Hot Skull (2022) s01e01 Episode Script
Galanthus Byzantinus
1
A NETFLIX SERIES
[clattering]
[clattering continues]
[loud thunk]
JABBER 23, JABBER 24
MAY 1ST, MAY 28TH, JUNE 4TH
[beeping]
[beeping]
[sighs]
[exhales]
[takes a deep breath, exhales]
[watch beeps]
[man on tape]
breathing through that is also possible.
In fact, it could be mildly sour.
Yes, yes.
But we never show that.
They keep puffing their cigars.
Soaking wet.
Black-eyed peas making out during games.
Bunch of free will under the bed,
all covered in gravy.
- You should be cool about it
- [beeping]
and push them gently
with your computer finger.
Do the trees ever threaten the parachutes?
- Your mom should've told you about it.
- [eerie music builds]
Start creeping gently,
without losing your manners.
- [feedback whines]
- Rats in numbers you've never seen before
have become the rage in town,
aphorisms are worthless now.
If only I could earn some cash
from my love for the arts
- [beeping]
- I'd be free of eating from the garbage.
- But no sir, not happening.
- [shuddering]
They deprived me of my fingers,
just to keep me from counting with them.
But what I hadn't taken into account
was that I could breathe in
- all the dignity the beggars have buried.
- [pants]
Because you're afraid
of making physics your enemy,
- they act like you have no transparency.
- [beeps]
- The light permeability
- [tape stops]
[panting]
[tape player clatters]
[water splashes]
[breathing rapidly]
[man] Seven months.
Third week.
Synesthetic attacks.
JABBER 7
Negative for five weeks.
Intense dreaming
and daydreaming still occurring.
Elevated mental activity
with recurring hallucinatory episodes.
[breathes deeply]
Epileptic seizures have been
nonexistent for a while.
[sighs]
Level three.
Fifty seconds of jabbering.
104 degrees.
[sighs]
Oh, no.
[item clatters]
[pensive music playing]
[sighs]
[shudders]
[man] A semantic virus.
That's what we named it eight years ago
when the pandemic started.
[indistinct chatter]
[man] A contagious mental disorder
that spread through speech
from one ear to another.
ARDS.
Colloquially known as "jabbering."
We call it that because
people start talking nonsense.
That's the first
and most important symptom.
[distant siren wailing]
[man] After communication channels
broke down, financial depression.
Total collapse of the system.
Panic, fear, and chaos.
The world soon gave in to the pandemic.
[soldier on PA] everyone to observe
the rules and directions
without compromise,
and cooperate with the AEI
to fight back the threats
against the institution
[man] Even though
the promised cure did not come,
the Anti-Epidemic Institution continued
to enforce extraordinary measures.
When they announced that
they would divide up the cities
and create safe zones,
we realized
that we had crossed the Rubicon.
AEI
HEADPHONES FIRST!
[man] They ripped people away from
their families, friends, and loved ones
and locked them behind walls
inside quarantine zones.
Riots, shoot-outs,
and general upheaval ensued.
[siren chirping]
QUARANTINE ZONE 17
[man] Using this a pretense,
one organization seized power.
The AEI.
[crowd clamoring]
[man] Maybe the birds are still flying,
and the sea is still salty,
but nothing is the way it was anymore.
[suspenseful music building]
[man] Neither am I.
- [tense electronic music playing]
- [automatic gunfire]
[man] I am Murat Siyavuş.
Suspended between the terrors of the past
and the despair of the future.
In a world where the AEI
has enormous authority,
where there is jabbering
and those who are afraid of it,
I have no place at all.
Why?
Because I couldn't jabber
even if I wanted to.
[music builds, fades]
[distant siren wailing]
LIFE IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THIS
REMEMBER KOCAELİ!
[electric saw whirring in background]
[Murat] When I first saw her,
it was in the afternoon
on one of the first days of the year.
[soft piano music playing]
[Murat] I wonder what it was
that charmed me.
Was it how she sat at that bus stop
reading a book,
without a care in the world,
while I was trying to sneak out
using the back roads,
to my mother's place,
where I desperately had to seek refuge?
Or was it that she reminded me
that in a world
that was once so different,
I was actually someone different?
I found myself staring at her.
As if she was some kind of remedy,
or a mathematical improbability
that had suddenly become probable.
Or the feeling of waking
from a pleasant dream
to a morning where that dream
had actually come true.
There were 30, 40, 50 feet,
maybe a light-year,
maybe a couple of inches between us.
[soft, echoing sigh]
[Murat] I was almost crying.
[heartbeat pounding faintly]
[music distorts, halts]
[industrial clanging sounds in background]
[soft music resumes]
Oh, there's no service at that bus stop,
just so you know.
[Murat] A flower budding
from under the concrete,
or the love a beautiful woman
Do either of them
make you feel alive again?
Do you still have a chance?
[music fades]
[soldier on PA] Curfew is in force
after 6:00 p.m. inside safe zones.
[siren chirps]
[soldier on PA] Curfew is in force
after 6:00 p.m. inside safe zones.
[ominous ambient music playing]
SECURITY
[exhales sharply]
[music swells]
[music fades]
AEI
SAFETY ANNOUNCEMEN
[metal squeaking]
[door shuts]
[exhales sharply]
[sizzling]
[door opens]
[soldering iron hisses softly]
[door closes]
[keys jingling]
Hi, Mom.
Sudoku, huh?
Oh, well done.
A little while
since you last brought some.
Did you get soap?
Oh. No.
[item clatters]
[sighs]
Hey, Makbule wants us to drop by tomorrow.
[soldering iron hisses]
[sighs]
[soft music playing]
"Galanthus byzantinus."
What?
Galanthus byzantinus,
a snowdrop specific to Istanbul.
Did you know that?
Murat, we're out of soap.
Stop looking at that book.
Come on, I just got here
and I can't go out for a couple days.
[Murat's mom] We have no soap.
- I would, but you know the rules.
- Please look at me.
We have no soap.
[pensive music playing]
[sighs]
[feedback whines]
[fast beeping sounds in Murat's mind]
Now what are you doing?
Son
[music intensifies]
Don't touch my Sudokus!
Get away from that.
[music fades]
I KNOW THERE'S NO BUS SERVICE.
THAT'S WHY I WAIT HERE.
[soft ambient music playing]
THE GIRL WHO WAITS FOR A BUS
THAT WILL NEVER COME
[chuckles]
[inhales]
MINIMUM COMMUNICATION
MAXIMUM SECURITY
DON'T SPEAK!
NO ENTRY WITHOUT HEADPHONES
ARDS SECURITY SYSTEM
[cash register beeping]
[boy] I want to go home.
[indistinct chatter]
[woman] Stop playing with those.
Okay. I've got it. Okay.
[boy] I wanna go home!
[woman] Open that, baby.
Okay, we're going.
[ominous music playing]
Sweetheart, what's with you today?
Put this on.
- [boy] I wanna go.
- [woman] Stop!
[beeping]
[woman and boy continue arguing]
[woman] Sweetheart, what do you want?
Son, stop it.
Listen, settle down, all of you!
Uh, sir, are you by chance an engineer?
Excuse me?
I hope you don't sacrifice the instinct
for friction to your massive matter.
[eerie discordant music playing]
[feedback builds, subsides]
[rapid ticking sound]
Infected!
[alarm blaring]
[people clamoring]
[woman] Where's your brother?
Wait! My son's in there!
My son's in there!
- [pounding on barrier]
- [woman] Hey! Hey!
Over here!
Please! Open the door!
Son! Son! Come on!
Rolling out of the straw,
sideways beyond the victimized slide.
If the transition stuff
is made to yell runny,
my crusts will dry out outstandingly.
Near third it have at down?
Open this door now!
Come on! It won't open!
[infected woman] If it's trout
for blue bronze, I love my noggin.
Marvelous is the answering desk
of greater grass.
The southwestern wind
of the train filters the basket.
Every day much of mine
is crispy when you dip into it
Come on! Open up, please!
The opening whistling
is the balance tingle.
How it whistles to the rain.
Let's get you out.
[woman] Help him! Please! Help him!
[infected woman] All slide to the side.
When the balance shifts sideways,
diagonal lines occur.
- Quietly, put two onions on it.
- [Murat straining]
If they ask you why the morass
was played when you passed by
[Murat] Pull! Let's go!
[infected woman]
a superior wrestling submarine.
- Suicidal scallions
- Sweetheart! [panting]
membranes when you're approximate
to the membrane.
[voice echoes] But perfection,
locates toward the egg.
And when you look at the egg,
you see only the egg.
[breathing shakily]
You'll see the tip of the pea.
When the tip of the pea whispers,
you should not listen to it,
what you listen to
is the look of the bread.
LIQUID SOAP
[infected woman]
When it collides with the olive oil,
- they shrivel up reciprocally.
- [Murat panting]
When they shrivel up
the two in their souls,
their creativity rises
from the ground to meet you.
[infected woman continues jabbering]
[sniffs, pants]
- [grunting]
- [alarm continues blaring]
[Murat] Fuck.
[panting]
[alarm continues faintly]
[panting]
Fuck.
Fuck.
[panting]
[siren wailing in background]
[sirens approaching in background]
[siren sounds distort]
[multiple sirens wailing]
[groans]
Oh shit!
Idiot!
Idiot!
[grunting]
[breathing rapidly]
NO ENTRY WITHOUT HEADPHONES
AEI TIP LINE
Hey, listen.
- That pine tree thing is exhausting, man.
- Not in the mood.
Hey, I'm trying to tell
you something, you hear me?
Why are you acting like
I'm one of those jabberers?
I'm opening my ears for you!
AEI
[siren chirping]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[ominous music playing]
ARDS PATIENT TRANSPOR
[banging on glass]
- Why are we here?
- Well, sir, you're cheerful today.
Serhat.
Okan from the tip line reported this.
He thought it would interest us.
Excuse me.
If I were you, I'd get out of there.
That place is bad for you.
What is it?
Well, some guy was exposed
to jabbering without headphones,
but left like nothing happened.
[man] I've never seen anything like it.
The guy didn't jabber at all.
He should've been infected
when he was near the barrier.
He stared right at me like he was
asking me to stop and not report him.
[official] All right.
Get this guy's contact information.
The man saved the life a kid, apparently.
[official] investigation.
Don't leave the crime scene unless
- Cameras?
- I have all the footage from inside.
Surrounding streets.
I wanna see the market from the outside.
- Yes, sir.
- Project X.
- Have you asked for the resident list?
- We're combing through the crew list, sir.
We're looking through it all.
- [music halts]
- [door opens]
[door shuts]
[feedback whining]
[Murat breathing shakily]
- [panting]
- [tense music playing]
[breathing rapidly]
[exhales sharply]
What's up, Hot Skull? Feeling better?
[apparition laughs]
Didn't you say that
Wernicke's aphasia was worse?
Huh?
[cackling]
What was it? Synesthesia,
hallucinations, and epileptic seizures?
I know.
You're feeling beat down.
Come on, just give up
and turn yourself in to the AEI.
Enough.
Oh, poor Murat. Aww.
Someone's letting himself slip up.
I'm surprised, Murat.
You got caught putting
headphones on that kid.
- Screw you!
- [music halts]
[Murat's mom] Murat?
Those meds that Ertem that gave you,
you remember where they are?
Okay.
[eerie music resumes]
[cat screeching]
[twangy guitar music playing]
[hinge squeaking]
- [lock clicks]
- [door opens]
WHAT IS PROJECT X?
WHAT IS A.R.D.S?
[door shuts]
ARTICLES ON ARDS PATIENTS
BETWEEN THE AGES OF 7-10
AEI
[exhales]
[beeping]
Tango, Alpha, seven, Juliet, Gold.
This is Alpha, Tango, nine,
Whiskey, Oscar.
Do you copy, Commander?
[Commander] Alpha, Tango, nine,
Whiskey, Oscar.
This is Tango, Alpha, seven, Juliet, Gold.
Commander here. Go ahead.
Listen to me,
I left the recipe with Şenel earlier.
You got it, right?
Thanks, Commander.
PROJECT X
Project X. Shall we go on?
[Commander] Hmm.
I must admit,
that team is really intriguing.
Find anything new?
Well, I've been
reading through their articles.
The ones who discovered
the jabbering levels,
who developed
the global system currently in use,
and who were able to prove that
the immunity in kids was a hoax
It's all them.
That crew is like a research factory.
IMMUNITY
It all stops after the fire.
Either they started jabbering,
or they died in the fire.
The only one whose whereabouts
is unknown is that linguist.
Murat Siyavuş.
Yeah.
The guy is like a Swiss Army knife.
Physiology, neurology, linguistics,
the whole nine yards.
I'm looking into it, but I don't think
it will amount to anything.
But I'll check out the hospitals tonight.
And I'll check out
the rehab center records
once I get my hands on them.
We'll check this off our list, Anton.
REHAB CENTER RECORDS
They're all ghosts.
They can't help the living.
[radio clicks]
Copy that, Commander Cevat.
[Cevat] Good luck, Anton.
Copy that. Commander out.
It's been eight years.
Unfathomable. It's been eight years.
SECURE BROADCAST - AEI TV
And for all those years,
our scientists have been working
non-stop on this issue.
But they're no closer to finding a cure.
Let's be honest.
[woman on TV]
How do you respond, Mükerrem? Are they
[Murat's mom]
We'll go to Makbule's tomorrow.
[news program continues]
Mom, I'm not going out tomorrow.
It'd be better if I stopped
going out for a while.
What's wrong with going out, huh?
What's wrong?
Someone follow you? Is that it? Huh?
Or stare at you suspiciously? What is it?
Just forget it.
[man on TV]
Where are those headphones now?
- That's the real question.
- [Murat's mom scoffs]
- [woman on TV] Kamil, I need to ask
- [TV cuts out]
Murat.
The world around us
is full of diseased people.
Some get better, some get worse.
Yep, and I also know
you had to go through tough times,
and it was painful for you,
but enough already.
Enough. Please.
Please, you have to let it go.
Snap out of it. And live your life!
I'm fine the way I am.
You expect me to believe that?
You're living like an onion.
Just sitting here and breathing. [gasps]
[Murat's mom sighs]
Come on. Light that.
[sighs]
[siren wailing]
[lighter clicks]
Murat, I made a promise to her.
That woman is miserable.
Just hear her out and see what she needs.
I'll mull it over.
ANTI-EPIDEMIC INSTITUTION
[intense ambient music playing]
[siren chirps]
ANTI-EPIDEMIC INSTITUTION
[metal detector beeps]
[metal detector beeps]
[card reader beeping]
[buzzer sounds]
ARDS PATIENTS ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS!
[beeping]
Anton Tarakçı.
Chief of operational units
for the AEI. Copy?
[female voice]
Please keep talking to confirm.
Anton Kadir Tarakçı.
Chief of operational units
at the AEI. Copy?
[buzzer sounds]
[door lock hisses]
Was that good enough for you yet?
[female voice]
Please keep talking to confirm.
Motherfucker, if you don't open this door,
I'll come upstairs
and stuff that keyboard down your throat.
[beeping]
Fucker.
[metal detector beeping]
[Anton] You leave the records on my desk?
Fazıl Eryılmaz has decided
to honor us with his presence.
That's why security is tight.
They say he'll run
Marmara operations from here.
Naturally, Canan is here
with Fazıl as well.
What about the resident list?
Find anything new?
Having all the safe zones
checked like you want,
but so far, I've got nothing.
Sure about this?
Because, once again, we've gone rogue.
Camera footage ready?
Yes, it is, Chief.
[mouse clicking]
[mouse clicking]
[music intensifies]
The hell is he doing?
[chuckling] Sir, it looks like
the guy's head's on fire.
[Anton scoffs]
He put his headphones on the kid.
Check those headphones out,
see if anything comes up.
Yes, sir.
[birdsong recording plays]
Oh! You're here!
Oh, he's here! He's here!
Oh, my dear!
Come in!
Oh, hello, son!
I've been waiting for you for so long.
Come.
All right, all right, Makbule.
Come in, Murat. Come in! Oh!
- He's here!
- Come on, Makbule, come on.
[tense music playing]
[Makbule] You know how long
Behzat was quiet for.
I remember you helped Özgür,
bless his soul, for a while.
- [whispers] Jacket off.
- What?
[Makbule] Mercy on his soul.
Then you had your own troubles
to deal with, of course.
Until recently,
I would take him for a stroll.
The fresh air is good, isn't it? Anyways
This is big.
With the start of
the Ottoman Turkish thing,
we've been unable to go out.
- [sniffles]
- [Makbule] The neighbors are disgruntled.
I'm scared to death
that someone will report us.
He's worrying me, Murat.
- [yells] Dominioooon!
- [rumbling]
- [glasses rattling]
- [yelling continues]
[rumbling subsides]
[dogs barking outside]
[pensive music playing]
[sighs]
[barking continues]
Oh, son, we need your help.
- Aunt Makbule, Özgür is dead.
- [door opens]
[Makbule gasps]
- Did your hear it?
- Seriously, Grandma?
A person out there could be
sitting in the damn park and hear him.
[gasps]
How are you, Dad?
[Makbule sobbing]
The last exclamation was great too,
but this was on another level.
- Forgive me, I'd like to
- It's fine. [clears throat]
[Makbule] Last night, the whole place
reverberated because of him.
Our neighbors,
they were standing outside our door!
And we can't even take him to a doctor!
Grandma, please don't cry. Please.
[Makbule] For years, not a word,
not a single word, but now
[sobbing]
So, um, he's like this
all the time? I mean
Nothing related
to the ongoing conversation?
I don't know the meaning
of the words he says.
Well, to be honest,
I wouldn't want to limit the word
to anything specific,
but "dominion" is, roughly, "colony."
[Makbule's grandson]
Are you gonna help us or not? Look.
My grandma told me
that you have a special condition.
Something to do with Özgür.
A cure or something.
Murat, Özgür's the only one
who could help him.
Are you serious? You haven't told him?
Özgür's dead.
[tsks] But how do you know that, man?
How do I know what, Arif?
Were you at his funeral?
Did you see his body?
If he were alive, he'd come to me.
End of story.
Please, listen.
I know he's alive. Believe me.
I need you to trust me. I'll prove it.
- How the hell do you know that, Arif?
- How else, Murat?
Those Plus 1 people, of course.
I'll tell you, all of this
is coming from that little bitch.
Listen, if you go there again
I'll break your legs! I swear! You won't!
Grandma, I've been I've been
looking into this and I won't let it go.
I'm meeting this guy Erol tomorrow.
- He's a jack-of-all-trades.
- Oh!
[Arif] He could get into
AEI's intelligence data.
Maybe erase it for the right price.
I'm gonna learn
what happened to Özgür eventually.
[Makbule sobbing] Arif?
Don't go, don't go!
- Arif, don't go! Please, don't go, my boy!
- [door opens]
[door shuts]
[Makbule sobbing]
[Murat's mom]
It's okay, Makbule, it's okay.
[sobbing]
Come on, Makbule. That's enough.
Oh, dear God! Oh God
Makbule, enough!
[sobbing quietly]
[Makbule sobs]
[Arif] Hey, Murat!
Um look at his arm there.
[Arif] Check out this funnel. Look.
Identical.
Where did this come from?
Her friend pulled it off of a jabberer.
[Murat] The only person
who can turn me back to the way I was.
The one who gave me this skull. Özgür.
Is it possible that he's alive?
[Murat] Thank you, Mom, really.
Better hurry or we'll miss the curfew.
Get your headphones on. It's not safe.
[man] Murat!
Murat, hey!
[chuckles] Everything's fine, sir.
No worries.
I was waiting for you because, obviously,
you'd come in through
the coal cellar at this hour.
Sezgin, what is it?
Uh um some guys were here earlier.
I bet they were with the AEI, Murat.
'Cause they were asking
for the resident list.
What does he want?
- AEI
- Shh.
- It's nothing. Don't worry. It's nothing.
- Huh?
I need to talk to him.
Just go inside. I'll be right behind you.
Go on.
Go.
[exhales]
Yeah?
Well, Murat, it's this pine thingy.
I wanted to talk about it
with you yesterday.
I can't keep doing this anymore.
- What do you mean, you can't?
- I mean take your pine, and I'm out.
I've been getting shivers
down my spine since yesterday.
And now this list thing comes up.
It's like traffic lights. Red then green.
And what if they ask me about it?
I don't have an answer for it.
And besides, I don't see any whiskeys
coming like they used to.
No whiskey for you.
Where's the red one?
- At the front gate.
- At the front gate? Go get it.
You want me to get it?
I'm waiting, Sezgin.
All right.
[ominous music playing]
[sighs]
[music fades]
[bottles clinking]
Hey, what was that all about?
Anything to do with you?
I don't know, Mom.
It's not likely, I mean.
Officially, you don't really live here.
We've seen to that.
Although, you can't be too careful.
[sighs]
So I hid an escape plan
under the dead plant.
[scoffs]
Under the dead plant.
Well, no one
will look under that sad thing.
[somber music playing]
Do you Do you still have hope?
In what?
In me.
Are you serious, son?
I don't know what you're looking for,
but it's frustrating.
You know I want to get rid of this skull.
I can't take it anymore.
Then get off your ass
and do something about it.
[bangs table]
[music fades]
[dog barking in background]
[soft ambient music playing]
JUNE 5TH - GALATA
[Murat on tape] I keep recalling
what Özgür told me tonight.
[feedback whines]
We may never be able
to find a cure for this disease.
Still, it's worth continuing that search
just to keep people's hope alive,
or something like that.
[songbird sings]
[chuckles]
Is this really how that jerk
is trying to keep us inspired,
or is he really just a hopeless romantic?
[woman] Oh, come on,
he just said that to impress Elif.
Or could be he's gone
overboard with it recently.
That's possible.
- I was recording that.
- Oh. You should've said so.
I'm really sorry.
I'm really sorry!
[recorder clicks]
Just start recording now.
- Huh?
- Start recording.
[recorder clicks]
Give it here. [clears throat]
But tell me, who are we, Murat Siyavuş?
[chuckles]
You, me, Özgür, Elif.
Look, we do our job.
But we don't work
so we can let future take its course.
We do your job in order
to shape the future for the better.
[laughs softly]
We expose ourselves to risk
to help the exposed.
Well, if that isn't hope,
then I don't know what is. Huh?
- Wow, I like that.
- [recorder clicks]
- Hm?
- Mm.
I wonder if for my next recording,
I should say that was my idea.
[woman] Hmm.
- How should we do it?
- How should we do it?
- Hm? Mm.
- [Murat] I could pay a royalty. Mm?
[tape player clicks]
[player rewinds, clicks]
[woman] We expose ourselves to risk
to help the exposed.
[takes a deep breath, exhales]
[footsteps approaching]
You okay?
Going out?
I think I'm gonna go out
and give life a chance.
Gotta do something, Mom.
[pensive ambient music playing]
[keys jingling]
I'D LOVE TO GET TO KNOW YOU.
I'LL BE AT THE BUS STOP AT 2 P.M.
[Murat] Did you know that a snowdrop
has broken through the sidewalk
across from the bus stop?
Exposing itself to life.
Isn't that what the snowdrop
is trying to encourage us to do?
TO THE GIRL WHO WAITS FOR A BUS
THAT'LL NEVER COME
- [radio chirps]
- [Cevat] Alpha, Tango, 9, Whiskey, Oscar.
This is Tango, Alpha, seven, Juliet, Gold.
Have I just missed you,
or are you still there?
- [tense music playing]
- [door shuts]
[Cevat] Anton?
I'm here, Commander. Anton listening.
I checked the hospital records.
That Murat Siyavuş guy
was admitted to the emergency room
numerous times after the fire.
The last time
was on April 4th that same year.
Then he vanished into thin air,
but you already know that.
So, you can cross him off.
[sighs]
Thanks, Commander.
Why was he there?
[Cevat] High fever.
High fever just in
the cephalic area of the brain.
[pen scratching]
They released him
after giving him an antipyretic.
HIGH FEVER
Six, eight, ten, twelve,
fourteen times to be exact.
Fourteen times?
How was it not affiliated with the body?
It was only in his head.
[music intensifies]
[Cevat] Anton
[door opens, shuts]
Anton?
IMMUNITY - REHAB RECORDS
HIGH FEVER - 14 TIMES
It's like your father
is holding his breath underwater
and every time he yells,
he's coming up for air.
My guess is that
the disease is fighting back
and still trying to infect you.
Now, who's Erol?
I'd like to meet this guy.
Sir. I have the room ready.
Murat Siyavuş.
After the fire, the guy repeatedly
went to the emergency room
with a high fever in the cephalic region.
The cephalic region?
Repeatedly.
Do you really think that's possible?
Do these cameras have
thermal imaging capabilities?
Yeah, they do, sir.
They were used to measure fever
before the epidemic.
Show me.
[mouse clicking]
[keyboard clacks]
[typing on keyboard]
[computer beeping]
[music intensifies]
What the heck?
I want this guy's identity
and his address.
Use the other cameras
to find out where he went.
- [typing on keyboard]
- Got anything from the headphones?
Nothing, sir. I gave it to Metin
to see if he could find anything.
[music fades]
Mr. Murat, after this scourge appeared,
we've striven in these dystopic times
to procure services for our people.
For years, we've been offering
all kinds of services for our people.
Information, lost and found,
interregional transportation,
mobile phones, electronics,
analog devices, home appliances,
sanitary plumbing,
maintenance and repairs,
even carpet cleaning, among other things.
Here is my card.
Now, what I've told you so far
is routine business,
but we also have
some pretty things, my friend.
Not gonna tell you
all of them, but I can say
that we have
almost anything you could want.
Anything.
The sky's the limit. Huh?
We're very connected.
Our network is wide.
Money will solve
all your problems, my good sir.
- Hold on.
- [Velcro tears]
Allow me to present our à la carte menu.
SERVICE PRICE LIS
Arif told me that search logs could
Those can be erased. Nothing to it.
- They could?
- Right away.
- Right away?
- Sure, sure, sure, no trouble.
Okay. That would be amazing.
Okay, and if you want us to,
we can get rid of the body for you.
No worries.
[chuckles]
Um, we want to know
if a certain person's still alive.
No problem. I can check that out.
Uh what's it cost?
Ah!
Yes, well.
Finding someone,
information, four, we get that,
give some to our guys, eight.
Once you get Kamil involved, it's 42.87.
The other one's a fixed price.
Plus the erasing.
Çetin Nazlı will ask
for something around 2,000
[muttering] Carry the one
That's like 187
A total of 7,360. Yep.
In total.
I can take care of this for you
for seven and a half. That simple.
And we'll come up clean
on the other side. Okay?
But we don't have that kind of money.
Ah
[pensive music playing]
Gentlemen, seriously,
if you are unable to afford this
Huh?
You sure?
Ah. Well, let me present you with
a sneak peek of our self-service menu.
The aim is to minimize the risk
to a probable minimum
SELF-SERVICE AVAILABLE
and offer you a good bargain.
However, I should tell you,
if things go south,
neither I nor my crew would admit
to knowing you. Remember that.
This is nothing.
A system password for 400.
And 250 for an ID number
with an institutional code,
and that makes 650 for you.
How would we even begin?
You just log on
and check it out by yourself,
delete and edit by yourself. Boom.
But there might be just a tiny hitch.
The guy who'll open the door
for you at the AEI,
he leaves work in 45 minutes.
And next time a member of my crew
is assigned in that building, well,
I've got no clue. Know what I mean?
Man, you know the situation we're in,
and I don't have time.
I can't afford to wait.
Then you better take care of it now.
Easy-peasy.
Who's going in?
Oh, those are nice headphones.
So where'd you get these beauties?
I had a pair like these.
Earned a pretty penny from them.
Metin, shut up and get to the point.
Well, these are custom-made ones.
The AEI used to have them
manufactured for research crews.
But that isn't common knowledge.
Those tech guys,
they don't know anything about it.
There should a serial number
under the headband.
[Metin] Ah-ha.
[tense music playing]
Write this down, sir. Take this.
[Anton] Tell me.
Eighteen, dash
oh, sixteen, dash, twenty-eight
INVENTORY SEARCH
[Metin] Dash, T-13.
[typing on keyboard]
Each pair is registered to an employee.
[clicks mouse]
PERSONNEL FILES / MURAT SİYAVUŞ
[music intensifies]
STATUS: UNKNOWN
[music fades]
All right, now
All the information's here.
All you have to do
is go into the fifth booth.
And please, don't confuse the booths
'cause my guy only works that one.
Look at the camera and say,
"Blackbirds sitting in a tree."
- Remember that, okay?
- "Blackbirds sitting in a tree."
Exactly. You ready? Come on. [claps]
Move. We only have 20 minutes left. Go!
[tense music playing]
[computer beeping]
The jabbering is creating a reaction.
His head heats up
because of the goddamn jabbering.
Can you see it, Serhat?
Olcay, leave us.
Right away, sir.
I don't believe it. This Murat
He's immune.
[metal detector beeping]
[Erol] You'll be tested for jabbering
at the entrance.
You are Hakan Kirmen,
a former AEI employee with full access.
Once you get in,
find the archive room, go in there.
That's the door next to the server room.
When you open the interface,
you need to enter the ID number,
password, and boom, you're in.
[buzzer sounding]
The fifth anniversary
of the Kocaeli incident.
All of you know that
we won't allow any memorial service
or any marches this year.
We'll be opening
a state-of-the-art laboratory.
This laboratory will take us that much
closer to a cure for the disease.
The most important facility
in Europe for the AEI.
A science base.
We don't want anything
to potentially ruin the opening.
Understood?
[female voice] Please begin speaking.
Blackbirds sitting in a tree.
Blackbirds sitting in a tree.
Please keep talking
[buzzer sounds]
Uh Hakan Kirmen.
Hakan Kirmen.
Officer at the AEI. Officer.
[buzzer sounds]
Keep talking to confirm.
[buzzer sounds]
[Murat] Uh, a technical glitch, I suppose.
[whispers] Blackbirds sitting in a tree!
[buzzer sounds]
Now, Plus 1 and other organizations
won't be allowed to protest
or disrupt the opening.
I urge all units in Operations
to take great care
during the grand opening.
That is our sole priority, people.
Good luck.
Fazıl, sir. I'm Anton Tarakçı.
Anton, my former colleague,
is a first class chief in Operations.
Project X, sir.
I assume you know about this.
[ominous music playing]
Özgür Çağlar's team. Murat Siyavuş.
He could be immune to the disease.
All employees of Project X
They either perished in the fire
in the old laboratory, or
Nobody knows what happened to Siyavuş.
I will tell you.
They died or started jabbering.
Yesterday at a super
[Fazıl sighs]
[intense music playing]
Sir. At a supermarket yesterday,
someone took off his headphones
and put them on a child
just to protect the boy from jabbering.
So for a long duration,
he was exposed to jabbering.
Except he didn't jabber.
Those headphones
were manufactured by the AEI.
Murat Siyavuş. That's his full name.
You know, there are people
who plug their ears
with soaked bread, right?
Maybe that guy was one of those,
or the jabberer wasn't a real jabberer.
Those are all possibilities.
But your story is not one of them.
You're not one of those people, are you?
'Cause it seems like you didn't
hear a word of what I just said.
Sir, please. I'm aware that
Headphones cannot be evidence.
Those headphones could be anybody's.
What's worrying is just how
a man of your position
could start a rumor of a sensitive subject
that could foster unrest.
Especially with the briefing
on the opening.
How could you behave so irresponsibly?
And waste the time
and resources of this institution.
Someone's immune. If they were
Choose your next words
extremely carefully.
No one's supposed to deal with things
out of their jurisdiction. Dismissed.
- Fazıl, please
- Dismissed.
Sir, excuse me.
We used the footage
to locate the building complex
of the guy from the supermarket.
He's been living with his mother
under a false name at this address.
Get the guys ready.
Sir, but didn't you hear
what Fazıl just said?
- We can't bring this guy in.
- I want a small and reliable team.
We'll take two vehicles for the raid.
[huffs]
[intense music builds]
Dude, what the hell are you doing?
You're gonna get us both caught.
This is Administration.
I let you in. It was me!
Ah, well, the building's changed a lot.
Look, the archives are downstairs.
Get in and out!
All right.
[gasps]
[computer beeping]
[clicking mouse]
AEI
[sighs]
PERSONNEL FILES
ÖZGÜR ÇAĞLAR
[exhales sharply]
STATUS: DECEASED
[ominous music playing]
[inhales sharply]
AUTOPSY REPOR
EXTERNAL EXAMINATION
INTERNAL EXAMINATION
[clicks mouse]
[sighs]
[soft gasp]
[exhales]
[Murat sighs]
VIDEOS
RECORDING 1
[music intensifies]
[keyboard clatters]
[whispers] Oh God
No. No. No.
[Murat breathing rapidly]
Jesus
Delete and quit.
[panting] Delete and quit. Come on.
ENTER PASSWORD
Delete and quit!
ACCESS DENIED
Oh shit.
Oh shit.
ENTER PASSWORD
[gasping]
[breathing rapidly]
- [typing on keyboard]
- [computer beeps]
[whispers] Shit!
Fuck!
Fuck! [panting]
Oh fuck!
[computer beeps]
[sirens wailing]
[dramatic music playing]
[sirens chirping and wailing]
[brakes squeal]
[Arif] Bro, bro.
Hey, what's going on?
Did you find out about Özgür?
Did you delete it?
He could be alive.
Would you believe me now? Come on, man.
[panting]
Hey, man.
[siren wailing in background]
Hey
Hey, man
What the hell?
Did you wipe the information?!
[knocking loudly]
Anti-Epidemic Institution.
Murat Siyavuş. Is he here?
He's not here.
Sure. Just let yourself in.
Sir, I'm also loyal
to the institution, like you.
I told him many times. He wouldn't listen.
By the way, there's better places
to wait for him to come back.
The old coal house for example.
He'd use that entrance coming back.
[Murat's mom]
What do you think you're doing?
I know about your son's condition.
When did his head start to heat up?
Well [scoffs]
He got a fever when he was
five months old, I think.
You know, it's possible
that he's the only person
with an immunity against ARDS
on the face of planet.
You think that's something to joke about?
Sir, I'm sure he'll answer
any questions that you ask him.
Um, I left tea on the stove.
Just a second.
[man on radio] South part's all clear.
All searching the perimeter.
[Serhat] Sir.
Security said that he'd use
the old coal house entrance at this hour.
Clear the front gate.
I don't want him to get spooked.
I'll send a unit
to the coal house entrance.
- We can get him there, sir.
- You're not to harm him.
I want a clean job.
I'll say it again. Do not harm him.
[soft ambient music playing]
[ominous music playing]
[music intensifies]
[water pouring]
[kettle lid rattles]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[exhales]
Do you want one?
Oh.
[Murat] I'm walking against the wind
just to feel that I exist.
But why not disappear?
Why shouldn't I just let myself go?
Why not give in to the thing
that wants to destroy me?
[man on radio] Subject has entered
premises from the left.
I repeat, he has entered from the left.
[Anton] Let him through. Leave him be.
[tense music building]
[music intensifies]
[Murat] So, this is it.
[man on radio] Subject is not moving.
[dramatic stinger plays]
[man on radio] Subject has moved.
[emotional ambient music playing]
Get caught and you'll forever be parted.
[wind blowing]
[whispers] Get caught
and you'll forever be parted.
[Murat grunts]
[handle squeaking]
[whispers] Shit!
[panting] Shit!
[pulsing electronic music playing]
[music halts]
[tense music playing]
Subtitle translation by: Doğa Uludağ
A NETFLIX SERIES
[clattering]
[clattering continues]
[loud thunk]
JABBER 23, JABBER 24
MAY 1ST, MAY 28TH, JUNE 4TH
[beeping]
[beeping]
[sighs]
[exhales]
[takes a deep breath, exhales]
[watch beeps]
[man on tape]
breathing through that is also possible.
In fact, it could be mildly sour.
Yes, yes.
But we never show that.
They keep puffing their cigars.
Soaking wet.
Black-eyed peas making out during games.
Bunch of free will under the bed,
all covered in gravy.
- You should be cool about it
- [beeping]
and push them gently
with your computer finger.
Do the trees ever threaten the parachutes?
- Your mom should've told you about it.
- [eerie music builds]
Start creeping gently,
without losing your manners.
- [feedback whines]
- Rats in numbers you've never seen before
have become the rage in town,
aphorisms are worthless now.
If only I could earn some cash
from my love for the arts
- [beeping]
- I'd be free of eating from the garbage.
- But no sir, not happening.
- [shuddering]
They deprived me of my fingers,
just to keep me from counting with them.
But what I hadn't taken into account
was that I could breathe in
- all the dignity the beggars have buried.
- [pants]
Because you're afraid
of making physics your enemy,
- they act like you have no transparency.
- [beeps]
- The light permeability
- [tape stops]
[panting]
[tape player clatters]
[water splashes]
[breathing rapidly]
[man] Seven months.
Third week.
Synesthetic attacks.
JABBER 7
Negative for five weeks.
Intense dreaming
and daydreaming still occurring.
Elevated mental activity
with recurring hallucinatory episodes.
[breathes deeply]
Epileptic seizures have been
nonexistent for a while.
[sighs]
Level three.
Fifty seconds of jabbering.
104 degrees.
[sighs]
Oh, no.
[item clatters]
[pensive music playing]
[sighs]
[shudders]
[man] A semantic virus.
That's what we named it eight years ago
when the pandemic started.
[indistinct chatter]
[man] A contagious mental disorder
that spread through speech
from one ear to another.
ARDS.
Colloquially known as "jabbering."
We call it that because
people start talking nonsense.
That's the first
and most important symptom.
[distant siren wailing]
[man] After communication channels
broke down, financial depression.
Total collapse of the system.
Panic, fear, and chaos.
The world soon gave in to the pandemic.
[soldier on PA] everyone to observe
the rules and directions
without compromise,
and cooperate with the AEI
to fight back the threats
against the institution
[man] Even though
the promised cure did not come,
the Anti-Epidemic Institution continued
to enforce extraordinary measures.
When they announced that
they would divide up the cities
and create safe zones,
we realized
that we had crossed the Rubicon.
AEI
HEADPHONES FIRST!
[man] They ripped people away from
their families, friends, and loved ones
and locked them behind walls
inside quarantine zones.
Riots, shoot-outs,
and general upheaval ensued.
[siren chirping]
QUARANTINE ZONE 17
[man] Using this a pretense,
one organization seized power.
The AEI.
[crowd clamoring]
[man] Maybe the birds are still flying,
and the sea is still salty,
but nothing is the way it was anymore.
[suspenseful music building]
[man] Neither am I.
- [tense electronic music playing]
- [automatic gunfire]
[man] I am Murat Siyavuş.
Suspended between the terrors of the past
and the despair of the future.
In a world where the AEI
has enormous authority,
where there is jabbering
and those who are afraid of it,
I have no place at all.
Why?
Because I couldn't jabber
even if I wanted to.
[music builds, fades]
[distant siren wailing]
LIFE IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THIS
REMEMBER KOCAELİ!
[electric saw whirring in background]
[Murat] When I first saw her,
it was in the afternoon
on one of the first days of the year.
[soft piano music playing]
[Murat] I wonder what it was
that charmed me.
Was it how she sat at that bus stop
reading a book,
without a care in the world,
while I was trying to sneak out
using the back roads,
to my mother's place,
where I desperately had to seek refuge?
Or was it that she reminded me
that in a world
that was once so different,
I was actually someone different?
I found myself staring at her.
As if she was some kind of remedy,
or a mathematical improbability
that had suddenly become probable.
Or the feeling of waking
from a pleasant dream
to a morning where that dream
had actually come true.
There were 30, 40, 50 feet,
maybe a light-year,
maybe a couple of inches between us.
[soft, echoing sigh]
[Murat] I was almost crying.
[heartbeat pounding faintly]
[music distorts, halts]
[industrial clanging sounds in background]
[soft music resumes]
Oh, there's no service at that bus stop,
just so you know.
[Murat] A flower budding
from under the concrete,
or the love a beautiful woman
Do either of them
make you feel alive again?
Do you still have a chance?
[music fades]
[soldier on PA] Curfew is in force
after 6:00 p.m. inside safe zones.
[siren chirps]
[soldier on PA] Curfew is in force
after 6:00 p.m. inside safe zones.
[ominous ambient music playing]
SECURITY
[exhales sharply]
[music swells]
[music fades]
AEI
SAFETY ANNOUNCEMEN
[metal squeaking]
[door shuts]
[exhales sharply]
[sizzling]
[door opens]
[soldering iron hisses softly]
[door closes]
[keys jingling]
Hi, Mom.
Sudoku, huh?
Oh, well done.
A little while
since you last brought some.
Did you get soap?
Oh. No.
[item clatters]
[sighs]
Hey, Makbule wants us to drop by tomorrow.
[soldering iron hisses]
[sighs]
[soft music playing]
"Galanthus byzantinus."
What?
Galanthus byzantinus,
a snowdrop specific to Istanbul.
Did you know that?
Murat, we're out of soap.
Stop looking at that book.
Come on, I just got here
and I can't go out for a couple days.
[Murat's mom] We have no soap.
- I would, but you know the rules.
- Please look at me.
We have no soap.
[pensive music playing]
[sighs]
[feedback whines]
[fast beeping sounds in Murat's mind]
Now what are you doing?
Son
[music intensifies]
Don't touch my Sudokus!
Get away from that.
[music fades]
I KNOW THERE'S NO BUS SERVICE.
THAT'S WHY I WAIT HERE.
[soft ambient music playing]
THE GIRL WHO WAITS FOR A BUS
THAT WILL NEVER COME
[chuckles]
[inhales]
MINIMUM COMMUNICATION
MAXIMUM SECURITY
DON'T SPEAK!
NO ENTRY WITHOUT HEADPHONES
ARDS SECURITY SYSTEM
[cash register beeping]
[boy] I want to go home.
[indistinct chatter]
[woman] Stop playing with those.
Okay. I've got it. Okay.
[boy] I wanna go home!
[woman] Open that, baby.
Okay, we're going.
[ominous music playing]
Sweetheart, what's with you today?
Put this on.
- [boy] I wanna go.
- [woman] Stop!
[beeping]
[woman and boy continue arguing]
[woman] Sweetheart, what do you want?
Son, stop it.
Listen, settle down, all of you!
Uh, sir, are you by chance an engineer?
Excuse me?
I hope you don't sacrifice the instinct
for friction to your massive matter.
[eerie discordant music playing]
[feedback builds, subsides]
[rapid ticking sound]
Infected!
[alarm blaring]
[people clamoring]
[woman] Where's your brother?
Wait! My son's in there!
My son's in there!
- [pounding on barrier]
- [woman] Hey! Hey!
Over here!
Please! Open the door!
Son! Son! Come on!
Rolling out of the straw,
sideways beyond the victimized slide.
If the transition stuff
is made to yell runny,
my crusts will dry out outstandingly.
Near third it have at down?
Open this door now!
Come on! It won't open!
[infected woman] If it's trout
for blue bronze, I love my noggin.
Marvelous is the answering desk
of greater grass.
The southwestern wind
of the train filters the basket.
Every day much of mine
is crispy when you dip into it
Come on! Open up, please!
The opening whistling
is the balance tingle.
How it whistles to the rain.
Let's get you out.
[woman] Help him! Please! Help him!
[infected woman] All slide to the side.
When the balance shifts sideways,
diagonal lines occur.
- Quietly, put two onions on it.
- [Murat straining]
If they ask you why the morass
was played when you passed by
[Murat] Pull! Let's go!
[infected woman]
a superior wrestling submarine.
- Suicidal scallions
- Sweetheart! [panting]
membranes when you're approximate
to the membrane.
[voice echoes] But perfection,
locates toward the egg.
And when you look at the egg,
you see only the egg.
[breathing shakily]
You'll see the tip of the pea.
When the tip of the pea whispers,
you should not listen to it,
what you listen to
is the look of the bread.
LIQUID SOAP
[infected woman]
When it collides with the olive oil,
- they shrivel up reciprocally.
- [Murat panting]
When they shrivel up
the two in their souls,
their creativity rises
from the ground to meet you.
[infected woman continues jabbering]
[sniffs, pants]
- [grunting]
- [alarm continues blaring]
[Murat] Fuck.
[panting]
[alarm continues faintly]
[panting]
Fuck.
Fuck.
[panting]
[siren wailing in background]
[sirens approaching in background]
[siren sounds distort]
[multiple sirens wailing]
[groans]
Oh shit!
Idiot!
Idiot!
[grunting]
[breathing rapidly]
NO ENTRY WITHOUT HEADPHONES
AEI TIP LINE
Hey, listen.
- That pine tree thing is exhausting, man.
- Not in the mood.
Hey, I'm trying to tell
you something, you hear me?
Why are you acting like
I'm one of those jabberers?
I'm opening my ears for you!
AEI
[siren chirping]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[ominous music playing]
ARDS PATIENT TRANSPOR
[banging on glass]
- Why are we here?
- Well, sir, you're cheerful today.
Serhat.
Okan from the tip line reported this.
He thought it would interest us.
Excuse me.
If I were you, I'd get out of there.
That place is bad for you.
What is it?
Well, some guy was exposed
to jabbering without headphones,
but left like nothing happened.
[man] I've never seen anything like it.
The guy didn't jabber at all.
He should've been infected
when he was near the barrier.
He stared right at me like he was
asking me to stop and not report him.
[official] All right.
Get this guy's contact information.
The man saved the life a kid, apparently.
[official] investigation.
Don't leave the crime scene unless
- Cameras?
- I have all the footage from inside.
Surrounding streets.
I wanna see the market from the outside.
- Yes, sir.
- Project X.
- Have you asked for the resident list?
- We're combing through the crew list, sir.
We're looking through it all.
- [music halts]
- [door opens]
[door shuts]
[feedback whining]
[Murat breathing shakily]
- [panting]
- [tense music playing]
[breathing rapidly]
[exhales sharply]
What's up, Hot Skull? Feeling better?
[apparition laughs]
Didn't you say that
Wernicke's aphasia was worse?
Huh?
[cackling]
What was it? Synesthesia,
hallucinations, and epileptic seizures?
I know.
You're feeling beat down.
Come on, just give up
and turn yourself in to the AEI.
Enough.
Oh, poor Murat. Aww.
Someone's letting himself slip up.
I'm surprised, Murat.
You got caught putting
headphones on that kid.
- Screw you!
- [music halts]
[Murat's mom] Murat?
Those meds that Ertem that gave you,
you remember where they are?
Okay.
[eerie music resumes]
[cat screeching]
[twangy guitar music playing]
[hinge squeaking]
- [lock clicks]
- [door opens]
WHAT IS PROJECT X?
WHAT IS A.R.D.S?
[door shuts]
ARTICLES ON ARDS PATIENTS
BETWEEN THE AGES OF 7-10
AEI
[exhales]
[beeping]
Tango, Alpha, seven, Juliet, Gold.
This is Alpha, Tango, nine,
Whiskey, Oscar.
Do you copy, Commander?
[Commander] Alpha, Tango, nine,
Whiskey, Oscar.
This is Tango, Alpha, seven, Juliet, Gold.
Commander here. Go ahead.
Listen to me,
I left the recipe with Şenel earlier.
You got it, right?
Thanks, Commander.
PROJECT X
Project X. Shall we go on?
[Commander] Hmm.
I must admit,
that team is really intriguing.
Find anything new?
Well, I've been
reading through their articles.
The ones who discovered
the jabbering levels,
who developed
the global system currently in use,
and who were able to prove that
the immunity in kids was a hoax
It's all them.
That crew is like a research factory.
IMMUNITY
It all stops after the fire.
Either they started jabbering,
or they died in the fire.
The only one whose whereabouts
is unknown is that linguist.
Murat Siyavuş.
Yeah.
The guy is like a Swiss Army knife.
Physiology, neurology, linguistics,
the whole nine yards.
I'm looking into it, but I don't think
it will amount to anything.
But I'll check out the hospitals tonight.
And I'll check out
the rehab center records
once I get my hands on them.
We'll check this off our list, Anton.
REHAB CENTER RECORDS
They're all ghosts.
They can't help the living.
[radio clicks]
Copy that, Commander Cevat.
[Cevat] Good luck, Anton.
Copy that. Commander out.
It's been eight years.
Unfathomable. It's been eight years.
SECURE BROADCAST - AEI TV
And for all those years,
our scientists have been working
non-stop on this issue.
But they're no closer to finding a cure.
Let's be honest.
[woman on TV]
How do you respond, Mükerrem? Are they
[Murat's mom]
We'll go to Makbule's tomorrow.
[news program continues]
Mom, I'm not going out tomorrow.
It'd be better if I stopped
going out for a while.
What's wrong with going out, huh?
What's wrong?
Someone follow you? Is that it? Huh?
Or stare at you suspiciously? What is it?
Just forget it.
[man on TV]
Where are those headphones now?
- That's the real question.
- [Murat's mom scoffs]
- [woman on TV] Kamil, I need to ask
- [TV cuts out]
Murat.
The world around us
is full of diseased people.
Some get better, some get worse.
Yep, and I also know
you had to go through tough times,
and it was painful for you,
but enough already.
Enough. Please.
Please, you have to let it go.
Snap out of it. And live your life!
I'm fine the way I am.
You expect me to believe that?
You're living like an onion.
Just sitting here and breathing. [gasps]
[Murat's mom sighs]
Come on. Light that.
[sighs]
[siren wailing]
[lighter clicks]
Murat, I made a promise to her.
That woman is miserable.
Just hear her out and see what she needs.
I'll mull it over.
ANTI-EPIDEMIC INSTITUTION
[intense ambient music playing]
[siren chirps]
ANTI-EPIDEMIC INSTITUTION
[metal detector beeps]
[metal detector beeps]
[card reader beeping]
[buzzer sounds]
ARDS PATIENTS ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS!
[beeping]
Anton Tarakçı.
Chief of operational units
for the AEI. Copy?
[female voice]
Please keep talking to confirm.
Anton Kadir Tarakçı.
Chief of operational units
at the AEI. Copy?
[buzzer sounds]
[door lock hisses]
Was that good enough for you yet?
[female voice]
Please keep talking to confirm.
Motherfucker, if you don't open this door,
I'll come upstairs
and stuff that keyboard down your throat.
[beeping]
Fucker.
[metal detector beeping]
[Anton] You leave the records on my desk?
Fazıl Eryılmaz has decided
to honor us with his presence.
That's why security is tight.
They say he'll run
Marmara operations from here.
Naturally, Canan is here
with Fazıl as well.
What about the resident list?
Find anything new?
Having all the safe zones
checked like you want,
but so far, I've got nothing.
Sure about this?
Because, once again, we've gone rogue.
Camera footage ready?
Yes, it is, Chief.
[mouse clicking]
[mouse clicking]
[music intensifies]
The hell is he doing?
[chuckling] Sir, it looks like
the guy's head's on fire.
[Anton scoffs]
He put his headphones on the kid.
Check those headphones out,
see if anything comes up.
Yes, sir.
[birdsong recording plays]
Oh! You're here!
Oh, he's here! He's here!
Oh, my dear!
Come in!
Oh, hello, son!
I've been waiting for you for so long.
Come.
All right, all right, Makbule.
Come in, Murat. Come in! Oh!
- He's here!
- Come on, Makbule, come on.
[tense music playing]
[Makbule] You know how long
Behzat was quiet for.
I remember you helped Özgür,
bless his soul, for a while.
- [whispers] Jacket off.
- What?
[Makbule] Mercy on his soul.
Then you had your own troubles
to deal with, of course.
Until recently,
I would take him for a stroll.
The fresh air is good, isn't it? Anyways
This is big.
With the start of
the Ottoman Turkish thing,
we've been unable to go out.
- [sniffles]
- [Makbule] The neighbors are disgruntled.
I'm scared to death
that someone will report us.
He's worrying me, Murat.
- [yells] Dominioooon!
- [rumbling]
- [glasses rattling]
- [yelling continues]
[rumbling subsides]
[dogs barking outside]
[pensive music playing]
[sighs]
[barking continues]
Oh, son, we need your help.
- Aunt Makbule, Özgür is dead.
- [door opens]
[Makbule gasps]
- Did your hear it?
- Seriously, Grandma?
A person out there could be
sitting in the damn park and hear him.
[gasps]
How are you, Dad?
[Makbule sobbing]
The last exclamation was great too,
but this was on another level.
- Forgive me, I'd like to
- It's fine. [clears throat]
[Makbule] Last night, the whole place
reverberated because of him.
Our neighbors,
they were standing outside our door!
And we can't even take him to a doctor!
Grandma, please don't cry. Please.
[Makbule] For years, not a word,
not a single word, but now
[sobbing]
So, um, he's like this
all the time? I mean
Nothing related
to the ongoing conversation?
I don't know the meaning
of the words he says.
Well, to be honest,
I wouldn't want to limit the word
to anything specific,
but "dominion" is, roughly, "colony."
[Makbule's grandson]
Are you gonna help us or not? Look.
My grandma told me
that you have a special condition.
Something to do with Özgür.
A cure or something.
Murat, Özgür's the only one
who could help him.
Are you serious? You haven't told him?
Özgür's dead.
[tsks] But how do you know that, man?
How do I know what, Arif?
Were you at his funeral?
Did you see his body?
If he were alive, he'd come to me.
End of story.
Please, listen.
I know he's alive. Believe me.
I need you to trust me. I'll prove it.
- How the hell do you know that, Arif?
- How else, Murat?
Those Plus 1 people, of course.
I'll tell you, all of this
is coming from that little bitch.
Listen, if you go there again
I'll break your legs! I swear! You won't!
Grandma, I've been I've been
looking into this and I won't let it go.
I'm meeting this guy Erol tomorrow.
- He's a jack-of-all-trades.
- Oh!
[Arif] He could get into
AEI's intelligence data.
Maybe erase it for the right price.
I'm gonna learn
what happened to Özgür eventually.
[Makbule sobbing] Arif?
Don't go, don't go!
- Arif, don't go! Please, don't go, my boy!
- [door opens]
[door shuts]
[Makbule sobbing]
[Murat's mom]
It's okay, Makbule, it's okay.
[sobbing]
Come on, Makbule. That's enough.
Oh, dear God! Oh God
Makbule, enough!
[sobbing quietly]
[Makbule sobs]
[Arif] Hey, Murat!
Um look at his arm there.
[Arif] Check out this funnel. Look.
Identical.
Where did this come from?
Her friend pulled it off of a jabberer.
[Murat] The only person
who can turn me back to the way I was.
The one who gave me this skull. Özgür.
Is it possible that he's alive?
[Murat] Thank you, Mom, really.
Better hurry or we'll miss the curfew.
Get your headphones on. It's not safe.
[man] Murat!
Murat, hey!
[chuckles] Everything's fine, sir.
No worries.
I was waiting for you because, obviously,
you'd come in through
the coal cellar at this hour.
Sezgin, what is it?
Uh um some guys were here earlier.
I bet they were with the AEI, Murat.
'Cause they were asking
for the resident list.
What does he want?
- AEI
- Shh.
- It's nothing. Don't worry. It's nothing.
- Huh?
I need to talk to him.
Just go inside. I'll be right behind you.
Go on.
Go.
[exhales]
Yeah?
Well, Murat, it's this pine thingy.
I wanted to talk about it
with you yesterday.
I can't keep doing this anymore.
- What do you mean, you can't?
- I mean take your pine, and I'm out.
I've been getting shivers
down my spine since yesterday.
And now this list thing comes up.
It's like traffic lights. Red then green.
And what if they ask me about it?
I don't have an answer for it.
And besides, I don't see any whiskeys
coming like they used to.
No whiskey for you.
Where's the red one?
- At the front gate.
- At the front gate? Go get it.
You want me to get it?
I'm waiting, Sezgin.
All right.
[ominous music playing]
[sighs]
[music fades]
[bottles clinking]
Hey, what was that all about?
Anything to do with you?
I don't know, Mom.
It's not likely, I mean.
Officially, you don't really live here.
We've seen to that.
Although, you can't be too careful.
[sighs]
So I hid an escape plan
under the dead plant.
[scoffs]
Under the dead plant.
Well, no one
will look under that sad thing.
[somber music playing]
Do you Do you still have hope?
In what?
In me.
Are you serious, son?
I don't know what you're looking for,
but it's frustrating.
You know I want to get rid of this skull.
I can't take it anymore.
Then get off your ass
and do something about it.
[bangs table]
[music fades]
[dog barking in background]
[soft ambient music playing]
JUNE 5TH - GALATA
[Murat on tape] I keep recalling
what Özgür told me tonight.
[feedback whines]
We may never be able
to find a cure for this disease.
Still, it's worth continuing that search
just to keep people's hope alive,
or something like that.
[songbird sings]
[chuckles]
Is this really how that jerk
is trying to keep us inspired,
or is he really just a hopeless romantic?
[woman] Oh, come on,
he just said that to impress Elif.
Or could be he's gone
overboard with it recently.
That's possible.
- I was recording that.
- Oh. You should've said so.
I'm really sorry.
I'm really sorry!
[recorder clicks]
Just start recording now.
- Huh?
- Start recording.
[recorder clicks]
Give it here. [clears throat]
But tell me, who are we, Murat Siyavuş?
[chuckles]
You, me, Özgür, Elif.
Look, we do our job.
But we don't work
so we can let future take its course.
We do your job in order
to shape the future for the better.
[laughs softly]
We expose ourselves to risk
to help the exposed.
Well, if that isn't hope,
then I don't know what is. Huh?
- Wow, I like that.
- [recorder clicks]
- Hm?
- Mm.
I wonder if for my next recording,
I should say that was my idea.
[woman] Hmm.
- How should we do it?
- How should we do it?
- Hm? Mm.
- [Murat] I could pay a royalty. Mm?
[tape player clicks]
[player rewinds, clicks]
[woman] We expose ourselves to risk
to help the exposed.
[takes a deep breath, exhales]
[footsteps approaching]
You okay?
Going out?
I think I'm gonna go out
and give life a chance.
Gotta do something, Mom.
[pensive ambient music playing]
[keys jingling]
I'D LOVE TO GET TO KNOW YOU.
I'LL BE AT THE BUS STOP AT 2 P.M.
[Murat] Did you know that a snowdrop
has broken through the sidewalk
across from the bus stop?
Exposing itself to life.
Isn't that what the snowdrop
is trying to encourage us to do?
TO THE GIRL WHO WAITS FOR A BUS
THAT'LL NEVER COME
- [radio chirps]
- [Cevat] Alpha, Tango, 9, Whiskey, Oscar.
This is Tango, Alpha, seven, Juliet, Gold.
Have I just missed you,
or are you still there?
- [tense music playing]
- [door shuts]
[Cevat] Anton?
I'm here, Commander. Anton listening.
I checked the hospital records.
That Murat Siyavuş guy
was admitted to the emergency room
numerous times after the fire.
The last time
was on April 4th that same year.
Then he vanished into thin air,
but you already know that.
So, you can cross him off.
[sighs]
Thanks, Commander.
Why was he there?
[Cevat] High fever.
High fever just in
the cephalic area of the brain.
[pen scratching]
They released him
after giving him an antipyretic.
HIGH FEVER
Six, eight, ten, twelve,
fourteen times to be exact.
Fourteen times?
How was it not affiliated with the body?
It was only in his head.
[music intensifies]
[Cevat] Anton
[door opens, shuts]
Anton?
IMMUNITY - REHAB RECORDS
HIGH FEVER - 14 TIMES
It's like your father
is holding his breath underwater
and every time he yells,
he's coming up for air.
My guess is that
the disease is fighting back
and still trying to infect you.
Now, who's Erol?
I'd like to meet this guy.
Sir. I have the room ready.
Murat Siyavuş.
After the fire, the guy repeatedly
went to the emergency room
with a high fever in the cephalic region.
The cephalic region?
Repeatedly.
Do you really think that's possible?
Do these cameras have
thermal imaging capabilities?
Yeah, they do, sir.
They were used to measure fever
before the epidemic.
Show me.
[mouse clicking]
[keyboard clacks]
[typing on keyboard]
[computer beeping]
[music intensifies]
What the heck?
I want this guy's identity
and his address.
Use the other cameras
to find out where he went.
- [typing on keyboard]
- Got anything from the headphones?
Nothing, sir. I gave it to Metin
to see if he could find anything.
[music fades]
Mr. Murat, after this scourge appeared,
we've striven in these dystopic times
to procure services for our people.
For years, we've been offering
all kinds of services for our people.
Information, lost and found,
interregional transportation,
mobile phones, electronics,
analog devices, home appliances,
sanitary plumbing,
maintenance and repairs,
even carpet cleaning, among other things.
Here is my card.
Now, what I've told you so far
is routine business,
but we also have
some pretty things, my friend.
Not gonna tell you
all of them, but I can say
that we have
almost anything you could want.
Anything.
The sky's the limit. Huh?
We're very connected.
Our network is wide.
Money will solve
all your problems, my good sir.
- Hold on.
- [Velcro tears]
Allow me to present our à la carte menu.
SERVICE PRICE LIS
Arif told me that search logs could
Those can be erased. Nothing to it.
- They could?
- Right away.
- Right away?
- Sure, sure, sure, no trouble.
Okay. That would be amazing.
Okay, and if you want us to,
we can get rid of the body for you.
No worries.
[chuckles]
Um, we want to know
if a certain person's still alive.
No problem. I can check that out.
Uh what's it cost?
Ah!
Yes, well.
Finding someone,
information, four, we get that,
give some to our guys, eight.
Once you get Kamil involved, it's 42.87.
The other one's a fixed price.
Plus the erasing.
Çetin Nazlı will ask
for something around 2,000
[muttering] Carry the one
That's like 187
A total of 7,360. Yep.
In total.
I can take care of this for you
for seven and a half. That simple.
And we'll come up clean
on the other side. Okay?
But we don't have that kind of money.
Ah
[pensive music playing]
Gentlemen, seriously,
if you are unable to afford this
Huh?
You sure?
Ah. Well, let me present you with
a sneak peek of our self-service menu.
The aim is to minimize the risk
to a probable minimum
SELF-SERVICE AVAILABLE
and offer you a good bargain.
However, I should tell you,
if things go south,
neither I nor my crew would admit
to knowing you. Remember that.
This is nothing.
A system password for 400.
And 250 for an ID number
with an institutional code,
and that makes 650 for you.
How would we even begin?
You just log on
and check it out by yourself,
delete and edit by yourself. Boom.
But there might be just a tiny hitch.
The guy who'll open the door
for you at the AEI,
he leaves work in 45 minutes.
And next time a member of my crew
is assigned in that building, well,
I've got no clue. Know what I mean?
Man, you know the situation we're in,
and I don't have time.
I can't afford to wait.
Then you better take care of it now.
Easy-peasy.
Who's going in?
Oh, those are nice headphones.
So where'd you get these beauties?
I had a pair like these.
Earned a pretty penny from them.
Metin, shut up and get to the point.
Well, these are custom-made ones.
The AEI used to have them
manufactured for research crews.
But that isn't common knowledge.
Those tech guys,
they don't know anything about it.
There should a serial number
under the headband.
[Metin] Ah-ha.
[tense music playing]
Write this down, sir. Take this.
[Anton] Tell me.
Eighteen, dash
oh, sixteen, dash, twenty-eight
INVENTORY SEARCH
[Metin] Dash, T-13.
[typing on keyboard]
Each pair is registered to an employee.
[clicks mouse]
PERSONNEL FILES / MURAT SİYAVUŞ
[music intensifies]
STATUS: UNKNOWN
[music fades]
All right, now
All the information's here.
All you have to do
is go into the fifth booth.
And please, don't confuse the booths
'cause my guy only works that one.
Look at the camera and say,
"Blackbirds sitting in a tree."
- Remember that, okay?
- "Blackbirds sitting in a tree."
Exactly. You ready? Come on. [claps]
Move. We only have 20 minutes left. Go!
[tense music playing]
[computer beeping]
The jabbering is creating a reaction.
His head heats up
because of the goddamn jabbering.
Can you see it, Serhat?
Olcay, leave us.
Right away, sir.
I don't believe it. This Murat
He's immune.
[metal detector beeping]
[Erol] You'll be tested for jabbering
at the entrance.
You are Hakan Kirmen,
a former AEI employee with full access.
Once you get in,
find the archive room, go in there.
That's the door next to the server room.
When you open the interface,
you need to enter the ID number,
password, and boom, you're in.
[buzzer sounding]
The fifth anniversary
of the Kocaeli incident.
All of you know that
we won't allow any memorial service
or any marches this year.
We'll be opening
a state-of-the-art laboratory.
This laboratory will take us that much
closer to a cure for the disease.
The most important facility
in Europe for the AEI.
A science base.
We don't want anything
to potentially ruin the opening.
Understood?
[female voice] Please begin speaking.
Blackbirds sitting in a tree.
Blackbirds sitting in a tree.
Please keep talking
[buzzer sounds]
Uh Hakan Kirmen.
Hakan Kirmen.
Officer at the AEI. Officer.
[buzzer sounds]
Keep talking to confirm.
[buzzer sounds]
[Murat] Uh, a technical glitch, I suppose.
[whispers] Blackbirds sitting in a tree!
[buzzer sounds]
Now, Plus 1 and other organizations
won't be allowed to protest
or disrupt the opening.
I urge all units in Operations
to take great care
during the grand opening.
That is our sole priority, people.
Good luck.
Fazıl, sir. I'm Anton Tarakçı.
Anton, my former colleague,
is a first class chief in Operations.
Project X, sir.
I assume you know about this.
[ominous music playing]
Özgür Çağlar's team. Murat Siyavuş.
He could be immune to the disease.
All employees of Project X
They either perished in the fire
in the old laboratory, or
Nobody knows what happened to Siyavuş.
I will tell you.
They died or started jabbering.
Yesterday at a super
[Fazıl sighs]
[intense music playing]
Sir. At a supermarket yesterday,
someone took off his headphones
and put them on a child
just to protect the boy from jabbering.
So for a long duration,
he was exposed to jabbering.
Except he didn't jabber.
Those headphones
were manufactured by the AEI.
Murat Siyavuş. That's his full name.
You know, there are people
who plug their ears
with soaked bread, right?
Maybe that guy was one of those,
or the jabberer wasn't a real jabberer.
Those are all possibilities.
But your story is not one of them.
You're not one of those people, are you?
'Cause it seems like you didn't
hear a word of what I just said.
Sir, please. I'm aware that
Headphones cannot be evidence.
Those headphones could be anybody's.
What's worrying is just how
a man of your position
could start a rumor of a sensitive subject
that could foster unrest.
Especially with the briefing
on the opening.
How could you behave so irresponsibly?
And waste the time
and resources of this institution.
Someone's immune. If they were
Choose your next words
extremely carefully.
No one's supposed to deal with things
out of their jurisdiction. Dismissed.
- Fazıl, please
- Dismissed.
Sir, excuse me.
We used the footage
to locate the building complex
of the guy from the supermarket.
He's been living with his mother
under a false name at this address.
Get the guys ready.
Sir, but didn't you hear
what Fazıl just said?
- We can't bring this guy in.
- I want a small and reliable team.
We'll take two vehicles for the raid.
[huffs]
[intense music builds]
Dude, what the hell are you doing?
You're gonna get us both caught.
This is Administration.
I let you in. It was me!
Ah, well, the building's changed a lot.
Look, the archives are downstairs.
Get in and out!
All right.
[gasps]
[computer beeping]
[clicking mouse]
AEI
[sighs]
PERSONNEL FILES
ÖZGÜR ÇAĞLAR
[exhales sharply]
STATUS: DECEASED
[ominous music playing]
[inhales sharply]
AUTOPSY REPOR
EXTERNAL EXAMINATION
INTERNAL EXAMINATION
[clicks mouse]
[sighs]
[soft gasp]
[exhales]
[Murat sighs]
VIDEOS
RECORDING 1
[music intensifies]
[keyboard clatters]
[whispers] Oh God
No. No. No.
[Murat breathing rapidly]
Jesus
Delete and quit.
[panting] Delete and quit. Come on.
ENTER PASSWORD
Delete and quit!
ACCESS DENIED
Oh shit.
Oh shit.
ENTER PASSWORD
[gasping]
[breathing rapidly]
- [typing on keyboard]
- [computer beeps]
[whispers] Shit!
Fuck!
Fuck! [panting]
Oh fuck!
[computer beeps]
[sirens wailing]
[dramatic music playing]
[sirens chirping and wailing]
[brakes squeal]
[Arif] Bro, bro.
Hey, what's going on?
Did you find out about Özgür?
Did you delete it?
He could be alive.
Would you believe me now? Come on, man.
[panting]
Hey, man.
[siren wailing in background]
Hey
Hey, man
What the hell?
Did you wipe the information?!
[knocking loudly]
Anti-Epidemic Institution.
Murat Siyavuş. Is he here?
He's not here.
Sure. Just let yourself in.
Sir, I'm also loyal
to the institution, like you.
I told him many times. He wouldn't listen.
By the way, there's better places
to wait for him to come back.
The old coal house for example.
He'd use that entrance coming back.
[Murat's mom]
What do you think you're doing?
I know about your son's condition.
When did his head start to heat up?
Well [scoffs]
He got a fever when he was
five months old, I think.
You know, it's possible
that he's the only person
with an immunity against ARDS
on the face of planet.
You think that's something to joke about?
Sir, I'm sure he'll answer
any questions that you ask him.
Um, I left tea on the stove.
Just a second.
[man on radio] South part's all clear.
All searching the perimeter.
[Serhat] Sir.
Security said that he'd use
the old coal house entrance at this hour.
Clear the front gate.
I don't want him to get spooked.
I'll send a unit
to the coal house entrance.
- We can get him there, sir.
- You're not to harm him.
I want a clean job.
I'll say it again. Do not harm him.
[soft ambient music playing]
[ominous music playing]
[music intensifies]
[water pouring]
[kettle lid rattles]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[exhales]
Do you want one?
Oh.
[Murat] I'm walking against the wind
just to feel that I exist.
But why not disappear?
Why shouldn't I just let myself go?
Why not give in to the thing
that wants to destroy me?
[man on radio] Subject has entered
premises from the left.
I repeat, he has entered from the left.
[Anton] Let him through. Leave him be.
[tense music building]
[music intensifies]
[Murat] So, this is it.
[man on radio] Subject is not moving.
[dramatic stinger plays]
[man on radio] Subject has moved.
[emotional ambient music playing]
Get caught and you'll forever be parted.
[wind blowing]
[whispers] Get caught
and you'll forever be parted.
[Murat grunts]
[handle squeaking]
[whispers] Shit!
[panting] Shit!
[pulsing electronic music playing]
[music halts]
[tense music playing]
Subtitle translation by: Doğa Uludağ