Midnight At The Pera Palace: Ending Explained! Who Is The Mysterious Girl? Of Turkish Netflix TV Series
The engine of the action of Midnight At The Pera Palace, the Netflix thriller series directed by Emre Sahin, is not a temptation but a compelling need to rewrite events (to interfere with them in an attempt to repair them and restore history). The Turkish opera manages to involve through the suggestive reconstructions of the settings, the story of the costumes, the photography, but above all with a twisted narrative in the continuous search for answers. The protagonist is journalist Esra, an avid reader of Agatha Christie ‘s novels (something she mentions in every possible conversation), played by Turkish small screen star Hazal Kaya who will be our “special correspondent”.
To complete Esra’s long journey through the labyrinths in the time of this first season, it will be necessary to survive the shocks of the earthquakes in room 411 of the Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul, and beyond, where thanks to a magic key everything begins and everything closes in a circular way: Esra drags Ahmet (Tansu Biçer), the director of the Pera Palace (a luxury hotel that secretly hides dozens of portals to other worlds) on a long journey into the past that will change her destiny and that of those around her.
Midnight At The Pera Palace: Ending Explained
The final episode of the series leads the viewer to witness directly the assassination of Peride: the woman known in the history of the present for having informed General Mustafa Kemal of her possible assassination by the British, for a fact that it would lead to the strengthening of the Russian resistance movement. The last chapter begins with a dramatic sequence that takes place on June 22, 1920: Sonya, a hotel maid and former princess, is pregnant with Ahmet, but Halit (Selahattin Pasali) he decides to leave her to go in search of Peride (alias Esra) with whom he is now in love. Out of jealousy, Sonya travels from the future thanks to the portal key stolen the year before from Peride’s diary on the orders of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. The woman returns to the Pera Palace Hotel during the evening of the ball, April 18, 1919. Sonya kills Peride and this murder leads to the complete upheaval of the past.
Halit finds Peris lying on the ground, and next to her body discovers a ring. The ring belonged to Sonya, a family heirloom she was very fond of. Sonya therefore killed Peride due to the presence of Esra who arrives and tampered with the past. In fact if Esra hadn’t arrived in the past, Halit would not have fallen in love with her, and perhaps he would not have left Sonya, even though Halit knew that the woman he had fallen in love with was not Peride because he had seen her corpse, he thought that Esra was the twin sister. This love story between Esra and Halit, which shouldn’t have happened, has led to a different future: Halit decides to abandon Sonya and her son to find Peride/Esra. At this point, since the story has now been distorted by the untimely death of Peride, Esra and Ahmet plan to restore it to protect despite everything, and again, the future of the Turkish national hero and of Turkey itself: Esra should have pretended to be Peride and prevent the attack.
Midnight At The Pera Palace and The Bomb!
After being accused of treason for stealing British weapons, Halit is captured by the Turkish army, so he will not be the man who will assassinate Kemal. George’s new man must be found. However, in the meantime he manages to demonstrate, through overwhelming video evidence, George’s evil plans and also manages to free Halit. When Halit is released, Halit and Esra rush to rescue General Mustafa Kemal. In fact, Esra learned of George’s plan: an explosive connected to the spring of the clock in the mess hall of the ship on which Kemal was traveling would have exploded at 5 pm. Together with Halit, he throws the time bomb into the sea and saves the world from a dictator. Once the story’s “repair” mission is over and, despite loving him, Esra says goodbye to Halit forever the two belong to different places and times and their love does not seem to have a future. Esra and Ahmet decide to finally return to their time, in their present, but once again they find themselves displaced. They cross time and in the last scene they find themselves in 1995, but with a new surprise; in front of them, in the bed of the hotel, there is a little girl with big eyes.
A fact that is linked to the opening of the series: the solitary “midnight” cry of a little girl abandoned in a hotel room. Ahmet immediately realizes who she is. He remembers a small found in a hotel room, which was later sent to an orphanage, his name was Esra. Time travel allowed our heroine to meet herself. An image and a key were left with the little girl: a photo of Madam Eleni accompanied by the unequivocal message “Whoever finds it has the task of saving the child’s mother” to do this she would have to use the key and find the Portal of Truth (which can be used to travel at any time you want). The image also has another clue: the swastika, the Nazi symbol.
Midnight At The Pera Palace: Who Is The Mysterious Girl Who Appears In The Opening Scene Of The Tv Series And Who Reappears In The Finale?
Psychotherapy could help to identify, rediscover and reward one’s inner child, it would perhaps be what the protagonist Esra would need: a young woman who is alone in the world and has only the satchel as a dowry (who has never decided to read) that they left after leaving the orphanage. In the final episode of Midnight At The Pera Palace, however, something more devastating than a session with the psychologist takes place: the protagonist knows face to face with her baby version of her. A situation that does not upset the viewer that much, because the alteration of the past, therefore of the truth, seems to be a constant of the series. We can conclude that Esra was not born in the year 1995, but she was rather “sent to the future” (through the mechanism of time travel).
It was probably born during the Nazi regime, when Jews fled Germany and often took refuge in Istanbul; her parents must have known about the secrets of the Pera Palace, but who were they? Perhaps she is preparing a new mission of repairing the past for Esra and Ahmet and Ahmet will not be able to take the much-desired vacation from the Hotel! Esra, for her part, will necessarily have to find the courage to open the folder of the orphanage, will she find some answers? And, above all, those who loved the love story between the protagonist and the charming Halit (Selahattin Pasali) they wonder if the two will meet again somewhere. Will esra go back to Halit in the past or will the young man look for her in the future? Because there is a way, hidden in the meanders of the Hotel, which also makes it possible to move towards the future and little Esra is proof of this.
