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We've been attacked.
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How does that make you feel?
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I'm scared.
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Which is why the best face we can
project outward now is one of strength.
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-What have you done?
-You can't be here.
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Don't fight it. Keep calm.
You can breathe.
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The new Dawn, just awoken.
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-Something's wrong.
-Something wrong?
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Just a weird feeling.
I'm gonna walk the perimeter.
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Those are corvettes. Gunships.
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Comms buoy's not responding.
It's gone dark.
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It's gotta be connected
to the Vault. The null field's expanding.
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And the very next day,
the Anacreons showed up.
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Once, a man came to
Hari Seldon and asked to be told his fate.
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He wanted to know
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whether the predictive models could chart
the significance of his life.
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But Hari told him only the movements
of masses could be predicted.
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The fate of one individual
will always remain a mystery.
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The clockwork of civilization…
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the rise and fall of cultures…
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causes and worlds…
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These were answers
Hari Seldon had long since unriddled.
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Belief is a powerful weapon.
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That's why the Empire feared
Hari Seldon's predictions so much.
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Empires govern worldly concerns,
but what comes after? Our souls?
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These realms are the purview of faith.
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And faith is a sword
forged in the fires of the infinite.
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Empire?
Do you seek different amusement?
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You'll do. For the routine pleasures
in the routine manner.
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Which pleasures do you prefer, Empire?
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Do you offer the pleasure of nothing?
Is that on the menu?
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Is it true? No one's allowed to touch you?
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Bold, aren't you?
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I have only 24 hours of service to you.
I want to make the most of it.
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Then try to touch me.
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I said try.
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The aura repels kinetic energy.
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I want you to try it again,
with a softer touch.
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Slower.
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Slower.
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So, how…
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…does the rest work?
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What?
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You are required, Empire.
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I understand Empire has
a physiological need for intimacy.
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But the current matter
supersedes this need.
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Ambassador Thanwall.
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Most esteemed Empire, glory to the light--
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Out with it, Ambassador.
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Proxima Opal has passed, Empire.
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Our condolences.
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Condolences. Heartfelt.
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Thank you, Empire.
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Proxima Opal will be missed
and mourned by her flock.
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And now the conclave will elevate
her successor, Zephyr Gilat.
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A capable candidate. We like her.
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Carry our condolences forward, Ambassador.
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And inform Gilat
she's always welcome on Trantor.
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On the topic of a successor, Empire,
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there is some debate.
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Another candidate has been
gaining support.
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Zephyr Halima.
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Halima Ifa does not adhere to
accepted doctrine,
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as have our previous proximas.
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She is advocating for
a return to the Primary Octavo.
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Is she suicidal?
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Who is this woman to question our primacy?
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A-A-Apologies, Empire. I-I--
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-Did you know about this?
-Only moments ago.
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When is Opal's funeral?
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Two days hence, Empire.
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Say nothing of this conversation.
We will contact you shortly.
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I helped install the previous Proxima.
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I'll leave for the conclave
as soon as possible.
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Is that really necessary?
Can't you just holo-cast yourself in?
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Not this time.
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Luminism claims three trillion followers.
This schism requires a personal touch.
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What's the Primary Octavo?
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A heretical scripture. Pre-imperial.
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It directly links the soul
to individuated sentience.
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-What does that mean--
-Individuated sentience.
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Think, Brother Dawn.
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If a soul cleaves only to
an individual being,
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that calls into question
that which cannot be individuated.
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All Cleons are
perfect genetic copies of the first.
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And therefore…
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We don't have souls.
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So, this Halima woman is saying
we're, what?
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Not human?
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Indirectly. But--
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And if the galaxy comes to believe
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their leaders are less than,
rather than more than themselves,
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they may cease to follow.
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We are a glass vessel…
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spun with a fine hand.
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If the pressures inside start to swirl
and we are not uniform…
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we may burst.
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-Who are you?
-Salvor Hardin.
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Warden of Terminus.
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Anacreons aren't allowed on imperial soil.
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What are you doing here?
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Scrapping.
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That's a lot of armor for scrappers.
104
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We're looking for
the ship's navigation module.
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Any critical components were stripped
from this hulk decades ago.
106
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But, again,
a real scrapper would know that.
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You should leave.
Before the Empire catches wind of this.
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My people do not fear the Empire.
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Look, I caught you by surprise
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and now you're improvising.
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But if you were gonna kill me,
you would have already.
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So what's the play?
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That tower. Take us there.
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Why?
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Let me be clear, Warden.
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We know how to use
every resource we come across.
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The children we observed earlier,
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we've seen how they sneak away
just before dawn,
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straying far away from
the rest of your flock.
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If you won't lead us to the tower,
we'll simply utilize one of them.
121
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It's not that simple. We have a fence.
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We're aware of your fence.
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We saw you
perform maintenance on it earlier.
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Which makes you
the perfect person to take us through it.
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To the tower then!
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The fence uses DNA recognition.
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It'll radiate anyone
who isn't in the database.
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I might be able to get one of you in.
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If we walk through together,
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the fence should write off
the second person as an error.
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Then take us all through it.
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This only works once. Maybe.
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The only thing I've ever dragged
through this fence was already dead.
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I can feel you tensing up. Don't.
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If she isn't back within a watch,
we'll raze your city to the ground.
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Go. Get the others.
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Establish a perimeter
and stay out of sight.
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Wanna drive and I'll hold the gun?
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Tell me your name, at least.
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Are we best friends now?
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You've risked a lot coming here.
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We've risked everything, Warden.
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-No. There was a boy in our path!
-Don't get cute. I have eyes.
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The tower's that way.
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I'm taking a shortcut.
Fewer watchmen this way.
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What is that?
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Stop.
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Stop.
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The stories about Salvor Hardin?
They usually begin here.
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The warden and the ghost,
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inexplicably bound together.
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Thanks.
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How did they slip past our radar?
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Flew in the nap of the earth. Maybe.
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Any sign of their ships?
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They claimed to be scrappers.
Said they were after a navigation module.
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-Obviously bullshit.
-We need to contact the Empire.
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We can't do anything
without authorization.
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Come on, Mom.
We're an imperial outpost in name only.
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When was the last time they even
contacted us? A decade ago?
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They won't defend us.
We need to do it ourselves.
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Easy. Violence is the last refuge--
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Of the incompetent, I know.
That's an old man's doctrine.
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It's an observation I made
when I was younger than you.
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Would Hari's plan have assumed
we'd wait for help or act on our own?
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Hari is not here, Mom.
We need to help ourselves.
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Welcome back, best friend.
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You left the conversation just as we were
really getting to know each other.
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Headache?
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Teeth feel like they're falling out?
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What was that cursed thing?
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It was here
when we colonized Terminus.
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Didn't show up on any of our scans.
I guess it didn't show up on yours either.
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Why did it not affect you?
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00:16:11,304 --> 00:16:14,891
Let's just say I'm the last person
on Terminus you wanted to come across.
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So…
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what now, Warden?
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She had a small army with her.
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An-- And their tracks,
some of them were deep.
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Shorter stride lengths.
As if they were carrying heavy equipment.
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Like they're planning on digging in, Dad.
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-Well, what do you wanna do?
-I don't know.
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I've been following my instincts, and--
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I don't know, maybe it was just dumb luck.
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Your instincts didn't just
lead you to the ships.
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They led you to her. And you stopped her.
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If you were better at math,
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you'd know that repeated luck was
more than just luck, Salvor.
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Whether your mother wants
to admit it or not,
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we have been following your lead from
the moment you pulled yourself upright.
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It's no accident
the people made you warden.
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So lead us.
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I have never had the pleasure, Empire.
How may I be of service?
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Captain Obrecht, is it?
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Shadowmaster, Empire.
Shadowmaster Obrecht.
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A fine likeness.
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00:17:28,339 --> 00:17:31,551
What's the protocol for dealing
with a problem palace attendant?
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00:17:31,634 --> 00:17:33,761
What level of attendant,
if I may ask?
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-Someone who works in the garden.
-May I ask the nature of the problem?
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00:17:37,932 --> 00:17:40,393
You may not. I just want her name.
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I can ascertain that, Empire.
Along with anything else you may require.
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That's all for now.
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I saw at least a dozen Anacreons
outside the fence.
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00:17:58,536 --> 00:18:00,455
Travik, take the southern loop.
205
00:18:00,538 --> 00:18:02,206
Kalin, cover the west.
206
00:18:02,289 --> 00:18:06,043
Yate, I want you on the east so you can
spot anyone coming over that ridge.
207
00:18:06,127 --> 00:18:09,881
And if we see any of these guys,
what are we supposed to do?
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00:18:09,964 --> 00:18:10,965
Nothing.
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00:18:11,048 --> 00:18:14,051
Don't shoot at them, don't speak to them.
Just watch 'em and keep me informed.
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00:18:14,135 --> 00:18:16,763
-What's this about Anacreons on Terminus?
-Calls herself Phara.
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00:18:16,846 --> 00:18:19,307
Beyond that,
nothing about her story adds up.
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00:18:19,390 --> 00:18:21,726
If anyone can tell
whether somebody's lying, it's you.
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00:18:21,809 --> 00:18:24,103
That's just the thing.
I can't tell if she's lying
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00:18:24,187 --> 00:18:25,938
or if she's just not telling the truth.
215
00:18:26,022 --> 00:18:27,190
Is there a difference?
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00:18:27,732 --> 00:18:29,901
I've got a plan.
But I'm gonna need your help.
217
00:18:35,990 --> 00:18:38,075
What's this? Torture?
218
00:18:38,159 --> 00:18:40,536
He's my manservant.
219
00:18:40,620 --> 00:18:43,998
Runs and fetches.
Reseals my boots when they need it.
220
00:18:44,082 --> 00:18:49,420
I'm thinking a watch has passed,
as far as my weald-men are concerned.
221
00:18:49,504 --> 00:18:50,880
Why are you really here, Phara?
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00:18:52,381 --> 00:18:54,383
Salvor has a talent for reading people.
223
00:18:55,384 --> 00:18:58,012
It's uncanny, really.
I was just telling her mother about it.
224
00:18:58,513 --> 00:18:59,722
She doesn't believe you.
225
00:18:59,806 --> 00:19:02,475
Well, you told her you're my boss.
Now my praise rings hollow.
226
00:19:02,558 --> 00:19:04,102
What's your interest
in the Foundation Tower?
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00:19:04,185 --> 00:19:08,189
The module. I already told you.
You keep asking me the same questions.
228
00:19:08,272 --> 00:19:11,150
I'm giving you a chance
to give better answers.
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Crowns.
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I know you're after something else.
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00:19:18,282 --> 00:19:22,537
We don't have any Anacreon artifacts,
no heavy weapons, so what--
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This is going in circles.
233
00:19:25,331 --> 00:19:26,332
Explain it to her.
234
00:19:26,833 --> 00:19:28,501
Just give her what she wants.
235
00:19:28,584 --> 00:19:30,670
Your accent's not terrible.
236
00:19:31,087 --> 00:19:33,798
You were taught by someone
in the port city, obviously.
237
00:19:34,632 --> 00:19:36,008
Those lazy vowels.
238
00:19:36,092 --> 00:19:37,510
I'm a trader.
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00:19:38,010 --> 00:19:40,430
I do business with your people
now and then.
240
00:19:40,805 --> 00:19:43,599
Thought I smelled a whiff
of Thespin on you.
241
00:19:43,933 --> 00:19:46,644
I want the navigation module. That's it.
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00:19:46,727 --> 00:19:47,895
Another lie.
243
00:19:48,438 --> 00:19:49,772
You speak Anacreon as well?
244
00:19:49,856 --> 00:19:50,940
Not a word.
245
00:19:51,023 --> 00:19:52,608
-Yet you know I'm lying?
-Cats.
246
00:19:55,069 --> 00:19:56,154
That was a 50-50 chance.
247
00:19:56,237 --> 00:19:57,613
Cats again. Who are you really?
248
00:20:01,242 --> 00:20:03,244
Twenty-five percent chance there.
249
00:20:03,327 --> 00:20:04,620
Now it's back to crowns.
250
00:20:05,997 --> 00:20:08,708
Twelve and a half percent.
And another crown. Why are you here?
251
00:20:09,667 --> 00:20:10,835
Another crown again.
252
00:20:23,931 --> 00:20:28,394
I'd give you the percentage,
but repeated luck is never luck.
253
00:20:33,649 --> 00:20:34,650
Who are you?
254
00:20:35,151 --> 00:20:37,612
We're scrappers. The module.
255
00:20:37,695 --> 00:20:40,740
You're not scrappers. And the navigation
module's a distraction--
256
00:20:40,823 --> 00:20:42,450
Enough of these child games.
257
00:20:42,533 --> 00:20:45,203
Take this Thespin thug off his leash
and let him get on with it!
258
00:20:45,286 --> 00:20:46,287
Your scars…
259
00:20:47,580 --> 00:20:48,581
keloids.
260
00:20:53,503 --> 00:20:54,962
Your left eye…
261
00:20:56,547 --> 00:20:57,548
nano-glass.
262
00:20:57,632 --> 00:21:00,426
You lose it when
the Empire bombed Anacreon?
263
00:21:00,510 --> 00:21:03,679
I imagine you must have been, what,
five, six at the time?
264
00:21:03,763 --> 00:21:08,434
Neutron bombs have a low explosive yield
but a high amount of ionizing radiation.
265
00:21:08,518 --> 00:21:12,563
Now, I know about 50% of the population
died off within a week,
266
00:21:12,647 --> 00:21:15,691
another 20 or 30
within the remaining year.
267
00:21:16,275 --> 00:21:19,028
Odds are you came out the other end
an orphan, right?
268
00:21:20,613 --> 00:21:24,075
Probably lost a mom and dad.
269
00:21:24,909 --> 00:21:27,036
Boiled alive.
270
00:21:28,746 --> 00:21:30,832
Or maybe s-slower.
271
00:21:31,624 --> 00:21:32,625
Cancer.
272
00:21:35,086 --> 00:21:39,882
Thyroid for your mother.
Her voice, it changed before she died.
273
00:21:39,966 --> 00:21:42,593
Who else did you lose? A sister?
274
00:21:47,723 --> 00:21:48,808
A brother.
275
00:21:52,061 --> 00:21:53,729
A little brother.
276
00:22:11,122 --> 00:22:13,458
There's a deadness inside her.
It's like a--
277
00:22:13,541 --> 00:22:16,836
It's like a well with no bottom,
just sucking everything in.
278
00:22:18,504 --> 00:22:19,714
She wants to die.
279
00:22:21,299 --> 00:22:25,011
She wants everyone to die. I felt it.
280
00:22:30,725 --> 00:22:32,977
What she said when she broke,
did you understand any of it?
281
00:22:33,060 --> 00:22:35,688
Some, yeah. It's archaic Anacreon,
not the common vernacular.
282
00:22:35,772 --> 00:22:39,150
Well, she slipped up.
Because I understood something too.
283
00:22:39,942 --> 00:22:43,488
A name I remember from the holos.
Larken Keaen.
284
00:22:47,325 --> 00:22:48,951
During the Anthor Belt dispute,
285
00:22:49,035 --> 00:22:51,287
Anacreon and Thespis brought gifts
to the Emperor.
286
00:22:51,370 --> 00:22:52,872
My people's was the Book of Ablut--
287
00:22:52,955 --> 00:22:55,249
And Anacreon's was a bow
carved for its greatest hunter.
288
00:22:55,875 --> 00:22:57,543
-Larken Keaen.
-Meaning?
289
00:22:57,627 --> 00:22:59,378
Phara's not just some junker.
290
00:23:00,213 --> 00:23:02,090
She's the Grand Huntress of Anacreon.
291
00:23:12,266 --> 00:23:15,520
All this unrest, who's responsible for it?
292
00:23:16,229 --> 00:23:18,856
Sinkers. A nom de guerre.
293
00:23:19,357 --> 00:23:24,904
After the heat sink meltdown on level 77.
It was caused when the Star Bridge fell.
294
00:23:24,987 --> 00:23:28,866
And 35 years later we're still grappling
with the aftereffects.
295
00:23:31,327 --> 00:23:36,499
The businesses of Empire is
a cascade of competing priorities.
296
00:23:37,125 --> 00:23:40,336
Brother Day will need your support
while I tend to the conclave.
297
00:23:41,295 --> 00:23:42,505
It's overwhelming.
298
00:23:42,588 --> 00:23:43,798
For one man.
299
00:23:44,882 --> 00:23:47,427
Fortunately, there are three of us.
300
00:23:47,510 --> 00:23:51,180
Bad tidings also come in threes.
Have you heard the news, Brother?
301
00:23:51,931 --> 00:23:55,852
A communications buoy
in the Arcturus Sector has come off-line.
302
00:23:55,935 --> 00:23:58,896
They must go off-line
all the time, right?
303
00:23:58,980 --> 00:24:01,274
We probably have thousands of them
across the galaxy.
304
00:24:01,357 --> 00:24:02,608
Tens of thousands.
305
00:24:02,692 --> 00:24:05,945
But only one that handles communications
in the Outer Reach.
306
00:24:07,196 --> 00:24:09,532
I see that you fail to grasp
the significance.
307
00:24:10,241 --> 00:24:11,659
It's Terminus.
308
00:24:13,161 --> 00:24:16,706
It's where Brother Dusk exiled
Hari Seldon's followers.
309
00:24:20,418 --> 00:24:25,173
The Reach. The conclave. Insurgency…
310
00:24:26,966 --> 00:24:29,135
Do you see a pattern forming here?
311
00:24:30,136 --> 00:24:31,137
Show them.
312
00:24:33,014 --> 00:24:37,268
Sensing vulnerability, soon other players
will begin to apply downward pressure.
313
00:24:37,935 --> 00:24:42,607
An exhortation from one of the galaxy's
major religions is a given.
314
00:24:42,690 --> 00:24:45,526
Or perhaps a homegrown insurrection
here on Trantor.
315
00:24:46,194 --> 00:24:51,783
If the fall can be accelerated,
can it not also be slowed?
316
00:24:51,866 --> 00:24:52,992
Now look at you, Brother.
317
00:24:53,075 --> 00:24:56,496
So smugly self-assured
atop the middle throne.
318
00:24:56,579 --> 00:24:58,915
I used to practice that smile
in the mirror.
319
00:24:58,998 --> 00:25:01,084
Enough. I know how the scene ends.
320
00:25:01,167 --> 00:25:02,960
But have you embraced its lessons?
321
00:25:03,044 --> 00:25:06,047
Luminism.
The Sinker insurrection happening now.
322
00:25:06,130 --> 00:25:08,674
Seldon all but drew you a to-do list.
323
00:25:09,926 --> 00:25:10,927
And you ignored him.
324
00:25:11,010 --> 00:25:12,637
Because he was a charlatan.
325
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:14,472
You offer nothing new.
326
00:25:15,014 --> 00:25:17,934
Just a younger grape…
327
00:25:18,518 --> 00:25:19,644
from the same vine,
328
00:25:20,144 --> 00:25:22,980
destined for the same old bottle.
329
00:25:23,064 --> 00:25:25,149
You can't save yourselves…
330
00:25:25,233 --> 00:25:27,193
but you can save your legacy.
331
00:25:28,861 --> 00:25:30,905
Hari Seldon is long dead.
332
00:25:32,115 --> 00:25:34,367
Murdered by his protégé, no less.
333
00:25:34,450 --> 00:25:37,078
The man was murdered.
But what about the movement, Brother?
334
00:25:39,330 --> 00:25:41,541
Martyrs tend to have a long half-life.
335
00:25:50,216 --> 00:25:54,137
Thanks to you, we are now staring down
the barrel of a genuine diplomatic crisis.
336
00:25:54,220 --> 00:25:56,180
What was I supposed to do, Lewis?
337
00:25:56,264 --> 00:25:58,057
Let Phara kill me
and then move on to the kids?
338
00:25:58,141 --> 00:25:59,767
You shouldn't have questioned her
without me.
339
00:25:59,851 --> 00:26:01,519
Be glad I did. We know who she is now.
340
00:26:01,602 --> 00:26:03,604
We have leverage.
We can bargain with her people.
341
00:26:03,688 --> 00:26:05,481
If this choice
inflames the city into violence,
342
00:26:05,565 --> 00:26:07,442
you have achieved
elaborate suicide for us all.
343
00:26:07,525 --> 00:26:09,902
Didn't Hari say
the Foundation survives the first crisis?
344
00:26:09,986 --> 00:26:13,781
Yes, he did. But, as I've told you before,
you are an outlier.
345
00:26:13,865 --> 00:26:14,991
-Meaning?
-Salvor.
346
00:26:15,074 --> 00:26:16,659
Meaning that you weren't accounted for.
347
00:26:16,742 --> 00:26:18,202
You have a connection with the Vault
348
00:26:18,286 --> 00:26:20,538
which couldn't have possibly
have been predicted.
349
00:26:20,621 --> 00:26:22,081
You are not baked into the model.
350
00:26:22,165 --> 00:26:23,624
You're saying I'm not part of God's plan.
351
00:26:23,708 --> 00:26:25,960
I am saying psychohistory
can't account for individuals.
352
00:26:26,043 --> 00:26:27,545
So you're saying
I've destroyed God's plan?
353
00:26:27,628 --> 00:26:29,964
-It's time to take a step back, Salvor.
-Step back?
354
00:26:30,047 --> 00:26:32,008
I thought the whole damn point
of the Foundation
355
00:26:32,091 --> 00:26:34,469
was preparing for the unthinkable.
356
00:26:34,552 --> 00:26:36,637
When I asked for more defensive weapons,
357
00:26:36,721 --> 00:26:39,265
you said the likelihood of an attack
seemed remote.
358
00:26:39,348 --> 00:26:41,392
When I wanted to run more drills, nothing.
359
00:26:41,976 --> 00:26:43,770
So here we are now, not prepared.
360
00:26:43,853 --> 00:26:48,065
I might be an outlier, but I'm not
the one screwing up the Plan, Lewis.
361
00:26:55,281 --> 00:26:57,325
Lewis Pirenne, director.
362
00:26:57,408 --> 00:27:01,329
Now, why would the Anacreon Council
send its highest-ranking military officer
363
00:27:01,412 --> 00:27:03,206
to an imperial outpost?
364
00:27:03,289 --> 00:27:05,875
Is that what you're pretending
your little doomsday cult is?
365
00:27:05,958 --> 00:27:07,794
Because I don't see the Empire anywhere.
366
00:27:07,877 --> 00:27:11,464
All I see are academics, laborers
and very few guns.
367
00:27:11,547 --> 00:27:12,840
You took down the comms buoy.
368
00:27:12,924 --> 00:27:16,469
Of course. We wanted to operate
in private, away from prying eyes.
369
00:27:16,552 --> 00:27:19,639
You have to know the Empire will send
someone to investigate eventually.
370
00:27:20,473 --> 00:27:21,766
Or is that the point?
371
00:27:21,849 --> 00:27:23,684
Your women are so much sharper
than your men.
372
00:27:24,894 --> 00:27:28,606
The barbarian kingdoms are exiled.
You have no business here.
373
00:27:30,316 --> 00:27:31,567
"Barbarians."
374
00:27:32,568 --> 00:27:34,862
Just a convenient slur
for anyone not like you.
375
00:27:35,446 --> 00:27:39,033
Trantor left us all here to die.
Your people and mine.
376
00:27:39,117 --> 00:27:40,910
We're just dying at different speeds.
377
00:27:40,993 --> 00:27:42,328
The Foundation isn't dying.
378
00:27:42,412 --> 00:27:45,998
We are fulfilling the mission
Hari Seldon entrusted us with.
379
00:27:46,082 --> 00:27:49,752
Seldon also predicted that the fall
would begin at the edge of the galaxy.
380
00:27:50,878 --> 00:27:52,296
-Here.
-The same science
381
00:27:52,380 --> 00:27:54,382
that saved the Imperial Palace
when the Star Bridge fell
382
00:27:54,465 --> 00:27:55,675
protects Terminus City.
383
00:27:55,758 --> 00:27:57,176
You mean your energy barrier?
384
00:27:58,344 --> 00:28:02,306
A weapon's only as good as
the man who's wielding it.
385
00:28:17,530 --> 00:28:18,781
Kalin, what's your situation?
386
00:28:18,865 --> 00:28:20,783
It's getting pretty crowded over here.
387
00:28:20,867 --> 00:28:23,119
-I think I need backup.
-Not happening.
388
00:28:23,202 --> 00:28:26,497
Salvor saw a dozen. You're telling me
we've got Anacreons all over?
389
00:28:26,581 --> 00:28:29,417
I'm telling you I'm seeing enough guns
to take out the whole town.
390
00:28:30,835 --> 00:28:31,919
Empire.
391
00:28:36,340 --> 00:28:37,550
The matter we discussed?
392
00:28:38,801 --> 00:28:42,388
Her name is Azura Odili.
A palace botanist since the age of 13.
393
00:28:42,972 --> 00:28:46,434
Her father, deceased, was also
an agroecologist in the gardens.
394
00:28:46,976 --> 00:28:50,188
Her mother founded
a school for the ikebana, now closed.
395
00:28:51,647 --> 00:28:53,107
You said there was a problem?
396
00:28:54,776 --> 00:28:58,070
How are problems generally solved
in this situation?
397
00:28:58,821 --> 00:29:03,326
Any manner that achieves its goal.
My job is to eliminate problems, Empire.
398
00:29:15,963 --> 00:29:17,715
Azura Odili.
399
00:29:20,593 --> 00:29:22,595
Oh-dee-lee? Oh-dih-lee?
400
00:29:22,678 --> 00:29:23,763
Dee, Empire.
401
00:29:23,846 --> 00:29:25,765
You were outside my chambers earlier.
402
00:29:27,350 --> 00:29:29,977
-Want to know what you think you saw.
-I saw nothing, Empire.
403
00:29:30,061 --> 00:29:31,813
No. I believe you saw something.
404
00:29:31,896 --> 00:29:34,065
I only see what Empire wants me to see.
405
00:29:34,148 --> 00:29:36,400
I could have you removed
from your station,
406
00:29:37,485 --> 00:29:39,654
sent to scrub the heat sinks on level 80.
407
00:29:39,737 --> 00:29:42,990
I could do worse to you. Much worse.
408
00:29:43,074 --> 00:29:44,283
You know all this.
409
00:29:44,367 --> 00:29:46,869
Empire, Brother Dusk
has asked me to summon you.
410
00:29:46,953 --> 00:29:48,287
Tell him I'm coming.
411
00:29:50,248 --> 00:29:51,749
Remove this entire bed.
412
00:29:52,375 --> 00:29:55,128
From my chambers
the smell of the blossoms is overbearing.
413
00:29:55,211 --> 00:29:58,381
-Empire, you needn't bother with this--
-It's settled. You can go.
414
00:30:02,343 --> 00:30:03,845
Wolvesbreath helps with the pain.
415
00:30:04,679 --> 00:30:06,431
The brownish-green leaves
with the red stripe.
416
00:30:06,514 --> 00:30:08,015
They reduce the swelling and bruising--
417
00:30:08,099 --> 00:30:10,560
I don't recall asking
for your medical advice.
418
00:30:12,437 --> 00:30:13,438
Which?
419
00:30:36,502 --> 00:30:37,628
The pointed leaves.
420
00:30:50,641 --> 00:30:51,642
What is it?
421
00:30:52,143 --> 00:30:53,770
Lupi spiritus.
422
00:30:54,353 --> 00:30:57,857
Wolvesbreath, Empire.
From our medicinal garden.
423
00:30:57,940 --> 00:31:00,735
It's an analgesic and vasodilator.
424
00:31:00,818 --> 00:31:01,903
Is it poisonous?
425
00:31:01,986 --> 00:31:06,240
No. Wolvesbreath is used in tea
as well as tinctures.
426
00:31:06,324 --> 00:31:09,619
It stimulates the blood vessels,
promotes healing--
427
00:31:09,702 --> 00:31:10,870
Eat it.
428
00:31:15,666 --> 00:31:17,585
If you're not dead
within the next few hours,
429
00:31:17,668 --> 00:31:19,796
have a kilogram of these
sent to my quarters.
430
00:31:19,879 --> 00:31:21,089
Of course, Empire.
431
00:31:27,595 --> 00:31:30,348
Laylo Fulham, get your ass back home
this instant!
432
00:31:30,431 --> 00:31:31,432
Are they gonna get through?
433
00:31:31,516 --> 00:31:32,600
Course not.
434
00:31:33,518 --> 00:31:38,815
Go back to your home, people. Please.
It's not safe out here. Back up. Back up.
435
00:31:40,483 --> 00:31:42,110
You need to come out here. Now.
436
00:31:42,193 --> 00:31:43,277
Kind of busy here, Yate.
437
00:31:43,361 --> 00:31:44,904
I know, and I'm still calling.
438
00:31:44,987 --> 00:31:48,157
We've got Anacreon's troops massing
from the east, west, south,
439
00:31:48,241 --> 00:31:49,992
and presumably the north.
440
00:31:51,536 --> 00:31:53,746
Remember how to hold a rifle, old man?
441
00:31:53,830 --> 00:31:54,914
Barrel goes forward?
442
00:31:55,623 --> 00:31:58,376
We've spotted Anacreons
at multiple locations outside the fence.
443
00:31:59,001 --> 00:32:00,753
-I'll go west.
-We'll head north.
444
00:32:01,254 --> 00:32:03,631
I shouldn't leave.
Lewis is completely overmatched in there.
445
00:32:03,714 --> 00:32:05,174
I'll babysit him, I promise.
446
00:32:06,050 --> 00:32:07,218
All right.
447
00:32:08,386 --> 00:32:11,180
Is it true? You got some kind of
Anacreon chieftain in there?
448
00:32:11,264 --> 00:32:12,515
You been drinking, Muller?
449
00:32:12,598 --> 00:32:15,768
It's the end of the galaxy, isn't it?
Hari's prediction's coming true.
450
00:32:15,852 --> 00:32:18,271
You got hold of a bad rumor, Muller.
Local poacher's all.
451
00:32:18,354 --> 00:32:19,939
They're already here, aren't they?
452
00:32:20,815 --> 00:32:23,276
Hey, why don't you just
take a break for a second.
453
00:32:37,915 --> 00:32:38,916
Hey!
454
00:32:39,625 --> 00:32:40,877
I won't hurt you.
455
00:32:44,338 --> 00:32:45,465
Just tell me who you are.
456
00:32:46,382 --> 00:32:47,550
Sal.
457
00:32:48,050 --> 00:32:49,051
Sal.
458
00:32:49,135 --> 00:32:51,637
Sal. Hey, hey. What's wrong?
459
00:32:51,721 --> 00:32:53,681
I was just in the Imperial Library
on Trantor.
460
00:32:53,765 --> 00:32:56,726
-What do you mean you were there?
-I mean I was there. In the stacks.
461
00:32:57,393 --> 00:32:59,520
The ceiling was wooden,
there were all these marble busts.
462
00:32:59,604 --> 00:33:01,189
And there was a boy with a knife.
463
00:33:02,815 --> 00:33:04,984
It was the same boy who
led me to the Anacreons.
464
00:33:06,319 --> 00:33:10,364
It's the Vault. I can feel it, Hugo.
It's trying to tell me something
465
00:33:10,448 --> 00:33:13,493
about the Anacreons and this crisis.
Everything.
466
00:33:13,576 --> 00:33:17,455
Okay, listen to me. I've always said
you should let this planet shrug you off.
467
00:33:18,498 --> 00:33:23,127
But watching you work, where you could
sense what Phara was feeling inside…
468
00:33:24,837 --> 00:33:25,838
that's special.
469
00:33:26,422 --> 00:33:28,091
Other people can't do that, Sal.
470
00:33:28,174 --> 00:33:29,801
I have absolute faith in you.
471
00:33:33,096 --> 00:33:35,890
I have absolute faith in you.
472
00:33:56,202 --> 00:33:58,955
Who among you
is Master Statistician Tivole?
473
00:34:02,959 --> 00:34:06,045
Empire. May the light never dim.
474
00:34:06,129 --> 00:34:07,672
May the light never dim.
475
00:34:07,755 --> 00:34:10,466
-You received my query.
-I did, Empire.
476
00:34:10,550 --> 00:34:12,718
But I can't say yet we have the results.
477
00:34:12,802 --> 00:34:15,847
How long has it been
since Dusk set you to this task?
478
00:34:16,431 --> 00:34:17,557
Three decades?
479
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:21,811
What do you do
in your mausoleum of calculus
480
00:34:21,894 --> 00:34:25,189
if not achieve results?
481
00:34:26,983 --> 00:34:30,486
Progress, then. What is your progress?
482
00:34:31,654 --> 00:34:37,952
We believe the-- the predictive models
of Hari Seldon to be counterfactual.
483
00:34:40,496 --> 00:34:42,665
And you believe this why?
484
00:34:43,332 --> 00:34:48,253
In the 35 years since Seldon uttered
his heretical proclamations,
485
00:34:48,337 --> 00:34:52,759
the Imperium has expanded, rather than
contracted, by every critical metric--
486
00:34:52,842 --> 00:34:53,842
Stop.
487
00:34:55,094 --> 00:34:56,471
Seldon's prophecies.
488
00:34:56,554 --> 00:35:01,184
Speak to me of his math,
this "ordinal analysis."
489
00:35:01,267 --> 00:35:03,936
It's a spread of fortune teller's cards
490
00:35:04,020 --> 00:35:07,982
which Seldon chose
to interpret as divination.
491
00:35:09,608 --> 00:35:13,613
The verification he found
in the regression models is unsupported.
492
00:35:13,695 --> 00:35:17,492
But what of these-- these recent events?
493
00:35:17,575 --> 00:35:18,867
The conclave? Luminism?
494
00:35:18,951 --> 00:35:23,831
Baseless conjecture.
Again, vague and unsupported.
495
00:35:23,915 --> 00:35:27,835
I mean, anyone could predict
a return to orthodoxy.
496
00:35:28,503 --> 00:35:33,132
Psychohistory is the fanciful work
of an old man's imagination.
497
00:35:33,215 --> 00:35:35,843
If it weren't the fanciful work
of an old man's imagination, what then?
498
00:35:35,927 --> 00:35:39,889
What is the likelihood that it's all true?
Every prophecy?
499
00:35:40,723 --> 00:35:42,892
Vanishingly small, Empire.
500
00:35:42,975 --> 00:35:44,310
But not zero.
501
00:35:46,646 --> 00:35:47,897
Correct?
502
00:35:48,856 --> 00:35:50,900
Not zero?
503
00:35:51,651 --> 00:35:54,821
What kind of idiots are you?
504
00:35:54,904 --> 00:35:58,074
A thousand imperial mathematicians…
505
00:35:58,157 --> 00:36:01,035
…can't parse the numbers of one man?
506
00:36:01,119 --> 00:36:05,581
So there's nothing
anyone in the galaxy can do?
507
00:36:08,167 --> 00:36:11,796
Is that what it is?
Is that the best you've got?
508
00:36:13,673 --> 00:36:16,592
Tell me. Tell me!
509
00:36:18,636 --> 00:36:21,389
Tell me!
510
00:36:32,275 --> 00:36:34,569
In the twilight of a man's life…
511
00:36:34,652 --> 00:36:37,321
…when his biography is nearly complete,
512
00:36:37,947 --> 00:36:40,491
he grows desperate to know
the measure of his days…
513
00:36:42,452 --> 00:36:46,080
how his voice compares to
the chorus of those who've come before.
514
00:36:49,625 --> 00:36:52,962
Do I matter? Are my choices my own?
515
00:36:53,755 --> 00:36:57,508
Or is my destiny governed by
an unseen hand?
516
00:37:09,562 --> 00:37:11,647
Brother Day. Come to see us off?
517
00:37:11,731 --> 00:37:14,525
I was paid a visit by your statisticians.
518
00:37:14,609 --> 00:37:17,528
It's remarkable
how self-reinforcing their results are.
519
00:37:17,612 --> 00:37:21,991
I think it's best that you stay
and tend to matters on Trantor.
520
00:37:22,867 --> 00:37:26,454
Empire, a primary Cleon has not left
the bosom of Trantor
521
00:37:26,537 --> 00:37:28,664
since the dawn of the Genetic Dynasty.
522
00:37:28,748 --> 00:37:29,749
Demerzel is right.
523
00:37:30,625 --> 00:37:33,419
We have these protocols in place
for a reason.
524
00:37:33,503 --> 00:37:40,093
And I say our protocols have
made us complacent.
525
00:37:40,802 --> 00:37:42,887
When you sat on the middle throne,
as I do now,
526
00:37:42,970 --> 00:37:45,389
and were debating what to do about
Anacreon and Thespis,
527
00:37:45,473 --> 00:37:48,684
what our response should be,
do you remember what you said?
528
00:37:50,144 --> 00:37:51,145
I do.
529
00:37:52,230 --> 00:37:53,606
Like it was yesterday.
530
00:37:54,190 --> 00:37:55,441
I was seven.
531
00:37:55,525 --> 00:37:58,611
Our eldest brother had argued
for a bout of grace.
532
00:37:58,694 --> 00:38:01,447
You turned to me and said,
"What do you think, Ascending Dawn?"
533
00:38:02,740 --> 00:38:04,242
I knew you were against grace,
534
00:38:04,867 --> 00:38:07,787
that you wanted to bomb
the barbarian kingdoms.
535
00:38:07,870 --> 00:38:12,041
But I was scared. And I dared say so.
536
00:38:12,875 --> 00:38:15,294
Well, I'm not scared anymore.
537
00:38:16,129 --> 00:38:22,009
On your watch, the Star Bridge fell.
And from that scar insurgency was birthed.
538
00:38:22,093 --> 00:38:24,512
On your watch, two worlds were incinerated
539
00:38:24,595 --> 00:38:27,140
with not a care to
innocence or consequence.
540
00:38:27,223 --> 00:38:30,643
On your watch, Hari Seldon
and his followers were allowed to flee.
541
00:38:31,185 --> 00:38:34,605
You have bequeathed me
an Empire rent by impulsive action.
542
00:38:34,689 --> 00:38:38,609
The same will not be said of me.
Not on my watch.
543
00:38:39,193 --> 00:38:41,612
I would save our legacy.
544
00:38:41,696 --> 00:38:42,697
Brother…
545
00:38:44,031 --> 00:38:48,286
you are haunted by
the ghost of a man long dead.
546
00:38:48,369 --> 00:38:50,621
We all are, Brother.
547
00:38:55,251 --> 00:38:57,003
Your watch is over.
548
00:38:58,463 --> 00:39:02,800
You will stay on Trantor, tending to
the wounds you have allowed to fester.
549
00:39:04,051 --> 00:39:05,052
Go.
550
00:39:05,970 --> 00:39:08,431
Return Brother Dusk's belongings
to the palace.
551
00:39:19,650 --> 00:39:23,571
Certainly now the Empire will
no longer be rent by impulsive action.
552
00:39:55,770 --> 00:39:56,896
You summoned me, Empire?
553
00:39:56,979 --> 00:39:59,690
A communications buoy has gone dark
in the Outer Reach.
554
00:40:01,025 --> 00:40:02,485
Take your team and investigate.
555
00:40:03,319 --> 00:40:04,529
At once, Empire.
556
00:40:05,029 --> 00:40:06,030
Dorwin.
557
00:40:06,948 --> 00:40:09,617
Our dispatches from the Foundation
have become sporadic.
558
00:40:09,700 --> 00:40:10,785
Pay them a visit.
559
00:40:10,868 --> 00:40:14,747
And remind the Foundation
that Empire will not be kept in the dark.
560
00:41:18,895 --> 00:41:21,147
-Is that, uh--
-Doesn't look good, does it?
561
00:41:40,041 --> 00:41:44,045
Who is in charge here, Lewis? You?
Or is it the Warden with the coin tricks?
562
00:41:44,128 --> 00:41:46,464
Because it seems
she's managed to complicate matters.
563
00:41:46,547 --> 00:41:48,883
-Let me be clear, Huntress Keaen--
-Grand Huntress.
564
00:41:48,966 --> 00:41:50,510
The only reason we have a crisis
565
00:41:50,593 --> 00:41:54,055
is because you trespassed
on the Emperor's personal domain.
566
00:41:54,138 --> 00:41:57,350
If only Salvor had taken me to the tower
and given me what I'd wanted,
567
00:41:57,433 --> 00:41:59,060
we'd already be off-planet.
568
00:41:59,143 --> 00:42:00,645
The module from our slow ship?
569
00:42:00,728 --> 00:42:03,231
It's not as if
your people have any use for it.
570
00:42:03,731 --> 00:42:07,318
You're marooned on Terminus.
The Empire made sure of that.
571
00:42:07,401 --> 00:42:08,736
Lewis.
572
00:42:09,654 --> 00:42:10,655
Why do you need it?
573
00:42:11,155 --> 00:42:13,366
My people are technologically bankrupt.
574
00:42:13,449 --> 00:42:15,076
We're dying, Director.
575
00:42:15,868 --> 00:42:19,372
We have been ever since the Empire
set our atmosphere on fire.
576
00:42:19,455 --> 00:42:23,292
Half our population lost
for a crime that we were innocent of.
577
00:42:23,376 --> 00:42:25,211
Unlike you, we have ships.
578
00:42:25,294 --> 00:42:28,881
We can leave our poisoned world,
find another star system.
579
00:42:28,965 --> 00:42:32,135
If only we had
the means to navigate the void.
580
00:42:32,218 --> 00:42:33,928
The Empire would crush us
for assisting you.
581
00:42:34,011 --> 00:42:35,763
We're forcing your hand, Director.
582
00:42:36,764 --> 00:42:38,641
Because we have nothing left to lose.
583
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:42,812
You can't play chess with someone
who's willing to set the board on fire.
584
00:42:46,816 --> 00:42:48,860
Is that some kind of flak cannon?
585
00:42:48,943 --> 00:42:51,529
Wasting their time if they think
that's gonna penetrate the fence.
586
00:42:51,612 --> 00:42:55,074
None of this feels right.
Phara is smarter than this.
587
00:42:55,158 --> 00:42:57,577
They took out the comms buoy,
and they came in prepared.
588
00:42:57,660 --> 00:43:00,329
There's a larger strategy here,
and I am missing it somehow.
589
00:43:00,413 --> 00:43:02,665
What if I take my ship,
make a run for the stars, get help?
590
00:43:02,749 --> 00:43:06,127
No, no. They'd shoot you out of the sky
before you ever made it into orbit.
591
00:43:07,170 --> 00:43:08,921
Regretting you didn't bug out
when you had the chance?
592
00:43:09,005 --> 00:43:11,674
Done a lot of foolish things in my life,
Salvor Hardin.
593
00:43:11,758 --> 00:43:13,593
Sticking by your side is not one of them.
594
00:43:14,927 --> 00:43:16,345
Best manservant ever.
595
00:43:27,648 --> 00:43:29,192
The Vault isn't Anacreon…
596
00:43:30,067 --> 00:43:31,110
or alien at all.
597
00:43:31,194 --> 00:43:32,653
It's gotta be connected to Hari.
598
00:43:32,737 --> 00:43:33,738
How do you know that?
599
00:43:33,821 --> 00:43:35,698
Because the vision I saw
when I blacked out,
600
00:43:36,324 --> 00:43:40,953
it was on Trantor in Hari's library,
with a boy holding a knife on me.
601
00:43:41,746 --> 00:43:43,414
What if it was a warning to stay away?
602
00:43:44,665 --> 00:43:46,167
What if Lewis is right?
603
00:43:46,250 --> 00:43:49,378
I'm an outlier, just like he says,
barging around, knocking things over,
604
00:43:49,462 --> 00:43:50,755
screwing up Seldon's plan?
605
00:43:50,838 --> 00:43:53,341
Salvor, what if you are Seldon's plan?
606
00:43:55,593 --> 00:43:59,305
The fate of one individual
will always remain a mystery.
607
00:43:59,388 --> 00:44:03,768
Remember my promise, Warden?
Razing your city to the ground?
608
00:44:03,851 --> 00:44:05,812
But the movements of masses,
609
00:44:05,895 --> 00:44:09,440
the rise and falls of cultures,
causes and worlds…
610
00:44:10,274 --> 00:44:13,444
These were answers
Hari Seldon had long since unriddled.
611
00:44:14,112 --> 00:44:15,404
It's time.
612
00:44:15,488 --> 00:44:19,283
And the beginning of the end,
as befitting its name,
613
00:44:19,367 --> 00:44:21,160
took place on Terminus.