Graveyard (Mezarlık)

To the elements it came from Everything will return,

Our bodies to earth, blood to water, heat to FIRE, breath to air.

They were well born, they will be well entomb'd.

Welcome, dear viewers.

We will cover violence against women with Metin Güreli on Sıcak Gündem.

However, I would firstly like to introduce Assistant Professor Erdal Bilgin

who will be joining us on this program from now on.

Welcome.

MEZARLIK GÜNEŞTEN DAHA SICAK

And now

I would like to invite Captain Önem Özülkü to the microphone.

Femicides...

are hate crimes committed by men against women

based on gender

only because they are women.

While the majority of victims are murdered by their close relatives,

six out of a thousand of these are killed by their colleagues

or by their acquaintances.

This is so boring.

Yes, the systematic murder of women is boring, you're right.

Mom, you know I'm not talking about that.

Are you really going to read that?

What should I do, Sude?

The police department's PR team prepared it.

What should I do?

- I'm not keen on it either. - I wonder what else they've written.

Don't Sude.

"The number of femicides..."

compared to 2019...

has in 2020...

seen a substantial...

Decrease.

This is all nonsense. Nothing is decreasing.

- Oh well, I'm running late for school. - Sude.

Sude!

As Captain Önem Özülkü noted,

the police have made great progress in hate crimes against women.

However these accomplishments are only the beginning compared to the achievements

that will be reached in the special crimes unit under Captain Önem's command.

- The Special Crimes Unit... - Hello.

...will be working seamlessly...

- Welcome Captain. - ...together with

its dynamic specialized personnel, a cutting edge lab,

and access to international databases. Thank you.

Captain?

Hello. I am Önem Özülkü.

- Special crimes u... - Welcome. Follow me.

- Why don't we take the lift? - It doesn't go down.

Please.

- You are? - Officer Hasan Duru.

- Are you in SCU? - It's my 33rd year on the force.

I was assigned to the archives two years ago.

- I see, you came from archives? - No. You came to archives.

Don't mind that it says archives. They call it something else on the force.

Welcome to the Graveyard.

Mr. Haluk is unavailable right now, he's on the phone.

Yes.

I'll let our Captain know.

Don't you worry sir, my respects.

"Önem, this time everything will be different.

You'll have all the resources of the force at your disposal."

Don't forget that I outrank you.

I apologize Mr. Deputy Chief.

You screwed me over real good, sir.

It's the best I could do. The force does not want to spend more.

Even so, I've sent you the latest model plasma TV.

Is this a joke to you?

Do you think what I need is a new plasma TV?

Look.

Phones are ringing non-stop to congratulate you.

- Good. - Fine. Right now they're clapping.

But they hope that we'll stumble.

Look Önem.

I took a risk placing you at the head of a unit that was hard enough to assemble.

- So? - You're no longer at the district office.

You'll follow the rules here.

I've read the text you gave me.

- Have you? - Yes I have.

Not all of it. Don't worry, I was scolded for that.

Look, if I didn't think you could make a difference, I wouldn't have chosen you.

I just want you to be more diplomatic.

Okay. I'll be more diplomatic.

How can I solve murders

in the archives with someone waiting to retire?

What do you expect?

Surely not. I've appointed Serdar to your unit.

Just as I taught you in the past, I expect you to do the same.

He's expecting you at the crime scene.

At the crime scene...

- Serdar. - Mr. Prosecutor.

Should I congratulate you or hope that it will pass soon?

Let's not say anything Mr. Prosecutor.

Do you see that female firefighter?

She's carrying more than she can bear.

If she stumbles and falls,

she'll end up hurting herself

as well as others.

- She seems to manage it. - Now...

once the fire is out, yes.

Will she be able to perform as well when she's completely surrounded by fire?

I'm afraid you'll be in the same situation.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Prosecutor Gökhan Demirdelen. I'm on this case.

Glad to meet you.

I need to be at the courthouse.

My clerk is here, you can share your findings with him.

Of course.

Firefighters receive the call at around eight in the morning.

They arrive, put out the fire, and find a fully burnt corpse.

Who owns the factory?

- Have you found out? - We have.

A businessman. Bankrupt, fled the country, no trace.

This place was abandoned and empty for years.

- Was there no groundskeeper? - No.

And no witnesses.

- No. - Önem!

Feriha.

Congratulations on the promotion.

I don't know if we can call it a promotion but thank you anyway.

It's too early to tell the cause or the time of death.

- I don't have enough data yet. - Come on!

Come on! What are you doing?

What are you doing?

Go forward! What are you doing, man?

What the hell?

- Come on! Calm down. - Slow down.

- Calm down! - Hey!

What's going on? Come on we're all in the same boat.

Hasan, come on man, I have work to do.

- Come on. Go inside. - Go on.

They're destroying evidence.

- Are you okay? - I am.

By the way I'm Berk, I was assigned to your team from the criminal bureau.

Nice to meet you.

Berk.

Calm down man.

- Berk. - Hasan.

Weren't you at the Public Order Office?

I was.

- Did you find something? - Fire scene.

Fire scenes compared to other crime scenes

are both more difficult and more specific.

- Right. - Let me explain it like this

if the regular crime scene is a color TV

then the fire scene is a black and white CRT TV.

- 50 shades of gr... - Okay, now look.

Tell us what you've found on this

black and white TV, picture photograph whatever.

- The fire started on the driver's side. - Yes.

Analyzing the hood, we can see that fuel was used

as a combustible. I didn't go inside but I can eliminate the chance of an accident.

I'm sorry.

That's incredible, really.

You're saying it wasn't an accident? It's great to know, right?

And we were about to pass the case to traffic.

I didn't mean it like that.

All right, okay.

It's burnt up. We won't get anything out of it.

- Still, let IT take look at it. - The ID is burnt too.

Mr. Hasan.

What do you think about this?

That woman had a whistle and pepper spray.

So?

So, she was afraid of someone.

The devil wouldn't have thought about it.

Look Önem, do you see inside the lungs?

She breathed hot air during the fire, so her lungs were scorched.

- She was burnt alive. - Yes.

That's not all. She has cracks on her cheekbones.

- Her skull. - Micro cracks on her skull

and two broken fingers.

And my guess is, just before the fire.

So, right before she was killed she was also tortured.

- All right. - Look I found something else.

- See? - The clavicle, is it a healed injury?

- Yeah. - Hmm.

Look at that break at the radius.

I get it.

And around two years ago somebody made her suffer

a very serious trauma.

Her fingerprints are gone.

- Teeth? - Nothing came out of her dental records.

- But... - What's that?

Look.

Can you focus on that?

I'll do you one better.

HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM

Here.

Yes.

Alev Gölpınar. 28 years old.

She was working as assistant guest coordinator at a private TV channel.

We don't have a record of her address since last year.

Mr. Hasan, I'd like you to go over all Alev's records.

Namely the prosecutor's, and the police's.

It's clear she was exposed to violence.

She must've appealed somewhere.

All right?

Serdar.

Analyze all the fuel stations and surveillance cameras