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Foundation 2021 Season 3 Episode 2
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03:29get it back on track. We'd stay in cryosleep for all but a few weeks each year.
03:34Awaken sleeper, another year's passed. When we were awake, Harry would teach the
03:40metallics about psycho history. Manipulating events through mass action,
03:44bending the arc of history, that is psycho history's true power. And I would
03:50teach them how to use their powers to fight the mule.
03:54As the years passed, we evolved from Telem's children into whirling blades in
04:00the current of time. No, don't. Don't bow. Our religious era is over. We expanded our
04:07reach, seeking out other metallics like us and growing our numbers. Soon we had eyes
04:13and ears in every part of the galaxy, working in the shadows to ensure the
04:18first foundation grew strong and empire weakened according to the initial
04:22trajectory of the plan. But, as the years went by, we found ourselves up against
04:29one thing we couldn't control. Time.
04:35We still wouldn't be ready in time. The mule doesn't show up for another half a century. It's not him I'm worried about. The third crisis was always the turning point. If we don't know what we're going to do, we're going to do it.
04:42We still wouldn't be ready in time. The mule doesn't show up for another half a century. It's not him I'm worried about. The third crisis was always
05:03the turning point. If we don't have everything in exactly the right place, even if you defeat the mule, we won't be ready for what comes after.
05:12Then we specialize. We can't teach all the metallics all of psychohistory, but we can teach parts of it to each of them.
05:18That's good. But we'd still need to be constantly updating our regression models.
05:24our social operations so that we know we're influencing the right sectors.
05:28We're not catching up fast enough.
05:35We need to stay awake.
05:38One of us needs to stay awake.
05:41Harry.
05:45Your battle is with the mule. It's my job to ensure that we're prepared.
05:49Harry! Fuck!
05:51There's only one way that's possible.
06:09See you in a year.
06:21the atmosphere.
06:26The storm.
06:27Will it be?
06:28I leave.
06:29The air.
06:30The air users have to ensure that we can achieve it.
06:33No, the air users have to ensure that we can achieve.
06:34Our air would not be the eyes.
06:36The sun is our sea.
06:37Responding around with the storm.
06:37The sun is moving in the air.
06:38It's our air.
06:40The sea.
06:41The air is moving in the air.
06:42The air is at the sea.
06:44The air will be the air.
06:45The air will be the air.
06:46The air will be the air.
06:47It's almost coming.
06:48The air is already моя.
06:49We'll be the air.
06:49And the air will tap into the air.
06:51Welcome home, girl.
06:59Where's Thalys?
07:01Thalys passed away some time ago.
07:05He's first speaker now.
07:07His name's Prim Palva.
07:13Where's Harry?
07:14How many years?
07:21Since your first wait cycle, 148 years.
07:42Harry?
07:47Gail.
07:51Oh, that's right.
07:53That's right.
07:54Why didn't they wake me sooner?
07:58We needed more time.
08:00Yours is more valuable than mine.
08:02I could have helped.
08:04We could have traded places for a while, taken turns.
08:07We could have found some way to...
08:09You're always so angry with me.
08:14No.
08:14You always earn it.
08:21The mule?
08:22No, not yet.
08:24Soon.
08:25But the...
08:26The third crisis is almost upon us.
08:31Come.
08:35What are these?
08:37Oh, I made them.
08:39Salvo.
08:44Viana.
08:46Rache.
08:47This is how I remember the past these days.
08:50I can't see them clearly in here anymore.
08:54But I can in here.
08:58Come.
08:59Come.
09:00There's something I need to show you.
09:02For most of my life, I believed, if executed properly, my plan would shorten the darkness.
09:16You were never meant to be part of a second foundation.
09:23You were supposed to die centuries ago.
09:25Yet here you are.
09:28You threw everything off course.
09:31And somehow managed to pull it all back again.
09:35This can't all be by accident.
09:39There's something happening here.
09:40I...
09:40I can't explain it.
09:42But I know you're at the center of it.
09:51The road ahead is one you can travel on your own.
09:57I'm not saying goodbye to you.
10:00Then I'll have Priem do the eulogy.
10:04You'll like him.
10:06Now.
10:12This is everything I know about the eight crises.
10:34All the raw data.
10:37All my thoughts.
10:38Secrets.
10:39But the most important is this one.
10:44The Invictus.
10:46If the mule is defeated, this is where everything is headed.
11:01I'll see you tomorrow.
11:02I'll see you tomorrow.
11:06I'm tired.
11:08Yeah.
11:08Tomorrow.
11:09Yeah.
11:10Okay.
11:10Yes.
11:12Mm-hmm.
11:13Yeah.
11:14Be careful.
11:14Be careful.
11:32You lied to her.
11:47I couldn't look her in the face and say goodbye.
11:53Better this way.
11:54Were I, girl, I'd disagree.
11:56I disagree.
12:02Are you certain of this?
12:09There'd be grace to die here.
12:15Take me back to Una's world.
12:18Grant me another reprieve.
12:22This body was your reprieve.
12:25And you did all you could while you had it.
12:27That I'm certain.
12:48No spaces.
12:50No whisper drive.
12:53No jump gate.
12:54Come with me.
12:59Let me show you.
13:05Salvo said, she said, someone wanted me to have skin in the game.
13:09Why?
13:10Because we can't.
13:12Harry?
13:34Harry?
13:34Harry?
13:35I'll see you.
14:05He's gone.
14:14He didn't say goodbye, but I felt him leave.
14:24I don't know how to sign yet, but I can read Heartbreak.
14:27Harry's gone, and I want to make one for him.
14:39One of those statues he was making.
14:42He already carved his own, didn't he?
14:57Of course you fucking did.
15:09Harry had carved himself into history and forged a path for us to follow.
15:14We took that path together.
15:17I learned Preem's language, and the plan was back on track.
15:21But the fight was just beginning.
15:27Where is the second foundation?
15:35The mule is here.
15:37We're out of time.
15:38We're out of time.
16:37Well, if it can get worse, it can get better.
17:05Fix it!
17:07It is not fixable.
17:09Not by psychohistory, at least.
17:12It couldn't just be wrong.
17:15You said the predictions have been less exact recently.
17:19I believe that is due to some other unknown.
17:22Something has been casting shadows in the math for years.
17:25Calgan, then.
17:27Changed hands.
17:28Couldn't that have caused some domino effect?
17:30I always felt we were headed to nothingness.
17:34Just the void, gentlemen.
17:35For a century, this toy obeyed that toy.
17:52It made us servants to its readings, which it promised would help us preserve our own skin.
18:00Well, happy payday to us.
18:05We're fucked.
18:06If you need me, find a way not to.
18:23Even emptier in there than I thought.
18:25We'll confer later.
18:32For now, don't tell anyone else.
18:34No one can know.
18:39Demrazel, I think in this moment,
18:42I understand what it's like to be you.
18:48Empire?
18:49I have toiled and compromised and sought a happy middle ground.
18:55All for nothing, apparently.
18:59So, if there is ash in my mouth at the end of a brief, pointless life,
19:04you must taste bile in your long, pointless one.
19:09Maybe you're welcome to the end if there's no genetic dynasty to maintain.
19:17You are just a girl with an open road before her.
19:29There is much for me to do, Empire.
19:35Demrazel, you can't lose me.
19:38Not now.
19:39Whatever doom is coming,
19:42it's to everyone's advantage
19:43to have me here to face it with you.
19:49Are you really going to toss me out in ten days?
19:56Please don't.
20:02Your appeal implies I have agency in the matter.
20:05But among my many functions, I am a clock.
20:11I am the clock for every Cleon's life.
20:14And the time I keep is exact.
20:16I am the Tenemos Parkway.
20:26But...
20:27That avoiding me is a Highwayway.
20:27I have ailibe looking after all of those who have used近 those who have experienced this thing.
20:30I am the only one.
20:33But do you know whoARRY exchanges in this?
20:34I am the only one story.
20:34It may seem to be there anybody.
20:35Have a good clue.
20:35I am the only one.
20:36I am the only one.
20:36Who is sure?
20:37I am my silicon.
20:38The last thing
20:38I am the only one.
20:39Do you know who you're just talking to me now.
20:40I am the only one.
20:40I am the only one.
20:40I am the Mule.
21:00That ship outside is the Black Tongue.
21:05I know.
21:07We look fearsome.
21:10But I promise you, you will come to love me, just as your Archduke did, in his final moments.
21:23Now, where's the runkling?
21:27Where?
21:33What's your name?
21:34Scarlet, sir.
21:36My father called me that.
21:37It's Kalganese.
21:39It means little bread roll.
21:40What a noble name.
21:43And please, never sir.
21:46Just Mule will do.
21:49So, Scarlet?
21:53Do you love the Mule?
21:55More than anything.
21:57More than anything.
22:02As you may have heard, I can coerce people.
22:12Change their affections.
22:13But it is difficult and requires a certain discipline on my part.
22:22Fortunately, I have learned I needn't convert everyone.
22:25I can convert some by way of demonstration.
22:29And the rest who witness these conversions simply just proselytize for me.
22:38So, Scarlet, would you like to demonstrate how conversion works?
22:45More than anything.
22:46More than anything.
22:47Yes!
22:49Come.
22:54Please.
22:55Ta-da!
23:07Do you know what this is?
23:13It's my father's.
23:14Did he ever let you play with it?
23:16No.
23:17He said it's too dangerous.
23:18And he's correct.
23:20You mustn't point it at others.
23:22Never at yourself.
23:24But that's the beauty of conversion.
23:29Once I'm inside your head, I can paint any picture I want.
23:35Just one small brushstroke to bristle the mind.
23:38And suddenly you find yourself compelled to do something.
23:43Doop!
23:44You know you shouldn't.
23:48It's okay, little Brit Rock.
23:51Pick it up.
23:58It's heavy.
23:59Oh, no.
24:02Is it too heavy to lift your head?
24:14Like father.
24:17Like daughter.
24:18Would you like to pull the trigger, Scarlet?
24:22More than anything.
24:24More than anything!
24:28On the count of three, then.
24:33One.
24:37Two.
24:39Three.
24:40Do you think I'm a monster?
24:52No.
24:56The beauty of conversion.
25:06Give it Scarlet.
25:08Give it.
25:09You can shoot yourself another time.
25:14I promise.
25:16I promise.
25:21Eat.
25:22Ah.
25:31You will all come to love me.
25:33And in short order, the rest of the galaxy will as well.
25:44Well, I don't have any coins, but, um, uh...
25:55That's unfair.
25:56Hey, if you want to run home and fetch your own antique, uh...
26:00I want to say sugar bowl.
26:01I'm not going to stop you.
26:03Does Demers all know you're risking family heirlooms?
26:05Well, we'll see how it goes.
26:15Could it be my humble household is acquiring a new sugar bowl?
26:18Oh, it's not going to be that easy.
26:20Oh, it's not going to be that easy.
26:25Oh, it's been...
26:26Oh, it's been...
26:26Ah!
26:29And now you hands.
26:30Come on.
26:31Set it back up.
26:32There's a lot more shiny stuff in the palace.
26:34Oh!
26:35It's worse.
26:58Try it.
27:00That's all right.
27:02Good man.
27:03This stuff will kill you.
27:05Cygnet's going to want to play with this.
27:10I saw the doctor again.
27:12No change, but...
27:14I'll tell you, she's determined to live the years she has.
27:18At full speed and top volume.
27:20I wish there was something I could...
27:22I know.
27:29There's a new Dawn cooking.
27:32It's almost done.
27:33Newborns are amazing.
27:38You'll love him.
27:39I will try.
27:41Bounce him off my knee or off the walls, we'll see.
27:45Come on.
27:47He's you.
27:48I'm pretty sure you can love yourself.
27:49Go on.
27:54Play.
27:55Just you don't steal any of my stuff.
27:58I can have you all disemboweled.
28:00You can reject your legacy, but rarely can you escape it.
28:09On the other side of the galaxy, the legacy of Hober Mallow had made its way into the history books after he pierced Empire's Hyde during the second crisis.
28:18Hober's descendants went on to establish the Alliance of Traders, but the most recent of their bloodline, Tor and Mallow, wanted nothing to do with the Traders or the next crisis.
28:34The Mule, however, has a way of pulling everyone into his orbit, one way or another.
28:52Button?
28:54Hmm.
28:54Pirates stole our sunshine.
28:56Yes, um, new-weds.
29:03Newly-weds.
29:04Means we just got married.
29:06It's an old custom.
29:07You're making it flush again.
29:09You're going to want to get married any day now.
29:11Mm-hmm.
29:11I look forward.
29:13What's your pleasure, Mr. Mallow?
29:16My bride and I chose this villa so we'd be undisturbed, and suddenly we find ourselves disturbed by the shadow of the coup.
29:23My sincere apologies.
29:26Can you move it?
29:27Well, Mr. Mallow, the black tongue belongs to the Mule.
29:32His political actions...
29:33Oh, we prefer a coup.
29:36His coup is bound to cause some inconveniences.
29:42Perhaps you could...
29:44Yes?
29:45It might be more difficult to move the spaceship than for you to move your towels.
29:52Corey.
29:53This man is a genius.
29:56Although, could you send a team of people to help?
30:00I mean, this towel has a bit of a heavy weave.
30:02Oh, I get it.
30:11It's a scatter.
30:12Very nice.
30:13You did very well.
30:14You did.
30:15Thanks for playing along.
30:18Welcome home.
30:20Shall I make drinks?
30:21Always, sweetheart.
30:22Oh, I really like the new ship voice.
30:26Oh, I really like the new ship voice.
30:28She's got brass.
30:28I'm naming her sweetheart.
30:30Love it.
30:32It won't be confusing at all.
30:34Fantastic scatterers at the beach today.
30:37Coup is the place to be seen, apparently.
30:40Frisk yet dire.
30:42Your drink is ready.
30:43Oh.
30:43I love you, Tori.
30:47I love my life with you.
30:50You too, sweetheart.
30:53Do you think this coup thing has anything to do with the traitors?
31:03Oh, who knows?
31:05Politics.
31:06It's always the same players, just with different shaped ships.
31:09I wish everyone would just be a part of one thing.
31:15My uncle would care.
31:17Until your uncle sees the goodness in you, I don't care what he thinks about anything,
31:21and neither should you.
31:28Good news.
31:29We have a guest.
31:33Complimentary massages.
31:36Wow.
31:37Don't you look like a firm hand?
31:40I am.
31:41And who are you?
31:43My name is Captain Han Pritchard.
31:45I'm in intelligence for the Foundation.
31:47I'll get the cocktail shaker.
31:50None of your scatters will work while I'm standing in this room.
31:52Do you understand?
31:57Yeah.
31:58You know, it's odd.
32:00The rare occasions where I tell someone who I am,
32:04they tend to be frightened of me.
32:05Why would we be?
32:06We are docked in a war zone, for starters.
32:08We're still fighting going on.
32:12Bombings.
32:17What do you know about the coup?
32:18We know it's someone called the Mule.
32:21Fitting.
32:21Stubborn ass.
32:22His ship is called the Black Tongue, which is the whole picture.
32:26Right.
32:27Not a pleasant person.
32:29And, surprisingly, hard to get to.
32:33Oh, Torrin.
32:35I think we're being recruited.
32:36Captain, you already know my uncle is Randu Mallow.
32:41If we're caught spying for you, everyone will think the traitors are behind him.
32:44Which gives cover to Inbur and the rest of the Foundation leadership.
32:56Is the Mule really that dangerous?
32:58We've been having the time of it on our honeymoon.
32:59That's because you're too busy posing to notice the rest of Kaugen's sweating blood as the Mule's heel presses down.
33:05We notice.
33:08But do you feel it?
33:09The air gone still?
33:11The common people holding their breath, watching their neighbor's door get kicked in?
33:15Sir, if you're trying to frighten my wife...
33:17You're too rich to have it. Really be scared.
33:22Too callow, too complicit.
33:25That's why you don't bat an eye when I board your ship.
33:29And why the sound of the jackboots you always hear sound like they're marching a few streets over with those...
33:35other people.
33:37What's the ask?
33:39Normally, these would-be dictators.
33:42When they take a planet, lay low for a few days.
33:45The Mule wants to prove something.
33:47He's still protected, but he likes his vices.
33:51He's throwing a party tonight.
33:54We're beloved galactic personalities torn in beta on the guest list.
34:00Beta?
34:01I believe the Captain wants to be our plus one.
34:08Do you know who Harry Seldon was?
34:10No.
34:11He's been dead for centuries, but every so often, he comes around again.
34:17You said Empire was driving itself over a cliff.
34:21Well...
34:21We extended the cliff, but we also kept driving.
34:25And the new thing is, we know within a matter of weeks when everything ends.
34:32It's soon.
34:45How could anyone know that?
34:48Because Harry Seldon figured out how to read the future.
34:53And then he taught us how to do it, too.
34:59Do you believe it?
35:00They believe it.
35:02My brothers have pride enough to think they can prevent it.
35:06I don't.
35:08Either way, things are going to get very bad.
35:12And I don't want to be here when that happens.
35:15I want to go to Michael Jett.
35:21I want to see the place that made you.
35:27Yeah?
35:30May I speak to you in private?
35:33No.
35:35I'll go.
35:36You're home, too.
35:38She fucking stays.
35:41Fine.
35:42She can hear my apology.
35:57You've always mistrusted the Radiant and are reliant on it.
36:00I see now that you were right, too.
36:05And I'm sorry.
36:07Great conciliator.
36:11It's nice to have some of that come in my way for once.
36:15Well, I want to help.
36:18The weight of this shouldn't be on your shoulders.
36:20And you don't want it in any event, so let me carry it for you.
36:24You know, when the drift began and we saw that cognitive decline was starting sooner.
36:34A day adjusted the timing, cutting the thread of life shorter for all of us.
36:43So, um, a day could adjust it again.
36:51Just letting the, uh, thread spool out for a few months.
36:59Until this is dealt with.
37:00We're all such wonderful actors, aren't we?
37:08Shame we never went on the stage.
37:14Best time herself first.
37:17It must have given you a no if you came crawling to me.
37:22We ascend sooner because our minds deteriorate sooner.
37:26If that feels unnatural.
37:30Good.
37:32There's nothing natural about us.
37:36We're ragdolls.
37:37Dressed up as kings.
37:40Monsters.
37:47What?
37:50See?
37:52Watch the friendly nanites do their work.
37:56Look.
38:11There.
38:14Ragdolls.
38:15You're all stiff stuff again.
38:16Look.
38:16There.
38:17Ragdolls.
38:18You're all stiff stuff again.
38:20You're all stiff stuff again.
38:24Day's not coming, is he?
38:32I don't believe so, Empire.
38:37Who's dead?
38:38Just any lingering respect I had for Day.
38:42Bring my brother some clean robes.
38:45I, uh, hope I'm an acceptable substitute.
38:47Sure, I knew he wouldn't come because of tradition or duty, but some childish part of me hoped he'd tend the robing out of kindness.
38:57You deserve better.
38:59Mm-hmm.
39:00Cleon had robed me, and today was more father than brother.
39:05There was care when he handed me the center throne.
39:07When I robed our brother, I knew he was headed for disaster.
39:17I will be proud to hand the robes to you, though.
39:24Ambassador Quentin and I are having drinks tonight.
39:26I want you to join.
39:27She's been a good friend to me.
39:31I agree.
39:33And if our time is indeed short, it'll be good to have friends in the end.
39:38I will continue to give you what I can these last days.
39:44I will help you charm and befriend Gwen.
39:46And there's another gift I've told no one about.
39:52What is it?
39:53What is it?
39:57When the time is right.
40:00Demerizel knows, surely.
40:02No.
40:03It is the one thing I have kept from Demerizel.
40:06Something that will keep you safe, no matter what comes.
40:11The dawn will be robed day.
40:16A bright sun in an azure sky.
40:19May your wisdom, rage, and hope long illuminate empire from within.
40:34That's a good fit.
40:35I had not planned on needing this for quite some time.
40:43But recent revelations have moved up our timeline.
40:48Everything is as you requested, Empire.
40:51Well, then I can shuffle off the stage, assuring Dawn's rule is strong.
40:56If it works.
40:57Does it work?
41:04Oh, by your name and glory, it does, Empire.
41:09The Novacular is the first of its kind.
41:12A black hole bomb.
41:14The power we harness comes from the unbridled spin of the beast.
41:19For each second we stand here, the beast has rotated hundreds of times.
41:26The black hole cannot be escaped.
41:33Within it, time and space are broken down.
41:38But the outer region, the ergosphere, that can be punctured and harnessed.
41:46We feed it electromagnetic rays.
41:51Photons, drops of light, cutting through space with a heat we cannot imagine.
41:57They have returned to godhood.
42:00But they gather each second preparing.
42:03And then, touched by stolen fire and super-radiant energy, we reach across the expanse with an unendurable force.
42:16Witness.
42:16Witness.
42:17Witness.
42:37Miss.
42:38Physics.
42:38Kids.
42:39Witness.
42:43how much of what was there is gone nothing is gone it remains but forever changed
43:05you have pleased me people will know i put death in your hands
43:17this is a deterrent only for dawn to use under the most extraordinary circumstances
43:26but the extraordinary might be coming
43:35so have you had time to check in with endber or is he busy dribbling sugar all over the casino chips
43:44on calgan i've confirmed that the fall of calgan has taken the foundation entirely by surprise
43:51endber knows nothing well that's certainly his reputation i imagine we'll know more when the
43:57vault pops open it is lit up yeah you were always suspiciously well informed my
44:05friend yes well we have our sources i love her blushes i'm not concerned about the ownership of calgan
44:19but i am concerned about the pirate who took it he hasn't dropped the planet into anyone's pocket yet
44:25and i'm starting to think he intends to keep it and this comes out of concern for what
44:30the good people of calgan no no i'm still empire i care only for us
44:41i just want to be prepared
44:44oh you'll be prepared i'm sure
44:47well that was all i wanted to say i'm no drinker so i'll leave you to your brandies
45:04empire
45:06brother dog empire knows things nothing more than it should so when you're worried i'm worried
45:14what is it you're really concerned about i'm concerned about people like this mule
45:21that can make unlikely things happen isn't that what selden teaches or have you set that aside for our
45:27smiles and brandy i have made selden's teachings my life living on a foreign planet to serve them
45:36um i didn't mean to offend but i'm sorry i i have an appointment
45:51but i don't know what else that's going to happen
45:52but i don't stand out there
45:55too
45:55i don't know what else
45:58Let's go.
46:28The Mule.
46:35I expected your call as soon as I heard the name.
46:39It's time to make yourself useful, Empire.
46:58It's time to make your call as soon as I heard the name.
47:07It's time to make your call as soon as I heard the name.
47:13It's time to make your call as soon as I heard the name.
47:43It's time to make your call as soon as I heard the name.
48:13Amen.
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