Hot Skull (Sıcak Kafa)

A NETFLIX SERIES

JABBER 23, JABBER 24 MAY 1ST, MAY 28TH, JUNE 4TH

...breathe through a pen.

It'd feel sweet and sour.

Yes. But we never let them know.

They puff their cigars. Soaking wet.

Black-eyed peas make out at stadiums.

Free will stuffed under the bed, turned into a pulp.

Push it back with a computer nail. Keep it cool.

Do trees threaten parachutes?

Your mother should have told you.

You can run around like headless chickens, but mind your manners.

People are turning into mice at a rate never seen before,

and aphorisms are now worthless.

If I could liquidate my love for art, I could stop eating out of the trash.

But it just doesn't work.

They took my fingers, so I wouldn't be able to count.

But you had no idea

I'd breathe in the dignity the beggars buried deep down.

You're scared to antagonize physics. It can see through your transparency.

Light transmitting...

It's the third week of the month.

No synesthesia for the last five weeks.

Intense dreams and daydreams continue.

Elevated brain activity.

Hallucinations continue.

No epileptic seizures for quite a while.

Stage three.

Fifty seconds of jabbering.

104,1 degrees.

Damn.

A semantic virus.

That's what we first called it when the epidemic started eight years ago.

A plague of insanity that spreads through conversation.

ARDS.

Or, as people call it, jabbering.

The infected start talking nonsense.

That's the first and most important symptom.

Communication channels being shut down, the economic crisis,

the collapse of the entire system, panic, fear, chaos...

The world succumbed to the plague.

...follow all rules and regulations.

Please cooperate with the AEI against the adversaries of the agency.

The five golden rules of isolation...

The much-anticipated cure never came,

and the Anti-Epidemic Institution kept on taking extraordinary precautions.

When they announced they'd create safe zones in the cities,

we knew we had passed the point of no return.

AEI

When they took people away from their families and friends,

when they locked them up behind the walls of quarantine zones,

riots, conflicts, and rebellions broke out all over the country.

QUARANTINE ZONE 17

And one agency saw this as an opportunity to seize power.

The AEI.

Yes, the birds still fly high...

and the sea is still salty.

But nothing is the same anymore.

Neither am I.

My name is Murat Siyavuş.

Stuck between the horrors of the past and the despair of the future.

I don't belong in a world under AEI authority.

A world full of jabberers and people who are afraid of jabbering.

Because I cannot jabber even if I wanted to.

LIFE IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THIS

REMEMBER KOCAELİ!

One afternoon,

a few days into the new year, I saw her for the first time.

What was it that drew me in?

Was it that I was trying to find a way back to my mom's apartment,

where I had taken refuge out of sheer desperation,

and she was peacefully reading her book at that bus stop?

Was it that she reminded me of who I used to be

in a world that was no more?

I stared as if she was a cure,

as if I was witnessing the actualization of a mathematical impossibility,

as if I'd woken up from a beautiful dream only to realize I live in that dream.

Maybe we were 40, 50, or 60 feet apart.

Maybe it was a light year.

Or just a couple of inches.

I felt like crying.

Just so you know, there's no bus service here.

Could a flower that pierced the concrete,

or the love of a beautiful woman,

help a man hold on to life?

Is there still hope?

There's a curfew in place in the safe zones after 6:00 p.m.

There's a curfew in place in the safe zones after 6:00 p.m.

SECURITY

AEI SAFETY ANNOUNCEMENT

Mom.

Sudoku, huh?

Nice!

It's been a while since you got one.

Did you get soap?

What? No.

Makbule is expecting us tomorrow.

SNOWDROP

"Galanthus byzantinus."

What?

Galanthus byzantinus. Did you know it's endemic to Istanbul?

Murat, did you know we're out of soap?

I just got back. Can't leave for a while.

-Out of soap. -Mom, you know the rules.

Look at me.

We're out of soap.

What are you doing?

Hey, leave that Sudoku be!

Move.

I KNOW THERE'S NO BUS SERVICE. THAT'S WHY I WAIT HERE.

THE GIRL WHO WAITS FOR A BUS THAT WILL NEVER COME

MINIMUM COMMUNICATION MAXIMUM SECURITY

DON'T SPEAK UNLESS YOU HAVE TO! NO ENTRY WITHOUT HEADPHONES

ARDS SECURITY SYSTEM

Mom, I wanna go home.

Be patient, honey. We'll go home after we pay.

Stop messing with that!

I already got you one.

-But I wanna go home. -Put them on, and we'll go.

Why are you being like this? Put them on.

-Excuse me. Are you an engineer? -What?

Don't sacrifice the drive for friction for your hatred of cylinders.

Jabberer!

Get out! Go!

No, don't close it. My son is still in there. My son...

Tumble like a trout behind the sacrificial slide.

Open it!

It's stuck!

If the trout is blue bronze, I'm as bright as a knob.

The wind of the train filters the basket.

If you dip into my twisted tundra, it will crack. When it...

Help!

The balance wails when it drizzles.

-Whistling and rain... -Come with me.

Help! Please help!

When the balance shifts, diagonals appear.

Put two onions on it.

After you pass the wiggling reeds, scratch your ear.

-You still... -One more time!

One more time!

-Honey, come here! -Go!

Oh, honey...

What you observe can make a leek commit suicide.

But what you commit to is a wall.

Approach the wall, and look at the egg.

When you do...

You'll see the tip of the pea, but don't listen to its whispers.

What you hear is the bread's perspective.

But when the bread's perspective collides with olive oil, they shrivel up.

When they shrivel up, two buds pop up in their souls...

Fuck.

Damn it.

Fuck.

You idiot!

NO ENTRY WITHOUT HEADPHONES

AEI TIP LINE

-This pine thing is getting difficult. -Not now.

I'm trying to talk to you.

Why do you treat me like a jabberer?

I listen to you when you talk!

AEI

ARDS PATIENT TRANSPORT

-Why are we here? -You're in a good mood today, Chief.

Serhat.

Okan, from the tip line, thought we'd like to see this.

Chief.

Can't you move elsewhere? It's dangerous there.

-What's the case? -A guy with no headphones got exposed.

Then walked away as if nothing happened.

I've never seen such a thing. He didn't get the jabbers.

He shouldn't have made it to the shutters.

He looked like he was begging me not to report him.

Okay, fine.

Get his details.

Chief, the guy saved a kid.

-And the cameras? -I got the store footage.

-Get me the footage from the street. -As you wish.

-Project X. Did you find their addresses? -We're looking into the entire crew.

We look and look...

What's up, Hot Skull?

Better than having Wernicke's aphasia, right?

What was it? Synesthesia, hallucinations, epileptic seizures.

I know.

You've had enough.

Turn yourself in to the AEI, and it'll be over.

Enough.

Oh, Murat. You fool.

How did you drop the ball like that?

Putting your headphones on a kid...

Fuck off!

Murat?

You know where the meds are that Ertem prescribed for you, right?

Good.

WHAT IS PROJECT X? WHAT IS A.R.D.S?

ARTICLES ON ARDS PATIENTS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 7-10

AEI

TA7JG. This is AT9WO.

Are you there, Captain?

AT9WO. This is TA7JG.

Captain is listening.