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I'm responding to the excellent comments that followed my Wednesday recap.

Thanks a bunch, dondi, for filling in Cihan's convo with Alya about their giving Deniz a happy family. I watch with Spanish subtitles, but Telemundo's are far inferior to Uni's. Sometimes they only show 20% of what the character just said. Sometimes I can fill in the rest using logic. Sometimes not.

You know what, I actually kind of bought Fiko's self-defense about having sold Alya for her own good. Maybe the actor is good or maybe I have a soft spot in my heart for "fallen women". Of course, she could have let her leave for free, but that would be unlikely for someone like Fiko, constantly scratching for a living.

I always zone in and make a mental note, dondi, on your uncanny predictions. In this case I'm thinking of the prediction that the rotund man partially shown in Fiko's flashback could matter going forward.

Babachita, I really enjoyed your comment about your dawning awareness of the misogyny in this part of Turkey. I suppose I've sort of just adapted to the way things are shown in Mardin and wondered why Alya didn't catch on faster to the cultural norms there.

Maggie, you're our conscience! You made a very good point about the risk to Deniz growing up with weapons and clan warfare.

Anastasia, you called our attention to the fact that the whole staff couldn't put their heads together and remember Deniz begging to take those carrots to Firfir. But then TNs and dizis are the same in many ways. They are experts in hooking us with some danger to our favorite people in the programs, so we'll keep watching.
 

"CASILLAS"
Howdy from the Alamo City, CarayCaray Family. Here's my super-short recap of last night's episode:
Dondi356, Babachita, Halimacandy, Kat in SC, Kirby, Darcy & Co:
*We see Jaguar violently raping the young girl inside the guesthouse: using his belt in constraining her, then raping her from all angles, etc., both were naked & barefoot during this scene.

*Bloodthirsty Rancho & Crazy Lucy are NUTS. I'm waiting for them to get killed off at some point.

*Hothead Diana still in the cage like a dog.

*Little Miss Buji manages to find a taxi & escape from danger earlier in the episode, she arrives at her mother's office. Ismael & Lizzie ask Little Miss Buji about what happened & other details.

*We see one of the trackers from the backpack of Little Miss Buji being activated, etc.,

*Following the violent rape, we see the young girl traumatized after Jaguar is done violently raping her.

*Crazy Vic & Carlos leave Ofelia's apartment. I think it's safe to say that Ofelia won't be around long once Tiberio & Co., kill her.

*Enfredia speaks with President Carmela over the phone & scolds the President over something I couldn't comprehend.

*One of Rancho's lackeys manages to place one of the cell phones for Hothead Diana to get, before he hurriedly leaves the torture chamber. Lucy is suspicious.

*Slippery Horacio is still Slippery. He's still pissed off about Hothead Diana & Paco having sex, etc.,

*Earlier in the episode, we see General Cifuentes walking in on the private conversation between Roberta & Ligia. I wonder how long before he puts two & two together about them?

*Lucy has her lackeys to hunt down Paco & Angela. It appears both Paco & Angela won't be around much longer (I personally want them GONE).