1 00:00:02,961 --> 00:00:04,171 We've been attacked. 2 00:00:05,130 --> 00:00:06,632 How does that make you feel? 3 00:00:06,715 --> 00:00:08,090 I'm scared. 4 00:00:08,175 --> 00:00:12,513 Which is why the best face we can project outward now is one of strength. 5 00:00:14,515 --> 00:00:16,600 -What have you done? -You can't be here. 6 00:00:16,683 --> 00:00:19,019 Don't fight it. Keep calm. You can breathe. 7 00:00:19,728 --> 00:00:22,773 The new Dawn, just awoken. 8 00:00:22,856 --> 00:00:24,691 -Something's wrong. -Something wrong? 9 00:00:24,775 --> 00:00:26,985 Just a weird feeling. I'm gonna walk the perimeter. 10 00:00:27,069 --> 00:00:28,570 Those are corvettes. Gunships. 11 00:00:28,654 --> 00:00:30,531 Comms buoy's not responding. It's gone dark. 12 00:00:30,614 --> 00:00:33,033 It's gotta be connected to the Vault. The null field's expanding. 13 00:00:33,116 --> 00:00:35,118 And the very next day, the Anacreons showed up. 14 00:02:13,341 --> 00:02:17,887 Once, a man came to Hari Seldon and asked to be told his fate. 15 00:02:25,812 --> 00:02:27,021 He wanted to know 16 00:02:27,105 --> 00:02:30,399 whether the predictive models could chart the significance of his life. 17 00:02:35,196 --> 00:02:39,200 But Hari told him only the movements of masses could be predicted. 18 00:02:42,245 --> 00:02:47,125 The fate of one individual will always remain a mystery. 19 00:03:31,043 --> 00:03:33,379 The clockwork of civilization… 20 00:03:36,215 --> 00:03:38,718 the rise and fall of cultures… 21 00:03:41,220 --> 00:03:43,389 causes and worlds… 22 00:03:46,350 --> 00:03:50,104 These were answers Hari Seldon had long since unriddled. 23 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:55,860 Belief is a powerful weapon. 24 00:03:57,612 --> 00:04:01,949 That's why the Empire feared Hari Seldon's predictions so much. 25 00:04:03,618 --> 00:04:09,624 Empires govern worldly concerns, but what comes after? Our souls? 26 00:04:10,374 --> 00:04:12,585 These realms are the purview of faith. 27 00:04:12,668 --> 00:04:17,840 And faith is a sword forged in the fires of the infinite. 28 00:05:03,052 --> 00:05:05,888 Empire? Do you seek different amusement? 29 00:05:05,972 --> 00:05:10,476 You'll do. For the routine pleasures in the routine manner. 30 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,146 Which pleasures do you prefer, Empire? 31 00:05:14,105 --> 00:05:18,317 Do you offer the pleasure of nothing? Is that on the menu? 32 00:05:19,068 --> 00:05:22,071 Is it true? No one's allowed to touch you? 33 00:05:24,991 --> 00:05:26,367 Bold, aren't you? 34 00:05:26,451 --> 00:05:31,205 I have only 24 hours of service to you. I want to make the most of it. 35 00:05:33,916 --> 00:05:35,334 Then try to touch me. 36 00:05:39,130 --> 00:05:40,840 I said try. 37 00:06:08,826 --> 00:06:10,620 The aura repels kinetic energy. 38 00:06:12,705 --> 00:06:17,001 I want you to try it again, with a softer touch. 39 00:06:18,795 --> 00:06:19,796 Slower. 40 00:06:24,342 --> 00:06:25,343 Slower. 41 00:06:42,568 --> 00:06:44,362 So, how… 42 00:06:44,445 --> 00:06:45,488 …does the rest work? 43 00:07:00,962 --> 00:07:02,380 What? 44 00:07:02,463 --> 00:07:04,090 You are required, Empire. 45 00:07:05,508 --> 00:07:09,011 I understand Empire has a physiological need for intimacy. 46 00:07:09,095 --> 00:07:11,722 But the current matter supersedes this need. 47 00:07:25,820 --> 00:07:27,196 Ambassador Thanwall. 48 00:07:28,072 --> 00:07:31,117 Most esteemed Empire, glory to the light-- 49 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:32,743 Out with it, Ambassador. 50 00:07:34,162 --> 00:07:37,165 Proxima Opal has passed, Empire. 51 00:07:37,248 --> 00:07:38,374 Our condolences. 52 00:07:38,458 --> 00:07:40,501 Condolences. Heartfelt. 53 00:07:40,585 --> 00:07:42,462 Thank you, Empire. 54 00:07:42,545 --> 00:07:46,048 Proxima Opal will be missed and mourned by her flock. 55 00:07:46,132 --> 00:07:50,344 And now the conclave will elevate her successor, Zephyr Gilat. 56 00:07:50,428 --> 00:07:52,555 A capable candidate. We like her. 57 00:07:53,055 --> 00:07:55,558 Carry our condolences forward, Ambassador. 58 00:07:55,641 --> 00:07:59,645 And inform Gilat she's always welcome on Trantor. 59 00:07:59,729 --> 00:08:03,608 On the topic of a successor, Empire, 60 00:08:03,691 --> 00:08:06,861 there is some debate. 61 00:08:07,570 --> 00:08:10,865 Another candidate has been gaining support. 62 00:08:12,325 --> 00:08:13,326 Zephyr Halima. 63 00:08:14,368 --> 00:08:18,539 Halima Ifa does not adhere to accepted doctrine, 64 00:08:18,623 --> 00:08:21,250 as have our previous proximas. 65 00:08:21,334 --> 00:08:25,088 She is advocating for a return to the Primary Octavo. 66 00:08:26,506 --> 00:08:27,673 Is she suicidal? 67 00:08:28,716 --> 00:08:30,927 Who is this woman to question our primacy? 68 00:08:31,010 --> 00:08:32,887 A-A-Apologies, Empire. I-I-- 69 00:08:32,970 --> 00:08:35,098 -Did you know about this? -Only moments ago. 70 00:08:35,890 --> 00:08:37,475 When is Opal's funeral? 71 00:08:37,558 --> 00:08:39,268 Two days hence, Empire. 72 00:08:52,406 --> 00:08:55,993 Say nothing of this conversation. We will contact you shortly. 73 00:09:04,460 --> 00:09:06,963 I helped install the previous Proxima. 74 00:09:07,046 --> 00:09:09,549 I'll leave for the conclave as soon as possible. 75 00:09:09,632 --> 00:09:12,468 Is that really necessary? Can't you just holo-cast yourself in? 76 00:09:12,551 --> 00:09:13,553 Not this time. 77 00:09:13,636 --> 00:09:19,434 Luminism claims three trillion followers. This schism requires a personal touch. 78 00:09:27,650 --> 00:09:29,694 What's the Primary Octavo? 79 00:09:30,528 --> 00:09:33,865 A heretical scripture. Pre-imperial. 80 00:09:35,032 --> 00:09:38,161 It directly links the soul to individuated sentience. 81 00:09:38,745 --> 00:09:42,165 -What does that mean-- -Individuated sentience. 82 00:09:42,248 --> 00:09:43,958 Think, Brother Dawn. 83 00:09:44,041 --> 00:09:46,669 If a soul cleaves only to an individual being, 84 00:09:46,753 --> 00:09:50,047 that calls into question that which cannot be individuated. 85 00:09:51,299 --> 00:09:57,513 All Cleons are perfect genetic copies of the first. 86 00:09:57,597 --> 00:09:58,598 And therefore… 87 00:09:59,432 --> 00:10:01,100 We don't have souls. 88 00:10:02,059 --> 00:10:05,188 So, this Halima woman is saying we're, what? 89 00:10:06,689 --> 00:10:07,815 Not human? 90 00:10:07,899 --> 00:10:09,484 Indirectly. But-- 91 00:10:09,567 --> 00:10:11,569 And if the galaxy comes to believe 92 00:10:11,652 --> 00:10:14,864 their leaders are less than, rather than more than themselves, 93 00:10:14,947 --> 00:10:16,657 they may cease to follow. 94 00:10:21,788 --> 00:10:23,247 We are a glass vessel… 95 00:10:24,916 --> 00:10:27,043 spun with a fine hand. 96 00:10:29,712 --> 00:10:34,092 If the pressures inside start to swirl and we are not uniform… 97 00:10:37,303 --> 00:10:38,513 we may burst. 98 00:10:44,644 --> 00:10:46,729 -Who are you? -Salvor Hardin. 99 00:10:48,147 --> 00:10:49,315 Warden of Terminus. 100 00:10:54,362 --> 00:10:56,656 Anacreons aren't allowed on imperial soil. 101 00:11:00,743 --> 00:11:01,828 What are you doing here? 102 00:11:01,911 --> 00:11:03,287 Scrapping. 103 00:11:03,371 --> 00:11:04,831 That's a lot of armor for scrappers. 104 00:11:04,914 --> 00:11:06,916 We're looking for the ship's navigation module. 105 00:11:06,999 --> 00:11:09,877 Any critical components were stripped from this hulk decades ago. 106 00:11:09,961 --> 00:11:12,713 But, again, a real scrapper would know that. 107 00:11:12,797 --> 00:11:16,426 You should leave. Before the Empire catches wind of this. 108 00:11:16,509 --> 00:11:18,428 My people do not fear the Empire. 109 00:11:25,059 --> 00:11:26,060 Look, I caught you by surprise 110 00:11:26,144 --> 00:11:27,520 and now you're improvising. 111 00:11:29,105 --> 00:11:32,275 But if you were gonna kill me, you would have already. 112 00:11:32,358 --> 00:11:33,651 So what's the play? 113 00:11:39,699 --> 00:11:42,201 That tower. Take us there. 114 00:11:42,285 --> 00:11:43,327 Why? 115 00:11:46,164 --> 00:11:48,291 Let me be clear, Warden. 116 00:11:48,374 --> 00:11:51,127 We know how to use every resource we come across. 117 00:11:52,086 --> 00:11:54,380 The children we observed earlier, 118 00:11:54,464 --> 00:11:57,049 we've seen how they sneak away just before dawn, 119 00:11:57,133 --> 00:11:59,635 straying far away from the rest of your flock. 120 00:11:59,719 --> 00:12:04,140 If you won't lead us to the tower, we'll simply utilize one of them. 121 00:12:04,223 --> 00:12:06,434 It's not that simple. We have a fence. 122 00:12:06,517 --> 00:12:07,810 We're aware of your fence. 123 00:12:07,894 --> 00:12:09,896 We saw you perform maintenance on it earlier. 124 00:12:09,979 --> 00:12:13,566 Which makes you the perfect person to take us through it. 125 00:12:14,275 --> 00:12:15,401 To the tower then! 126 00:12:30,249 --> 00:12:32,251 The fence uses DNA recognition. 127 00:12:34,170 --> 00:12:36,339 It'll radiate anyone who isn't in the database. 128 00:12:42,136 --> 00:12:43,596 I might be able to get one of you in. 129 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:44,972 If we walk through together, 130 00:12:45,056 --> 00:12:47,391 the fence should write off the second person as an error. 131 00:12:47,475 --> 00:12:48,643 Then take us all through it. 132 00:12:48,726 --> 00:12:51,145 This only works once. Maybe. 133 00:12:54,690 --> 00:12:57,652 The only thing I've ever dragged through this fence was already dead. 134 00:13:06,244 --> 00:13:10,081 I can feel you tensing up. Don't. 135 00:13:10,164 --> 00:13:14,585 If she isn't back within a watch, we'll raze your city to the ground. 136 00:13:31,018 --> 00:13:32,562 Go. Get the others. 137 00:13:32,645 --> 00:13:34,439 Establish a perimeter and stay out of sight. 138 00:13:44,991 --> 00:13:46,617 Wanna drive and I'll hold the gun? 139 00:13:57,670 --> 00:13:58,963 Tell me your name, at least. 140 00:13:59,922 --> 00:14:01,215 Are we best friends now? 141 00:14:01,716 --> 00:14:03,259 You've risked a lot coming here. 142 00:14:03,342 --> 00:14:05,678 We've risked everything, Warden. 143 00:14:12,769 --> 00:14:16,689 -No. There was a boy in our path! -Don't get cute. I have eyes. 144 00:14:26,866 --> 00:14:27,867 The tower's that way. 145 00:14:27,950 --> 00:14:30,036 I'm taking a shortcut. Fewer watchmen this way. 146 00:14:34,749 --> 00:14:36,167 What is that? 147 00:14:41,130 --> 00:14:42,131 Stop. 148 00:14:47,220 --> 00:14:48,429 Stop. 149 00:14:54,602 --> 00:14:58,064 The stories about Salvor Hardin? They usually begin here. 150 00:14:58,147 --> 00:15:01,442 The warden and the ghost, 151 00:15:01,526 --> 00:15:03,653 inexplicably bound together. 152 00:15:03,736 --> 00:15:04,737 Thanks. 153 00:15:13,704 --> 00:15:15,456 How did they slip past our radar? 154 00:15:15,540 --> 00:15:18,459 Flew in the nap of the earth. Maybe. 155 00:15:18,543 --> 00:15:19,752 Any sign of their ships? 156 00:15:19,836 --> 00:15:23,047 They claimed to be scrappers. Said they were after a navigation module. 157 00:15:23,131 --> 00:15:25,383 -Obviously bullshit. -We need to contact the Empire. 158 00:15:25,466 --> 00:15:26,968 We can't do anything without authorization. 159 00:15:27,051 --> 00:15:28,928 Come on, Mom. We're an imperial outpost in name only. 160 00:15:29,971 --> 00:15:32,265 When was the last time they even contacted us? A decade ago? 161 00:15:32,348 --> 00:15:34,475 They won't defend us. We need to do it ourselves. 162 00:15:34,559 --> 00:15:37,019 Easy. Violence is the last refuge-- 163 00:15:37,103 --> 00:15:39,689 Of the incompetent, I know. That's an old man's doctrine. 164 00:15:39,772 --> 00:15:41,732 It's an observation I made when I was younger than you. 165 00:15:41,816 --> 00:15:45,069 Would Hari's plan have assumed we'd wait for help or act on our own? 166 00:15:45,153 --> 00:15:48,239 Hari is not here, Mom. We need to help ourselves. 167 00:15:52,410 --> 00:15:54,245 Welcome back, best friend. 168 00:15:55,163 --> 00:15:58,458 You left the conversation just as we were really getting to know each other. 169 00:15:58,541 --> 00:15:59,667 Headache? 170 00:15:59,751 --> 00:16:01,627 Teeth feel like they're falling out? 171 00:16:01,711 --> 00:16:03,421 What was that cursed thing? 172 00:16:03,504 --> 00:16:05,506 It was here when we colonized Terminus. 173 00:16:05,590 --> 00:16:09,177 Didn't show up on any of our scans. I guess it didn't show up on yours either. 174 00:16:09,260 --> 00:16:11,220 Why did it not affect you? 175 00:16:11,304 --> 00:16:14,891 Let's just say I'm the last person on Terminus you wanted to come across. 176 00:16:15,933 --> 00:16:16,851 So… 177 00:16:18,144 --> 00:16:19,687 what now, Warden? 178 00:16:21,856 --> 00:16:23,566 She had a small army with her. 179 00:16:23,649 --> 00:16:25,860 An-- And their tracks, some of them were deep. 180 00:16:25,943 --> 00:16:29,405 Shorter stride lengths. As if they were carrying heavy equipment. 181 00:16:29,947 --> 00:16:31,866 Like they're planning on digging in, Dad. 182 00:16:32,366 --> 00:16:34,619 -Well, what do you wanna do? -I don't know. 183 00:16:35,203 --> 00:16:37,121 I've been following my instincts, and-- 184 00:16:37,205 --> 00:16:38,831 I don't know, maybe it was just dumb luck. 185 00:16:38,915 --> 00:16:41,292 Your instincts didn't just lead you to the ships. 186 00:16:41,375 --> 00:16:43,544 They led you to her. And you stopped her. 187 00:16:45,004 --> 00:16:46,339 If you were better at math, 188 00:16:46,422 --> 00:16:49,926 you'd know that repeated luck was more than just luck, Salvor. 189 00:16:50,843 --> 00:16:52,762 Whether your mother wants to admit it or not, 190 00:16:52,845 --> 00:16:56,849 we have been following your lead from the moment you pulled yourself upright. 191 00:16:57,767 --> 00:17:01,437 It's no accident the people made you warden. 192 00:17:02,980 --> 00:17:04,148 So lead us. 193 00:17:16,327 --> 00:17:19,622 I have never had the pleasure, Empire. How may I be of service? 194 00:17:19,705 --> 00:17:20,957 Captain Obrecht, is it? 195 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:24,460 Shadowmaster, Empire. Shadowmaster Obrecht. 196 00:17:24,544 --> 00:17:25,795 A fine likeness. 197 00:17:28,339 --> 00:17:31,551 What's the protocol for dealing with a problem palace attendant? 198 00:17:31,634 --> 00:17:33,761 What level of attendant, if I may ask? 199 00:17:34,512 --> 00:17:37,849 -Someone who works in the garden. -May I ask the nature of the problem? 200 00:17:37,932 --> 00:17:40,393 You may not. I just want her name. 201 00:17:41,018 --> 00:17:44,855 I can ascertain that, Empire. Along with anything else you may require. 202 00:17:44,939 --> 00:17:46,149 That's all for now. 203 00:17:55,450 --> 00:17:58,452 I saw at least a dozen Anacreons outside the fence. 204 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? 208 00:18:09,964 --> 00:18:10,965 Nothing. 209 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. 210 00:18:14,135 --> 00:18:16,763 -What's this about Anacreons on Terminus? -Calls herself Phara. 211 00:18:16,846 --> 00:18:19,307 Beyond that, nothing about her story adds up. 212 00:18:19,390 --> 00:18:21,726 If anyone can tell whether somebody's lying, it's you. 213 00:18:21,809 --> 00:18:24,103 That's just the thing. I can't tell if she's lying 214 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? 216 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? 222 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? 227 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. 229 00:19:11,234 --> 00:19:12,568 Crowns. 230 00:19:15,613 --> 00:19:18,199 I know you're after something else. 231 00:19:18,282 --> 00:19:22,537 We don't have any Anacreon artifacts, no heavy weapons, so what-- 232 00:19:22,620 --> 00:19:23,871 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. 239 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. 242 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.