1 00:01:36,430 --> 00:01:40,976 Once, a man came to Hari Seldon and asked to be told his fate. 2 00:01:48,901 --> 00:01:50,110 He wanted to know 3 00:01:50,194 --> 00:01:53,488 whether the predictive models could chart the significance of his life. 4 00:01:58,285 --> 00:02:02,289 But Hari told him only the movements of masses could be predicted. 5 00:02:05,334 --> 00:02:10,214 The fate of one individual will always remain a mystery. 6 00:02:54,132 --> 00:02:56,468 The clockwork of civilization… 7 00:02:59,304 --> 00:03:01,807 the rise and fall of cultures… 8 00:03:04,309 --> 00:03:06,478 causes and worlds… 9 00:03:09,439 --> 00:03:13,193 These were answers Hari Seldon had long since unriddled. 10 00:03:15,529 --> 00:03:18,949 Belief is a powerful weapon. 11 00:03:20,701 --> 00:03:25,038 That's why the Empire feared Hari Seldon's predictions so much. 12 00:03:26,707 --> 00:03:32,713 Empires govern worldly concerns, but what comes after? Our souls? 13 00:03:33,463 --> 00:03:35,674 These realms are the purview of faith. 14 00:03:35,757 --> 00:03:40,929 And faith is a sword forged in the fires of the infinite. 15 00:04:26,141 --> 00:04:28,977 Empire? Do you seek different amusement? 16 00:04:29,061 --> 00:04:33,565 You'll do. For the routine pleasures in the routine manner. 17 00:04:33,649 --> 00:04:36,235 Which pleasures do you prefer, Empire? 18 00:04:37,194 --> 00:04:41,406 Do you offer the pleasure of nothing? Is that on the menu? 19 00:04:42,157 --> 00:04:45,160 Is it true? No one's allowed to touch you? 20 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:49,456 Bold, aren't you? 21 00:04:49,540 --> 00:04:54,294 I have only 24 hours of service to you. I want to make the most of it. 22 00:04:57,005 --> 00:04:58,423 Then try to touch me. 23 00:05:02,219 --> 00:05:03,929 I said try. 24 00:05:31,915 --> 00:05:33,709 The aura repels kinetic energy. 25 00:05:35,794 --> 00:05:40,090 I want you to try it again, with a softer touch. 26 00:05:41,884 --> 00:05:42,885 Slower. 27 00:05:47,431 --> 00:05:48,432 Slower. 28 00:06:05,657 --> 00:06:07,451 So, how… 29 00:06:07,534 --> 00:06:08,577 …does the rest work? 30 00:06:24,051 --> 00:06:25,469 What? 31 00:06:25,552 --> 00:06:27,179 You are required, Empire. 32 00:06:28,597 --> 00:06:32,100 I understand Empire has a physiological need for intimacy. 33 00:06:32,184 --> 00:06:34,811 But the current matter supersedes this need. 34 00:06:48,909 --> 00:06:50,285 Ambassador Thanwall. 35 00:06:51,161 --> 00:06:54,206 Most esteemed Empire, glory to the light-- 36 00:06:54,289 --> 00:06:55,832 Out with it, Ambassador. 37 00:06:57,251 --> 00:07:00,254 Proxima Opal has passed, Empire. 38 00:07:00,337 --> 00:07:01,463 Our condolences. 39 00:07:01,547 --> 00:07:03,590 Condolences. Heartfelt. 40 00:07:03,674 --> 00:07:05,551 Thank you, Empire. 41 00:07:05,634 --> 00:07:09,137 Proxima Opal will be missed and mourned by her flock. 42 00:07:09,221 --> 00:07:13,433 And now the conclave will elevate her successor, Zephyr Gilat. 43 00:07:13,517 --> 00:07:15,644 A capable candidate. We like her. 44 00:07:16,144 --> 00:07:18,647 Carry our condolences forward, Ambassador. 45 00:07:18,730 --> 00:07:22,734 And inform Gilat she's always welcome on Trantor. 46 00:07:22,818 --> 00:07:26,697 On the topic of a successor, Empire, 47 00:07:26,780 --> 00:07:29,950 there is some debate. 48 00:07:30,659 --> 00:07:33,954 Another candidate has been gaining support. 49 00:07:35,414 --> 00:07:36,415 Zephyr Halima. 50 00:07:37,457 --> 00:07:41,628 Halima Ifa does not adhere to accepted doctrine, 51 00:07:41,712 --> 00:07:44,339 as have our previous proximas. 52 00:07:44,423 --> 00:07:48,177 She is advocating for a return to the Primary Octavo. 53 00:07:49,595 --> 00:07:50,762 Is she suicidal? 54 00:07:51,805 --> 00:07:54,016 Who is this woman to question our primacy? 55 00:07:54,099 --> 00:07:55,976 A-A-Apologies, Empire. I-I-- 56 00:07:56,059 --> 00:07:58,187 -Did you know about this? -Only moments ago. 57 00:07:58,979 --> 00:08:00,564 When is Opal's funeral? 58 00:08:00,647 --> 00:08:02,357 Two days hence, Empire. 59 00:08:15,495 --> 00:08:19,082 Say nothing of this conversation. We will contact you shortly. 60 00:08:27,549 --> 00:08:30,052 I helped install the previous Proxima. 61 00:08:30,135 --> 00:08:32,638 I'll leave for the conclave as soon as possible. 62 00:08:32,721 --> 00:08:35,557 Is that really necessary? Can't you just holo-cast yourself in? 63 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:36,642 Not this time. 64 00:08:36,725 --> 00:08:42,523 Luminism claims three trillion followers. This schism requires a personal touch. 65 00:08:50,739 --> 00:08:52,783 What's the Primary Octavo? 66 00:08:53,617 --> 00:08:56,954 A heretical scripture. Pre-imperial. 67 00:08:58,121 --> 00:09:01,250 It directly links the soul to individuated sentience. 68 00:09:01,834 --> 00:09:05,254 -What does that mean-- -Individuated sentience. 69 00:09:05,337 --> 00:09:07,047 Think, Brother Dawn. 70 00:09:07,130 --> 00:09:09,758 If a soul cleaves only to an individual being, 71 00:09:09,842 --> 00:09:13,136 that calls into question that which cannot be individuated. 72 00:09:14,388 --> 00:09:20,602 All Cleons are perfect genetic copies of the first. 73 00:09:20,686 --> 00:09:21,687 And therefore… 74 00:09:22,521 --> 00:09:24,189 We don't have souls. 75 00:09:25,148 --> 00:09:28,277 So, this Halima woman is saying we're, what? 76 00:09:29,778 --> 00:09:30,904 Not human? 77 00:09:30,988 --> 00:09:32,573 Indirectly. But-- 78 00:09:32,656 --> 00:09:34,658 And if the galaxy comes to believe 79 00:09:34,741 --> 00:09:37,953 their leaders are less than, rather than more than themselves, 80 00:09:38,036 --> 00:09:39,746 they may cease to follow. 81 00:09:44,877 --> 00:09:46,336 We are a glass vessel… 82 00:09:48,005 --> 00:09:50,132 spun with a fine hand. 83 00:09:52,801 --> 00:09:57,181 If the pressures inside start to swirl and we are not uniform… 84 00:10:00,392 --> 00:10:01,602 we may burst. 85 00:10:07,733 --> 00:10:09,818 -Who are you? -Salvor Hardin. 86 00:10:11,236 --> 00:10:12,404 Warden of Terminus. 87 00:10:17,451 --> 00:10:19,745 Anacreons aren't allowed on imperial soil. 88 00:10:23,832 --> 00:10:24,917 What are you doing here? 89 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,376 Scrapping. 90 00:10:26,460 --> 00:10:27,920 That's a lot of armor for scrappers. 91 00:10:28,003 --> 00:10:30,005 We're looking for the ship's navigation module. 92 00:10:30,088 --> 00:10:32,966 Any critical components were stripped from this hulk decades ago. 93 00:10:33,050 --> 00:10:35,802 But, again, a real scrapper would know that. 94 00:10:35,886 --> 00:10:39,515 You should leave. Before the Empire catches wind of this. 95 00:10:39,598 --> 00:10:41,517 My people do not fear the Empire. 96 00:10:48,148 --> 00:10:49,149 Look, I caught you by surprise 97 00:10:49,233 --> 00:10:50,609 and now you're improvising. 98 00:10:52,194 --> 00:10:55,364 But if you were gonna kill me, you would have already. 99 00:10:55,447 --> 00:10:56,740 So what's the play? 100 00:11:02,788 --> 00:11:05,290 That tower. Take us there. 101 00:11:05,374 --> 00:11:06,416 Why? 102 00:11:09,253 --> 00:11:11,380 Let me be clear, Warden. 103 00:11:11,463 --> 00:11:14,216 We know how to use every resource we come across. 104 00:11:15,175 --> 00:11:17,469 The children we observed earlier, 105 00:11:17,553 --> 00:11:20,138 we've seen how they sneak away just before dawn, 106 00:11:20,222 --> 00:11:22,724 straying far away from the rest of your flock. 107 00:11:22,808 --> 00:11:27,229 If you won't lead us to the tower, we'll simply utilize one of them. 108 00:11:27,312 --> 00:11:29,523 It's not that simple. We have a fence. 109 00:11:29,606 --> 00:11:30,899 We're aware of your fence. 110 00:11:30,983 --> 00:11:32,985 We saw you perform maintenance on it earlier. 111 00:11:33,068 --> 00:11:36,655 Which makes you the perfect person to take us through it. 112 00:11:37,364 --> 00:11:38,490 To the tower then! 113 00:11:53,338 --> 00:11:55,340 The fence uses DNA recognition. 114 00:11:57,259 --> 00:11:59,428 It'll radiate anyone who isn't in the database. 115 00:12:05,225 --> 00:12:06,685 I might be able to get one of you in. 116 00:12:06,768 --> 00:12:08,061 If we walk through together, 117 00:12:08,145 --> 00:12:10,480 the fence should write off the second person as an error. 118 00:12:10,564 --> 00:12:11,732 Then take us all through it. 119 00:12:11,815 --> 00:12:14,234 This only works once. Maybe. 120 00:12:17,779 --> 00:12:20,741 The only thing I've ever dragged through this fence was already dead. 121 00:12:29,333 --> 00:12:33,170 I can feel you tensing up. Don't. 122 00:12:33,253 --> 00:12:37,674 If she isn't back within a watch, we'll raze your city to the ground. 123 00:12:54,107 --> 00:12:55,651 Go. Get the others. 124 00:12:55,734 --> 00:12:57,528 Establish a perimeter and stay out of sight. 125 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:09,706 Wanna drive and I'll hold the gun? 126 00:13:20,759 --> 00:13:22,052 Tell me your name, at least. 127 00:13:23,011 --> 00:13:24,304 Are we best friends now? 128 00:13:24,805 --> 00:13:26,348 You've risked a lot coming here. 129 00:13:26,431 --> 00:13:28,767 We've risked everything, Warden. 130 00:13:35,858 --> 00:13:39,778 -No. There was a boy in our path! -Don't get cute. I have eyes. 131 00:13:49,955 --> 00:13:50,956 The tower's that way. 132 00:13:51,039 --> 00:13:53,125 I'm taking a shortcut. Fewer watchmen this way. 133 00:13:57,838 --> 00:13:59,256 What is that? 134 00:14:04,219 --> 00:14:05,220 Stop. 135 00:14:10,309 --> 00:14:11,518 Stop. 136 00:14:17,691 --> 00:14:21,153 The stories about Salvor Hardin? They usually begin here. 137 00:14:21,236 --> 00:14:24,531 The warden and the ghost, 138 00:14:24,615 --> 00:14:26,742 inexplicably bound together. 139 00:14:26,825 --> 00:14:27,826 Thanks. 140 00:14:36,793 --> 00:14:38,545 How did they slip past our radar? 141 00:14:38,629 --> 00:14:41,548 Flew in the nap of the earth. Maybe. 142 00:14:41,632 --> 00:14:42,841 Any sign of their ships? 143 00:14:42,925 --> 00:14:46,136 They claimed to be scrappers. Said they were after a navigation module. 144 00:14:46,220 --> 00:14:48,472 -Obviously bullshit. -We need to contact the Empire. 145 00:14:48,555 --> 00:14:50,057 We can't do anything without authorization. 146 00:14:50,140 --> 00:14:52,017 Come on, Mom. We're an imperial outpost in name only. 147 00:14:53,060 --> 00:14:55,354 When was the last time they even contacted us? A decade ago? 148 00:14:55,437 --> 00:14:57,564 They won't defend us. We need to do it ourselves. 149 00:14:57,648 --> 00:15:00,108 Easy. Violence is the last refuge-- 150 00:15:00,192 --> 00:15:02,778 Of the incompetent, I know. That's an old man's doctrine. 151 00:15:02,861 --> 00:15:04,821 It's an observation I made when I was younger than you. 152 00:15:04,905 --> 00:15:08,158 Would Hari's plan have assumed we'd wait for help or act on our own? 153 00:15:08,242 --> 00:15:11,328 Hari is not here, Mom. We need to help ourselves. 154 00:15:15,499 --> 00:15:17,334 Welcome back, best friend. 155 00:15:18,252 --> 00:15:21,547 You left the conversation just as we were really getting to know each other. 156 00:15:21,630 --> 00:15:22,756 Headache? 157 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:24,716 Teeth feel like they're falling out? 158 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:26,510 What was that cursed thing? 159 00:15:26,593 --> 00:15:28,595 It was here when we colonized Terminus. 160 00:15:28,679 --> 00:15:32,266 Didn't show up on any of our scans. I guess it didn't show up on yours either. 161 00:15:32,349 --> 00:15:34,309 Why did it not affect you? 162 00:15:34,393 --> 00:15:37,980 Let's just say I'm the last person on Terminus you wanted to come across. 163 00:15:39,022 --> 00:15:39,940 So… 164 00:15:41,233 --> 00:15:42,776 what now, Warden? 165 00:15:44,945 --> 00:15:46,655 She had a small army with her. 166 00:15:46,738 --> 00:15:48,949 An-- And their tracks, some of them were deep. 167 00:15:49,032 --> 00:15:52,494 Shorter stride lengths. As if they were carrying heavy equipment. 168 00:15:53,036 --> 00:15:54,955 Like they're planning on digging in, Dad. 169 00:15:55,455 --> 00:15:57,708 -Well, what do you wanna do? -I don't know. 170 00:15:58,292 --> 00:16:00,210 I've been following my instincts, and-- 171 00:16:00,294 --> 00:16:01,920 I don't know, maybe it was just dumb luck. 172 00:16:02,004 --> 00:16:04,381 Your instincts didn't just lead you to the ships. 173 00:16:04,464 --> 00:16:06,633 They led you to her. And you stopped her. 174 00:16:08,093 --> 00:16:09,428 If you were better at math, 175 00:16:09,511 --> 00:16:13,015 you'd know that repeated luck was more than just luck, Salvor. 176 00:16:13,932 --> 00:16:15,851 Whether your mother wants to admit it or not, 177 00:16:15,934 --> 00:16:19,938 we have been following your lead from the moment you pulled yourself upright. 178 00:16:20,856 --> 00:16:24,526 It's no accident the people made you warden. 179 00:16:26,069 --> 00:16:27,237 So lead us. 180 00:16:39,416 --> 00:16:42,711 I have never had the pleasure, Empire. How may I be of service? 181 00:16:42,794 --> 00:16:44,046 Captain Obrecht, is it? 182 00:16:44,129 --> 00:16:47,549 Shadowmaster, Empire. Shadowmaster Obrecht. 183 00:16:47,633 --> 00:16:48,884 A fine likeness. 184 00:16:51,428 --> 00:16:54,640 What's the protocol for dealing with a problem palace attendant? 185 00:16:54,723 --> 00:16:56,850 What level of attendant, if I may ask? 186 00:16:57,601 --> 00:17:00,938 -Someone who works in the garden. -May I ask the nature of the problem? 187 00:17:01,021 --> 00:17:03,482 You may not. I just want her name. 188 00:17:04,107 --> 00:17:07,944 I can ascertain that, Empire. Along with anything else you may require. 189 00:17:08,028 --> 00:17:09,238 That's all for now. 190 00:17:18,539 --> 00:17:21,541 I saw at least a dozen Anacreons outside the fence. 191 00:17:21,625 --> 00:17:23,544 Travik, take the southern loop. 192 00:17:23,627 --> 00:17:25,295 Kalin, cover the west. 193 00:17:25,378 --> 00:17:29,132 Yate, I want you on the east so you can spot anyone coming over that ridge. 194 00:17:29,216 --> 00:17:32,970 And if we see any of these guys, what are we supposed to do? 195 00:17:33,053 --> 00:17:34,054 Nothing. 196 00:17:34,137 --> 00:17:37,140 Don't shoot at them, don't speak to them. Just watch 'em and keep me informed. 197 00:17:37,224 --> 00:17:39,852 -What's this about Anacreons on Terminus? -Calls herself Phara. 198 00:17:39,935 --> 00:17:42,396 Beyond that, nothing about her story adds up. 199 00:17:42,479 --> 00:17:44,815 If anyone can tell whether somebody's lying, it's you. 200 00:17:44,898 --> 00:17:47,192 That's just the thing. I can't tell if she's lying 201 00:17:47,276 --> 00:17:49,027 or if she's just not telling the truth. 202 00:17:49,111 --> 00:17:50,279 Is there a difference? 203 00:17:50,821 --> 00:17:52,990 I've got a plan. But I'm gonna need your help. 204 00:17:59,079 --> 00:18:01,164 What's this? Torture? 205 00:18:01,248 --> 00:18:03,625 He's my manservant. 206 00:18:03,709 --> 00:18:07,087 Runs and fetches. Reseals my boots when they need it. 207 00:18:07,171 --> 00:18:12,509 I'm thinking a watch has passed, as far as my weald-men are concerned. 208 00:18:12,593 --> 00:18:13,969 Why are you really here, Phara? 209 00:18:15,470 --> 00:18:17,472 Salvor has a talent for reading people. 210 00:18:18,473 --> 00:18:21,101 It's uncanny, really. I was just telling her mother about it. 211 00:18:21,602 --> 00:18:22,811 She doesn't believe you. 212 00:18:22,895 --> 00:18:25,564 Well, you told her you're my boss. Now my praise rings hollow. 213 00:18:25,647 --> 00:18:27,191 What's your interest in the Foundation Tower? 214 00:18:27,274 --> 00:18:31,278 The module. I already told you. You keep asking me the same questions. 215 00:18:31,361 --> 00:18:34,239 I'm giving you a chance to give better answers. 216 00:18:34,323 --> 00:18:35,657 Crowns. 217 00:18:38,702 --> 00:18:41,288 I know you're after something else. 218 00:18:41,371 --> 00:18:45,626 We don't have any Anacreon artifacts, no heavy weapons, so what-- 219 00:18:45,709 --> 00:18:46,960 This is going in circles. 220 00:18:48,420 --> 00:18:49,421 Explain it to her. 221 00:18:49,922 --> 00:18:51,590 Just give her what she wants. 222 00:18:51,673 --> 00:18:53,759 Your accent's not terrible. 223 00:18:54,176 --> 00:18:56,887 You were taught by someone in the port city, obviously. 224 00:18:57,721 --> 00:18:59,097 Those lazy vowels. 225 00:18:59,181 --> 00:19:00,599 I'm a trader. 226 00:19:01,099 --> 00:19:03,519 I do business with your people now and then. 227 00:19:03,894 --> 00:19:06,688 Thought I smelled a whiff of Thespin on you. 228 00:19:07,022 --> 00:19:09,733 I want the navigation module. That's it. 229 00:19:09,816 --> 00:19:10,984 Another lie. 230 00:19:11,527 --> 00:19:12,861 You speak Anacreon as well? 231 00:19:12,945 --> 00:19:14,029 Not a word. 232 00:19:14,112 --> 00:19:15,697 -Yet you know I'm lying? -Cats. 233 00:19:18,158 --> 00:19:19,243 That was a 50-50 chance. 234 00:19:19,326 --> 00:19:20,702 Cats again. Who are you really? 235 00:19:24,331 --> 00:19:26,333 Twenty-five percent chance there. 236 00:19:26,416 --> 00:19:27,709 Now it's back to crowns. 237 00:19:29,086 --> 00:19:31,797 Twelve and a half percent. And another crown. Why are you here? 238 00:19:32,756 --> 00:19:33,924 Another crown again. 239 00:19:47,020 --> 00:19:51,483 I'd give you the percentage, but repeated luck is never luck. 240 00:19:56,738 --> 00:19:57,739 Who are you? 241 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:00,701 We're scrappers. The module. 242 00:20:00,784 --> 00:20:03,829 You're not scrappers. And the navigation module's a distraction-- 243 00:20:03,912 --> 00:20:05,539 Enough of these child games. 244 00:20:05,622 --> 00:20:08,292 Take this Thespin thug off his leash and let him get on with it! 245 00:20:08,375 --> 00:20:09,376 Your scars… 246 00:20:10,669 --> 00:20:11,670 keloids. 247 00:20:16,592 --> 00:20:18,051 Your left eye… 248 00:20:19,636 --> 00:20:20,637 nano-glass. 249 00:20:20,721 --> 00:20:23,515 You lose it when the Empire bombed Anacreon? 250 00:20:23,599 --> 00:20:26,768 I imagine you must have been, what, five, six at the time? 251 00:20:26,852 --> 00:20:31,523 Neutron bombs have a low explosive yield but a high amount of ionizing radiation. 252 00:20:31,607 --> 00:20:35,652 Now, I know about 50% of the population died off within a week, 253 00:20:35,736 --> 00:20:38,780 another 20 or 30 within the remaining year. 254 00:20:39,364 --> 00:20:42,117 Odds are you came out the other end an orphan, right? 255 00:20:43,702 --> 00:20:47,164 Probably lost a mom and dad. 256 00:20:47,998 --> 00:20:50,125 Boiled alive. 257 00:20:51,835 --> 00:20:53,921 Or maybe s-slower. 258 00:20:54,713 --> 00:20:55,714 Cancer. 259 00:20:58,175 --> 00:21:02,971 Thyroid for your mother. Her voice, it changed before she died. 260 00:21:03,055 --> 00:21:05,682 Who else did you lose? A sister? 261 00:21:10,812 --> 00:21:11,897 A brother. 262 00:21:15,150 --> 00:21:16,818 A little brother. 263 00:21:34,211 --> 00:21:36,547 There's a deadness inside her. It's like a-- 264 00:21:36,630 --> 00:21:39,925 It's like a well with no bottom, just sucking everything in. 265 00:21:41,593 --> 00:21:42,803 She wants to die. 266 00:21:44,388 --> 00:21:48,100 She wants everyone to die. I felt it. 267 00:21:53,814 --> 00:21:56,066 What she said when she broke, did you understand any of it? 268 00:21:56,149 --> 00:21:58,777 Some, yeah. It's archaic Anacreon, not the common vernacular. 269 00:21:58,861 --> 00:22:02,239 Well, she slipped up. Because I understood something too. 270 00:22:03,031 --> 00:22:06,577 A name I remember from the holos. Larken Keaen. 271 00:22:10,414 --> 00:22:12,040 During the Anthor Belt dispute, 272 00:22:12,124 --> 00:22:14,376 Anacreon and Thespis brought gifts to the Emperor. 273 00:22:14,459 --> 00:22:15,961 My people's was the Book of Ablut-- 274 00:22:16,044 --> 00:22:18,338 And Anacreon's was a bow carved for its greatest hunter. 275 00:22:18,964 --> 00:22:20,632 -Larken Keaen. -Meaning? 276 00:22:20,716 --> 00:22:22,467 Phara's not just some junker. 277 00:22:23,302 --> 00:22:25,179 She's the Grand Huntress of Anacreon. 278 00:22:35,355 --> 00:22:38,609 All this unrest, who's responsible for it? 279 00:22:39,318 --> 00:22:41,945 Sinkers. A nom de guerre. 280 00:22:42,446 --> 00:22:47,993 After the heat sink meltdown on level 77. It was caused when the Star Bridge fell. 281 00:22:48,076 --> 00:22:51,955 And 35 years later we're still grappling with the aftereffects. 282 00:22:54,416 --> 00:22:59,588 The businesses of Empire is a cascade of competing priorities. 283 00:23:00,214 --> 00:23:03,425 Brother Day will need your support while I tend to the conclave. 284 00:23:04,384 --> 00:23:05,594 It's overwhelming. 285 00:23:05,677 --> 00:23:06,887 For one man. 286 00:23:07,971 --> 00:23:10,516 Fortunately, there are three of us. 287 00:23:10,599 --> 00:23:14,269 Bad tidings also come in threes. Have you heard the news, Brother? 288 00:23:15,020 --> 00:23:18,941 A communications buoy in the Arcturus Sector has come off-line. 289 00:23:19,024 --> 00:23:21,985 They must go off-line all the time, right? 290 00:23:22,069 --> 00:23:24,363 We probably have thousands of them across the galaxy. 291 00:23:24,446 --> 00:23:25,697 Tens of thousands. 292 00:23:25,781 --> 00:23:29,034 But only one that handles communications in the Outer Reach. 293 00:23:30,285 --> 00:23:32,621 I see that you fail to grasp the significance. 294 00:23:33,330 --> 00:23:34,748 It's Terminus. 295 00:23:36,250 --> 00:23:39,795 It's where Brother Dusk exiled Hari Seldon's followers. 296 00:23:43,507 --> 00:23:48,262 The Reach. The conclave. Insurgency… 297 00:23:50,055 --> 00:23:52,224 Do you see a pattern forming here? 298 00:23:53,225 --> 00:23:54,226 Show them. 299 00:23:56,103 --> 00:24:00,357 Sensing vulnerability, soon other players will begin to apply downward pressure. 300 00:24:01,024 --> 00:24:05,696 An exhortation from one of the galaxy's major religions is a given. 301 00:24:05,779 --> 00:24:08,615 Or perhaps a homegrown insurrection here on Trantor. 302 00:24:09,283 --> 00:24:14,872 If the fall can be accelerated, can it not also be slowed? 303 00:24:14,955 --> 00:24:16,081 Now look at you, Brother. 304 00:24:16,164 --> 00:24:19,585 So smugly self-assured atop the middle throne. 305 00:24:19,668 --> 00:24:22,004 I used to practice that smile in the mirror. 306 00:24:22,087 --> 00:24:24,173 Enough. I know how the scene ends. 307 00:24:24,256 --> 00:24:26,049 But have you embraced its lessons? 308 00:24:26,133 --> 00:24:29,136 Luminism. The Sinker insurrection happening now. 309 00:24:29,219 --> 00:24:31,763 Seldon all but drew you a to-do list. 310 00:24:33,015 --> 00:24:34,016 And you ignored him. 311 00:24:34,099 --> 00:24:35,726 Because he was a charlatan. 312 00:24:35,809 --> 00:24:37,561 You offer nothing new. 313 00:24:38,103 --> 00:24:41,023 Just a younger grape… 314 00:24:41,607 --> 00:24:42,733 from the same vine, 315 00:24:43,233 --> 00:24:46,069 destined for the same old bottle. 316 00:24:46,153 --> 00:24:48,238 You can't save yourselves… 317 00:24:48,322 --> 00:24:50,282 but you can save your legacy. 318 00:24:51,950 --> 00:24:53,994 Hari Seldon is long dead. 319 00:24:55,204 --> 00:24:57,456 Murdered by his protégé, no less. 320 00:24:57,539 --> 00:25:00,167 The man was murdered. But what about the movement, Brother? 321 00:25:02,419 --> 00:25:04,630 Martyrs tend to have a long half-life. 322 00:25:13,305 --> 00:25:17,226 Thanks to you, we are now staring down the barrel of a genuine diplomatic crisis. 323 00:25:17,309 --> 00:25:19,269 What was I supposed to do, Lewis? 324 00:25:19,353 --> 00:25:21,146 Let Phara kill me and then move on to the kids? 325 00:25:21,230 --> 00:25:22,856 You shouldn't have questioned her without me. 326 00:25:22,940 --> 00:25:24,608 Be glad I did. We know who she is now. 327 00:25:24,691 --> 00:25:26,693 We have leverage. We can bargain with her people. 328 00:25:26,777 --> 00:25:28,570 If this choice inflames the city into violence, 329 00:25:28,654 --> 00:25:30,531 you have achieved elaborate suicide for us all. 330 00:25:30,614 --> 00:25:32,991 Didn't Hari say the Foundation survives the first crisis? 331 00:25:33,075 --> 00:25:36,870 Yes, he did. But, as I've told you before, you are an outlier. 332 00:25:36,954 --> 00:25:38,080 -Meaning? -Salvor. 333 00:25:38,163 --> 00:25:39,748 Meaning that you weren't accounted for. 334 00:25:39,831 --> 00:25:41,291 You have a connection with the Vault 335 00:25:41,375 --> 00:25:43,627 which couldn't have possibly have been predicted. 336 00:25:43,710 --> 00:25:45,170 You are not baked into the model. 337 00:25:45,254 --> 00:25:46,713 You're saying I'm not part of God's plan. 338 00:25:46,797 --> 00:25:49,049 I am saying psychohistory can't account for individuals. 339 00:25:49,132 --> 00:25:50,634 So you're saying I've destroyed God's plan? 340 00:25:50,717 --> 00:25:53,053 -It's time to take a step back, Salvor. -Step back? 341 00:25:53,136 --> 00:25:55,097 I thought the whole damn point of the Foundation 342 00:25:55,180 --> 00:25:57,558 was preparing for the unthinkable. 343 00:25:57,641 --> 00:25:59,726 When I asked for more defensive weapons, 344 00:25:59,810 --> 00:26:02,354 you said the likelihood of an attack seemed remote. 345 00:26:02,437 --> 00:26:04,481 When I wanted to run more drills, nothing. 346 00:26:05,065 --> 00:26:06,859 So here we are now, not prepared. 347 00:26:06,942 --> 00:26:11,154 I might be an outlier, but I'm not the one screwing up the Plan, Lewis. 348 00:26:18,370 --> 00:26:20,414 Lewis Pirenne, director. 349 00:26:20,497 --> 00:26:24,418 Now, why would the Anacreon Council send its highest-ranking military officer 350 00:26:24,501 --> 00:26:26,295 to an imperial outpost? 351 00:26:26,378 --> 00:26:28,964 Is that what you're pretending your little doomsday cult is? 352 00:26:29,047 --> 00:26:30,883 Because I don't see the Empire anywhere. 353 00:26:30,966 --> 00:26:34,553 All I see are academics, laborers and very few guns. 354 00:26:34,636 --> 00:26:35,929 You took down the comms buoy. 355 00:26:36,013 --> 00:26:39,558 Of course. We wanted to operate in private, away from prying eyes. 356 00:26:39,641 --> 00:26:42,728 You have to know the Empire will send someone to investigate eventually. 357 00:26:43,562 --> 00:26:44,855 Or is that the point? 358 00:26:44,938 --> 00:26:46,773 Your women are so much sharper than your men. 359 00:26:47,983 --> 00:26:51,695 The barbarian kingdoms are exiled. You have no business here. 360 00:26:53,405 --> 00:26:54,656 "Barbarians." 361 00:26:55,657 --> 00:26:57,951 Just a convenient slur for anyone not like you. 362 00:26:58,535 --> 00:27:02,122 Trantor left us all here to die. Your people and mine. 363 00:27:02,206 --> 00:27:03,999 We're just dying at different speeds. 364 00:27:04,082 --> 00:27:05,417 The Foundation isn't dying. 365 00:27:05,501 --> 00:27:09,087 We are fulfilling the mission Hari Seldon entrusted us with. 366 00:27:09,171 --> 00:27:12,841 Seldon also predicted that the fall would begin at the edge of the galaxy. 367 00:27:13,967 --> 00:27:15,385 -Here. -The same science 368 00:27:15,469 --> 00:27:17,471 that saved the Imperial Palace when the Star Bridge fell 369 00:27:17,554 --> 00:27:18,764 protects Terminus City. 370 00:27:18,847 --> 00:27:20,265 You mean your energy barrier? 371 00:27:21,433 --> 00:27:25,395 A weapon's only as good as the man who's wielding it. 372 00:27:40,619 --> 00:27:41,870 Kalin, what's your situation? 373 00:27:41,954 --> 00:27:43,872 It's getting pretty crowded over here. 374 00:27:43,956 --> 00:27:46,208 -I think I need backup. -Not happening. 375 00:27:46,291 --> 00:27:49,586 Salvor saw a dozen. You're telling me we've got Anacreons all over? 376 00:27:49,670 --> 00:27:52,506 I'm telling you I'm seeing enough guns to take out the whole town. 377 00:27:53,924 --> 00:27:55,008 Empire. 378 00:27:59,429 --> 00:28:00,639 The matter we discussed? 379 00:28:01,890 --> 00:28:05,477 Her name is Azura Odili. A palace botanist since the age of 13. 380 00:28:06,061 --> 00:28:09,523 Her father, deceased, was also an agroecologist in the gardens. 381 00:28:10,065 --> 00:28:13,277 Her mother founded a school for the ikebana, now closed. 382 00:28:14,736 --> 00:28:16,196 You said there was a problem? 383 00:28:17,865 --> 00:28:21,159 How are problems generally solved in this situation? 384 00:28:21,910 --> 00:28:26,415 Any manner that achieves its goal. My job is to eliminate problems, Empire. 385 00:28:39,052 --> 00:28:40,804 Azura Odili. 386 00:28:43,682 --> 00:28:45,684 Oh-dee-lee? Oh-dih-lee? 387 00:28:45,767 --> 00:28:46,852 Dee, Empire. 388 00:28:46,935 --> 00:28:48,854 You were outside my chambers earlier. 389 00:28:50,439 --> 00:28:53,066 -Want to know what you think you saw. -I saw nothing, Empire. 390 00:28:53,150 --> 00:28:54,902 No. I believe you saw something. 391 00:28:54,985 --> 00:28:57,154 I only see what Empire wants me to see. 392 00:28:57,237 --> 00:28:59,489 I could have you removed from your station, 393 00:29:00,574 --> 00:29:02,743 sent to scrub the heat sinks on level 80. 394 00:29:02,826 --> 00:29:06,079 I could do worse to you. Much worse. 395 00:29:06,163 --> 00:29:07,372 You know all this. 396 00:29:07,456 --> 00:29:09,958 Empire, Brother Dusk has asked me to summon you. 397 00:29:10,042 --> 00:29:11,376 Tell him I'm coming. 398 00:29:13,337 --> 00:29:14,838 Remove this entire bed. 399 00:29:15,464 --> 00:29:18,217 From my chambers the smell of the blossoms is overbearing. 400 00:29:18,300 --> 00:29:21,470 -Empire, you needn't bother with this-- -It's settled. You can go. 401 00:29:25,432 --> 00:29:26,934 Wolvesbreath helps with the pain. 402 00:29:27,768 --> 00:29:29,520 The brownish-green leaves with the red stripe. 403 00:29:29,603 --> 00:29:31,104 They reduce the swelling and bruising-- 404 00:29:31,188 --> 00:29:33,649 I don't recall asking for your medical advice. 405 00:29:35,526 --> 00:29:36,527 Which? 406 00:29:59,591 --> 00:30:00,717 The pointed leaves. 407 00:30:13,730 --> 00:30:14,731 What is it? 408 00:30:15,232 --> 00:30:16,859 Lupi spiritus. 409 00:30:17,442 --> 00:30:20,946 Wolvesbreath, Empire. From our medicinal garden. 410 00:30:21,029 --> 00:30:23,824 It's an analgesic and vasodilator. 411 00:30:23,907 --> 00:30:24,992 Is it poisonous? 412 00:30:25,075 --> 00:30:29,329 No. Wolvesbreath is used in tea as well as tinctures. 413 00:30:29,413 --> 00:30:32,708 It stimulates the blood vessels, promotes healing-- 414 00:30:32,791 --> 00:30:33,959 Eat it. 415 00:30:38,755 --> 00:30:40,674 If you're not dead within the next few hours, 416 00:30:40,757 --> 00:30:42,885 have a kilogram of these sent to my quarters. 417 00:30:42,968 --> 00:30:44,178 Of course, Empire. 418 00:30:50,684 --> 00:30:53,437 Laylo Fulham, get your ass back home this instant! 419 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:54,521 Are they gonna get through? 420 00:30:54,605 --> 00:30:55,689 Course not. 421 00:30:56,607 --> 00:31:01,904 Go back to your home, people. Please. It's not safe out here. Back up. Back up. 422 00:31:03,572 --> 00:31:05,199 You need to come out here. Now. 423 00:31:05,282 --> 00:31:06,366 Kind of busy here, Yate. 424 00:31:06,450 --> 00:31:07,993 I know, and I'm still calling. 425 00:31:08,076 --> 00:31:11,246 We've got Anacreon's troops massing from the east, west, south, 426 00:31:11,330 --> 00:31:13,081 and presumably the north. 427 00:31:14,625 --> 00:31:16,835 Remember how to hold a rifle, old man? 428 00:31:16,919 --> 00:31:18,003 Barrel goes forward? 429 00:31:18,712 --> 00:31:21,465 We've spotted Anacreons at multiple locations outside the fence. 430 00:31:22,090 --> 00:31:23,842 -I'll go west. -We'll head north. 431 00:31:24,343 --> 00:31:26,720 I shouldn't leave. Lewis is completely overmatched in there. 432 00:31:26,803 --> 00:31:28,263 I'll babysit him, I promise. 433 00:31:29,139 --> 00:31:30,307 All right. 434 00:31:31,475 --> 00:31:34,269 Is it true? You got some kind of Anacreon chieftain in there? 435 00:31:34,353 --> 00:31:35,604 You been drinking, Muller? 436 00:31:35,687 --> 00:31:38,857 It's the end of the galaxy, isn't it? Hari's prediction's coming true. 437 00:31:38,941 --> 00:31:41,360 You got hold of a bad rumor, Muller. Local poacher's all. 438 00:31:41,443 --> 00:31:43,028 They're already here, aren't they? 439 00:31:43,904 --> 00:31:46,365 Hey, why don't you just take a break for a second. 440 00:32:01,004 --> 00:32:02,005 Hey! 441 00:32:02,714 --> 00:32:03,966 I won't hurt you. 442 00:32:07,427 --> 00:32:08,554 Just tell me who you are. 443 00:32:09,471 --> 00:32:10,639 Sal. 444 00:32:11,139 --> 00:32:12,140 Sal. 445 00:32:12,224 --> 00:32:14,726 Sal. Hey, hey. What's wrong? 446 00:32:14,810 --> 00:32:16,770 I was just in the Imperial Library on Trantor. 447 00:32:16,854 --> 00:32:19,815 -What do you mean you were there? -I mean I was there. In the stacks. 448 00:32:20,482 --> 00:32:22,609 The ceiling was wooden, there were all these marble busts. 449 00:32:22,693 --> 00:32:24,278 And there was a boy with a knife. 450 00:32:25,904 --> 00:32:28,073 It was the same boy who led me to the Anacreons. 451 00:32:29,408 --> 00:32:33,453 It's the Vault. I can feel it, Hugo. It's trying to tell me something 452 00:32:33,537 --> 00:32:36,582 about the Anacreons and this crisis. Everything. 453 00:32:36,665 --> 00:32:40,544 Okay, listen to me. I've always said you should let this planet shrug you off. 454 00:32:41,587 --> 00:32:46,216 But watching you work, where you could sense what Phara was feeling inside… 455 00:32:47,926 --> 00:32:48,927 that's special. 456 00:32:49,511 --> 00:32:51,180 Other people can't do that, Sal. 457 00:32:51,263 --> 00:32:52,890 I have absolute faith in you. 458 00:32:56,185 --> 00:32:58,979 I have absolute faith in you. 459 00:33:19,291 --> 00:33:22,044 Who among you is Master Statistician Tivole? 460 00:33:26,048 --> 00:33:29,134 Empire. May the light never dim. 461 00:33:29,218 --> 00:33:30,761 May the light never dim. 462 00:33:30,844 --> 00:33:33,555 -You received my query. -I did, Empire. 463 00:33:33,639 --> 00:33:35,807 But I can't say yet we have the results. 464 00:33:35,891 --> 00:33:38,936 How long has it been since Dusk set you to this task? 465 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:40,646 Three decades? 466 00:33:40,729 --> 00:33:44,900 What do you do in your mausoleum of calculus 467 00:33:44,983 --> 00:33:48,278 if not achieve results? 468 00:33:50,072 --> 00:33:53,575 Progress, then. What is your progress? 469 00:33:54,743 --> 00:34:01,041 We believe the-- the predictive models of Hari Seldon to be counterfactual. 470 00:34:03,585 --> 00:34:05,754 And you believe this why? 471 00:34:06,421 --> 00:34:11,342 In the 35 years since Seldon uttered his heretical proclamations, 472 00:34:11,426 --> 00:34:15,848 the Imperium has expanded, rather than contracted, by every critical metric-- 473 00:34:15,931 --> 00:34:16,931 Stop. 474 00:34:18,183 --> 00:34:19,560 Seldon's prophecies. 475 00:34:19,643 --> 00:34:24,273 Speak to me of his math, this "ordinal analysis." 476 00:34:24,356 --> 00:34:27,025 It's a spread of fortune teller's cards 477 00:34:27,109 --> 00:34:31,071 which Seldon chose to interpret as divination. 478 00:34:32,697 --> 00:34:36,702 The verification he found in the regression models is unsupported. 479 00:34:36,784 --> 00:34:40,581 But what of these-- these recent events? 480 00:34:40,664 --> 00:34:41,956 The conclave? Luminism? 481 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:46,920 Baseless conjecture. Again, vague and unsupported. 482 00:34:47,004 --> 00:34:50,924 I mean, anyone could predict a return to orthodoxy. 483 00:34:51,592 --> 00:34:56,221 Psychohistory is the fanciful work of an old man's imagination. 484 00:34:56,304 --> 00:34:58,932 If it weren't the fanciful work of an old man's imagination, what then? 485 00:34:59,016 --> 00:35:02,978 What is the likelihood that it's all true? Every prophecy? 486 00:35:03,812 --> 00:35:05,981 Vanishingly small, Empire. 487 00:35:06,064 --> 00:35:07,399 But not zero. 488 00:35:09,735 --> 00:35:10,986 Correct? 489 00:35:11,945 --> 00:35:13,989 Not zero? 490 00:35:14,740 --> 00:35:17,910 What kind of idiots are you? 491 00:35:17,993 --> 00:35:21,163 A thousand imperial mathematicians… 492 00:35:21,246 --> 00:35:24,124 …can't parse the numbers of one man? 493 00:35:24,208 --> 00:35:28,670 So there's nothing anyone in the galaxy can do? 494 00:35:31,256 --> 00:35:34,885 Is that what it is? Is that the best you've got? 495 00:35:36,762 --> 00:35:39,681 Tell me. Tell me! 496 00:35:41,725 --> 00:35:44,478 Tell me! 497 00:35:55,364 --> 00:35:57,658 In the twilight of a man's life… 498 00:35:57,741 --> 00:36:00,410 …when his biography is nearly complete, 499 00:36:01,036 --> 00:36:03,580 he grows desperate to know the measure of his days… 500 00:36:05,541 --> 00:36:09,169 how his voice compares to the chorus of those who've come before. 501 00:36:12,714 --> 00:36:16,051 Do I matter? Are my choices my own? 502 00:36:16,844 --> 00:36:20,597 Or is my destiny governed by an unseen hand? 503 00:36:32,651 --> 00:36:34,736 Brother Day. Come to see us off? 504 00:36:34,820 --> 00:36:37,614 I was paid a visit by your statisticians. 505 00:36:37,698 --> 00:36:40,617 It's remarkable how self-reinforcing their results are. 506 00:36:40,701 --> 00:36:45,080 I think it's best that you stay and tend to matters on Trantor. 507 00:36:45,956 --> 00:36:49,543 Empire, a primary Cleon has not left the bosom of Trantor 508 00:36:49,626 --> 00:36:51,753 since the dawn of the Genetic Dynasty. 509 00:36:51,837 --> 00:36:52,838 Demerzel is right. 510 00:36:53,714 --> 00:36:56,508 We have these protocols in place for a reason. 511 00:36:56,592 --> 00:37:03,182 And I say our protocols have made us complacent. 512 00:37:03,891 --> 00:37:05,976 When you sat on the middle throne, as I do now, 513 00:37:06,059 --> 00:37:08,478 and were debating what to do about Anacreon and Thespis, 514 00:37:08,562 --> 00:37:11,773 what our response should be, do you remember what you said? 515 00:37:13,233 --> 00:37:14,234 I do. 516 00:37:15,319 --> 00:37:16,695 Like it was yesterday. 517 00:37:17,279 --> 00:37:18,530 I was seven. 518 00:37:18,614 --> 00:37:21,700 Our eldest brother had argued for a bout of grace. 519 00:37:21,783 --> 00:37:24,536 You turned to me and said, "What do you think, Ascending Dawn?" 520 00:37:25,829 --> 00:37:27,331 I knew you were against grace, 521 00:37:27,956 --> 00:37:30,876 that you wanted to bomb the barbarian kingdoms. 522 00:37:30,959 --> 00:37:35,130 But I was scared. And I dared say so. 523 00:37:35,964 --> 00:37:38,383 Well, I'm not scared anymore. 524 00:37:39,218 --> 00:37:45,098 On your watch, the Star Bridge fell. And from that scar insurgency was birthed. 525 00:37:45,182 --> 00:37:47,601 On your watch, two worlds were incinerated 526 00:37:47,684 --> 00:37:50,229 with not a care to innocence or consequence. 527 00:37:50,312 --> 00:37:53,732 On your watch, Hari Seldon and his followers were allowed to flee. 528 00:37:54,274 --> 00:37:57,694 You have bequeathed me an Empire rent by impulsive action. 529 00:37:57,778 --> 00:38:01,698 The same will not be said of me. Not on my watch. 530 00:38:02,282 --> 00:38:04,701 I would save our legacy. 531 00:38:04,785 --> 00:38:05,786 Brother… 532 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:11,375 you are haunted by the ghost of a man long dead. 533 00:38:11,458 --> 00:38:13,710 We all are, Brother. 534 00:38:18,340 --> 00:38:20,092 Your watch is over. 535 00:38:21,552 --> 00:38:25,889 You will stay on Trantor, tending to the wounds you have allowed to fester. 536 00:38:27,140 --> 00:38:28,141 Go. 537 00:38:29,059 --> 00:38:31,520 Return Brother Dusk's belongings to the palace. 538 00:38:42,739 --> 00:38:46,660 Certainly now the Empire will no longer be rent by impulsive action. 539 00:39:18,859 --> 00:39:19,985 You summoned me, Empire? 540 00:39:20,068 --> 00:39:22,779 A communications buoy has gone dark in the Outer Reach. 541 00:39:24,114 --> 00:39:25,574 Take your team and investigate. 542 00:39:26,408 --> 00:39:27,618 At once, Empire. 543 00:39:28,118 --> 00:39:29,119 Dorwin. 544 00:39:30,037 --> 00:39:32,706 Our dispatches from the Foundation have become sporadic. 545 00:39:32,789 --> 00:39:33,874 Pay them a visit. 546 00:39:33,957 --> 00:39:37,836 And remind the Foundation that Empire will not be kept in the dark. 547 00:40:41,984 --> 00:40:44,236 -Is that, uh-- -Doesn't look good, does it? 548 00:41:03,130 --> 00:41:07,134 Who is in charge here, Lewis? You? Or is it the Warden with the coin tricks? 549 00:41:07,217 --> 00:41:09,553 Because it seems she's managed to complicate matters. 550 00:41:09,636 --> 00:41:11,972 -Let me be clear, Huntress Keaen-- -Grand Huntress. 551 00:41:12,055 --> 00:41:13,599 The only reason we have a crisis 552 00:41:13,682 --> 00:41:17,144 is because you trespassed on the Emperor's personal domain. 553 00:41:17,227 --> 00:41:20,439 If only Salvor had taken me to the tower and given me what I'd wanted, 554 00:41:20,522 --> 00:41:22,149 we'd already be off-planet. 555 00:41:22,232 --> 00:41:23,734 The module from our slow ship? 556 00:41:23,817 --> 00:41:26,320 It's not as if your people have any use for it. 557 00:41:26,820 --> 00:41:30,407 You're marooned on Terminus. The Empire made sure of that. 558 00:41:30,490 --> 00:41:31,825 Lewis. 559 00:41:32,743 --> 00:41:33,744 Why do you need it? 560 00:41:34,244 --> 00:41:36,455 My people are technologically bankrupt. 561 00:41:36,538 --> 00:41:38,165 We're dying, Director. 562 00:41:38,957 --> 00:41:42,461 We have been ever since the Empire set our atmosphere on fire. 563 00:41:42,544 --> 00:41:46,381 Half our population lost for a crime that we were innocent of. 564 00:41:46,465 --> 00:41:48,300 Unlike you, we have ships. 565 00:41:48,383 --> 00:41:51,970 We can leave our poisoned world, find another star system. 566 00:41:52,054 --> 00:41:55,224 If only we had the means to navigate the void. 567 00:41:55,307 --> 00:41:57,017 The Empire would crush us for assisting you. 568 00:41:57,100 --> 00:41:58,852 We're forcing your hand, Director. 569 00:41:59,853 --> 00:42:01,730 Because we have nothing left to lose. 570 00:42:02,689 --> 00:42:05,901 You can't play chess with someone who's willing to set the board on fire. 571 00:42:09,905 --> 00:42:11,949 Is that some kind of flak cannon? 572 00:42:12,032 --> 00:42:14,618 Wasting their time if they think that's gonna penetrate the fence. 573 00:42:14,701 --> 00:42:18,163 None of this feels right. Phara is smarter than this. 574 00:42:18,247 --> 00:42:20,666 They took out the comms buoy, and they came in prepared. 575 00:42:20,749 --> 00:42:23,418 There's a larger strategy here, and I am missing it somehow. 576 00:42:23,502 --> 00:42:25,754 What if I take my ship, make a run for the stars, get help? 577 00:42:25,838 --> 00:42:29,216 No, no. They'd shoot you out of the sky before you ever made it into orbit. 578 00:42:30,259 --> 00:42:32,010 Regretting you didn't bug out when you had the chance? 579 00:42:32,094 --> 00:42:34,763 Done a lot of foolish things in my life, Salvor Hardin. 580 00:42:34,847 --> 00:42:36,682 Sticking by your side is not one of them. 581 00:42:38,016 --> 00:42:39,434 Best manservant ever. 582 00:42:50,737 --> 00:42:52,281 The Vault isn't Anacreon… 583 00:42:53,156 --> 00:42:54,199 or alien at all. 584 00:42:54,283 --> 00:42:55,742 It's gotta be connected to Hari. 585 00:42:55,826 --> 00:42:56,827 How do you know that? 586 00:42:56,910 --> 00:42:58,787 Because the vision I saw when I blacked out, 587 00:42:59,413 --> 00:43:04,042 it was on Trantor in Hari's library, with a boy holding a knife on me. 588 00:43:04,835 --> 00:43:06,503 What if it was a warning to stay away? 589 00:43:07,754 --> 00:43:09,256 What if Lewis is right? 590 00:43:09,339 --> 00:43:12,467 I'm an outlier, just like he says, barging around, knocking things over, 591 00:43:12,551 --> 00:43:13,844 screwing up Seldon's plan? 592 00:43:13,927 --> 00:43:16,430 Salvor, what if you are Seldon's plan? 593 00:43:18,682 --> 00:43:22,394 The fate of one individual will always remain a mystery. 594 00:43:22,477 --> 00:43:26,857 Remember my promise, Warden? Razing your city to the ground? 595 00:43:26,940 --> 00:43:28,901 But the movements of masses, 596 00:43:28,984 --> 00:43:32,529 the rise and falls of cultures, causes and worlds… 597 00:43:33,363 --> 00:43:36,533 These were answers Hari Seldon had long since unriddled. 598 00:43:37,201 --> 00:43:38,493 It's time. 599 00:43:38,577 --> 00:43:42,372 And the beginning of the end, as befitting its name, 600 00:43:42,456 --> 00:43:44,249 took place on Terminus.