we are not late.

Cholpan Khan.

They poisoned Tutkun.

Who?

Who?

Who?

Who?

You can't put that girl on my bed.

Chinese woman!

You can't have both the throne and the bed,
give me the antidote!

Tutkun, Tutkun!

Tutkun.

Don't do it Tutkun, Tutkun.

Don't die, Tutkun.

Tutkun, don't do it, Tutkun.

Tutkun!

Bring it, bring it here!

Tutkun.

Give it, give it here!

Come on.

Tutkun.

Will she wake up?

Pray to your god.

If we were not too late,
she'll wake up.

If we were late...

Prince Temur,

I wouldn't have done it if I'd known
that you loved her so much.

Forgive me.

Oh, by the way,

you poisoned the wrong person.

Your man didn't want Tutkun,

he wanted Akkız.

Enough!

Your father isn't around,
we have lost the throne.

You are still talking about Dağ girls,
that's enough!

If you're tired of Dağ girls,

how about a Dağ Khan?

Are you gonna sh**t me
in the Gök Palace?

If that girl dies, I'm not
letting anyone out of here alive.

You're right.

If Tutkun dies,

my life is yours to take.

I swear it.

Why your life?

You and Tutkun--

are not connected, of course.

Alpagu Khan abdicated the throne.

Kaya is a candidate for khan.

Günseli was jealous of Kaya
and poisoned Tutkun.

And Temur,

in order to protect his brother,
the khan candidate,

puts his life on the line.

Pray to Gök Tengri
that Tutkun survives.

Or I will not leave a man
to be a khan in the Gök lineage.

Tilbe,

bring Tutkun.

Kaya.

It might be heavy for Tilbe.

You take Tutkun,
carry her.

Künata.

The crying bride flowers are here.

Come.

Slowly, lay him down.

You pick the flowers, come on.

Come.

Bring it, bring it.

Squeeze the crown.

The dew from above...
the essence... properly...

Beautiful.

Go on.

Press the crown, good.

Oh, claw,

here you are,
healing the wound you opened.

Thank you.

Would that do?

Are these flowers enough?

We'll find out in the morning.

If we get through tonight.

GÖK HORDE
Capital of The Gök Khağanate

Gök warriors!

Open the gates!

Balamir Yabgu!

You can't enter the palace with your horses
in the middle of the night like that.

It's a crime to fight the Yabgu.

Open the gate.

Break that door open!

Are you raiding at night,
Balamir Yabgu?

-Are you occupying the palace?
-Don't!

Blood will be spilled.

You can't enter.

Move away!

Stop!

Let them in.

Ulu Ece!

-Is she dead?
-She is not dead.

You failed.

She opened her eyes.

If we wanted to k*ll, we would.

We kept Tutkun alive.

Why don't you understand?

I would have taken out

both of your sons,
if she hadn't survived.

But if you think I'm going to
sit tight because Tutkun lived--

--No, I don't!

Tutkun is fine,
that's what matters tonight.

Tomorrow we will sit down
and have a talk.

Whatever we have to do,
we will do it.

And you will continue
to support us against Balamir.

-My Ulu Ece.
-Saltuk?

Balamir Yabgu raided the palace.

He is going to seize the throne.

What?

Come on.

Get up from that throne, Balamir!

According to our customs,

the throne of Gök cannot be left empty.

The Gök throne is not empty.

Alpagu Khan declared it.

I am the khan regent.

That's what our customs say.

Alpagu Khan,

has abdicated the throne.

He has left his land and home.

Until the congress elects a new khan,

I must be the khan regent.

Let this be known.

The beys of the Turkic congress,

are eagles, not hyenas.

They float with the sun,

not perch at night.

They fly high,

don't stoop so low!

Are you as low

as this hyena who is my uncle?

Are you conducting a coup at midnight?

Are you taking over at midnight?

Akkız.

Kınay Alp?

This came with a falcon
from Cholpan Khan.

Akkız, Balamir raided the palace
at midnight and seized the throne.

He declared himself khagan regent.

He has got the clan beys behind him.
Inform Alpagu.

Damn it!

Damn it!

What are we gonna do?

He's waking up.

Künata.

Did the flowers work?

Your life was saved.

How do you feel?

Good, I'm fine, fine.

The pain is gone.

What, can my arm be saved?

The wound has stopped festering.

But whether your arm
gets better or be crippled,

only Gök Tengri knows that.

Son, I've become a cr*pple like you.

An armless, throne-less Khan.

If you had a mind, you'd
say I deserve it, right?

You are alive.

Of what use is it if I'm alive?

Can an armless man be a Khan?

They'll wait and see.

My father is very tired,
you go after him.

Let me think about
what we can do about Balamir.

Did you bring me here on purpose?

You know this place.

Have you come here before?

I asked, did you bring me here
on purpose?

Not us,

but maybe Gök Tengri deliberately grew
the flowers to heal your wound here.

Tılsım.

Tılsım.

What is this place?
What is there?

There,

is the tomb of our Tılsım Bige.

Mother.

The one over there.

So alone.

Not alone.

On one side is Toygar Khan.

Evren Alp on one side.

My father.

Do you think,

my mother and your father,

know that we met each other?

What are you talking about,
prince Batuga?

They even started gossiping.

Tılsım.

I no longer have a throne
you can betray.

I no longer have an arm
to stab your heart with.

I don't have the strength to
put a bowstring around your son's neck.

I'm not blessed anymore.

Are you happy?
Have you got what you want?

Gök Tengri doesn't
take one to the heaven,

without paying for
what he did on earth.

Maybe that's why Gök Tengri didn't
let him die by your arrow.

For him to pay.

Do you think we write our own destiny,
or Tengri?

Maybe Tengri makes us write it.

But we cannot let Alpagu Khan's fate
be written by his past.

Because his destiny

is the destiny of the country.

He must get back
his arm and his throne.

We must unseat Balamir from the throne
he seized without waiting for the convention.

But it seems impossible.

Our ancestors don't say
it's impossible.

They reached Ergenekon by
the path led by the gray wolf,

melted the iron
and pierced the mountain.

Can we not dethrone Balamir
and restore the order?

You have already thought up something.

What's on your mind,
my prince Batuga?

My uncle tried to k*ll
both of the princes.

He set a trap for my father.

If he's tried,

he'll be found guilty.

He cannot be chosen as khağan.

There is no evidence.

We don't know anyone he k*lled
during the hunting game.

No one even realized that
the claw was Kırçiçek.

No one thought of it.

How can we

prove that Balamir raised
the army of fake claws,

and tried to shed the sacred blood?

Well then,

what if we get him to commit
a crime again in front of congressmen?

How?

Together with the palace
and Cholpan Khan,

we're going to set a trap for my uncle.

It's a difficult trap,
but it can work.

Now you must listen carefully
to what I say, and tell my father.

As you command, my prince.

I am listening.

Fate turns around a lot
before it gets somewhere, right?

Tılsım.

I broke all the traps of destiny.

But it finally found me.

Are you happy, like your Tılsım Bige?

I lost my arm and my khanate.

You will not lose.

Do you know what
I like the most about you?

You have an uncontrollable
boneless tongue.

No one else can tell the truth to Khans.

You have a thoughtless daring heart.

Now don't get wise and harden it.

Is that your command?

It is.

Fine.

You deserved to lose
your khanate and your arm.

But the people didn't deserve it.

That's why, you can't lose.

How?

Cholpan Khan sent this.

Balamir Yabgu declared himself
khagan regent and took the throne.

I'm not surprised, my Khan.

He was the one who set a trap
for you at the hunting game.

What trap?

You saved the princes from the army
of the robber called the claw.

And Balamir saved me.

He fought and defeated the claw.

My Khan,

I think it was all an act.

The robber called the claw
was Kırçiçek.

And Balamir Yabgu raised the army.

No.

No.

Balamir can't go that far.

Praise Gök Tengri, because,

our administrators sometimes go too far.

Otherwise they would never fall,
we would always be subjected to them.

Tell me, foolish heart,

do you have any proof that Balamir
used the claw to trap me?

No.

But there is a way to prove it,
although difficult.

We need your stamp,
and your command.

Whatever is required.

Do not stop until you bury
Balamir on the throne of Gök,

Akkız.

GÖK HORDE
Capital of The Gök Khağanate

Çalayır.

Take this.

Çalayır.

Bring me more meat.

He placed his soldiers everywhere.

Are we going to stay like this?

Can't we chop them all?

Saltuk, how is the army?

We are gathering.

As you ordered,

I appointed Kuzu Beg.

What is he doing?

He didn't leave the throne until morning,
like a baby at its mother's breast.

He ate there, drank there,
slept there.

Did they seize the treasure room?

Yes, my Ulu Ece.

Bring Colpan and Tutkun to the dining room.

Pick and bring two chests of jewelry,

and the most beautiful fabrics
from my room.

Did you place a table in my place?

It is more useful than you.

Why have you gathered us here,
Balamir Yabgu?

When I am elected khan,

I want to know

whom I should keep,
and whom to exile.

Bow your head,
and kneel before me.

The Turk family,

the Oghuz lineage,
does not kneel.

We beat our shoulder and shout!

That too, to the blessed khan.

Win the convention,

and let's see that
Tengri give you the power.

Only then.

I'll exile them
as soon as we win at the congress.

You are both guilty, and crying.

Wipe those tears.

You got jealous of your husband and
poisoned Tutkun like petty tribeswomen.

Mei Jin got us in trouble
because of you.

Your husband, because of you,

will lose his chance to become a khan.

Mother, it's okey.

Fine.

I didn't give up.

I still have a chance for the throne.

There is no need to tell Cholpan
about Mei Jin's terms, for now.

And Günseli realized her fault.

I realized my fault, but,

are you not guilty at all,
my prince Kaya?

Looking straight into my eyes,

you told me, my great mother,

"You can't have a child,
I'll give that Dağ girl Tutkun to Kaya."

Neither can Mei Jin.

But I don't have an emperor
father to frighten you, do I?

Nice,

turns out I lost it from the start.

While I was jealous of Tutkun,

my Kaya had already abandoned me.

He has thrown me out of his heart,

and taken Akkız in my place.

Günseli!

How many times shall I tell you?

This has nothing to do with the heart.

I need that girl.

You don't need that wild girl.

You need Tutkun for the throne.

You will get the support
of Çolpan Khan by marrying Tutkun.

Then without keeping
our promise to Mei Jin,

you will run for the throne.

Forgive me.

I never got your throne games.

Whatever my punishment is,
I'm ready.

Good morning, Ulu Ece.

What's wrong, Gunseli Hatun?

Looks like you've committed a crime,
and are going to be punished.

We committed the crime together,
Kırçiçek Bige.

She gave me the poison to k*ll Tutkun.

In exchange for what?

In exchange for leaving the palace
where I was held hostage.

And if I am guilty,
see the Khağan regent.

Put me to trial.

If you are looking for him,

my father is on the throne.

Will they be wandering around the palace like
this, as if it's their own pastures, State Advisor?

Aren't we going to do anything?

Alpagu Khan left his place.

In this case, Balamir Yabgu's

claim of the khagan regency,

is valid as per the customs.

This is not khan's regency,

it's occupation.

He got five clan beys with him.

He does not leave the throne room.

Stay calm.

We cannot afford to revolt
before the convention.

Saltuk Beg, as you commanded,

I went to gather the army.

Are you gathering soldiers?
Didn't I tell you to sit tight?

We thought let's be prepared,
State Advisor.

Kuzu Beg?

This came from the Dağ,
with a falcon.

It has the stamp of Alpagu Khan.

It was sent to a top secret place,
to you.

I am Akkız,
I write by the order of Alpagu Khan.

We do not know the situation at the palace,
so we send the falcon to the camp.

By the order of Alpagu Khan,
we found a way to stop Balamir.

We expect the cooperation of
both the Gök and the Dağ.

Our command is that,...

Where is prince Kaya?

My Ulu Ece, Çolpan Hatun is here.

Cholpan Hatun,

be my guest!

Tutkun,

come, my girl,
you sit here too.

No, I'll wait here.

Sit, take a seat.

Now you count as our bride, too.

Günseli asks your,

and your khan's forgiveness.

Accept these.

Choose any of these silks you want,

let's get it sewn for you, Tutkun.

Does Günseli Hatun want to ask
for forgiveness,

or for votes?

Forgiveness, of course.

Günseli.

I...

I never liked these power struggles.

I didn't want to get my hands dirty.

But while bothered about my hands,

my heart got polluted, forgive me.

Our customs say, blood for blood,
life for life.

I would also like to say
poison for poison, but,

you are already poisoned every day.

You are sweet.

You owe us. We forgive you.

I know that Alpagu Khan made
this temporary treaty for my vote,

and that you made this girl
apologize for my vote.

Your vote is not enough.

We know that you are
on good terms with Koçkar Beg.

We hope you lead him
away from Balamir,

and bring him closer to us.

If Koçkar Beg turns to us,

Uzlu Beg turns too.

First, turn the Dağ to you,
let Kaya and Tutkun get married.

Then I'll do what you say.

My Ulu Ece.

My Ulu Ece,

There is a message from Alpagu Khan.

They have set a trap
to dethrone Balamir Yabgu.

They need your help.

GÖK HORDE
Capital of The Gök Khağanate

Chalayir, Yibek!

What are these?

I said, what are these?

Ulu Ece is making a bloodless
sacrifice in the garden, my Yabgu.

For what?

To get rid of me?

You know the Ulu Ecem better,
my Yabgu.

Go see what you will hear.

While we are alive thanks to your horses
in the hunting game,

I don't have the face
to ask you for votes.

Whether you vote for me
at the convention or not, thank you.

We owe our lives to the Dağ.

While I am at peace with Alpagu Khan,
would I allow his princes to be k*lled?

I will not.

How did you hear that the claw
was going to attack the princes?

We got an anonymous tip about an ambush
during the hunting game, that's all.

He swallowed the bait.

I still can't believe it.

My father ascended the throne,
you are with me.

For a while, I thought I was really
going to marry that dumb man.

I had lost all hope.

I thought so too, but the only
thing that kept me alive was,

I could smell your hair.

You are hiding it.

Right above my heart.

When will you ask for my hand
from my father?

When Balamir Yabgu breaks off
the engagement.

The day the khan is elected,

it will be broken.

Then everyone will get
what they want, anyway.

Pars!

My Yabgu?

What are you doing here?

I was grooming the horse, Yabgu.

Set off immediately,
go to the Western Gök Khaganate.

Find the man we put after
Yaman and his sweetheart.

Go find out,
did Yaman follow us?

Did he tip the Dağ warriors
who rescued the princes

in the hunting game?

As you command, my Yabgu.

Pars.

If they're the spies,
bring them here.

Let's break the necks of
our first traitors.

Why are you wandering about?

And how are you so calm like that?

Mei Jin trapped us all.

You want the throne,
I want Tutkun.

But that Chinese woman demands
for me the throne and you Tutkun.

If Akkız trap works out,

if we catch Balamir,

Mei Jin's trap fails.

What if it doesn't work?

What if something goes wrong?

There's news from Kuzu Beg.

Balamir Yabgu's army chief
has set out with alps.

Look, see that?

Akkız's trap works!

Come on, let's go.

Your prey is plentiful, Dağ girl.
Enough, we are full.

What are you doing, my Khan?

Künata is making remedy for my wound
from the leaf of the poisonous spurge tree.

And I am carving out the
remedy for my soul.

Tütük.

When my mother gave birth to me,

we were at w*r with China.

They laid me down on
the barren cracked earth.

A bard played this trumpet in my ear.

My father was very angry.

He said, "This child must
hear the w*r drums first."

"But you're blowing the melodies of peace."

"If he becomes a khan,"

"how can rule the lands?"

When I was young, I always fought.

I always longed for peace.

I both took revenge,

and I wished for forgiveness, too.

I beat the drums,

and also played flute.

Between what I am
and what I am not,

between what I became
and what I dreamed,

between a bard and an Khan,

like this,

I'm like a hollow flute.

If you were a bard today,

you will be a Khan tomorrow.

That's hard with this arm.

Whose tomb is the third one?

In the morning,
you payed respects...

at three tombs.

One of them is Tılsım Bige's,

one of Toygar Khan's,

the other one?

Did i k*ll him?

Father!

Balamir has taken the bait,
I'd better get going.

You payed respects at three tombs
in the morning.

Who is in the third tomb?

Did I k*ll him?

What happened?

Balamir Yabgu believed the act,
he sent Pars after you.

I didn't ask that.

What happened to you?

Alpagu Khan.

He asked about my father's tomb.

He asked, “Did I k*lled him?”.

I'm serving the Khan
who k*lled my father.

I'm such a child.

You,

don't serve the Khan that
k*lled your father, my friend.

You serve prince Batuga.

You are protecting his throne
until he's ready. Alright?

Alright.

Let's go.

You stay here,
we'll get him.

Why?

Don't fight in this condition.

-I'm fine.
-Akkız.

We left the camp to
collect wood from the forest.

Pars will come and ask about us.

When he finds out we're in the forest,
he'll come with a squad of alps,

to catch us.

We already made Sırma a bait,

don't make me worry about you too.

All right, go get him
and bring him.

Forgive me for forgetting my revenge.

GÖK HORDE
Capital of The Gök Khağanate

We trusted this Akkız girl.
I'm not comfortable at all.

I think it's a very good trap to
prove Balamir's tricks to the convention.

Everything that girl does is good
to you anyway, Kaya.

Do you have a better idea, mother?

Tell me if you do,
let's do it.

They are here.

They shed a lot of blood.

Praise Gök Tengri!

You're back safe.
Are you okay?

I am good.

Explain, Saltuk.

The trap worked as we expected,
my prince.

We made Akkız's friend Sırma as bait.

Pars came with a troop of soldiers,
but,

First, Yaman knocked out Pars,
then we,

chopped down their alps
with prince Temur.

We delivered Pars to Akkız.

He set off to take the scum
to the presence of our Khan.

You were right.

Akkız's trap worked.

Who lies in the third tomb?
Won't you say?

Künata?

Are you asking what you know,

or what you fear?

We brought him, my Khan.

Open his mouth.

My Khan!

Was I your Khan when you set the
impostor claw on me with Balamir?

Would I do that, my Khan?

Believe me,
this has nothing to do with us.

Balamir Yabgu even
rescued you from the claw.

-You know.
-Saved me from the claw?

Or,

did he set up a trap with the claw
to oust me from the throne?

Tell me!

My Khan,

command us,
let's question him until morning.

We'll find out everything he knows.

Question him.

Where do we start?

I remember now!

Did Balamir raise the claw's army?

Tie him up.

What is he doing?

If you ask, he fell asleep.
I came in with the excuse that I was cold.

Are you really cold?

No, I'm not cold, thank you.

It's okay, still take this.

Do you think we will succeed?

We have to succeed.

Your father cannot lose the throne.

Otherwise,
the Turkic homeland will disappear.

But before that you accomplished
something more difficult, prince Batuga.

The double-headed wolf united the Dağ
and the Gök even before being a Khan.

Don't you see?

The Dağ and the Gök fought together
against Balamir Yabgu today.

Colpan Khan forgets her revenge
and helps Alpagu Khan.

Alpagu Khan forgot his hatred,
took refuge in the Dağ.

Isn't that success?

He couldn't have done it
without his claw.

You know, right?

As long as this claw lives,
the double-headed wolf

will not fight alone.

You know that too, don't you?

May that claw live forever.

Let's dig the tomb tomorrow.

And you can appear before your father.

No.

Why?

Because if we dig up the tomb
and retrieve that stamp,

the messages turn out to be fake.

Then my father will find out
that my mother is innocent.

He will face his greatest mistake.

You mean, his arm is already injured,

his soul shouldn't be hurt too.

Right now his soul is the only
thing that keeps him fighting.

If he loses that too, he will
lose the strenght to fight Balamir.

He'll drown in his own pain.

And Balamir will win the throne.

Well then, let's defeat Balamir first.

Then we dig the tomb.

That's exactly what we'll do.

Now go check.

Let's see if this one
manages to escape.

He's still cutting ropes.

They say that a Turk
has the agility of a wolf.

This one,
has buffalo blood in him.

Idiots.

He's very smart himself.

Is he gone?

He went to report to Balamir Yabgu.

Let him.

Let's pray to Gök Tengri,

that Balamir Yabgu sends
his fake claw army to take your life.

Otherwise, we will have no evidence
to present to the congress.

GÖK HORDE
Capital of The Gök Khağanate

Pars is back, now it's your turn.

Where are the beys?

Taxes of the shops in the market,

will be doubled.

We already collect
a large amount of tax.

And there is a shortage this year.

They cannot pay.

The state should not feed them,

they should feed the state.

They must, so that the state
has the power to protect them.

Do not stand against my order,
State Advisor.

Whatever I say.

This is not how to run a country.

If we mistreat the people,

they will rebel, Beys.

Koçkar Beg.

A messenger from your tribe is here,
he wants to see you.

Koçkar Beg, I need to tell you something.

Yes, Cholpan Hatun.

Everything that happened in
the hunting game was Balamir's trap.

I will prove it.

What are you talking about,
Cholpan Khan?

The truth. Now,

will you let me prove it?

Tell me, are you ready
to pursue honor and justice?

Inform Uzlu Beg too,
we're going to the Dağ camp.

Gök Tengri,
give strength to my Khan.

Do not withhold your justice from him.

Tengri, who watches over

the blue sky, the dark ground,
and the clear water.

Good morning, Ulu Ece.

Daughters-in-law.

What are you doing?

How dare you interrupt the ritual?

I have come to inform you of the changes
I will make in the palace, Ulu Ece.

What changes?

I will take my uncle Alpagu's
room for my father, the Khan,

and prince Kaya's room for myself.

If you take your
personal belongings from there--

You have seized the Khan's
palace and his throne!

Are you taking his room now?

New Khan,

new order, my Ulu Ece.

And you will migrate
to the plateau, now.

What happened to your eye?

My Kırçiçek,

let your father come,
I'll explain.

But until then,

come, let me hold your hand a little.

We are getting married.

I really can't believe it.

It's been so long,
I feel as if I'm in a dream.

It's not a dream, is it?

No, it's real.

Was it Yaman who informed
the Dağ warriors?

It was Yaman.

He confessed himself.

I knew. Where is he?

Did you imprison him?

I couldn't bring him.

Incompetent!

Alpagu Khan knows everything.

How does he know everything?

While I was trying to catch
Yaman and bring him to you,

they attacked me on the way,
then they captured me.

They took me to Alpagu Khan.

Yaman told them everything.

Alpagu Khan told me to
confess that it was

Balamir Yabgu who raised the claw's army
and tried to shed holy blood in the hunting game.

"And I will spare your life," he said.

If the convention finds out
we trapped him,

the convention announcement
will not be valid.

I can't be the khan.

They'll behead me.

Did they release you?

I ran away myself.

Did you escape
from Alpagu Khan and Akkız?

Yes, my Yabgu, because if they
don't have me, there is no evidence.

Even if they try to blame you,

they cannot prove.

In fact,

if you are not there,

there is no evidence either.

Where is Alpagu Khan?

He's not in the Dağ camp, is it?

No.

In the forest

near Toygar Khan's tomb.

The tombs.

If we go together,
I can show you.

Not necessary.

Father?

I know where it is.

No, father...

Father!

Don't be mad.

I saved you from
ruining your life with an idiot.

Now is not the time to cry.

It's time to k*ll everyone
who knows we rigged the election.

Protect the Khan!

Sırma, to the tent!

They're like the marauders
at the hunting game.

Now are these men

Balamir's men?

Balamir!

How could Balamir do this?

They'll leave a few alive.

When they talk,
you'll find out whose men they are.

Dağ girl!

Come on.

Thank you, Dağ warriors.

How many are injured?

Two people.

Bring them here.

The Begs watched everything.

All that's left, is to get his
master's name from this man's mouth?

It is, my Khan.

Who intends to shed holy blood?

We want to hear.

Let's hear, so that
the law will punish him.

You heard it.

Who sent you to k*ll me?

Speak, save your life.

Speak, devil!

Speak, or lose your life.

Open his mouth.

-No tongue.
-How?

These are all tongue-less.

I'm sorry, my Khan.

These mutes are not enough
evidence to accuse Balamir.

Gök Tengri has taken your power
from you.

We understand that you are
very upset too, but,

the customs speak,
the Khan stays silent.

The tide has to go on.

What do you mean?

What I mean is that
my vote is for Balamir Yabgu.

My vote belongs
to Balamir Yabgu too.

Balamir won.

GÖK HORDE
Capital of The Gök Khağanate

Balamir won.

Is Alpagu okay?

He's fine.

The men that Balamir hired
to k*ll Alpagu Khan, were tongue-less.

They couldn't say who hired them.

Uzlu Beg and Koçkar Beg said,
"these mutes are not enough to blame Balamir,"

"Our vote is for Balamir."

I told you, I said.

I said this trick won't work.

We are losing.

Our country is getting
out of hands.

I support you.

I'll take as many clan begs
with me as I can.

But you know my condition.

Prince Kaya and Tutkun
will get married today.

Now, think of it.

Prince Temur?

Shut up, listen to me.

Çolpan Hatun wants to make you
Kaya's second wife.

But Kaya will not run for the throne.

Mei Jin saved you on two conditions.

You will be consort to Kaya,

I will run for the throne.

What?

There is only one way
to spoil this game.

Monk Tai Sun.

Princess Mei Jin.

You look very upset.

We're losing the throne of Gök.

Your father asked me to tell you

not to worry, and that
your last move was very good.

Not good.

The woman called Tutkun rose up.

They can break their promise
to me at any time.

Isn't that why you called me
already, princess?

Stay relaxed.

My Ulu Ece.

We have a guest.

-Priest Tai Sun.
-Ulu Ece.

Welcome.

We did not know of your arrival.

I was surprised too, my Ulu Ece.

Our Emperor sends you
his greetings and respects.

He wanted me to say that he was also
sorry for the dethroning of Alpagu Khan.

[Whispering]

Thank you.

He also has a message for you.

Our Emperor says,

if prince Kaya takes the throne
after Alpagu Khan,

China will consider its agreement
with the Gök State to be broken.

What do you mean?

If prince Temur does not ascend
to the throne after Alpagu Khan,

It means peace will be broken,
prince Kaya.

Our Emperor keeps his army ready.

If prince Temur is
elected Khağan in the congress,

the Chinese army will return home.

But if either Balamir Yabgu or you,

are elected khan, prince Kaya,

that's when, I regret to say that,

a great w*r will break out.

My Ulu Ece.

Prince Temur broke Tutkun
out of the palace.

If you don't find and bring
my husband back immediately,

my father will not leave
a single Turk alive on the earth.

I will pray that won't happen.

Go!

What are you doing?

I'm thinking.

What are you thinking about?

Where we went wrong, and lost,
I'm thinking about that.

You didn't make a mistake.

How could you have known that Balamir would
create his fake claw army with mutes?

No.

There is something,
I couldn't find it somehow.

Two-headed wolf,

even if you use both the heads of
the two-headed wolf, sometimes you lose.

And don't be sad, it would be bad for
the country if Balamir became a khan, but,

there is a good side for you in it.

What is it?

If he becomes a khan, he wouldn't marry
you to that Kırçiçek scum in this life.

Can I tell you a secret?

Say.

I would have found a way anyway,

and never marry that scum Kırçiçek.

Never?

Never.

Alpagu Khan went to collect
medicinal twigs with Künata.

Do you want to go to your mother's tomb?

Come on.

I'm here, mother.

I miss you so much.

Me too.

Mother.

This is Akkız.

The half of my destiny.

Father.

Look, this is Batuga.

The double-headed wolf.

The Khan whose claw I swore to be.

Batuga!

He talks!

Your father is coming.

You brought him
to his mother's tomb, but,

he doesn't even know who lies here.

Kunata, you had a mouth organ.

Enough.

The singing is over now.

The land needs a Khan.

The Khan was defeated.

He can't be defeated.

Look at that tomb.

You kept asking,
who the third person is.

My father.

Did i k*ll him?

Did I take his life?

You die too, die!

You are the girl who gave Batuga
the wooden sword.

I'm the girl you orphaned on
the day you orphaned your son.

I'm sorry about your father, but

as you said it,

the swords sharpened by khans
would strike the men.

My sword was a Khan's sword, Akkız.

The customs decided who to strike.

Your sword is still a Khan's sword.

You can't give up!

You can't sit here
and play flutes.

No.

I have lost.

I lost.

A battle, yes.

But a w*r, no!

You cannot give up that khanate
for which you orphaned two children!

You cannot leave the state,
the homeland, and the tribes orphaned!

You must heal,
and win the Khanate back.

You took our parents from us.

You cannot let them
take our homeland from us.

You owe us this,

My Khan!

Akkız, I swear to you and Batuga,

we will not lose our homeland.

What is your command?

My command is,

As soon as possible,

make my crippled arm swing a sword.

Train me.
Train me, because,

before the whole world,

I must defeat Balamir with this hand.

Akkız.

Thank you, Akkız.

Temur kidnapped Tutkun.

Cholpan Hatun,
this is not the time.

It's the right time!

Prince Kaya.

You deceived me.

This deal ends here.

Now the Dağ and the Gök
are enemies again!

In the congress, both my vote,
and my support, are for Balamir!

Let it be known.

Mother.

Where are you going, mother?

To Dağ!

Are you practicing swordplay here?

Hatun!

Balamir is destroying the country.

He drowned the people in taxes.

He will exile us from our palace.

He even k*lled his own army chief.

Who knows who else he will k*ll?

Temur rescued Tutkun.

Çolpan Hatun went crazy.

Worst of all,
China is at the gates.

If Balamir or Kaya become khan,

they will invade the country.

Alpagu, the convention is today.

Do something.

Do something.

My drunkard army chief has
set his eyes on my daughter.

I'd rather give you to this
cr*pple prince than that drunkard!

Akkız, I found it.

Found a way.

Beys on the right,

Beys on left left!

The beys of the Gök
who greet the sun when it rises,

The beys of the land that fares
the sun well when it goes down.

Gök Tengri blesses the lineage
of my ancestor Oghuz Khan.

Gök Tengri calls out to the world
through you,

and rules the Turks through you.

But, if he takes back his power,

if the khan abdicates the throne,

or if he departs to the heaven,

a convention is gathered.

Captain, who are the candidates?

From Gök Han, son of Oğuz Han,

the one who makes the gold shine,

the copper pure, and the iron sharp,
one who rules over the tribes,

prince of the noble Alpagu Khan,

prince Kaya.

The guide of the land
where the sun sets,

provincial lord of
the Western Gök Khanate,

brother of Alpagu Khan,
Balamir Yabgu.

May the decision
of the congress be blessed.

Don't let the customs
fall to the ground.

Let it comfort the right,
scare the wrong.

May Gök Tengri bless our congress!

Let the voting begin.

Someone wants to talk to you
about Pars Alp.

Secretly.

My vote is for Balamir Bey.

Descendant of Dağ khan, son of Oghuz Khan,
through Salur, who ruled over

the copper mountain cluster, the cage of iron mountain,
and breath of the golden mountain.

daughter of Toygar Khan,
Cholpan Hatun,

Who do you vote for?

You.

My vote is...

for Balamir Yabgu.

The Chinese armies will be
at the border by morning.

You asked for it.

I heard your father k*lled your lover.

Won't you take your revenge?

What do you mean?

What will you do when
your father becomes a khan?

Do you think you will
rule in the palace?

Your father, who k*lled your lover,
will sell you in the first deal.

You'll be the bride of
either China or the Mongols.

Before you can mourn your lover,

you will be sold like goods and
go to the bosom of a man you don't know.

Is this what you want?

Speak clearly.

Admit that you're the fake claw.

Tell them at the convention that
your father raised the claw's army.

Don't be afraid, nothing will happen to you.
You will be forgiven.

Then the engagement will be broken,
and you're free to go wherever you want.

Alpagu Khan gave me the authority
to negotiate with you.

Even if you have any other requests.

I have a condition.

I will be forgiven.

But the engagement will not be broken.

I will marry Batuga.

What?

Why?

Because I want to rule in the palace.

How will you rule the palace
by marrying the disabled prince?

I know he's not disabled.

I saw you at the tomb.

When my father k*lled Pars,
I was so mad.

I was going to k*ll Alpagu Khan
and blame my father. That mad.

I can't tell you how surprised I was

when I saw Batuga holding your hand,
and paying respects.

But I was thrilled too.

He was the one who helped you
in the palace, wasn't he?

It was...

you who threatened me
for poisoning your father.

Isn't it Batuga?

So, my dear beloved,

can we get married?

Long live Balamir Khan!

Long live Balamir Khan!

Long live Balamir Khan!

Bless your reign!

Bless your reign!

You'll not marry her,
will you?

You said you wouldn't marry her.

Will you bow down to Kırçiçek?

Why don't you answer me?

Or, are you going to marry her?

If you're afraid
to tell her you're sane,

we have the poisoning incident card.

And even if she spills, I'll go dig your
grandfather's tomb before your father kills you,

and I take out the stamp.

Do you think I'm afraid
for my own life?

Didn't you hear Ulu Ece?
China is at the door, w*r will break out.

We can fight China. If necessary,
I will fight in the front.

But don't give in.

I'll k*ll her,
I'll k*ll her father too.

You said you would never marry her,
you said never.

Kırçiçek.

Yes?

My answer is...

Bless your throne!

Bless your rule!

Balamir.

While there is one Tengri in the sky,
there can't be two khans on earth.

Fight me one-on-one.

Let the winner be the khan,

and the loser lie in the grave.

The congress chose me as the khan.

I don't need to fight you.

But if you want it so much,

I'll take your life here!

You cannot k*ll me.

The council elected me khan.

If you k*ll me,
you will have k*lled the khağan!

And the customs will have you k*lled!

He is right.

You cannot k*ll the khan
elected by the council.

What if that election
convention was not valid?

By ambushing Alpagu Khan
in the hunting game,

I was the one who caused him
to abdicate the throne.

I did it by my father's orders.

He convened this convention through
deception. It is invalid!

We won, we saved the Gök.

The Gök won, we lost.