"The events and characters in this show have been fictionalized based on history." "Sultan Hürrem." "Please return to your chamber so nothing untoward happens." "I don't believe you." "You are lying." "Of course I wouldn't lie." "Have I unknowingly done something wrong?" "You disregarded my choices." "You sent poison to my table." "You poisoned the respect between us, Mahidevran." "Sultan Hürrem!" "Don't cause a scene!" "Sultan Hürrem!" "Don't knock!" "For Allah's sake...." "Pargalı İbrahim!" "You will fall so suddenly from your high perch, Paşa." "I will topple you." "Hürrem Hatun." "Don't threaten me." "Do it." "Do it and show us the extent of your power." "Take big bites." "But don't talk big." "No one can come between His Majesty and me." "I won't come between you." "But maybe Sultan Hatice will." "Please don't turn your back on me." "Your Majesty, I long for your face." "Don't leave me bereft of your love." "End this punishment and this pain." "Why are you not asleep?" "I put the children to bed." "I was wondering about you." "Don't wonder about me." "Why is this meal here?" "I will clear it away now." "Don't bother." "You have woken Mihrimah." "Don't scare us, Hürrem." "Yes." "Fear me." "Your Majesty." "Is something the matter, Your Majesty?" "No, Pargalı." "I came out for some air." "I was stifled inside." "Where were you?" "I was looking for you." "I went to the bazaar, Your Majesty." "I made preparations for the journey to Parga." "When I returned, I didn't disturb you when I realised you were busy." "When do you leave for Parga?" "I will set out tomorrow if you permit me to do so." "Why the hurry, Pargalı?" "Because you commanded me to go and come back immediately." "But if it's not convenient...." "It is convenient." "Go and come back as soon as possible." "May I have your blessing, Your Majesty?" "I may not return." "You will, Pargalı." "I won't give you my blessing if you don't return." "I wonder what they are speaking about." "It's obvious that they are not speaking about us, my Sultan." "If only they did." "And they ended our pain." "If only we could speak of the things that burn us inside without fear without having to hide them." "Those days will come, my Sultan." "Be patient." "It's as if I am seeing him for the last time." "A voice in my heart says so." "He looks so sad." "Good morning, my Sultan." "My Sultan?" "Are you well?" "Shut up!" "Gülnihal!" "Come here." "Look after Mehmet." "I will be back." "Where are you going?" "Come, Mehmet." "Come, my Prince." "Nigar Kalfa, come with me." "Where are we going so early?" "Don't you know?" "Last night, Sultan Mahidevran...." "Be quiet." "Don't speak her name." "I hope this ends well." "Come on girls!" "Line up!" "Good morning." "How are you?" "Thank you, my Sultan." "We pray for your health." "I will come to the conservatory one day." "We can play together." "We'll look forward to it, my Sultan." "The tutors will treat us better with you there." "Look, the Sultan is smiling." "She entered the chamber for the first time in months." "I wonder if Hürrem knows." "I'm sure she does." "I wish we could see her face." "Come on girls!" "The tutors are waiting!" "My Sultan, at least have a bite to eat." "No." "Have them take it away." "Excuse me, Gülfem Hatun." "İbrahim Paşa asked me to give you this letter." "What do you want from İbrahim Paşa?" "He is no longer the Concierge." "He is the Grand Vizier." "The representative of our Padishah." "You will burn if you tangle with him." "The Paşa left this morning anyway." "He was afraid." "He ran from me." "You will see who will burn in a minute." "For Allah's sake walk and don't speak." "Hürrem Hatun." "I heard that you got left at the door last night." "Apparently you waited." "Poor girl." "I pity you." "Calm down, Hürrem." "Calm down." "Leave me alone." ""My Sultan." "My Sultan, the master of my heart." "I couldn't find the courage to bid you farewell." "I am going to Parga." "I am going to trace my family." "I am going to suffer my fate and dampen my pain there if I can find them." "Even though I promised you even though I wrested a solution from the depths of hell I lost, my Sultan." "His Majesty's will crushed reality." "Therein lies our despair." "I was unable to wipe away your tears." "I couldn't open the gardens of heaven for you." "The walls of the palace fell upon me." "And I, your helpless servant was left buried under it all, my Sultan." "I can promise you only one thing." "I will love you till my last breath." "I lovingly kiss your hands."" "Your Majesty, Sultan Hürrem is here." "Show her in." "Your Majesty." "By your leave, I have something important to say." "Wait." ""Your Majesty." "I am İbrahim, the son of the Greek fisherman Manolis." "İbrahim, the servant at the Saruhanlı farm whom you met on the hunt in Manisa, at Mount Serdes." "I write this letter as my resignation from all titles and positions that you deemed me worth of." "As I leave on this journey to my family I loyally return unsullied, the great opportunities that were bestowed upon me by the Empire to which my family entrusted me." "Your Majesty." "I will not return from this journey." "Because every moment I spend in your illustrious palace now causes me great sorrow for which I have no words to explain." "The deep love and affection I feel for Sultan Hatice has left me with no other choice." "Being unable to help her in her sorrow and having to witness her suffering from afar is a fate worse than death." "Your Majesty." "I have given up on myself." "And on my position." "Please forgive me." "I sacrifice my future to end Sultan Hatice's tears."" "Your Majesty, is it bad news?" "İbrahim deceived me." "He looked me in the eyes...." "How can this be?" "He's gone, Gülfem." "He's gone." "I have lost him forever." "I'm sure he will be back." "You will see." "He can't be gone forever." "Something must have happened for him to leave so suddenly." "Could he have spoken with His Majesty?" "Let's wait and see." "I'm sure nothing happened." "What if he doesn't return?" "I wish he had taken me with him." "He should have told me." "I would have even gone to hell with him." "My Sultan." "İbrahim wrote the letter?" "Did he deceive you?" "I am sorry." "Are you angry with me?" "Why are you here?" "What is the important thing you want to tell me?" "I came for...." "I came for Sultan Hatice." "I always see that she is so sad." "Her fiancé is very ill." "I wonder if she has another cause for sadness." "How can I help her?" "You may leave if you have finished." "Last night I waited for you until the morning." "Mahidevran was smiling?" "I looked in on her this morning." "She was very happy." "Mashallah, Mustafa is also well." "Inshallah she appreciates the things I have done for her." "Aghas!" "Summon my personal scribe." "I'm going to dictate a letter." "My Valide." "Hürrem, is there something wrong?" "I have an important matter to discuss." "Tell me." "I love Sultan Hatice very much." "I don't want her to suffer, my Valide." "Hürrem Hatun, get to the point." "Stop beating about the bush." "What is it?" "İbrahim Paşa has left." "He left His Majesty a letter and ran off." "I think it is about Sultan Hatice." "What is it?" "What could İbrahim have to do with Hatice?" "Come to your senses." "Don't say such things." "I am saying this to do good." "Sultan Hatice loves İbrahim Paşa too." "They should be united." "Permit it." "It is not your place to speak of such matters." "I will act as if I haven't heard this." "Go and see to your children." "My Sultan." "Don't believe what Hürrem Hatun said." "Call Hatice immediately, Daye." "Mother." "You wanted to see" "Leave us." "Is it true?" "Is what true, Mother?" "İbrahim Paşa left a letter." "In this letter that he wrote to my lion he confessed that he is in love with you." "Hatice, look at me, is it true?" "Did you know of İbrahim Paşa's feelings?" "Answer me." "Do you share his feelings?" "Get out of my sight." "Mother, please listen to me." "Go away." "Are you going to defend yourself when you should be ashamed?" "Disgraceful!" "What a disgrace!" "My Sultan." "They know, Gülfem." "They know everything." "Oh, no!" "I need to speak to His Majesty." "I am going to ask him to forgive İbrahim." "My Sultan." "Inform His Majesty that I am here." "They are to set out immediately and give this to İbrahim Paşa." "Your Majesty." "Sultan Hatice is here." "She requests an audience." "My Sultan." "His Majesty is very busy." "He asks that you return to your chamber." "I must see him." "Didn't you say it was important?" "Of course, I did." "But he said that you are to go." "Remembrance is a secret form of worship for me." "To be cleansed of my sins to return to innocence to pray at the Kaaba...." "I am on the sea where my life changed." "And I look back at my life." "I am İbrahim." "The son of Manolis, born to Sophia, converted in Parga." "I haven't seen my mother's face in 17 years." "I ran from mirrors." "I looked for the missing pieces of my brother, mother and father in my face." "The more I looked, the more I got lost." "I was unable to return." "I knew not where to turn." "I couldn't hold her hands." "The sound of my mother's violin and the epistles I learnt from her in my ears." "I smuggled them out of my childhood homeland." "They are my only inheritance." "I am İbrahim." "What is returning?" "Where does one return to?" "What is the place where one returns to?" "Is there any return?" "Is it possible?" "Or does fate only show the future?" "Is the place one comes from still there waiting?" "Will I be able to see it when I look?" "Is the heart one's compass when returning?" "Will I be able to find the road home without forgetting the way passing through the same ways?" "Will the sea I have crossed the port I arrive at, the home I find waiting remember me?" "Will it embrace you protect and hide you?" "Returning is not a skill." "It is a necessity, İbrahim." "Hatice is crying in her chamber." "But we must both hold strong." "She must learn her lesson." "The matter will be closed and never opened again." "Mother." "The construction of your mosque in Manisa has begun." "They will finish it swiftly, as I promised." "My lion." "Thank you." "You didn't refuse me." "And don't forget that it is Thursday today." "It has been a week since His Majesty spoke to me." "He won't grant me an audience either." "Perhaps you should speak to the Valide Sultan." "Maybe that would be beneficial." "Mother won't look me in the eyes." "Allah help me." "Niko." "What are you wearing?" "Are you rich now, Niko?" "Where is Niko?" "I am Theo." "Niko's brother." "Theo...." "You are alive." "I am Eleni, dear boy." "Eleni." "Do you remember?" "I remember." "It has been many years since they took you away." "We never received word from you." "We thought that you were dead." "We cried so much when you left that day." "Niko never stopped crying." "He cried and cried for days." "Where are they, Eleni?" "They are not in the house." "Where is my mother?" "Manolis should be on the beach." "I await an audience with His Majesty." "İbrahim Paşa has gone to Parga." "I will say that he cannot represent such a great office while he is gone." "Ahmet Paşa." "If only you wouldn't speak of this." "How can we question His Majesty's will?" "Don't be afraid, Paşa." "Nothing will happen to you." "Only to me." "His Majesty will see you in the main chamber, my Paşa." "Wait for me." "I will return with good news, Paşa." "Sultan Hürrem." "Are you well?" "I am well, Ayşe." "What is it?" "Why are you looking at me?" "Is something wrong?" "No." "Thank Allah, I am fine." "Today is Thursday." "His Majesty will be meeting Sultan Mahidevran tonight." "I was just sad for you." "There will be no such meeting." "It will never happen." "Go and tell the waiting concubines not to wait." "If you are so sure...." "All right." "Good day." "Ayşe, what are you doing here?" "The girls are waiting for you." "I am going, Sümbül Agha." "Don't be angry." "Go on!" "Lazy girl!" "Sümbül Agha." "Are you here for me?" "Do you have news?" "My Sultan, I am not here for you." "Why are you not taking an interest in me?" "Or are you a Paşa now?" "Not at all." "It is not my place." "Is there something you need, my Sultan?" "You run to Sultan Mahidevran." "Where is His Majesty?" "Is he coming?" "I do not know." "I must go immediately." "You need not be concerned, my Sultan." "I don't recognise him anymore." "He looks at me in such a way, as if I am not in his thoughts." "Or in his heart." "You cannot imagine how much I begged forgiveness." "He hasn't forgiven me." "He won't forgive me." "That woman has captured his heart and his conscience." "She has put a spell on him." "He will invite you again tonight." "I don't think so." "My Sultan." "His Majesty awaits you tonight." "Mother, I'm coming too." "Mother." "Will you not speak to me?" "Have you turned your back on me like His Majesty?" "One doesn't turn one's back on one's child." "And the child mustn't turn her back on her family or embarrass them." "While we were trying to be open with you and build you a happy future you disregarded us." "My lion is also upset." "We didn't expect this sort of behaviour from you." "Mother." "I would rather die than embarrass you." "I haven't done anything shameful." "It is my fault that my heart beats?" "You explain this by saying that your heart beats?" "Look...." "Can you feel that?" "It's beating." "I would prefer that it stops and the pain ends." "Father." "Father!" "It's me, Theo." "I am İbrahim." "Theo?" "Is it you, my son?" "Is it Theo?" "I am here, Father." "I am here!" "Theo." "My son...." "You are back." "You are back." "Are you contesting my will, Paşa?" "Would I ever question your will, Your Majesty?" "It is not my place." "You selected İbrahim Paşa as Grand Vizier." "I bow before your illustrious will." "I have not managed to convey my thoughts, Your Majesty." "I came for something else." "What is it?" "Tell me, Paşa!" "Your Majesty, forgive me." "It is hard for me to speak of this matter." "Ferhat Paşa, your family's groom...." "I have the deepest respect for Sultan Beyhan." "Are you going to tell me something Ferhat Paşa has done?" "What have you been doing?" "How are you so rich?" "Your clothes are wonderful." "I will tell you everything, Father." "One by one." "But I haven't seen my mother yet." "She wasn't at home." "Let's find her." "Where is Niko?" "Let's find him too." "Father?" "Has Mother gone?" "Your mother has gone to heaven." "It has been ten years since she died." "She waits for me in heaven." "You were always in her prayers and in her dreams." "She raised all the boys in the village who were called Theo." "She hugged them as if she were hugging you." "Look!" "Niko is here." "I have nothing personal against Ferhat Paşa." "But stories are circulating about him." "He put down the Dulkadiroğlu rebellion but he is now called Ferhat Paşa the Cruel." "Such things are said when a rebellion is put down, Paşa." "A rebellion is put down with blood." "You are right, Your Majesty." "If only that was all that was said about him." "While we are at war with the enemy at Rhodes the Paşa set himself up in such a way that his descendants for seven generations will be rich." "Bribery and taxes." "Nepotism." "They are in dire straits." "Tales of these events are not sufficient, Paşa." "Bring me documents so I can take Ferhat Paşa's head." "But remember this." "Sultan Süleyman's scales of justice are never wrong."