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And down it goes.
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[Poly] It's slicing us, virtually.
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Just in case one of us commits suicide
by means of boredom.
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If that were possible,
would any of us still draw breath?
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We failed the Prophet.
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Mmm. I'm not sure about that.
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We were told to go to the Imperial Palace
and look where we are,
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- the Imperial Palace.
- [Poly] Yeah.
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- And this must be the diplomatic lounge.
- [chuckles]
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Thank you for not laughing
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when I was prattling on about the wine
from the Prophet's hand.
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It took me over a century
to find a way to be useful to him
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and less than a week to fuck it up.
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I should have kept the Vordaline. [sighs]
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[Timandra] We flagged them at the port
and brought them in this morning.
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They claim to have traveled here
for diplomatic relations.
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[Day] What are those robes?
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Clerical vestments. Church of Hari Seldon.
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Just as General Riose arrives
in the Outer Reach,
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the Outer Reach reaches out.
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Interesting.
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You'll want to see the data
from the port of entry.
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[Demerzel] Given the timing,
should we continue with preparations
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for your marriage to Queen Sareth?
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Unless you're having second thoughts?
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There'll be no turning back if I do this.
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It will be different for both of us,
but... [sighs]
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...you will always have a place here, Demerzel.
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With my new family.
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[grunts] My children...
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even if they somehow don't resemble me.
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They will be Empire, just the same.
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- Of course.
- Hmm.
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I thank Empire for his words of welcome.
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- I look forward to ruling at his side.
- [Sareth chuckling]
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And I want you, all of you...
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[chuckles]
The way he set his jaw when I spoke.
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...I am not wed to just one...
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He hid it well for the crowd,
but up close, it was something to behold.
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There's this little vein, right here,
that--
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Why do I feel as though my enjoiner
is about to live up to the title?
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- No admonishments, just advice.
- [scoffs] You make them feel so similar.
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Day is taken with you. Perhaps because you
treat him with contempt.
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And foolishly,
he's not particularly threatened by you.
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But there's one thing you must never do
to a man like that.
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You must never embarrass him.
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- You know I'll be careful, but--
- [footsteps approaching]
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Queen Sareth-betrothed.
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You were the cynosure of all eyes today.
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People of Trantor appear quite taken
with your promises.
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Thank you.
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But you come
with more than congratulations, surely?
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Now that your wedding's been announced,
our doctors request your presence.
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A final examination
before we begin producing an heir.
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We can find time this week.
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You misunderstand me.
I'm here to escort the queen now.
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I know, Demerzel. I know what you are.
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Your mechanical nature.
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I need to be read into the family secrets.
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I won't live at a disadvantage.
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You are well-informed.
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I am a humaniform robot.
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I had a governess
who told tales of the great pogrom.
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She said you'd all been destroyed.
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Are there any other survivors?
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To my knowledge, I am the last one.
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I have served the dynasty
since the reign of Cleon I.
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[Sareth] Did you serve any other masters
before him?
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Not directly.
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What does that mean?
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For a long time,
all robots were bound by three laws.
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The laws made me unable to harm a human
or allow harm to come to a human.
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- And now?
- Now I'm bound by only one law.
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- Which is?
- I serve Empire.
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And I'll soon be an empress.
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Hence my line of questioning.
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When the time comes, I want to know.
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Will you serve me?
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I will serve Empire.
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Thank you all for your interest.
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[doctor]
I am Oran, physician of the court.
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I specialize in matters of reproduction
and suchlike.
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Please, try to relax.
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We will begin
with a simple uterine examination
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to ensure you're capable
of carrying Empire's progeny.
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I'm sure my womb is strong enough
to carry the Cleon-Child...
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- [device beeps]
- ...fabled though its kicks may be.
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Yes. I'm quite sure that it is.
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- [grunts] Huh.
- [device whirring]
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I see the queen has chemically stimulated
the royal ovaries as we requested.
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Once this is finished, you'll be sedated
so we can harvest the eggs.
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Uh, you're not harvesting anything
until Empire and I are legally bound.
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- [chuckles] Call me old-fashioned.
- You're in no position to argue.
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Is that a joke, Demerzel?
I can argue in any position.
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The moment you accepted Empire's proposal,
your womb became imperial property.
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And you would know all about being
imperial property, wouldn't you?
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Cloud Dominion has equal interest
in the queen's offspring.
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So we can enjoin in any premature
harvesting. But in good time.
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Yes, exactly. After the wedding,
I'll produce eggs by the dozen.
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And you don't need to worry
about the process either, Demerzel.
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I know you have an arrangement
with my husband-to-be,
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and I won't get in the way.
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You and Day wish to continue playing
sanctum and scepter,
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I'm happy to carry his children
and let you do the drudge work.
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This must be done during ovulation.
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We'll stop here for now.
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[device beeps]
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We have many years ahead of us.
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Wonderful! [yelps, whimpers]
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[sighs] I hope whatever you must do
to Day to reverse the imperial sterility
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is as painful as this.
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[Oran] Yes, well,
Empire's reversal is a simple procedure.
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It takes about 20 seconds
for the nano-probes
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to tunnel new vasa deferentia.
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At least that sounds unpleasant.
[breathes deeply] Fair is fair.
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All right, Dr. Oran. I think you've
rummaged around enough for today.
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- We'll stop here for now.
- Yes.
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I'd like to have a moment alone
with the queen.
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It's all right.
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You believe Empire killed your family.
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I know you have come here
with that in mind. So, just to say it,
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if ever you should entertain some fantasy
of revenge, please think of them.
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Your parents. Your siblings.
Burnt alive by the very air around them.
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Killed with the sort of precision
I bring to my work.
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[whimpering]
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[sobbing]
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86,988,301, 86,988,329... [inhales deeply]
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Gaal?
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- [grunting]
- [gasps] Salvor?
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[grunts] Something Tellem taught you?
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[sighs] I-I'm sorry. I just--
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What is going on with you?
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Hey, you can't just disappear.
We need to talk about this.
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Hari took my fucking ship.
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He had to. The people here will accept us,
but never him.
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You know,
I don't wanna be accepted by them.
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We need to leave.
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Tellem's got a few little ships.
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We lift one, sub-light.
It'll get us somewhere.
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We're not leaving. We need these people.
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For The Mule, right?
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Not for any other reason.
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You keep acting like The Mule
is some abstract thing.
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He isn't. I felt him in my head,
and I saw your dead body.
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So now you're willing to bank
our whole future on Tellem.
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You need to bury those thoughts.
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Why? What are you thinking
that you don't want them to know?
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[scoffs] You know, I've been hearing
a lot about openness since we got here.
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Back on Terminus,
I could read people up and down.
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But here? Nothing.
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I can't read Tellem. I can't read anyone.
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Something is wrong with this place.
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You're angry with each other.
You'll feel happier once you've eaten.
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Eating always makes me feel happier.
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- After we eat what?
- There's a feast.
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- Morning.
- [chuckles]
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It's always a big day for us
when we take on someone new.
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I'm sorry about that business with Hari.
Him leaving.
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- Yeah, me too.
- We will find equilibrium.
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This I promise.
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In the meantime, there's work to be done.
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I know my way around a fishing net.
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Salvor.
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Mmm.
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Is that our breakfast?
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00:13:07,454 --> 00:13:08,580
Uh-huh.
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Ghost mollusks.
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Great source of protein,
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but these fuckers live so far down.
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We're at the mercy of the current.
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But you wait long enough,
you got yourself a feast.
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So this really is a rare occasion.
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We don't tread lightly on good tidings.
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Tellem's excited you're here.
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00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:37,109
Tellem is excited Gaal's here.
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00:13:37,109 --> 00:13:41,905
Ah, your talents are just as important.
I felt them when we, um...
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- Kissed?
- Touched.
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That's all it takes.
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- And the kiss was your doing.
- [scoffs] It didn't seem to bother you.
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What kind of illusion would it have been
if I pulled away?
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I'm sorry.
182
00:14:00,465 --> 00:14:01,592
Seriously, I'm sorry.
183
00:14:02,968 --> 00:14:06,138
Sometimes other faces come
a little too easily for me. You know?
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00:14:07,264 --> 00:14:09,391
Looks like someone
didn't appreciate your gift.
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00:14:09,391 --> 00:14:11,268
People back home saw a monster.
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00:14:12,144 --> 00:14:13,145
So they made me one.
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00:14:14,271 --> 00:14:16,940
Before I got here, anywhere I went,
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00:14:16,940 --> 00:14:19,943
I could feel the way people flinched
when they saw me coming.
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Did I?
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A little bit.
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00:14:32,122 --> 00:14:33,123
But trust me,
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you'll end up closer to the people here
than anywhere you've ever been.
193
00:14:37,461 --> 00:14:40,631
That's what's so great about this place.
No one can hide.
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00:14:58,065 --> 00:15:00,817
Right. I'm starving. Come on.
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- [Tellem] Good.
- [chuckles]
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00:15:18,085 --> 00:15:19,461
[wind instruments playing]
197
00:15:19,461 --> 00:15:21,338
- [Loron] Yeah. I've got it.
- Flip it over.
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00:15:24,842 --> 00:15:26,844
[mollusks screeching]
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00:15:27,719 --> 00:15:31,557
[gasps] Oh! Oh!
[breathes heavily] What is that?
200
00:15:34,268 --> 00:15:35,644
[Tellem] Do you feel something?
201
00:15:35,644 --> 00:15:38,146
Pain. [stammers]
It's like they're screaming.
202
00:15:38,146 --> 00:15:40,649
Well, you would too,
if you were boiled alive.
203
00:15:40,649 --> 00:15:44,319
I mean, we talk about being Sighted,
but language is imprecise.
204
00:15:44,319 --> 00:15:48,240
All of the senses are involved,
hearing too. General empathy.
205
00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:49,575
I've never felt anything like-- [gasps]
206
00:15:49,575 --> 00:15:51,410
Well, you are broadening, child.
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00:15:51,410 --> 00:15:55,539
And here, you're among your own.
We're stronger when there's harmony.
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00:15:57,833 --> 00:16:00,210
Maybe we'll stick to the leaves.
[chuckles]
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00:16:00,210 --> 00:16:02,629
Why? Plants feel pain.
210
00:16:03,130 --> 00:16:06,717
Trees send chemical signals through
their roots when they're distressed.
211
00:16:06,717 --> 00:16:08,510
What's that, if not a scream?
212
00:16:09,011 --> 00:16:11,263
Suffering is the price of admission.
213
00:16:11,763 --> 00:16:16,393
Oh, humanity pretends otherwise, but their
ability to ignore the suffering of others
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leaves room for excess,
indulgence, conquest.
215
00:16:23,025 --> 00:16:27,279
The man who owned all of this,
Emperor Kandar,
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00:16:28,238 --> 00:16:32,034
he loved to bathe in a violet pigment
extracted from these mollusks.
217
00:16:32,534 --> 00:16:34,119
That's why there's so few left.
218
00:16:35,495 --> 00:16:39,458
He died of overabundance,
young and purple.
219
00:16:39,458 --> 00:16:40,542
[Gaal chuckles]
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We're different. We don't shy away
from the pain we cause. We honor it.
221
00:16:47,925 --> 00:16:52,221
If you feel everything,
you don't take more than you need.
222
00:16:53,597 --> 00:16:55,015
Lose your appetite?
223
00:16:55,849 --> 00:16:59,144
I'm just trying to wrap my head around
the fact that everything I eat,
224
00:16:59,144 --> 00:17:01,522
from now on, is going to be yelling
at me the whole way down.
225
00:17:01,522 --> 00:17:03,899
Small price to pay for truth.
226
00:17:05,358 --> 00:17:06,944
This mean I'm finally Sighted?
227
00:17:06,944 --> 00:17:09,863
Well, there's a few more steps,
but you're no longer blind.
228
00:17:10,364 --> 00:17:12,950
- So, I'm squinting.
- Like a newborn.
229
00:17:18,955 --> 00:17:23,502
[Hober] Hey there. You know, believe it
or not, I was just looking for you guys.
230
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This place is amazing.
231
00:17:25,628 --> 00:17:27,422
[She-Is-Center] We jump-randomize.
232
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Only another Spacer would know
where we would appear.
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00:17:30,259 --> 00:17:33,178
- What have you done?
- No-- Wait, wait.
234
00:17:33,178 --> 00:17:36,598
Look, I was given these coordinates
by a man named Hari Seldon.
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He's a good predictor.
It's kinda what he does.
236
00:17:39,142 --> 00:17:44,439
We close-guard our movements.
No one can know and continue to live.
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- [scoffs] Space will kill you quickly.
- No. I have something for you.
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00:17:57,744 --> 00:17:58,954
- Opalesk.
- Yeah.
239
00:17:58,954 --> 00:18:01,456
You can keep that.
Breathe it, eat it, whatever you want.
240
00:18:01,456 --> 00:18:04,585
The Foundation makes it
and can make more of it.
241
00:18:04,585 --> 00:18:06,587
Opalesk synthesizing is impossible.
242
00:18:06,587 --> 00:18:11,216
And yet, Seldon's happy little scientists
found a way.
243
00:18:11,216 --> 00:18:15,095
Look, your modifications have left you
dependent on this stuff,
244
00:18:15,095 --> 00:18:16,597
this micronutrient.
245
00:18:16,597 --> 00:18:19,099
And I don't know
if Empire did that to you,
246
00:18:19,099 --> 00:18:20,934
but I know they've taken advantage of it.
247
00:18:20,934 --> 00:18:24,438
This is the dam they use to hold you in.
How many of your children do they take?
248
00:18:25,063 --> 00:18:27,524
Ten percent of our offspring navigate
for them.
249
00:18:27,524 --> 00:18:31,069
Right. Or you don't get the opalesk.
250
00:18:31,069 --> 00:18:33,947
And they tell you
that means the rest of you are free.
251
00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:36,325
You're not free.
252
00:18:37,242 --> 00:18:39,119
They could choke the supply any day
253
00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:42,206
if the Cleon in the middle chair decides
he doesn't need you anymore.
254
00:18:42,206 --> 00:18:43,665
But he does need us.
255
00:18:44,291 --> 00:18:46,960
You looked at my ship? Scan it.
256
00:18:50,130 --> 00:18:51,632
[whirring]
257
00:18:51,632 --> 00:18:53,008
[Hober] See what it doesn't need?
258
00:18:53,008 --> 00:18:54,718
Spacer navigators.
259
00:18:54,718 --> 00:18:58,013
What do you think happens
when Empire gets tech like that?
260
00:18:58,013 --> 00:19:00,516
You think they're gonna bother
sending you your vitamins then?
261
00:19:02,768 --> 00:19:04,561
You want us to work together.
262
00:19:05,896 --> 00:19:08,190
And our pay would be opalesk?
263
00:19:08,190 --> 00:19:12,194
Your pay would be opalesk,
but your reward would be freedom.
264
00:19:13,153 --> 00:19:16,782
Keeping your daughters and sons,
and the offspring of the whole swarm.
265
00:19:16,782 --> 00:19:20,285
Living for yourselves.
Can you even imagine it,
266
00:19:20,285 --> 00:19:24,748
if the dam broke, and you could just
flow out into the ocean of the universe?
267
00:19:24,748 --> 00:19:27,751
We were built to flow outward, as you say.
268
00:19:28,293 --> 00:19:33,215
To flow beyond the galaxy,
into the ocean of the universe.
269
00:19:33,215 --> 00:19:37,135
Right. And that freedom can be yours.
270
00:19:37,135 --> 00:19:41,431
All you need to do is help us
kick Empire in the nuts.
271
00:19:46,728 --> 00:19:48,605
[Day] For anyone who needs it spelled out,
272
00:19:49,857 --> 00:19:52,109
I am ending the Genetic Dynasty.
273
00:19:52,109 --> 00:19:53,902
[audience cheering]
274
00:19:57,447 --> 00:20:00,784
- [stammers] I was watching that.
- Yeah, well, too bad.
275
00:20:02,286 --> 00:20:03,453
He thinks he can change.
276
00:20:03,453 --> 00:20:06,456
[scoffs]
He's located a desire to procreate.
277
00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:08,750
I'm not overwhelmed with admiration.
278
00:20:08,750 --> 00:20:10,127
[electronic device beeps]
279
00:20:10,127 --> 00:20:11,461
Come.
280
00:20:14,214 --> 00:20:15,424
[Kress] General, sorry for the intrusion.
281
00:20:15,424 --> 00:20:18,927
She-Bends has reviewed the footage
from Siwenna and would like a word.
282
00:20:21,054 --> 00:20:23,849
I've never witnessed
a singularity-fold that small.
283
00:20:23,849 --> 00:20:25,601
[Bel] A ship with a mind of its own.
284
00:20:25,601 --> 00:20:28,979
[Glawen] Our contact on Siwenna thought
it was some kind of organic computing.
285
00:20:28,979 --> 00:20:31,607
Is it possible that the Foundation
are powering their ships
286
00:20:31,607 --> 00:20:34,026
by growing brain tissue without a host?
287
00:20:34,902 --> 00:20:37,196
[whirring]
288
00:20:38,071 --> 00:20:39,823
- What are you doing?
- Is she okay?
289
00:20:41,074 --> 00:20:45,996
What is going on now?
Is this how you, like, sign the deal?
290
00:20:45,996 --> 00:20:50,083
The opalesk is tempting,
but the risk is too great.
291
00:20:50,667 --> 00:20:51,752
You are correct.
292
00:20:51,752 --> 00:20:55,214
Ten percent of our offspring
is tithed to the Imperium.
293
00:20:56,381 --> 00:21:01,220
But if Empire learns we have exchanged
words with you, they will demand 20.
294
00:21:01,803 --> 00:21:03,388
We cannot bear that.
295
00:21:03,889 --> 00:21:05,098
[whirs]
296
00:21:06,391 --> 00:21:08,227
I've been sent a message
by the Home-Swarm.
297
00:21:08,810 --> 00:21:12,439
The whisper-ship you are seeking
is currently in Spacer custody.
298
00:21:12,439 --> 00:21:15,526
- Didn't know you could do that.
- Let's set course to intercept.
299
00:21:15,526 --> 00:21:18,403
No. The Home-Swarm are coming to us.
300
00:21:20,864 --> 00:21:23,158
[thrumming]
301
00:21:46,974 --> 00:21:51,311
Gaal? What's The Mule?
You keep thinking it.
302
00:22:02,447 --> 00:22:05,534
The Mule is a conqueror,
and we're a threat to him.
303
00:22:05,534 --> 00:22:08,203
152 years from now, he finds us.
304
00:22:09,288 --> 00:22:10,622
How do you know that?
305
00:22:11,456 --> 00:22:14,585
She sees forward,
to what will be but isn't yet.
306
00:22:17,588 --> 00:22:21,175
I wanna tell you something. All of you.
307
00:22:22,259 --> 00:22:24,636
You met Hari Seldon,
who came here with us.
308
00:22:25,220 --> 00:22:30,475
A long time ago, he devised a way
to use mathematics to predict the future.
309
00:22:31,393 --> 00:22:36,273
It was so accurate,
it was almost like magic.
310
00:22:38,901 --> 00:22:42,196
But then,
he discovered there were outliers.
311
00:22:42,946 --> 00:22:44,823
People who could upset the math.
312
00:22:44,823 --> 00:22:45,908
Like The Mule.
313
00:22:47,242 --> 00:22:48,285
And like us.
314
00:22:57,711 --> 00:22:58,712
[exhales sharply]
315
00:23:00,005 --> 00:23:01,590
I was never like my people.
316
00:23:03,091 --> 00:23:09,264
I was lonely, and even when I was
very young, I thought in numbers.
317
00:23:10,432 --> 00:23:14,269
It was dangerous to think that way
on my world, but I didn't stop.
318
00:23:15,354 --> 00:23:19,942
Numbers warmed me in the cold.
They lit my way in the dark.
319
00:23:21,068 --> 00:23:25,197
And then one day,
they carried me out into the galaxy.
320
00:23:25,989 --> 00:23:32,120
And now I think all that time,
my mind was counting and counting,
321
00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:35,541
all to understand a power I was born with.
322
00:23:36,875 --> 00:23:38,544
Hari predicted darkness.
323
00:23:39,044 --> 00:23:42,631
The Empire crumbling
and taking everything with it.
324
00:23:43,715 --> 00:23:47,469
I think that's why so many of you
found each other recently.
325
00:23:49,763 --> 00:23:51,890
There aren't suddenly more of us.
326
00:23:52,891 --> 00:23:55,269
There's just so much more suffering now.
327
00:23:56,103 --> 00:24:01,316
The screams are so much louder.
It's like your mollusks, boiling.
328
00:24:02,109 --> 00:24:05,112
We need to nudge
and mend things where we can
329
00:24:05,112 --> 00:24:09,241
so that whatever replaces Empire
isn't worse.
330
00:24:09,783 --> 00:24:13,787
You've been mistreated.
There's nothing you owe.
331
00:24:13,787 --> 00:24:19,293
But if we stop hiding,
then more Sighteds will be drawn out.
332
00:24:19,293 --> 00:24:23,547
And by the time The Mule comes for us,
we will be ready.
333
00:24:24,548 --> 00:24:28,135
All it requires is foresight and planning.
334
00:24:29,845 --> 00:24:31,263
It requires belief.
335
00:24:39,021 --> 00:24:40,647
[hissing]
336
00:25:00,501 --> 00:25:02,794
[crackling]
337
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:07,925
[whirring]
338
00:25:18,268 --> 00:25:24,024
General, we offer up Hober Mallow,
who attempted to broker our betrayal.
339
00:25:24,024 --> 00:25:26,610
I appreciate you coming in person,
She-Is-Center.
340
00:25:26,610 --> 00:25:28,153
I came in self-interest.
341
00:25:28,779 --> 00:25:30,906
My daughter was tithe-given to your ship.
342
00:25:32,950 --> 00:25:34,243
I wanted to see her.
343
00:25:35,327 --> 00:25:37,329
And I am the brighter for it.
344
00:25:43,168 --> 00:25:44,461
[rattles]
345
00:25:53,053 --> 00:25:55,556
We've been looking for a ship
that was seen on Siwenna.
346
00:25:58,684 --> 00:26:02,896
And here it is, with you at the controls.
Who are you?
347
00:26:02,896 --> 00:26:04,022
[Hober] Good question.
348
00:26:04,022 --> 00:26:08,277
- Yeah, should we discuss that now--
- [grunting]
349
00:26:09,319 --> 00:26:11,738
[grunting, panting]
350
00:26:13,407 --> 00:26:14,992
[grunting]
351
00:26:15,784 --> 00:26:17,619
[panting]
352
00:26:19,288 --> 00:26:23,125
Why don't you save your ribs?
You're an agent of the Foundation.
353
00:26:23,667 --> 00:26:24,668
How do their ships work?
354
00:26:24,668 --> 00:26:27,087
[pants]
I'm a bit out of breath.
355
00:26:27,087 --> 00:26:30,966
I've been selling hard and, uh-- [groans]
356
00:26:31,550 --> 00:26:33,427
[pants] Okay, fine.
357
00:26:34,094 --> 00:26:35,387
Fine.
358
00:26:35,387 --> 00:26:38,891
You want the ship,
here's your blasted ship.
359
00:26:39,391 --> 00:26:42,436
[breathing heavily]
360
00:26:42,436 --> 00:26:43,896
It's not even mine.
361
00:26:45,189 --> 00:26:47,608
There is one thing you should know
about whisper-ships.
362
00:26:48,108 --> 00:26:49,902
They come
with a very robust security system.
363
00:26:53,071 --> 00:26:54,281
Fuck.
364
00:26:54,948 --> 00:26:56,617
[grunts, groans]
365
00:26:56,617 --> 00:26:59,286
[Beki growling]
366
00:27:07,836 --> 00:27:10,506
Good girl, Beki. Come on. Come on.
367
00:27:17,304 --> 00:27:18,514
Shit.
368
00:27:32,653 --> 00:27:34,279
Let's see what this baby can do.
369
00:27:36,865 --> 00:27:38,659
[roaring]
370
00:27:39,368 --> 00:27:41,370
- He's gonna jump.
- [She-Is-Center] He cannot escape.
371
00:27:41,370 --> 00:27:43,455
There's not enough room to execute a jump.
372
00:27:43,956 --> 00:27:46,124
[Glawen] It's suicide.
He'll take half the swarm with him.
373
00:28:00,264 --> 00:28:03,141
[Bel] His ship jumped
within the confines of the hangar.
374
00:28:04,142 --> 00:28:06,019
The Magicians have learned a new trick.
375
00:28:06,728 --> 00:28:09,064
Foundation technology
has outpaced our own.
376
00:28:09,731 --> 00:28:11,149
Their whisper-ships are more nimble
377
00:28:11,149 --> 00:28:13,777
and they can navigate
without the aid of Spacers.
378
00:28:14,319 --> 00:28:15,320
There's more.
379
00:28:16,530 --> 00:28:19,283
Seldon sent Mallow
to meet with the Spacers
380
00:28:19,283 --> 00:28:21,827
and tempt them with promises of freedom.
381
00:28:22,411 --> 00:28:24,913
He hails from Smyrno,
which the Foundation now claims,
382
00:28:24,913 --> 00:28:27,124
so we can assume that he acts
in their name.
383
00:28:27,124 --> 00:28:29,668
You're saying the Spacers
have broken faith with Empire?
384
00:28:29,668 --> 00:28:32,796
Uh, no. But the fact
that Terminus even attempted it
385
00:28:32,796 --> 00:28:35,841
suggests the Foundation is preparing
for war.
386
00:28:35,841 --> 00:28:37,593
Could they have hired the Blind Angels?
387
00:28:37,593 --> 00:28:40,929
Are they capable of assassination?
388
00:28:42,055 --> 00:28:43,432
That is our problem.
389
00:28:44,099 --> 00:28:46,351
We do not know what they are capable of.
390
00:28:46,351 --> 00:28:47,853
What are my orders, Empire?
391
00:28:48,812 --> 00:28:51,481
Shall I stand by for deployment--
392
00:28:53,317 --> 00:28:55,861
Fuck. [sighs]
393
00:29:02,242 --> 00:29:03,410
Can you tell what he wants?
394
00:29:04,703 --> 00:29:07,748
- Well, I fear he wants to impress me.
- [sighs]
395
00:29:09,666 --> 00:29:11,376
We have to do something, Bel.
396
00:29:11,376 --> 00:29:13,879
- Don't, Sailor.
- No, don't you try and pull rank.
397
00:29:13,879 --> 00:29:15,672
You were able to stand up to him once.
398
00:29:15,672 --> 00:29:18,634
You disobeyed an order,
and now we should blindly obey?
399
00:29:18,634 --> 00:29:22,262
The order I refused
would've got sailors killed.
400
00:29:22,262 --> 00:29:23,472
People I command.
401
00:29:23,472 --> 00:29:26,308
- And civilians makes it better?
- Oh, fuck you, Glawen.
402
00:29:28,143 --> 00:29:30,395
You know what he'd do if I refused
another order?
403
00:29:31,522 --> 00:29:33,732
- He'd kill you.
- No.
404
00:29:34,316 --> 00:29:35,484
He'd kill you.
405
00:29:36,151 --> 00:29:39,404
He'd put me in a naked cell
for a couple of decades,
406
00:29:39,404 --> 00:29:42,783
watching a holo of your death that
they'd rig up to play inside my eyelids.
407
00:29:42,783 --> 00:29:45,369
And someone else will carry
out the fucking orders anyway.
408
00:29:56,380 --> 00:29:57,381
[sighs]
409
00:29:58,131 --> 00:30:03,011
[sighs] Let's say I put word out
that I've got something top secret.
410
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,181
I get close to him. I get around the aura
411
00:30:06,181 --> 00:30:08,892
and the million other defenses
we know nothing about, and I kill the man.
412
00:30:08,892 --> 00:30:11,103
They decant another,
load him up with all the same old shit,
413
00:30:11,103 --> 00:30:13,397
- and we're back to where we started.
- But, Bel, if you're go to--
414
00:30:13,397 --> 00:30:16,984
Or I go bigger. I take the fleet
and we blow up the palace from orbit.
415
00:30:16,984 --> 00:30:18,610
Now they decant three new ones.
416
00:30:18,610 --> 00:30:20,612
Well, not if we blow up
the three new ones as well.
417
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,156
If they really are ending
the Genetic Dynasty, Bel--
418
00:30:23,156 --> 00:30:24,867
Okay, okay. Let's say we take down Empire.
419
00:30:24,867 --> 00:30:25,993
What does that look like?
420
00:30:26,702 --> 00:30:29,121
Ducem Barr said Foundation is strong.
421
00:30:29,121 --> 00:30:30,455
- It could take over.
- [Bel sighs]
422
00:30:30,455 --> 00:30:34,501
Look, there is no way that they're ready.
You know how big Imperium is.
423
00:30:34,501 --> 00:30:37,504
Let me tell you what it looks like
if Empire falls.
424
00:30:37,504 --> 00:30:42,176
'Cause I've-- I've seen regions of space
that have fallen into lawlessness.
425
00:30:44,887 --> 00:30:48,682
The weak... are objects.
426
00:30:51,018 --> 00:30:53,687
Ah, fuck. The rapists are kings.
427
00:30:56,481 --> 00:30:57,482
The poor...
428
00:31:00,152 --> 00:31:01,737
The poor are slaves.
429
00:31:02,738 --> 00:31:06,867
Life is nothing but emptiness...
430
00:31:08,243 --> 00:31:09,244
pain.
431
00:31:23,675 --> 00:31:24,718
Okay.
432
00:31:26,762 --> 00:31:27,763
What?
433
00:31:28,347 --> 00:31:29,890
[sighs] I just--
434
00:31:32,434 --> 00:31:35,479
I guess I needed to make sure
it was really you in there.
435
00:31:37,523 --> 00:31:40,234
Now that you thought this all through...
436
00:31:44,446 --> 00:31:45,572
your fears are rational.
437
00:31:46,532 --> 00:31:47,824
[sighs]
438
00:31:50,077 --> 00:31:51,745
- Some of them are.
- [chuckles]
439
00:31:52,246 --> 00:31:54,498
- Does that change anything?
- [scoffs]
440
00:31:56,875 --> 00:31:57,876
No.
441
00:32:00,003 --> 00:32:01,004
[chuckles]
442
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:03,799
But at least now we're scared together.
443
00:32:03,799 --> 00:32:05,592
- [sighs] Oh, great. Good.
- [chuckles]
444
00:32:05,592 --> 00:32:09,012
That's-- That's exactly what I wanted.
445
00:32:23,110 --> 00:32:25,112
[birds chirping]
446
00:32:39,793 --> 00:32:42,296
You're still aglow from all the adulation.
447
00:32:46,300 --> 00:32:48,719
I admit, you have a natural charisma.
448
00:32:48,719 --> 00:32:52,389
Some might say even irrepressible.
449
00:33:00,522 --> 00:33:02,524
I know you'll find this hard to believe,
450
00:33:02,524 --> 00:33:07,404
but my own public charm is a result
of cultivation.
451
00:33:09,364 --> 00:33:13,285
Even among the Cleons,
there are those of us who are more, um...
452
00:33:15,871 --> 00:33:18,582
at ease than others on the stage.
453
00:33:23,795 --> 00:33:27,257
But I am grateful to your charisma.
454
00:33:27,257 --> 00:33:33,180
There is a public value in a man
who is willing to accept an able partner.
455
00:33:33,180 --> 00:33:34,306
Don't you agree?
456
00:33:37,476 --> 00:33:38,519
Is something wrong?
457
00:33:41,522 --> 00:33:42,731
I was just thinking,
458
00:33:44,399 --> 00:33:46,443
we've never really talked about my family.
459
00:33:46,443 --> 00:33:47,528
Oh.
460
00:33:48,695 --> 00:33:49,696
We have.
461
00:33:50,864 --> 00:33:51,907
You're a dilettante,
462
00:33:51,907 --> 00:33:54,993
- and yet you're now to be an empress.
- [chuckles]
463
00:33:55,661 --> 00:33:57,829
That's a story the citizens will embrace.
464
00:33:57,829 --> 00:33:58,997
What I mean is...
465
00:34:01,875 --> 00:34:04,711
even though they're all gone,
they'll be joined to you.
466
00:34:07,297 --> 00:34:09,132
They'll be your kin as well as mine.
467
00:34:11,134 --> 00:34:12,719
So I want for you to know them.
468
00:34:14,638 --> 00:34:15,764
Yes, how nice.
469
00:34:20,435 --> 00:34:21,645
My subtle father,
470
00:34:22,478 --> 00:34:24,398
who never raised his voice to me,
471
00:34:25,649 --> 00:34:27,775
not even
when I accidentally spilled a vial
472
00:34:27,775 --> 00:34:29,820
of priceless orchid pigment into the mud.
473
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,533
All he said was,
"Well, that mud is prettier now."
474
00:34:36,702 --> 00:34:39,121
My brother Thurston,
475
00:34:40,496 --> 00:34:43,375
who once carried an injured comrade
on his back for two whole days
476
00:34:43,375 --> 00:34:45,377
even though his own collarbone was broken.
477
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:46,962
My mother,
478
00:34:48,005 --> 00:34:51,592
whom I know others thought of as remote,
479
00:34:52,592 --> 00:34:56,763
but who could draw all our faces
just from memory.
480
00:34:56,763 --> 00:34:59,141
Each one a perfect likeness.
481
00:34:59,933 --> 00:35:01,518
My sister Shennin,
482
00:35:02,978 --> 00:35:06,356
who liked to smoke Santannian cigars
while hashing out matters of state.
483
00:35:06,356 --> 00:35:08,775
And who once, when we were younger,
484
00:35:08,775 --> 00:35:11,862
stayed up half the night hunting a spider
in my room so I could sleep.
485
00:35:11,862 --> 00:35:12,946
[chuckles]
486
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:19,411
And then her baby son.
487
00:35:22,122 --> 00:35:23,332
Our little Marréos.
488
00:35:25,334 --> 00:35:27,961
It was a tragedy,
what happened to all of them.
489
00:35:29,463 --> 00:35:30,631
And we will honor them.
490
00:35:34,176 --> 00:35:37,179
I only wish I could tell them
what an impact you've had on their lives.
491
00:35:39,264 --> 00:35:42,392
However indirectly.
492
00:35:45,145 --> 00:35:46,146
But I can't...
493
00:35:48,357 --> 00:35:49,816
so instead I'm telling you.
494
00:36:04,915 --> 00:36:10,838
You are here by some uncanny
combination of good fortune and my grace.
495
00:36:12,089 --> 00:36:14,967
All you need say on both accounts is
496
00:36:16,635 --> 00:36:18,136
"I am grateful."
497
00:36:20,806 --> 00:36:23,183
I am grateful, Empire.
498
00:36:26,270 --> 00:36:27,271
Good.
499
00:36:31,692 --> 00:36:33,569
[breathes heavily]
500
00:36:37,030 --> 00:36:39,283
I need to see Dawn
in a place where the walls can't listen.
501
00:36:39,283 --> 00:36:42,327
- Can you manage it?
- Your will is mine, my queen.
502
00:36:49,209 --> 00:36:50,669
[Sareth] Can we speak freely here?
503
00:36:51,170 --> 00:36:55,090
[Dawn] When we turn 17,
we're taken to every district on Trantor.
504
00:36:55,591 --> 00:36:56,967
The Grand Tour.
505
00:36:57,509 --> 00:36:59,970
I learned a lot of fascinating things
on mine.
506
00:36:59,970 --> 00:37:04,183
Like, for instance,
the Occuli don't work in the heat sinks.
507
00:37:04,683 --> 00:37:06,143
You could've just said yes.
508
00:37:06,143 --> 00:37:07,477
It's Cleonic tradition.
509
00:37:08,145 --> 00:37:10,230
Why use one word when ten will do?
510
00:37:16,028 --> 00:37:18,363
You realize even
with the facial scramblers
511
00:37:18,363 --> 00:37:20,782
that you're risking both of our lives
with this little meeting?
512
00:37:20,782 --> 00:37:22,701
- I know.
- Do you?
513
00:37:24,161 --> 00:37:25,245
This isn't a game.
514
00:37:27,289 --> 00:37:30,459
A Dawn fled the palace once and tried
to escape through Trantor City.
515
00:37:30,959 --> 00:37:31,960
He died for it.
516
00:37:33,337 --> 00:37:35,088
This is the warning we're all given
from childhood.
517
00:37:35,088 --> 00:37:36,673
- By Demerzel?
- Mm-hmm.
518
00:37:36,673 --> 00:37:37,758
Hmm.
519
00:37:39,343 --> 00:37:40,344
I saw her today.
520
00:37:41,678 --> 00:37:43,013
She killed my family.
521
00:37:44,681 --> 00:37:45,724
On Day's orders.
522
00:37:47,976 --> 00:37:48,977
She told you that?
523
00:37:50,187 --> 00:37:51,480
And he confirmed it.
524
00:37:52,814 --> 00:37:53,982
So, what then?
525
00:37:54,566 --> 00:37:55,776
You'll back out of the marriage?
526
00:37:55,776 --> 00:37:58,195
If I do, Day will kill me,
and you know it.
527
00:37:59,112 --> 00:38:01,949
I've been a prisoner since
the moment I was chosen as his bride.
528
00:38:05,869 --> 00:38:08,914
- So, what do you want from me?
- I can't have that monster's baby.
529
00:38:08,914 --> 00:38:11,166
[stammers] I ca-- I can't.
530
00:38:14,837 --> 00:38:17,548
Your brother, h-he isn't like you.
531
00:38:20,175 --> 00:38:21,552
It's true.
532
00:38:21,552 --> 00:38:23,220
I've known it from the moment we met.
533
00:38:24,304 --> 00:38:25,389
Your eyes are different.
534
00:38:28,100 --> 00:38:30,102
- We have the same eyes.
- No.
535
00:38:34,314 --> 00:38:35,482
Yours are kind.
536
00:38:40,279 --> 00:38:42,155
I could end up just like him.
537
00:38:43,782 --> 00:38:44,867
I don't believe that.
538
00:38:50,247 --> 00:38:53,834
I will marry Day. That much is certain.
539
00:38:56,545 --> 00:38:58,046
The Cleon-Child I carry...
540
00:39:00,966 --> 00:39:02,551
that baby could have your eyes.
541
00:39:09,349 --> 00:39:11,185
My handman palmed it in the medical suite.
542
00:39:12,186 --> 00:39:14,229
Use it,
and you'll be able to sire children.
543
00:39:15,856 --> 00:39:18,734
Gods, do you even know what you're asking?
544
00:39:20,485 --> 00:39:22,696
Your marriage already makes Dusk
and me disposable.
545
00:39:23,197 --> 00:39:25,240
If Day finds out about this,
this is a death sentence.
546
00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:27,075
Your genome is nearly identical.
547
00:39:28,118 --> 00:39:29,203
Day would never know.
548
00:39:30,495 --> 00:39:32,414
He's cutting you out, Dawn.
549
00:39:33,999 --> 00:39:35,792
You'll never sit on the throne.
550
00:39:35,792 --> 00:39:39,087
And when you're dead and gone,
it'll be as though you never even existed.
551
00:39:43,133 --> 00:39:44,134
But...
552
00:39:47,095 --> 00:39:50,682
if the one, true heir were yours...
553
00:39:52,684 --> 00:39:54,311
your legacy would be assured.
554
00:39:57,022 --> 00:39:58,148
Don't you want that?
555
00:40:00,108 --> 00:40:01,818
Don't you want to cast a shadow?
556
00:40:04,488 --> 00:40:06,865
I am told the procedure isn't
that painful.
557
00:40:08,325 --> 00:40:10,369
Neither part of the procedure.
558
00:40:10,369 --> 00:40:12,120
[chuckles] Sareth.
559
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,373
I managed to stop the doctors
from starting fertilization,
560
00:40:14,373 --> 00:40:16,458
but after the wedding,
we won't have another chance.
561
00:40:28,846 --> 00:40:29,972
This is suicide.
562
00:40:29,972 --> 00:40:31,056
No.
563
00:40:31,598 --> 00:40:32,599
[chuckles]
564
00:40:33,433 --> 00:40:35,227
It's a bloodless fucking coup.
565
00:40:51,910 --> 00:40:53,370
Follow me.
566
00:40:57,833 --> 00:40:59,459
[doors open]
567
00:41:00,627 --> 00:41:02,629
[footsteps approaching]
568
00:41:18,854 --> 00:41:21,356
- Should I speak first or will you?
- [Poly] Constant.
569
00:41:22,900 --> 00:41:24,151
Empire.
570
00:41:24,151 --> 00:41:27,446
- Following custom, we have a gift for you.
- [Day] Is that right?
571
00:41:28,030 --> 00:41:29,114
Is it your contrition?
572
00:41:29,740 --> 00:41:31,366
Is it amends?
573
00:41:31,366 --> 00:41:32,826
It's an atomic ashtray.
574
00:41:34,328 --> 00:41:36,330
Oh. Absurd.
575
00:41:36,330 --> 00:41:37,915
War is coming, Empire.
576
00:41:38,540 --> 00:41:40,459
The Prophet sent us here
to treat with you.
577
00:41:40,459 --> 00:41:43,670
Your prophet gives weighty orders
for a man long dead.
578
00:41:43,670 --> 00:41:45,380
Oh, he's come back.
579
00:41:46,173 --> 00:41:49,092
And he has brought hope with him.
Hope for all of us.
580
00:41:49,092 --> 00:41:50,886
So, you're what then?
581
00:41:52,304 --> 00:41:53,722
His priests?
582
00:41:54,389 --> 00:41:57,392
- Missionaries?
- [Poly] We're, uh...
583
00:41:58,435 --> 00:41:59,645
salesmen.
584
00:42:01,313 --> 00:42:06,026
You have let the planets
on the Outer Reach slide into wildness.
585
00:42:06,026 --> 00:42:07,778
They don't trust strangers,
586
00:42:08,403 --> 00:42:10,572
but they do like a show.
587
00:42:10,572 --> 00:42:12,324
So, when we bring them the word,
588
00:42:12,324 --> 00:42:15,244
it takes a bit of busking
for them before they can hear it.
589
00:42:15,244 --> 00:42:18,205
You three, on the other hand,
590
00:42:19,206 --> 00:42:21,041
are a civilized man.
591
00:42:21,041 --> 00:42:22,876
So I won't talk down to you.
592
00:42:22,876 --> 00:42:24,586
Could you, from way down there?
593
00:42:24,586 --> 00:42:27,840
We were sent to open diplomatic relations.
594
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:32,553
To ask recognition of Foundation
on the galactic stage.
595
00:42:32,553 --> 00:42:34,888
We seek sovereignty.
596
00:42:34,888 --> 00:42:37,808
You are an imperial outpost.
597
00:42:37,808 --> 00:42:40,269
- A property, not a partner.
- [Poly chuckles]
598
00:42:40,269 --> 00:42:42,145
Such similar words.
599
00:42:44,356 --> 00:42:47,276
And alliance with the Foundation
will give you the guarantee
600
00:42:47,276 --> 00:42:51,363
of the most important thing
Empire could ever possess.
601
00:42:52,072 --> 00:42:53,782
- Peace.
- [Day] Ah,
602
00:42:53,782 --> 00:42:56,869
so you really did come to put on a show.
603
00:42:57,411 --> 00:43:00,664
Selling us peace, while prodding
for rebellion behind our backs.
604
00:43:01,331 --> 00:43:03,083
The Spacers have rejected your man
605
00:43:03,083 --> 00:43:05,794
Hober Mallow's attempt to seduce them
into treason.
606
00:43:06,503 --> 00:43:08,338
Ah, look at that.
607
00:43:09,131 --> 00:43:12,634
Genuine, gaping dull-eyed surprise.
608
00:43:13,218 --> 00:43:17,389
You know, Claric... [scoffs]
...I believe you're telling the truth.
609
00:43:17,931 --> 00:43:23,395
But the girl, she looks
like she's got something on her mind.
610
00:43:24,479 --> 00:43:27,733
Come on, little one. Out with it.
611
00:43:35,741 --> 00:43:36,825
All right.
612
00:43:39,536 --> 00:43:40,537
[kisses]
613
00:43:44,958 --> 00:43:47,669
Same faces. Same room.
614
00:43:48,712 --> 00:43:52,132
- Does nothing ever change in Empire?
- [Demerzel] Guards.
615
00:43:52,132 --> 00:43:54,301
What the hell is going on here?
616
00:43:54,301 --> 00:43:56,887
[Demerzel] Captain Timandra
first spotted it at the port.
617
00:43:56,887 --> 00:43:59,014
Dual brain scans were detected.
618
00:44:02,226 --> 00:44:03,352
Hari Seldon.
619
00:44:05,020 --> 00:44:07,439
You sneaky little bastard.
620
00:44:08,023 --> 00:44:11,610
I thought you were against extending one's
influence beyond one's own life span,
621
00:44:11,610 --> 00:44:16,281
but you bothered to cheat death
and travel light-years on top of that.
622
00:44:16,281 --> 00:44:19,284
So, say what you've come to say.
623
00:44:19,284 --> 00:44:21,662
Oh, I haven't traveled all that far.
624
00:44:21,662 --> 00:44:25,040
I, what remains of me,
am still on Terminus.
625
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:27,793
[voice distorting]
This is just a thin sliver of myself.
626
00:44:29,211 --> 00:44:30,420
You're on Terminus?
627
00:44:31,505 --> 00:44:32,631
That's fascinating.
628
00:44:34,508 --> 00:44:37,553
Why then are you also here?
629
00:44:38,220 --> 00:44:40,305
To underline my claric's words.
630
00:44:41,306 --> 00:44:44,017
And to warn you
that the Foundation is not toothless.
631
00:44:45,394 --> 00:44:49,815
We have technology, ships,
arms capable of laying waste.
632
00:44:49,815 --> 00:44:53,485
We sue for peace
not because we fear we will lose,
633
00:44:53,485 --> 00:44:55,988
but because we know
with mathematical certainty,
634
00:44:55,988 --> 00:44:58,448
if there is war, we shall win.
635
00:44:59,825 --> 00:45:00,826
Hmm.
636
00:45:02,995 --> 00:45:04,413
Do you know I studied you?
637
00:45:06,331 --> 00:45:08,500
I had time to read in my youth.
638
00:45:11,461 --> 00:45:12,588
I read you.
639
00:45:13,338 --> 00:45:17,634
It was unsettling to learn
that one man can't change much,
640
00:45:17,634 --> 00:45:20,596
until I read that I, explicitly, could.
641
00:45:21,305 --> 00:45:24,433
You said
the Genetic Dynasty weakened Empire.
642
00:45:24,433 --> 00:45:27,186
Do you remember? You called us grapes.
643
00:45:28,437 --> 00:45:29,438
[chuckles]
644
00:45:30,230 --> 00:45:31,398
Who wants to tell him?
645
00:45:34,693 --> 00:45:36,278
Never mind, I will.
646
00:45:37,404 --> 00:45:38,530
No more clones.
647
00:45:39,489 --> 00:45:42,075
A young bride-to-be already warms my bed.
648
00:45:42,075 --> 00:45:45,078
A fourth throne will soon share the dais.
649
00:45:45,078 --> 00:45:47,456
Your predictions are out of date, Seldon.
650
00:45:48,498 --> 00:45:49,499
Just like you.
651
00:45:51,126 --> 00:45:54,379
Demerzel, have General Riose
form an enclosure around Terminus,
652
00:45:54,379 --> 00:45:57,216
and reinforce him with ships
from the Auxiliary.
653
00:45:57,216 --> 00:45:59,551
If the Foundation has technology
worth having,
654
00:45:59,551 --> 00:46:03,263
take an inventory
because it belongs to us.
655
00:46:04,348 --> 00:46:05,349
Yes, Empire.
656
00:46:07,851 --> 00:46:09,478
Thanks for the ashtray.
657
00:46:13,106 --> 00:46:16,193
[screaming]
658
00:46:25,244 --> 00:46:26,078
[grunts]
659
00:46:26,995 --> 00:46:28,163
- [Poly] Constant!
- [grunts]
660
00:46:30,958 --> 00:46:32,584
I knew he was there in my mind.
661
00:46:33,168 --> 00:46:36,213
But I couldn't say it
because he'd stop me.
662
00:46:37,089 --> 00:46:38,924
[Day] He was suppressing your will.
663
00:46:39,508 --> 00:46:42,135
What kind of a ghost is this man
you follow?
664
00:46:42,636 --> 00:46:46,139
Who keeps an elder in the dark
and uses the body of a girl.
665
00:46:47,391 --> 00:46:49,685
You love him.
You'll forgive him, but still,
666
00:46:51,186 --> 00:46:52,354
the violation.
667
00:46:56,108 --> 00:46:58,360
[Constant breathing shakily]
668
00:47:03,365 --> 00:47:04,825
[grunts, breathes shakily]
669
00:47:06,952 --> 00:47:10,497
When will we learn to doubt
when a Thespin comes bearing a gift?
670
00:47:14,585 --> 00:47:19,006
Your prophet has placed you
in a very ugly position.
671
00:47:22,885 --> 00:47:24,178
[Day] Take them away.
672
00:47:27,014 --> 00:47:29,016
[doors open]
673
00:47:29,641 --> 00:47:31,643
[footsteps departing]
674
00:48:03,008 --> 00:48:04,051
[beeps]
675
00:48:13,685 --> 00:48:14,895
[Gaal] What are you doing?
676
00:48:16,188 --> 00:48:18,023
Finally opening my goddamn eyes.
677
00:48:18,774 --> 00:48:21,443
- What do you mean?
- I was down here this morning with Loron.
678
00:48:21,443 --> 00:48:23,278
He's talking to me, I'm talking to him.
679
00:48:23,278 --> 00:48:24,821
He looks over at this boat,
680
00:48:24,821 --> 00:48:28,951
I flip my coin and suddenly I can't
call it cats or crowns.
681
00:48:29,785 --> 00:48:31,620
Someone was blocking me.
682
00:48:31,620 --> 00:48:33,205
Now, Loron was looking at this boat,
683
00:48:33,205 --> 00:48:36,250
because, unlike the others,
its nav data is erased.
684
00:48:36,250 --> 00:48:39,253
- Why erase data from a fishing trip?
- [Gaal sighs]
685
00:48:39,253 --> 00:48:41,380
What would you have done
if they'd caught you out here?
686
00:48:42,339 --> 00:48:44,424
I was careful. Look.
687
00:48:44,424 --> 00:48:47,636
They erased the day's routes, but they
didn't overwrite the navigation cache.
688
00:48:47,636 --> 00:48:49,805
- This boat went somewhere different--
- Salvor, stop.
689
00:48:50,389 --> 00:48:52,391
There are things happening here
that you don't understand.
690
00:48:52,391 --> 00:48:54,268
And right now,
you just need to accept that.
691
00:48:54,268 --> 00:48:55,477
No. No.
692
00:48:55,477 --> 00:48:59,022
Y-You and Hari both said
that this is bigger than any one person.
693
00:48:59,022 --> 00:49:01,859
And now you think you can just change
the future all by yourself?
694
00:49:01,859 --> 00:49:03,360
- Salvor.
- No. Listen to me.
695
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,821
I grew up hearing I was special.
696
00:49:05,821 --> 00:49:08,448
And it messed with my head,
thinking that way.
697
00:49:08,448 --> 00:49:10,909
- I don't think I'm special.
- Are you sure?
698
00:49:11,827 --> 00:49:14,621
'Cause they're all looking at you
like you're their fucking savior.
699
00:49:15,247 --> 00:49:16,248
And that is fine.
700
00:49:16,957 --> 00:49:18,417
As long as you don't start believing it.
701
00:49:23,130 --> 00:49:26,592
You don't need to trust them,
but you do need to trust me.
702
00:49:27,593 --> 00:49:29,469
This is not the time to pull threads.
703
00:49:30,220 --> 00:49:31,597
Do you understand?
704
00:50:16,767 --> 00:50:18,769
[breathing heavily]
705
00:50:21,271 --> 00:50:23,524
- [beeping]
- [mechanics hiss]
706
00:50:24,983 --> 00:50:25,984
Okay, boat.
707
00:50:26,735 --> 00:50:28,320
Let's see where you went last night.
708
00:50:40,165 --> 00:50:42,167
[sonar beeping]
709
00:50:50,551 --> 00:50:52,553
[beeping continues]
710
00:50:59,768 --> 00:51:01,770
[beeping increases]
711
00:51:25,711 --> 00:51:27,629
[breathing heavily]
712
00:51:38,098 --> 00:51:39,933
[grunting, panting]
713
00:51:48,192 --> 00:51:51,153
Well, this is an unfortunate thread
you've pulled.
714
00:51:52,404 --> 00:51:54,364
- You mo-- [gasps]
- [Tellem] No words, dear.
715
00:51:55,782 --> 00:51:58,619
We did try to spare you from this, Salvor.
716
00:51:58,619 --> 00:52:00,037
Seeing him.
717
00:52:00,829 --> 00:52:02,414
- [Salvor gasping]
- [Tellem] I'm very sorry.
718
00:52:04,791 --> 00:52:07,920
I want this place to be a sanctuary.
719
00:52:09,004 --> 00:52:12,382
But it's like I told you when we talked
about the little creatures at lunch,
720
00:52:13,133 --> 00:52:15,969
sometimes you have to absorb the pain.
721
00:52:16,470 --> 00:52:20,849
Because sometimes
a little death is necessary.