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Bahar

A few observations before going to bed. Bahar makes friends everywhere she goes! Her cellmates are her new besties. Fortunately Rengin dropped the charges, her stipulation being Timur moves in with her in his former house. She's throwing out all traces of Bahar's existence. Gülçiçek did manage to get some of Bahar and Umay's clothes at least.

Seren has awful parents. Mom is trying to force her into an abortion, dad says she is dead to him (his ex wife's advice. Why is he listening to her?). Now she is mad at Uras and tells him to go to London.

Blondie reports Bahar and is hopeful the board will terminate her. Her hopes materialize.

Nevra gets invited to live with Rengin also. No surprise, she accepts. I thought she was staying with her in her former house. Did Rengin sell it?

Some 18 year old without id collapses in the hospital parking lot. He has a severe infection in his arm. Bahar is working in the ER when he's admitted. Timur and Evren are called and they bump heads on treatment. Blondie is the tiebreaker siding with Evren. They work closely debriding the infection. Bahar looks a bit suspicious.

The kid wakes up while Evren is with him. He asks who is he. Can he call his family. The kid says Evren ...(Whatever his last name is). Is he a long lost son? That question isn't answered. But the kid is worried so Evren calls security. 2 bad guys had seen the kid earlier. While Evren is hugging Bahar, who just got the sack, the guys in blue throwaway scrubs, go into the kids room with a gun. Evren rushes in after them and gets shot in the stomach. The bad guys flee as Bahar rushes to Evren. She tells him she loves him. He is bleeding from the mouth and things don't look good for him.
 

velvet

Here’s a quickie. I have to get up early tomorrow. A beaming Cris tells Alberto she has a plan for the next step in his recuperation. She’s brought his best friend, Felipe, to visit. [It’s not Carlos, as we suspected.] The actor who did a pretty good job of being his buddy is paid double, probably to ensure his discretion.

Clara/Mateo/Marco…Pfft! Mateo sees them canoodling. He brings up a society woman Marco is supposed to be dating. Marco surprises me and goes public in a big way.

Barbie is dating one Theodore Sterling, heir to a banking empire when Enrique shows up at the same bar. He goes into a frenzy and punches Ted.

Valeria seems to at last be ready to move on from Enrique [I know, I know; we thought that SO many times]. He doesn’t help his cause by focusing on Barbie taking half his big bucks.

I’m glad to see Raúl, Ana, and Emilio work on Blanca about getting treatment.

Oops! Valeria steps out of the back of their chauffeured car and drops her pack of birth control pills on the sidewalk. Valentin is very upset. He seems to say that she had tried to infer he was the infertile one.

Alberto realizes that the painting of “the dress” should be red.

Cris gives me chills when she stoops to introduce herself to Albertito.

Lao shows up at Velvet and warmly meets Ana. He gets a rather reluctant apology from Raúl. Later on, Lao comes into the atelier shirtless, and Raúl’s jaw drops.

Enrique tries to convince Cris that Gloria is a parasite. Cris has come to NYC at her brother’s request, probably to get Valeria to change her mind.

Tania has helped “Gabriel” bring his paintings to town. He’s happy to be out and about. After the two leave, some rando walks up and asks if the paintings are for sale.

Sofi is back at Velvet. She gets a warm welcome back from Valeria. She has a meal with Rick and is furious with him for his coldly cutting her off (for her own good, he says). She throws a drink in his face.

Tania’s husband (Jacinto??) is shaking her. He’s furious she put their well-paid gig at risk by taking Alberto to town. He raises his fist, but Alberto intervenes and threatens him.

Barbie and Cris are not as tight as they were before. Cris tries to get her to return to her sociopath brother.

Cris meets with Carlos. She wants to make Mrs. Jones go away.

Cris rags on Tania for letting Alberto out of his cage. Later Cris wants some action, but Alberto is clearly “not that into her”.

In all the gin joints in all the world, Valentin walks into the one where Enrique is drinking. Valentin confides in the worst guy in the world. At first Enrique thinks he knows about the infidelity, but what Valentine discloses is his discovery of the pills.

Barbie, I think, got Cris’s location in Florida off her phone when Cris left the table for a call. She shows up in Florida via Telenovela Express. The evil nurse tries to stop her, but Barbie’s not having it.

Cris has accompanied Alberto to where his paintings are to placate him. There’s a convenient television on a stand in the outdoors and it’s showing an interview with Ana. Alberto is transfixed. Cris is terrified.
 

Bahar

Thank you so much for recapping, Kat!!!

Boy, another jam-packed episode. What rotten parents Seren has. Well, it turns out dad was acting under her mother’s instruction and he’s reluctant about it, but still, he went along with it, and he sure gave poor Seren a major freeze. Why she even cares what the two of them think is beyond me. They’re obviously useless as parents. She should stick with Uras and his mom.

I liked that the women in prison weren’t like the scary ones in the Spanish TNs who are major threats. No, it was the sisterhood, giving counsel and support.

Why would Rengin want Timur’s mom to move in with them? She’s really negative and annoying and also pretty stupid. She’s the one who brought on this whole house disaster.

Bahar had a very bad day. She did get out of jail (poor Evren waited for her all night, and then she wanders off without him) and then she gets let go from her job at the hospital, her life dream.

And then Evren gets shot! I’m worried because Bahar finally said te quiero. Often when there’s a big expression of love like that, tying up a loose end, somebody dies. I can’t imagine this show without Evren, though. And why was the beat-up patient looking for him in particular?