1 00:01:27,129 --> 00:01:29,548 When I was a child, I told my mother 2 00:01:29,631 --> 00:01:32,759 I wanted to learn every planet in the Galactic Empire… 3 00:01:34,803 --> 00:01:37,890 beginning in the center and moving out to Star's End. 4 00:01:39,183 --> 00:01:41,226 Each night, she told me stories. 5 00:01:43,645 --> 00:01:46,190 I traveled light-years… 6 00:01:48,150 --> 00:01:51,236 my mind expanding to hold more and more worlds. 7 00:01:53,947 --> 00:01:55,908 But I never reached Terminus. 8 00:01:56,992 --> 00:02:01,914 Straddling the farthest reaches of civilization, unsettled by man… 9 00:02:03,248 --> 00:02:04,416 it was the end. 10 00:02:10,839 --> 00:02:14,676 And its story remained dark to me until many years later. 11 00:02:15,928 --> 00:02:17,513 Until it became my story. 12 00:02:19,473 --> 00:02:20,891 Until it became… 13 00:02:22,017 --> 00:02:23,685 the only story. 14 00:02:51,046 --> 00:02:53,048 -Don't do that. -Sorry. 15 00:02:54,341 --> 00:02:57,052 -Where are the others? -We're meeting them at the fence. 16 00:02:57,135 --> 00:02:58,136 We're a bit late. 17 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:02,057 Come on, guys. 18 00:03:12,484 --> 00:03:14,027 -Gia! -It's so rocky. 19 00:03:20,117 --> 00:03:21,118 Shit. 20 00:03:23,161 --> 00:03:24,204 A bishop's claw. 21 00:03:24,955 --> 00:03:27,541 -Up-valley. -We need to be real quiet. 22 00:03:33,422 --> 00:03:36,133 The null field starts all the way up there. Near that rock. 23 00:03:38,093 --> 00:03:40,304 They called it "the Vault." 24 00:03:40,387 --> 00:03:42,097 All the colonists knew for certain 25 00:03:42,181 --> 00:03:45,100 was that it projected a field designed to keep people away. 26 00:03:45,851 --> 00:03:47,728 No one could breach it. 27 00:03:52,900 --> 00:03:54,818 Right, you gonna go first? 28 00:03:54,902 --> 00:03:56,445 I thought you were first? 29 00:03:57,571 --> 00:03:59,698 You go first and put your marker past the rock, 30 00:04:00,365 --> 00:04:02,367 -I'll let you touch my tit. -Gia. 31 00:04:02,451 --> 00:04:03,452 For one minute. 32 00:04:03,535 --> 00:04:05,287 Ten seconds. 33 00:04:05,370 --> 00:04:07,331 Or you can look at 'em both for 30. 34 00:04:08,248 --> 00:04:09,499 Swear on your moon. 35 00:04:10,292 --> 00:04:11,293 Four-sworn. 36 00:04:14,254 --> 00:04:17,048 -You get nothing if you win. -Get to watch him piss his pants. 37 00:04:19,885 --> 00:04:21,303 He isn't gonna make it. 38 00:04:22,137 --> 00:04:23,263 Come on, Keir. 39 00:04:50,666 --> 00:04:51,667 Keir. 40 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:53,919 Are you okay? 41 00:04:54,002 --> 00:04:56,588 -Your brother is an assclaw. -Gia, stop laughing at him. 42 00:04:57,506 --> 00:05:00,592 -He's pathetic. -I was almost there. I was close. 43 00:05:00,676 --> 00:05:01,802 Poly, where you going? 44 00:05:01,885 --> 00:05:04,137 -Shit. Poly! -Poly, come back! 45 00:05:04,221 --> 00:05:06,390 -We don't have a deal. -I know. 46 00:05:07,182 --> 00:05:08,517 I wanna see the ghost. 47 00:05:12,563 --> 00:05:13,772 Okay. 48 00:05:38,505 --> 00:05:39,756 Shit. 49 00:05:42,217 --> 00:05:44,344 -Poly? -He's not moving. 50 00:05:45,137 --> 00:05:46,638 Poly? 51 00:05:47,431 --> 00:05:50,017 -We gotta get help. -What you standing there for then? 52 00:06:19,505 --> 00:06:21,381 They're all gone. Eat. 53 00:06:28,055 --> 00:06:29,056 I saw the ghost. 54 00:06:29,139 --> 00:06:30,307 You saw me. 55 00:06:31,725 --> 00:06:32,726 Eat. 56 00:06:34,394 --> 00:06:36,647 You should've turned back, like your boy Keir. 57 00:06:36,730 --> 00:06:39,566 People who've tried to get closer have been hurt. Really. 58 00:06:39,650 --> 00:06:40,817 You weren't. 59 00:06:40,901 --> 00:06:43,195 You got the record and you're okay. 60 00:06:44,363 --> 00:06:45,364 Am I? 61 00:06:45,447 --> 00:06:48,116 Your mark is so far, no one's ever seen it. 62 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:52,204 That's because it doesn't exist. And neither does the ghost. 63 00:06:56,416 --> 00:06:59,753 When do you think it's going to tell us what it is, Warden? 64 00:07:00,671 --> 00:07:01,755 Call me Salvor. 65 00:07:03,006 --> 00:07:05,092 And you assume it cares anything about us? 66 00:07:06,218 --> 00:07:07,219 It doesn't. 67 00:07:08,637 --> 00:07:12,599 It's not just people it keeps away. It's everything. It's birds, insects. 68 00:07:12,683 --> 00:07:16,311 No one's ever gotten through the null field, and no one ever will. 69 00:07:16,812 --> 00:07:20,399 It's warning us to stay away. So stop tempting fate. 70 00:07:21,275 --> 00:07:23,193 Go. Be careful. 71 00:07:23,902 --> 00:07:27,030 -There's a bishop's claw-- -Up-valley. I know. 72 00:07:32,703 --> 00:07:36,748 Salvor Hardin. Hober Mallow. The Mule. 73 00:07:36,832 --> 00:07:38,917 I would learn these names one day. 74 00:07:42,504 --> 00:07:46,884 The heroes and villains fighting for the salvation of mankind. 75 00:07:47,718 --> 00:07:49,553 But to understand our future, 76 00:07:49,636 --> 00:07:52,806 we have to remember the past and the ones who caused it all. 77 00:07:54,266 --> 00:07:55,475 A mathematician. 78 00:07:56,351 --> 00:07:57,477 A martyr. 79 00:07:57,978 --> 00:07:59,188 A murderer. 80 00:08:00,898 --> 00:08:05,027 And the most important player of all, Hari Seldon. 81 00:08:15,204 --> 00:08:16,997 She'll be on her way soon. 82 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,047 It will all work out, Raych. 83 00:08:25,672 --> 00:08:27,174 Everything is dying. 84 00:08:27,841 --> 00:08:29,885 That doesn't mean it won't all work out. 85 00:08:30,761 --> 00:08:33,013 Do you ever wish there was another way? 86 00:08:33,096 --> 00:08:34,597 Every day, son. 87 00:08:37,017 --> 00:08:38,894 But this is the optimal time. 88 00:08:54,701 --> 00:08:57,871 86,960,947. 89 00:08:58,956 --> 00:09:02,125 86,960,957. 90 00:09:02,918 --> 00:09:05,921 86,960,971. 91 00:09:06,004 --> 00:09:09,299 -86,960,987-- -It's time. 92 00:09:10,843 --> 00:09:14,054 Gaal? Are you ready? 93 00:09:16,390 --> 00:09:17,391 Yes. 94 00:09:21,770 --> 00:09:25,023 All my life, I looked out and dreamed of being somewhere else. 95 00:09:25,774 --> 00:09:28,235 Now I realize how much I'll miss this view. 96 00:09:28,318 --> 00:09:30,445 I have to remember it perfectly. 97 00:09:31,738 --> 00:09:32,906 No, you don't. 98 00:09:34,199 --> 00:09:36,159 We can petition the Seer priests. 99 00:09:37,286 --> 00:09:41,665 It's not too late for you to stop this. It's not too late for you to stay. 100 00:09:41,748 --> 00:09:42,791 No. 101 00:09:44,126 --> 00:09:46,128 There's no place for me here anymore, Mom. 102 00:09:46,879 --> 00:09:49,006 I'll die if I stay here. 103 00:09:50,299 --> 00:09:52,342 But on Trantor, I'll be safe. 104 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:54,845 Accepted. 105 00:09:57,514 --> 00:09:58,891 Hold your head high. 106 00:10:19,995 --> 00:10:21,538 That's her. 107 00:10:31,256 --> 00:10:34,384 They all hate me. You don't hate me, do you? 108 00:10:34,468 --> 00:10:37,721 Never, Gaal. I'll always love you. 109 00:10:43,769 --> 00:10:45,812 My greatest joy. 110 00:11:30,357 --> 00:11:31,358 Come with me. 111 00:11:31,859 --> 00:11:33,485 We'd be lost out there. 112 00:11:37,072 --> 00:11:38,156 Go. 113 00:11:44,663 --> 00:11:45,706 I love you. 114 00:11:47,457 --> 00:11:48,584 Go, child. 115 00:12:37,341 --> 00:12:39,426 Beginning transfer sequence. 116 00:12:39,510 --> 00:12:42,888 Please move to jumppods and secure for travel. 117 00:12:47,017 --> 00:12:49,353 Did you say something? 118 00:12:49,436 --> 00:12:54,107 No. But I was going to ask if this was your first time on an imperial jumpship. 119 00:12:54,691 --> 00:12:57,903 Yes. It is. I'm a bit nervous. 120 00:12:57,986 --> 00:13:00,614 Just place your hand on the screen. 121 00:13:00,697 --> 00:13:02,616 -And it will scan your metrics. -Thank you. 122 00:13:05,244 --> 00:13:07,371 -Jerril. -Gaal. 123 00:13:07,454 --> 00:13:08,622 Synnax? 124 00:13:08,705 --> 00:13:10,749 Picked up just a hint of it in your accent. 125 00:13:10,832 --> 00:13:12,459 You don't hear it much at the Core, 126 00:13:12,543 --> 00:13:14,795 but I travel near the rim worlds sometimes. 127 00:13:15,587 --> 00:13:17,881 Whoever took the prayer stones out did a great job. 128 00:13:18,465 --> 00:13:20,801 You wouldn't see the scars if you didn't know to look. 129 00:13:21,385 --> 00:13:23,178 Sorry if I overstepped. 130 00:13:23,262 --> 00:13:24,263 It doesn't screw me up, 131 00:13:24,346 --> 00:13:26,765 but some people come out of the jump feeling a little hungover. 132 00:13:26,849 --> 00:13:28,559 I don't drink. 133 00:13:28,642 --> 00:13:31,562 My parents dove an algae farm, and we woke up pretty early. 134 00:13:31,645 --> 00:13:34,189 You're gonna sleep through this. They make sure of it. 135 00:13:34,273 --> 00:13:36,775 They can't have the grav on during the jump. I don't know why. 136 00:13:36,859 --> 00:13:38,944 Well, the grav generators output a waveform 137 00:13:39,027 --> 00:13:40,696 that corrupts the jumpdrive's ability 138 00:13:40,779 --> 00:13:43,532 to plot fourth-dimensional points at transdimensional speeds. 139 00:13:44,533 --> 00:13:46,410 Why are you going to Trantor? 140 00:13:47,119 --> 00:13:49,204 I'm going to work with Hari Seldon. 141 00:13:49,913 --> 00:13:51,748 I won a math contest. 142 00:13:51,832 --> 00:13:55,544 Wow. Hari Seldon. And you from Synnax. 143 00:13:56,420 --> 00:13:58,213 It was a pretty big contest. 144 00:14:03,302 --> 00:14:07,097 Commencing jump in three, two, one. 145 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:16,500 How are you awake? 146 00:15:32,266 --> 00:15:34,434 It's a pity we have to sleep through the jump. 147 00:15:35,185 --> 00:15:37,104 It's supposed to be quite the light show. 148 00:15:38,313 --> 00:15:39,815 But if you're not a Spacer, 149 00:15:39,898 --> 00:15:43,026 you can find your body and mind taking different trips. 150 00:15:43,110 --> 00:15:44,736 I slept through the whole thing. 151 00:15:44,820 --> 00:15:46,697 …and prepare to disembark. 152 00:15:49,283 --> 00:15:50,450 Wow. 153 00:15:50,951 --> 00:15:55,038 If the Empire is good for anything, they can damn well build. 154 00:16:00,460 --> 00:16:01,920 This is incredible. 155 00:16:39,291 --> 00:16:43,754 Welcome to Trantor, the eye of the Empire. 156 00:16:46,340 --> 00:16:50,302 Please respect and enjoy the peace. 157 00:16:58,101 --> 00:16:59,603 Are those soldiers? 158 00:17:01,104 --> 00:17:03,232 Probably didn't make the news on your world, 159 00:17:03,941 --> 00:17:06,944 some sort of kerfuffle at the galaxy's edge, 160 00:17:07,027 --> 00:17:08,819 Anacreon and Thespis. 161 00:17:09,445 --> 00:17:13,242 Imperial appraisers got caught in the cross fire, so now it's a big deal. 162 00:17:18,038 --> 00:17:19,790 Sponsor and contact? 163 00:17:19,873 --> 00:17:23,335 Dr. Hari Seldon. Streeling University. 164 00:17:23,836 --> 00:17:25,712 Expected return to home planet? 165 00:17:26,380 --> 00:17:30,592 I'm not going back. This is my home now. 166 00:17:30,676 --> 00:17:35,097 Any car on the stalk. Please respect and enjoy the peace. 167 00:17:35,180 --> 00:17:36,181 Thank you. 168 00:17:39,810 --> 00:17:41,770 Now that I know you a little better, 169 00:17:42,396 --> 00:17:44,731 I won't waste my breath explaining everything. 170 00:17:44,815 --> 00:17:46,024 This part is great though. 171 00:17:46,900 --> 00:17:49,570 Please make your way to any available car. 172 00:17:50,445 --> 00:17:53,991 This car will commence its descent down the stalk momentarily. 173 00:17:54,575 --> 00:17:56,243 I'm gonna stay awake the whole ride. 174 00:17:56,326 --> 00:17:57,327 Me too. 175 00:18:18,140 --> 00:18:23,437 It takes 14 hours to drop from Trantor Station to the planet's surface. 176 00:18:25,731 --> 00:18:28,317 Although, technically, it's not the surface. 177 00:18:28,942 --> 00:18:32,237 Billions of citizens spend their lives beneath Trantor's outer shell, 178 00:18:33,155 --> 00:18:36,158 toiling away on a hundred subterranean levels 179 00:18:36,241 --> 00:18:38,994 without ever seeing the sun or the stars. 180 00:18:48,295 --> 00:18:51,882 Whatever remained of the natural world belonged to the Emperors. 181 00:18:53,258 --> 00:18:54,384 Dawn. 182 00:18:55,093 --> 00:18:56,094 Day. 183 00:18:57,471 --> 00:18:58,472 Dusk. 184 00:19:00,265 --> 00:19:02,017 The Genetic Dynasty. 185 00:19:02,601 --> 00:19:06,813 Clones of Cleon I, decanted at different ages. 186 00:19:21,745 --> 00:19:23,163 Master Orlio. 187 00:19:24,248 --> 00:19:25,415 Empire. 188 00:19:25,999 --> 00:19:27,918 How long have you worked for us? 189 00:19:28,001 --> 00:19:30,170 Sixty-eight privileged years, Empire. 190 00:19:31,463 --> 00:19:33,757 Started cleaning the Mural when I was 12. 191 00:19:33,841 --> 00:19:36,927 Gone from one end to the other four times over since then. 192 00:19:37,010 --> 00:19:39,388 Know every grain of chroma by heart now. 193 00:19:39,471 --> 00:19:44,434 Tell me, are there some colors more resistant to cleaning than others? 194 00:19:45,102 --> 00:19:46,103 Plum. 195 00:19:46,687 --> 00:19:47,688 Periwinkle. 196 00:19:48,605 --> 00:19:51,567 Saffron is a particularly truculent pigment. 197 00:19:51,650 --> 00:19:55,529 What about crimson? Is crimson truculent? 198 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:57,281 Empire? 199 00:19:57,364 --> 00:19:58,574 It's come to our attention 200 00:19:58,657 --> 00:20:02,411 that a tract authored by Hari Seldon was discovered in your quarters. 201 00:20:02,494 --> 00:20:04,955 Apologies, Empire. It was foolish of me. 202 00:20:05,038 --> 00:20:06,290 It's just that I'd-- 203 00:20:06,373 --> 00:20:09,960 Heard whispers of his proclamations and were curious. 204 00:20:11,253 --> 00:20:14,965 They refer to Seldon as "the Raven," don't they? 205 00:20:16,592 --> 00:20:20,262 I hear he's rather critical of the Imperium. 206 00:20:20,345 --> 00:20:24,516 Well, I'm happy to report that his words are baseless trash, 207 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:26,643 and atrociously written, if I might add. 208 00:20:26,727 --> 00:20:30,147 Nevertheless, the man has amassed a following. 209 00:20:30,689 --> 00:20:35,611 People who hinge their hopes on every word Raven Seldon utters. 210 00:20:37,112 --> 00:20:40,699 Words have a way of fanning into wildfires, Orlio. 211 00:20:40,782 --> 00:20:42,826 I am loyal, Empire. I would never-- 212 00:20:42,910 --> 00:20:46,872 I know you won't, which is why I broached this subject in person. 213 00:20:47,456 --> 00:20:48,749 Empire-- 214 00:20:58,467 --> 00:21:01,345 What are your lessons this morning, Brother Dawn? 215 00:21:02,179 --> 00:21:03,847 The Outer Reach kingdoms. 216 00:21:03,931 --> 00:21:06,558 I learned an old Anacreon song about hunting. 217 00:21:06,642 --> 00:21:10,938 Well, there is much truth in music. 218 00:21:11,939 --> 00:21:15,651 A boy bleeds a fawn with a knife and then takes shelter in her coat. 219 00:21:15,734 --> 00:21:17,694 That one's not really a hunting song. 220 00:21:17,778 --> 00:21:20,405 That's a dirty song about a boy's first time with a woman. 221 00:21:23,867 --> 00:21:26,995 Play it back in your mind. And don't confuse the two. 222 00:21:27,079 --> 00:21:29,957 Brother Day, please leave the peacock to the cooks. 223 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,668 You'll be no less fascinating to your biographers. 224 00:21:32,751 --> 00:21:35,212 Brother Dusk imagines I do this to be colorful. 225 00:21:35,796 --> 00:21:38,966 And Brother Day puts more words in my mouth than he does poultry. 226 00:21:39,049 --> 00:21:40,425 It's the lard. 227 00:21:40,509 --> 00:21:43,887 The cooks inject it under the skin with a needle right before roasting. 228 00:21:43,971 --> 00:21:46,849 -Do you know why they use a needle? -Because it's efficient? 229 00:21:46,932 --> 00:21:49,017 Because they're afraid if they use a knife, 230 00:21:49,101 --> 00:21:51,019 as is the time-honored way, 231 00:21:51,103 --> 00:21:54,857 they might rip the skin, and I'll send them to a stew-pot stall 50 levels down. 232 00:21:55,607 --> 00:21:59,403 All of which is a problem. Why? 233 00:21:59,486 --> 00:22:02,698 Because when people are afraid to do their job right, 234 00:22:03,198 --> 00:22:05,117 they're certain to do it wrong. 235 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:08,370 -That's poor stewardship. -It's poor roast peacock. 236 00:22:10,038 --> 00:22:12,291 Not everything is a teachable moment. 237 00:22:13,041 --> 00:22:14,459 Empire. 238 00:22:14,543 --> 00:22:15,711 Demerzel. 239 00:22:15,794 --> 00:22:18,797 The delegations from Thespis and Anacreon are arriving. 240 00:22:18,881 --> 00:22:21,008 -How did they seem? -Peevish. 241 00:22:21,717 --> 00:22:25,679 Barbarian kingdoms. They're more trouble than they're worth. 242 00:22:26,889 --> 00:22:30,142 Have Outer Reach Trade bring tariff projections to the residence. 243 00:22:31,351 --> 00:22:34,271 Dress nice. Have someone brush your hair. 244 00:22:35,397 --> 00:22:37,774 It's not the most important thing we'll do this week, 245 00:22:37,858 --> 00:22:41,403 but it's the most important thing they'll do in their lifetime. 246 00:23:01,131 --> 00:23:05,636 Anacreon and Thespis. Observe the mannerisms of each party. 247 00:23:13,769 --> 00:23:16,396 They hate each other. 248 00:23:18,065 --> 00:23:21,777 Their enmity is legendary. But war is expensive. 249 00:23:21,860 --> 00:23:24,821 And so we have called them onto the carpet to broker a peace. 250 00:23:38,836 --> 00:23:40,212 Thanks for the company. 251 00:23:40,295 --> 00:23:43,674 Good luck with the new job. I hope Hari Seldon is worth the trip. 252 00:23:43,757 --> 00:23:45,133 Thanks. 253 00:23:50,055 --> 00:23:51,139 Cute. 254 00:23:54,643 --> 00:23:57,229 Raych, Raych, Raych. Where are you? 255 00:24:03,735 --> 00:24:05,696 -That's me. -What? 256 00:24:06,405 --> 00:24:07,739 That's me, Raych. 257 00:24:09,700 --> 00:24:13,287 I work for Hari. Dr. Seldon. 258 00:24:14,162 --> 00:24:16,206 -Baggage Claim is this way. -No. 259 00:24:16,790 --> 00:24:18,834 No. This is all I have. 260 00:24:19,668 --> 00:24:20,669 Okay. 261 00:24:21,461 --> 00:24:23,422 Then the rest of planet is this way. 262 00:24:27,926 --> 00:24:29,970 It's supposed to be a perfect replica. 263 00:24:30,596 --> 00:24:32,598 Not that we'd know under the outer shell. 264 00:24:33,098 --> 00:24:36,226 Half of level 64 is just servers running skies. 265 00:24:39,396 --> 00:24:42,065 Is there still a Seer church here on Trantor? 266 00:24:42,566 --> 00:24:45,611 Down there, I think. Level 22. 267 00:24:48,447 --> 00:24:49,740 I'd like to see it. 268 00:24:52,201 --> 00:24:53,202 What? 269 00:24:54,745 --> 00:24:55,996 Sorry, I've-- 270 00:24:57,664 --> 00:25:00,000 I've never met anyone from Synnax before. 271 00:25:09,426 --> 00:25:12,262 An expression of compassion and stewardship, 272 00:25:12,346 --> 00:25:14,723 the Mural of Souls, 273 00:25:14,806 --> 00:25:18,685 worked on every day by the senior member of the Genetic Dynasty. 274 00:25:18,769 --> 00:25:23,357 The Mural depicts the four-century age of peace and the Galactic Family. 275 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,069 Notice the active chroma? How the pigment subtly moves? 276 00:25:33,116 --> 00:25:35,077 Provincial Ambassador Xandem. 277 00:25:36,578 --> 00:25:39,665 Do you have a question or a comment about the Mural? 278 00:25:40,457 --> 00:25:44,336 We were just marveling at the Empire's benevolent reach. 279 00:25:44,837 --> 00:25:46,296 For it is a marvel. 280 00:25:49,091 --> 00:25:52,678 86,963,537. 281 00:25:52,761 --> 00:25:55,973 86,963,549. 282 00:25:56,056 --> 00:25:59,434 86,963,563. 283 00:25:59,518 --> 00:26:02,855 963,567. 284 00:26:03,355 --> 00:26:07,067 86,963,573… 285 00:26:07,150 --> 00:26:10,195 -Are you praying? -No. Why? 286 00:26:11,530 --> 00:26:12,573 Your lips were moving. 287 00:26:12,656 --> 00:26:15,492 Yeah. When I'm nervous, I count primes. 288 00:26:22,332 --> 00:26:23,917 Hari said you'd wanna see this. 289 00:26:46,023 --> 00:26:49,193 Gaal, meet Hari. 290 00:26:51,904 --> 00:26:53,155 Dr. Seldon. 291 00:26:54,281 --> 00:26:57,409 I am so honored you invited me here. 292 00:26:57,910 --> 00:26:59,745 What did you think of the Imperial Library? 293 00:26:59,828 --> 00:27:02,748 It's amazing. So many books in one place. 294 00:27:02,831 --> 00:27:05,751 I imagine books were hard to come by on Synnax. 295 00:27:07,044 --> 00:27:08,921 Please, sit. 296 00:27:15,427 --> 00:27:18,847 So, you know Kalle's Ninth Proof of Folding? 297 00:27:19,473 --> 00:27:22,392 Yes, I couldn't have solved Abraxas without it. 298 00:27:22,476 --> 00:27:26,855 No one else thought to use it. Not in 500 years. 299 00:27:27,940 --> 00:27:29,274 Why do you think that is? 300 00:27:30,234 --> 00:27:32,778 Kalle's writing is poetic. 301 00:27:32,861 --> 00:27:36,198 It's beautiful, but it's hard to imagine there's any rigor there. 302 00:27:36,949 --> 00:27:39,409 So serious scholars don't read her. 303 00:27:41,995 --> 00:27:43,080 Why did you? 304 00:27:43,580 --> 00:27:46,917 I went to Kalle for the rhythm of the words at first. 305 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,502 I missed the math. 306 00:27:49,002 --> 00:27:51,255 But when I read between the lines, 307 00:27:51,338 --> 00:27:54,007 I realized she was proposing a radical theory 308 00:27:54,091 --> 00:27:57,177 about rings of integers in non-Archimedean local fields. 309 00:27:57,261 --> 00:27:58,762 Indeed she was. 310 00:28:00,055 --> 00:28:01,515 It does make me wonder, though, 311 00:28:01,598 --> 00:28:06,436 how you've managed to stumble across Kalle's Ninth Proof in the first place, 312 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,021 given where you were. 313 00:28:10,649 --> 00:28:15,112 This isn't Synnax, Gaal. Curiosity isn't a crime here. 314 00:28:16,113 --> 00:28:17,322 I was lonely. 315 00:28:18,532 --> 00:28:21,076 Almost no one there thought like I thought. 316 00:28:22,244 --> 00:28:25,080 But math doesn't take sides. It doesn't judge. 317 00:28:25,581 --> 00:28:31,128 I imagine you were lonely, a mind like yours in a place like that. 318 00:28:38,635 --> 00:28:43,557 Kalle's original proof manuscript. Written in her native Thraxian. 319 00:29:00,616 --> 00:29:02,784 They're going to arrest me tomorrow. And you. 320 00:29:02,868 --> 00:29:04,995 -What? -It's almost a certainty. 321 00:29:05,078 --> 00:29:06,663 Arrest? Why? 322 00:29:06,747 --> 00:29:11,210 There's a nonzero chance it won't happen. But it's not a number worth discussing. 323 00:29:12,211 --> 00:29:13,837 No. This has to be a mistake. 324 00:29:13,921 --> 00:29:16,715 People lie, Gaal. Numbers don't. 325 00:29:16,798 --> 00:29:19,176 Are you familiar with my work? Psychohistory? 326 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,554 -Every mathematician has read your-- -Do you agree with the concept? 327 00:29:22,638 --> 00:29:25,015 In theory. But I don't know what it has to do with-- 328 00:29:25,098 --> 00:29:26,391 It's not a theory. 329 00:29:26,475 --> 00:29:29,645 It's the destiny of the human race expressed in numbers. 330 00:29:29,728 --> 00:29:31,897 And it's the reason the Empire will take us. 331 00:29:31,980 --> 00:29:33,774 They're worried you can predict the future. 332 00:29:33,857 --> 00:29:37,986 They're worried people believe I can. And they don't like the future I predict. 333 00:29:38,070 --> 00:29:39,154 Which is what? 334 00:29:42,449 --> 00:29:45,577 Trantor is going to be destroyed. The Empire will fall. 335 00:29:45,661 --> 00:29:48,914 You understand, these aren't things I'm anxious to tell people. 336 00:29:48,997 --> 00:29:50,457 It's just what the math tells me. 337 00:29:50,541 --> 00:29:54,920 Why let me come all this way just to arrest me? 338 00:29:55,003 --> 00:29:57,756 That's a good question. You tell me. 339 00:30:29,997 --> 00:30:31,790 Because I solved Abraxas. 340 00:30:32,708 --> 00:30:35,043 They think I'm the only one who can prove you wrong. 341 00:30:35,127 --> 00:30:38,088 And you are, if I was. But I'm not. 342 00:30:39,256 --> 00:30:41,633 Did you know all this when you were showing me the sights? 343 00:30:41,717 --> 00:30:43,927 There's more at stake here than you can imagine, Gaal. 344 00:30:46,138 --> 00:30:48,473 I risked my life coming here. 345 00:30:49,057 --> 00:30:52,269 And now you want me to risk it again just to support your numbers? 346 00:30:52,352 --> 00:30:55,105 That's not entirely accurate, is it, Gaal? 347 00:30:55,189 --> 00:30:57,774 You left Synnax one step ahead of arrest yourself. 348 00:30:57,858 --> 00:31:00,694 So you know math is never just numbers. 349 00:31:00,777 --> 00:31:03,113 In the wrong hands, it's a weapon. 350 00:31:03,947 --> 00:31:07,201 In the right hands, deliverance. 351 00:31:11,079 --> 00:31:12,206 Go. 352 00:31:14,249 --> 00:31:15,250 Get some sleep. 353 00:31:15,918 --> 00:31:18,670 It should take them most of the night to divine your hotel. 354 00:31:18,754 --> 00:31:19,755 We'll talk soon. 355 00:31:21,882 --> 00:31:24,051 I know it's not the prize you came here for… 356 00:31:25,594 --> 00:31:26,970 but it will have to do. 357 00:31:27,054 --> 00:31:29,473 -I can't keep this. -Of course you can. 358 00:31:29,556 --> 00:31:34,978 This building will burn one day. Stealing is a mercy. 359 00:31:50,452 --> 00:31:52,579 I've read all his work, psychohistory. 360 00:31:52,663 --> 00:31:55,707 I just never imagined he'd use it this way. 361 00:31:55,791 --> 00:31:58,752 The Empire isn't gonna hurt you. They need you. 362 00:31:58,836 --> 00:32:00,838 You don't know that. And neither does he. 363 00:32:00,921 --> 00:32:01,922 -Gaal-- -No. 364 00:32:02,005 --> 00:32:04,216 You haven't seen it. 365 00:32:05,050 --> 00:32:07,302 When a planet wants you dead, you die. 366 00:32:09,179 --> 00:32:12,808 Ambassador Xandem, Planet Anacreon, Outer Reach. 367 00:32:16,061 --> 00:32:17,312 Empire. 368 00:32:21,817 --> 00:32:25,320 Carved from the oldest tree in the Tallyn Forest. 369 00:32:25,946 --> 00:32:27,698 The same wood used to carve the bow 370 00:32:27,781 --> 00:32:30,909 of Anacreon's greatest hunter, Larken Keaen. 371 00:32:31,493 --> 00:32:33,036 Thank you, Ambassador. 372 00:32:34,454 --> 00:32:36,290 Did you enjoy the Mural of Souls? 373 00:32:36,373 --> 00:32:40,169 Yes, Empire. I have never seen anything like it. 374 00:32:41,503 --> 00:32:45,465 Honored Diplomat Shae Un Shae, Planet Thespis, Outer Reach. 375 00:32:49,344 --> 00:32:50,721 Empire. 376 00:32:53,140 --> 00:32:54,725 A Thespin Book of Ablution. 377 00:32:55,309 --> 00:32:59,563 The filigree was recently smithed to honor the imperial peace. 378 00:33:00,397 --> 00:33:02,816 Thank you, Honored Diplomat. 379 00:33:03,859 --> 00:33:07,321 And thank you, both delegations, for making the journey to Trantor. 380 00:33:08,405 --> 00:33:09,615 Not that you had a choice. 381 00:33:11,825 --> 00:33:15,537 For nine centuries, the Anthor Belt Agreement served your planets well. 382 00:33:15,621 --> 00:33:18,123 Last year, Thespis identified a rogue asteroid, 383 00:33:18,207 --> 00:33:22,002 which they believe drifted from the area governed by the agreement. 384 00:33:23,337 --> 00:33:25,047 We took no official position. 385 00:33:26,507 --> 00:33:28,258 Just our 10%. 386 00:33:28,842 --> 00:33:32,513 Anacreon believes Thespis acts in bad faith. 387 00:33:32,596 --> 00:33:37,768 The Empire believes imperial blood has been shed 388 00:33:37,851 --> 00:33:41,313 on a cold rock 50,000 light-years from home. 389 00:33:46,777 --> 00:33:50,572 For any of these three beliefs, a thousand wars have been fought. 390 00:33:51,365 --> 00:33:54,910 The next days will determine if there will be another. 391 00:33:57,621 --> 00:34:01,542 Respect and enjoy the peace. 392 00:34:01,625 --> 00:34:04,711 Respect and enjoy the peace. 393 00:34:17,349 --> 00:34:20,726 Brother Dawn, what do you make of that? 394 00:34:20,811 --> 00:34:23,397 The Thespins want to remind you 395 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:27,025 how important the Anthor Belt asteroids are to their religion. 396 00:34:27,109 --> 00:34:29,987 But look there. In the metal filigree. 397 00:34:30,070 --> 00:34:33,197 The pattern in the sigil is made of heavy palladium. 398 00:34:33,282 --> 00:34:36,994 The metal from the rogue asteroid. How much would you say of the sigil? 399 00:34:37,077 --> 00:34:41,206 -Maybe a fifth of it? -Closer to a quarter. 400 00:34:41,290 --> 00:34:45,210 Currently, the Thespins tithe 10% of the mined ore to us. 401 00:34:45,710 --> 00:34:47,337 This is their way of quietly saying 402 00:34:47,420 --> 00:34:50,799 they'll go all the way to 25% if we side with them. 403 00:34:50,882 --> 00:34:55,469 There's no metal here at all. Not even in the arrow tips. 404 00:34:56,054 --> 00:34:58,974 That's right. Why? 405 00:34:59,057 --> 00:35:01,476 The Anacreons need palladium. 406 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:02,978 They have none. 407 00:35:03,061 --> 00:35:07,441 It's like the hunting song. It's not at all about hunting. 408 00:35:09,610 --> 00:35:12,946 Art is simply politics' sweeter tongue. 409 00:35:13,822 --> 00:35:17,034 The customs of the Outer Reach may seem idiosyncratic. 410 00:35:17,784 --> 00:35:22,206 But our attention to detail is how we maintain the peace. 411 00:35:22,289 --> 00:35:26,126 And if the people step out of line, we hit them with a big stick. 412 00:35:26,210 --> 00:35:27,419 Thank you. 413 00:35:32,257 --> 00:35:34,885 Seldon and the girl. 414 00:35:36,970 --> 00:35:38,597 Don't overthink the stick. 415 00:35:40,599 --> 00:35:43,143 The Seer church. Do we have time? 416 00:35:46,104 --> 00:35:47,105 Yeah. 417 00:35:54,571 --> 00:35:57,449 She can sit. He will stand. 418 00:35:58,408 --> 00:36:00,494 But he will need to disarm. 419 00:36:07,668 --> 00:36:09,336 The heretic and I will talk. 420 00:36:18,762 --> 00:36:19,847 Upon awakening… 421 00:36:20,430 --> 00:36:21,974 Upon awakening… 422 00:36:22,057 --> 00:36:23,809 We speak the words. 423 00:36:23,892 --> 00:36:25,978 And the words make us seen. 424 00:36:26,061 --> 00:36:27,688 Do you know who I am? 425 00:36:28,814 --> 00:36:32,484 I know that she has torn the Sleeper's words from her face 426 00:36:32,568 --> 00:36:34,736 and can't be seen by God. 427 00:36:34,820 --> 00:36:36,572 But do you know who I am? 428 00:36:36,655 --> 00:36:39,074 She has solved one of life's ancient puzzles 429 00:36:39,157 --> 00:36:41,410 and cheapened the worth of life in the solving. 430 00:36:41,493 --> 00:36:43,537 Of course I know. 431 00:36:46,206 --> 00:36:50,627 On Synnax, she is almost as famous as her new god, Seldon. 432 00:36:50,711 --> 00:36:53,630 -He's not a god. -No, he is not. 433 00:36:55,007 --> 00:37:00,220 He will die as all men like him die, unseen by God. 434 00:37:00,304 --> 00:37:04,099 As will his followers. As will she. 435 00:37:05,767 --> 00:37:08,896 Gaal Dornick. I'll say this once, 436 00:37:09,730 --> 00:37:15,652 because I am the highest-ranking and only Seer priest on this forsaken world. 437 00:37:17,196 --> 00:37:20,866 If you are in trouble, I can help you. 438 00:37:23,744 --> 00:37:25,162 Is that what you want? 439 00:37:51,438 --> 00:37:52,981 You want me to stay? 440 00:37:53,065 --> 00:37:54,816 Will that stop them from arresting me? 441 00:37:55,317 --> 00:37:56,360 No. 442 00:37:56,860 --> 00:37:58,278 I'll be all right. 443 00:37:59,112 --> 00:38:00,948 -I'll see you. -Will you? 444 00:38:01,448 --> 00:38:02,866 Of course. 445 00:38:41,530 --> 00:38:44,449 Some like to pray one last time. 446 00:38:45,450 --> 00:38:46,535 Did you? 447 00:38:47,744 --> 00:38:48,787 No. 448 00:39:34,374 --> 00:39:36,084 What did you make of her? 449 00:39:36,668 --> 00:39:38,462 They haven't gotten to her yet. 450 00:39:38,545 --> 00:39:39,630 Yet. 451 00:39:40,380 --> 00:39:41,632 What do you make of her? 452 00:39:41,715 --> 00:39:44,885 She solved Abraxas on her own. I'm sure of that. 453 00:39:46,178 --> 00:39:50,349 As for the other question, well, we shall see. 454 00:40:41,358 --> 00:40:43,318 My name's Lors Avakim. 455 00:40:43,402 --> 00:40:44,987 Hari sent me. 456 00:40:46,572 --> 00:40:47,573 Where is he? 457 00:40:49,032 --> 00:40:51,910 Arrested. As he predicted. 458 00:40:52,828 --> 00:40:54,913 You've both been charged with high treason, 459 00:40:54,997 --> 00:40:57,708 conspiracy to destabilize the Imperium. 460 00:40:59,001 --> 00:41:00,586 This is a nightmare. 461 00:41:00,669 --> 00:41:04,840 Hari wants you to know how sorry he is for involving you in this. 462 00:41:04,923 --> 00:41:06,091 It's not his fault. 463 00:41:10,512 --> 00:41:11,722 Is it? 464 00:41:12,764 --> 00:41:14,308 We can speak freely now. 465 00:41:15,184 --> 00:41:17,769 Once the Imperium learned of Hari's conclusions, 466 00:41:17,853 --> 00:41:20,522 they made no secret of trying to disrupt the project. 467 00:41:20,606 --> 00:41:24,193 Did Hari bring me here as bait? Because I can prove him wrong? 468 00:41:24,276 --> 00:41:26,236 He's not wrong, Ms. Dornick. 469 00:41:27,196 --> 00:41:29,406 But yes on the bait part. 470 00:41:50,135 --> 00:41:51,512 Are you all right? 471 00:41:51,595 --> 00:41:55,390 The hook hurts, but I'm trying not to wriggle too much. 472 00:41:59,102 --> 00:42:00,312 All rise. 473 00:42:06,068 --> 00:42:10,197 The tribunal of Cleon XII is convened. 474 00:42:11,448 --> 00:42:16,870 Your Exalted, the offenders, Dr. Hari Seldon and Gaal Dornick, 475 00:42:17,538 --> 00:42:21,250 are accused of crimes so grave that they threaten not just Trantor 476 00:42:21,333 --> 00:42:23,544 but the entire galaxy's existence. 477 00:42:24,336 --> 00:42:27,464 I will prove that Dr. Seldon and his followers 478 00:42:27,548 --> 00:42:31,301 engaged in a conspiracy designed to destroy the confidence in our empire. 479 00:42:34,596 --> 00:42:37,182 Dr. Seldon. Will you rise? 480 00:42:37,891 --> 00:42:40,519 You hail from the world of Helicon, yes? 481 00:42:40,602 --> 00:42:41,812 Yes. 482 00:42:41,895 --> 00:42:44,398 Will you state your current position here on Trantor? 483 00:42:44,481 --> 00:42:48,402 I'm a professor of probability theory at Streeling University. 484 00:42:49,444 --> 00:42:53,031 Specifically, the area of psychohistory. 485 00:42:53,115 --> 00:42:54,825 Define that for us, please. 486 00:42:54,908 --> 00:42:58,579 Psychohistory is a predictive model 487 00:42:58,662 --> 00:43:04,209 designed to forecast the behavior of very large populations. 488 00:43:04,293 --> 00:43:09,256 In plainspoken terms, you claim to be able to predict the future? 489 00:43:09,339 --> 00:43:12,801 Well, I don't know what you're going to have for dinner, 490 00:43:12,885 --> 00:43:14,261 if that's what you're asking. 491 00:43:14,344 --> 00:43:15,929 You know what I'm asking. 492 00:43:16,013 --> 00:43:18,807 The Galactic Empire comprises some eight trillion individuals. 493 00:43:18,891 --> 00:43:21,810 Would you say that was a large enough sample to make a prediction? 494 00:43:21,894 --> 00:43:22,895 It is. 495 00:43:22,978 --> 00:43:26,231 And do you have a prediction for that particular sample? 496 00:43:28,775 --> 00:43:29,776 I do. 497 00:43:32,321 --> 00:43:33,655 Indulge us. 498 00:43:33,739 --> 00:43:38,118 Trantor and the Galactic Empire will lie in ruins within five centuries. 499 00:43:40,204 --> 00:43:41,622 Silence, brethren. 500 00:43:41,705 --> 00:43:45,876 Accepting your statement for the moment, can you prove it's true? 501 00:43:46,418 --> 00:43:50,255 Only to another mathematician conversant in ordinal analysis. 502 00:43:52,341 --> 00:43:53,634 How convenient. 503 00:43:54,301 --> 00:43:58,180 Your truths are so esoteric they escape the grasp of nearly every citizen. 504 00:43:58,263 --> 00:44:00,891 They're not my truths. They belong to science. 505 00:44:00,974 --> 00:44:05,229 The Imperium is 12,000 years old, Doctor. 506 00:44:05,312 --> 00:44:11,652 Are we really to believe that it could be gone in just 500? 507 00:44:12,319 --> 00:44:14,154 -Maybe quicker. -Quicker? 508 00:44:14,238 --> 00:44:19,785 A rotten tree trunk appears strong until the storm breaks it in two. 509 00:44:20,285 --> 00:44:23,330 Consider recent events in the Outer Reach. 510 00:44:23,413 --> 00:44:25,165 We're not here to consider any other-- 511 00:44:25,249 --> 00:44:26,667 But you must! 512 00:44:28,669 --> 00:44:30,337 The Empire will fall. 513 00:44:31,129 --> 00:44:33,215 Order will vanish. 514 00:44:33,298 --> 00:44:35,926 Interstellar wars will be endless. 515 00:44:36,009 --> 00:44:40,597 Ten thousand worlds reduced to radioactive cinders. 516 00:44:41,390 --> 00:44:44,476 Nothing we do can prevent this. 517 00:44:45,227 --> 00:44:50,232 This… period of barbarism. 518 00:44:52,276 --> 00:44:54,111 How long do you claim it will last? 519 00:44:54,194 --> 00:44:56,363 Thirty thousand years, Advocate. 520 00:44:57,781 --> 00:45:01,910 I submit to the court that Dr. Seldon's "predictions" 521 00:45:01,994 --> 00:45:05,122 are actually intended to destroy public confidence. 522 00:45:05,706 --> 00:45:08,041 I'm not a revolutionary. 523 00:45:08,125 --> 00:45:09,960 Well, then what are you? 524 00:45:10,627 --> 00:45:12,838 You've already said the future cannot be changed. 525 00:45:12,921 --> 00:45:17,509 So what exactly is the purpose of your project? 526 00:45:18,218 --> 00:45:21,096 I'm trying to soften the fall. 527 00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,185 It cannot be prevented, 528 00:45:26,268 --> 00:45:29,897 this mass of events rushing to meet us. 529 00:45:29,980 --> 00:45:33,650 But we can shorten the dark ages that follow. 530 00:45:33,734 --> 00:45:34,943 How much? 531 00:45:36,236 --> 00:45:39,573 If we embrace your plan, how much? 532 00:45:40,324 --> 00:45:44,286 We should be in the dark for a thousand years, Advocate. 533 00:45:45,245 --> 00:45:50,209 And if that is all, we should thank the gods for it. 534 00:46:09,144 --> 00:46:11,104 My name's not really Jerril. 535 00:46:12,940 --> 00:46:14,608 But you can keep calling me that. 536 00:46:15,817 --> 00:46:17,736 We've been watching you for some time. 537 00:46:17,819 --> 00:46:20,781 From the moment you solved the Abraxas Conjecture, in fact. 538 00:46:21,740 --> 00:46:22,991 I brought you a gift. 539 00:46:23,659 --> 00:46:27,204 He calls it the Prime Radiant. It's beautiful, isn't it? 540 00:46:27,287 --> 00:46:31,291 He claims it contains all of his predictions concerning the Empire, 541 00:46:31,375 --> 00:46:33,585 expressed as a mathematical equation. 542 00:46:33,669 --> 00:46:35,754 Did he allow you to examine it? 543 00:46:36,380 --> 00:46:37,381 No. 544 00:46:38,215 --> 00:46:39,883 Now, don't you think that's curious? 545 00:46:39,967 --> 00:46:43,971 He devises a theory so opaque that no one in the galaxy can understand it, 546 00:46:44,054 --> 00:46:46,223 and when he finds an individual who can, 547 00:46:46,306 --> 00:46:48,183 he doesn't allow her a look behind the curtain. 548 00:46:48,267 --> 00:46:49,601 Why? 549 00:46:49,685 --> 00:46:53,772 Because history is littered with charlatans and false messiahs. 550 00:46:54,356 --> 00:46:57,150 What if he's telling the truth? What if psychohistory is real? 551 00:46:57,234 --> 00:46:58,944 If his equations are flawed, 552 00:46:59,027 --> 00:47:01,530 you have a moral obligation to expose them. 553 00:47:10,455 --> 00:47:12,124 And if they hold true? 554 00:47:12,207 --> 00:47:14,543 Disavow them and go home. 555 00:47:14,626 --> 00:47:18,797 And I promise you, Empire will find a way to express his gratitude. 556 00:47:20,174 --> 00:47:22,301 I'll make the calculus simple for you, Gaal. 557 00:47:22,384 --> 00:47:24,887 If you say Hari's a liar, he dies. 558 00:47:24,970 --> 00:47:27,181 If you don't, you die. 559 00:47:27,264 --> 00:47:29,892 So, we should just all bury our heads in the sand then? 560 00:47:29,975 --> 00:47:31,810 If his equations hold true, 561 00:47:31,894 --> 00:47:35,189 then Empire will set about solving the problem as we always have, 562 00:47:35,272 --> 00:47:37,608 without terrifying trillions of people. 563 00:47:38,108 --> 00:47:40,152 And I should believe in you, a spy? 564 00:47:41,778 --> 00:47:44,198 You should believe in the minds that built Trantor, 565 00:47:44,281 --> 00:47:46,450 built the jumpdrive, that built the Star Bridge. 566 00:47:46,533 --> 00:47:49,953 Where I come from, they call those scientists, not politicians. 567 00:47:50,037 --> 00:47:52,414 I know where you come from, Gaal. 568 00:47:54,249 --> 00:47:56,126 They were called heretics and drowned. 569 00:47:57,794 --> 00:48:00,506 And I also know what happened on the jumpship. 570 00:48:01,673 --> 00:48:03,050 During the jump… 571 00:48:05,052 --> 00:48:06,053 you were awake. 572 00:48:06,887 --> 00:48:07,971 You were aware. 573 00:48:10,516 --> 00:48:12,893 -Why did you lie to me about it? -I don't know. 574 00:48:15,020 --> 00:48:16,104 It scares me. 575 00:48:17,439 --> 00:48:18,565 What does? 576 00:48:19,066 --> 00:48:20,943 Being different. 577 00:48:21,026 --> 00:48:22,569 We're all different, Ms. Dornick. 578 00:48:23,362 --> 00:48:26,198 My sister didn't speak until she was seven. 579 00:48:26,281 --> 00:48:27,491 And even then, just nouns. 580 00:48:27,574 --> 00:48:29,535 But you're something else. 581 00:48:30,118 --> 00:48:32,704 And if you don't know what it is, I urge you to figure it out 582 00:48:32,788 --> 00:48:35,541 before someone else does and uses it against you. 583 00:49:28,594 --> 00:49:32,097 You claim your plan can reduce the coming darkness. 584 00:49:33,098 --> 00:49:34,099 How? 585 00:49:34,183 --> 00:49:38,145 The ancients are rumored to have built a repository for the world's wisdom. 586 00:49:38,228 --> 00:49:39,813 According to myth, it burned down. 587 00:49:39,897 --> 00:49:42,774 I'm proposing something less centralized. 588 00:49:43,358 --> 00:49:45,819 An Encyclopedia Galactica. 589 00:49:47,029 --> 00:49:51,325 After the fall, as civilization climbs from the ashes, 590 00:49:52,284 --> 00:49:56,038 the coming generations will have something to build upon, 591 00:49:56,538 --> 00:49:57,956 a foundation. 592 00:49:58,790 --> 00:50:04,087 They won't have to reinvent the wheel. The knowledge will already exist. 593 00:50:04,171 --> 00:50:06,715 But it isn't just knowledge we'd be saving, 594 00:50:07,341 --> 00:50:09,343 but humanity's story. 595 00:50:10,928 --> 00:50:13,222 Our story. 596 00:50:15,265 --> 00:50:18,101 Trantor already has an imperial library. 597 00:50:18,936 --> 00:50:19,937 For how long? 598 00:50:20,521 --> 00:50:23,524 Now, that statement does bring us to the heart of the matter. 599 00:50:23,607 --> 00:50:28,487 You said you could prove your theorem to someone conversant in ordinal analysis. 600 00:50:30,906 --> 00:50:32,950 Gaal Dornick, please rise. 601 00:50:34,826 --> 00:50:36,453 Approach the dais, if you would. 602 00:50:45,379 --> 00:50:49,132 You're from Synnax, correct? We should say that. 603 00:50:49,216 --> 00:50:50,259 I am. 604 00:50:50,342 --> 00:50:52,302 You've had your prayer stones removed. 605 00:50:52,386 --> 00:50:54,471 You almost look like one of us. 606 00:50:54,555 --> 00:50:57,766 My understanding of your world is that to remove the prayer stones 607 00:50:57,850 --> 00:50:59,643 is to break with the Seer Church. 608 00:50:59,726 --> 00:51:00,727 Is that right? 609 00:51:00,811 --> 00:51:03,480 That is church doctrine, yes. 610 00:51:03,564 --> 00:51:08,318 Tell me, are they still killing scientists and mathematicians? 611 00:51:08,819 --> 00:51:11,363 If you're talking about the Purge, then… 612 00:51:12,197 --> 00:51:16,743 The church's term is "the Cleanse," Your Exalteds. 613 00:51:16,827 --> 00:51:18,662 When was it, according to church doctrine, 614 00:51:18,745 --> 00:51:21,707 that it stopped being heresy to study math? 615 00:51:21,790 --> 00:51:22,958 It never stopped. 616 00:51:23,041 --> 00:51:26,461 And yet you solved the Abraxas Conjecture. 617 00:51:27,296 --> 00:51:28,297 Yes. 618 00:51:28,380 --> 00:51:31,383 On a world where they burned the universities down. 619 00:51:31,466 --> 00:51:33,427 You must have been lonely there. 620 00:51:34,094 --> 00:51:39,516 I can imagine how it must have felt to be recognized by Dr. Hari Seldon. 621 00:51:40,893 --> 00:51:42,728 To be given a job. To be valued. 622 00:51:42,811 --> 00:51:44,188 What do you want to know? 623 00:51:44,271 --> 00:51:47,316 I want to know if there is any possible way… 624 00:51:49,318 --> 00:51:52,696 you can be objective about Hari Seldon. 625 00:51:54,364 --> 00:51:56,241 I don't know. Maybe I can't. 626 00:51:57,534 --> 00:51:59,286 Maybe that's why he brought me here. 627 00:51:59,995 --> 00:52:01,580 Last night you were given a chance 628 00:52:01,663 --> 00:52:04,875 to assess the accuracy of Dr. Seldon's claims. 629 00:52:04,958 --> 00:52:06,627 Did you arrive at a conclusion? 630 00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:11,131 Yes. 631 00:52:11,715 --> 00:52:12,674 And? 632 00:52:16,178 --> 00:52:18,764 Dr. Seldon's calculations… 633 00:52:19,598 --> 00:52:20,641 are correct. 634 00:52:21,225 --> 00:52:23,519 The Empire is dying. 635 00:52:24,937 --> 00:52:25,979 Kill them. 636 00:52:27,648 --> 00:52:28,815 End this. 637 00:52:42,871 --> 00:52:44,289 Hari, the sky. 638 00:52:45,499 --> 00:52:47,584 Something's wrong with the Star Bridge. 639 00:53:14,194 --> 00:53:16,613 Please respect and enjoy the peace. 640 00:53:18,323 --> 00:53:20,284 Expected return to home planet? 641 00:53:20,367 --> 00:53:21,577 Three days. 642 00:53:21,660 --> 00:53:24,121 -Please respect and enjoy the peace. -Thank you. 643 00:53:30,460 --> 00:53:34,089 This car will commence its descent down the stalk momentarily. 644 00:53:34,631 --> 00:53:36,133 You may feel a jolt. 645 00:53:36,842 --> 00:53:40,095 Please secure yourself before commencing descent. 646 00:56:58,710 --> 00:57:02,005 The tether wrapped around the planet like a garrote. 647 00:57:02,089 --> 00:57:03,715 It cut 50 levels down. 648 00:57:03,799 --> 00:57:05,259 -Emperor-- -Shut up! 649 00:57:16,436 --> 00:57:22,067 There are reports of Anacreon and Thespin war cries before the explosion. 650 00:57:22,568 --> 00:57:23,610 Songs of rebellion. 651 00:57:23,694 --> 00:57:25,946 We had no part in this, we-- 652 00:57:26,029 --> 00:57:29,366 We will, of course, be returning your gifts. 653 00:57:30,367 --> 00:57:36,164 86,963,777. 654 00:57:39,126 --> 00:57:44,423 86,963,791. 655 00:57:50,637 --> 00:57:51,847 What are you doing here? 656 00:57:51,930 --> 00:57:53,557 I petitioned the committee. 657 00:57:56,226 --> 00:57:58,604 They're saying a hundred million dead. 658 00:57:59,479 --> 00:58:01,607 The Outer Reaches may be in rebellion. 659 00:58:02,357 --> 00:58:04,359 The attack's changed everything. 660 00:58:07,029 --> 00:58:09,740 Hari said there's a nonzero chance you'll die, 661 00:58:09,823 --> 00:58:11,700 but nonzero is still a number. 662 00:58:12,492 --> 00:58:15,245 They're gonna kill Hari, Gaal. 663 00:58:17,331 --> 00:58:20,542 -You don't have to die with him. -I've already said his math was right. 664 00:58:22,085 --> 00:58:25,506 Say you looked at it again. Say you were wrong. 665 00:58:26,006 --> 00:58:27,508 You've lost faith. 666 00:58:29,176 --> 00:58:30,594 I'm sorry. 667 00:58:30,677 --> 00:58:32,095 She doesn't need that. 668 00:58:39,686 --> 00:58:40,938 Get up. 669 00:58:45,234 --> 00:58:48,153 Shall I speak first, or will you? 670 00:58:48,237 --> 00:58:50,239 By all means, Dr. Seldon. 671 00:58:51,406 --> 00:58:52,407 Speak. 672 00:58:52,491 --> 00:58:53,951 You hold us responsible. 673 00:58:54,034 --> 00:58:55,369 How could I not? 674 00:58:55,452 --> 00:58:59,581 My science can predict societal actions. Trends. Not individual ones. 675 00:59:00,082 --> 00:59:02,793 But I'm not surprised it happened. 676 00:59:02,876 --> 00:59:04,086 Why is that? 677 00:59:04,169 --> 00:59:05,754 You're stretched too thin. 678 00:59:07,339 --> 00:59:10,300 That's why the kingdoms of the Outer Reach struck first. 679 00:59:10,384 --> 00:59:12,261 And who can blame them? 680 00:59:12,970 --> 00:59:17,516 Sensing vulnerability, soon other players will begin to apply downward pressure. 681 00:59:17,599 --> 00:59:22,688 An exhortation from one of the galaxy's major religions is a given. 682 00:59:22,771 --> 00:59:25,148 Or perhaps a homegrown insurrection here on Trantor. 683 00:59:25,232 --> 00:59:27,568 Star Bridge. Who did this? 684 00:59:28,235 --> 00:59:29,945 I don't know. 685 00:59:30,028 --> 00:59:33,699 Tell me why I shouldn't kill you and your followers right now. 686 00:59:33,782 --> 00:59:35,242 My followers aren't responsible! 687 00:59:35,325 --> 00:59:37,286 If you do, you'll be dead within the year. 688 00:59:40,372 --> 00:59:42,207 The prodigy speaks. 689 00:59:51,175 --> 00:59:52,426 So speak. 690 00:59:54,761 --> 00:59:58,974 Your agent Jerril asked me to check Dr. Seldon's work. 691 00:59:59,057 --> 01:00:01,185 I went a little farther in the equation. 692 01:00:01,268 --> 01:00:05,731 If you kill him, the fall accelerates. 693 01:00:05,814 --> 01:00:08,901 Well, that's a convenient data point for your side. 694 01:00:09,401 --> 01:00:12,070 Only he can shorten the darkness. 695 01:00:13,322 --> 01:00:15,032 Kill him, you kill hope. 696 01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:17,534 Kill hope… 697 01:00:18,535 --> 01:00:19,995 they kill you. 698 01:00:23,749 --> 01:00:25,209 What are the odds? 699 01:00:27,669 --> 01:00:31,840 The only two people who can save the galaxy are in this room. 700 01:00:34,134 --> 01:00:36,011 And one of them is wrong. 701 01:00:36,512 --> 01:00:37,763 I agree. 702 01:00:39,890 --> 01:00:44,353 If the fall can be accelerated, can it not also be slowed? 703 01:00:44,853 --> 01:00:48,148 Yes. By a few centuries. 704 01:00:48,232 --> 01:00:50,067 Don't keep us in the dark. 705 01:00:50,692 --> 01:00:52,319 End imperial cloning. 706 01:00:54,446 --> 01:00:58,116 Imperial cloning stopped the wars. 707 01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:00,577 Imperial cloning brought peace. 708 01:01:00,661 --> 01:01:04,122 Our genetic dynasty has reigned for almost four centuries. 709 01:01:04,206 --> 01:01:09,211 Surely you can understand the value in a younger mind who shares your intellect. 710 01:01:09,962 --> 01:01:13,048 Well, I see the value in difference, 711 01:01:13,131 --> 01:01:14,383 in the new. 712 01:01:14,883 --> 01:01:16,468 You offer nothing new. 713 01:01:16,552 --> 01:01:18,971 Just a younger grape… 714 01:01:20,848 --> 01:01:22,391 from the same vine, 715 01:01:22,474 --> 01:01:25,352 destined for the same old bottle. 716 01:01:29,064 --> 01:01:31,441 You can't save yourselves… 717 01:01:33,068 --> 01:01:35,112 but you can save your legacy. 718 01:01:35,195 --> 01:01:37,948 Yours or mine, Dr. Seldon? 719 01:01:53,630 --> 01:01:55,215 How long did it take you… 720 01:01:58,385 --> 01:02:00,304 to trigger the Prime Radiant? 721 01:02:00,971 --> 01:02:02,723 I got it on the second try. 722 01:02:06,101 --> 01:02:07,936 You knew they'd offer it to me. 723 01:02:14,318 --> 01:02:15,986 Hari, when I looked at it, I-- 724 01:02:17,738 --> 01:02:20,699 I really thought they'd try and make it seem more of a fair fight. 725 01:02:20,782 --> 01:02:22,659 But they didn't bother, did they? 726 01:02:22,743 --> 01:02:23,744 Did we? 727 01:02:26,413 --> 01:02:28,123 The hook still hurting you? 728 01:02:29,625 --> 01:02:34,505 Xylas used the same phrase you did. "I was lonely." 729 01:02:35,005 --> 01:02:36,965 They were listening. 730 01:02:37,049 --> 01:02:38,592 And you knew they were listening. 731 01:02:38,675 --> 01:02:41,261 -They're listening now. -Fine. 732 01:02:41,345 --> 01:02:43,055 What do you want them to hear? 733 01:02:43,639 --> 01:02:47,935 Abraxas was the bait. Not you. 734 01:02:48,644 --> 01:02:50,562 I just moved before they did. 735 01:02:51,271 --> 01:02:54,316 You have more agency here, Gaal, than you realize. 736 01:03:14,878 --> 01:03:19,049 The Emperor has determined that your deaths are not the optimal outcome 737 01:03:19,132 --> 01:03:20,717 for the good of the Imperium. 738 01:03:20,801 --> 01:03:24,054 You will be allowed to refine your work on psychohistory, 739 01:03:24,137 --> 01:03:25,889 to build your Foundation. 740 01:03:28,642 --> 01:03:30,060 But not on Trantor. 741 01:03:31,311 --> 01:03:32,437 Terminus. 742 01:03:32,521 --> 01:03:36,775 It is uninhabited, sitting in the Periphery, 743 01:03:36,859 --> 01:03:38,777 along the galaxy's Outer Reach. 744 01:03:38,861 --> 01:03:41,405 Anacreon and Thespis are also in the Periphery. 745 01:03:41,488 --> 01:03:44,783 Yes, the barbarian kingdoms will be your neighbors. 746 01:03:45,742 --> 01:03:47,411 You will journey via slow ship. 747 01:03:47,494 --> 01:03:50,539 The Empire forbids you access to jumpdrive technology. 748 01:03:50,622 --> 01:03:52,207 You're exiling us. 749 01:03:52,291 --> 01:03:56,170 On Terminus, you will not trouble Trantor, 750 01:03:56,253 --> 01:03:59,131 and there will be no disturbance of the Emperor's peace. 751 01:04:00,132 --> 01:04:02,926 The galaxy will know that you are fighting the fall. 752 01:04:03,594 --> 01:04:06,096 If psychohistory proves fraudulent, 753 01:04:07,222 --> 01:04:11,643 your Foundation will be allowed to wither and vanish. 754 01:04:12,186 --> 01:04:13,770 And if it's successful, 755 01:04:14,938 --> 01:04:19,359 you'll co-opt it and use it to bolster your regime. 756 01:04:22,946 --> 01:04:25,115 Terminus. I've never even heard of it. 757 01:04:25,199 --> 01:04:28,869 There's no reason you would. It's 50,000 light-years away. 758 01:04:28,952 --> 01:04:31,121 Without a jumpdrive, the journey there-- 759 01:04:31,205 --> 01:04:34,917 -878 days. -Approximately. 760 01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:36,668 We'll be fine. 761 01:04:36,752 --> 01:04:38,962 There'll be hardships, no question. 762 01:04:39,463 --> 01:04:42,633 Terminus orbits a red dwarf. 763 01:04:42,716 --> 01:04:45,594 Its seasons are extreme. Metal and mineral poor. 764 01:04:45,677 --> 01:04:46,929 You know it well. 765 01:04:49,765 --> 01:04:51,350 Exile was always the plan. 766 01:04:52,226 --> 01:04:54,895 And Terminus was always the optimal location. 767 01:04:54,978 --> 01:04:56,563 Out in the Periphery. 768 01:04:56,647 --> 01:04:59,316 Imperial support without imperial eyes. It's perfect. 769 01:04:59,399 --> 01:05:00,484 How many others knew? 770 01:05:00,567 --> 01:05:01,693 Only Raych. 771 01:05:04,947 --> 01:05:06,907 What you said to the Emperor… 772 01:05:06,990 --> 01:05:09,785 How much farther into my math did you look? 773 01:05:10,369 --> 01:05:11,703 What did you actually see? 774 01:05:12,329 --> 01:05:14,289 -I couldn't quite figure it. -So, you lied? 775 01:05:14,373 --> 01:05:15,791 I hypothesized. 776 01:05:16,959 --> 01:05:20,337 On Synnax, no one wanted to hear that our seas were rising. 777 01:05:21,213 --> 01:05:24,049 I thought if I could make people listen, that I could save them. 778 01:05:24,633 --> 01:05:28,679 Change is frightening, especially to those in power. 779 01:05:28,762 --> 01:05:30,848 And I could feel the Empire's fear. 780 01:05:32,683 --> 01:05:36,520 When I looked into the Prime Radiant, I could see the darkness. 781 01:05:36,603 --> 01:05:40,232 It took my breath away at first. It was crushing. 782 01:05:41,275 --> 01:05:43,193 But then I looked deeper, 783 01:05:43,277 --> 01:05:48,490 and I could see this tiny sliver of light at the very end of it all. 784 01:05:50,367 --> 01:05:53,370 And I realized it's not the fall they're afraid of. 785 01:05:53,871 --> 01:05:56,456 It's the chance that your plan will actually succeed. 786 01:05:58,542 --> 01:06:01,044 It takes more power to build than to burn. 787 01:06:02,004 --> 01:06:03,797 And I want to build, Hari. 788 01:06:04,923 --> 01:06:06,675 You'll get your chance. 789 01:06:08,093 --> 01:06:11,722 This isn't the Foundation's first crisis, and it won't be our last. 790 01:06:11,805 --> 01:06:15,309 Something tells me you already know what the next crisis will be. 791 01:06:16,393 --> 01:06:19,813 The Emperor's peace will be maintained. 792 01:06:25,110 --> 01:06:29,239 From Synnax to Trantor. Now Terminus. 793 01:06:29,740 --> 01:06:32,159 You came here hoping to save your world. 794 01:06:32,242 --> 01:06:34,661 I'm asking you to dream bigger. 795 01:06:35,746 --> 01:06:39,499 Why stop at one world? Why not save the galaxy? 796 01:06:40,792 --> 01:06:42,085 Why not indeed. 797 01:07:11,406 --> 01:07:13,534 Hari had planned for it all, 798 01:07:13,617 --> 01:07:16,119 things only he saw over the horizon. 799 01:07:19,623 --> 01:07:23,335 Psychohistory could forecast the behavior of entire populations 800 01:07:23,418 --> 01:07:25,254 with stunning accuracy. 801 01:07:25,337 --> 01:07:30,008 But, when it came to individuals, things got murkier. 802 01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:39,977 No one could approach the Vault. No one but an outlier like Salvor Hardin. 803 01:07:41,270 --> 01:07:42,813 And I always wondered… 804 01:07:44,606 --> 01:07:46,650 when Hari was formulating his plan, 805 01:07:47,359 --> 01:07:51,947 did he realize the galaxy's fate would rest on what she found inside? 806 01:07:53,156 --> 01:07:54,741 I think he did. 807 01:07:55,993 --> 01:07:58,370 And I think that's what he feared the most.