1 00:01:37,472 --> 00:01:41,602 The Anthor Belt. Dad used to tell me stories about it. 2 00:01:42,978 --> 00:01:44,479 Wonder what he'd say now. 3 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,660 Would you believe I used to work on one of those things? 4 00:01:59,536 --> 00:02:01,955 Mining palladium. I remember. 5 00:02:02,039 --> 00:02:04,416 My back's sore just looking at all that equipment. 6 00:02:06,043 --> 00:02:08,878 I can't believe it's still there. Your people, they just left it? 7 00:02:08,961 --> 00:02:12,090 Without the Empire's tech, the industry just broke down. 8 00:02:12,966 --> 00:02:17,137 That's when I started doing long-haul routes. Another life. 9 00:02:22,309 --> 00:02:25,354 In other words, you abandoned your own people. 10 00:02:25,437 --> 00:02:28,190 Meant there was one less Thespin to fight over the scraps. 11 00:02:28,899 --> 00:02:30,567 Approaching coordinates. 12 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:43,121 There's nothing here. 13 00:02:43,997 --> 00:02:45,958 Look closer, Warden. 14 00:02:50,879 --> 00:02:52,631 The Invictus? 15 00:02:57,094 --> 00:02:59,471 The crown jewel of Emperor Taurelian's fleet. 16 00:02:59,555 --> 00:03:00,889 You know of her? 17 00:03:00,973 --> 00:03:05,227 They say, in her day, the Invictus was the most powerful weapons platform 18 00:03:05,310 --> 00:03:07,271 the Empire had ever built. 19 00:03:07,354 --> 00:03:08,814 A world-killer. 20 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,613 Yeah, she disappeared without a trace 700 years ago. 21 00:03:16,697 --> 00:03:19,449 No debris. No distress signals. 22 00:03:19,533 --> 00:03:22,661 People reported sightings of her all across the galaxy, 23 00:03:22,744 --> 00:03:26,039 never responding to hails, never seen in the same place twice. 24 00:03:26,915 --> 00:03:28,584 And you just found her here. 25 00:03:29,501 --> 00:03:30,961 Like she was calling to me. 26 00:03:31,044 --> 00:03:32,713 The Invictus is a jumpship. 27 00:03:32,796 --> 00:03:36,466 The Empire considers jump technology a state secret. 28 00:03:36,550 --> 00:03:39,803 They'd sooner wipe out the entire Outer Reach 29 00:03:39,887 --> 00:03:41,096 than allow you to take this ship. 30 00:03:41,180 --> 00:03:42,639 Nobody knows she's here. 31 00:03:42,723 --> 00:03:44,933 You won't even be able to board. 32 00:03:45,017 --> 00:03:47,895 The air lock will never open for an Anacreon. 33 00:03:55,110 --> 00:03:56,820 Your imperial nanobots, 34 00:03:56,904 --> 00:03:59,364 programmed for expedited healing and identification… 35 00:04:01,116 --> 00:04:03,869 coded to access any imperial ship. 36 00:04:05,871 --> 00:04:07,497 That's why we needed you, Commander. 37 00:04:08,457 --> 00:04:09,958 You're our way in. 38 00:04:11,835 --> 00:04:14,838 Even if that actually works, you don't know where this ship has been 39 00:04:14,922 --> 00:04:16,632 or what happened to the crew. 40 00:04:17,298 --> 00:04:19,593 How do you even know if she's safe to approach? 41 00:04:20,886 --> 00:04:22,053 She isn't. 42 00:04:28,268 --> 00:04:31,855 The two craft we lost attempting to board. 43 00:04:33,023 --> 00:04:35,108 Her defense systems are still active. 44 00:04:36,068 --> 00:04:37,277 Get the suits ready. 45 00:04:37,778 --> 00:04:39,071 It's time. 46 00:04:54,878 --> 00:04:58,423 Do you think any of those mining bases still have active comms? 47 00:04:59,049 --> 00:05:01,051 It's unlikely. But it's possible. 48 00:05:02,469 --> 00:05:04,221 I've got a distress beacon. 49 00:05:06,223 --> 00:05:10,227 It's a neural implant, records everything I see and hear. 50 00:05:10,310 --> 00:05:14,815 If we can get to a dispatch capsule on the Invictus, we can send out a signal. 51 00:05:21,363 --> 00:05:24,616 All right, listen. It's a 10,000-meter jump. 52 00:05:24,700 --> 00:05:29,288 You want to drop fast, with as little extraneous movement as possible. 53 00:05:29,371 --> 00:05:33,166 On your final approach, you'll have to flip over and brake. 54 00:05:33,750 --> 00:05:35,460 The Invictus's automated rail guns 55 00:05:35,544 --> 00:05:38,672 are blind to objects under two meters in diameter. 56 00:05:38,755 --> 00:05:43,093 If we spread out and move with control, we should be invisible to them. 57 00:05:43,177 --> 00:05:44,678 You know what you're doing? 58 00:05:46,180 --> 00:05:47,181 Almost never, lover. 59 00:05:47,264 --> 00:05:49,057 Warden, up front. 60 00:05:49,141 --> 00:05:52,144 You must land on the inner ring to access the air lock. 61 00:05:52,227 --> 00:05:54,354 Miss the inner ring and you will be lost. 62 00:06:05,073 --> 00:06:06,491 I'll go on three. 63 00:06:07,784 --> 00:06:09,661 One. Two-- 64 00:06:17,503 --> 00:06:18,754 Shit. 65 00:06:29,056 --> 00:06:30,057 Almost there. 66 00:07:03,757 --> 00:07:04,758 Good job, Warden. 67 00:07:05,884 --> 00:07:08,220 Sal, my suit's failing. It's no good. 68 00:07:08,303 --> 00:07:09,888 Thrusters aren't responding. 69 00:07:10,389 --> 00:07:12,349 No, no, no. 70 00:07:12,432 --> 00:07:14,309 -I can't-- I can't get it-- -I got you! 71 00:07:14,393 --> 00:07:17,396 -Sal! No, get back. -Hugo! No. No. 72 00:07:17,479 --> 00:07:18,480 Get back. 73 00:07:22,317 --> 00:07:25,153 -Sal. Sal-- -Hugo! 74 00:07:25,237 --> 00:07:27,656 No. No. Hugo. 75 00:07:39,835 --> 00:07:42,713 Swallow your grief, Warden. We have no time for it now. 76 00:07:44,715 --> 00:07:47,217 Air lock's that way. Let's move. 77 00:08:03,901 --> 00:08:05,027 Excuse me, Empire. 78 00:08:05,110 --> 00:08:08,864 I know you're far too rational to have taken what I did as any sort of-- 79 00:08:08,947 --> 00:08:12,242 Go on. I'm curious to hear just what you think you didn't do. 80 00:08:12,326 --> 00:08:16,455 If I hadn't knelt, it would've been a clear contradiction of my faith. 81 00:08:16,538 --> 00:08:19,208 So you knelt before a demagogue. 82 00:08:19,291 --> 00:08:22,794 -I was kneeling to the Mother. -I'm sorry, to the what? 83 00:08:22,878 --> 00:08:25,297 I'm not familiar with that term, 84 00:08:25,380 --> 00:08:27,382 motherless atrocity that I am. 85 00:08:28,300 --> 00:08:30,552 You know I don't agree with Halima's position. 86 00:08:30,636 --> 00:08:35,682 I should hope not. You're not precisely one with the reincarnation cycle yourself. 87 00:08:35,765 --> 00:08:39,394 I wonder what Halima would say if she were made aware of that. 88 00:08:39,477 --> 00:08:42,563 It's not in my interest to publicize your true nature. 89 00:08:42,648 --> 00:08:45,859 This was a staggering betrayal, Demerzel. 90 00:08:46,527 --> 00:08:48,862 It was a betrayal of your directive. 91 00:08:48,946 --> 00:08:53,075 As far as I understood it, you are incapable of disloyalty. 92 00:08:53,158 --> 00:08:56,036 Over all else, your fealty to the Cleonic Dynasty 93 00:08:56,119 --> 00:08:57,955 is embedded into your programming. 94 00:08:58,038 --> 00:08:59,581 And that is precisely my point. 95 00:08:59,665 --> 00:09:02,543 If kneeling were in violation of my protocol, 96 00:09:02,626 --> 00:09:05,212 I would not have been able to. Physically. 97 00:09:05,796 --> 00:09:09,550 The very signals I use to instruct my limbs to bend would have been blocked. 98 00:09:10,926 --> 00:09:16,181 An explanation that also conveniently justifies your actions. 99 00:09:16,265 --> 00:09:17,766 Here is my question, 100 00:09:18,433 --> 00:09:20,227 did you want to kneel? 101 00:09:21,436 --> 00:09:25,190 I am loyal to Empire above all else. 102 00:09:25,274 --> 00:09:27,150 -Forgive me, Empire-- -Spit it out. 103 00:09:27,234 --> 00:09:29,903 It seems Zephyr Halima's speech has struck a chord. 104 00:09:30,571 --> 00:09:33,866 Ambassador Thanwall indicates that she has now become the front-runner. 105 00:09:35,450 --> 00:09:36,827 Well then… 106 00:09:38,203 --> 00:09:42,082 we have to shift her away from this pet subject. 107 00:09:44,293 --> 00:09:46,837 I've gotta figure out what she actually wants from me. 108 00:10:32,674 --> 00:10:35,469 I wouldn't have expected to see you down here, Cleon. 109 00:10:36,261 --> 00:10:38,096 The correct honorific is "Empire." 110 00:10:38,180 --> 00:10:41,808 I have great respect for those who attempt the Spiral. 111 00:10:41,892 --> 00:10:45,604 A sacred ritual, reserved for a proxima's passing. 112 00:10:46,730 --> 00:10:50,067 To walk is to humble oneself before the Triple Goddesses. 113 00:10:53,820 --> 00:10:55,989 I see someone's coached you well. 114 00:10:57,074 --> 00:11:01,453 Tell me, Lady Demerzel, have you had occasion to walk the Spiral? 115 00:11:01,537 --> 00:11:04,039 I have. Many years ago. 116 00:11:06,250 --> 00:11:09,878 Then you know just how transformative the journey can be… 117 00:11:11,213 --> 00:11:14,216 and how the body will suffer. 118 00:11:15,843 --> 00:11:18,262 This man was blinded by the sun. 119 00:11:19,429 --> 00:11:23,183 Many others die attempting to reach the Womb of the Mother. 120 00:11:23,267 --> 00:11:25,978 All very noble deaths, I'm sure. 121 00:11:26,061 --> 00:11:29,439 Zephyr Halima, Empire was hoping to speak frankly with you. 122 00:11:30,274 --> 00:11:33,151 I can appreciate an aggressive early play. 123 00:11:33,235 --> 00:11:37,781 And, well, you've succeeded in drawing me down here into the trenches. 124 00:11:37,865 --> 00:11:42,619 So, I applaud you. I'm here. And I'm listening. 125 00:11:43,328 --> 00:11:46,331 I'm not really sure what it is you're expecting me to say. 126 00:11:46,415 --> 00:11:48,083 What is your ask? 127 00:11:50,252 --> 00:11:52,546 End the Genetic Dynasty. 128 00:11:52,629 --> 00:11:55,507 If you're only fielding offers, consider the following. 129 00:11:55,591 --> 00:11:57,509 In addition to the desalination system, 130 00:11:57,593 --> 00:12:00,220 we will also establish a satellite security station 131 00:12:00,304 --> 00:12:02,264 for the dedicated protection of your people. 132 00:12:02,347 --> 00:12:05,225 Safety and clean water. 133 00:12:05,309 --> 00:12:07,436 We're misunderstanding each other here, Cleon. 134 00:12:07,519 --> 00:12:10,105 My ask is not a tactic. 135 00:12:10,189 --> 00:12:12,608 I only preach what I believe. 136 00:12:12,691 --> 00:12:16,445 And I believe the Genetic Dynasty will be the ruin of us all. 137 00:12:16,528 --> 00:12:18,155 Luminists can see the future now? 138 00:12:18,238 --> 00:12:20,699 I do not claim to see the future. 139 00:12:20,782 --> 00:12:26,371 I only have a sense deep in my soul of what is true and what is wrong. 140 00:12:26,455 --> 00:12:27,706 Wrong? 141 00:12:27,789 --> 00:12:31,752 You don't even remotely comprehend what my familial line has accomplished. 142 00:12:31,835 --> 00:12:35,047 -My brothers and I-- -Brothers? You are not brothers. 143 00:12:35,130 --> 00:12:37,758 You are the reverberations of a dead man's ego, 144 00:12:37,841 --> 00:12:40,844 by nature blind to all that you lack. 145 00:12:40,928 --> 00:12:44,056 The soulless creature cannot recognize itself. 146 00:12:45,015 --> 00:12:48,435 I believe the late Dr. Seldon made a similar observation? 147 00:12:50,646 --> 00:12:53,482 If that is truly what you believe, I am sorry. 148 00:12:53,565 --> 00:12:56,610 You will spend your life shouting into the void. 149 00:12:56,693 --> 00:12:59,029 The only reason you ventured down here 150 00:12:59,947 --> 00:13:03,534 is because you know people are listening to me. 151 00:13:04,201 --> 00:13:06,161 I'm sure, in preparation for your visit, 152 00:13:06,245 --> 00:13:11,291 you were counseled as to the staggering numbers of followers Luminism claims, 153 00:13:11,375 --> 00:13:16,380 all committed to acting in service of truth's light. 154 00:13:16,463 --> 00:13:20,342 Remind me, how many people did it take to bring down your Star Bridge? 155 00:13:21,134 --> 00:13:22,302 Are you threatening me? 156 00:13:22,386 --> 00:13:26,682 I'm only trying to answer your question, to articulate my ask. 157 00:13:27,266 --> 00:13:30,769 I'm not surprised it's left you confused. 158 00:13:30,853 --> 00:13:33,647 It's about something much greater than you. 159 00:13:33,730 --> 00:13:37,109 But I'm sure your adviser will help you to understand. 160 00:13:37,192 --> 00:13:41,113 Now, if you'll excuse me, I have souls that need ministering to. 161 00:14:04,011 --> 00:14:06,889 -Lewis, fall back. Fall back, Lewis. -What, Salvor? 162 00:14:06,972 --> 00:14:08,891 You and Jacenta are too close. Two meters! 163 00:14:08,974 --> 00:14:10,601 Oh, sorry. 164 00:14:16,857 --> 00:14:18,567 Take cover! 165 00:14:37,669 --> 00:14:40,714 If I open the doors, the guns will stop. 166 00:14:40,797 --> 00:14:42,508 Commander! 167 00:14:56,855 --> 00:14:58,190 Now! 168 00:15:06,448 --> 00:15:07,741 Come on. 169 00:15:27,928 --> 00:15:29,596 No! 170 00:15:33,934 --> 00:15:36,061 He served his purpose. 171 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,594 Not you, Warden. You're too dangerous unfettered. 172 00:16:08,677 --> 00:16:10,220 Hold out your hands. 173 00:16:17,019 --> 00:16:18,061 Now, move. 174 00:16:37,331 --> 00:16:38,707 Keep moving. 175 00:16:39,499 --> 00:16:41,627 Atmosphere's frozen. 176 00:16:42,127 --> 00:16:44,171 Must be a hull breach somewhere. 177 00:16:44,755 --> 00:16:49,426 The environmental systems must be off. We should find a regulation panel. 178 00:17:10,030 --> 00:17:12,406 The regulation panel. Over here. 179 00:17:28,715 --> 00:17:31,093 Okay. The system's archaic. 180 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,221 I'll have to input commands with manual code. 181 00:17:35,722 --> 00:17:38,725 I've sealed the breach so it's safe to restore atmosphere. 182 00:17:38,809 --> 00:17:39,893 Do it. 183 00:17:42,646 --> 00:17:45,232 We might have weather in here as the atmosphere regulates. 184 00:17:46,817 --> 00:17:49,570 And now for the gravity. Heads up. 185 00:18:00,831 --> 00:18:04,668 Those lights, what was that? Is that a power surge? 186 00:18:04,751 --> 00:18:06,086 I'm not sure. 187 00:18:06,170 --> 00:18:07,421 Now update security protocols. 188 00:18:07,504 --> 00:18:09,506 I want the internal defenses off-line. 189 00:18:09,590 --> 00:18:12,467 Security's a different system. That'll be closer to the bridge. 190 00:18:14,052 --> 00:18:15,429 Then we head there next. 191 00:18:32,070 --> 00:18:33,071 Sixteen seconds. 192 00:18:34,406 --> 00:18:39,036 Hey, the lights were pulsating consistently every 18 seconds, 193 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:40,954 and now it's down to 16. 194 00:18:41,038 --> 00:18:42,915 Okay. So, what does that mean? 195 00:18:43,457 --> 00:18:46,418 -Like a countdown? -A countdown to what? 196 00:18:50,172 --> 00:18:51,381 The next jump. 197 00:18:53,842 --> 00:18:56,929 Two weeks ago, my people were out on a scavenging run. 198 00:18:57,763 --> 00:18:59,598 They happened to see the Invictus jump in. 199 00:18:59,681 --> 00:19:01,892 We think her drives are cycling on their own, 200 00:19:01,975 --> 00:19:04,102 setting random time intervals between jumps. 201 00:19:04,186 --> 00:19:07,231 We knew, if we wanted to get control of the ship, 202 00:19:07,314 --> 00:19:10,150 we had to board before she could jump away again. 203 00:19:10,234 --> 00:19:11,527 Jump away where? 204 00:19:14,696 --> 00:19:18,951 They have no idea. That's how the legend started. 205 00:19:19,034 --> 00:19:21,161 That's why the Invictus became a ghost ship. 206 00:19:23,413 --> 00:19:25,707 The crew must have lost control, 207 00:19:25,791 --> 00:19:30,254 and the ship started jumping from one random set of coordinates to the next. 208 00:19:31,672 --> 00:19:35,133 They got marooned out in the dark deep somewhere, 209 00:19:35,217 --> 00:19:36,802 out of comms range… 210 00:19:38,095 --> 00:19:40,222 maybe outside the galaxy completely. 211 00:19:41,682 --> 00:19:44,977 They ran out of food, turned on each other. 212 00:19:45,060 --> 00:19:47,187 How long do we have before the countdown gets to zero? 213 00:19:48,230 --> 00:19:49,857 At this rate… 214 00:19:50,732 --> 00:19:51,733 four hours. 215 00:19:52,484 --> 00:19:53,485 Okay. 216 00:19:54,778 --> 00:19:58,740 So we have four hours to get control, or she blinks away again. 217 00:20:16,091 --> 00:20:17,926 You understand the urgency now. 218 00:20:18,802 --> 00:20:21,138 If we fail and we're lucky, 219 00:20:21,221 --> 00:20:23,098 we end up in the heart of a sun 220 00:20:24,683 --> 00:20:26,643 or staring down the mouth of a black hole. 221 00:20:27,311 --> 00:20:31,857 If we're unlucky, we suffer much longer deaths. 222 00:20:36,612 --> 00:20:38,447 What are your feelings about Halima now? 223 00:20:40,282 --> 00:20:41,783 That was reckless. 224 00:20:42,743 --> 00:20:45,287 There's no question in my mind, that was a threat. 225 00:20:45,370 --> 00:20:47,497 That damn Hari Seldon predicted this. 226 00:20:47,581 --> 00:20:51,543 "An exhortation from one of the galaxy's major religions." 227 00:20:52,085 --> 00:20:56,131 As to Halima's threat, I will enhance the security measures at the palace. 228 00:20:56,215 --> 00:20:59,009 We can assemble a comms team to contain Halima's message, 229 00:20:59,092 --> 00:21:02,721 data filters triggered by certain phrases. "Genetic Dynasty." 230 00:21:02,804 --> 00:21:03,805 No. 231 00:21:03,889 --> 00:21:06,975 I refuse to play defense with this woman. 232 00:21:08,101 --> 00:21:12,064 If she wants to invoke something greater than me, I'll do the same. 233 00:21:13,315 --> 00:21:16,109 I'll prove both her and Seldon wrong. 234 00:21:23,742 --> 00:21:27,913 According to Zephyr Halima, I am soulless, 235 00:21:28,413 --> 00:21:31,124 and therefore incapable of growth. 236 00:21:31,875 --> 00:21:33,001 I disagree. 237 00:21:33,794 --> 00:21:37,756 But as she suggests, the soulless creature cannot recognize itself, 238 00:21:38,465 --> 00:21:42,469 which is why I must appeal to those with a much broader vantage, 239 00:21:43,220 --> 00:21:45,931 broader even than the zephyrs. 240 00:21:46,682 --> 00:21:51,144 I must appeal to the Triple Goddesses themselves. 241 00:22:02,239 --> 00:22:04,741 I will walk the great Spiral. 242 00:22:05,534 --> 00:22:10,205 And I will let the Mother, the Maiden and the Crone decide what is true, 243 00:22:11,456 --> 00:22:12,791 who is right… 244 00:22:15,878 --> 00:22:17,212 and who is wrong. 245 00:23:50,097 --> 00:23:51,223 How does this work? 246 00:23:51,306 --> 00:23:52,850 I'll show you. 247 00:25:05,797 --> 00:25:07,174 I've brought you something. 248 00:25:20,103 --> 00:25:21,647 Color-correction 'hesives. 249 00:25:21,730 --> 00:25:22,856 So you can see red and green. 250 00:25:25,317 --> 00:25:26,443 Thank you. 251 00:25:27,736 --> 00:25:31,907 But I can't. They'll draw attention. 252 00:25:32,658 --> 00:25:35,327 The others, Brother Dusk, Brother Day, 253 00:25:36,203 --> 00:25:37,204 they can't know. 254 00:25:37,788 --> 00:25:39,748 Maybe you could put them on when they're not looking. 255 00:25:40,457 --> 00:25:42,084 They're always looking. 256 00:25:42,709 --> 00:25:45,546 And if they start pulling that thread, it all comes undone. 257 00:25:48,173 --> 00:25:49,258 Yes, Empire. 258 00:25:50,050 --> 00:25:51,260 Please, Azura… 259 00:25:53,095 --> 00:25:54,221 call me Cleon. 260 00:25:56,598 --> 00:25:59,852 It's not just the color blindness. 261 00:26:00,435 --> 00:26:03,063 My thumbs clasp right over left. 262 00:26:04,481 --> 00:26:07,860 My brothers' clasp left over right. 263 00:26:08,569 --> 00:26:10,612 They love brassica. 264 00:26:11,822 --> 00:26:15,075 I find it so bitter I can barely stomach it. 265 00:26:15,993 --> 00:26:17,953 I put my shoes on in a different order. 266 00:26:18,036 --> 00:26:20,414 I point at things with a different crook in my finger. 267 00:26:20,497 --> 00:26:23,625 I eat starches before meats instead of the other way round. 268 00:26:23,709 --> 00:26:27,379 If they notice the 'hesives, they might notice all of it. 269 00:26:29,173 --> 00:26:30,632 Would that really be so terrible? 270 00:26:36,513 --> 00:26:37,890 I'll show you. 271 00:26:51,778 --> 00:26:54,364 This is the first. 272 00:26:54,448 --> 00:26:55,699 The Principium. 273 00:26:56,783 --> 00:26:58,911 The Cleon from whom we're all extracted. 274 00:27:00,370 --> 00:27:01,622 There's more. 275 00:27:12,633 --> 00:27:13,717 Are they alive? 276 00:27:15,219 --> 00:27:16,678 In a manner of speaking. 277 00:27:25,354 --> 00:27:26,855 They're absorbing information, 278 00:27:26,939 --> 00:27:29,191 so as to be up to date with our lives 279 00:27:29,274 --> 00:27:30,692 if they're ever needed. 280 00:27:31,235 --> 00:27:33,153 Needed? For what? 281 00:27:33,779 --> 00:27:39,660 If a Cleon is ever damaged or killed, these are his replacements. 282 00:27:55,342 --> 00:27:57,928 Every moment of my life is a test. 283 00:27:59,513 --> 00:28:03,976 And if I ever fail, if they ever learn how different I am, 284 00:28:05,435 --> 00:28:06,895 it'll be my last day. 285 00:28:09,356 --> 00:28:10,357 And his first. 286 00:28:11,275 --> 00:28:13,652 But they can't. You're Empire. 287 00:28:13,735 --> 00:28:15,028 No more than he is. 288 00:28:16,738 --> 00:28:20,868 My job, my reason for existing, is to be a perfect copy. 289 00:28:20,951 --> 00:28:22,578 And if I can't do that, then-- 290 00:28:26,665 --> 00:28:29,334 The Empire must be protected from mistakes. 291 00:28:30,586 --> 00:28:31,670 Like me. 292 00:28:32,296 --> 00:28:34,548 So I can't take your gift, Azura. 293 00:28:34,631 --> 00:28:36,758 They can't know I'm correcting my sight. 294 00:28:38,010 --> 00:28:41,555 I have to blend in, or I die. 295 00:28:42,723 --> 00:28:45,559 Or you escape. You leave. 296 00:28:46,143 --> 00:28:48,937 They won't care. They'll just wake up your replacement. 297 00:28:49,021 --> 00:28:51,648 They won't let a rogue Emperor go free. They'll have me killed. 298 00:28:51,732 --> 00:28:54,276 Then we'll make it so they can't find you. 299 00:28:54,359 --> 00:28:56,820 I have the most recognizable face in the galaxy. 300 00:28:56,904 --> 00:28:57,905 Not if we change it. 301 00:28:58,572 --> 00:29:00,032 There are biohackers underground. 302 00:29:00,115 --> 00:29:01,617 They could do it with a single incision. 303 00:29:02,951 --> 00:29:05,662 They'd still track me through my nanobots. 304 00:29:08,874 --> 00:29:11,126 There are people who can filter them out. 305 00:29:12,085 --> 00:29:14,588 You think you're the first person who's wanted them gone? 306 00:29:20,427 --> 00:29:22,721 You showed me this place for a reason. 307 00:29:23,847 --> 00:29:26,266 The same reason you jumped off your balcony. 308 00:29:27,142 --> 00:29:28,769 You can't live like this. 309 00:29:30,562 --> 00:29:33,732 You've lived every moment of your life with people watching you. 310 00:29:34,942 --> 00:29:38,946 The Scar's different. You can lose yourself in it. 311 00:29:40,405 --> 00:29:43,075 For Empire, the Scar represents a failure. 312 00:29:44,785 --> 00:29:47,746 For the rest of Trantor, it represents an opportunity. 313 00:29:48,539 --> 00:29:54,711 For the first time in centuries, we can look up and see real clouds, real stars, 314 00:29:55,587 --> 00:30:00,175 not a simulation run by servers designed to keep us complacent. 315 00:30:03,303 --> 00:30:05,097 Will they let me through security with it? 316 00:30:05,180 --> 00:30:06,223 It's cloaked. 317 00:30:16,984 --> 00:30:19,278 It's nothing like your palace. 318 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,448 It's crowded. It's chaotic. 319 00:30:24,366 --> 00:30:25,617 But it's alive. 320 00:30:27,703 --> 00:30:29,288 And it's waiting for you. 321 00:30:30,205 --> 00:30:31,665 Come with me. 322 00:30:42,551 --> 00:30:44,761 You missed the dinner bell. 323 00:30:45,554 --> 00:30:50,100 -Sorry. -Punctuality. Routine. Respect. 324 00:30:51,226 --> 00:30:54,188 These may be practiced traits to the everyman, 325 00:30:54,271 --> 00:30:57,316 but they are innate to a Cleon. 326 00:30:57,900 --> 00:30:59,109 At least, they should be. 327 00:30:59,193 --> 00:31:00,277 Of course. 328 00:31:01,153 --> 00:31:05,282 I was just learning about Trantor. The rest of it. 329 00:31:05,866 --> 00:31:07,701 We are Trantor. 330 00:31:08,535 --> 00:31:11,788 Nothing outside the palace walls is relevant. 331 00:31:27,054 --> 00:31:28,096 Hari? 332 00:31:30,682 --> 00:31:32,768 Computer, what am I looking at? 333 00:31:32,851 --> 00:31:35,479 Hari Seldon Quantum Consciousness Protocol. 334 00:31:36,146 --> 00:31:37,898 It's a projection of some kind. 335 00:31:39,483 --> 00:31:42,444 Computer, identify the issue with Hari Seldon Protocol. 336 00:31:42,528 --> 00:31:44,530 Incomplete neural uplink. 337 00:31:44,613 --> 00:31:45,822 Help me. 338 00:31:46,823 --> 00:31:48,784 Computer, what was the source of uplink? 339 00:31:48,867 --> 00:31:52,371 Initiated with Raych Foss Arrival Protocol. 340 00:31:52,454 --> 00:31:53,455 Can you restart it? 341 00:31:53,539 --> 00:31:55,415 Authorization required. 342 00:31:56,333 --> 00:31:59,711 -Hari, can you hear me? -Help me. 343 00:31:59,795 --> 00:32:04,550 Okay. Listen to me. Focus on my voice. This is Gaal. 344 00:32:04,633 --> 00:32:06,093 Gaal! 345 00:32:06,176 --> 00:32:09,137 You've digitized your consciousness, but something went wrong. 346 00:32:09,221 --> 00:32:12,140 You're glitching, stuck in the loop of the past. 347 00:32:12,224 --> 00:32:13,809 Just concentrate on my voice. 348 00:32:14,518 --> 00:32:16,603 This is the present. This is now. 349 00:32:17,396 --> 00:32:19,690 That's it, Hari. Follow my voice. 350 00:32:19,773 --> 00:32:21,567 That is the past. This is now. 351 00:32:31,076 --> 00:32:32,619 What have you done to yourself, Hari? 352 00:32:33,203 --> 00:32:37,082 I had a data unit implanted in my brain before we left Trantor… 353 00:32:38,625 --> 00:32:40,919 synced to a port hidden in Raych's knife. 354 00:32:41,003 --> 00:32:45,090 Recorded all my thoughts, memories, everything, right up to the moment I-- 355 00:32:47,009 --> 00:32:48,719 Something must've gone wrong. 356 00:32:50,012 --> 00:32:51,263 Where am I? 357 00:32:51,346 --> 00:32:54,683 On a ship called the Raven, headed to Helicon, 358 00:32:54,766 --> 00:32:55,934 your homeworld, Hari. 359 00:32:56,018 --> 00:32:57,519 Helicon. Yes. 360 00:33:00,189 --> 00:33:01,190 How long? 361 00:33:03,692 --> 00:33:05,402 Thirty-four years. 362 00:33:09,406 --> 00:33:11,450 You're not supposed to be here. 363 00:33:12,743 --> 00:33:13,744 Where's Raych? 364 00:33:14,745 --> 00:33:16,371 He sent me instead. 365 00:33:16,455 --> 00:33:19,374 He wouldn't do that. You're supposed to lead the First Foundation. 366 00:33:19,458 --> 00:33:20,626 He knew that. 367 00:33:21,168 --> 00:33:24,379 They'll be facing their first crisis soon. Who's in charge? 368 00:33:24,463 --> 00:33:26,548 Lewis Pirenne, I'd imagine. 369 00:33:26,632 --> 00:33:28,634 He'll get them through the settlement stage, 370 00:33:28,717 --> 00:33:31,094 but for what's coming next, they'll need someone else, you. 371 00:33:31,178 --> 00:33:32,471 Raych knew that. Where's Raych? 372 00:33:33,555 --> 00:33:35,682 It's hard to explain. 373 00:33:37,726 --> 00:33:39,853 You're dead, Hari. 374 00:33:42,481 --> 00:33:43,649 You know that, right? 375 00:33:46,902 --> 00:33:48,237 Raych murdered you. 376 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:49,404 They think I helped him. 377 00:33:50,614 --> 00:33:51,698 What? Why? 378 00:33:51,782 --> 00:33:55,285 I went to your cabin. Interrupted him. 379 00:33:56,161 --> 00:34:00,165 I saw him bent over you with the knife in your chest. 380 00:34:00,749 --> 00:34:05,003 He threw me in the lifeboat and stayed behind. 381 00:34:05,087 --> 00:34:06,338 What happened to him? 382 00:34:06,421 --> 00:34:07,798 They executed him. 383 00:34:08,841 --> 00:34:10,551 Raych is dead? 384 00:34:12,511 --> 00:34:13,846 Why, Hari? 385 00:34:15,514 --> 00:34:19,059 Hari? Why did he do it? 386 00:34:20,018 --> 00:34:21,061 Hari? 387 00:34:23,730 --> 00:34:25,148 Hari! 388 00:34:35,367 --> 00:34:38,704 We're running out of time. We need to make a move. Now. 389 00:34:38,786 --> 00:34:41,290 We take their weapons, level the playing field. 390 00:34:41,373 --> 00:34:43,750 I'm not a fighter. None of us are. 391 00:34:44,333 --> 00:34:47,588 Most people aren't, until they're left with no other choice. 392 00:34:48,255 --> 00:34:49,297 Stop! 393 00:35:04,771 --> 00:35:06,148 An energy barrier. 394 00:35:08,567 --> 00:35:11,278 It's gotta be a tech precursor to our fence on Terminus. 395 00:35:11,904 --> 00:35:14,573 I'm the only expert here who can safely override it. 396 00:35:15,991 --> 00:35:17,659 But you'll need to uncuff me. 397 00:35:21,580 --> 00:35:23,207 Do it, Warden. 398 00:35:23,290 --> 00:35:24,625 Or we all die for nothing. 399 00:35:44,645 --> 00:35:47,564 That's it. We're all coded in. 400 00:36:08,919 --> 00:36:10,587 Fifteen seconds. 401 00:36:12,256 --> 00:36:14,716 Cuffs back on. Hold out your hands. 402 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:15,968 What is this? 403 00:36:16,677 --> 00:36:20,180 The older ships used cooling tanks for the jumpdrives. Careful. 404 00:36:20,973 --> 00:36:22,099 Stop stalling. 405 00:36:34,820 --> 00:36:36,488 Keep moving. 406 00:36:48,792 --> 00:36:49,960 Lewis! 407 00:37:12,357 --> 00:37:13,483 No! No! 408 00:37:29,124 --> 00:37:30,751 No, Phara. 409 00:37:30,834 --> 00:37:31,835 We still need her. 410 00:37:33,712 --> 00:37:37,382 There might be more barriers, security protocols to override. 411 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,475 Rowan, please. 412 00:37:47,267 --> 00:37:50,437 We're losing all our experts, and we're running out of time. 413 00:37:50,521 --> 00:37:53,732 You wanna live to carry out your strike against the Empire? 414 00:37:53,815 --> 00:37:55,901 You're not gonna do it if you stay on board this ship. 415 00:37:55,984 --> 00:37:57,528 I'm never leaving the Invictus. 416 00:37:58,779 --> 00:38:00,197 And neither are you. 417 00:38:04,409 --> 00:38:07,663 You're gonna help us redirect the ship before she jumps again. 418 00:38:07,746 --> 00:38:11,124 And then we'll guide it right into the beating heart of Trantor. 419 00:38:13,919 --> 00:38:16,296 The Empire won't have a chance to run, 420 00:38:17,506 --> 00:38:19,299 just like my people did not. 421 00:38:21,176 --> 00:38:25,305 All of Trantor will be nothing but a heap of poisonous ash, 422 00:38:25,389 --> 00:38:28,684 all its evils rendered silent underneath it. 423 00:38:29,518 --> 00:38:32,104 We will deliver that justice to them, Warden. 424 00:38:32,187 --> 00:38:37,484 We will die to bring the Empire to its knees. 425 00:38:56,378 --> 00:38:58,380 Oxygen level at 2%. 426 00:38:59,047 --> 00:39:00,048 Hari? 427 00:39:01,133 --> 00:39:03,260 The ship's shut down without you. 428 00:39:04,636 --> 00:39:06,263 Temperature's dropped. 429 00:39:08,098 --> 00:39:10,350 I don't think I'll be able to breathe much longer. 430 00:39:10,434 --> 00:39:13,645 Please authorize reinstatement of life support systems. 431 00:39:18,442 --> 00:39:21,904 Please authorize reinstatement of life support systems. 432 00:39:25,407 --> 00:39:26,408 Hari? 433 00:39:27,576 --> 00:39:29,745 -Please authorize reinstatement… -Hari, please. 434 00:39:29,828 --> 00:39:32,289 -…of life support systems. -Please, Hari. Please. 435 00:39:32,372 --> 00:39:33,749 Please. Please. 436 00:39:41,465 --> 00:39:43,217 Authorization complete. 437 00:40:03,028 --> 00:40:05,739 I owe you an explanation, Gaal. 438 00:40:05,822 --> 00:40:07,699 I recognize that now. 439 00:40:07,783 --> 00:40:09,284 Why did Raych do it? 440 00:40:09,368 --> 00:40:11,828 I don't understand. Why did he kill you? 441 00:40:12,412 --> 00:40:16,542 My death was an essential element to the success of the Plan. 442 00:40:16,625 --> 00:40:18,210 Don't understand. 443 00:40:18,293 --> 00:40:21,797 The Foundation needs more than a man to inspire it. 444 00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:25,050 It needs a myth that can endure for centuries. 445 00:40:27,553 --> 00:40:29,096 And it worked. 446 00:40:29,179 --> 00:40:32,766 Do you remember what our mortality projections had been for Terminus? 447 00:40:35,143 --> 00:40:37,437 34.2%. 448 00:40:37,521 --> 00:40:39,565 The actual rate was nearly half that. 449 00:40:40,357 --> 00:40:42,651 My death galvanized the Foundation. 450 00:40:42,734 --> 00:40:45,988 The Foundation isn't a religion, Hari. 451 00:40:46,572 --> 00:40:47,573 And you're not a god. 452 00:40:47,656 --> 00:40:50,617 No. Gods are impervious to knives. 453 00:40:51,577 --> 00:40:55,330 But you can kill them. You just stop believing in them. 454 00:40:56,748 --> 00:41:00,377 I don't buy it. I mean, you're egotistical, 455 00:41:00,460 --> 00:41:05,299 but I can't see you sacrificing your life just to turn yourself into this. 456 00:41:05,382 --> 00:41:07,843 -Why not just wait until-- -I have Lethe Syndrome. 457 00:41:09,261 --> 00:41:11,346 Had Lethe Syndrome. 458 00:41:11,430 --> 00:41:12,973 Inherited from my father. 459 00:41:13,557 --> 00:41:17,311 Once the symptoms manifest, the cognitive decline is steep. 460 00:41:17,394 --> 00:41:18,854 Think it through. 461 00:41:18,937 --> 00:41:21,273 We reach Terminus, face famine and the elements, 462 00:41:21,356 --> 00:41:23,358 but I'm no longer the hand of our salvation, 463 00:41:23,442 --> 00:41:26,361 but the crackpot who dragged everyone to a frigid rock. 464 00:41:27,070 --> 00:41:29,990 But you told me it was your dream to see Terminus. 465 00:41:30,073 --> 00:41:33,577 You said you wanted to start the Foundation together. 466 00:41:34,161 --> 00:41:35,704 Yes. 467 00:41:35,787 --> 00:41:38,832 I said it loudly and often, didn't I? 468 00:41:38,916 --> 00:41:41,251 So often I started to bore myself. 469 00:41:42,336 --> 00:41:43,545 You were performing. 470 00:41:43,629 --> 00:41:46,006 I was engineering the narrative. 471 00:41:46,089 --> 00:41:48,091 That's a fancy way of saying you lied. 472 00:41:49,968 --> 00:41:51,595 Approaching debris disk. 473 00:42:01,438 --> 00:42:04,691 Helicon. Home. 474 00:42:06,485 --> 00:42:07,903 The debris field surrounds… 475 00:42:07,986 --> 00:42:09,696 Helicon's dark star. 476 00:42:10,697 --> 00:42:13,408 It's kept your homeworld hidden all these years. 477 00:42:14,201 --> 00:42:19,081 I know where we are, Hari. It's the why I'm struggling with. 478 00:42:20,332 --> 00:42:23,168 Did Raych know about this? Your death? This ship? 479 00:42:23,252 --> 00:42:24,962 Raych knew everything. 480 00:42:26,046 --> 00:42:30,676 I was gonna take my life. He was gonna stay behind to explain why… 481 00:42:31,260 --> 00:42:36,223 then, a week or so later, disappear and reunite with me here. 482 00:42:38,934 --> 00:42:41,478 He loved you. That wasn't a lie. 483 00:42:43,814 --> 00:42:45,774 You should've warned me. 484 00:42:45,858 --> 00:42:47,109 Would you have listened? 485 00:42:47,860 --> 00:42:51,071 I am so tired of this. 486 00:42:51,989 --> 00:42:55,909 You deciding what I need to know when I need to know it. 487 00:42:57,578 --> 00:42:59,288 What changed your plan? 488 00:43:00,163 --> 00:43:02,749 -You really need me to answer that? -Tell me. 489 00:43:03,542 --> 00:43:05,627 He wasn't ever going to leave you. 490 00:43:08,213 --> 00:43:10,382 So you made Raych kill you. 491 00:43:11,675 --> 00:43:13,594 That way he would have to leave me. 492 00:43:15,470 --> 00:43:17,347 -You used him. -That's unfair. 493 00:43:17,431 --> 00:43:18,473 You used both of us. 494 00:43:18,557 --> 00:43:20,517 Raych was always meant to be here. 495 00:43:21,101 --> 00:43:22,811 Not you. Raych. 496 00:43:22,895 --> 00:43:25,355 You were meant to stay on Terminus, to lead Terminus. 497 00:43:25,439 --> 00:43:29,443 Exactly! There was never a version of your plan 498 00:43:29,526 --> 00:43:32,196 where Raych and I were within light-years of each other. 499 00:43:33,030 --> 00:43:37,701 You didn't care about what we wanted, as long as your plan was safe! 500 00:43:38,202 --> 00:43:40,412 You're too smart to play the victim, Gaal. 501 00:43:41,955 --> 00:43:45,584 You welcomed your part in this the moment you solved Abraxas. 502 00:43:45,667 --> 00:43:46,668 I what? 503 00:43:46,752 --> 00:43:49,213 You could've submitted the answer anonymously. 504 00:43:49,296 --> 00:43:51,882 You chose recognition. 505 00:43:51,965 --> 00:43:54,468 No one forced you to come to Trantor. 506 00:43:54,551 --> 00:43:56,220 I came under false pretenses. 507 00:43:56,303 --> 00:43:59,097 You came knowing full well the attention it would bring you 508 00:43:59,181 --> 00:44:01,517 and the danger that put your family in. 509 00:44:02,434 --> 00:44:04,436 You made a choice, Gaal. 510 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:07,147 You wanted a different life to the one mapped out for you. 511 00:44:07,231 --> 00:44:09,191 When we were hauled up in front of the Emperor, 512 00:44:09,274 --> 00:44:11,360 you made a choice to lie to him. 513 00:44:12,110 --> 00:44:16,198 "If you kill me, the fall accelerates." Isn't that what you told him? 514 00:44:16,281 --> 00:44:18,992 Fine. We're both hypocrites. 515 00:44:19,618 --> 00:44:22,621 If this was really only about the path psychohistory laid out, 516 00:44:22,704 --> 00:44:25,791 then you would've let Cleon kill you in that throne room. 517 00:44:26,500 --> 00:44:28,126 Your followers would've been exiled, 518 00:44:28,210 --> 00:44:30,712 and everything would've fallen into place as planned. 519 00:44:32,047 --> 00:44:33,382 That's true. 520 00:44:34,716 --> 00:44:36,510 So why didn't you? 521 00:44:36,593 --> 00:44:37,719 I wanted to live. 522 00:44:38,762 --> 00:44:40,681 Well, so did Raych. 523 00:44:42,182 --> 00:44:47,813 Now I'm here instead of on Terminus, and Raych is dead. 524 00:44:48,814 --> 00:44:51,900 -And that's on you. Not me. -Is it? 525 00:44:53,068 --> 00:44:55,445 Don't you dare put this on me. 526 00:44:55,529 --> 00:44:58,532 You weren't supposed to be anywhere near my cabin the night I died. 527 00:44:59,992 --> 00:45:01,577 You were meant to be swimming. 528 00:45:01,660 --> 00:45:05,372 Every night, 40 lengths of the pool. Counting primes like clockwork. 529 00:45:05,455 --> 00:45:07,082 I've heard enough from you. 530 00:45:11,587 --> 00:45:13,088 I liked you better when you were dying. 531 00:45:13,172 --> 00:45:16,717 -You came to my cabin. Why? -I was worried about Raych. 532 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,428 -So why not go to his? -I did. He wasn't there. 533 00:45:19,511 --> 00:45:21,555 -Then what happened? -I don't know. I-- 534 00:45:23,390 --> 00:45:25,184 Computer, divert from the debris field. 535 00:45:25,267 --> 00:45:27,436 Authorization required. 536 00:45:27,519 --> 00:45:29,188 Something is going to pierce the hull. 537 00:45:29,271 --> 00:45:31,857 Hari, if you're in the mainframe, you can turn us around. 538 00:45:31,940 --> 00:45:33,400 The shields are strong. 539 00:45:33,483 --> 00:45:35,319 Any micro-breaches will seal automatically. 540 00:45:35,402 --> 00:45:37,154 Turn us around. This is too much. 541 00:45:37,237 --> 00:45:39,281 -Why did you break your routine? -I can't-- 542 00:45:39,364 --> 00:45:41,283 Why did you get out of that pool? 543 00:45:41,366 --> 00:45:42,951 I know what you're trying to do. 544 00:45:43,035 --> 00:45:45,662 You were worried about Raych. You went to his cabin. 545 00:45:45,746 --> 00:45:47,497 He wasn't there. Then what happened? 546 00:45:48,957 --> 00:45:52,669 86,981,803. 547 00:45:55,380 --> 00:45:56,715 I could feel it in the air. 548 00:45:56,798 --> 00:46:00,302 86,981,821. 549 00:46:00,385 --> 00:46:02,971 A sense of doom. 550 00:46:03,055 --> 00:46:04,681 I just-- I had a feeling. 551 00:46:04,765 --> 00:46:06,683 86,981,827. 552 00:46:06,767 --> 00:46:09,061 What kind of a feeling? A memory? A vision? What? 553 00:46:09,144 --> 00:46:10,312 A compulsion? 554 00:46:13,524 --> 00:46:15,609 Like my body knew something before I did. 555 00:46:15,692 --> 00:46:17,444 Hari, the sky. 556 00:46:18,612 --> 00:46:20,906 Like knowing the Star Bridge would fall. 557 00:46:20,989 --> 00:46:23,242 Like knowing when they'd come to arrest me. 558 00:46:23,325 --> 00:46:24,535 How are you awake? 559 00:46:25,118 --> 00:46:26,620 Did you say something? 560 00:46:26,703 --> 00:46:28,539 No. But I was going to ask-- 561 00:46:28,622 --> 00:46:31,041 Someone would speak before they did. 562 00:46:31,124 --> 00:46:33,043 The prodigy speaks. 563 00:46:33,126 --> 00:46:35,212 86,981,000-- 564 00:46:35,295 --> 00:46:36,922 We're all different, Ms. Dornick. 565 00:46:37,005 --> 00:46:39,299 And if you don't know what it is, I urge you to figure it out 566 00:46:39,383 --> 00:46:42,094 before someone else does and uses it against you. 567 00:46:42,177 --> 00:46:44,638 86,981,827. 568 00:46:44,721 --> 00:46:45,764 Terminus. 569 00:46:45,848 --> 00:46:46,932 You're exiling us. 570 00:46:47,641 --> 00:46:48,934 Did you say something? 571 00:46:50,143 --> 00:46:51,979 The prodigy speaks. 572 00:46:52,479 --> 00:46:54,565 You're exiling us. 573 00:46:54,648 --> 00:46:55,732 I'm sorry. 574 00:46:56,692 --> 00:46:57,985 How are you awake? 575 00:46:59,403 --> 00:47:01,029 Did you say something? 576 00:47:01,113 --> 00:47:02,823 -I'm sorry. -You're exiling us. 577 00:47:03,782 --> 00:47:05,868 -How are you awake? -I'm sorry. 578 00:47:05,951 --> 00:47:07,536 Did you say something? 579 00:47:18,672 --> 00:47:22,009 That's why I came to your cabin. That's what you couldn't predict. 580 00:47:23,969 --> 00:47:27,181 I knew what was gonna happen before it did. 581 00:47:27,931 --> 00:47:30,475 Not through math, not through calculations… 582 00:47:32,561 --> 00:47:34,271 I think I can feel the future.