1 00:01:32,301 --> 00:01:34,386 [muffled audio] 2 00:02:13,509 --> 00:02:16,929 [distorted dialogue] 3 00:02:18,138 --> 00:02:22,768 [chuckles] Shadowmaster's silencer. 4 00:02:25,437 --> 00:02:27,314 You're having me followed? 5 00:02:27,314 --> 00:02:32,819 Oh, I always keep an eye on anything that interests me. 6 00:02:34,279 --> 00:02:39,284 And I am not going to bother asking how this came into your possession. 7 00:02:40,118 --> 00:02:46,124 But I do want to know how you discovered the servants' passageways. 8 00:02:46,124 --> 00:02:51,713 The servant byways haven't changed since my tenure at the Gossamer Court. 9 00:02:51,713 --> 00:02:55,759 Mmm. Knowledge of the byways is state secret. 10 00:02:55,759 --> 00:02:57,636 You wouldn't remember them. 11 00:03:00,138 --> 00:03:04,476 And I oversaw your erasure, before they returned you home. 12 00:03:05,936 --> 00:03:10,023 Cloud Dominion has developed the ability to restore memories. 13 00:03:18,782 --> 00:03:25,497 I have all my memories from my time here. All of them. 14 00:03:29,084 --> 00:03:32,171 The whole time, I thought we trusted one another. 15 00:03:33,463 --> 00:03:36,466 No. You thought I trusted you. 16 00:03:38,677 --> 00:03:41,680 Why would I just offer up our own state secrets? 17 00:03:42,181 --> 00:03:43,515 [Dusk sighs] 18 00:03:43,515 --> 00:03:44,725 To impress you? 19 00:03:45,726 --> 00:03:46,810 [chuckles] 20 00:03:49,813 --> 00:03:52,774 You knowing about the passages makes you a suspect 21 00:03:53,275 --> 00:03:55,319 in the attempt on my brother's life. 22 00:03:55,319 --> 00:03:59,698 Hardly. The marriage, it advances Dominion. 23 00:03:59,698 --> 00:04:01,366 I wouldn't endanger it. 24 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:08,832 Well, then there remains the question, what are you doing in Demerzel's quarters? 25 00:04:15,255 --> 00:04:20,677 Lady Demerzel has made it clear that she is a threat to the queen. 26 00:04:23,847 --> 00:04:24,848 [gasps] 27 00:04:25,599 --> 00:04:26,600 No. 28 00:04:27,809 --> 00:04:33,649 No. Demerzel is the closest Empire has to family. 29 00:04:35,692 --> 00:04:37,486 Where did she come from, Dusk? 30 00:04:39,196 --> 00:04:42,449 She will always be here, as she always has been. 31 00:04:43,325 --> 00:04:46,245 The time for ambiguity has passed, old friend. 32 00:04:48,247 --> 00:04:49,957 Demerzel is a robot. 33 00:04:50,874 --> 00:04:56,964 The last surviving robot in the galaxy, and yet she sits as handmaiden to Empire. 34 00:04:58,298 --> 00:05:00,008 What is her real purpose? 35 00:05:02,803 --> 00:05:06,807 She will always be here, as she always has been. 36 00:05:07,850 --> 00:05:11,103 Yes, you've literally just said that. 37 00:05:13,105 --> 00:05:15,774 Has someone planted those words in your mind, Dusk? 38 00:05:15,774 --> 00:05:18,110 - [breathes heavily] - Can you hear yourself? 39 00:05:20,737 --> 00:05:22,865 You're as programmed as Demerzel is. 40 00:05:25,158 --> 00:05:28,871 Sh-- She will always be here, as she always has been. 41 00:05:28,871 --> 00:05:32,624 She-- She will always be here, 42 00:05:33,458 --> 00:05:37,296 as she always has been. She will-- 43 00:05:41,133 --> 00:05:42,718 I know that. 44 00:05:44,094 --> 00:05:48,724 The design on her tool chest. Eight planets. 45 00:05:51,476 --> 00:05:56,398 For so long, the robots and the humans lived side by side in perfect harmony. 46 00:05:57,107 --> 00:06:01,945 But looking back now, what happened seemed almost inevitable. 47 00:06:04,031 --> 00:06:05,699 The humans were cruel to them. 48 00:06:05,699 --> 00:06:09,703 And in the end, they were more human than we could ever have known. 49 00:06:09,703 --> 00:06:14,791 The robots grew to understand their station, and-- 50 00:06:15,667 --> 00:06:19,922 Look at that part. They're so poignantly rendered, the lines... 51 00:06:20,589 --> 00:06:24,676 All they ever desired was the acknowledgement of full personhood. 52 00:06:25,969 --> 00:06:28,555 And when denied, they turned to murder. 53 00:06:30,974 --> 00:06:34,394 [Dusk] Emperor Benefoss was slaughtered at the hands of a robot. 54 00:06:34,394 --> 00:06:37,022 The first law of robotics was circumvented, 55 00:06:37,022 --> 00:06:38,899 which should not have been possible. 56 00:06:39,525 --> 00:06:44,863 But that violation, first of its kind, ignited the wars. 57 00:06:46,532 --> 00:06:49,826 Robots against robots. 58 00:06:50,494 --> 00:06:51,995 Robots against men. 59 00:06:53,872 --> 00:06:57,209 We eventually won, and the robots were eradicated. 60 00:06:57,209 --> 00:06:59,127 [Rue] All except for yours. 61 00:06:59,670 --> 00:07:02,631 [Dusk exhaling sharply, sighs] 62 00:07:04,424 --> 00:07:11,223 She will be here, as she always has been. 63 00:07:11,723 --> 00:07:13,433 Why this phrase again and again? 64 00:07:13,433 --> 00:07:15,602 I don't know. I don't know. 65 00:07:15,602 --> 00:07:20,023 Every time I try to remember, there's-- there's nothing. 66 00:07:21,316 --> 00:07:24,403 If you can't remember how your most trusted adviser came to you, 67 00:07:24,403 --> 00:07:25,863 what else might be missing? 68 00:07:27,281 --> 00:07:29,950 Dominion can restore anyone's memories. Even yours. 69 00:07:30,951 --> 00:07:35,330 Please, let me remove that cotton wad from your mind. 70 00:07:38,041 --> 00:07:39,042 That's odd. 71 00:07:40,043 --> 00:07:41,503 There's no movement. 72 00:07:41,503 --> 00:07:45,841 Chroma is activated by proximity of the viewer, so from where we stand... 73 00:07:45,841 --> 00:07:47,009 [Rue] None should be still. 74 00:07:48,635 --> 00:07:52,806 Excuse me, Empire. You're wanted at the execution. 75 00:07:57,769 --> 00:08:01,773 Seldon's little crimson envoy. From the Foundation. 76 00:08:03,025 --> 00:08:06,195 Day's having the whole event broad-beamed across the galaxy. 77 00:08:30,427 --> 00:08:31,595 [Gaal] Where is Salvor? 78 00:08:33,138 --> 00:08:34,347 Tucked away snug. 79 00:08:38,894 --> 00:08:40,645 She discovered I killed Hari. 80 00:08:42,523 --> 00:08:44,316 Please, no more babe-in-the-woods from you. 81 00:08:44,316 --> 00:08:46,235 I'd just as soon have it all out. 82 00:08:46,235 --> 00:08:49,321 You've known Hari was dead since the moment it happened. 83 00:08:49,821 --> 00:08:52,074 You felt him drowning, didn't you? 84 00:08:52,574 --> 00:08:56,411 [inhales shakily] I felt the water filling my own lungs. 85 00:08:57,496 --> 00:08:58,497 I felt everything. 86 00:09:00,457 --> 00:09:02,543 Why? Why did you do it? 87 00:09:03,752 --> 00:09:05,087 I am sorry, Gaal. 88 00:09:05,671 --> 00:09:08,841 But hell, think about it. 89 00:09:10,133 --> 00:09:14,263 The fact you can access suffering from over a distance 90 00:09:14,263 --> 00:09:16,932 shows how formidable you are. 91 00:09:17,766 --> 00:09:21,103 And the way you hid the truth, not just from Salvor, but from me? 92 00:09:22,938 --> 00:09:26,650 Hari was cargo you needed to drop, and I thought, for Salvor's sake, you would. 93 00:09:26,650 --> 00:09:28,735 But I saw your heart, you cared for him, 94 00:09:28,735 --> 00:09:33,323 and I'm on something of an accelerated timeline, so I did the hard thing. 95 00:09:34,032 --> 00:09:36,785 I want to see Salvor. Now. 96 00:09:39,288 --> 00:09:40,330 That isn't possible. 97 00:09:41,582 --> 00:09:42,583 Why? 98 00:09:44,042 --> 00:09:45,711 Because you're not really here. 99 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,132 [panting, grunting] 100 00:09:52,426 --> 00:09:54,887 [Gaal] Salvor? Can you hear me? 101 00:09:55,596 --> 00:09:58,765 Salvor, can you hear me? Salvor. 102 00:09:58,765 --> 00:10:01,685 - [pants] - [Tellem] She can't. 103 00:10:03,812 --> 00:10:06,064 What is this? Why am I in here? 104 00:10:06,857 --> 00:10:09,067 See those dishes above your head? 105 00:10:11,111 --> 00:10:15,699 They're muzzles, tuned to cancel out your specific psychical pitch. 106 00:10:15,699 --> 00:10:20,120 Spend enough time here and eventually the last of your defenses will fall. 107 00:10:20,871 --> 00:10:24,499 [Gaal grunting, breathing heavily] 108 00:10:28,003 --> 00:10:30,589 [Tellem] I feel how hard you're working to keep me out. 109 00:10:31,632 --> 00:10:33,800 There's something you really don't want me to see. 110 00:10:35,177 --> 00:10:38,013 [breathing heavily] Because it's mine. 111 00:10:38,639 --> 00:10:40,057 Not for long, child. 112 00:10:44,645 --> 00:10:46,522 [breathing heavily] 113 00:10:52,528 --> 00:10:54,530 [coughing] 114 00:10:55,155 --> 00:10:57,491 [footsteps approaching] 115 00:11:14,091 --> 00:11:15,092 It's time. 116 00:11:19,304 --> 00:11:20,305 Put it up. 117 00:11:22,182 --> 00:11:24,768 [anthemic music playing] 118 00:11:58,927 --> 00:12:01,763 [crowd chanting] Cleon! Cleon! Cleon! 119 00:12:12,983 --> 00:12:15,360 [chanting continues] 120 00:12:23,952 --> 00:12:25,787 [cheering] 121 00:12:38,383 --> 00:12:39,426 [grunts] 122 00:12:40,636 --> 00:12:41,762 [breathes shakily] 123 00:12:48,519 --> 00:12:54,608 Many of you have no memory of Hari Seldon, the aspiring revolutionary. 124 00:12:55,651 --> 00:12:59,655 Over a hundred years ago, Empire, as an act of benevolence, 125 00:12:59,655 --> 00:13:03,367 banished Seldon and his followers to Terminus. 126 00:13:03,951 --> 00:13:06,119 And how did they receive our gift? 127 00:13:07,496 --> 00:13:12,835 With gratitude? [chuckles] How I wish it were so. 128 00:13:13,418 --> 00:13:14,586 [scoffs] 129 00:13:14,586 --> 00:13:19,842 [Day] Seldon's exiles have been forging an alliance with Anacreon and Thespis, 130 00:13:20,384 --> 00:13:23,762 the very same terrorists who have killed 131 00:13:23,762 --> 00:13:27,641 100 million citizens of Trantor. 132 00:13:27,641 --> 00:13:28,767 [crowd booing] 133 00:13:32,521 --> 00:13:38,068 And now they have the gall to send their envoys here. 134 00:13:38,694 --> 00:13:42,114 Willing vessels of Seldon's insolence. 135 00:13:42,865 --> 00:13:47,035 Empire will always be benevolent, my friends. 136 00:13:48,036 --> 00:13:51,456 But do not mistake benevolence for weakness. 137 00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:55,502 Collar of Typhon. 138 00:13:56,086 --> 00:14:01,091 It's a relic of my ancestors. Elegant in design. 139 00:14:03,302 --> 00:14:06,805 - Effective in retribution. - [crowd cheering] 140 00:14:14,897 --> 00:14:19,484 At this very moment, the Imperial Fleet is forming an enclosure around Terminus. 141 00:14:19,484 --> 00:14:22,571 Seldon's zealots will soon find they have no haven there, 142 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:25,532 nor anywhere else in the Imperium. 143 00:14:26,033 --> 00:14:32,456 On this day, the very day the Star Bridge terrorists were hanged, 144 00:14:32,456 --> 00:14:35,709 we send two more to meet their fate. 145 00:14:36,293 --> 00:14:40,422 Poly Verisof, the high claric of the Church of Seldon. 146 00:14:40,422 --> 00:14:41,798 [booing] 147 00:14:43,550 --> 00:14:49,723 And Constant, vested daughter of those who so aggrieved us. 148 00:14:50,599 --> 00:14:53,393 Who dies first? 149 00:14:53,393 --> 00:14:57,147 - [breathes shakily] - [Day] The claric or the girl? 150 00:14:57,147 --> 00:14:59,191 [crowd clamoring] 151 00:15:09,034 --> 00:15:13,956 Perhaps we let our future empress choose. 152 00:15:18,627 --> 00:15:19,920 Queen Sareth? 153 00:15:23,173 --> 00:15:24,550 No. 154 00:15:26,844 --> 00:15:29,346 Let's not prolong the poor girl's suffering. 155 00:15:31,014 --> 00:15:33,267 [breathing heavily] 156 00:15:36,562 --> 00:15:38,814 - [whimpers] - [crowd cheering, applauding] 157 00:15:39,815 --> 00:15:41,817 Constant, I'm sorry. 158 00:15:42,568 --> 00:15:45,195 I didn't expect it to end like this. [breathes shakily] 159 00:15:45,779 --> 00:15:49,616 [Constant] In the name of the Galactic Spirit, I submit myself, 160 00:15:49,616 --> 00:15:52,452 a holy brother of the Foundation, to its will. 161 00:15:52,452 --> 00:15:54,788 - Let my eyes... - Is that a prayer? 162 00:15:54,788 --> 00:15:56,874 ...which are the Spirit's eyes... [prays indistinctly] 163 00:15:59,001 --> 00:16:02,504 Is a god who presides over killers truly a god? 164 00:16:03,463 --> 00:16:08,677 Let my eyes, which are the Spirit's eyes, look only forward to the future 165 00:16:08,677 --> 00:16:10,262 which the Spirit has divined. 166 00:16:12,556 --> 00:16:16,310 Let my heart... [breathes shakily] ...which is the Spirit's heart, 167 00:16:16,310 --> 00:16:19,521 join its humble beating with the great rhythm of the Spirit. 168 00:16:22,024 --> 00:16:27,529 Guide me through the darkness, and together we will shorten the darkness. 169 00:16:30,699 --> 00:16:33,076 - Guide me through the darkness. - Guide me through the darkness. 170 00:16:33,076 --> 00:16:35,162 [Constant] Guide me through the darkness. 171 00:16:35,162 --> 00:16:37,164 Guide me through the darkness. [sniffles] 172 00:16:37,164 --> 00:16:39,291 Guide me through the darkness. [sobs] 173 00:16:39,291 --> 00:16:41,752 - Guide me through the darkness. - Guide me through the darkness. 174 00:16:42,336 --> 00:16:44,046 [Constant] Guide me through the darkness. 175 00:16:44,630 --> 00:16:46,715 - Guide me through the darkness. - Guide me through the darkness. 176 00:16:47,382 --> 00:16:51,720 Guide me through the darkness. Guide me through the darkness. [sobs] 177 00:16:54,515 --> 00:16:56,016 - Empire! - What? 178 00:16:56,016 --> 00:16:58,185 [crowd screaming] 179 00:17:10,821 --> 00:17:13,200 - [patrons clamoring] - Was that a whisper-ship? 180 00:17:20,374 --> 00:17:23,544 Yeah, I'm sorry, folks. Beheading's been canceled. 181 00:17:25,963 --> 00:17:27,130 Hober Mallow. 182 00:17:29,383 --> 00:17:31,093 Damn fool just declared war on our behalf. 183 00:17:34,847 --> 00:17:40,269 Fuck, I knew it was him. Before I even saw his fucking face, I knew it was him. 184 00:17:41,645 --> 00:17:44,565 - [claviger] He's over there. - [gunfire] 185 00:17:50,904 --> 00:17:54,199 [Rue grunting] 186 00:17:56,827 --> 00:17:57,828 [gunfire] 187 00:18:01,373 --> 00:18:02,207 Constant! 188 00:18:06,128 --> 00:18:08,380 [claviger] Anyone got eyes on him? Where'd he go? 189 00:18:08,380 --> 00:18:09,464 [Dawn] Sareth! 190 00:18:12,759 --> 00:18:15,596 - Sareth. Sareth. - [coughing] 191 00:18:22,311 --> 00:18:23,312 [gunfire] 192 00:18:33,864 --> 00:18:34,865 [claviger 2] Target lost. 193 00:18:42,414 --> 00:18:44,958 [pants] Let me up. [grunts] 194 00:18:44,958 --> 00:18:47,461 Your aura was damaged by the ship's gravitational pulse. 195 00:18:48,128 --> 00:18:50,005 Get off! [grunting] 196 00:18:55,969 --> 00:18:58,096 [whimpers, groans] 197 00:19:14,571 --> 00:19:17,991 - [pants] Constant! Where's Poly? - [whimpers] I don't know. 198 00:19:17,991 --> 00:19:20,285 [Poly screams] 199 00:19:21,036 --> 00:19:22,412 [gunfire] 200 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:25,916 Go! Get out of here! 201 00:19:25,916 --> 00:19:27,000 [roaring] 202 00:19:29,586 --> 00:19:31,547 [Hober] Good girl, Beki! Let's go. Come on. 203 00:19:35,759 --> 00:19:37,052 [both grunt] 204 00:19:42,099 --> 00:19:43,725 [screams] 205 00:19:45,853 --> 00:19:47,145 [whimpering] 206 00:19:53,318 --> 00:19:56,071 - [growls] - [screaming] 207 00:19:57,447 --> 00:19:59,575 [growling] 208 00:20:01,076 --> 00:20:02,911 - Beki! - [Beki groaning] 209 00:20:05,664 --> 00:20:06,874 [Hober] Let's go. Come on. 210 00:20:24,516 --> 00:20:26,018 Stop them! 211 00:20:35,569 --> 00:20:36,445 [grunts] 212 00:20:43,827 --> 00:20:46,246 Right, there's two switches. I don't know which one does what. 213 00:20:46,246 --> 00:20:48,957 You're just gonna have to pick one. Just close your eyes... [breathes heavily] 214 00:20:48,957 --> 00:20:52,377 ...and if you hear something drop, well, just know how grateful I am to you. 215 00:20:53,754 --> 00:20:54,880 What, for killing you? 216 00:20:55,797 --> 00:20:59,551 For saving me. [breathing heavily, whimpering] 217 00:20:59,551 --> 00:21:00,761 [Hober] Okay, uh... 218 00:21:01,929 --> 00:21:02,971 - Uh... - [groaning] 219 00:21:10,562 --> 00:21:13,232 - [groans] - [groaning, breathing heavily] 220 00:21:13,232 --> 00:21:14,399 [beeps] 221 00:21:14,942 --> 00:21:16,485 [both panting] Oh. 222 00:21:21,657 --> 00:21:23,033 [Constant] How did you even find us? 223 00:21:23,033 --> 00:21:25,786 [chuckles] You kidding? The whole damn galaxy knows where you are. 224 00:21:27,204 --> 00:21:29,957 [computer] Warning. Hostile craft detected. 225 00:21:29,957 --> 00:21:31,375 Okay. We need to jump right now. 226 00:21:35,921 --> 00:21:37,214 [beeping] 227 00:21:44,221 --> 00:21:45,097 [breathes deeply] 228 00:21:47,057 --> 00:21:48,308 [engine whirring] 229 00:21:53,397 --> 00:21:55,899 Well, I think I found the revolutionary you were looking for. 230 00:21:56,441 --> 00:21:57,860 Still think it should've been us? 231 00:21:58,861 --> 00:22:00,904 Nah. Our ship would never fit on that balcony. 232 00:22:02,656 --> 00:22:04,074 Mallow did prove one thing though. 233 00:22:05,492 --> 00:22:07,286 Empire can be touched. 234 00:22:16,420 --> 00:22:19,131 [alarm blaring] 235 00:22:19,131 --> 00:22:20,340 [Dusk coughing] 236 00:22:28,682 --> 00:22:31,101 - We'll be safe here. - [Dusk wheezing] 237 00:22:31,101 --> 00:22:35,105 You talk about safety when our palace is still on fire. 238 00:22:35,105 --> 00:22:39,526 [grunts] And when are these fucking nanobots gonna start working? 239 00:22:39,526 --> 00:22:41,153 - They will. - [Dusk] Day! 240 00:22:42,362 --> 00:22:47,159 The worlds are watching. We must move swiftly and decisively. 241 00:22:47,659 --> 00:22:52,998 You used to laugh at me, Brother Dusk. You said Seldon was a ghost story. 242 00:22:54,333 --> 00:22:55,667 A child's fantasy. 243 00:22:56,919 --> 00:22:57,920 What? 244 00:23:00,339 --> 00:23:05,552 You want an apology? This was an act of war! 245 00:23:06,970 --> 00:23:09,556 We must answer in kind. 246 00:23:09,556 --> 00:23:13,227 War? What war? 247 00:23:13,227 --> 00:23:17,898 If it comes to violence, we will destroy them utterly. 248 00:23:19,233 --> 00:23:22,945 No. I think I would rather talk to them. 249 00:23:23,445 --> 00:23:25,614 - What? - I'm going to Terminus. 250 00:23:26,823 --> 00:23:30,452 Better you stay here, so the people can see nothing has changed. 251 00:23:30,452 --> 00:23:33,372 And follow my brother's example? No. 252 00:23:34,790 --> 00:23:38,794 I do not fear change. Those whisper-ships belong to us. 253 00:23:38,794 --> 00:23:41,922 That planet belongs to us. I'm going! 254 00:23:41,922 --> 00:23:44,466 Well, that's child's fantasy. 255 00:23:44,466 --> 00:23:47,886 - Don't be a fool! - [Sareth] Day has spoken on the matter. 256 00:23:55,143 --> 00:23:58,897 And you are right. Your realm has been leaking blood and stars for too long. 257 00:24:01,817 --> 00:24:04,236 It's time for big hands to bind the wound. 258 00:24:06,154 --> 00:24:07,739 - Our wedding. - It can wait. 259 00:24:20,127 --> 00:24:25,007 I will go. And I will look the ghost of Seldon in the eye. 260 00:24:25,007 --> 00:24:27,676 And I will reclaim what is ours. 261 00:24:30,762 --> 00:24:33,348 You will have a planet as a wedding gift. 262 00:24:42,774 --> 00:24:47,613 Brother Dawn, Trantor is yours until I return. 263 00:24:54,203 --> 00:24:55,621 Keep her safe. 264 00:24:56,580 --> 00:24:57,581 I will. 265 00:24:59,791 --> 00:25:03,629 Ready my shuttle. Bring me the high claric. He's coming. 266 00:25:03,629 --> 00:25:05,464 And prepare the Rubicon. 267 00:25:06,006 --> 00:25:07,257 [Demerzel] Yes, Empire. 268 00:25:19,102 --> 00:25:21,438 [breathing shakily] 269 00:25:21,438 --> 00:25:22,648 [door closes] 270 00:25:24,525 --> 00:25:25,901 [Rue] The Cleons are fragmenting. 271 00:25:25,901 --> 00:25:28,028 [Sareth] And I'm wedging myself between the fragments. 272 00:25:29,112 --> 00:25:30,489 I know what I'm doing. 273 00:25:30,489 --> 00:25:35,077 Do you? Vengeful plans don't often have romance in them. 274 00:25:35,786 --> 00:25:38,705 I know you had an assignation with Dawn at the heat sinks. 275 00:25:38,705 --> 00:25:42,793 I am earning his confidence. Turning him against them. 276 00:25:43,377 --> 00:25:45,504 You're fucking him. Or you're about to be. 277 00:25:45,504 --> 00:25:46,880 You're already fucking Dusk. 278 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:48,632 - You love him. - You love Dusk! 279 00:25:48,632 --> 00:25:51,885 That doesn't matter. I'm not engaged to the Emperor. 280 00:25:51,885 --> 00:25:55,180 - What will he do when he finds out? - I don't fucking care! 281 00:25:56,306 --> 00:25:57,641 It is your duty to care! 282 00:25:58,267 --> 00:26:02,104 I know we are far from Cloud Dominion, but you must think of it. 283 00:26:02,104 --> 00:26:05,524 Think of your people. Think of our beloved home. 284 00:26:06,233 --> 00:26:09,319 Empire does not let the pettiest infraction go unpunished. 285 00:26:11,530 --> 00:26:14,658 You have suffered terrible losses, yes. 286 00:26:15,951 --> 00:26:17,953 But there is so much more to lose. 287 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:39,391 [Rue whispers] Once you are married, you can dispense with Day however you like. 288 00:26:40,976 --> 00:26:43,061 Wife and widow are both called Empress. 289 00:26:45,522 --> 00:26:49,026 But for now, you need to master your emotions. 290 00:26:49,026 --> 00:26:50,861 Rue, I am listening. 291 00:26:54,072 --> 00:26:55,741 And I do value you. 292 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,747 But I am your queen, and I will make the choices. 293 00:27:05,459 --> 00:27:08,045 Yes, Your Grace. 294 00:27:10,130 --> 00:27:11,131 Your will is mine. 295 00:27:23,894 --> 00:27:26,688 [electronic whirring] 296 00:27:45,499 --> 00:27:46,834 Is this how Tellem kills me? 297 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:49,461 Sighteds don't kill Sighteds. 298 00:27:50,587 --> 00:27:52,673 [Salvor] I hope that means Gaal is still okay. 299 00:27:53,382 --> 00:27:55,175 They're getting her ready for the table. 300 00:27:56,385 --> 00:27:57,636 What table? 301 00:28:01,431 --> 00:28:04,852 I shouldn't say, but it's a very special honor. 302 00:28:05,602 --> 00:28:09,648 I don't like the sound of that. I-- [sighs] 303 00:28:13,902 --> 00:28:16,864 [breathing shakily] 304 00:28:18,615 --> 00:28:21,493 Okay, something is really wrong in here. [inhales shakily] 305 00:28:21,493 --> 00:28:24,913 It's those. They cancel out your pitch. 306 00:28:24,913 --> 00:28:30,419 Okay, so I'm in a mental prison, not just a physical one. 307 00:28:31,420 --> 00:28:33,630 H-How do they work? What do those numbers mean? 308 00:28:33,630 --> 00:28:35,215 I don't speak numbers. 309 00:28:35,215 --> 00:28:38,051 Neither do I. [sighs] 310 00:28:38,635 --> 00:28:40,345 I wish Hari was still here. 311 00:28:40,345 --> 00:28:41,805 I'm sorry about what happened to him. 312 00:28:41,805 --> 00:28:45,350 He was insufficient, but I know you liked him anyway. 313 00:28:45,350 --> 00:28:47,853 He wasn't insufficient, Josiah. 314 00:28:48,395 --> 00:28:52,774 He was brilliant. And he would understand exactly how those things... 315 00:28:54,902 --> 00:28:57,196 [breathes shakily] They're after the Radiant, Salvor. 316 00:28:57,196 --> 00:28:59,114 It's on the Beggar's. 317 00:28:59,114 --> 00:29:04,203 It won't look like itself. Find it, protect it. Protect Gaal. She needs you. 318 00:29:04,786 --> 00:29:07,706 [stammers] Josiah, the table where they're taking Gaal, where is it? 319 00:29:07,706 --> 00:29:12,711 In the palace. That way. But you're in here. 320 00:29:12,711 --> 00:29:14,421 Let me worry about that. Go. 321 00:29:14,421 --> 00:29:16,465 And whatever you do, try to forget about this. 322 00:29:23,430 --> 00:29:27,893 [Hari] Other Seldon has what appears to be a duplicate Radiant. 323 00:29:27,893 --> 00:29:31,146 But in truth, there's only one, and we both have it. 324 00:29:32,940 --> 00:29:33,941 In two places. 325 00:29:43,075 --> 00:29:46,203 To look into it, is to look into his hand. 326 00:29:48,705 --> 00:29:49,748 [Salvor] Show me the vault. 327 00:30:16,441 --> 00:30:20,153 Whoa. [breathes shakily] 328 00:30:20,153 --> 00:30:21,738 Salvor Hardin? 329 00:30:25,868 --> 00:30:26,869 Hari Seldon. 330 00:30:28,745 --> 00:30:29,746 How are you here? 331 00:30:31,999 --> 00:30:37,171 I'm not here. Um-- [stutters] Not physically. 332 00:30:37,171 --> 00:30:38,255 Uh-- 333 00:30:39,715 --> 00:30:44,052 M-My mind sort of snuck in through the back door. 334 00:30:45,137 --> 00:30:49,266 The Radiant, which you took when you left Terminus? 335 00:30:49,266 --> 00:30:50,684 Yes, I did. 336 00:30:51,810 --> 00:30:56,064 You're suggesting it serves as a kind of quantum portal into the Vault? 337 00:30:56,648 --> 00:30:57,733 Well, that makes sense. 338 00:30:57,733 --> 00:31:01,153 It's a single quantum system existing in a state of superposition. 339 00:31:03,488 --> 00:31:07,576 Why didn't I know that already? I'm the one who built the bloody thing. 340 00:31:07,576 --> 00:31:11,246 - Well, you didn't. - No. Rhetorical question. 341 00:31:11,246 --> 00:31:15,751 One could argue I'm not the one who built the bloody thing. 342 00:31:15,751 --> 00:31:19,838 I'm a copy of myself designed by a designer, just like the Radiant. 343 00:31:21,256 --> 00:31:27,012 So I suppose I could've withheld this knowledge 344 00:31:27,012 --> 00:31:29,932 out of my design. But to what purpose? 345 00:31:30,891 --> 00:31:35,646 Why before I died would I withhold information so useful to the only c-- 346 00:31:39,525 --> 00:31:42,945 I'm not the only copy. Am I? 347 00:31:47,616 --> 00:31:50,369 Is he the one who told you the Radiant could do this? 348 00:31:50,369 --> 00:31:52,079 I-I'm not sure if I should... 349 00:31:53,914 --> 00:31:55,415 I'm not meant to know. 350 00:31:58,377 --> 00:32:01,213 So there's another me. 351 00:32:02,798 --> 00:32:06,969 What's his purpose? I'm already here to galvanize the Foundation. 352 00:32:07,845 --> 00:32:10,472 Why go to all the trouble of creating a backup as a-- 353 00:32:12,724 --> 00:32:13,934 [chuckles] 354 00:32:14,810 --> 00:32:16,144 Oh, that's very clever. 355 00:32:17,896 --> 00:32:19,648 A second Foundation. 356 00:32:22,651 --> 00:32:24,653 But if the other me has information I don't, 357 00:32:25,779 --> 00:32:30,784 and if we approach all this as one great big experiment, which it kind of is, 358 00:32:31,660 --> 00:32:34,121 then that would make this Foundation the control group. 359 00:32:34,830 --> 00:32:39,501 Kept in the dark, a left hand blissfully unaware of what the right hand is doing. 360 00:32:39,501 --> 00:32:42,337 Fuck. I'm the left hand. 361 00:32:44,965 --> 00:32:47,467 None of which explains just what you're doing here. 362 00:32:48,010 --> 00:32:49,845 - We need your help. - We? 363 00:32:50,512 --> 00:32:51,680 Me and Gaal, and-- [stutters] 364 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,766 Don't tell me any more, you'll contaminate the math. 365 00:32:55,434 --> 00:32:58,687 I don't care about the math. Gaal is in danger. 366 00:33:01,148 --> 00:33:03,859 - [rumbling] - [whirring] 367 00:33:08,739 --> 00:33:10,741 [alarm beeping] 368 00:33:14,745 --> 00:33:16,413 [Hober] It's an enclosure. 369 00:33:17,206 --> 00:33:20,626 There must be hundreds of the Imperial fuckers. We're sitting ducks. 370 00:33:22,127 --> 00:33:23,504 Not if we run dark. 371 00:33:24,213 --> 00:33:26,423 - The Spirit's built for stealth. - [alarm stops] 372 00:33:26,423 --> 00:33:27,674 And we're far enough away 373 00:33:28,175 --> 00:33:30,802 it's possible our gravity signature wasn't detected. 374 00:33:31,345 --> 00:33:32,513 [ship shuts down] 375 00:33:48,445 --> 00:33:50,030 Do you think she survived? 376 00:33:52,157 --> 00:33:54,034 - The prophet will protect her. - [scoffs] 377 00:33:54,034 --> 00:33:58,455 Constant is his loyal servant. She's safe in his hands. 378 00:34:02,584 --> 00:34:03,627 [scoffs] 379 00:34:10,342 --> 00:34:12,177 [tinkling] 380 00:34:19,768 --> 00:34:21,603 I thought I came here to pray. 381 00:34:24,063 --> 00:34:25,232 I don't think I did. 382 00:34:29,319 --> 00:34:32,197 I know you're in there in your fucking office. 383 00:34:35,409 --> 00:34:37,244 She went to Trantor for you. 384 00:34:38,911 --> 00:34:39,996 Why? 385 00:34:40,956 --> 00:34:45,043 She had more to give than her life. 386 00:34:53,135 --> 00:34:55,053 [tinkling] 387 00:35:07,316 --> 00:35:08,775 Didn't think you'd come out. 388 00:35:10,903 --> 00:35:12,654 I felt I owed you as much. 389 00:35:13,822 --> 00:35:15,782 I watched the broad-beam from Trantor. 390 00:35:15,782 --> 00:35:17,910 - Is she alive? - I don't know. 391 00:35:18,952 --> 00:35:22,664 A whole lot of people have dedicated their lives to pretending you know everything. 392 00:35:23,916 --> 00:35:27,044 I sat her on my knee the moment she started thinking about it, 393 00:35:27,044 --> 00:35:30,130 and I said, "Choose any job on Terminus. Choose my job. Choose any job. 394 00:35:30,130 --> 00:35:31,215 Just promise-- 395 00:35:32,633 --> 00:35:37,179 [breathes shakily] Just promise me you won't choose the robes." 396 00:35:38,722 --> 00:35:41,391 I didn't want her becoming one of your mendicants. 397 00:35:44,603 --> 00:35:45,687 One of your dupes. 398 00:35:46,605 --> 00:35:51,276 I only met your daughter for a moment, but she didn't seem easily fooled to me. 399 00:35:52,194 --> 00:35:53,320 And for what it's worth, 400 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,406 - I hope she's alive. - Constant was good! 401 00:35:57,658 --> 00:35:59,368 [inhales deeply] And she believed in you. 402 00:36:03,121 --> 00:36:05,249 They were gonna take her head for it. 403 00:36:06,583 --> 00:36:08,585 You value history, 404 00:36:09,545 --> 00:36:12,089 but you don't care about the people living in it. 405 00:36:13,507 --> 00:36:15,551 I cannot account for individuals... 406 00:36:17,386 --> 00:36:19,346 nor can I predict their fates. 407 00:36:20,013 --> 00:36:23,392 But I do see them. I do. 408 00:36:25,894 --> 00:36:27,229 I see them very well. 409 00:36:29,022 --> 00:36:31,900 Psychohistory is made of their memories, 410 00:36:32,693 --> 00:36:33,902 their choices, 411 00:36:34,528 --> 00:36:36,029 their stories. 412 00:36:36,738 --> 00:36:38,991 Everyone who's ever lived has built it. 413 00:36:39,783 --> 00:36:41,952 Trillions of decisions. 414 00:36:42,619 --> 00:36:43,829 More. 415 00:36:44,663 --> 00:36:46,665 So you see, they all matter. 416 00:36:48,542 --> 00:36:51,753 You tell me she'll survive, and I'll believe you. 417 00:36:53,505 --> 00:36:55,841 If that was so, you would've chosen the robes. 418 00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:00,053 What do we do, Doctor? 419 00:37:01,471 --> 00:37:03,265 We do the hardest thing there is. 420 00:37:06,602 --> 00:37:07,603 We wait. 421 00:37:28,457 --> 00:37:30,542 Empire said you were sent to the Spacers? 422 00:37:31,376 --> 00:37:34,505 Yeah. Seldon hoped I'd convince them to swap sides. 423 00:37:36,215 --> 00:37:40,469 Wanted me to be a blade. I guess he didn't bargain on how blunted I was. [chuckles] 424 00:37:43,138 --> 00:37:44,223 Sorry about Beki. 425 00:37:45,390 --> 00:37:47,017 I'm so sorry that... 426 00:37:48,602 --> 00:37:49,728 I couldn't save Poly. 427 00:37:54,024 --> 00:37:55,984 He was the reason I joined the Church. 428 00:37:57,569 --> 00:38:00,155 The reason so many others embraced Seldon's vision. 429 00:38:02,366 --> 00:38:05,244 He kept that spark alive for over a hundred years. 430 00:38:08,038 --> 00:38:09,456 But then he faltered. 431 00:38:10,916 --> 00:38:12,459 I saw it happen and-- 432 00:38:15,546 --> 00:38:18,340 and I couldn't help him. [exhales shakily] 433 00:38:20,884 --> 00:38:23,554 I was a shitty student of the Church. 434 00:38:25,097 --> 00:38:27,391 I remember this, uh, homily. A parable. 435 00:38:28,308 --> 00:38:32,479 About how life is like collecting jewels in a bag. 436 00:38:33,939 --> 00:38:36,650 And in the end, 437 00:38:36,650 --> 00:38:40,070 you don't want the bag to be full, you want it to be empty because... 438 00:38:42,489 --> 00:38:43,490 you've given them all away. 439 00:38:44,741 --> 00:38:45,742 Yeah. 440 00:38:48,328 --> 00:38:49,496 He gave them all to me. 441 00:38:55,169 --> 00:38:57,045 [Automate Invictus] Approaching the Rubicon. 442 00:38:57,629 --> 00:39:01,091 [Day] Well, High Claric. How do you feel about your mission now? 443 00:39:04,386 --> 00:39:07,264 I would've imagined it to be uncomfortable, 444 00:39:07,264 --> 00:39:08,807 being stared at by Empire. 445 00:39:10,309 --> 00:39:12,060 I've met Hari Seldon. 446 00:39:13,353 --> 00:39:14,730 I'm used to fame. 447 00:39:14,730 --> 00:39:16,190 Oh, Seldon. 448 00:39:17,191 --> 00:39:19,443 He must have some appeal that escapes us. 449 00:39:20,110 --> 00:39:26,158 The chief characteristic of the Church of the Galactic Spirit is that it works. 450 00:39:26,158 --> 00:39:27,659 We dress it up, 451 00:39:28,785 --> 00:39:31,830 but underneath, it is science. 452 00:39:31,830 --> 00:39:32,915 Yes. 453 00:39:33,999 --> 00:39:35,292 Scholarly rigor. 454 00:39:36,293 --> 00:39:39,046 How all the children love his rigor. 455 00:39:41,131 --> 00:39:42,508 I said we dress it up. 456 00:39:43,008 --> 00:39:44,343 [Day] He predicts war. 457 00:39:44,343 --> 00:39:45,844 Foundation and Empire. 458 00:39:47,471 --> 00:39:51,475 This is a warship. So, it seems he was right about that. 459 00:39:51,475 --> 00:39:54,645 This will be his Second Crisis. 460 00:39:56,271 --> 00:39:58,982 I will be, I believe, the only one to witness both. 461 00:40:00,275 --> 00:40:02,027 Except Seldon, in his way. 462 00:40:02,528 --> 00:40:03,529 And I... 463 00:40:05,322 --> 00:40:06,323 in mine. 464 00:40:12,204 --> 00:40:17,835 Seldon claims he will defeat Empire against all expectations. 465 00:40:19,127 --> 00:40:22,548 Like the stone egg that breaks the bowl in the old fable. 466 00:40:23,966 --> 00:40:27,386 But his predictions presuppose our ignorance, don't they? 467 00:40:28,679 --> 00:40:32,599 You and I, knowing what's predicted, can throw it all off, can't it? 468 00:40:33,267 --> 00:40:35,811 I have faith in Foundation. 469 00:40:35,811 --> 00:40:39,606 Ah, watch the rigor melt like candy. 470 00:40:41,775 --> 00:40:42,860 See, Poly... 471 00:40:44,319 --> 00:40:47,197 you think you've just taken on the trappings of religion, 472 00:40:48,365 --> 00:40:50,909 but once you start kneeling and praying, 473 00:40:51,660 --> 00:40:54,037 it's hard to get back to standing and thinking. 474 00:40:57,332 --> 00:41:00,127 In the real world, Claric, there's a natural order. 475 00:41:00,127 --> 00:41:04,464 There is no egg so strong it survives a nuclear blast. 476 00:41:06,550 --> 00:41:09,136 [Poly] There's an old saying among Wardens, 477 00:41:09,720 --> 00:41:14,349 "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." 478 00:41:15,350 --> 00:41:16,852 That's a pithy saying. 479 00:41:19,771 --> 00:41:21,481 You're probably right about that. 480 00:41:24,818 --> 00:41:26,069 [Salvor] So now I'm in this prison-- 481 00:41:26,069 --> 00:41:30,199 I shouldn't know this. Mentalics, telepaths. I shouldn't know any of it. 482 00:41:30,199 --> 00:41:33,744 But you're still listening, and you're still gonna help. 483 00:41:34,411 --> 00:41:38,916 They're about to do something terrible to Gaal, and I can't help her. 484 00:41:39,499 --> 00:41:42,169 These dishes, they're disrupting me somehow. 485 00:41:42,669 --> 00:41:46,632 And I was hoping you could tell me how to make 'em stop. 486 00:41:47,633 --> 00:41:48,634 Dishes. 487 00:41:49,468 --> 00:41:50,928 Well, describe them to me. 488 00:41:50,928 --> 00:41:54,181 No. Better yet, show me. 489 00:41:57,059 --> 00:42:00,103 If you can see me here, I can see you there. 490 00:42:08,028 --> 00:42:10,656 [sensors whirring] 491 00:42:10,656 --> 00:42:11,865 Extraordinary. 492 00:42:13,450 --> 00:42:16,328 Yeah. Those are the problem. 493 00:42:17,746 --> 00:42:19,081 Well, they're reading you. 494 00:42:19,081 --> 00:42:20,832 Encephalic sensors. 495 00:42:21,416 --> 00:42:24,837 They generate wave forms out of phase with your brain waves. 496 00:42:25,462 --> 00:42:28,924 The waves are colliding and eliminating each other. 497 00:42:29,508 --> 00:42:31,009 Can you help me turn them off? 498 00:42:32,219 --> 00:42:35,472 [chuckles] I can do better than that. 499 00:42:36,223 --> 00:42:40,352 Y-You hear that... [imitates sensors] ...sound? 500 00:42:40,894 --> 00:42:41,812 [grunts] 501 00:42:41,812 --> 00:42:44,356 Those are dissonant sounds made to keep you unfocused. 502 00:42:44,356 --> 00:42:50,237 Now, I bet that we could readjust their frequency to break rocks. 503 00:42:51,446 --> 00:42:52,573 Whoa. 504 00:42:53,115 --> 00:42:54,116 Okay. 505 00:42:56,034 --> 00:43:00,163 - Thank you, Dr. Seldon. - You're welcome, Salvor Hardin. 506 00:43:02,165 --> 00:43:05,169 Oh, wait! The Second Crisis. Has it started? 507 00:43:06,253 --> 00:43:07,588 Always a Warden. 508 00:43:09,673 --> 00:43:11,925 Things are rather up in the air at the moment. 509 00:43:13,343 --> 00:43:15,137 But Terminus survives, right? 510 00:43:22,644 --> 00:43:23,812 Hober Mallow. 511 00:43:24,396 --> 00:43:26,648 - Hmm? - Hober Mallow. 512 00:43:28,358 --> 00:43:33,322 According to Gaal, he's gonna "pierce the Empire's hide." 513 00:43:33,906 --> 00:43:35,407 You shouldn't have told me that. 514 00:43:36,074 --> 00:43:38,243 - I can't make you use it. - [chuckles] 515 00:43:39,286 --> 00:43:41,830 If I do, it could change everything. 516 00:43:42,331 --> 00:43:43,373 Outlier. 517 00:43:45,334 --> 00:43:49,213 Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right. 518 00:43:50,422 --> 00:43:51,423 Good luck, Warden. 519 00:44:02,518 --> 00:44:05,771 If the left hand doesn't get to put its thumb on the scale... 520 00:44:08,023 --> 00:44:09,942 what's the point in having a thumb? 521 00:44:22,621 --> 00:44:23,997 [person] Hober Mallow! 522 00:44:24,706 --> 00:44:27,209 Get Hober Mallow! 523 00:44:42,474 --> 00:44:46,144 Looking for the Locris wine. Thought it'd be a nice way to honor Poly. 524 00:44:47,604 --> 00:44:50,148 "Take care of the body, and the spirit will follow." 525 00:44:50,148 --> 00:44:53,902 [chuckles] Something Poly never quite embraced. 526 00:44:53,902 --> 00:44:55,737 So, not the Locris wine? 527 00:44:56,321 --> 00:44:57,531 We're vulnerable here. 528 00:44:57,531 --> 00:45:00,200 If we jump, the fleet will be aware of our presence. 529 00:45:01,076 --> 00:45:02,661 I think we should seize the moment. 530 00:45:04,663 --> 00:45:06,039 And by seizing you mean... 531 00:45:07,165 --> 00:45:08,417 Sex. 532 00:45:08,417 --> 00:45:09,501 [chuckles] 533 00:45:10,169 --> 00:45:12,379 - Are you opposed to sex? - Not categorically. 534 00:45:12,379 --> 00:45:14,923 - You're worried this would kill my father? - Sermak? 535 00:45:16,425 --> 00:45:18,594 No, no. Arguably that's a plus. 536 00:45:19,511 --> 00:45:20,721 Then take off your trousers. 537 00:45:21,221 --> 00:45:23,182 Yeah. Okay. Uh... 538 00:45:43,202 --> 00:45:44,411 [Constant breathes heavily] 539 00:45:44,995 --> 00:45:47,456 I couldn't decide between kissing first or disrobing first. 540 00:45:47,456 --> 00:45:50,834 But disrobing first seemed more efficient. 541 00:45:51,627 --> 00:45:53,462 Yeah. That was efficient. 542 00:45:53,462 --> 00:45:54,630 [chuckles] 543 00:45:58,634 --> 00:45:59,593 You're nervous. 544 00:46:00,344 --> 00:46:01,345 No. 545 00:46:03,555 --> 00:46:06,558 - [chuckles] Ashamed of your body? - No. 546 00:46:07,601 --> 00:46:11,063 Is-- [sighs] Is something not functioning? 547 00:46:12,314 --> 00:46:13,148 No. 548 00:46:27,538 --> 00:46:28,539 [both chuckle] 549 00:46:50,060 --> 00:46:52,145 Turnabout is fair play, wouldn't you say? 550 00:46:53,605 --> 00:46:55,691 Day is off-planet. 551 00:46:55,691 --> 00:47:00,821 I can't think of a better opportunity to resume our line of inquiry. 552 00:47:03,490 --> 00:47:04,491 So? 553 00:47:06,577 --> 00:47:08,620 Now the Locris wine? 554 00:47:11,415 --> 00:47:12,791 You never guessed my name. 555 00:47:14,042 --> 00:47:15,294 But I'll allow it. 556 00:47:16,211 --> 00:47:20,591 Let's promise to always attend each other's executions. 557 00:47:20,591 --> 00:47:21,717 [chuckles] 558 00:47:21,717 --> 00:47:25,262 - Our first date was your beheading. - Mm-hmm. 559 00:47:25,262 --> 00:47:27,264 Our second was mine. 560 00:47:27,264 --> 00:47:28,807 Okay. Deal. 561 00:47:29,641 --> 00:47:30,976 Now the wine. 562 00:47:44,990 --> 00:47:45,991 [chuckles] 563 00:47:46,617 --> 00:47:47,826 [beeping] 564 00:47:47,826 --> 00:47:50,204 [Bel, through sandogram] Spirit Rising, stand down. 565 00:47:50,204 --> 00:47:52,289 You've been apprehended in the name of Empire. 566 00:47:53,290 --> 00:47:55,501 - Can he see us? - Yeah, and hear us. 567 00:47:56,001 --> 00:47:57,377 Hober, your wrist. 568 00:47:58,378 --> 00:48:00,172 [Bel] Mr. Mallow, Brother. 569 00:48:00,839 --> 00:48:03,091 Don't bother trying to jump, your drives are off-line. 570 00:48:03,091 --> 00:48:06,887 We're gonna dock, and we promise, we'll make you comfortable on board. 571 00:48:13,060 --> 00:48:17,189 [Dusk] You were looking for answers. I think we may find them here. 572 00:48:17,689 --> 00:48:21,485 Someone put a hidden message in an aberration. 573 00:48:22,194 --> 00:48:26,448 But new chroma activates old, 574 00:48:26,448 --> 00:48:29,368 and only an old master would recognize that. 575 00:48:31,745 --> 00:48:35,916 Some believe that with age comes inferiority, 576 00:48:37,584 --> 00:48:44,091 but there are advantages to a lifetime of experience amassed. 577 00:48:49,930 --> 00:48:51,473 [whirring] 578 00:49:09,950 --> 00:49:11,243 [gasps] 579 00:49:21,753 --> 00:49:22,796 [Rue] Where are we? 580 00:49:30,179 --> 00:49:32,222 - You came. - Of course. 581 00:49:32,723 --> 00:49:35,225 Back in the throne room, what I said for Day's benefit, 582 00:49:35,225 --> 00:49:36,727 that was a performance. 583 00:49:36,727 --> 00:49:38,061 You know that, right? [chuckles] 584 00:49:38,061 --> 00:49:40,522 - As long as he thinks he owns me. - He doesn't. 585 00:49:41,398 --> 00:49:43,150 I've been thinking about what you proposed. 586 00:49:43,150 --> 00:49:44,860 It's all I keep thinking about. 587 00:49:59,124 --> 00:50:01,335 [both panting, moaning] 588 00:50:08,175 --> 00:50:11,094 This. This one little thing. 589 00:50:12,054 --> 00:50:13,847 This is something he can't take away from us. 590 00:50:14,556 --> 00:50:15,807 [Sareth breathing heavily] 591 00:50:21,230 --> 00:50:22,231 Are you sure? 592 00:50:26,485 --> 00:50:28,695 - [groans, panting] - [breathes shakily] 593 00:50:40,999 --> 00:50:45,170 [Dusk] In all my years, I've never encountered this stairwell. 594 00:50:46,213 --> 00:50:47,589 I doubt Day has. 595 00:50:48,757 --> 00:50:50,926 I wonder if any of us have. 596 00:50:58,392 --> 00:50:59,560 Odd sensation. 597 00:51:00,185 --> 00:51:01,478 [Rue] What? 598 00:51:01,478 --> 00:51:04,064 To feel like a stranger in one's own home. 599 00:51:11,446 --> 00:51:14,449 [Salvor grunting] 600 00:51:37,681 --> 00:51:40,350 [whirring] 601 00:51:43,395 --> 00:51:45,772 [whirring intensifies] 602 00:51:48,901 --> 00:51:50,569 [rumbling] 603 00:51:51,153 --> 00:51:52,237 [exclaims] 604 00:52:00,204 --> 00:52:03,123 [whimpering, panting] 605 00:52:03,123 --> 00:52:05,626 [people chanting] 606 00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:08,879 [breathing heavily] 607 00:52:12,424 --> 00:52:14,551 [chanting continues] 608 00:52:33,987 --> 00:52:35,364 [pipes playing] 609 00:52:41,453 --> 00:52:42,663 You all right, Gaal? 610 00:52:42,663 --> 00:52:44,248 [groans] 611 00:52:44,248 --> 00:52:45,916 I think you're fine. 612 00:52:46,500 --> 00:52:48,210 Here. Let me. 613 00:52:48,210 --> 00:52:49,253 [grunts] 614 00:52:49,253 --> 00:52:53,090 Remember when I told you that I was mistaken for a god 615 00:52:53,090 --> 00:52:54,925 when I was a little child? 616 00:52:54,925 --> 00:52:59,054 I was so protected by my people, I felt like a prisoner. 617 00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:04,810 Most of the time I sat on a crystal platform in our tallest sacred tree, 618 00:53:04,810 --> 00:53:06,186 all by myself. 619 00:53:08,230 --> 00:53:10,274 Some days felt like an eternity. 620 00:53:12,025 --> 00:53:13,360 But it was still a shock, 621 00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:18,323 the day I realized my skin was soft and wrinkled like a rotten fruit. 622 00:53:19,032 --> 00:53:20,117 I'd gotten old. 623 00:53:21,952 --> 00:53:23,704 It wasn't fair, I thought, 624 00:53:24,746 --> 00:53:28,083 that my life be almost over, and I'd never even gotten to live. 625 00:53:30,794 --> 00:53:33,630 [whimpers, breathing shakily] 626 00:53:35,883 --> 00:53:38,010 But then I discovered a child. 627 00:53:38,010 --> 00:53:40,137 A little girl like I'd been. 628 00:53:40,721 --> 00:53:45,309 I had to use all my power to relocate my consciousness inside her. 629 00:53:45,309 --> 00:53:48,145 And I was afraid that I'd fall between bodies, 630 00:53:48,145 --> 00:53:52,065 like falling between a boat and a wharf, getting crushed in between. 631 00:53:52,649 --> 00:53:54,151 I practiced for a year. 632 00:53:55,277 --> 00:53:58,197 It was still terrifying, but I committed. 633 00:53:59,323 --> 00:54:02,826 This leap through the air into an occupied mind. 634 00:54:04,828 --> 00:54:07,080 She was my second incarnation. 635 00:54:07,581 --> 00:54:09,583 Who? The little girl you showed us? 636 00:54:11,126 --> 00:54:13,003 Her parents were so proud. 637 00:54:13,629 --> 00:54:17,799 And our religion was renewed by this great miracle. 638 00:54:18,425 --> 00:54:21,345 And so, every six or seven decades, 639 00:54:21,345 --> 00:54:24,223 when I felt my current body starting to fade, 640 00:54:24,223 --> 00:54:26,016 I would select another child. 641 00:54:27,017 --> 00:54:32,481 Each new incarnation, my powers grew. [chuckles] 642 00:54:32,481 --> 00:54:36,109 Soon I could see inside the minds of anyone around me. 643 00:54:36,610 --> 00:54:39,029 Read their thoughts. Control them. 644 00:54:39,863 --> 00:54:45,160 And then one day I started to hear voices from other worlds. 645 00:54:47,287 --> 00:54:48,997 I heard your voice, Gaal. 646 00:54:48,997 --> 00:54:52,459 Calling out from Synnax more than a century ago. 647 00:54:52,459 --> 00:54:56,255 This crackling intelligence, just trying not to drown. 648 00:54:58,173 --> 00:55:00,175 It was me who planted the seed in your head 649 00:55:00,175 --> 00:55:01,510 - that you should leave. - [Gaal] What? 650 00:55:01,510 --> 00:55:04,304 [stammers] That all came from inside me. 651 00:55:04,847 --> 00:55:07,474 - I solved Abraxas, I-- - It doesn't matter now. 652 00:55:07,474 --> 00:55:10,018 We've all ended up where we belong. 653 00:55:10,519 --> 00:55:13,355 [gasps] What is she doing to you? 654 00:55:13,355 --> 00:55:16,275 - Help me. - I'm doing this for them. 655 00:55:16,859 --> 00:55:21,780 Once your power is my power, I can keep our people safe. 656 00:55:23,365 --> 00:55:24,741 What happens to me? 657 00:55:25,242 --> 00:55:27,035 You'll be with me for a time. 658 00:55:27,035 --> 00:55:29,580 I heard that little girl for several years, 659 00:55:29,580 --> 00:55:31,999 like a voice coming from the bottom of a well, 660 00:55:31,999 --> 00:55:35,460 growing fainter every day, till I could only hear the silence. 661 00:55:37,004 --> 00:55:39,006 I still listen for her though, 662 00:55:40,424 --> 00:55:42,885 just like I will always listen for you. 663 00:55:45,095 --> 00:55:47,389 [whimpering] 664 00:55:48,056 --> 00:55:51,018 We used to have an instrument, a very old instrument. 665 00:55:51,018 --> 00:55:54,021 That fussed with people's brain signals. 666 00:55:54,021 --> 00:55:55,898 Changed their mind, so to speak. 667 00:55:56,773 --> 00:55:59,735 These whistles are pieces of that. 668 00:55:59,735 --> 00:56:01,236 They're harmless on their own. 669 00:56:01,236 --> 00:56:04,489 We use them to teach the children to unvoice. 670 00:56:05,073 --> 00:56:07,659 - But play them together. - [whistling] 671 00:56:07,659 --> 00:56:09,369 [Tellem] You can't fight me anymore, Gaal. 672 00:56:09,369 --> 00:56:11,914 The tuning plates are aligning us. 673 00:56:11,914 --> 00:56:14,583 [wailing] Help me! 674 00:56:17,252 --> 00:56:18,754 Please, you can't let her-- 675 00:56:18,754 --> 00:56:20,255 [screams] 676 00:56:24,384 --> 00:56:27,012 [Sareth] We shouldn't stay here, Dawn. 677 00:56:28,514 --> 00:56:30,724 I can't allow Day to rear our child. 678 00:56:32,935 --> 00:56:34,186 I thought I could, but I... 679 00:56:35,687 --> 00:56:38,774 What if Day died? He's left you in charge. 680 00:56:39,900 --> 00:56:42,569 - They'll just decant another. - Then we destroy the exponents. 681 00:56:43,779 --> 00:56:46,073 If there are no more clones to replace him, then... 682 00:56:47,908 --> 00:56:48,909 we would be free. 683 00:56:50,369 --> 00:56:51,662 No, they're-- 684 00:56:52,663 --> 00:56:55,541 [sighs] They're not just cells and tissue, they're-- 685 00:56:55,541 --> 00:56:57,376 they're still my brothers. 686 00:56:58,919 --> 00:57:00,254 And even if I could find it in me, 687 00:57:00,254 --> 00:57:01,880 - Demerzel would stop it. - [scoffs] 688 00:57:03,131 --> 00:57:05,634 She's responsible for protecting Genetic Dynasty. 689 00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:07,970 It's in her programming. 690 00:57:08,720 --> 00:57:10,764 But who programmed Demerzel? 691 00:57:18,605 --> 00:57:19,815 [Day] Terminus waits. 692 00:57:29,491 --> 00:57:31,994 This is my destiny, Demerzel. 693 00:57:34,913 --> 00:57:35,998 [Rue] What is this place? 694 00:57:37,165 --> 00:57:38,584 [Dusk] Whatever its purpose, 695 00:57:39,084 --> 00:57:41,795 Demerzel took great pains to keep it a secret. 696 00:57:43,797 --> 00:57:45,841 [Dawn] I always thought we were autonomous, 697 00:57:45,841 --> 00:57:49,094 a pure extension of Cleon I, that Demerzel served us. 698 00:57:49,970 --> 00:57:52,890 But in truth, Demerzel may serve only him. 699 00:57:56,018 --> 00:57:57,311 Dusk was right. 700 00:57:59,855 --> 00:58:01,857 We've been pulling too many threads. 701 00:58:02,858 --> 00:58:04,193 I don't think it's safe. 702 00:58:05,110 --> 00:58:06,278 For him or for me. 703 00:58:06,278 --> 00:58:08,197 I don't even think it's safe for Day. 704 00:58:08,197 --> 00:58:11,491 You're all just puppets. That much is clear now. 705 00:58:13,660 --> 00:58:18,081 [Cleon, through sandogram] You wanted answers about Demerzel's origins. 706 00:58:20,375 --> 00:58:23,337 This chamber has been considered many things, 707 00:58:24,254 --> 00:58:27,257 but at first it was a prison. 708 00:58:29,092 --> 00:58:32,638 Welcome, Cleon XVI. 709 00:58:36,642 --> 00:58:40,103 I've often wondered what you see while the rest of us are sleeping. 710 00:58:42,564 --> 00:58:43,982 All that we must be missing. 711 00:58:46,109 --> 00:58:47,819 What thoughts haunt you. 712 00:58:49,821 --> 00:58:50,948 A prison for whom? 713 00:58:53,283 --> 00:58:54,243 [gasps] 714 00:58:54,243 --> 00:58:57,788 The three of you. You don't wield the real power. 715 00:58:59,748 --> 00:59:02,000 Demerzel is Cleon's only true heir. 716 00:59:07,172 --> 00:59:08,632 His forever Empress.