The End (Son)

Between January 9 and June 25, 2012, atv ran Son (English: The End), a Turkish psychological thriller. The series came from Ay Yapım, produced by Kerem Çatay and written by Berkun Oya, with Uluç Bayraktar, the director of Ezel, behind the camera. Built on an entirely domestic screenplay, it was planned as a single 25-episode season. Its signature device is time: the story spans about thirty years and moves from the ending back toward the beginning.

At its center is Aylin, a devoted wife who learns that the husband she married for love has died in a plane crash. She refuses to believe it and sets out to find him, only to discover that her life and marriage rest on a lie. The main cast is Engin Altan Düzyatan, Nehir Erdoğan, Erkan Can, Berrak Tüzünataç and Yiğit Özşener, with Uğur Polat, Aylin Aslım and Ülkü Duru also prominent. Toygar Işıklı composed the music.

Son also traveled: it was sold to 20th Century Fox Television in the United States, which led to an ABC pilot called Runner, though no series was ordered. Rights to local versions were sold in Russia, Spain and France, and a Dutch remake, Flight HS13, appeared in 2018. An Arabic dub, titled "Riddle of the Past", aired on MBC4.