Netflix’s Fatma Season 1, Episode 3 recap: Look at Me

Episode 3 of the Netflix series Fatma begins with the title character, Fatma Yılmaz (Burcu Biricik), still under pressure to make someone snort a poisoned line of cocaine. Additionally, a man named Sidar (Olgun Toker) calls Fatma about her son’s death.

After the attorney for Argah Enterprises informs her of her rights, she makes it clear that she wants nothing to do with the case. She is told that Zafer, her missing husband, had accepted a settlement, but she insists she didn’t know anything about it.

However, he shows her a signed legal document proving he accepted the settlement. Fatma may be a killer (through complicated plot points we saw earlier), but she probably is not lying when she says she does not know about any of it.

Sidar hands her a card and says she has to appeal. Moments later, in the parking deck, armed guards swarm to greet Ekber (Burhan Öçal).

Fatma initially thinks they are there to detain her. She leaves his vehicle as they reach a police checkpoint still inside the garage.

Fatma, her sister, and the butcher in the barn

Next, Fatma meets with Yazar (Uğur Yücel), the author, who indicates that he’s incorporating aspects of their lives into a story he’s writing. Fatma tells him about Zafer accepting the “blood money” settlement, and Yazar consoles her, saying she did not kill her son, Oguz (Mustafa Konak).

Though Fatma considers Zafer a missing person, few people seem as concerned as her about his whereabouts and ultimate fate. That, of course, only adds to the perception of Fatma being almost invisible to others unless they seek to take advantage of her in some cynical, terrible, and pathetic way.

In the next scene, Fatma is babysitting, and the girl she’s watching mentions that she saw a man on the train put his hands on Fatma’s throat. Later, Fatma meets with her sister, Emine (Hazal Türesan), and they rekindle some memories of a dirty butcher in a nearby barn, who had been abusive to them when they were children.

Unfortunately, such scenes have been a rather consistent pattern in Fatma’s life. It’s also part of how her life is increasingly out of control.

Ekber, abuser

Next, some henchman of Bayram (Mehmet Yilmaz Ak) picks Fatma up regarding her new assassination mission. Bayram meets her on a roof, commenting again on her ability to hide in plain sight.

He once again insists that she has to kill Ekber, and it’s possible Bayram knows she’ll be partly willing to follow through due to Ekber’s abusive personality. She initially refuses to go with the henchman but ends up heading over to Ekber’s building.

Fatma meets Ekber, who seems too preoccupied with snorting cocaine for serious conversation (she is supposed to lace the cocaine with poison, according to Bayram). She asks Ekber about Zafer but receives no answers.

Soon after, a sex worker (Didem Inselel) speaks with Fatma about Ekber’s abuse while he sleeps. When Ekber awakens and begins strangling the woman, it reminds Fatma of the butcher in the barn.

She begins fighting him, ultimately stabbing him to death in a storage room with a broken broom handle! So, obviously, this is another man on Fatma’s growing list of “hits.”

Though a person might easily be skeptical of this story’s plausibility, it is sometimes true that people can be forced into crime. In Fatma’s case, the fact that she is ignored makes her a strategic asset to Bayram.

The question is, where does Fatma’s victimization end her criminal wrath begin? At a certain point, it can become harder to say she is a mere passive victim.

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