Midnight at the Pera Palace (2022) s01e08 Episode Script

1
A NETFLIX SERIES
- [door closes]
- Halit.
[Halit sighs]
I have to find her.
Halit, please.
Think about our baby.
I'll take care of our baby's every need.
No, don't worry.
Why are you talking like that? [sobs]
Did you never love me?
I've never lied to you about her, Sonya.
- You know that I've always loved her.
- [gasps]
[sobbing]
But Peride is gone.
- Where do you believe she's gone to?
- It doesn't matter.
- You deserve better than someone like me.
- But I need you.
Believe me, this is better for us all.
[sobbing]
[front door closes]
[weeping]
[groans]
[screams]
- [high-pitched ringing]
- [muffled screaming]
- [ringing stops]
- [crying]
[gasping]
[gasps]
[gasps]
[sighs]
[thunder rumbling]
[sniffles]
[door creaks]
[gasps]
DO NOT ENTER
THE GATEWAY OF TRUTH
[gasps]
[Halit, echoing]
I've never lied to you about her, Sonya.
You know that I've always loved her.
[Sonya] But Peride is gone.
Where do you think she's gone to?
[Halit] I'll take care
of our baby's every need.
[Sonya gasps]
[Halit] I've never lied to you
about her, Sonya.
You know that I've always loved her.
[sobs]
[gasps]
[voices whispering faintly]
[sniffles]
[screams]
22 JUNE 1920
18 APRIL 1919
THE NIGHT OF THE BALL
[lively chatter]
[thunder rumbling]
[gasps]
[thunder rumbling]
Madam?
[gasps]
Uh are you all right?
[sighs] Madam?
[sighs] What's wrong?
Come on. [grunts]
Come on, get up, I'll help you. [grunts]
- Come.
- [sighs]
[whispers] There.
Where am I?
The Pera Palace, madam, of course.
I is there somebody with you?
- Somebody
- No.
I am completely alone.
If your husband's around,
I can go and get him,
if you tell me what his name is.
No, I'm all right.
I was a bit dizzy, that's all.
Leave me now.
[knocking]
[door opens]
[thunder crashing]
[gasps]
[sniffs]
[Ahmet gasping] I need to sit down.
[Esra] Ahmet.
[Dimitri] No, you listen to me.
You're insane, you know that?
And don't come to me again.
The slate is wiped clean between us now.
[door opens]
[thunderclap]
What? [gasps]
[shudders]
[gasps]
[thunder rumbling]
[door opens]
[thunder rolling]
- You
- You will never take him away from me.
- He's mine!
- [yelps]
[Peride squeals]
[screams]
- [Peride gasps]
- [Sonya yells]
[Peride whimpering]
[groans]
[Peride whimpering]
- [Sonya grunting]
- [Peride choking]
- [Peride sighs]
- [panting]
[Sonya laughs]
You can't stop my baby
having a father.
- [banging at door]
- [gasps]
Madam Peride?
[gasping]
[sniffling]
[thump]
[Halit grunts]
[rattling]
[gasping]
- [chiming]
- [rumbling]
[Esra gasping]
- [Sonya grunting]
- [Esra whimpering]
- What are you doing?
- [Sonya] No!
- What are you doing? Let go!
- [Sonya shrieks]
- [Ahmet grunts]
- [Esra gasps]
- [coughing]
- Are you all right?
No, no, no, no, no.
You're not going anywhere.
- [Sonya gasps]
- [Esra coughs]
[sighs]
What are you up to? What are you doing?
Have you gone mad?
You're out of your fucking mind! [coughs]
- [Ahmet sighs]
- [Esra coughs]
[George] Help me arrest Mustafa Kemal
and I will, in turn, help you.
Just tell me
who you stole those weapons for.
[chuckles]
Halit.
[scoffs] Halit.
You have always been a dreamer.
But you don't have to sacrifice yourself
for Mustafa Kemal.
Peride's life is in danger.
- You have to find her, Reşat.
- Peride? But
- [sighs]
- What's this all about?
George has a plan
that she's trying to foil.
You've got to get to her
before it's too late.
[Esra] Was it George
who wanted you to kill me?
[Ahmet sighs]
And you've been working for George
for how long?
A few months. Not long, really.
I was his eyes and ears at the hotel.
I could go in and out of every room.
No one ever sees
the maids coming and going.
[seagulls calling]
When you two started coming to the hotel,
he told me to keep an eye on you as well.
It was me who bashed you on the head
and took the notebook.
[Esra] Th then you also had Leyla
He wasn't going to harm her, he said.
Oh! [shudders]
He was only trying to scare you.
[Esra sighs]
Why, though?
What made you do all that?
To get back to the life that I belong to.
The life that was stolen from me.
You wouldn't understand me.
[scoffs]
I lost everything I had.
Lost my homeland.
Family.
My pride.
My hope.
And me, I don't belong anywhere.
You don't know what it means,
being all alone in life.
[snorts softly]
[scoffs]
Dimitri saw Sonya
the night of the murder at the hotel.
That's why I was on my way here,
to tell you about it.
[sighs]
- She was pregnant.
- What?
Sonya killed Peride. Because
She came from the future.
But
- why?
- [sighs]
When you came here, Halit fell in love
with you instead of Sonya.
- [sighing]
- It's because of me?
Even if you hadn't come,
my father would still have left her.
He still wouldn't have loved her.
I suppose, when it comes to love,
there's only ever one possible outcome.
[Esra sighs]
We can't accuse her of murder
at this point.
There hasn't been a murder yet.
[sighs]
[door opens]
Do you have any information about
the plot against Mustafa Kemal?
George wouldn't have involved me
in anything like that, no.
But who else is working for George, huh?
Well, I can't think.
You have better think,
or the police will be involved.
Um
Captain Reşat.
Reşat? But
They've been meeting He's had lots
of meetings with George. In secret.
Resat? No way.
- [sighs]
- I mean, are you sure?
I once overheard them talking together.
George said he wanted Reşat
to do something for him,
and Reşat said he was at his service.
[Esra gasps]
[knocking]
[Eleni] Peride?
- [banging]
- Peride?
- Madame Eleni.
- I'm sorry to disturb you, my dear.
But he was so insistent.
He said I had to wake you.
Who?
- Oh, that ugly policeman, you know?
- Reşat?
[whispers] Yeah, yeah, yeah, Reşat.
[slow jazz playing]
[women laughing and talking]
Peride?
[record slows to a halt]
I can't believe you'd be in such
an establishment.
For goodness' sake,
why are you staying in this place?
What do you want?
Halit
- While he was giving his statement
- While he was giving his statement?
He's in big trouble this time.
We caught him stealing weapons
from the English.
He's guilty. We will try him for treason.
No, you've misunderstood!
- Halit was just
- What, Peride? Halit what?
- Halit was with me last night.
- [scoffs]
Take me to the station.
You can take a statement.
I'll appear in court
if that's what it takes.
You're lying.
I caught him myself last night.
And even if I believed you,
you couldn't testify by yourself.
In any criminal trial, you have to have
two women's testimonies to equal a man's.
- [laughs]
- [scoffs]
Peride, sometimes I forget
that you're not well.
- [gasps]
- Listen.
Once you're in that in that
clinic in Switzerland,
- everything will be better for you.
- [woman laughing outside]
Because tomorrow, a massive hunt
for those insurgents will begin.
You could get caught up in it.
I wouldn't want that happening.
I'd like to speak to him one last time.
[Reşat sighs]
I'll thank you forever
if you let me talk to him.
Halit?
[both gasp]
Thank goodness you're all right.
We'll think of something.
I'm going to get you out of here.
Don't waste your time on me.
Now that I can't carry out the
assassination, Mustafa Kemal isn't safe.
George will have got someone
to replace me.
Will you find out who that is?
Yes, I will.
And I'll get you out, don't worry.
Don't you think they'll ask what it is?
How will you explain it to everyone?
So what if it shocks them?
What else are we supposed to do?
They'll be more than shocked at it!
And how do you know it'll work?
George might not say what you want him to.
- Leave all that to me.
- [sighs]
Look, a good journalist will always
get to the truth of the matter.
And I am a good journalist.
[both sigh]
Just go and get it
from wherever you've hidden it.
[sighs] Do we have any other option?
[sighs]
And what about her?
[groans]
[turns key]
[sighs]
[clears throat]
[sighs]
It's nearly out of charge. [sighs]
Here's what we'll do. When
I give the signal, you begin recording.
But keep it switched off
until the very last minute.
- Are you with me?
- I'm not very keen on this plan.
Ahmet, just have some faith.
[ship's horns blaring]
[door opens]
[footsteps]
I thought we'd have our five o'clock tea
a little bit earlier, if you don't mind.
Please.
[George] I'm here for your goddamn letter.
Not for tea.
You almost look like you've seen a ghost.
Something on your mind?
- We can talk freely.
- Then out with it.
I have nothing to say to you.
I've figured you out.
The world has seen
too many wannabe dictators like you.
Trying to bring everyone to their knees
in fear.
Get to the point, damn it.
Do you know what
an inferiority complex is?
[chuckles] It's something
all the dictators have in common.
[chuckles]
There's only one inferior person
at this table.
[chuckles]
Go do what you threaten me with here.
Try and turn me in to the authorities.
See how that goes.
[sighs]
George, I know how you've learned
to hate us so much.
I know what happened to your mother.
How?
How do you know about my mother?
Childhood traumas
can be hard to forget about.
One day, there won't be a single Turk
left in this city,
save for the servants
and the day labourers.
Istanbul will be as English as London.
They will erect statues in my honour
for saving this beautiful city.
You really know nothing about us.
We will resist.
But the dead cannot resist.
[sighs]
[George] Miss Peride,
I advise you, you leave this city at once.
Because tomorrow,
you will have outlived your usefulness.
- [laughs]
- [scoffs]
Oh, Ahmet! [gasps]
- Check it, quick.
- Hang on. Come on, turn off.
[Esra] Reşat.
Peride? What are you doing here?
I need to show you something. Come.
What is that? That strange machine.
Oh, you haven't seen anything yet.
Peride? What is it? Where's it from?
Never mind where it's from.
What matters is what
you'll see and hear on it.
You have to learn the truth.
Ah!
[George] Go do what
you threatened me with here.
- Oh my goodness.
- Try and turn me in to the authorities
But this is not possible. I
This shows the man you serve
and his plans for all of us.
The man I serve?
I know all about it. It's there.
Watch it, my battery's about to die.
Why wasn't having me enough for you, huh?
Did you never love me?
I I don't know what you're trying to say.
I want you to promise.
Promise me you won't hurt anyone again.
And the Pera Palace is out of bounds.
Tell me, where is that key?
- What key do you mean?
- Dimitri's missing key.
You found where I'd hidden it. Didn't you?
Because you read Peride's diary.
That's how you knew.
Where is it?
[sighs]
It's in my drawer.
[sighing heavily]
[sighs]
My whole life, I've tried
not to meddle with things.
But now, I must disturb
some of those things.
All the best.
[in Russian] Goodbye, Sonya.
[door opens]
Look, all right. I know
you're just trying to do the right thing.
But he's the only one
who can save this country!
We will have no country if they
carry out their plans on that ship today!
We won't even be able
to speak our mother tongue!
[both sigh]
Reşat, regardless of everything, I still
want to believe you're a good person.
It's too late.
- I did it for you, Peride. For our future.
- What have you done?
- So that you could live.
- What have you done?
We've set a highly explosive bomb,
you see.
It's wired to the mainspring
of the clock in the dining room.
- It will go off at five o'clock sharp.
- [gasps]
Not a single soul
will leave that ship alive.
Look, we've still got enough time.
Halit can help me, but you have
to let him go now. Will you, please?
- Is Peride back at the hotel?
- No, I'm sorry, sir.
[Esra] Halit!
Don't worry. George will never be allowed
back in our city.
Come on,
we have to get on board that boat.
- Better hurry.
- Thank you so much.
- Hurry, hurry!
- [gasps]
- [Esra yelps]
- [man] What the hell are you doing?
[man] Coming aboard the ship!
[soldier] Attention!
Over there!
Full speed ahead to the Black Sea.
Captain. Is everything ready?
[Esra] Wait! Wait!
Stop, wait!
General! Halit is approaching the ship.
Peride is with him.
- Where's the dining room?
- Upstairs, ma'am.
There!
[ticking]
[explosion]
[shocked murmuring]
[laughs]
[gasping]
[sighs]
I thank you on behalf
of the Turkish nation.
This country is very lucky
to have people like you.
[Esra] You should keep this.
Are you going to tell me
how you convinced Reşat?
Long story.
[Esra] It'd be better
if you laid low for a while.
[Halit] And you?
[Esra] Me
I have to go away.
So, am I ever going to see you again?
[sighs]
But I did lie to you before.
What I said wasn't true.
I was in love with you, Halit.
Don't leave me, then.
I must.
Why?
'Cause I just don't belong here.
They say, if you don't belong
where your heart is,
then where do you belong?
And what about us?
We'll go on with our lives.
Everything will be exactly as it should.
Besides, after a while,
you'll forget about me.
- As if this never happened.
- No.
No.
If you leave
my life will not be worth living, my love.
Forget about me and don't follow me.
Let's go, Ahmet, there's someone else
I have to say goodbye to.
[Leyla] Why are you crying?
I'm not crying.
Don't lie to me. You are crying.
Well, I am, you're right.
Because
[sighs]
I'll always love you.
Never forget that, okay?
[sighs]
[sobbing]
[sighs]
You're going again.
I wish I could take you
where I'm going, but
But you belong here.
[sniffles]
[sighs]
[sighs]
[thunderclap]
[sighs heavily]
[thunder rolling]
We've got a little bit more time.
How about I buy you a drink?
Hm? I think we deserve it.
Do you think they sell the cocktail
with your special recipe?
- Where do you think I learned it from?
- [chuckles]
[thunder rumbling]
[sighing]
[slow waltz playing]
So, tell me, Esra.
How does it feel
to have achieved something?
- Tired.
- [both chuckle]
But great.
What will you do when you get back?
I'll look at the dossier they gave me.
The day you leave the orphanage,
they let you take your dossier.
- Hm.
- Inside is everything they know about you.
I just never had the balls to open it.
- Really?
- [both chuckle]
Why do you reckon I always
stick my nose in where I shouldn't?
When you're unable
to face your greatest fear,
you tend to mess about
with other things like me.
Well, what are you gonna do, Ahmet?
- I'll go on holiday.
- [both laugh]
[clears throat]
Well, it's time.
We'd better go.
[thunder rumbling]
Don't worry. All will be fine, you'll see.
[sniffs]
[sighs]
[Ahmet] We'll travel through room 411.
I mean, I can't guarantee anything,
but if my calculations are correct,
it should take us home.
- [gunshots]
- [screaming]
I'll leave this city
right after I put a bullet in your skull!
[Reşat] Get him!
Come on!
[Esra screams]
[Reşat] Stop! Surrender!
[gunshot]
ROOMS 408-411
Peride!
- [fires]
- [man yelps]
[Reşat] Surrender!
- [fires]
- [Reşat gasps]
[rumbling]
[rumbling fades]
[thunder rolling]
S Surrender!
[thunder crashing]
Drop the gun.
[thunderclap]
[both gasp]
- Are you all right?
- I'm fine, Ahmet. Are you?
- Yeah.
- [baby crying]
- Is this baby all on its own in here?
- [baby fussing]
[gasps]
Has it been abandoned?
Where are the parents?
[distant siren wailing]
It's 1995.
[sighs]
I remember now.
[sighs]
Of course,
because I'd just become manager.
Th they said they found a baby
in room 411.
We searched the entire hotel,
questioned everyone,
but couldn't find the baby's parents.
But why '95?
So, what happened to the baby?
Well, the police got here,
took all our statements,
and gave the child over
to Child Protection.
[sighs]
You're like me, all alone, huh?
- [baby screaming]
- Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
The doctor examined the baby.
A healthy baby girl. Parents unknown.
And also unknown date of birth. Aww!
And do we have a name for her?
[baby crying]
Uh Esra, let's say.
- After my first crush.
- Right.
Uh um Uh, Ahmet?
[rustling]
[gasps]
That's Madame Eleni!
- [baby cries]
- Good girl.
So, what? No family name?
Orphan, then?
Course, you fool. You wanna write it
on her forehead as well?
- Hold her. Hold her.
- What do you think of Köksüz, sir?
Esra Köksüz.
Huh?
[sighs]
- [baby coos]
- [sighs]
- This is you.
- What?
- [coos]
- [gasping]
Ah, there's something on the back.
"Your mother's in danger."
"Find the portal of truth."
"Open it with this key." [gasps]
[sobbing]