1 00:01:31,592 --> 00:01:33,719 And down it goes. 2 00:01:34,428 --> 00:01:36,263 [Poly] It's slicing us, virtually. 3 00:01:37,097 --> 00:01:41,435 Just in case one of us commits suicide by means of boredom. 4 00:01:43,187 --> 00:01:46,315 If that were possible, would any of us still draw breath? 5 00:01:50,319 --> 00:01:51,570 We failed the Prophet. 6 00:01:53,697 --> 00:01:55,991 Mmm. I'm not sure about that. 7 00:01:58,452 --> 00:02:02,372 We were told to go to the Imperial Palace and look where we are, 8 00:02:02,456 --> 00:02:04,541 -the Imperial Palace. -[Poly] Yeah. 9 00:02:04,625 --> 00:02:07,127 -And this must be the diplomatic lounge. -[chuckles] 10 00:02:08,586 --> 00:02:09,670 Thank you for not laughing 11 00:02:09,755 --> 00:02:12,257 when I was prattling on about the wine from the Prophet's hand. 12 00:02:12,883 --> 00:02:15,469 It took me over a century to find a way to be useful to him 13 00:02:15,552 --> 00:02:17,179 and less than a week to fuck it up. 14 00:02:18,055 --> 00:02:20,224 I should have kept the Vordaline. [sighs] 15 00:02:20,307 --> 00:02:23,060 [Timandra] We flagged them at the port and brought them in this morning. 16 00:02:23,143 --> 00:02:25,979 They claim to have traveled here for diplomatic relations. 17 00:02:26,063 --> 00:02:27,397 [Day] What are those robes? 18 00:02:27,481 --> 00:02:30,984 Clerical vestments. Church of Hari Seldon. 19 00:02:32,027 --> 00:02:34,571 Just as General Riose arrives in the Outer Reach, 20 00:02:34,655 --> 00:02:37,115 the Outer Reach reaches out. 21 00:02:38,033 --> 00:02:39,159 Interesting. 22 00:02:39,243 --> 00:02:41,620 You'll want to see the data from the port of entry. 23 00:02:46,667 --> 00:02:49,419 [Demerzel] Given the timing, should we continue with preparations 24 00:02:49,503 --> 00:02:51,380 for your marriage to Queen Sareth? 25 00:02:57,261 --> 00:03:00,264 Unless you're having second thoughts? 26 00:03:00,931 --> 00:03:04,852 There'll be no turning back if I do this. 27 00:03:18,574 --> 00:03:22,452 It will be different for both of us, but… [sighs] 28 00:03:23,370 --> 00:03:25,581 …you will always have a place here, Demerzel. 29 00:03:26,915 --> 00:03:28,083 With my new family. 30 00:03:29,334 --> 00:03:31,128 [grunts] My children… 31 00:03:33,172 --> 00:03:35,299 even if they somehow don't resemble me. 32 00:03:36,592 --> 00:03:39,052 They will be Empire, just the same. 33 00:03:41,180 --> 00:03:42,931 -Of course. -Hmm. 34 00:03:57,279 --> 00:03:59,740 I thank Empire for his words of welcome. 35 00:04:01,074 --> 00:04:04,369 -I look forward to ruling at his side. -[Sareth chuckling] 36 00:04:04,453 --> 00:04:05,954 And I want you, all of you… 37 00:04:06,038 --> 00:04:08,707 [chuckles] The way he set his jaw when I spoke. 38 00:04:08,790 --> 00:04:09,958 …I am not wed to just one… 39 00:04:10,042 --> 00:04:13,086 He hid it well for the crowd, but up close, it was something to behold. 40 00:04:13,170 --> 00:04:15,339 There's this little vein, right here, that-- 41 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,553 Why do I feel as though my enjoiner is about to live up to the title? 42 00:04:21,637 --> 00:04:26,767 -No admonishments, just advice. -[scoffs] You make them feel so similar. 43 00:04:26,850 --> 00:04:30,979 Day is taken with you. Perhaps because you treat him with contempt. 44 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,650 And foolishly, he's not particularly threatened by you. 45 00:04:34,733 --> 00:04:37,694 But there's one thing you must never do to a man like that. 46 00:04:38,737 --> 00:04:40,322 You must never embarrass him. 47 00:04:40,405 --> 00:04:42,407 -You know I'll be careful, but-- -[footsteps approaching] 48 00:04:44,159 --> 00:04:45,994 Queen Sareth-betrothed. 49 00:04:47,246 --> 00:04:49,289 You were the cynosure of all eyes today. 50 00:04:49,831 --> 00:04:52,835 People of Trantor appear quite taken with your promises. 51 00:04:52,918 --> 00:04:54,044 Thank you. 52 00:04:55,712 --> 00:04:58,048 But you come with more than congratulations, surely? 53 00:04:58,799 --> 00:05:03,095 Now that your wedding's been announced, our doctors request your presence. 54 00:05:03,762 --> 00:05:07,140 A final examination before we begin producing an heir. 55 00:05:07,224 --> 00:05:08,433 We can find time this week. 56 00:05:08,517 --> 00:05:11,979 You misunderstand me. I'm here to escort the queen now. 57 00:05:26,034 --> 00:05:29,454 I know, Demerzel. I know what you are. 58 00:05:30,789 --> 00:05:32,833 Your mechanical nature. 59 00:05:33,417 --> 00:05:35,669 I need to be read into the family secrets. 60 00:05:36,253 --> 00:05:38,255 I won't live at a disadvantage. 61 00:05:39,882 --> 00:05:41,341 You are well-informed. 62 00:05:41,842 --> 00:05:43,468 I am a humaniform robot. 63 00:05:45,137 --> 00:05:47,472 I had a governess who told tales of the great pogrom. 64 00:05:49,224 --> 00:05:50,934 She said you'd all been destroyed. 65 00:05:53,437 --> 00:05:54,813 Are there any other survivors? 66 00:05:59,151 --> 00:06:00,944 To my knowledge, I am the last one. 67 00:06:02,112 --> 00:06:04,907 I have served the dynasty since the reign of Cleon I. 68 00:06:06,491 --> 00:06:08,785 [Sareth] Did you serve any other masters before him? 69 00:06:09,369 --> 00:06:10,370 Not directly. 70 00:06:11,830 --> 00:06:13,290 What does that mean? 71 00:06:16,251 --> 00:06:20,297 For a long time, all robots were bound by three laws. 72 00:06:20,881 --> 00:06:25,886 The laws made me unable to harm a human or allow harm to come to a human. 73 00:06:25,969 --> 00:06:28,680 -And now? -Now I'm bound by only one law. 74 00:06:28,764 --> 00:06:30,265 -Which is? -I serve Empire. 75 00:06:30,349 --> 00:06:31,975 And I'll soon be an empress. 76 00:06:32,893 --> 00:06:34,228 Hence my line of questioning. 77 00:06:35,854 --> 00:06:37,564 When the time comes, I want to know. 78 00:06:39,358 --> 00:06:40,526 Will you serve me? 79 00:06:42,444 --> 00:06:44,029 I will serve Empire. 80 00:07:04,508 --> 00:07:06,051 Thank you all for your interest. 81 00:07:06,552 --> 00:07:09,096 [doctor] I am Oran, physician of the court. 82 00:07:09,721 --> 00:07:13,475 I specialize in matters of reproduction and suchlike. 83 00:07:14,810 --> 00:07:17,896 Please, try to relax. 84 00:07:20,315 --> 00:07:24,736 We will begin with a simple uterine examination 85 00:07:25,779 --> 00:07:29,741 to ensure you're capable of carrying Empire's progeny. 86 00:07:29,825 --> 00:07:32,995 I'm sure my womb is strong enough to carry the Cleon-Child… 87 00:07:33,078 --> 00:07:35,330 -[device beeps] -…fabled though its kicks may be. 88 00:07:35,414 --> 00:07:38,333 Yes. I'm quite sure that it is. 89 00:07:38,417 --> 00:07:41,461 -[grunts] Huh. -[device whirring] 90 00:07:42,588 --> 00:07:47,593 I see the queen has chemically stimulated the royal ovaries as we requested. 91 00:07:51,263 --> 00:07:54,308 Once this is finished, you'll be sedated so we can harvest the eggs. 92 00:07:54,391 --> 00:07:57,436 Uh, you're not harvesting anything until Empire and I are legally bound. 93 00:07:57,519 --> 00:08:00,314 -[chuckles] Call me old-fashioned. -You're in no position to argue. 94 00:08:00,397 --> 00:08:03,734 Is that a joke, Demerzel? I can argue in any position. 95 00:08:03,817 --> 00:08:07,738 The moment you accepted Empire's proposal, your womb became imperial property. 96 00:08:07,821 --> 00:08:11,033 And you would know all about being imperial property, wouldn't you? 97 00:08:11,825 --> 00:08:16,163 Cloud Dominion has equal interest in the queen's offspring. 98 00:08:16,246 --> 00:08:20,542 So we can enjoin in any premature harvesting. But in good time. 99 00:08:20,626 --> 00:08:24,671 Yes, exactly. After the wedding, I'll produce eggs by the dozen. 100 00:08:27,341 --> 00:08:29,927 And you don't need to worry about the process either, Demerzel. 101 00:08:30,010 --> 00:08:34,139 I know you have an arrangement with my husband-to-be, 102 00:08:34,806 --> 00:08:35,933 and I won't get in the way. 103 00:08:36,433 --> 00:08:38,477 You and Day wish to continue playing sanctum and scepter, 104 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,230 I'm happy to carry his children and let you do the drudge work. 105 00:08:41,813 --> 00:08:43,774 This must be done during ovulation. 106 00:08:45,651 --> 00:08:46,902 We'll stop here for now. 107 00:08:46,985 --> 00:08:48,028 [device beeps] 108 00:08:48,111 --> 00:08:49,613 We have many years ahead of us. 109 00:08:50,697 --> 00:08:52,616 Wonderful! [yelps, whimpers] 110 00:08:54,159 --> 00:08:58,205 [sighs] I hope whatever you must do to Day to reverse the imperial sterility 111 00:08:58,288 --> 00:08:59,665 is as painful as this. 112 00:08:59,748 --> 00:09:03,293 [Oran] Yes, well, Empire's reversal is a simple procedure. 113 00:09:03,377 --> 00:09:05,754 It takes about 20 seconds for the nano-probes 114 00:09:05,838 --> 00:09:07,840 to tunnel new vasa deferentia. 115 00:09:07,923 --> 00:09:11,093 At least that sounds unpleasant. [breathes deeply] Fair is fair. 116 00:09:12,010 --> 00:09:15,764 All right, Dr. Oran. I think you've rummaged around enough for today. 117 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:21,061 -We'll stop here for now. -Yes. 118 00:09:21,144 --> 00:09:23,772 I'd like to have a moment alone with the queen. 119 00:09:25,983 --> 00:09:27,109 It's all right. 120 00:09:38,579 --> 00:09:40,539 You believe Empire killed your family. 121 00:09:41,123 --> 00:09:44,543 I know you have come here with that in mind. So, just to say it, 122 00:09:44,626 --> 00:09:49,673 if ever you should entertain some fantasy of revenge, please think of them. 123 00:09:50,382 --> 00:09:56,138 Your parents. Your siblings. Burnt alive by the very air around them. 124 00:09:56,221 --> 00:10:00,309 Killed with the sort of precision I bring to my work. 125 00:10:06,815 --> 00:10:07,941 [whimpering] 126 00:10:09,526 --> 00:10:12,154 [sobbing] 127 00:10:26,668 --> 00:10:32,633 86,988,301, 86,988,329… [inhales deeply] 128 00:10:32,716 --> 00:10:33,634 Gaal? 129 00:10:34,343 --> 00:10:37,054 -[grunting] -[gasps] Salvor? 130 00:10:37,137 --> 00:10:39,890 [grunts] Something Tellem taught you? 131 00:10:39,973 --> 00:10:41,683 [sighs] I-I'm sorry. I just-- 132 00:10:42,267 --> 00:10:43,435 What is going on with you? 133 00:10:44,394 --> 00:10:46,939 Hey, you can't just disappear. We need to talk about this. 134 00:10:47,022 --> 00:10:48,315 Hari took my fucking ship. 135 00:10:48,398 --> 00:10:50,692 He had to. The people here will accept us, but never him. 136 00:10:51,193 --> 00:10:53,111 You know, I don't wanna be accepted by them. 137 00:10:55,531 --> 00:10:56,782 We need to leave. 138 00:10:56,865 --> 00:10:58,492 Tellem's got a few little ships. 139 00:10:58,575 --> 00:10:59,952 We lift one, sub-light. It'll get us somewhere. 140 00:11:00,035 --> 00:11:02,204 We're not leaving. We need these people. 141 00:11:04,039 --> 00:11:05,082 For The Mule, right? 142 00:11:07,251 --> 00:11:08,252 Not for any other reason. 143 00:11:09,002 --> 00:11:12,673 You keep acting like The Mule is some abstract thing. 144 00:11:12,756 --> 00:11:16,552 He isn't. I felt him in my head, and I saw your dead body. 145 00:11:16,635 --> 00:11:20,806 So now you're willing to bank our whole future on Tellem. 146 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:23,559 You need to bury those thoughts. 147 00:11:23,642 --> 00:11:26,270 Why? What are you thinking that you don't want them to know? 148 00:11:27,437 --> 00:11:32,651 [scoffs] You know, I've been hearing a lot about openness since we got here. 149 00:11:33,694 --> 00:11:36,405 Back on Terminus, I could read people up and down. 150 00:11:36,488 --> 00:11:38,740 But here? Nothing. 151 00:11:40,075 --> 00:11:44,037 I can't read Tellem. I can't read anyone. 152 00:11:44,121 --> 00:11:46,707 Something is wrong with this place. 153 00:11:46,790 --> 00:11:50,544 You're angry with each other. You'll feel happier once you've eaten. 154 00:11:51,170 --> 00:11:52,713 Eating always makes me feel happier. 155 00:11:53,213 --> 00:11:55,299 -After we eat what? -There's a feast. 156 00:12:20,032 --> 00:12:21,825 -Morning. -[chuckles] 157 00:12:21,909 --> 00:12:24,912 It's always a big day for us when we take on someone new. 158 00:12:26,121 --> 00:12:30,876 I'm sorry about that business with Hari. Him leaving. 159 00:12:31,543 --> 00:12:34,338 -Yeah, me too. -We will find equilibrium. 160 00:12:34,922 --> 00:12:36,173 This I promise. 161 00:12:37,007 --> 00:12:39,885 In the meantime, there's work to be done. 162 00:12:40,594 --> 00:12:42,638 I know my way around a fishing net. 163 00:12:58,487 --> 00:12:59,571 Salvor. 164 00:13:04,076 --> 00:13:05,077 Mmm. 165 00:13:05,744 --> 00:13:07,454 Is that our breakfast? 166 00:13:07,538 --> 00:13:08,580 Uh-huh. 167 00:13:09,373 --> 00:13:10,582 Ghost mollusks. 168 00:13:11,792 --> 00:13:13,168 Great source of protein, 169 00:13:13,752 --> 00:13:16,213 but these fuckers live so far down. 170 00:13:17,339 --> 00:13:18,715 We're at the mercy of the current. 171 00:13:19,216 --> 00:13:23,303 But you wait long enough, you got yourself a feast. 172 00:13:24,054 --> 00:13:25,764 So this really is a rare occasion. 173 00:13:27,224 --> 00:13:28,976 We don't tread lightly on good tidings. 174 00:13:31,645 --> 00:13:32,980 Tellem's excited you're here. 175 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:37,109 Tellem is excited Gaal's here. 176 00:13:37,192 --> 00:13:41,905 Ah, your talents are just as important. I felt them when we, um… 177 00:13:43,198 --> 00:13:45,200 -Kissed? -Touched. 178 00:13:47,244 --> 00:13:48,453 That's all it takes. 179 00:13:49,997 --> 00:13:52,833 -And the kiss was your doing. -[scoffs] It didn't seem to bother you. 180 00:13:53,333 --> 00:13:55,878 What kind of illusion would it have been if I pulled away? 181 00:13:58,505 --> 00:13:59,590 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? 184 00:14:07,264 --> 00:14:09,391 Looks like someone didn't appreciate your gift. 185 00:14:09,474 --> 00:14:11,268 People back home saw a monster. 186 00:14:12,144 --> 00:14:13,145 So they made me one. 187 00:14:14,271 --> 00:14:16,940 Before I got here, anywhere I went, 188 00:14:17,024 --> 00:14:19,943 I could feel the way people flinched when they saw me coming. 189 00:14:21,403 --> 00:14:22,404 Did I? 190 00:14:23,989 --> 00:14:25,073 A little bit. 191 00:14:32,122 --> 00:14:33,123 But trust me, 192 00:14:34,583 --> 00:14:37,461 you'll end up closer to the people here than anywhere you've ever been. 193 00:14:37,544 --> 00:14:40,631 That's what's so great about this place. No one can hide. 194 00:14:58,065 --> 00:15:00,817 Right. I'm starving. Come on. 195 00:15:16,750 --> 00:15:18,085 -[Tellem] Good. -[chuckles] 196 00:15:18,168 --> 00:15:19,461 [wind instruments playing] 197 00:15:19,545 --> 00:15:21,338 -[Loron] Yeah. I've got it. -Flip it over. 198 00:15:24,842 --> 00:15:26,844 [mollusks screeching] 199 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 00:15:35,727 --> 00:15:38,146 Pain. [stammers] It's like they're screaming. 202 00:15:38,230 --> 00:15:40,649 Well, you would too, if you were boiled alive. 203 00:15:40,732 --> 00:15:44,319 I mean, we talk about being Sighted, but language is imprecise. 204 00:15:44,403 --> 00:15:48,240 All of the senses are involved, hearing too. General empathy. 205 00:15:48,323 --> 00:15:49,575 I've never felt anything like-- [gasps] 206 00:15:49,658 --> 00:15:51,410 Well, you are broadening, child. 207 00:15:51,493 --> 00:15:55,539 And here, you're among your own. We're stronger when there's harmony. 208 00:15:57,833 --> 00:16:00,210 Maybe we'll stick to the leaves. [chuckles] 209 00:16:00,294 --> 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 00:16:06,800 --> 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 214 00:16:16,476 --> 00:16:21,440 leaves room for excess, indulgence, conquest. 215 00:16:23,025 --> 00:16:27,279 The man who owned all of this, Emperor Kandar, 216 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 00:16:39,541 --> 00:16:40,542 [Gaal chuckles] 220 00:16:41,585 --> 00:16:47,925 We're different. We don't shy away from the pain we cause. We honor it. 221 00:16:48,008 --> 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 00:16:59,228 --> 00:17:01,522 from now on, is going to be yelling at me the whole way down. 225 00:17:01,605 --> 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 00:17:07,027 --> 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 00:17:23,585 --> 00:17:25,628 This place is amazing. 231 00:17:25,712 --> 00:17:27,422 [She-Is-Center] We jump-randomize. 232 00:17:27,506 --> 00:17:30,259 Only another Spacer would know where we would appear. 233 00:17:30,342 --> 00:17:33,178 -What have you done? -No-- Wait, wait. 234 00:17:33,262 --> 00:17:36,598 Look, I was given these coordinates by a man named Hari Seldon. 235 00:17:36,682 --> 00:17:39,142 He's a good predictor. It's kinda what he does. 236 00:17:39,226 --> 00:17:44,439 We close-guard our movements. No one can know and continue to live. 237 00:17:45,274 --> 00:17:51,613 -[scoffs] Space will kill you quickly. -No. I have something for you. 238 00:17:57,744 --> 00:17:58,954 -Opalesk. -Yeah. 239 00:17:59,037 --> 00:18:01,456 You can keep that. Breathe it, eat it, whatever you want. 240 00:18:01,540 --> 00:18:04,585 The Foundation makes it and can make more of it. 241 00:18:04,668 --> 00:18:06,587 Opalesk synthesizing is impossible. 242 00:18:06,670 --> 00:18:11,216 And yet, Seldon's happy little scientists found a way. 243 00:18:11,300 --> 00:18:15,095 Look, your modifications have left you dependent on this stuff, 244 00:18:15,179 --> 00:18:16,597 this micronutrient. 245 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:19,099 And I don't know if Empire did that to you, 246 00:18:19,183 --> 00:18:20,934 but I know they've taken advantage of it. 247 00:18:21,018 --> 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 00:18:27,608 --> 00:18:31,069 Right. Or you don't get the opalesk. 250 00:18:31,153 --> 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 00:18:39,203 --> 00:18:42,206 if the Cleon in the middle chair decides he doesn't need you anymore. 254 00:18:42,289 --> 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 00:18:51,715 --> 00:18:53,008 [Hober] See what it doesn't need? 258 00:18:53,091 --> 00:18:54,718 Spacer navigators. 259 00:18:54,801 --> 00:18:58,013 What do you think happens when Empire gets tech like that? 260 00:18:58,096 --> 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 00:19:08,273 --> 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 00:19:16,865 --> 00:19:20,285 Living for yourselves. Can you even imagine it, 266 00:19:20,369 --> 00:19:24,748 if the dam broke, and you could just flow out into the ocean of the universe? 267 00:19:24,831 --> 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 00:19:33,298 --> 00:19:37,135 Right. And that freedom can be yours. 270 00:19:37,219 --> 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 00:19:52,192 --> 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 00:20:03,537 --> 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 00:20:08,834 --> 00:20:10,127 [electronic device beeps] 279 00:20:10,210 --> 00:20:11,461 Come. 280 00:20:14,214 --> 00:20:15,424 [Kress] General, sorry for the intrusion. 281 00:20:15,507 --> 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 00:20:23,932 --> 00:20:25,601 [Bel] A ship with a mind of its own. 284 00:20:25,684 --> 00:20:28,979 [Glawen] Our contact on Siwenna thought it was some kind of organic computing. 285 00:20:29,062 --> 00:20:31,607 Is it possible that the Foundation are powering their ships 286 00:20:31,690 --> 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 00:20:46,079 --> 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 00:20:51,835 --> 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 00:21:12,523 --> 00:21:15,526 -Didn't know you could do that. -Let's set course to intercept. 299 00:21:15,609 --> 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 00:22:05,617 --> 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 00:22:44,907 --> 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 00:23:32,204 --> 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 00:24:05,195 --> 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 00:24:13,871 --> 00:24:19,293 But if we stop hiding, then more Sighteds will be drawn out. 332 00:24:19,376 --> 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 00:25:24,107 --> 00:25:26,610 I appreciate you coming in person, She-Is-Center. 340 00:25:26,693 --> 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 00:26:02,980 --> 00:26:04,022 [Hober] Good question. 348 00:26:04,106 --> 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 00:26:24,751 --> 00:26:27,087 [pants] I'm a bit out of breath. 355 00:26:27,171 --> 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 00:26:35,470 --> 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 00:26:42,519 --> 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 00:26:56,700 --> 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 00:27:41,453 --> 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 00:28:11,233 --> 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 00:28:19,366 --> 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 00:28:24,997 --> 00:28:27,124 so we can assume that he acts in their name. 383 00:28:27,207 --> 00:28:29,668 You're saying the Spacers have broken faith with Empire? 384 00:28:29,751 --> 00:28:32,796 Uh, no. But the fact that Terminus even attempted it 385 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,841 suggests the Foundation is preparing for war. 386 00:28:35,924 --> 00:28:37,593 Could they have hired the Blind Angels? 387 00:28:37,676 --> 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 00:28:46,435 --> 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 00:29:11,460 --> 00:29:13,879 -Don't, Sailor. -No, don't you try and pull rank. 397 00:29:13,962 --> 00:29:15,672 You were able to stand up to him once. 398 00:29:15,756 --> 00:29:18,634 You disobeyed an order, and now we should blindly obey? 399 00:29:18,717 --> 00:29:22,262 The order I refused would've got sailors killed. 400 00:29:22,346 --> 00:29:23,472 People I command. 401 00:29:23,555 --> 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 00:29:39,488 --> 00:29:42,783 watching a holo of your death that they'd rig up to play inside my eyelids. 407 00:29:42,866 --> 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 00:30:06,265 --> 00:30:08,892 and the million other defenses we know nothing about, and I kill the man. 412 00:30:08,976 --> 00:30:11,103 They decant another, load him up with all the same old shit, 413 00:30:11,186 --> 00:30:13,397 -and we're back to where we started. -But, Bel, if you're go to-- 414 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,984 Or I go bigger. I take the fleet and we blow up the palace from orbit. 415 00:30:17,067 --> 00:30:18,610 Now they decant three new ones. 416 00:30:18,694 --> 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 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:24,867 Okay, okay. Let's say we take down Empire. 419 00:30:24,950 --> 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 00:30:29,204 --> 00:30:30,455 -It could take over. -[Bel sighs] 422 00:30:30,539 --> 00:30:34,501 Look, there is no way that they're ready. You know how big Imperium is. 423 00:30:34,585 --> 00:30:37,504 Let me tell you what it looks like if Empire falls. 424 00:30:37,588 --> 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 00:32:03,882 --> 00:32:05,592 -[sighs] Oh, great. Good. -[chuckles] 444 00:32:05,676 --> 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 00:32:48,802 --> 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 00:33:02,608 --> 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 00:33:27,341 --> 00:33:33,180 There is a public value in a man who is willing to accept an able partner. 455 00:33:33,263 --> 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 00:33:46,527 --> 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 00:33:51,990 --> 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 00:33:57,913 --> 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 00:34:27,860 --> 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 00:34:43,458 --> 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 00:34:56,847 --> 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 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,775 And who once, when we were younger, 484 00:35:08,859 --> 00:35:11,862 stayed up half the night hunting a spider in my room so I could sleep. 485 00:35:11,945 --> 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 00:36:39,366 --> 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 00:37:00,053 --> 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 00:37:06,226 --> 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 00:37:18,447 --> 00:37:20,782 that you're risking both of our lives with this little meeting? 512 00:37:20,866 --> 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 00:37:35,172 --> 00:37:36,673 -By Demerzel? -Mm-hmm. 518 00:37:36,757 --> 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 00:37:55,859 --> 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 00:38:08,997 --> 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 00:38:21,635 --> 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 00:39:25,324 --> 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 00:39:35,876 --> 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 00:40:10,452 --> 00:40:12,120 [chuckles] Sareth. 559 00:40:12,204 --> 00:40:14,373 I managed to stop the doctors from starting fertilization, 560 00:40:14,456 --> 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 00:40:30,055 --> 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 00:41:24,234 --> 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 00:41:31,450 --> 00:41:32,826 It's an atomic ashtray. 574 00:41:34,328 --> 00:41:36,330 Oh. Absurd. 575 00:41:36,413 --> 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 00:41:40,542 --> 00:41:43,670 Your prophet gives weighty orders for a man long dead. 578 00:41:43,754 --> 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 00:41:49,176 --> 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 00:42:06,109 --> 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 00:42:10,656 --> 00:42:12,324 So, when we bring them the word, 588 00:42:12,407 --> 00:42:15,244 it takes a bit of busking for them before they can hear it. 589 00:42:15,327 --> 00:42:18,205 You three, on the other hand, 590 00:42:19,206 --> 00:42:21,041 are a civilized man. 591 00:42:21,124 --> 00:42:22,876 So I won't talk down to you. 592 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:24,586 Could you, from way down there? 593 00:42:24,670 --> 00:42:27,840 We were sent to open diplomatic relations. 594 00:42:27,923 --> 00:42:32,553 To ask recognition of Foundation on the galactic stage. 595 00:42:32,636 --> 00:42:34,888 We seek sovereignty. 596 00:42:34,972 --> 00:42:37,808 You are an imperial outpost. 597 00:42:37,891 --> 00:42:40,269 -A property, not a partner. -[Poly chuckles] 598 00:42:40,352 --> 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 00:42:47,359 --> 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 00:42:53,866 --> 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 00:43:03,166 --> 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 00:43:52,216 --> 00:43:54,301 What the hell is going on here? 616 00:43:54,384 --> 00:43:56,887 [Demerzel] Captain Timandra first spotted it at the port. 617 00:43:56,970 --> 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 00:44:11,693 --> 00:44:16,281 but you bothered to cheat death and travel light-years on top of that. 622 00:44:16,365 --> 00:44:19,284 So, say what you've come to say. 623 00:44:19,368 --> 00:44:21,662 Oh, I haven't traveled all that far. 624 00:44:21,745 --> 00:44:25,040 I, what remains of me, am still on Terminus. 625 00:44:25,123 --> 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 00:44:49,898 --> 00:44:53,485 We sue for peace not because we fear we will lose, 633 00:44:53,569 --> 00:44:55,988 but because we know with mathematical certainty, 634 00:44:56,071 --> 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 00:45:17,718 --> 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 00:45:24,516 --> 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 00:45:42,159 --> 00:45:45,078 A fourth throne will soon share the dais. 649 00:45:45,162 --> 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 00:45:54,463 --> 00:45:57,216 and reinforce him with ships from the Auxiliary. 653 00:45:57,299 --> 00:45:59,551 If the Foundation has technology worth having, 654 00:45:59,635 --> 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 00:48:21,527 --> 00:48:23,278 He's talking to me, I'm talking to him. 679 00:48:23,362 --> 00:48:24,821 He looks over at this boat, 680 00:48:24,905 --> 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 00:48:31,703 --> 00:48:33,205 Now, Loron was looking at this boat, 683 00:48:33,288 --> 00:48:36,250 because, unlike the others, its nav data is erased. 684 00:48:36,333 --> 00:48:39,253 -Why erase data from a fishing trip? -[Gaal sighs] 685 00:48:39,336 --> 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 00:48:44,508 --> 00:48:47,636 They erased the day's routes, but they didn't overwrite the navigation cache. 688 00:48:47,719 --> 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 00:48:52,474 --> 00:48:54,268 And right now, you just need to accept that. 691 00:48:54,351 --> 00:48:55,477 No. No. 692 00:48:55,561 --> 00:48:59,022 Y-You and Hari both said that this is bigger than any one person. 693 00:48:59,106 --> 00:49:01,859 And now you think you can just change the future all by yourself? 694 00:49:01,942 --> 00:49:03,360 -Salvor. -No. Listen to me. 695 00:49:03,443 --> 00:49:05,821 I grew up hearing I was special. 696 00:49:05,904 --> 00:49:08,448 And it messed with my head, thinking that way. 697 00:49:08,532 --> 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 00:51:58,702 --> 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.