1 00:00:14,723 --> 00:00:19,394 My mother used to say that going to sleep was a leap of faith. 2 00:00:22,231 --> 00:00:26,193 Our souls wander when we dream, or so she told me. 3 00:00:30,948 --> 00:00:33,075 And if we say our devotions, 4 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:37,329 our souls will find their way back before we wake. 5 00:00:41,750 --> 00:00:44,461 Climbing from our cradle is another leap. 6 00:00:46,296 --> 00:00:48,215 So is leaving the comfort of home. 7 00:00:51,844 --> 00:00:56,765 For some, it's setting sail, hurtling ourselves into the void. 8 00:00:58,851 --> 00:01:04,272 We send messages into space hoping someone will answer, 9 00:01:05,399 --> 00:01:09,570 praying we find safe harbor over the horizon. 10 00:01:35,929 --> 00:01:38,223 Anacreon and Thespis, 11 00:01:38,307 --> 00:01:41,268 you've been at each other's throats so long, 12 00:01:41,935 --> 00:01:45,647 the origin of your enmity is almost irrelevant. 13 00:01:46,231 --> 00:01:48,192 We have legitimate grounds for our hatred. 14 00:01:48,275 --> 00:01:51,445 The First Betrayal and a thousand atrocities since. 15 00:01:51,528 --> 00:01:53,530 No one knows what really happened that night. 16 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:56,783 The First Betrayal. 17 00:01:57,367 --> 00:02:01,747 A Thespin king newly wed to an Anacreon huntress. 18 00:02:02,706 --> 00:02:06,585 The two emerging powers of the Outer Reach united in marriage. 19 00:02:06,668 --> 00:02:09,170 Are you gonna teach us our own history now, dead man? 20 00:02:09,253 --> 00:02:11,715 The Thespin dog slit her throat on their wedding bed. 21 00:02:12,508 --> 00:02:13,884 So the legend goes. 22 00:02:13,967 --> 00:02:16,178 Are you suggesting our history's wrong? 23 00:02:16,261 --> 00:02:21,850 History is written by the victor, and neither of you seem to be winning. 24 00:02:21,934 --> 00:02:23,393 There was a witness. 25 00:02:23,477 --> 00:02:26,688 The only witness, an Anacreon handmaid who testified 26 00:02:26,772 --> 00:02:30,192 that King Throy un Thark got drunk the night of the wedding 27 00:02:30,984 --> 00:02:34,696 and, in a fit of rage, murdered your huntress. 28 00:02:34,780 --> 00:02:36,490 The handmaid lied. 29 00:02:36,573 --> 00:02:39,159 The nature of the lie is relevant here. 30 00:02:40,035 --> 00:02:43,497 On her deathbed, the handmaid made a confession. 31 00:02:44,206 --> 00:02:48,043 The real murderer was Cleon II. 32 00:02:48,627 --> 00:02:51,588 The first clone in the Genetic Dynasty realized 33 00:02:51,672 --> 00:02:54,758 that a plan could unfold over several lifetimes. 34 00:02:54,842 --> 00:02:57,177 He saw where this new alliance could lead, 35 00:02:57,261 --> 00:03:03,308 so he had his shadowmaster seduce the handmaiden, drug the newlyweds, 36 00:03:03,392 --> 00:03:06,979 murder your huntress and implicate your king. 37 00:03:07,646 --> 00:03:10,107 Why fight two upstart kingdoms 38 00:03:10,190 --> 00:03:14,945 when you can exploit their racial animus and have them fight each other? 39 00:03:16,697 --> 00:03:18,532 The clones played you. 40 00:03:19,408 --> 00:03:22,744 But today, thanks to the Foundation, 41 00:03:23,245 --> 00:03:27,416 we could put back together what Empire has broken. 42 00:03:27,499 --> 00:03:32,087 No. We are not uniting with them now, no matter how this started. 43 00:03:32,171 --> 00:03:35,174 And even if we did, Empire is too strong. 44 00:03:35,257 --> 00:03:36,925 Now you have the Invictus. 45 00:03:37,009 --> 00:03:39,136 The Invictus is only one ship. 46 00:03:39,219 --> 00:03:41,722 One ship can be the first of many. 47 00:03:41,805 --> 00:03:46,643 If both your peoples will set aside hatred in favor of strength, 48 00:03:47,269 --> 00:03:48,979 as those poor newlyweds did, 49 00:03:49,062 --> 00:03:54,026 then you'll find here the skills necessary to build more ships. 50 00:03:54,651 --> 00:03:58,197 For the Plan to succeed, the Foundation needs three pillars, 51 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,033 just as a stool needs three legs. 52 00:04:01,116 --> 00:04:03,619 It needs all the children of the Outer Reach. 53 00:04:03,702 --> 00:04:05,204 That is the way I designed it. 54 00:04:05,287 --> 00:04:09,166 So, Hari, you knew the Invictus would be discovered? 55 00:04:09,666 --> 00:04:13,420 Hello, Mari. Good to see you again. 56 00:04:15,380 --> 00:04:16,464 Where's Gaal? 57 00:04:16,548 --> 00:04:18,382 She never made it to Terminus. 58 00:04:19,551 --> 00:04:20,886 And you are? 59 00:04:22,846 --> 00:04:23,931 Salvor Hardin. 60 00:04:25,140 --> 00:04:26,225 Mari's daughter. 61 00:04:27,476 --> 00:04:29,353 I'm the one who opened the Vault 62 00:04:29,436 --> 00:04:31,939 and who wrestled that damn ship onto our doorstep. 63 00:04:32,439 --> 00:04:36,777 Well, Salvor Hardin, it appears thanks are in order. 64 00:04:37,444 --> 00:04:39,905 As to the mystery of the Invictus, 65 00:04:39,988 --> 00:04:43,492 its appearances were one of the first tests I gave my predictive models. 66 00:04:43,992 --> 00:04:48,413 Where others saw chaos, I found a pattern. 67 00:04:49,039 --> 00:04:52,709 I don't understand. We're not revolutionaries. 68 00:04:52,793 --> 00:04:54,378 You said so yourself at the trial. 69 00:04:54,962 --> 00:04:57,339 Well, I might have lied about that. 70 00:05:16,149 --> 00:05:18,235 I am grateful, Brother Dusk. 71 00:05:18,318 --> 00:05:20,946 That I saved our dynasty from infiltration? 72 00:05:22,072 --> 00:05:26,535 I wonder, Day, if you'd stayed on Trantor and not traveled to the Maiden, 73 00:05:27,327 --> 00:05:29,454 would you have apprehended his differences? 74 00:05:30,789 --> 00:05:35,586 You and I are the same. I have to believe I would have. 75 00:05:37,921 --> 00:05:40,924 The more important question is what do we do now? 76 00:05:42,426 --> 00:05:44,136 You know what we have to do. 77 00:05:59,735 --> 00:06:00,736 Out. 78 00:06:05,824 --> 00:06:07,951 We're still unraveling the exact methodology, 79 00:06:08,035 --> 00:06:12,164 but apparently they corrupted your nanoparticle regimen some time ago. 80 00:06:13,332 --> 00:06:14,541 You're not one of us. 81 00:06:16,126 --> 00:06:18,754 Your DNA has been altered in a dozen ways. 82 00:06:19,254 --> 00:06:20,672 You look like us. 83 00:06:23,175 --> 00:06:24,885 You sound like us, but… 84 00:06:31,558 --> 00:06:33,310 How long have you known? 85 00:06:33,393 --> 00:06:34,770 That I'm different? 86 00:06:37,272 --> 00:06:39,441 I used to steal away and watch holos of you… 87 00:06:41,818 --> 00:06:42,986 eating breakfast, 88 00:06:44,404 --> 00:06:45,864 sitting in the throne room. 89 00:06:46,365 --> 00:06:49,368 I counted how often you smiled at your subjects, 90 00:06:50,035 --> 00:06:53,288 whether you sat with your hands together or apart, 91 00:06:53,372 --> 00:06:55,457 how often you drank from your cup at meals. 92 00:06:55,958 --> 00:06:58,210 I knew even then that I wasn't like you. 93 00:07:00,170 --> 00:07:01,421 But I wanted to be. 94 00:07:12,349 --> 00:07:13,600 What are you going to do? 95 00:07:13,684 --> 00:07:15,727 You conspired with insurgents. 96 00:07:15,811 --> 00:07:17,229 I wasn't conspiring. 97 00:07:17,312 --> 00:07:19,857 You trusted your secrets to our enemies and fled the palace. 98 00:07:19,940 --> 00:07:22,317 -She tricked me! -Because she had a foothold in your heart! 99 00:07:22,401 --> 00:07:24,027 And who created that foothold? 100 00:07:24,653 --> 00:07:25,654 Look at us! 101 00:07:26,238 --> 00:07:28,907 We have no mothers, no aunts, no uncles. 102 00:07:28,991 --> 00:07:30,492 We have sex with concubines 103 00:07:30,576 --> 00:07:32,786 whose memories are erased the moment we leave them! 104 00:07:33,871 --> 00:07:35,998 Have you never longed to leave this place? 105 00:07:37,666 --> 00:07:41,503 Have you never felt stifled by the weight of our ascendants? 106 00:07:43,297 --> 00:07:46,717 Can you truly say that all you've ever wanted 107 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:51,847 was to be an installment in a long, long line of us, 108 00:07:53,307 --> 00:07:55,809 living out a script written centuries ago? 109 00:08:00,272 --> 00:08:03,567 All my life, I've wanted to call you "Father." 110 00:08:04,693 --> 00:08:06,195 But you're not my father. 111 00:08:07,738 --> 00:08:09,573 We're not even people, Day. 112 00:08:11,116 --> 00:08:16,205 We're just… echoes of the first Cleon. 113 00:08:18,999 --> 00:08:22,211 So is a corrupted echo more original than a perfect one? 114 00:08:24,379 --> 00:08:26,465 Or does it fade away to nothing? 115 00:08:35,057 --> 00:08:38,101 So the curation, everything we've been doing here, 116 00:08:38,184 --> 00:08:39,352 has all been for nothing? 117 00:08:39,436 --> 00:08:41,230 Not for nothing, Mari. 118 00:08:41,813 --> 00:08:44,274 Your time here on Terminus hasn't been wasted. 119 00:08:44,983 --> 00:08:46,944 It got you out from under the Empire's grasp. 120 00:08:47,027 --> 00:08:48,028 It hardened you. 121 00:08:48,111 --> 00:08:52,157 But the Foundation was never about curating knowledge. 122 00:08:54,034 --> 00:08:55,869 It was about curating people. 123 00:08:59,039 --> 00:09:01,583 You, the original settlers, 124 00:09:02,125 --> 00:09:07,214 you possess qualities vital in forming the seeds of a new civilization. 125 00:09:07,965 --> 00:09:12,636 And you, Anacreons and Thespins, you are the consummate survivors. 126 00:09:13,303 --> 00:09:16,348 Consigned to history by the Empire and yet, 127 00:09:17,391 --> 00:09:20,602 together, you represent the future. 128 00:09:21,728 --> 00:09:24,982 The human race is an ever-evolving story 129 00:09:25,065 --> 00:09:29,528 told over thousands of years by a countless number of voices. 130 00:09:30,821 --> 00:09:32,030 But for a long time now, 131 00:09:32,114 --> 00:09:36,243 that chorus has been suffocated and quietly erased. 132 00:09:36,827 --> 00:09:41,164 Because under the Genetic Dynasty, there is only room for one story. 133 00:09:41,248 --> 00:09:42,583 One voice. 134 00:09:42,666 --> 00:09:46,587 We cannot become who we must become if the Empire is allowed to persist. 135 00:09:48,172 --> 00:09:51,550 That path leads to the annihilation of the human race. 136 00:09:52,259 --> 00:09:57,222 Even if we embrace this destiny of yours, the Empire will be here within weeks. 137 00:09:57,306 --> 00:10:00,767 He's right. They were already investigating the comms buoy. 138 00:10:00,851 --> 00:10:03,478 It's only a matter of time before they send reinforcements. 139 00:10:03,562 --> 00:10:08,817 The Empire won't come. Not yet. Not if they think you're already dead. 140 00:10:09,318 --> 00:10:12,613 Take the Invictus to the far side of your star, 141 00:10:12,696 --> 00:10:17,367 activate the quantum drive, but maintain your position in subspace-- 142 00:10:17,451 --> 00:10:19,828 The energy signature would read as a mega-flare. 143 00:10:21,330 --> 00:10:23,290 A mega-flare would wipe out all life in the system. 144 00:10:23,373 --> 00:10:26,543 The Empire comprises tens of thousands of worlds. 145 00:10:26,627 --> 00:10:29,880 A dangerous star with dead planets in a distant arm of the galaxy 146 00:10:29,963 --> 00:10:34,134 won't merit further investigation even if it did once host the Foundation. 147 00:10:34,843 --> 00:10:37,304 It could work. It could. 148 00:10:37,804 --> 00:10:40,015 As long as don't we stray beyond the Outer Reach, 149 00:10:41,016 --> 00:10:42,392 we'd be invisible to them. 150 00:10:42,476 --> 00:10:43,644 We'd be free. 151 00:10:43,727 --> 00:10:45,020 You'd be free, 152 00:10:45,854 --> 00:10:50,108 to bide your time, to build, to become who you need to become. 153 00:10:52,027 --> 00:10:53,737 So, are you the ghost then? 154 00:10:54,988 --> 00:10:56,198 I suppose I am. 155 00:10:56,281 --> 00:10:57,950 -What's it like to die? -Keir. 156 00:10:58,033 --> 00:10:59,284 What? I want to know. 157 00:11:02,746 --> 00:11:04,039 Did you see anything? 158 00:11:05,749 --> 00:11:07,876 Those are complex questions. 159 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,755 Then answer a simple one. How'd you get here? 160 00:11:12,714 --> 00:11:14,174 What's your name, son? 161 00:11:14,258 --> 00:11:16,677 Poly. Poly Verisof. 162 00:11:17,261 --> 00:11:20,931 Well, Poly Verisof, shortly before I died, 163 00:11:21,598 --> 00:11:26,937 I swallowed a pill containing millions of self-replicating molecular machines. 164 00:11:27,646 --> 00:11:31,650 As per my mortality directive, my casket was jettisoned out into space. 165 00:11:32,442 --> 00:11:35,279 Those machines began breaking down my body tissue 166 00:11:35,362 --> 00:11:37,906 into all its constituent elements. 167 00:11:37,990 --> 00:11:40,576 Then those machines recycled those elements, 168 00:11:40,659 --> 00:11:44,329 scooping up more material, ice, micrometeoroids, et cetera, 169 00:11:44,413 --> 00:11:47,165 assembling the Vault's internal scaffolding. 170 00:11:47,833 --> 00:11:49,835 You're saying the Vault isn't just your tomb? 171 00:11:51,003 --> 00:11:52,504 The Vault is you? 172 00:11:53,005 --> 00:11:56,008 You've been on Terminus this whole time, watching us? 173 00:11:56,091 --> 00:12:00,721 No. It wouldn't have been wise for me to have been sentient all this time. 174 00:12:00,804 --> 00:12:03,932 That kind of isolation can undo even the strongest minds. 175 00:12:04,433 --> 00:12:08,562 No, the process of my awakening was triggered by the Anacreons. 176 00:12:09,062 --> 00:12:10,522 When the null field expanded. 177 00:12:11,064 --> 00:12:13,817 It takes time to rebuild consciousness, Salvor. 178 00:12:13,901 --> 00:12:17,029 The null field is just part of the Vault's automatic defense system. 179 00:12:17,613 --> 00:12:19,198 Will we see you again? 180 00:12:19,281 --> 00:12:20,949 I expect so, Poly. 181 00:12:22,117 --> 00:12:26,413 This isn't the Foundation's first crisis, and it won't be the last. 182 00:12:26,997 --> 00:12:31,001 You've bought a reprieve, but war with Empire is inevitable. 183 00:12:31,793 --> 00:12:37,591 In the meantime, remember this day. Remember what we're striving towards. 184 00:12:37,674 --> 00:12:40,928 I know a thousand years can seem like an eternity, 185 00:12:41,428 --> 00:12:45,057 but it's the blink of an eye when measured against the whole of human history, 186 00:12:45,140 --> 00:12:49,811 and it could so easily slip through our fingers if we're not vigilant. 187 00:12:53,565 --> 00:12:57,027 No, wait! So, that's it? That's all we get? 188 00:12:57,110 --> 00:12:58,779 I've given you what you need. 189 00:12:59,696 --> 00:13:01,532 What about the visions you've been sending me? 190 00:13:01,615 --> 00:13:02,783 Visions? 191 00:13:02,866 --> 00:13:03,867 Yes. 192 00:13:04,368 --> 00:13:07,412 The ghost. You've been talking to me since I was a kid. 193 00:13:07,496 --> 00:13:08,914 And I had these visions. 194 00:13:08,997 --> 00:13:11,250 I've seen you on Trantor, on the slow ship. 195 00:13:12,209 --> 00:13:14,920 They guided me. You helped me solve the crisis. 196 00:13:16,255 --> 00:13:17,256 Curious. 197 00:13:19,299 --> 00:13:21,218 Well, Salvor Hardin, 198 00:13:22,594 --> 00:13:24,596 whatever messages you've been receiving, 199 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:28,100 I assure you they haven't come from me. 200 00:14:51,725 --> 00:14:52,726 Walk with me. 201 00:14:57,731 --> 00:15:00,526 I know people hate me, consider me evil. 202 00:15:01,318 --> 00:15:02,986 But it is my detachment, 203 00:15:04,696 --> 00:15:06,406 my indifference to suffering, 204 00:15:06,990 --> 00:15:08,992 that allows me to rule effectively. 205 00:15:10,285 --> 00:15:12,579 The galaxy is so vast, 206 00:15:14,039 --> 00:15:15,958 the problems so large, 207 00:15:16,041 --> 00:15:19,044 that I must turn a blind eye to the individual. 208 00:15:22,881 --> 00:15:23,882 Look there. 209 00:15:26,134 --> 00:15:30,013 It's a strange burden not being allowed to carry a burden. 210 00:15:32,015 --> 00:15:35,352 My brothers and I shift it amongst ourselves because we're a family. 211 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:41,441 And we love one another in our own way. 212 00:15:43,110 --> 00:15:45,112 I'm sure you find that hard to believe. 213 00:15:47,030 --> 00:15:49,950 Do you ever think about your legacy, Azura? 214 00:15:51,743 --> 00:15:54,329 The mark you leave behind after you're gone? 215 00:15:58,208 --> 00:16:02,296 As a child, I wanted to be better than the Cleons who came before. 216 00:16:03,130 --> 00:16:08,802 Smarter, braver, more dazzling in the justice I handed out. 217 00:16:12,514 --> 00:16:15,309 But as I matured, my aspirations evolved. 218 00:16:16,143 --> 00:16:18,395 I no longer wanted to be the best. 219 00:16:18,896 --> 00:16:24,359 I wanted to be the same. Predictable courage, predictable justice. 220 00:16:24,443 --> 00:16:30,073 I wanted my son to be the same too. Another Cleon. Perfectly Cleon. 221 00:16:30,157 --> 00:16:31,241 He's not your son. 222 00:16:34,703 --> 00:16:35,913 Of course he is. 223 00:16:40,209 --> 00:16:43,712 He is my brother. He is also my son. 224 00:16:45,672 --> 00:16:47,174 I rocked him as a baby. 225 00:16:48,175 --> 00:16:52,596 I cultivated him just as you've nurtured the plants in this garden. 226 00:16:54,264 --> 00:16:56,808 It's a powerful thing, caring for a life. 227 00:16:58,810 --> 00:17:00,729 Why are you telling me all of this? 228 00:17:02,981 --> 00:17:05,317 Because of all the galaxy's citizens… 229 00:17:07,569 --> 00:17:11,906 you have the singular distinction of having robbed me of my personal legacy. 230 00:17:12,907 --> 00:17:14,660 Which leads me to your legacy. 231 00:17:16,662 --> 00:17:19,957 I know you're not the architect of this plot, but you are the face of it. 232 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,501 The face that broke my son's heart. 233 00:17:24,211 --> 00:17:27,464 We traced your family tree back to your great-great-grandparents, 234 00:17:27,548 --> 00:17:31,844 and then identified all living descendants branching out from those 16 individuals. 235 00:17:32,469 --> 00:17:35,347 Not just direct descendants, but all the aunts and uncles, 236 00:17:36,431 --> 00:17:39,351 first and second cousins, removed or otherwise. 237 00:17:39,434 --> 00:17:41,353 Do you know how many people we uncovered? 238 00:17:42,312 --> 00:17:44,106 712. 239 00:17:46,024 --> 00:17:49,069 Then we located all your friends and lovers, past and present. 240 00:17:49,152 --> 00:17:53,156 First boy you kissed, the young woman you gave your virginity to. 241 00:17:54,575 --> 00:17:58,453 Your teachers and coworkers, even those here on the palace grounds. 242 00:17:59,162 --> 00:18:04,459 We located their parents and siblings. Basically, anyone in your extended orbit. 243 00:18:05,627 --> 00:18:09,381 That amounted to another 839 individuals. 244 00:18:09,882 --> 00:18:12,759 1,551 people. 245 00:18:14,636 --> 00:18:17,514 The sum total of lives you've made a meaningful mark on. 246 00:18:18,473 --> 00:18:23,312 In short, the people who would remember you after you're gone. 247 00:18:24,938 --> 00:18:26,023 Even as we speak, 248 00:18:26,106 --> 00:18:30,110 every member of your personal constellation is under our surveillance, 249 00:18:30,194 --> 00:18:33,280 a particle beam targeting each of their brain stems. 250 00:18:33,363 --> 00:18:37,534 At my signal, they will all cease to exist. 251 00:18:42,915 --> 00:18:43,916 There. 252 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:46,084 All gone. 253 00:18:48,295 --> 00:18:50,589 Your legacy has been erased, Azura. 254 00:18:51,632 --> 00:18:55,344 Whatever minute waves your being managed to propagate throughout the universe 255 00:18:55,427 --> 00:18:56,970 have been canceled out. 256 00:19:00,807 --> 00:19:05,395 You will be placed in an automated cell and fed intravenously, 257 00:19:06,021 --> 00:19:08,357 restrained so as to prevent self-harm. 258 00:19:09,233 --> 00:19:12,194 You will be sensory shrouded for the rest of your life. 259 00:19:12,277 --> 00:19:17,366 You will never see, nor hear, nor smell, nor taste, nor touch again. 260 00:19:19,034 --> 00:19:20,369 But you will be aware. 261 00:19:21,912 --> 00:19:25,457 And you will remember what you have taken from me. 262 00:19:53,193 --> 00:19:54,319 Hari Seldon, 263 00:19:56,029 --> 00:20:01,159 seeing all this coming and telling us nothing. 264 00:20:01,243 --> 00:20:03,203 I thought we'd be sitting out the fall. 265 00:20:04,079 --> 00:20:05,080 I thought our work 266 00:20:05,163 --> 00:20:08,542 was building a time capsule some future survivors would open. 267 00:20:08,625 --> 00:20:10,961 I never imagined we'd be the ones putting the Plan in action. 268 00:20:12,921 --> 00:20:15,048 Do you still believe the Empire's gonna collapse? 269 00:20:16,633 --> 00:20:17,634 Yes. 270 00:20:18,427 --> 00:20:20,429 Do you still believe humanity can do better? 271 00:20:21,013 --> 00:20:23,974 Of course I do. No one sane wants the Empire to continue. 272 00:20:24,641 --> 00:20:26,018 So, what's the difference now? 273 00:20:27,686 --> 00:20:30,814 The difference is, he didn't just not tell us, 274 00:20:32,107 --> 00:20:33,400 he lied to us. 275 00:20:33,901 --> 00:20:36,195 It's like when I brought you along to lectures when you were a kid 276 00:20:36,278 --> 00:20:38,488 and gave you a crayon and told you to take notes. 277 00:20:39,948 --> 00:20:41,283 He gave us busywork. 278 00:20:42,367 --> 00:20:43,660 I believed in him. 279 00:20:47,289 --> 00:20:48,290 Every word. 280 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:53,879 And he just pulled the rug out from under us. 281 00:20:57,674 --> 00:20:59,051 How do you think I feel? 282 00:21:05,516 --> 00:21:07,017 I'm sorry he didn't know you. 283 00:21:09,311 --> 00:21:10,354 Know me. 284 00:21:11,730 --> 00:21:12,940 It's more than that. 285 00:21:14,775 --> 00:21:18,946 All these years thinking the ghost was talking to me. 286 00:21:20,948 --> 00:21:22,699 I convinced myself it was Hari, 287 00:21:23,700 --> 00:21:30,499 and I started to believe that I actually was special. 288 00:21:32,125 --> 00:21:33,836 But if the visions weren't coming from him, 289 00:21:33,919 --> 00:21:35,754 then who were they coming from? 290 00:21:36,547 --> 00:21:39,216 No one? My imagination? 291 00:21:39,883 --> 00:21:41,885 You are special, Salvor. 292 00:21:44,054 --> 00:21:45,138 The null field. 293 00:21:46,014 --> 00:21:49,601 What you did, bringing the Invictus, it meant everything. 294 00:21:52,938 --> 00:21:54,147 We survived… 295 00:21:56,358 --> 00:21:57,442 against all odds. 296 00:21:58,110 --> 00:21:59,486 You were right. 297 00:22:01,738 --> 00:22:03,699 We have to make our own plan now. 298 00:22:26,305 --> 00:22:29,266 I respected her, in a way. 299 00:22:31,476 --> 00:22:32,936 I'm sorry it came down to this. 300 00:22:34,062 --> 00:22:35,063 I'm not. 301 00:22:36,398 --> 00:22:39,610 No next move, just a last one. Isn't that what you said about her? 302 00:22:41,904 --> 00:22:44,072 I was just trying to rattle you. 303 00:22:44,156 --> 00:22:45,616 Obviously it worked, Warden. 304 00:22:48,744 --> 00:22:52,331 I wanted the next move for my child. 305 00:22:54,166 --> 00:22:57,544 Over a century ago, this was offered to the emperor in peace. 306 00:23:00,672 --> 00:23:02,007 I'm offering it again… 307 00:23:05,511 --> 00:23:06,512 to you. 308 00:23:09,890 --> 00:23:13,560 She respected you as well, in a way. 309 00:23:25,489 --> 00:23:27,699 Will you take her back to Anacreon? 310 00:23:28,575 --> 00:23:31,662 No. We've brought Anacreon to her. 311 00:23:32,412 --> 00:23:36,208 The cutting is from a Tallyn oak, the same wood your bow was carved from. 312 00:23:36,750 --> 00:23:40,295 Our foresters tell me it might be stubborn enough to take root here. 313 00:23:42,673 --> 00:23:43,966 Would you help me, Warden? 314 00:23:45,717 --> 00:23:46,718 Yeah. 315 00:24:15,873 --> 00:24:17,249 In the months that followed, 316 00:24:17,332 --> 00:24:20,377 the children of the Outer Reach took Hari's words to heart, 317 00:24:20,961 --> 00:24:24,006 setting aside hatred in favor of strength. 318 00:24:26,300 --> 00:24:31,763 It takes more power to build than to burn, and Hari wanted them to build. 319 00:24:35,309 --> 00:24:36,685 As for the Invictus, 320 00:24:36,768 --> 00:24:40,272 Hugo Crast, of all people, became its captain. 321 00:25:30,948 --> 00:25:33,492 He took it to the far side of their star 322 00:25:33,575 --> 00:25:38,580 and generated a mega-flare, allowing the Foundation to be free. 323 00:26:06,191 --> 00:26:07,401 Captain Crast. 324 00:26:07,985 --> 00:26:09,069 -Poly. -Warden. 325 00:26:09,862 --> 00:26:11,154 How goes the Invictus? 326 00:26:11,238 --> 00:26:13,073 We managed to stabilize the drives, 327 00:26:13,156 --> 00:26:15,701 so we won't be jumping into the heart of a star anytime soon. 328 00:26:15,784 --> 00:26:17,661 And how long before we can build another? 329 00:26:17,744 --> 00:26:19,288 Eighteen months, ma'am. 330 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,418 -You like it up in space, Poly? -I do. 331 00:26:26,461 --> 00:26:28,755 And how long are you dirt-side, Captain? 332 00:26:29,339 --> 00:26:30,841 Fourteen long hours, Warden. 333 00:26:32,050 --> 00:26:34,761 Mirror on my telescope's a little out of alignment. 334 00:26:35,262 --> 00:26:37,639 Think you could help me recollimate it? 335 00:26:38,765 --> 00:26:40,559 Guys, I know what you're talking about. 336 00:26:42,144 --> 00:26:44,688 Well, then why don't you politely piss off, Poly? 337 00:29:04,328 --> 00:29:05,329 Stop! 338 00:29:12,419 --> 00:29:13,629 Wait! 339 00:30:00,592 --> 00:30:02,511 If it's not you, then who is it, Hari? 340 00:30:27,744 --> 00:30:28,996 I remember this one. 341 00:30:30,163 --> 00:30:31,331 That was your favorite. 342 00:30:32,583 --> 00:30:34,376 You used to sleep with it in your crib. 343 00:30:35,586 --> 00:30:38,422 If you had a nightmare, he used to say you could blow it, 344 00:30:39,673 --> 00:30:42,009 and the ghosts would fly away. 345 00:30:44,052 --> 00:30:46,597 Most of the time, just holding it was enough to soothe you. 346 00:30:47,222 --> 00:30:50,058 Thank goodness. A child with a whistle is a trial for the soul. 347 00:30:52,644 --> 00:30:55,272 He used to drive me crazy how often I'd find him out here 348 00:30:55,355 --> 00:30:58,609 having fallen asleep while he was working. 349 00:30:59,902 --> 00:31:02,362 He was terrible when he first started making them. 350 00:31:02,863 --> 00:31:06,700 But after a few hundred nights, Abbas developed a knack for it. 351 00:31:09,536 --> 00:31:13,123 He'd have been proud, you know? You becoming mayor, filling his shoes. 352 00:31:13,874 --> 00:31:17,461 The election's just a formality. Everyone knows you'll win by a landslide. 353 00:31:17,544 --> 00:31:20,881 Mom, who's the girl from the water planet? 354 00:31:29,014 --> 00:31:31,642 On the slow ship, we had a seed bank program. 355 00:31:31,725 --> 00:31:34,394 It wasn't safe bringing the baby to term in space, 356 00:31:34,478 --> 00:31:39,691 so we banked our eggs and embryos as insurance against the future. 357 00:31:40,817 --> 00:31:43,153 I chose one from a controversial donor. 358 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:47,282 Gaal Dornick. 359 00:31:48,659 --> 00:31:50,410 Any change in your birth directive? 360 00:31:52,204 --> 00:31:54,289 I got to know her a little before we lost her. 361 00:31:54,373 --> 00:31:56,250 She had a remarkable mind. 362 00:31:56,959 --> 00:31:58,168 And the father? 363 00:31:58,877 --> 00:32:00,337 Raych Foss. 364 00:32:00,420 --> 00:32:02,130 I've seen them both as children. 365 00:32:04,591 --> 00:32:05,634 Gaal tonight. 366 00:32:07,135 --> 00:32:08,887 And Raych… 367 00:32:11,223 --> 00:32:13,058 at the start of the crisis. 368 00:32:13,725 --> 00:32:14,726 Hey! 369 00:32:15,435 --> 00:32:19,106 All this time I thought I was living Hari's memories. 370 00:32:19,857 --> 00:32:21,358 But I was actually living theirs. 371 00:32:22,192 --> 00:32:24,862 It makes so much sense now, why I am so different. 372 00:32:24,945 --> 00:32:28,907 I carried you in my womb, Salvor. You're still my daughter. 373 00:32:28,991 --> 00:32:31,827 I know. But I am their daughter too. 374 00:32:34,371 --> 00:32:36,748 Gaal escaped in a cryo-pod. Where? 375 00:32:37,374 --> 00:32:39,042 I was still early on in our journey. 376 00:32:39,126 --> 00:32:42,129 It would've been somewhere along the Orion Spur. 377 00:32:43,046 --> 00:32:44,673 I think she's still out there, Mom. 378 00:32:46,633 --> 00:32:50,095 I think she's the one who's been reaching out to me. 379 00:32:50,179 --> 00:32:53,640 I think that she is behind all my instincts. 380 00:32:53,724 --> 00:32:55,642 Hon, that was 40 light-years from Terminus. 381 00:32:55,726 --> 00:32:57,060 How could that possibly work? 382 00:32:57,144 --> 00:32:58,478 I don't know, but it is her. 383 00:32:58,562 --> 00:33:03,901 And if Gaal was special in some way, any way, it might explain why I am too. 384 00:33:03,984 --> 00:33:06,195 You've always been drawn to the stars. 385 00:33:06,278 --> 00:33:08,155 Yeah, and now we know why. 386 00:33:10,115 --> 00:33:11,783 'Cause something is tugging at me. 387 00:33:13,202 --> 00:33:15,078 Mom, I have to try and find her. 388 00:33:16,121 --> 00:33:17,289 I know, love. 389 00:33:20,209 --> 00:33:21,293 And I want you to. 390 00:33:23,086 --> 00:33:25,088 Here's the thing though, Mom. I need to go right now. 391 00:33:26,048 --> 00:33:28,800 I'm worried if I don't go now, I'll never find the courage again. 392 00:33:34,890 --> 00:33:37,851 Take the ghost whistle. And something else. 393 00:33:46,693 --> 00:33:49,363 When you find her, give her this. 394 00:33:51,907 --> 00:33:53,700 It was always meant to be hers. 395 00:33:56,245 --> 00:33:59,623 I'm sorry. For everything. 396 00:34:01,166 --> 00:34:03,210 There's nothing to forgive, Mom. 397 00:34:05,087 --> 00:34:07,339 I was exactly where I needed to be. 398 00:34:44,126 --> 00:34:45,210 Beggar, wake up. 399 00:34:56,554 --> 00:34:58,015 Figured I'd find you here. 400 00:35:00,809 --> 00:35:01,810 Damn. 401 00:35:02,394 --> 00:35:04,146 You wanted a clean getaway. 402 00:35:04,730 --> 00:35:06,231 I know you too well, Sal. 403 00:35:07,774 --> 00:35:09,860 Think it was the kiss on the cheek that did it. 404 00:35:09,943 --> 00:35:13,947 I just didn't want it to hurt any more than it had to. 405 00:35:14,865 --> 00:35:16,325 It's not love if it doesn't hurt. 406 00:35:17,618 --> 00:35:21,038 I learned that when I had to leave Thespis so the others could eat. 407 00:35:22,247 --> 00:35:23,999 And no one came chasing after me. 408 00:35:25,876 --> 00:35:27,461 Are you chasing after me, then? 409 00:35:29,755 --> 00:35:31,590 You know, you can come if you want to. 410 00:35:32,257 --> 00:35:34,259 I would if you really wanted me to. 411 00:35:35,511 --> 00:35:38,555 But I get the feeling this is something you need to do alone. 412 00:35:42,643 --> 00:35:45,354 I always knew you'd let this planet shrug you off one day. 413 00:35:47,856 --> 00:35:50,150 Just figured I'd be by your side when it happened. 414 00:35:51,693 --> 00:35:52,861 Will you be mad later? 415 00:35:54,988 --> 00:35:55,989 Never. 416 00:36:17,177 --> 00:36:18,762 Take care of my planet, won't you? 417 00:36:19,513 --> 00:36:20,889 Take care of my ship. 418 00:36:20,973 --> 00:36:22,891 She's not your ship anymore. 419 00:36:24,643 --> 00:36:25,811 It's not my planet. 420 00:36:30,148 --> 00:36:31,608 Galaxy's a big place, Sal. 421 00:36:33,485 --> 00:36:35,153 Any idea where you'll start? 422 00:36:35,821 --> 00:36:36,822 Got a hunch. 423 00:36:38,740 --> 00:36:39,741 Go on. Beat it. 424 00:36:45,455 --> 00:36:46,456 Go. 425 00:36:47,583 --> 00:36:48,584 Go on. 426 00:37:30,667 --> 00:37:32,044 Goodbye, Salvor Hardin. 427 00:39:02,801 --> 00:39:03,802 Empire. 428 00:39:08,140 --> 00:39:09,141 It's time. 429 00:39:12,352 --> 00:39:13,353 You must hate me. 430 00:39:15,105 --> 00:39:16,940 I could never hate you, Empire. 431 00:39:17,941 --> 00:39:18,942 I love you. 432 00:39:20,277 --> 00:39:21,695 Because you're programmed to. 433 00:39:22,779 --> 00:39:26,366 All love is programming, biological or otherwise. 434 00:39:27,451 --> 00:39:30,078 When a human mother looks into her newborn's eyes, 435 00:39:30,621 --> 00:39:32,414 their brain waves synchronize. 436 00:40:08,283 --> 00:40:09,284 Empire. 437 00:40:09,368 --> 00:40:11,620 Damn your courtly deportment, boy. 438 00:40:12,579 --> 00:40:14,373 You almost brought us down. 439 00:40:14,456 --> 00:40:15,791 I'm sorry, Brother, I-- 440 00:40:15,874 --> 00:40:18,794 You are no brother to me, nor to Cleon I, 441 00:40:18,877 --> 00:40:21,505 nor to any other Cleon who walked these polished floors. 442 00:40:21,588 --> 00:40:23,882 You are a deformity. 443 00:40:23,966 --> 00:40:27,469 And if I had my way, you would already be ash. 444 00:40:29,096 --> 00:40:30,472 But as you pointed out, 445 00:40:30,556 --> 00:40:34,017 that is a judgment for the middle throne to decide. 446 00:40:36,478 --> 00:40:37,813 During my time away, 447 00:40:37,896 --> 00:40:41,275 I had much opportunity to reflect upon our dynasty. 448 00:40:43,902 --> 00:40:46,822 I went to sleep in one sector of the galaxy, 449 00:40:46,905 --> 00:40:48,574 then awoke in another. 450 00:40:50,284 --> 00:40:53,203 It's a miracle, by all accounts, 451 00:40:54,538 --> 00:40:56,832 folding space and time. 452 00:40:57,332 --> 00:40:59,418 And then, on the Maiden, 453 00:41:00,210 --> 00:41:03,380 I met pilgrims who had worked their whole lives 454 00:41:03,463 --> 00:41:05,382 just to walk a spiral of salt, 455 00:41:05,465 --> 00:41:09,094 in the hopes that they might be granted a vision before they die. 456 00:41:10,512 --> 00:41:11,513 I-- 457 00:41:14,558 --> 00:41:17,936 We were challenged by a woman who claimed 458 00:41:18,020 --> 00:41:23,400 that a soul incapable of change is a soul doomed to stagnation. 459 00:41:24,902 --> 00:41:28,197 I believe Seldon himself implied something similar. 460 00:41:29,281 --> 00:41:32,201 Seldon was a vainglorious fraud. 461 00:41:32,284 --> 00:41:33,410 And yet, Brother-- 462 00:41:33,911 --> 00:41:34,912 And yet… 463 00:41:36,788 --> 00:41:41,084 a bough incapable of bending will eventually break. 464 00:41:43,295 --> 00:41:46,048 It is time the dynasty bent. 465 00:41:46,590 --> 00:41:47,883 Just a little. 466 00:41:51,136 --> 00:41:52,221 Are you insane? 467 00:41:53,972 --> 00:41:55,641 Did that jump addle your brain? 468 00:41:56,892 --> 00:42:00,062 This is why you should never have left. 469 00:42:00,646 --> 00:42:04,691 Our entire empire is built on imperishable permanence. 470 00:42:04,775 --> 00:42:07,069 If the Galactic Council discovers 471 00:42:07,152 --> 00:42:09,947 -our dynastic thread is broken… -Galactic Council? They'd never know. 472 00:42:10,030 --> 00:42:12,032 -…we are through! -We could learn from this. 473 00:42:12,115 --> 00:42:15,536 -Perhaps even benefit from a slight-- -Benefit? 474 00:42:15,619 --> 00:42:17,412 -Demerzel. -How dare you lay your hands on me? 475 00:42:17,496 --> 00:42:19,581 -You've grown weak. -Please don't let them kill me. 476 00:42:19,665 --> 00:42:20,999 -I won't. -This is nonsense. 477 00:42:25,963 --> 00:42:30,259 I would rather decant another one of you, than have that aberration live amongst us. 478 00:42:30,342 --> 00:42:32,094 The decision is mine to make! 479 00:42:32,177 --> 00:42:33,846 Not if it brings about our ruin! 480 00:42:33,929 --> 00:42:35,639 Psychohistory predicted-- 481 00:42:35,722 --> 00:42:37,182 Psychohistory? 482 00:42:37,266 --> 00:42:42,271 We are Empire. History bends to us! 483 00:42:43,522 --> 00:42:44,731 No! 484 00:42:52,948 --> 00:42:54,533 I am loyal, Empire, 485 00:42:55,701 --> 00:42:58,662 to the Cleonic Dynasty above all else. 486 00:42:59,663 --> 00:43:00,664 No. 487 00:43:12,968 --> 00:43:15,512 You can dispose of the body yourself. 488 00:43:19,224 --> 00:43:23,854 I expect another one incarnated and up to speed by breakfast tomorrow. 489 00:45:49,708 --> 00:45:51,376 What? Speak. 490 00:45:53,170 --> 00:45:55,797 The rebels' plans to undermine the dynasty 491 00:45:56,757 --> 00:45:58,967 appear to be more extensive than we first believed. 492 00:46:03,889 --> 00:46:06,850 We thought the gene editing was limited solely to Dawn's person, 493 00:46:07,476 --> 00:46:09,520 that it was done after he was incarnated. 494 00:46:10,270 --> 00:46:11,939 But after more extensive testing, 495 00:46:12,689 --> 00:46:14,816 it seems they've adulterated the source itself. 496 00:46:16,068 --> 00:46:18,278 Then all replacement clones… 497 00:46:19,112 --> 00:46:20,697 …are no longer pure copies. 498 00:46:22,449 --> 00:46:24,201 When did this happen? 499 00:46:24,284 --> 00:46:25,911 We don't know precisely. 500 00:46:27,329 --> 00:46:33,418 Are you saying that I, myself, am adulterated? 501 00:46:35,879 --> 00:46:36,880 Possibly. 502 00:46:39,633 --> 00:46:40,634 Yes. 503 00:46:42,678 --> 00:46:43,804 And Dusk? 504 00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:46,598 Empire's being examined as we speak. 505 00:46:50,477 --> 00:46:51,770 Thank you, Shadowmaster. 506 00:46:53,313 --> 00:46:54,314 You may leave. 507 00:49:55,746 --> 00:49:58,165 Entering Synnaxian aerospace. 508 00:50:09,968 --> 00:50:11,470 Initiate reentry. 509 00:50:11,553 --> 00:50:13,305 Secure for reentry. 510 00:50:33,033 --> 00:50:34,451 Climbing from the cradle. 511 00:50:36,411 --> 00:50:38,288 Leaving the comfort of home. 512 00:50:40,832 --> 00:50:42,251 No safe harbor. 513 00:50:44,336 --> 00:50:48,590 86,982,283. 514 00:50:48,674 --> 00:50:52,845 86,982,331… 515 00:50:56,390 --> 00:51:00,644 86,982,341. 516 00:51:05,232 --> 00:51:07,651 Just a cry in the dark. 517 00:51:10,946 --> 00:51:11,947 Are we alone? 518 00:51:22,791 --> 00:51:27,045 And even if we aren't, will anyone bother to answer? 519 00:52:04,416 --> 00:52:05,626 Okay. 520 00:54:08,248 --> 00:54:09,416 Go away. 521 00:56:52,788 --> 00:56:55,582 Hey. Hey, can you hear me? 522 00:56:58,877 --> 00:57:00,003 It's okay. 523 00:57:00,087 --> 00:57:02,214 It's okay. You're okay. It's okay. 524 00:57:03,048 --> 00:57:05,342 What were you doing down there? 525 00:57:05,425 --> 00:57:08,136 The readout said you'd been in cryo over a century. 526 00:57:09,471 --> 00:57:11,014 I crash-landed. 527 00:57:12,057 --> 00:57:13,350 I came looking for someone. 528 00:57:14,685 --> 00:57:15,769 Who? 529 00:57:23,986 --> 00:57:24,987 You. 530 00:57:27,239 --> 00:57:28,240 What? 531 00:57:32,411 --> 00:57:36,164 My name is Salvor Hardin. 532 00:57:42,421 --> 00:57:43,547 I'm your daughter. 533 00:57:47,467 --> 00:57:49,219 I'm pretty sure this belongs to you. 534 00:58:07,112 --> 00:58:08,697 Sometimes you leap. 535 00:58:10,532 --> 00:58:13,660 And sometimes, someone catches you.