A reader from New York recommended Kalp Atisi (Heartbeat) to me, and on a whim, I clicked play on episode 1. The rest, as they say, is history...
I haven't heard a lot of chatter about the series among English speakers, but since all the full episodes of this Turkish Drama are on YouTube, it's a convenient, easy watch.
Fans of Kuzey Guney may particularly enjoy this series as Oyku Karayel, who played Cemre in Kuzey Guney, gives an outstanding performance.
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-Genre: Romantic Medical Drama
-Lead actors: Gokhan Alkan | Oyku Karaye
-Number of episodes: 28
-Where to watch Kalp Atisi full episodes with English subtitles: YouTube
-English title of Kalp Atisi: Heartbeat
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•Romantic scenes in pink.
•Touching, poignant, great acting, etc. scenes in green. (Also profound words of wisdom.)
•Other important scenes bolded.
**Warning: This guide is FULL of Kalp Atisi (Heartbeat) spoilers** Enjoy!
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Kalp Atisi English Episode Guide
Episode 1
-Meet Eylul, whupping up on mafia guys demanding 'a real doctor'—a man.
-Flashback to 2006: Eylul gets kicked out of high school. Her father dumps her at her grandmother's.
-Meet Ali, handsome young teacher.
-After Eylul steals from a street vendor, she introduces herself to Ali with a kick to his gut.
-Eylul defends a girl who's being bullied in a restroom. Meet Esma.
-Meet Mehmet—as he puts a move on Eylul.
-Eylul gets a taste of Ali's discipline her first day at school.
-59:00 Eylul watches Ali save a pregnant woman in the street.
-1:04:40 Eylul to Ali by the water: “If you're a doctor, why are you teaching here?” (no answer—implication is that he left after some disaster.)
-Eylul to Ali sitting amongst his floor covered in books: “I want to make my grandmother happy. But I don't know where to start.” “Study hard and make good grades.”
-Meet Bahar—the cleverest girl at school—who says to Ali: “...we can marry when I finish university.”
-1:24:20 Sitting at the microscope, the moment Ali and Eylul fell in for each other.
-1:30:35 Eylul to Ali under gazebo in the rain: “I want to become a doctor like you.”
-1:27:00 Bahar creates a 'scandal' bulletin board with photos of Ali with Eylul.
-Eylul carries Bahar out of a burning house.
-1:43:40 Ali visits Eylul in jail. Eylul: “My intuition tells me this is the last time we'll see each other.” “Rub this cream on the burn. The pain doesn't go that quickly, but it gets easier with time.” [Metaphorically speaking of them.]
-Grandmother to Eylul in jail: “I wasn't going to tell you, but I need surgery.”
-Due to the scandal, Ali resigns and leaves.
-Eylul's grandmother dies in surgery under questionable circumstances. Bahar's father is the surgeon.
-2:04:00 Ali to Eylul on the street: “I should have been there for you. Let me stay by your side.” Eylul gets on motorcycle with Mehmet and rides away.
End: 11 years later—Ali gets out of a hospital helicopter and sees Eylul. Ali: “Are you married? Boyfriend? No? Good.”
Episode 2
Opens with Ali getting off helicopter. Bahar to Eylul: “You waiting was in vain. Ali married.”
13:40 Meet no-nonsense doctor, Oguz.
-18:30 Flashback: Ali to Selim: “I'm going to America. Please look after Eylul for me.”
-Ali to Eylul- first conversation: “Why are you giving me the cold shoulder?” “...I think marriage is sacred. Act like it.”
-27:10 Shirtless Ali. Bahar walks in: “I think I deserve to be your assistant.” She kisses him.
-32:00 Ali to Eylul in the rain: “Men tease women they like.”
-Barhar freezes in an emergency case. Eylul steps in and saves the patient.
1:02:00 Eylul drives up in her Porsche. Eylul to Ali, “I don't have a home, so I bought a nice car.”
-1:07:40 crazy man goes on a rampage with an IV stand bar. Hits Ali in leg.
-Bahar's father, Sinan, to Selim the doctor: “You brought Eylul in here, now fire her.”
-Ali's father to Ali eating sandwiches by the water: “I want grandkids. Bahar would make great wife.”
-End: Ali to Eylul, tussling in the boxing ring: “Just so you know, I'm not married.”
Episode 3
-Opens with Eylul and Ali tussling in the boxing ring.
-Eylul makes Ali get an MRI on his leg.
-Eylul performs a complicated head surgery and wins Oguz' respect.
-41:40 Ali to Eylul on park bench: “Letting you go that was the stupidest mistake I ever made.” He takes her hand: “Will you go out with me?”
-Oguz delivers a breach baby; Ali and Eylul tell a boy he has an incurable disease.
-1:40:00 Man in black attacks VIP mafia patient
-End: 1:49:40 Ali finds Eylul on floor of Mafia patient's room. Flashback to him as a child watching his parents die.
Episode 4
-Opens with Ali going into Mafia patients room and finding everybody down—including Eylul.
9:31 Ali hugs Eylul in the elevator after her knife incident in mafia patient's room. She likes it, but isn't sure how to react.
-Eylul resuscitates a newborn in a bag by the dumpster.
-41:00 Ali to Selim: “I won't fight you for Eylul. I won't lose her again.”
-Bahar loses a patient in the ER. Her grandfather to her father Sinan: “If you can't get Ali to marry Bahar, then you and Bahar can pack your bags and leave this hospital.”
-1:21:00 Alp to Eylul & Ali regarding woman who abandoned her child: “My mother abandoned me!”
-1:32:09 Ali removes brain tumor in old man so he can be with the woman he loves. Eylul to Ali: “Thank you. That meant a lot to me.” She kisses him on the cheek. Her first romantic move towards him.
-Angry man shoots Ali's father in a parking garage.
-End: Ali dances with Eylul in the rain, then kisses her.
Episode 5
-Opens with kiss in the rain. Scared, Eylul runs away :(
-In the elevator holding his father's hand, Ali has a flashback to when he lost his parents.
-In front of Eylul's childhood home, she has childhood flashback, parents fighting, father unfaithful.
-Bahar to Eylul: “I kissed Ali first. Tell Eylul he's mine!” They tussle in a fight.
-Alp comes to Esma's cafe and she falls in love at first sight. Funny!
-54:00 Eylul comes out of Ali's father's surgery and Ali hugs her.
-59:00; 1:01:00 Ali rests his head in Eylul's lap on their park bench: “What are you so scared of? Why do you keep running away?” He kisses her fingertips.
-Bahar's grandfather to Sinan: “We'll make Ali get rid of Eylul. Otherwise he'll watch his grandfather go to jail.”
-Mehmet runs after Eylul's car and falls down, grabbing his chest.
-Eylul to Selim by water: “Do you think the feelings a person's been hiding will lose their meaning if they're spoken out loud?” “If they're strong, they won't lose their meaning.”
-Ali to Esma: “...I love Eylul, but I don't understand her. I need help.” She puts the empty cream jar down on the table. “She's carried this all this time?”
Ali pushes the cream jar to Eylul: “Will you marry me?”
End: Dumbfounded from the proposal, Eylul gets a call: “The person who altered the report about your grandmother is...”
Episode 6
-Opens with proposal and man calling Eylul. She rushes off.
-Ali at scene of car accident has flashback to when his parents died in car wreck.
-Eylul talks the car accident woman off the roof ledge from jumping.
-Ali to his father: “Is there something about the man who shot you, that you're not telling me?”
-54:00 Cihan mafia man sends an ambulance full of heart cakes as a thank you to Eylul.
-1:05:20 Eylul encounters her father and stepmother in hospital.
-Ali finds Eylul on rooftop ledge. She tells him about her mother. “Now I know why you resist love.”
-1:26:53 Eylul to Ali in elevator: “Please give it [the cream bottle] back to me.” He teases her and walks away.
-1:32:00 Sinan to Bahar: “I realize I've turned into my father. Forgive me.”
-Eylul encounters her father in the hall: “...I don't ever want to see you again.”
-Murat has motorcycle wreck right in front of Eylul.
Episode 7
Opens with Mehmet's motorcycle wreck.
-18:37 Ali to Eylul sitting on windowsill: “It's ok to be weak. It shows you're human.” Sweet
-44:00 Eylul flashback to her mother bringing her cotton candy, then overdosing on pills.
-53:00 Ali comes to Eylul/Esma's apt and they clean up really fast before letting him in. Funny
-1:03:00 Ali brings a movie to Eylul's. (It's a dvd about an operation.)
-1:05:00 Eylul visits her father at his cafe: “I'll never marry if I have to have you as my family.”
-1:12:30 Flashback: Mehmet being smacked around by bad guys for giving money to Eylul.
-1:18:15 Ali performs brain surgery on a woman who's awake.
-1:34:00 Eylul to Ali in boxing gym: “If you win, I'll go somewhere with you in an hour.”
-Esma's surprise party for Eylul. They have a contest eating hot peppers.
-Ali takes Eylul to amusement park: “My gift to you is your childhood.”
-End: Eylul takes Ali's hand in the park.
Episode 8
-Opens with Ali challenging Eylul to race in the park, then she takes his hand.
-They lay down in the grass, she rests her head on his arm and dreams he's died.
-Alp lands in the hospital from eating so many hot peppers.
-13:50 Eylul hugs Ali from behind.
-24:30 Oguz to Eylul at outdoor table: “I've fallen in love with you.”
-A nurse jumps out upper story window.
-Selim to Eylul: “Leave your patients and go home for a few days.”
-Seaside, Ali questions Sinan: “What really happened in the operation with Eylul's grandmother?” “No doctor is perfect.” Flashback to a time Ali made a mistake and patient died.
-Oguz discovers his sister is abusing his father and stepmother.
-1:35:15 Celebrating the diagnosis of patient, Ali hugs Eylul. Then takes her into a room and holds up a mirror. “See how good we look together?”
-Mehmet's debt collector calls him. “We'll get that money you owe me from that doctor of yours.”
-1:38:15-End Ali wines and dines Eylul by the ocean. Just as he's about to kiss her, someone arrives.
Episode 9
-Opens with almost kiss and thugs stealing their cars.
-The guy who stole Eylul's car gets shot by his brother.
-Mehmet tries to steal Esma's stash of cash, and she locks him in a storage room.
-Mehmet tricks Esma and puts a choke hold on her: “If you come after me, I'll burn this place down.”
-28:35 Ali to Eylul: “Tonight's date was a first. But Mehmet always comes between us and you run away.”
-Eylul to Oguz when he gives her flowers: “I don't believe in relationships. If I did, there's only 1 person in this world I'd choose [Ali].”
-Ali to his dad: “About Serder who shot you...” “If you love the girl, don't dig into these things.”
-Shooter guy in Eylul's office: “I want YOU to help me!”
-1:03:50 Sinan's secretary sits in his lap, and Sinan's father walks in.
-Shooter guy shoots Eylul's father.
-1:22:00 Ali to Eylul: “Your father is ok. …. Let go of the past.” “I don't know how!” She hugs him.
-1:32:30 Eylul to Ali in elevator: “You ask me if I love you—I love you more than anyone, even myself...”
-Medical team runs through parking lot to unload ambulances while shooter is shooting at them from the roof.
-Eylul goes up to roof (by herself) to confront shooter on roof.
-Bahar shot.
Episode 10
-Opens with Bahar getting shot and rushed into ER.
-Melda shot.
-39:00 Bahar dies.
-56:00 Ali rushes up to the roof. Eylul rushes into his arms.
-1:17:20 Bahar's assistant Fatih to Oguz in morgue: “I never had a chance to tell her I loved her.”
-1:28:20 Esma and Eylul grieve in the morgue.
-1:38:00 Eylul to Ali: “Did all of this death happen because of me?” “You're just a doctor and can't save everyone.” He embraces her.
-Sinan looking at CAT scan. “It's Eylul's fault Behar died! She'll pay for this!”
-Bahar's funeral, Sinan embraces Eylul: “You're now my biggest enemy. …. Ali's the son of the man who changed your grandmother's report.”
* Most of the episode was about the shooter roaming the hospital. Disappointing. Lots of implausible scenarios.
Episode 11
-Opens at Bahar's funeral with Sinan whispering in Eylul's ear. Eylul voiceover: “Today was a milestone for me Nothing will be the same from now on.” [seems to be referring to Ali's 'betrayal.']
-6:53 First glimpse of Ipek.
-Eylul happens on a car wreck with pregnant woman.
-Alp sprays his hair silver.
-The wrecked car and trapped man are taken to hospital on tow truck.
-Ipek delivers baby on gurney in front of elevator.
-Ali to Eylul over man trapped in car: “I never give up. I was late once, but never gave up. That's the difference in you and me. I don't give up. I just search for a better way.”
-1:24:00 Ipek to Eylul: “I'm Ipek, your sister.”
-1:39:00 Ali to Eylul: I know you are tired, but I deserve to know. What happened after the funeral?” “If you really want to help me, stay away from me!” He walks away, dejected. Sad.
-1:42:30 Eylul to Ali's father: “Did you have any connection to covering up my grandmother's death?”
-End: Fatih, bereft over Bahar, has a scalpel to the neck of shooter guy-- Ali walks in. At same time Eylul confront Sinan about under-handedness that involves a patient and Mehmet.
Episode 12
Opens with Eylul confronting Sinan in the OR and Ali catching Fatih about to kill shooter guy.
-49:23; 51:00 Ali to Eylul in hospital lobby: “I'm not your toy to come when you say come, and go when you say go.”
-Eylul to Ipek in hall: “I'm not you sister or friend.”
-Alp makes french fries, Esma kisses his cheek.
-1:17:00 Shirtless Ali bandages a cut on his chest.
-Eylul meets with the other doctor in on her grandmother's surgery: “It was no one's fault. We did everything we could.”
-That other doctor to Ali's father: “...I think she believed me. She can never know the truth.” Ali hears.
-1:50:00; 1:54:00 Alp to Esma on a date-- dining al fresco beside the camper/caravan. “I'm starting over. Will you be there with me?” Kiss.
End: Ali to his dad: “...I heard everything in this room today. You're right. I don't look like you!” The dad falls to the floor with heart attack just as Eylul walks in.
Episode 13
-Opens with Ali confronting his father and then his father falling to the floor.
-Eylulk to Ipek in the hall: “You're right, out past isn't our fault, but it happened. We can never be friends.”
-Esma to Eylul after seeing Melda's photo in lobby: “She's the one who conspired against you!”
-44:30 Ali to Eylul on couch: “My wound is fine. Just take care of my heart.”
-1:01:00 Reliving his father's words before surgery, Ali hugs Eylul. “I love you.”
-1:28:40 Alp looks at MRI of his brain and sees a big tumor.
-1:39:30 Shooter guy overdoses on pills as Eylul reads his apology/goodbye letter.
-Bahar's grandfather to Ali's Dad lying in hospital: “...The reason you adopted Ali wasn't out of the goodness of your heart. Tomorrow he'll find out.” The dad tries to get out of bed and dies.
Episode 14
-Opens with Ali's dad dying.
-Ali and Eylul driving away from the funeral, get in wreck with ambulance. They thwart a shooter.
-31:30 Eylul sees Ali with the cream bottle: “I know what's in here. And my answer is yes to your marriage proposal.” “Never stop loving me, Eylul.” He's trying to tell her the truth about his father.
-Explosion in a building. Ali amputates Selim's arm to get him out.
-Ipek realizes her patient is her mother.
-1:34:40 Esra (doctor/Bahar's mother) opens a box with mementos from Bahar's childhood.
-Nerrin, Ipek's mother in hospital bed to Ipek: “Your father did this.”
-1:41:30 Ali to Selim in hospital with bandaged arm: “...Your chances of healing are less than 10%.”
-Eylul to her father at his cafe: “You beat her and then pushed her in front of a bus.”
-End: Eylul, with headache (injury) is driving, Ali calls: “Pull over and stay in the car!” She gets out and falls to the ground.
Episode 15
-Opens with Eylul falling to ground. Ali arrives. Eylul: “What's wrong with me?” “CVO.” “Paralyzed?” “Yes.”
-Ipek to her father on phone: “If you come here to the hospital, I'll hand you over to the police myself!”
16:40 Ali lays down next to Eylul in the hospital bed.
-Ex mafia patient gives Eylul a blue car as a thank you gift.
-Sinan to his father: “Every king should step down and leave it to his son one day.”
-Eylul drives the new car back to patient at a car dealership and gets caught up in a hostage situation.
-Alp to Eylul: “Can I live with you awhile?”
-Ipek call cops on her father for throwing her mother under the bus.
-Ali comforts Selim, who's despairing about losing his arm and job.
-Eylul gets called into the hospital board room by lawyer: “Eylul is the new hospital partner.”
**Most of the episode was the hostage situation at the car dealership.
Episode 16
-Opens with Eylul in Ali's father's office talking to his picture: “You gave me a hospital, but I won't stop coming after you.” Ali walks in. Eylul: “You knew and didn't tell me. I need someone but not you.”
-Sinan swipes contents onto conference room floor: “I won't give this hospital to anyone!”
-Eylul nearly runs down Ali in parking garage. Ali wrestles her: “I killed my own father over this!”
-36:30 Oguz kisses just-awakened Ipek in the operating room.
-Ipek overhears her mother on the phone: “...otherwise I'll tell the police it was you who pushed me.”
-1:08:40 Eylul to Ali in her office: “...I can't take the ring off cause I love you, but I can't forgive you.” Poignant
-Alp, scared about his tumor, on phone with Esma: “... If I ever forget, remind me that I love you.”
-1:25:33 Ali kisses Eylul in the elevator: “I found a cure. It's called love.”
-Ipek's mom's lover buries Ipek alive. Eylul come looking for her.
Episode 17
-Opens with Ali fighting to get permission to operate on 2 brothers whose dad can't pay.
-Ali talks the boys' father off the roof ledge.
-28:00 Ali to people in hospital lobby: “Listen up! This is my fiance!” Under his breath, “Patient responds to treatment #2.”
-Sinan and his father to Oguz: “Side with us and we'll promote you.”
-Alp to Eylul: “I could be blind with the surgery. I can't have surgery unless I see my mom first.”
-Oguz and Ipek's mother frantically dig, but Ipek wasn't buried under the table in the cafe's garden.
-1:27:00 Ali holds a preemie 'kangaroo' style and revives her. Eylul: “You'll make a good father.” “Let's get started!”
-Sinan to Eylul: “Sign these papers to fire Oguz.”
-1:43:00 Alp meets his mother for the first time. (But she's not his real mother....)
-1:56;30 Ali brings Eylul a wedding dress and she tries it on.
End: Oguz and Eylul's father come to her apt with a look of pain. (Implication is that the body found under a bridge was Ipek's)
Episode 18
-Opens with Eylul trying on the wedding dress. Sweet words exchanged.
-Ali comes face to face with his ex-wife. Ex has flashback: “I can't do this marriage anymore, Ali.”
-56:00 Alp goes on a joy ride in red car, then looks over ocean, and takes a 'family' photo.
-Ozgu punches Sinan.
-Nazli (Ali's ex) to a patient in front of Ali: “I had a child. I watched him die 20 minutes after birth.”
1:13:30 Eylul to Ali as Nazli walks away: “What was that?” “My former wife.”
-1:38:00 Alp to Esma on one knee: “If I survive this surgery, will you marry me?”
Eylul voiceover: “New feeling for me—it's called jealousy.”
End: Ipek walks down hall and embraces Eylul.
*Kind of boring episode. All about Ali's ex-wife and looking for Ipek, which ended anticlimactically.
Episode 19
-Opens with Ipek walking down hospital hall and embracing Eylul.
-Ali has dinner with Nazli and her husband Can.
-Ipek in car talking to Oguz: “What are you doing?” “Thinking about you.”
-36:00 Ali delivers a baby in a restaurant.
-Alp to Emsa: “Did I propose you to? No...”
-Nazli's husband to Ali: “I love Nazli. Please, if you can help me, do the operation.”
-1:27:19 Ipek kisses Oguz in parking garage: “You wouldn't shut up.”
-Nazli to Ali after her husband's surgery: “He needs to heal as soon as possible so I can divorce him.”
-1:55:00 Ali to Eylul in decorated elevator: “You look good in this picture.” “We look good in it. …. You never gave up on me.” They exchange rings. Big kiss. Eylul voiceover: “This time I decided to change to protect my miracle.” Sweet scene. She's finally brave enough to be open to him.
Episode 20
-Opens with big elevator kiss, Esma being miffed at Alp, Ali invites Eylul into his house.
-Ali 'helps' Eylul play a claw/fetch arcade game. Ali: “You're so cute I could kiss you again.” Big kiss
-16:30 Oguz flirts with Ipek over a sheep's brain: “It turns to liquid when left to decay.” “Now, I'll... puke.” FUNNY
-Ipek and Eylul renounce their parents after father 'breaks in' to his cafe going after his wife: Ipek: “I hate you! Don't call me again.” Eylul: “You deserve each other.”
-Selim makes a video ad for the hospital.
-Sinan to Nazli: “Ali is your ex-husband? Sure, you can have a job here.”
-51:00 Alp to Esma: “It's too soon for marriage.”
-Ipek, stuck in elevator with patient, freezes with fear.
-Esma stages an engagement ceremony in the ER for Alp.
-End: Melda's father plans to leave a bomb at the hospital to avenge the death of his daughter, but the bomb ends up with Eylul in her car.
Episode 21
-Opens with the bomb exploding and Eylul helping victims on scene.
-Esma's father to Esma” “You're going back to Marmaris with me, and your young man will ask for your hand according to tradition.”
-20:00 Ali to Eylul at the door of his house: “Let's get married tomorrow....I love you.”
-Ali to Nazli outside in the rain after she snuck in his house and made dinner: “Stay away from me!”
- Eylul helps a man who had a chandelier impale his chest.
-Sinan's father schemes to have Sinan committed for rehab to get him out of the way.
-1:07:49 Ali takes Eylul home in a truck full of flowers. “I love you."
-1:21:00 Samo becomes Alp's father to meet with Esma's father. Funny!
-Eylul to Nalzi in hospital hall: “...I left Ali too, but he never left me.”
-Esma's father to Alp: “Esma could marry an orphan but not a liar!”
-Sinan's father to Eylul and Ali: “See these reports? He needs help.” “I'm not signing this. You did it.”
-1:49:00 Eylul's henna night in beautiful red dress. She dances with Ali.
-During the henna night dance, Nazli sends a text to everyone with photo of her kissing Ali.
Episode 22
-Opens with Eylul waking up the morning after her wedding and seeing a pool of blood beside her in the bed. Then it rewinds events to Ali trying on his wedding tux.
-Ali meets Sultan, another man who's a doctor and will be a groom.
-Oguz to Nazli in hospital hall: “Your photography trick won't work. Ali's getting married tomorrow.”
-Girlfriend of Turna, swat police guy, comes in shot.
-25:00 Eylul's father to Eylul outside hospital: “Take this money.” “I needed a father, not money.”
-Sultan 'breaks in' Ali's house.
-59:30 Eylul's henna night, Sultan watching via hidden camera.
-Nazli sends photo of her kissing Ali via text to everyone at the henna party.
-Eylul's father intentionally crashes his car into a tree.
-Sinan hauled off to a clinic.
-1:40:40 Ali and Eylul's wedding. Eylul's dad shows up as does Nazli, but Oguz chases her off.
-Sultan sabotages the bottle of wine in honeymoon suite.
-Eylul wakes up next morning to a pool of blood in bed beside her and the police haul her off.
*Disappointing episode. Could have been some great opportunities to bask in the couple's happiness, but instead, the emphasis is on the schemes of Nazli and Sultan.
Episode 23
-Opens with Eylul being carted away in police car.
-Eylul in interrogation room has visions of Ali and things he's said to her about feeling and pain.
-Sinan goes to Nazli's to hide from his father just before the police pick her up for questioning.
-Ali wakes up in a strange place with a terrible headache.
-Eylul's police van driver has a heart attack and crashes. Eylul keeps him alive. The interrogator policeman now believes she's innocent: “I'll help you find your husband.”
-Eylul sees her father and embraces him. Dad: “I haven't been there before for you, but I'm here now.”
-Eylul and converted police man search for Ali
-Sinan holds a scalpel to his father's neck in car.
-End: Timer counting down, Ali 'on stage' about to die.
*Clichéd' episode.
Episode 24
-Opens with Eylul discovering Ali is chained on a stage being gassed.
-Sultan stages an accident for Eylul's father in a taxi. Ali takes him to ill-equipped hospital.
-Ali to Eylul: “I'm so sorry. I did everything I could, but it wasn't enough to save your father.”
-Eylul to Ali sitting in the shower and then sitting on the bedside. “I don't know if I can forgive or not.”
-Eylul's father's funeral.
-1:36:30 Ali to Zeynep, the doctor at the dumpy hospital: “I've decided to work at this hospital.”
-Ali and Zeynep help a man in the rough neighborhood and gets trapped in the ambulance by mob.
* Slowish episode
Episode 25
Opens with Ali and Zeynep trapped in the ambulance by mob who try to light it on fire.
-9:00 Eylul takes down about 6 thugs with her fighting skills, then hugs Ali.
-23:30 Eylul unloads on Zeynep: “Don't ever forget my father's face and that your mistake killed him.”
-41:00 Selim cooks fish at Ali/Eylul's house.
-57:00 Ali lies down beside Eylul on bed: “No matter where I go, I'll always come back to you.”
-1:09:30 Ribbon cutting at Ali's new hospital.
-Eylul introduced to Siamese Twins.
-Eylul puts the arm lock on what turns out to be her bodyguard.
-Samet pulls scissors out of a guy's brain.
-End Police commissioner calls across the street to Ali: “We found the man who kidnapped you!” He's run over by a thug of Sultan's.
Episode 26
Opens with police commissioner getting hit by truck.
-36:00 Ali to Eylul after she finds gun in the kitchen drawer: “Let's do my favorite thing- hug.”
-Eylul's stepmother to Ali: “YOU killed my husband. You owe me...money.”
-1:21:00 Ali makes it snow for a patient. Eylul to Ali: “I love you more every day.”
-1:44:00 Ali to Eylul at Sultan's party: “My new Year's wish is for Eylul to make me a father.”
-End: All the guests at Sultan's party fall out after drinking.
Episode 27
-Opens with Eylul dreaming of her mother's funeral and hurtful words.
-Eylul at Sultan's party: “...I don't want to be a mother!”
-Everyone at the party ends up in a hospital bed except Ali.
-27:00 Ali to Eylul in their kitchen: “There are other things married couples do... to be parents...”
-34:00 Oguz to Ipek in doctor's locker room: “You have a dark side... You're blaming the victim!”
-Police to Ali: “Our strongest suspect is Fatih.” (Intern doctor who loved Bahar)
-1:15:30 After an argument with Ipek, Eylul walks into the hospital and hugs Ali. “It's good that you're here. Don't go away again.”
-1:36:00 Ali makes Eylul a romantic dinner. “Don't you love me? Why can't I be a father?” Eylul embraces him.
-Sultan to Sinan: “Divide and conquer .... We'll use Zeynep to separate Ali and Eylul.”
-1:44:30 “Rose petals and a note from Oguz fall out of Ipek's locker: “I'm in the operating room.”
-Ipek gives Eylul her mother's suicide note: “I would give up my daughter if you would love me.” (I think that's what it said. Translation was terrible)
-Eylul overhears Ali talking to Selim with the implication that he would leave her if they couldn't have a child. (Again, translation was very bad. But Eylul was devastated at what she heard.)
-Sinan to Sultan in Sultan's father's office: “You're the psycho whose done all this....”
End: Ali goes home looking for Eylul and finds her closet cleaned out.
*Subtitles for this episode were particularly bad...
Episode 28
Opens with Sultan strangling Sinan, who's discovered Sultan is the psycho tormenting Ali.
-Sultan to Sinan: “Both our father's betrayed us. We're just trying to get what we deserve.”
-Eylul visits her maternal grandmother and reads the letter. (Much better translation)
-Ali tracks down Eylul: “Why didn't you tell me you went to your grandmothers. You can't just disappear!”
-41:40 Ali to Eylul in hospital lobby: “I will break down the walls between us.”
-57:00 Selim sees a woman in the lobby and is smitten.
-Sultan to Sinan: [Flashback] “I went to see my father once. He turned his back on me.”
-1:19:00; 1:21:12 Eylul to Ali looking at babies: “We have to break up.”
***It seems like right about here they decided to wrap up the series. The rest was very rushed.
-1:41:44 Ali to Eylul after a successful fetal surgery: “Let's make a baby.”
-1:54:12 After getting drunk and spending the night at Sultan's house, Ipek hugs Oguz and apologizes.
-Ali confronts Sultan: “It's terrible what my father did to you, but...” Sultan arrested.
End: Ali and Eylul hold a dinner party for the gang. They have a 1 year old daughter, and we see flashbacks to each character's wrap up story.
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Post Script:
-My review of Kalp Atisi (Heartbeat) is here.
-For more about the characters and the bios of actors in Kalp Atisi, use Chrome browser and the auto translate option for this article.
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