Lovers & Liars Season 1, Episode 5: Circle of Captivity

Trap

Asya and Ertan, who have long lost their trust in life and people, will unknowingly create their own dilemmas while struggling to stay on their feet in the game they have built. Will Asya and Ertan who are so ambitious that they won’t hesitate to betray others for their own interests be able to emerge victorious from this game they’ve entered, or will the game consume them?

120 min

Trust Game

Hidayet is determined to introduce Asya to his children. This meeting ceremony is laden with new secrets and major events. The Bakizade siblings, who have understood their father’s game, have no intention of losing. Will Koray’s move bring an end to Ertan and Asya and to the game they have built?

125 min

The Key

Asya, who doesn't trust Ertan at all, decides to fend for herself. She needs to find the money quickly to pay off her debt to the loan shark Eyüp. To do this, she secretly begins searching for alternative ways to get the money. Ertan, in his quest to find his mother and recognize the father who abandoned him, has managed to become the Bakizade family's lawyer. However, Kadir, whom he believes to be his father, is not only the family's lawyer but also their accomplice. Ertan is devastated when he learns this. Furthermore, he is pressured by Hidayet to finish the job Kadir started. Enraged by Hidayet's behavior, Ertan decides to exit the game. He will also pay Asya her money. He begins taking all the necessary steps to do so, because remaining in the game has become increasingly dangerous for both of them. But the pit they've fallen into has already turned into a swamp that drags them both deeper and deeper.

131 min

Blank Note

Ertan and Asya are shocked when the DNA results don’t match their plan, sparking conflict with Hidayet’s family. They realize someone else tampered with the results and knows their secret game. As they face new threats and impossible choices, their plan starts to collapse, forcing them to fight for a way out.

134 min

The Most Fragile Feeling: Trust

Ertan and Asya are forced to investigate Kadir’s death together, pushing them to rely on each other while their hidden secrets and growing feelings complicate the game they started. Hidayet tightens control over his family, manipulating his children as Simla follows mysterious clues about Taha. Meanwhile, Asya is cornered into marrying Eymir and, left completely alone, faces a harsh test at the very moment she desperately seeks help.

137 min

The Pit

Asya searches for a way out as fate tightens around her, while Ertan is shaken by unexpected blows and their deepening feelings can no longer be hidden. Hidayet confronts a major betrayal and forms new plans that affect everyone, while Eyüp, believing Asya deceived him, sets out on a dangerous path of revenge. As this threat spreads into Asya’s life, the neighborhood, and even Ertan, it remains uncertain whether Ertan can pull Asya and those he cares about out of this tightening trap.

137 min

Father

Asya and Ertan fight to save Taha from Eyüp’s deadly scheme as events spiral out of control. While Asya’s family confronts the past, Hidayet and Eymir reach the breaking point in their own battles. Amid the chaos, Asya and Ertan’s revealed love faces its greatest test, with a deadly threat closing in.

138 min

A Matter of Jealousy

Asya and Ertan’s marriage shatters the balance within the Bakizade mansion, while Hidayet’s self-sacrifice leaves behind unsettling questions. As Hidayet is hospitalized, a power struggle erupts among the siblings, forcing them to decide whether they can unite against Ertan. While Ertan searches for Eymir with Eyüp’s unexpected support, everyone pursues their own agenda—until Hidayet’s next move rewrites the rules of the game.

126 min

Brother

Hidayet’s decision to hand over his authority to Ertan pushes the Bakizade siblings into openly turning against Ertan and Asya, while the couple remains determined to shoulder this burden together. As the siblings form dangerous alliances to discredit Ertan, Eyüp’s unexpected arrival further escalates tensions. While Ertan fights to protect Asya, newly revealed truths and a carefully laid trap begin dragging them toward a far darker end than they ever anticipated.

138 min

The Photograph

While the Bakizade siblings believe Ertan’s arrest has freed them from him, Asya races to prove his innocence. At the same time, a chain poisoning scandal shakes the Bakizade brand, leading Ertan and Asya to realize they are facing a carefully planned conspiracy. As this crisis threatens to reunite divided siblings, the dangerous closeness between Eymir and Feray, Taha’s decision to leave Simla, and İrem’s desperate fight for Samet push everyone toward an irreversible path.

Grave

Ertan is shaken by a new lead about Kadir’s death just as he begins forming an unexpected bond with his siblings. While he and Asya follow the trail, Simla’s discovery puts Asya at serious risk within the family. As hidden truths surface and loyalties shift, the game Asya and Ertan built reaches its final act—pushing them onto a path with no turning back.

133 min

Children Betrayed by Their Fathers

As Ertan faces the irreversible truth about his father's death, a confrontation with Koray pushes him to the edge. While Asya struggles to keep her siblings together, the Bakizade family is rocked by a sudden crime and Hidayet facing mortal danger. Secret alliances crumble, leading to an inevitable final showdown for Asya and Ertan.

137 min

Like a Scattered Pomegranate

The events of a single night leave lasting fractures in everyone’s lives, as Asya faces her greatest loss and her grief turns into a desire for reckoning. While Ertan struggles to piece together a night he cannot remember, he becomes the prime suspect in two murders. As Hidayet attempts to restore a collapsing order, fragile balances are shaken, and Asya and Ertan move closer to a truth that comes at an inevitable cost.

135 min

No Love Is Real Unless It Is Tested

After the night Koray and İrem are killed, the unanswered gaps leave everyone facing unsettling questions. Asya puts her grief aside to follow her suspicions, only to confront an unexpected truth with Ertan. While Ertan struggles with terrifying gaps in his memory, Taha’s loss of control signals the beginning of a dangerous turn for all.

135 min

We Will Bloom Again

As Eyüp’s plan unfolds flawlessly, Ertan is forced into the heart of a new order inside the Bakizade mansion. Under house arrest, rising tensions push Asya to stay by Ertan’s side while continuing her search for her brother. With hidden truths revealed and sides clearly drawn, secret moves behind closed doors begin to reshape the balance of power.

135 min

Put the Kettle On, We’re Starting Again

After escaping his restraints, Ertan follows new leads with Asya as the operation moves into the field. Asya’s risky initiative threatens to derail the plan, while Hidayet’s tightening control inside the mansion forces sides to be drawn. When a secret contact turns into a looming threat, time begins to run out for Ertan.

141 min

My Dear

A confrontation at the hotel upends the balance between Ertan, Asya, and İbrahim as accusations and illegal ties escalate the tension. Ertan’s growing mistrust pulls him into a dangerous investigation that introduces a new name capable of changing the game. Meanwhile, at the Bakizade mansion, Hidayet’s condition turns the power struggle into a defining choice for the future.

135 min

Love Does Not Bow Down

Ertan follows his heart and opens a new chapter with Asya. Their bond strengthens and they grow closer. However, the sense of sacrifice brewing inside Asya casts a quiet shadow over their happiness. Her mother pulls her one way, and Asya another but Ertan doesn’t hesitate and chooses love. Yet this choice only adds more weight to Asya’s shoulders. At that moment, İbrahim makes a completely unexpected move. He closes the chapter on the relationship he had become obsessed with, but a closed door opens another wide. Hidayet sits Asya down and urges her to marry İbrahim. Emotions and calculations intertwine, and nothing is as simple as it seems anymore.

136 min

Phoenix

As Ertan and Asya navigate their feelings together, the pressure from Hidayet Bakizade reaches its peak. Asya’s collaboration with İbrahim to find out Ertan’s mother’s whereabouts, though seemingly a search for a solution, marks the beginning of a dangerous path. Their stance against Hidayet sets off a chain reaction that shakes not only their own lives but also the lives of everyone connected to them. Amid mounting pressure and exhausting developments, Ertan’s decision signals that their relationship has entered a point of no return.

136 min

Episode 21

The decision that separates Ertan and Asya's paths causes them to question everything they left behind once more. As the distance between them grows with Asya's divorce request, it begins to emerge that some chapters that seemed closed in the past were never actually closed. Despite everything that happened, the duo continues to work together, realizing they are up against a very large criminal organization and following the leads they find. Meanwhile, an unexpected development that arises before Taha and Simla drags them into a great dilemma. In the same days, a detail noticed by Feray is powerful enough to crack open the door to a truth that no one has touched for years.

142 min

Episode 22

As Ertan follows the clues, they lead him to an increasingly darker place, while the developments surrounding the Bakizade Foundation begin to draw attention. Unable to hear from Ertan, Asya pursues her suspicions. Meanwhile, a small detail noticed within the foundation is powerful enough to crack open the door to a truth that has been hidden for a long time. At the end of this story, will the accounts of years finally be settled, allowing the guilty to face their punishment and the good to prevail?

136 min