Midnight at the Pera Palace (2022) s01e07 Episode Script

1
A NETFLIX SERIES
[Peride] Oh my God. That is horrific.
[thunder crashing]
I promise you I'll stop them.
APRIL 18, 1919
THE NIGHT OF THE BALL
What are you up to?
Where did you get the outfit?
It was just a front, the article,
wasn't it?
Because you've planned all this.
How did you know about this? Who are you?
If you don't immediately let go of my arm,
I shall have to call you
to the attention of the police, sir.
[Peride snorts]
- [Ahmet sighs]
- [Peride sniffs]
I think you must be confusing me
with someone else.
[Peride] Do you not understand?
Mustafa Kemal is in great danger,
and I have to stop them.
[thunder crashing]
Just listen to me.
You have to give me a key,
so I can go forward
and do something about it.
It's not as easy as it sounds,
Miss Peride.
[thunder rumbling]
[Dimitri sighs]
If you choose not to help me, I will have
to open the underground door.
You can't!
Tell me, then.
I have to know.
[Dimitri sighs]
Go to 411.
And don't come to me again.
The slate is wiped clean between us!
[sighs]
[Ahmet sighs]
[breathing shakily]
Now, tell me why Halit is chasing you.
ROOMS 408 - 411
[screaming]
[screaming]
No way. It can't have been Halit.
You must have been mistaken.
You explain, then. Isn't that room 411?
At first, I didn't get it when you said
Peride had been murdered.
But when I saw Halit at the hospital,
I knew exactly what happened.
There's no doubt.
Peride was killed by your father.
- Oh!
- [Dimitri laughs]
You still haven't grasped
how dangerous this hotel is.
You really have no idea
what you're up against.
And then you think, "Hey! We'll sort out
these problems just like that!"
I don't want any more
to do with you, you're insane.
I suppose it's true what they say.
You can't even trust your own father.
Did you really believe
what that lunatic said?
Why not?
It's not like Halit
hasn't killed anybody before.
Didn't he kill
Didn't he shoot Fahrettin
right in front of you?
[Esra sighs]
Uh What if Dimitri did it? Hey?
What if he's framing Halit to save
his own neck? Is that so impossible?
Why would someone so obsessed
with the flow of time want to change it?
[Esra sighs]
Because if Halit did do it,
he would have known I wasn't Peride
from the very beginning.
Are we sure he doesn't?
But
that means
he's been lying about everything.
14 MAY 1919
[Halit grunts]
[sighs]
Pera, yes?
[Sonya] You should go home.
You need to rest.
[Halit] I have rested more than enough.
I have no time to lose.
No time to lose for what, exactly?
Peride's on your mind again.
Hmm?
She didn't come and visit you once.
But I was there the whole time.
Whoa. Shhhh.
Thank you, Sonya, for everything.
- What can I do to repay you?
- Please, don't.
You don't have to repay me.
[Viennese waltz playing]
Thank God for antibiotics.
And they seem to be getting imtimate.
[chuckles]
Hopefully, I'll get rid of this soon.
[sighs]
I need to be conceived, first, but
- We must ask Halit some questions today.
- Huh?
It's the only way.
Write down exactly what I say, okay?
[sighs]
[slow jazz]
Must say, I'm remarkably impressed
with your speedy recovery, Halit.
That Turkish blood of yours
must be stronger that I thought.
It will take more than a single bullet
to kill me.
[chuckles]
Maybe I should have been the one
pulling the trigger.
Well, now that you're back on top form,
let's meet at the Pera Palace tomorrow
and continue where we left off
before this unfortunate incident.
Halit, sir. Madam Peride
has sent you this. It's urgent.
[Ahmet] Did you have to call him in here?
Ahmet, Agatha Christie,
in her plays and novels,
has the suspect questioned
at the crime scene.
Say he is the murderer,
it'll be obvious to us.
- Hmph.
- [knocking at door]
I think this is a bad idea.
Ahmet, please don't make me nervous.
- Get in the bathroom.
- [sighs]
[sighs]
Where I come from, you'd welcome back
someone who'd almost died.
Welcome back.
And you wouldn't summon him
to your room to say that. [grunts]
You'd go and see how he is. [sighs]
Well, never mind that.
So, this message.
It's got to be important.
Hasn't it Peride?
I'm not Peride.
Why tell me now?
[Esra] So you knew.
- Then you know Peride
- She's dead. I know.
[gasps]
Why did you kill her?
What? What are you talking about?
I have a witness
who saw you in this room that night.
[Halit sighs]
They can't have done.
There was no one in the room.
So you admit
you were in the room that night.
I was.
But it was too late
by the time I got here. Peride was dead.
That night,
George said he wanted me to kill her.
So it looked like I chased you.
ABDULLAH BROTHERS PHOTOGRAPHY
But I wasn't going to do
what he asked me to do.
I just wanted to warn her.
[knocking]
We have to talk. Open the door.
[Peride screams]
- [gasping]
- What's happening?
[Peride screaming]
[thunder crashing]
[thunder rumbling]
[Esra] So, if you didn't do it,
why did you run away?
It was better that
George believed I had done it.
Well, then
[sighs]
I mean
if it wasn't you, who was it?
[Halit sighs]
[grunting]
If you ask me, it was all planned.
When Peride came into the room,
the killer was already waiting for her.
[Esra] Someone who didn't want her
to stop the assassination.
[Halit sighs]
Peride
[gasps] The plot against Mustafa Kemal,
she knew all about that.
She wanted to stop George.
That's why she was
in this room that night.
What?
It's difficult. [sighs]
But killing her and the assassination
are part of the same thing.
Why else would anyone want to kill Peride?
If you're worried about Mustafa Kemal,
you don't have to be, because
I'm supposed to be his assassin.
[sighs]
You might not believe I'm a good person
because I've done
a lot of bad things, but
but about this, you can trust me.
I have information
no one else is aware of.
There was a ring, on a broken chain.
Peride had it in her hand.
Well, where is it?
- You have to show it to me.
- I've hidden it somewhere safe.
I'll bring it here tomorrow.
But now
you need to give me some information.
Two years ago, you saved my life.
I never found out the name of
that strange lady.
Tell me.
Who are you?
I don't get it. How do you know?
After that beautiful night we had
together, you disappeared completely.
The Pera Palace was my only clue, 'cause
I knew this is where you'd been staying.
So every day I'd come
hoping you were here.
Every day, I'd be here.
And finally, I saw you.
However, this lady who had been on my mind
for so long didn't seem to remember me.
Then it became clear.
She was married, with a child as well.
I was disappointed, of course.
But then I became suspicious.
Because this lady
her demeanour, everything she did,
were so different from that eccentric lady
who saved my life that day.
In this situation,
there could be only one way to explain it.
You were Peride's twin sister.
I started investigating straightaway,
and I realised I must have been right
in my presumptions.
Peride is not
one of Naim's blood relatives.
- She must have been adopted.
- [gasps]
The year this hotel was opened,
they found an abandoned baby
in a vacant room.
Her family, where she came from,
everything was complete mystery.
That baby was Peride.
And it would be perfectly believable
if there were a twin sister of Peride.
However hard I tried, it seemed
I'd never be able to find her.
That is, until I saw you again.
You were behaving like Peride
when we met, though.
I need to understand
why you behave like that.
- Now tell me what you're doing.
- I'll tell you all you need to know.
But first, you need
to hand over the ring tomorrow.
[sighs]
I'll be here first thing.
[sighs]
Oh God, Ahmet.
Wh-what beautiful night?
What was all that about, hmm?
You you saved his life?
That eccentric lady? Wh
If it wasn't Halit,
we're back to square one.
[sighs]
Tomorrow is the 15th.
İzmir's about to be occupied.
On the 16th of May,
Mustafa Kemal will be leaving Istanbul
if we can stop him from being killed.
[clock begins chiming]
15 MAY 1919
[slow jazz playing]
This must have been
around the killer's neck.
How do we find the owner. though?
Wait a few days first.
Mustafa Kemal has to get away, then
I'll be able to handle all of this myself.
You promised you'd explain everything.
Sorry. Later.
[sighs]
[door opens]
What's wrong?
[sighs] We're in the shit, Ahmet.
[sighs]
Tell me how we're supposed
to find the owner of this in Istanbul?
It's like looking
for a needle in a haystack!
My mother's ring.
[Sonatina in D major - Allegro vivace
by Schubert]
[chuckles]
She's quite taken with you, old boy.
[sighs]
You're familiar with her story, I presume.
- Sonya?
- Mmm.
No.
The daughter of Russian aristocrats.
Had you met her a few years ago,
you would be serving her instead.
Isn't time cruel?
Hmm.
The new weapons shipment has arrived.
It's at Mr Naim's warehouse
for the time being.
Are you sure that's a good idea?
I have a feeling that this time around,
luck will be on our side.
- Let's hope so.
- No need to worry, Halit.
We will be putting
them to good use very soon.
When?
I'll let you know.
That'll be all.
Hmm.
[sighs]
Enjoy your tea.
You're saying there's only one ring
like this in the entire world?
Yes, that's right.
You said the same thing
about the keys too.
Look at this mark.
When my mother was a child,
her grandmother got hysterical once.
She swore the ring was cursed
and grabbed it from my mother,
then tried to smash it with a stone.
[sighs] See where she damaged it.
[sighs]
I'm sure of it.
It must be her ring.
She was always telling me the story.
[sighs]
- What are you up to?
- We can do a little test. Come on.
[gasps]
[sighs] Why do we have to involve her?
Sonya? Please come here a moment.
Are you all right?
You look pale all of a sudden.
Sit down.
How did that ring end up with you?
What, this ring? Why do you wanna know?
Well
I recognise it.
Why's that?
Because it was mine.
It's an heirloom.
It's very old.
It was in the family for years.
When I arrived in Istanbul,
I had to sell it to a pawnbroker.
It fills me with sadness
to see it on somebody else.
I'd hoped I could buy it back
one day, you see.
[clears throat] Uh, well, uh
where did you sell it?
You're right. A White Russian princess
sold me a ring exactly like this.
But, sir, who bought it from you, then?
Nobody. I'm starting to think it's cursed.
Look, it's been sitting here
for two years.
[sighs] I can't sell it to anybody.
[Esra] What?
That princess told me that it was unique.
You just can't trust anyone nowadays.
They're identical. But this was unique.
Hey, Ahmet. What the hell does this mean?
None of it makes any sense.
Why don't we go to another time
and try again?
Uh, no. Don't even think about it.
[Esra sighs]
It would make things worse.
I need to talk with you. Alone.
Sorry.
You can't avoid this forever.
Find me when you're done.
[Ahmet sighs]
[Esra gasps]
[Halit sighs]
I've been waiting so long
to see you again.
I can't wait any more.
Whoever you are, I don't care.
Because the thing is
we we are meant to be with each other.
You know it, too.
I can see it in your eyes.
I need you.
And I'll do whatever I can to have you.
And I can see that you need me, too.
Destiny has brought us together.
You can't keep running away.
Stop. Don't.
[sighs]
Why?
Sonya's in love with you.
But I'm in love with you.
But I'm not in love with you.
I'm Look, we have
more pressing matters than love.
[sighs]
Didn't you say that
our war was just beginning?
You have a mission.
Mustafa Kemal needs you.
[sighs]
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[sobbing]
[George] A small token of gratitude.
[cutlery clinking]
Have some, won't you?
[chuckles]
[sighs]
It's been a long time, hasn't it?
To see a princess
toiling among all these paupers.
It's heartbreaking.
You deserve so much better.
Every single day, the people you serve
walk around acting as
as if they're royalty.
No one more so
than that foul woman, Peride.
And yet she could never be like you.
[dog barking outside]
This city is crying out
for a civilising influence.
Something which has been missing
since the Turks took it from the Romans
400 years ago.
We will be that civilising influence.
I can give you your old life back.
The jewels,
the cars,
the servants.
Your standing in this world.
In return, all I ask is
one small thing.
[breathing shakily]
[grunts]
ROOMS 408 - 411
No. But if you still have something
of mine, I'd like to buy it back if I can.
My diamond bracelet. Do you remember?
Alas, the diamond bracelet was sold
a long time ago.
But your unique ring is here.
I can sell it back to you
for what I paid you for it two years ago.
[band playing up-tempo jazz]
Maybe you should slow down, sir.
We should keep our wits about us.
Tell me.
What is the heart's greatest enemy?
Love.
You should take care
never to fall into its trap.
Maybe we should do this another night?
We're gonna do it tonight.
[sighs]
[gasps]
[sighs]
[panting]
Madam, excuse me.
How are you?
You're looking well.
The the baby came all right, then?
What do you mean?
Is it a boy or girl? Tell me.
You must have mistaken me
for someone else.
Uh
He's got some nerve, this man.
He didn't even bother
leaving a guard for these arms.
Load them onto the lorries.
[man yells] Armed police!
Surrender!
You're surrounded!
Give yourselves up now!
[glass shatters]
[banging at door]
- [grunts]
- What have you done with that key?
- What are you on about? I gave them back.
- I'm missing a key!
- [choking]
- You thought I wouldn't notice, right?
- What? [groans]
- [spits]
- And you stole the ring?
- What?
You dirty thief.
Don't you feel sorry for the poor lady?
[panting]
Huh? What lady?
What lady?
Don't play games with me, Ahmet.
- I warn you.
- What lady?
Tell me now! What lady? Who?
[grunts] I don't know what her name is.
She works at the hotel.
I just bumped into her now.
- [sighs]
- [Ahmet gasping]
That night
when I came over to talk to Peride,
I saw that same woman here at the hotel.
[sighs]
She was pregnant then.
That's why her hands were swollen,
I thought.
[gasps] And that's why she had
the ring around her neck.
[sighs]
[sighs]
Betraying the Sultan
is a mortal sin, Halit.
[George] They say the price of treason
is death.
But stabbing me in the back
will cost you far more than that.
Ah-ah.
You won't be able to protect
your beloved Mustafa Kemal any more.
He will die a public death.
So will your friend Peride.
A new era is coming, dear Halit.
It's a shame
you won't be around to see it.
[sighs]
[chuckles]
[door opens]
[gasps]
[grunting and gasping]
[squeals]