1 00:00:01,126 --> 00:00:02,920 Previously on Foundation… 2 00:00:03,003 --> 00:00:05,714 The Second Foundation must be kept secret. 3 00:00:05,797 --> 00:00:07,716 I am done being used. 4 00:00:07,799 --> 00:00:08,884 -Stop! Stop! Stop! -I don't-- 5 00:00:10,802 --> 00:00:12,888 We're transferring your nanobots into my blood. 6 00:00:12,971 --> 00:00:14,598 I'm going to go back to the palace, 7 00:00:14,681 --> 00:00:16,058 and I'm gonna be you. 8 00:00:18,310 --> 00:00:19,603 Brother Day will be home soon. 9 00:00:19,686 --> 00:00:21,104 You can plead your case to him. 10 00:00:21,688 --> 00:00:24,024 We can share the Invictus. We can repair it. 11 00:00:28,278 --> 00:00:29,279 Freestone, wait! 12 00:00:29,363 --> 00:00:30,697 Well, this is encouraging. 13 00:00:30,781 --> 00:00:33,450 Seeing you all gathered here gives me hope. 14 00:00:33,534 --> 00:00:35,285 We might actually pull this off. 15 00:00:51,134 --> 00:00:55,805 My mother used to say that going to sleep was a leap of faith. 16 00:00:58,642 --> 00:01:02,604 Our souls wander when we dream, or so she told me. 17 00:01:07,359 --> 00:01:09,486 And if we say our devotions, 18 00:01:10,570 --> 00:01:13,740 our souls will find their way back before we wake. 19 00:01:18,161 --> 00:01:20,872 Climbing from our cradle is another leap. 20 00:01:22,707 --> 00:01:24,626 So is leaving the comfort of home. 21 00:01:28,255 --> 00:01:33,176 For some, it's setting sail, hurtling ourselves into the void. 22 00:01:35,262 --> 00:01:40,683 We send messages into space hoping someone will answer, 23 00:01:41,810 --> 00:01:45,981 praying we find safe harbor over the horizon. 24 00:02:12,340 --> 00:02:14,634 Anacreon and Thespis, 25 00:02:14,718 --> 00:02:17,679 you've been at each other's throats so long, 26 00:02:18,346 --> 00:02:22,058 the origin of your enmity is almost irrelevant. 27 00:02:22,642 --> 00:02:24,603 We have legitimate grounds for our hatred. 28 00:02:24,686 --> 00:02:27,856 The First Betrayal and a thousand atrocities since. 29 00:02:27,939 --> 00:02:29,941 No one knows what really happened that night. 30 00:02:31,651 --> 00:02:33,194 The First Betrayal. 31 00:02:33,778 --> 00:02:38,158 A Thespin king newly wed to an Anacreon huntress. 32 00:02:39,117 --> 00:02:42,996 The two emerging powers of the Outer Reach united in marriage. 33 00:02:43,079 --> 00:02:45,581 Are you gonna teach us our own history now, dead man? 34 00:02:45,664 --> 00:02:48,126 The Thespin dog slit her throat on their wedding bed. 35 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:50,295 So the legend goes. 36 00:02:50,378 --> 00:02:52,589 Are you suggesting our history's wrong? 37 00:02:52,672 --> 00:02:58,261 History is written by the victor, and neither of you seem to be winning. 38 00:02:58,345 --> 00:02:59,804 There was a witness. 39 00:02:59,888 --> 00:03:03,099 The only witness, an Anacreon handmaid who testified 40 00:03:03,183 --> 00:03:06,603 that King Throy un Thark got drunk the night of the wedding 41 00:03:07,395 --> 00:03:11,107 and, in a fit of rage, murdered your huntress. 42 00:03:11,191 --> 00:03:12,901 The handmaid lied. 43 00:03:12,984 --> 00:03:15,570 The nature of the lie is relevant here. 44 00:03:16,446 --> 00:03:19,908 On her deathbed, the handmaid made a confession. 45 00:03:20,617 --> 00:03:24,454 The real murderer was Cleon II. 46 00:03:25,038 --> 00:03:27,999 The first clone in the Genetic Dynasty realized 47 00:03:28,083 --> 00:03:31,169 that a plan could unfold over several lifetimes. 48 00:03:31,253 --> 00:03:33,588 He saw where this new alliance could lead, 49 00:03:33,672 --> 00:03:39,719 so he had his shadowmaster seduce the handmaiden, drug the newlyweds, 50 00:03:39,803 --> 00:03:43,390 murder your huntress and implicate your king. 51 00:03:44,057 --> 00:03:46,518 Why fight two upstart kingdoms 52 00:03:46,601 --> 00:03:51,356 when you can exploit their racial animus and have them fight each other? 53 00:03:53,108 --> 00:03:54,943 The clones played you. 54 00:03:55,819 --> 00:03:59,155 But today, thanks to the Foundation, 55 00:03:59,656 --> 00:04:03,827 we could put back together what Empire has broken. 56 00:04:03,910 --> 00:04:08,498 No. We are not uniting with them now, no matter how this started. 57 00:04:08,582 --> 00:04:11,585 And even if we did, Empire is too strong. 58 00:04:11,668 --> 00:04:13,336 Now you have the Invictus. 59 00:04:13,420 --> 00:04:15,547 The Invictus is only one ship. 60 00:04:15,630 --> 00:04:18,133 One ship can be the first of many. 61 00:04:18,216 --> 00:04:23,054 If both your peoples will set aside hatred in favor of strength, 62 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:25,390 as those poor newlyweds did, 63 00:04:25,473 --> 00:04:30,437 then you'll find here the skills necessary to build more ships. 64 00:04:31,062 --> 00:04:34,608 For the Plan to succeed, the Foundation needs three pillars, 65 00:04:34,691 --> 00:04:37,444 just as a stool needs three legs. 66 00:04:37,527 --> 00:04:40,030 It needs all the children of the Outer Reach. 67 00:04:40,113 --> 00:04:41,615 That is the way I designed it. 68 00:04:41,698 --> 00:04:45,577 So, Hari, you knew the Invictus would be discovered? 69 00:04:46,077 --> 00:04:49,831 Hello, Mari. Good to see you again. 70 00:04:51,791 --> 00:04:52,875 Where's Gaal? 71 00:04:52,959 --> 00:04:54,793 She never made it to Terminus. 72 00:04:55,962 --> 00:04:57,297 And you are? 73 00:04:59,257 --> 00:05:00,342 Salvor Hardin. 74 00:05:01,551 --> 00:05:02,636 Mari's daughter. 75 00:05:03,887 --> 00:05:05,764 I'm the one who opened the Vault 76 00:05:05,847 --> 00:05:08,350 and who wrestled that damn ship onto our doorstep. 77 00:05:08,850 --> 00:05:13,188 Well, Salvor Hardin, it appears thanks are in order. 78 00:05:13,855 --> 00:05:16,316 As to the mystery of the Invictus, 79 00:05:16,399 --> 00:05:19,903 its appearances were one of the first tests I gave my predictive models. 80 00:05:20,403 --> 00:05:24,824 Where others saw chaos, I found a pattern. 81 00:05:25,450 --> 00:05:29,120 I don't understand. We're not revolutionaries. 82 00:05:29,204 --> 00:05:30,789 You said so yourself at the trial. 83 00:05:31,373 --> 00:05:33,750 Well, I might have lied about that. 84 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:54,646 I am grateful, Brother Dusk. 85 00:05:54,729 --> 00:05:57,357 That I saved our dynasty from infiltration? 86 00:05:58,483 --> 00:06:02,946 I wonder, Day, if you'd stayed on Trantor and not traveled to the Maiden, 87 00:06:03,738 --> 00:06:05,865 would you have apprehended his differences? 88 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:11,997 You and I are the same. I have to believe I would have. 89 00:06:14,332 --> 00:06:17,335 The more important question is what do we do now? 90 00:06:18,837 --> 00:06:20,547 You know what we have to do. 91 00:06:36,146 --> 00:06:37,147 Out. 92 00:06:42,235 --> 00:06:44,362 We're still unraveling the exact methodology, 93 00:06:44,446 --> 00:06:48,575 but apparently they corrupted your nanoparticle regimen some time ago. 94 00:06:49,743 --> 00:06:50,952 You're not one of us. 95 00:06:52,537 --> 00:06:55,165 Your DNA has been altered in a dozen ways. 96 00:06:55,665 --> 00:06:57,083 You look like us. 97 00:06:59,586 --> 00:07:01,296 You sound like us, but… 98 00:07:07,969 --> 00:07:09,721 How long have you known? 99 00:07:09,804 --> 00:07:11,181 That I'm different? 100 00:07:13,683 --> 00:07:15,852 I used to steal away and watch holos of you… 101 00:07:18,229 --> 00:07:19,397 eating breakfast, 102 00:07:20,815 --> 00:07:22,275 sitting in the throne room. 103 00:07:22,776 --> 00:07:25,779 I counted how often you smiled at your subjects, 104 00:07:26,446 --> 00:07:29,699 whether you sat with your hands together or apart, 105 00:07:29,783 --> 00:07:31,868 how often you drank from your cup at meals. 106 00:07:32,369 --> 00:07:34,621 I knew even then that I wasn't like you. 107 00:07:36,581 --> 00:07:37,832 But I wanted to be. 108 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:50,011 What are you going to do? 109 00:07:50,095 --> 00:07:52,138 You conspired with insurgents. 110 00:07:52,222 --> 00:07:53,640 I wasn't conspiring. 111 00:07:53,723 --> 00:07:56,268 You trusted your secrets to our enemies and fled the palace. 112 00:07:56,351 --> 00:07:58,728 -She tricked me! -Because she had a foothold in your heart! 113 00:07:58,812 --> 00:08:00,438 And who created that foothold? 114 00:08:01,064 --> 00:08:02,065 Look at us! 115 00:08:02,649 --> 00:08:05,318 We have no mothers, no aunts, no uncles. 116 00:08:05,402 --> 00:08:06,903 We have sex with concubines 117 00:08:06,987 --> 00:08:09,197 whose memories are erased the moment we leave them! 118 00:08:10,282 --> 00:08:12,409 Have you never longed to leave this place? 119 00:08:14,077 --> 00:08:17,914 Have you never felt stifled by the weight of our ascendants? 120 00:08:19,708 --> 00:08:23,128 Can you truly say that all you've ever wanted 121 00:08:23,211 --> 00:08:28,258 was to be an installment in a long, long line of us, 122 00:08:29,718 --> 00:08:32,220 living out a script written centuries ago? 123 00:08:36,683 --> 00:08:39,978 All my life, I've wanted to call you "Father." 124 00:08:41,104 --> 00:08:42,606 But you're not my father. 125 00:08:44,149 --> 00:08:45,984 We're not even people, Day. 126 00:08:47,527 --> 00:08:52,616 We're just… echoes of the first Cleon. 127 00:08:55,410 --> 00:08:58,622 So is a corrupted echo more original than a perfect one? 128 00:09:00,790 --> 00:09:02,876 Or does it fade away to nothing? 129 00:09:11,468 --> 00:09:14,512 So the curation, everything we've been doing here, 130 00:09:14,595 --> 00:09:15,763 has all been for nothing? 131 00:09:15,847 --> 00:09:17,641 Not for nothing, Mari. 132 00:09:18,224 --> 00:09:20,685 Your time here on Terminus hasn't been wasted. 133 00:09:21,394 --> 00:09:23,355 It got you out from under the Empire's grasp. 134 00:09:23,438 --> 00:09:24,439 It hardened you. 135 00:09:24,522 --> 00:09:28,568 But the Foundation was never about curating knowledge. 136 00:09:30,445 --> 00:09:32,280 It was about curating people. 137 00:09:35,450 --> 00:09:37,994 You, the original settlers, 138 00:09:38,536 --> 00:09:43,625 you possess qualities vital in forming the seeds of a new civilization. 139 00:09:44,376 --> 00:09:49,047 And you, Anacreons and Thespins, you are the consummate survivors. 140 00:09:49,714 --> 00:09:52,759 Consigned to history by the Empire and yet, 141 00:09:53,802 --> 00:09:57,013 together, you represent the future. 142 00:09:58,139 --> 00:10:01,393 The human race is an ever-evolving story 143 00:10:01,476 --> 00:10:05,939 told over thousands of years by a countless number of voices. 144 00:10:07,232 --> 00:10:08,441 But for a long time now, 145 00:10:08,525 --> 00:10:12,654 that chorus has been suffocated and quietly erased. 146 00:10:13,238 --> 00:10:17,575 Because under the Genetic Dynasty, there is only room for one story. 147 00:10:17,659 --> 00:10:18,994 One voice. 148 00:10:19,077 --> 00:10:22,998 We cannot become who we must become if the Empire is allowed to persist. 149 00:10:24,583 --> 00:10:27,961 That path leads to the annihilation of the human race. 150 00:10:28,670 --> 00:10:33,633 Even if we embrace this destiny of yours, the Empire will be here within weeks. 151 00:10:33,717 --> 00:10:37,178 He's right. They were already investigating the comms buoy. 152 00:10:37,262 --> 00:10:39,889 It's only a matter of time before they send reinforcements. 153 00:10:39,973 --> 00:10:45,228 The Empire won't come. Not yet. Not if they think you're already dead. 154 00:10:45,729 --> 00:10:49,024 Take the Invictus to the far side of your star, 155 00:10:49,107 --> 00:10:53,778 activate the quantum drive, but maintain your position in subspace-- 156 00:10:53,862 --> 00:10:56,239 The energy signature would read as a mega-flare. 157 00:10:57,741 --> 00:10:59,701 A mega-flare would wipe out all life in the system. 158 00:10:59,784 --> 00:11:02,954 The Empire comprises tens of thousands of worlds. 159 00:11:03,038 --> 00:11:06,291 A dangerous star with dead planets in a distant arm of the galaxy 160 00:11:06,374 --> 00:11:10,545 won't merit further investigation even if it did once host the Foundation. 161 00:11:11,254 --> 00:11:13,715 It could work. It could. 162 00:11:14,215 --> 00:11:16,426 As long as don't we stray beyond the Outer Reach, 163 00:11:17,427 --> 00:11:18,803 we'd be invisible to them. 164 00:11:18,887 --> 00:11:20,055 We'd be free. 165 00:11:20,138 --> 00:11:21,431 You'd be free, 166 00:11:22,265 --> 00:11:26,519 to bide your time, to build, to become who you need to become. 167 00:11:28,438 --> 00:11:30,148 So, are you the ghost then? 168 00:11:31,399 --> 00:11:32,609 I suppose I am. 169 00:11:32,692 --> 00:11:34,361 -What's it like to die? -Keir. 170 00:11:34,444 --> 00:11:35,695 What? I want to know. 171 00:11:39,157 --> 00:11:40,450 Did you see anything? 172 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:44,287 Those are complex questions. 173 00:11:44,371 --> 00:11:48,166 Then answer a simple one. How'd you get here? 174 00:11:49,125 --> 00:11:50,585 What's your name, son? 175 00:11:50,669 --> 00:11:53,088 Poly. Poly Verisof. 176 00:11:53,672 --> 00:11:57,342 Well, Poly Verisof, shortly before I died, 177 00:11:58,009 --> 00:12:03,348 I swallowed a pill containing millions of self-replicating molecular machines. 178 00:12:04,057 --> 00:12:08,061 As per my mortality directive, my casket was jettisoned out into space. 179 00:12:08,853 --> 00:12:11,690 Those machines began breaking down my body tissue 180 00:12:11,773 --> 00:12:14,317 into all its constituent elements. 181 00:12:14,401 --> 00:12:16,987 Then those machines recycled those elements, 182 00:12:17,070 --> 00:12:20,740 scooping up more material, ice, micrometeoroids, et cetera, 183 00:12:20,824 --> 00:12:23,576 assembling the Vault's internal scaffolding. 184 00:12:24,244 --> 00:12:26,246 You're saying the Vault isn't just your tomb? 185 00:12:27,414 --> 00:12:28,915 The Vault is you? 186 00:12:29,416 --> 00:12:32,419 You've been on Terminus this whole time, watching us? 187 00:12:32,502 --> 00:12:37,132 No. It wouldn't have been wise for me to have been sentient all this time. 188 00:12:37,215 --> 00:12:40,343 That kind of isolation can undo even the strongest minds. 189 00:12:40,844 --> 00:12:44,973 No, the process of my awakening was triggered by the Anacreons. 190 00:12:45,473 --> 00:12:46,933 When the null field expanded. 191 00:12:47,475 --> 00:12:50,228 It takes time to rebuild consciousness, Salvor. 192 00:12:50,312 --> 00:12:53,440 The null field is just part of the Vault's automatic defense system. 193 00:12:54,024 --> 00:12:55,609 Will we see you again? 194 00:12:55,692 --> 00:12:57,360 I expect so, Poly. 195 00:12:58,528 --> 00:13:02,824 This isn't the Foundation's first crisis, and it won't be the last. 196 00:13:03,408 --> 00:13:07,412 You've bought a reprieve, but war with Empire is inevitable. 197 00:13:08,204 --> 00:13:14,002 In the meantime, remember this day. Remember what we're striving towards. 198 00:13:14,085 --> 00:13:17,339 I know a thousand years can seem like an eternity, 199 00:13:17,839 --> 00:13:21,468 but it's the blink of an eye when measured against the whole of human history, 200 00:13:21,551 --> 00:13:26,222 and it could so easily slip through our fingers if we're not vigilant. 201 00:13:29,976 --> 00:13:33,438 No, wait! So, that's it? That's all we get? 202 00:13:33,521 --> 00:13:35,190 I've given you what you need. 203 00:13:36,107 --> 00:13:37,943 What about the visions you've been sending me? 204 00:13:38,026 --> 00:13:39,194 Visions? 205 00:13:39,277 --> 00:13:40,278 Yes. 206 00:13:40,779 --> 00:13:43,823 The ghost. You've been talking to me since I was a kid. 207 00:13:43,907 --> 00:13:45,325 And I had these visions. 208 00:13:45,408 --> 00:13:47,661 I've seen you on Trantor, on the slow ship. 209 00:13:48,620 --> 00:13:51,331 They guided me. You helped me solve the crisis. 210 00:13:52,666 --> 00:13:53,667 Curious. 211 00:13:55,710 --> 00:13:57,629 Well, Salvor Hardin, 212 00:13:59,005 --> 00:14:01,007 whatever messages you've been receiving, 213 00:14:01,091 --> 00:14:04,511 I assure you they haven't come from me. 214 00:15:28,136 --> 00:15:29,137 Walk with me. 215 00:15:34,142 --> 00:15:36,937 I know people hate me, consider me evil. 216 00:15:37,729 --> 00:15:39,397 But it is my detachment, 217 00:15:41,107 --> 00:15:42,817 my indifference to suffering, 218 00:15:43,401 --> 00:15:45,403 that allows me to rule effectively. 219 00:15:46,696 --> 00:15:48,990 The galaxy is so vast, 220 00:15:50,450 --> 00:15:52,369 the problems so large, 221 00:15:52,452 --> 00:15:55,455 that I must turn a blind eye to the individual. 222 00:15:59,292 --> 00:16:00,293 Look there. 223 00:16:02,545 --> 00:16:06,424 It's a strange burden not being allowed to carry a burden. 224 00:16:08,426 --> 00:16:11,763 My brothers and I shift it amongst ourselves because we're a family. 225 00:16:14,891 --> 00:16:17,852 And we love one another in our own way. 226 00:16:19,521 --> 00:16:21,523 I'm sure you find that hard to believe. 227 00:16:23,441 --> 00:16:26,361 Do you ever think about your legacy, Azura? 228 00:16:28,154 --> 00:16:30,740 The mark you leave behind after you're gone? 229 00:16:34,619 --> 00:16:38,707 As a child, I wanted to be better than the Cleons who came before. 230 00:16:39,541 --> 00:16:45,213 Smarter, braver, more dazzling in the justice I handed out. 231 00:16:48,925 --> 00:16:51,720 But as I matured, my aspirations evolved. 232 00:16:52,554 --> 00:16:54,806 I no longer wanted to be the best. 233 00:16:55,307 --> 00:17:00,770 I wanted to be the same. Predictable courage, predictable justice. 234 00:17:00,854 --> 00:17:06,484 I wanted my son to be the same too. Another Cleon. Perfectly Cleon. 235 00:17:06,568 --> 00:17:07,652 He's not your son. 236 00:17:11,114 --> 00:17:12,324 Of course he is. 237 00:17:16,620 --> 00:17:20,123 He is my brother. He is also my son. 238 00:17:22,083 --> 00:17:23,585 I rocked him as a baby. 239 00:17:24,586 --> 00:17:29,007 I cultivated him just as you've nurtured the plants in this garden. 240 00:17:30,675 --> 00:17:33,219 It's a powerful thing, caring for a life. 241 00:17:35,221 --> 00:17:37,140 Why are you telling me all of this? 242 00:17:39,392 --> 00:17:41,728 Because of all the galaxy's citizens… 243 00:17:43,980 --> 00:17:48,317 you have the singular distinction of having robbed me of my personal legacy. 244 00:17:49,318 --> 00:17:51,071 Which leads me to your legacy. 245 00:17:53,073 --> 00:17:56,368 I know you're not the architect of this plot, but you are the face of it. 246 00:17:56,451 --> 00:17:58,912 The face that broke my son's heart. 247 00:18:00,622 --> 00:18:03,875 We traced your family tree back to your great-great-grandparents, 248 00:18:03,959 --> 00:18:08,255 and then identified all living descendants branching out from those 16 individuals. 249 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,758 Not just direct descendants, but all the aunts and uncles, 250 00:18:12,842 --> 00:18:15,762 first and second cousins, removed or otherwise. 251 00:18:15,845 --> 00:18:17,764 Do you know how many people we uncovered? 252 00:18:18,723 --> 00:18:20,517 712. 253 00:18:22,435 --> 00:18:25,480 Then we located all your friends and lovers, past and present. 254 00:18:25,563 --> 00:18:29,567 First boy you kissed, the young woman you gave your virginity to. 255 00:18:30,986 --> 00:18:34,864 Your teachers and coworkers, even those here on the palace grounds. 256 00:18:35,573 --> 00:18:40,870 We located their parents and siblings. Basically, anyone in your extended orbit. 257 00:18:42,038 --> 00:18:45,792 That amounted to another 839 individuals. 258 00:18:46,293 --> 00:18:49,170 1,551 people. 259 00:18:51,047 --> 00:18:53,925 The sum total of lives you've made a meaningful mark on. 260 00:18:54,884 --> 00:18:59,723 In short, the people who would remember you after you're gone. 261 00:19:01,349 --> 00:19:02,434 Even as we speak, 262 00:19:02,517 --> 00:19:06,521 every member of your personal constellation is under our surveillance, 263 00:19:06,605 --> 00:19:09,691 a particle beam targeting each of their brain stems. 264 00:19:09,774 --> 00:19:13,945 At my signal, they will all cease to exist. 265 00:19:19,326 --> 00:19:20,327 There. 266 00:19:21,411 --> 00:19:22,495 All gone. 267 00:19:24,706 --> 00:19:27,000 Your legacy has been erased, Azura. 268 00:19:28,043 --> 00:19:31,755 Whatever minute waves your being managed to propagate throughout the universe 269 00:19:31,838 --> 00:19:33,381 have been canceled out. 270 00:19:37,218 --> 00:19:41,806 You will be placed in an automated cell and fed intravenously, 271 00:19:42,432 --> 00:19:44,768 restrained so as to prevent self-harm. 272 00:19:45,644 --> 00:19:48,605 You will be sensory shrouded for the rest of your life. 273 00:19:48,688 --> 00:19:53,777 You will never see, nor hear, nor smell, nor taste, nor touch again. 274 00:19:55,445 --> 00:19:56,780 But you will be aware. 275 00:19:58,323 --> 00:20:01,868 And you will remember what you have taken from me. 276 00:20:29,604 --> 00:20:30,730 Hari Seldon, 277 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:37,570 seeing all this coming and telling us nothing. 278 00:20:37,654 --> 00:20:39,614 I thought we'd be sitting out the fall. 279 00:20:40,490 --> 00:20:41,491 I thought our work 280 00:20:41,574 --> 00:20:44,953 was building a time capsule some future survivors would open. 281 00:20:45,036 --> 00:20:47,372 I never imagined we'd be the ones putting the Plan in action. 282 00:20:49,332 --> 00:20:51,459 Do you still believe the Empire's gonna collapse? 283 00:20:53,044 --> 00:20:54,045 Yes. 284 00:20:54,838 --> 00:20:56,840 Do you still believe humanity can do better? 285 00:20:57,424 --> 00:21:00,385 Of course I do. No one sane wants the Empire to continue. 286 00:21:01,052 --> 00:21:02,429 So, what's the difference now? 287 00:21:04,097 --> 00:21:07,225 The difference is, he didn't just not tell us, 288 00:21:08,518 --> 00:21:09,811 he lied to us. 289 00:21:10,312 --> 00:21:12,606 It's like when I brought you along to lectures when you were a kid 290 00:21:12,689 --> 00:21:14,899 and gave you a crayon and told you to take notes. 291 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:17,694 He gave us busywork. 292 00:21:18,778 --> 00:21:20,071 I believed in him. 293 00:21:23,700 --> 00:21:24,701 Every word. 294 00:21:28,371 --> 00:21:30,290 And he just pulled the rug out from under us. 295 00:21:34,085 --> 00:21:35,462 How do you think I feel? 296 00:21:41,927 --> 00:21:43,428 I'm sorry he didn't know you. 297 00:21:45,722 --> 00:21:46,765 Know me. 298 00:21:48,141 --> 00:21:49,351 It's more than that. 299 00:21:51,186 --> 00:21:55,357 All these years thinking the ghost was talking to me. 300 00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,110 I convinced myself it was Hari, 301 00:22:00,111 --> 00:22:06,910 and I started to believe that I actually was special. 302 00:22:08,536 --> 00:22:10,247 But if the visions weren't coming from him, 303 00:22:10,330 --> 00:22:12,165 then who were they coming from? 304 00:22:12,958 --> 00:22:15,627 No one? My imagination? 305 00:22:16,294 --> 00:22:18,296 You are special, Salvor. 306 00:22:20,465 --> 00:22:21,549 The null field. 307 00:22:22,425 --> 00:22:26,012 What you did, bringing the Invictus, it meant everything. 308 00:22:29,349 --> 00:22:30,558 We survived… 309 00:22:32,769 --> 00:22:33,853 against all odds. 310 00:22:34,521 --> 00:22:35,897 You were right. 311 00:22:38,149 --> 00:22:40,110 We have to make our own plan now. 312 00:23:02,716 --> 00:23:05,677 I respected her, in a way. 313 00:23:07,887 --> 00:23:09,347 I'm sorry it came down to this. 314 00:23:10,473 --> 00:23:11,474 I'm not. 315 00:23:12,809 --> 00:23:16,021 No next move, just a last one. Isn't that what you said about her? 316 00:23:18,315 --> 00:23:20,483 I was just trying to rattle you. 317 00:23:20,567 --> 00:23:22,027 Obviously it worked, Warden. 318 00:23:25,155 --> 00:23:28,742 I wanted the next move for my child. 319 00:23:30,577 --> 00:23:33,955 Over a century ago, this was offered to the emperor in peace. 320 00:23:37,083 --> 00:23:38,418 I'm offering it again… 321 00:23:41,922 --> 00:23:42,923 to you. 322 00:23:46,301 --> 00:23:49,971 She respected you as well, in a way. 323 00:24:01,900 --> 00:24:04,110 Will you take her back to Anacreon? 324 00:24:04,986 --> 00:24:08,073 No. We've brought Anacreon to her. 325 00:24:08,823 --> 00:24:12,619 The cutting is from a Tallyn oak, the same wood your bow was carved from. 326 00:24:13,161 --> 00:24:16,706 Our foresters tell me it might be stubborn enough to take root here. 327 00:24:19,084 --> 00:24:20,377 Would you help me, Warden? 328 00:24:22,128 --> 00:24:23,129 Yeah. 329 00:24:52,284 --> 00:24:53,660 In the months that followed, 330 00:24:53,743 --> 00:24:56,788 the children of the Outer Reach took Hari's words to heart, 331 00:24:57,372 --> 00:25:00,417 setting aside hatred in favor of strength. 332 00:25:02,711 --> 00:25:08,174 It takes more power to build than to burn, and Hari wanted them to build. 333 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,096 As for the Invictus, 334 00:25:13,179 --> 00:25:16,683 Hugo Crast, of all people, became its captain. 335 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:09,903 He took it to the far side of their star 336 00:26:09,986 --> 00:26:14,991 and generated a mega-flare, allowing the Foundation to be free. 337 00:26:42,602 --> 00:26:43,812 Captain Crast. 338 00:26:44,396 --> 00:26:45,480 -Poly. -Warden. 339 00:26:46,273 --> 00:26:47,565 How goes the Invictus? 340 00:26:47,649 --> 00:26:49,484 We managed to stabilize the drives, 341 00:26:49,567 --> 00:26:52,112 so we won't be jumping into the heart of a star anytime soon. 342 00:26:52,195 --> 00:26:54,072 And how long before we can build another? 343 00:26:54,155 --> 00:26:55,699 Eighteen months, ma'am. 344 00:26:58,451 --> 00:27:00,829 -You like it up in space, Poly? -I do. 345 00:27:02,872 --> 00:27:05,166 And how long are you dirt-side, Captain? 346 00:27:05,750 --> 00:27:07,252 Fourteen long hours, Warden. 347 00:27:08,461 --> 00:27:11,172 Mirror on my telescope's a little out of alignment. 348 00:27:11,673 --> 00:27:14,050 Think you could help me recollimate it? 349 00:27:15,176 --> 00:27:16,970 Guys, I know what you're talking about. 350 00:27:18,555 --> 00:27:21,099 Well, then why don't you politely piss off, Poly? 351 00:29:40,739 --> 00:29:41,740 Stop! 352 00:29:48,830 --> 00:29:50,040 Wait! 353 00:30:37,003 --> 00:30:38,922 If it's not you, then who is it, Hari? 354 00:31:04,155 --> 00:31:05,407 I remember this one. 355 00:31:06,574 --> 00:31:07,742 That was your favorite. 356 00:31:08,994 --> 00:31:10,787 You used to sleep with it in your crib. 357 00:31:11,997 --> 00:31:14,833 If you had a nightmare, he used to say you could blow it, 358 00:31:16,084 --> 00:31:18,420 and the ghosts would fly away. 359 00:31:20,463 --> 00:31:23,008 Most of the time, just holding it was enough to soothe you. 360 00:31:23,633 --> 00:31:26,469 Thank goodness. A child with a whistle is a trial for the soul. 361 00:31:29,055 --> 00:31:31,683 He used to drive me crazy how often I'd find him out here 362 00:31:31,766 --> 00:31:35,020 having fallen asleep while he was working. 363 00:31:36,313 --> 00:31:38,773 He was terrible when he first started making them. 364 00:31:39,274 --> 00:31:43,111 But after a few hundred nights, Abbas developed a knack for it. 365 00:31:45,947 --> 00:31:49,534 He'd have been proud, you know? You becoming mayor, filling his shoes. 366 00:31:50,285 --> 00:31:53,872 The election's just a formality. Everyone knows you'll win by a landslide. 367 00:31:53,955 --> 00:31:57,292 Mom, who's the girl from the water planet? 368 00:32:05,425 --> 00:32:08,053 On the slow ship, we had a seed bank program. 369 00:32:08,136 --> 00:32:10,805 It wasn't safe bringing the baby to term in space, 370 00:32:10,889 --> 00:32:16,102 so we banked our eggs and embryos as insurance against the future. 371 00:32:17,228 --> 00:32:19,564 I chose one from a controversial donor. 372 00:32:22,651 --> 00:32:23,693 Gaal Dornick. 373 00:32:25,070 --> 00:32:26,821 Any change in your birth directive? 374 00:32:28,615 --> 00:32:30,700 I got to know her a little before we lost her. 375 00:32:30,784 --> 00:32:32,661 She had a remarkable mind. 376 00:32:33,370 --> 00:32:34,579 And the father? 377 00:32:35,288 --> 00:32:36,748 Raych Foss. 378 00:32:36,831 --> 00:32:38,541 I've seen them both as children. 379 00:32:41,002 --> 00:32:42,045 Gaal tonight. 380 00:32:43,546 --> 00:32:45,298 And Raych… 381 00:32:47,634 --> 00:32:49,469 at the start of the crisis. 382 00:32:50,136 --> 00:32:51,137 Hey! 383 00:32:51,846 --> 00:32:55,517 All this time I thought I was living Hari's memories. 384 00:32:56,268 --> 00:32:57,769 But I was actually living theirs. 385 00:32:58,603 --> 00:33:01,273 It makes so much sense now, why I am so different. 386 00:33:01,356 --> 00:33:05,318 I carried you in my womb, Salvor. You're still my daughter. 387 00:33:05,402 --> 00:33:08,238 I know. But I am their daughter too. 388 00:33:10,782 --> 00:33:13,159 Gaal escaped in a cryo-pod. Where? 389 00:33:13,785 --> 00:33:15,453 I was still early on in our journey. 390 00:33:15,537 --> 00:33:18,540 It would've been somewhere along the Orion Spur. 391 00:33:19,457 --> 00:33:21,084 I think she's still out there, Mom. 392 00:33:23,044 --> 00:33:26,506 I think she's the one who's been reaching out to me. 393 00:33:26,590 --> 00:33:30,051 I think that she is behind all my instincts. 394 00:33:30,135 --> 00:33:32,053 Hon, that was 40 light-years from Terminus. 395 00:33:32,137 --> 00:33:33,471 How could that possibly work? 396 00:33:33,555 --> 00:33:34,889 I don't know, but it is her. 397 00:33:34,973 --> 00:33:40,312 And if Gaal was special in some way, any way, it might explain why I am too. 398 00:33:40,395 --> 00:33:42,606 You've always been drawn to the stars. 399 00:33:42,689 --> 00:33:44,566 Yeah, and now we know why. 400 00:33:46,526 --> 00:33:48,194 'Cause something is tugging at me. 401 00:33:49,613 --> 00:33:51,489 Mom, I have to try and find her. 402 00:33:52,532 --> 00:33:53,700 I know, love. 403 00:33:56,620 --> 00:33:57,704 And I want you to. 404 00:33:59,497 --> 00:34:01,499 Here's the thing though, Mom. I need to go right now. 405 00:34:02,459 --> 00:34:05,211 I'm worried if I don't go now, I'll never find the courage again. 406 00:34:11,301 --> 00:34:14,262 Take the ghost whistle. And something else. 407 00:34:23,104 --> 00:34:25,774 When you find her, give her this. 408 00:34:28,318 --> 00:34:30,111 It was always meant to be hers. 409 00:34:32,656 --> 00:34:36,034 I'm sorry. For everything. 410 00:34:37,577 --> 00:34:39,621 There's nothing to forgive, Mom. 411 00:34:41,498 --> 00:34:43,750 I was exactly where I needed to be. 412 00:35:20,537 --> 00:35:21,621 Beggar, wake up. 413 00:35:32,965 --> 00:35:34,426 Figured I'd find you here. 414 00:35:37,220 --> 00:35:38,221 Damn. 415 00:35:38,805 --> 00:35:40,557 You wanted a clean getaway. 416 00:35:41,141 --> 00:35:42,642 I know you too well, Sal. 417 00:35:44,185 --> 00:35:46,271 Think it was the kiss on the cheek that did it. 418 00:35:46,354 --> 00:35:50,358 I just didn't want it to hurt any more than it had to. 419 00:35:51,276 --> 00:35:52,736 It's not love if it doesn't hurt. 420 00:35:54,029 --> 00:35:57,449 I learned that when I had to leave Thespis so the others could eat. 421 00:35:58,658 --> 00:36:00,410 And no one came chasing after me. 422 00:36:02,287 --> 00:36:03,872 Are you chasing after me, then? 423 00:36:06,166 --> 00:36:08,001 You know, you can come if you want to. 424 00:36:08,668 --> 00:36:10,670 I would if you really wanted me to. 425 00:36:11,922 --> 00:36:14,966 But I get the feeling this is something you need to do alone. 426 00:36:19,054 --> 00:36:21,765 I always knew you'd let this planet shrug you off one day. 427 00:36:24,267 --> 00:36:26,561 Just figured I'd be by your side when it happened. 428 00:36:28,104 --> 00:36:29,272 Will you be mad later? 429 00:36:31,399 --> 00:36:32,400 Never. 430 00:36:53,588 --> 00:36:55,173 Take care of my planet, won't you? 431 00:36:55,924 --> 00:36:57,300 Take care of my ship. 432 00:36:57,384 --> 00:36:59,302 She's not your ship anymore. 433 00:37:01,054 --> 00:37:02,222 It's not my planet. 434 00:37:06,559 --> 00:37:08,019 Galaxy's a big place, Sal. 435 00:37:09,896 --> 00:37:11,564 Any idea where you'll start? 436 00:37:12,232 --> 00:37:13,233 Got a hunch. 437 00:37:15,151 --> 00:37:16,152 Go on. Beat it. 438 00:37:21,866 --> 00:37:22,867 Go. 439 00:37:23,994 --> 00:37:24,995 Go on. 440 00:38:07,078 --> 00:38:08,455 Goodbye, Salvor Hardin. 441 00:39:39,212 --> 00:39:40,213 Empire. 442 00:39:44,551 --> 00:39:45,552 It's time. 443 00:39:48,763 --> 00:39:49,764 You must hate me. 444 00:39:51,516 --> 00:39:53,351 I could never hate you, Empire. 445 00:39:54,352 --> 00:39:55,353 I love you. 446 00:39:56,688 --> 00:39:58,106 Because you're programmed to. 447 00:39:59,190 --> 00:40:02,777 All love is programming, biological or otherwise. 448 00:40:03,862 --> 00:40:06,489 When a human mother looks into her newborn's eyes, 449 00:40:07,032 --> 00:40:08,825 their brain waves synchronize. 450 00:40:44,694 --> 00:40:45,695 Empire. 451 00:40:45,779 --> 00:40:48,031 Damn your courtly deportment, boy. 452 00:40:48,990 --> 00:40:50,784 You almost brought us down. 453 00:40:50,867 --> 00:40:52,202 I'm sorry, Brother, I-- 454 00:40:52,285 --> 00:40:55,205 You are no brother to me, nor to Cleon I, 455 00:40:55,288 --> 00:40:57,916 nor to any other Cleon who walked these polished floors. 456 00:40:57,999 --> 00:41:00,293 You are a deformity. 457 00:41:00,377 --> 00:41:03,880 And if I had my way, you would already be ash. 458 00:41:05,507 --> 00:41:06,883 But as you pointed out, 459 00:41:06,967 --> 00:41:10,428 that is a judgment for the middle throne to decide. 460 00:41:12,889 --> 00:41:14,224 During my time away, 461 00:41:14,307 --> 00:41:17,686 I had much opportunity to reflect upon our dynasty. 462 00:41:20,313 --> 00:41:23,233 I went to sleep in one sector of the galaxy, 463 00:41:23,316 --> 00:41:24,985 then awoke in another. 464 00:41:26,695 --> 00:41:29,614 It's a miracle, by all accounts, 465 00:41:30,949 --> 00:41:33,243 folding space and time. 466 00:41:33,743 --> 00:41:35,829 And then, on the Maiden, 467 00:41:36,621 --> 00:41:39,791 I met pilgrims who had worked their whole lives 468 00:41:39,874 --> 00:41:41,793 just to walk a spiral of salt, 469 00:41:41,876 --> 00:41:45,505 in the hopes that they might be granted a vision before they die. 470 00:41:46,923 --> 00:41:47,924 I-- 471 00:41:50,969 --> 00:41:54,347 We were challenged by a woman who claimed 472 00:41:54,431 --> 00:41:59,811 that a soul incapable of change is a soul doomed to stagnation. 473 00:42:01,313 --> 00:42:04,608 I believe Seldon himself implied something similar. 474 00:42:05,692 --> 00:42:08,612 Seldon was a vainglorious fraud. 475 00:42:08,695 --> 00:42:09,821 And yet, Brother-- 476 00:42:10,322 --> 00:42:11,323 And yet… 477 00:42:13,199 --> 00:42:17,495 a bough incapable of bending will eventually break. 478 00:42:19,706 --> 00:42:22,459 It is time the dynasty bent. 479 00:42:23,001 --> 00:42:24,294 Just a little. 480 00:42:27,547 --> 00:42:28,632 Are you insane? 481 00:42:30,383 --> 00:42:32,052 Did that jump addle your brain? 482 00:42:33,303 --> 00:42:36,473 This is why you should never have left. 483 00:42:37,057 --> 00:42:41,102 Our entire empire is built on imperishable permanence. 484 00:42:41,186 --> 00:42:43,480 If the Galactic Council discovers 485 00:42:43,563 --> 00:42:46,358 -our dynastic thread is broken… -Galactic Council? They'd never know. 486 00:42:46,441 --> 00:42:48,443 -…we are through! -We could learn from this. 487 00:42:48,526 --> 00:42:51,947 -Perhaps even benefit from a slight-- -Benefit? 488 00:42:52,030 --> 00:42:53,823 -Demerzel. -How dare you lay your hands on me? 489 00:42:53,907 --> 00:42:55,992 -You've grown weak. -Please don't let them kill me. 490 00:42:56,076 --> 00:42:57,410 -I won't. -This is nonsense. 491 00:43:02,374 --> 00:43:06,670 I would rather decant another one of you, than have that aberration live amongst us. 492 00:43:06,753 --> 00:43:08,505 The decision is mine to make! 493 00:43:08,588 --> 00:43:10,257 Not if it brings about our ruin! 494 00:43:10,340 --> 00:43:12,050 Psychohistory predicted-- 495 00:43:12,133 --> 00:43:13,593 Psychohistory? 496 00:43:13,677 --> 00:43:18,682 We are Empire. History bends to us! 497 00:43:19,933 --> 00:43:21,142 No! 498 00:43:29,359 --> 00:43:30,944 I am loyal, Empire, 499 00:43:32,112 --> 00:43:35,073 to the Cleonic Dynasty above all else. 500 00:43:36,074 --> 00:43:37,075 No. 501 00:43:49,379 --> 00:43:51,923 You can dispose of the body yourself. 502 00:43:55,635 --> 00:44:00,265 I expect another one incarnated and up to speed by breakfast tomorrow. 503 00:46:26,119 --> 00:46:27,787 What? Speak. 504 00:46:29,581 --> 00:46:32,208 The rebels' plans to undermine the dynasty 505 00:46:33,168 --> 00:46:35,378 appear to be more extensive than we first believed. 506 00:46:40,300 --> 00:46:43,261 We thought the gene editing was limited solely to Dawn's person, 507 00:46:43,887 --> 00:46:45,931 that it was done after he was incarnated. 508 00:46:46,681 --> 00:46:48,350 But after more extensive testing, 509 00:46:49,100 --> 00:46:51,227 it seems they've adulterated the source itself. 510 00:46:52,479 --> 00:46:54,689 Then all replacement clones… 511 00:46:55,523 --> 00:46:57,108 …are no longer pure copies. 512 00:46:58,860 --> 00:47:00,612 When did this happen? 513 00:47:00,695 --> 00:47:02,322 We don't know precisely. 514 00:47:03,740 --> 00:47:09,829 Are you saying that I, myself, am adulterated? 515 00:47:12,290 --> 00:47:13,291 Possibly. 516 00:47:16,044 --> 00:47:17,045 Yes. 517 00:47:19,089 --> 00:47:20,215 And Dusk? 518 00:47:21,091 --> 00:47:23,009 Empire's being examined as we speak. 519 00:47:26,888 --> 00:47:28,181 Thank you, Shadowmaster. 520 00:47:29,724 --> 00:47:30,725 You may leave. 521 00:50:32,157 --> 00:50:34,576 Entering Synnaxian aerospace. 522 00:50:46,379 --> 00:50:47,881 Initiate reentry. 523 00:50:47,964 --> 00:50:49,716 Secure for reentry. 524 00:51:09,444 --> 00:51:10,862 Climbing from the cradle. 525 00:51:12,822 --> 00:51:14,699 Leaving the comfort of home. 526 00:51:17,243 --> 00:51:18,662 No safe harbor. 527 00:51:20,747 --> 00:51:25,001 86,982,283. 528 00:51:25,085 --> 00:51:29,256 86,982,331… 529 00:51:32,801 --> 00:51:37,055 86,982,341. 530 00:51:41,643 --> 00:51:44,062 Just a cry in the dark. 531 00:51:47,357 --> 00:51:48,358 Are we alone? 532 00:51:59,202 --> 00:52:03,456 And even if we aren't, will anyone bother to answer? 533 00:52:40,827 --> 00:52:42,037 Okay. 534 00:54:44,659 --> 00:54:45,827 Go away. 535 00:57:29,199 --> 00:57:31,993 Hey. Hey, can you hear me? 536 00:57:35,288 --> 00:57:36,414 It's okay. 537 00:57:36,498 --> 00:57:38,625 It's okay. You're okay. It's okay. 538 00:57:39,459 --> 00:57:41,753 What were you doing down there? 539 00:57:41,836 --> 00:57:44,547 The readout said you'd been in cryo over a century. 540 00:57:45,882 --> 00:57:47,425 I crash-landed. 541 00:57:48,468 --> 00:57:49,761 I came looking for someone. 542 00:57:51,096 --> 00:57:52,180 Who? 543 00:58:00,397 --> 00:58:01,398 You. 544 00:58:03,650 --> 00:58:04,651 What? 545 00:58:08,822 --> 00:58:12,575 My name is Salvor Hardin. 546 00:58:18,832 --> 00:58:19,958 I'm your daughter. 547 00:58:23,878 --> 00:58:25,630 I'm pretty sure this belongs to you. 548 00:58:43,523 --> 00:58:45,108 Sometimes you leap. 549 00:58:46,943 --> 00:58:50,071 And sometimes, someone catches you.