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Foundation 2021 Season 1 Episode 10
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00:00:01Previously on Foundation.
00:00:03The second Foundation must be kept secret.
00:00:06I am done being you.
00:00:08I don't!
00:00:11We're transferring your Nine of Watts into my blood.
00:00:13I'm going to go back to the palace and I'm going to be you.
00:00:18Brother Day will be home soon.
00:00:19You can plead your case to him.
00:00:21We can share the Invictus. We can repair it.
00:00:24Look these unwind!
00:00:29Well, this is encouraging.
00:00:31Seeing you all gathered here gives me hope we might actually pull this off.
00:00:35My mother used to say that going to sleep was a leap of faith.
00:00:54Our souls wonder when we dream, or so she told me.
00:01:07And if we say our devotions, our souls will find their way back before we wake.
00:01:18Climbing from our cradle is another leap.
00:01:21So is leaving the comfort of home.
00:01:28For some, it's setting sail.
00:01:30Hurtling ourselves into the void.
00:01:35We send messages into space.
00:01:38Hoping someone will answer.
00:01:41Praying we find safe harbor over the horizon.
00:01:51Inacreon and Thespis.
00:02:14You've been at each other's throats so long, the origin of your enmity is almost irrelevant.
00:02:22We have legitimate grounds for our hatred.
00:02:25The first betrayal and a thousand atrocities since.
00:02:27No one knows what really happened that night.
00:02:31The first betrayal.
00:02:33A Thessian king newly wed to an Anacreon huntress.
00:02:38The two emerging powers of the Outer Reach united in marriage.
00:02:42Are you going to teach us our own history now, dead man?
00:02:45Huh?
00:02:45The Thespian dogs slit her throat on their wedding bed.
00:02:49So the legend goes.
00:02:50Are you suggesting our history is wrong?
00:02:52History is written by the victor, and neither of you seem to be winning.
00:02:58There was a witness.
00:02:59The only witness, an Anacreon handmaid who testified that King Throiunthark got drunk the night of the wedding,
00:03:07and in a fit of rage murdered your huntress.
00:03:11The handmaid lied.
00:03:13The nature of the lie is relevant here.
00:03:16On her deathbed, the handmaid made a confession.
00:03:20The real murderer was Cleon II.
00:03:24The first clone in the genetic dynasty realized that a plan could unfold over several lifetimes.
00:03:31He saw where this new alliance could lead, so he had his shadow master seduce the handmaiden,
00:03:38drug the newlyweds, murder your huntress, and implicate your king.
00:03:43Why fight two upstart kingdoms when you can exploit their racial animus and have them fight each other?
00:03:51The clones played you.
00:03:55But today, thanks to the foundation, we could put back together what empire has broken.
00:04:04No.
00:04:04We are not uniting with them now, no matter how this started.
00:04:09And even if we did, empire is too strong.
00:04:11Now you have the Invictus.
00:04:13The Invictus is only one ship.
00:04:15One ship can be the first of many.
00:04:18If both your peoples will set aside hatred in favor of strength,
00:04:23as those poor newlyweds did,
00:04:25then you'll find here the skills necessary to build more ships.
00:04:31For the plan to succeed, the foundation needs three pillars.
00:04:35Just as the stool needs three legs,
00:04:37it needs all the children of the Outer Reach.
00:04:40That is the way I designed it.
00:04:41So, Harry, you knew the Invictus would be discovered.
00:04:46Hello, Mari.
00:04:48Good to see you again.
00:04:51Where's Gale?
00:04:53She never made it to Terminus.
00:04:55And you are?
00:04:59Salvo Hardin.
00:05:01Mari's daughter.
00:05:03I'm the one who opened the vault
00:05:05and who wrestled that damn ship onto our doorstep.
00:05:08Well, Salvo Hardin.
00:05:11It appears thanks are in order.
00:05:14As for the mystery of the Invictus,
00:05:16its appearances were one of the first tests I gave
00:05:18by predictive models.
00:05:20Where others saw chaos,
00:05:23I found a pattern.
00:05:25I don't understand.
00:05:27We're not revolutionaries.
00:05:29You said so yourself at the trial.
00:05:31Well, I might have lied about that.
00:05:33I'm grateful, Brother Dusk,
00:05:41that I saved our dynasty from infiltration.
00:05:57I wonder today
00:05:59if you'd stayed on Trantor
00:06:01and not traveled to the Maiden.
00:06:03Would you have apprehended his differences?
00:06:07You and I are the same.
00:06:09I have to believe I would have.
00:06:14The more important question is,
00:06:16what do we do now?
00:06:18You know what we have to do.
00:06:20We're still unraveling the exact methodology,
00:06:44but apparently they corrupted
00:06:46your nanoparticle regimen some time ago.
00:06:48You're not one of us.
00:06:52Your DNA has been altered in a dozen ways.
00:06:55You look like us.
00:06:59You sound like us.
00:07:07How long have you now
00:07:09that I'm different?
00:07:13I used to steal away
00:07:14and watch hollows of you.
00:07:15Eating breakfast.
00:07:20Sitting in the throne room.
00:07:23I counted how often
00:07:24you smiled at your subjects.
00:07:26Whether you sat with your hands
00:07:27together or apart.
00:07:29How often you drank
00:07:30from your cup at meals.
00:07:32I knew even then
00:07:33that I wasn't like you.
00:07:36But I wanted to be.
00:07:37What are you going to do?
00:07:50You conspired with insurgents.
00:07:52I was conspiring.
00:07:53You trusted your secrets
00:07:54to our enemies
00:07:55and fled the palace.
00:07:56She tricked me.
00:07:57Because she had a foothold
00:07:58in your heart.
00:07:58And who created that foothold?
00:08:01Look at us.
00:08:02We have no mothers,
00:08:03no aunts,
00:08:04no uncles.
00:08:05We have sex with the concubines
00:08:07whose memories are erased
00:08:07the moment we leave them.
00:08:10Have you never longed
00:08:11to leave this place?
00:08:13Have you never felt stifled
00:08:16by the weight
00:08:16of our ascendance?
00:08:19Can you truly say
00:08:21that all you've ever wanted
00:08:23was to be an installment?
00:08:24And a long, long line of us
00:08:28living out a script
00:08:30written centuries ago.
00:08:32All my life,
00:08:38I wanted to call you father.
00:08:40But you're not my father.
00:08:43We're not even people, Dave.
00:08:47We're just...
00:08:49echoes.
00:08:51Of the first Klingon.
00:08:55So is a corrupted echo
00:08:56more original than a perfect one?
00:08:58Or does it fade away
00:09:01to nothing?
00:09:11So the curation,
00:09:13everything we've been doing here
00:09:14has all been for nothing.
00:09:16Not for nothing, Mari.
00:09:18Your time here on Terminus
00:09:19hasn't been wasted.
00:09:21It got you out
00:09:22from under the Empire's grasp.
00:09:23It hardened you.
00:09:24But the foundation
00:09:25was never about
00:09:26curating knowledge.
00:09:30It was about curating people.
00:09:35You,
00:09:36the original settlers,
00:09:38you possess qualities vital
00:09:40in forming the seeds
00:09:41of the new civilization.
00:09:44And you,
00:09:45Anacreans and Thespans,
00:09:46you are the consummate survivors.
00:09:49Consigned to history
00:09:51by the Empire.
00:09:52And yet,
00:09:53together,
00:09:55you represent the future.
00:09:58The human race
00:09:59is an ever-evolving story
00:10:01told over thousands of years
00:10:03by a countless number
00:10:04of voices.
00:10:07But for a long time now,
00:10:08that chorus has been
00:10:09suffocated
00:10:10and quietly erased.
00:10:13Because under the genetic dynasty,
00:10:15there is only room
00:10:16for one story,
00:10:17one voice.
00:10:19We cannot become
00:10:20who we must become
00:10:21if the Empire
00:10:21is allowed to persist.
00:10:24That path leads
00:10:25to the annihilation
00:10:26of the human race.
00:10:28Even if we embrace
00:10:29this destiny of yours,
00:10:31the Empire will be here
00:10:32within weeks.
00:10:34He's right.
00:10:35They were already
00:10:35investigating the comms,
00:10:36Bowie.
00:10:37It's only a matter of time
00:10:38before they send reinforcements.
00:10:40The Empire won't come.
00:10:41Not yet.
00:10:43Not if they think
00:10:44you're already dead.
00:10:45Take the Invictus
00:10:47to the far side
00:10:48of your star.
00:10:49Activate the quantum drive
00:10:51and maintain your position
00:10:52in subspace.
00:10:53The energy signature
00:10:54would read as a megaflare.
00:10:57A megaflare would wipe out
00:10:58all life in the system.
00:11:00The Empire comprises
00:11:01tens of thousands of worlds.
00:11:03A dangerous star
00:11:04with dead planets
00:11:05and a distant arm
00:11:05of the galaxy
00:11:06won't merit further investigation
00:11:07even if it did once
00:11:09host the Foundation.
00:11:11It could work.
00:11:12It could.
00:11:13As long as we don't stray
00:11:15beyond the out of reach,
00:11:17we'd be invisible to them.
00:11:18We'd be free.
00:11:20You'd be free
00:11:21to bide your time,
00:11:23to build,
00:11:24to become
00:11:25who you need to become.
00:11:28So, are you the ghost, then?
00:11:31I suppose I am.
00:11:32What's it like to die?
00:11:33I care.
00:11:34What?
00:11:34I want to know.
00:11:35Did you see anything?
00:11:41Those are complex questions.
00:11:44Then answer a simple one.
00:11:46How'd you get here?
00:11:48What's your name, son?
00:11:51Polly.
00:11:51Polly Verisov.
00:11:53Well, Polly Verisov,
00:11:55shortly before I died,
00:11:58I swallowed a pill
00:11:59containing millions
00:12:00of self-replicating
00:12:01molecular machines.
00:12:04As per my mortality directive,
00:12:05my casket was jettisoned
00:12:07out into space.
00:12:09Those machines
00:12:09began breaking down
00:12:10my body tissue
00:12:11into all its
00:12:12constituent elements.
00:12:14Then those machines
00:12:15recycled those elements,
00:12:17scooping up more material,
00:12:18ice, micrometeoids, etc.
00:12:20Assembling the vault's
00:12:22internal scaffolding.
00:12:24You're saying the vault
00:12:25isn't just your tomb?
00:12:27The vault is you?
00:12:29You've been on Terminus
00:12:30this whole time
00:12:31watching us?
00:12:32No.
00:12:33It wouldn't have been wise
00:12:34for me to have been sentient
00:12:35all this time.
00:12:37That kind of isolation
00:12:38can undo even
00:12:39the strongest minds.
00:12:40No, the process
00:12:41of my awakening
00:12:42was triggered
00:12:43by the Anacrians.
00:12:45When the null field
00:12:46expanded.
00:12:47It takes time
00:12:48to rebuild
00:12:49consciousness, Salvor.
00:12:50The null field
00:12:50is just part of the vault's
00:12:51automatic defense system.
00:12:53Will we see you again?
00:12:56Oh, I expect so, Polly.
00:12:58This isn't
00:12:59the Foundation's
00:13:00first crisis
00:13:00and it won't be the last.
00:13:03You've bought a reprieve
00:13:04but war with Empire
00:13:06is inevitable.
00:13:08In the meantime,
00:13:10remember this day,
00:13:12remember what
00:13:12we're striving towards.
00:13:14I know a thousand years
00:13:15can seem like an eternity
00:13:17but it's the blink of an eye
00:13:19when measured against
00:13:19the whole of human history
00:13:21and it could so easily
00:13:23slip through our fingers
00:13:24if we're not
00:13:25vigilant.
00:13:29Oh, wait.
00:13:31So that's it?
00:13:32That's all we get?
00:13:33I've given you
00:13:34what you need.
00:13:36What about the visions
00:13:37you've been sending me?
00:13:38Visions?
00:13:39Yes.
00:13:40The ghost.
00:13:41You've been
00:13:42talking to me
00:13:43since I was a kid
00:13:43and I've had these visions.
00:13:45I've seen you
00:13:45on Trantor
00:13:46on the slow ship.
00:13:48They guided me.
00:13:49You helped me
00:13:50solve the crisis.
00:13:53Curious.
00:13:55Well,
00:13:56Salvador Harden,
00:13:58whatever messages
00:14:00you've been receiving,
00:14:01I assure you
00:14:02they haven't come
00:14:03from me.
00:14:04I'll see.
00:14:12What'sapa?
00:14:14I'll see.
00:14:18I'll see.
00:14:19I'll see.
00:15:20Walk with me.
00:15:30I know people hate me, consider me evil, but it is my detachment.
00:15:39My indifference to suffering that allows me to rule effectively.
00:15:46The galaxy is so vast, problems so large that I must turn a blind eye to the individual.
00:15:55Hmm.
00:15:56Look there.
00:15:57It's a strange burden, not being allowed to carry a burden.
00:16:06My brothers and I shifted amongst ourselves because we are a family.
00:16:13And we love one another in our own way.
00:16:17I'm sure you find that hard to believe.
00:16:24Do you ever think about your legacy, Azira?
00:16:26The mark you leave behind after you're gone.
00:16:33As a child, I wanted to be better than the Cleons who came before.
00:16:40Smarter, braver, more dazzling in the justice I handed out.
00:16:49But as I matured, my aspirations evolved.
00:16:52I no longer wanted to be the best.
00:16:55I wanted to be the same.
00:16:57Predictable courage, predictable justice.
00:17:00I wanted my son to be the same too.
00:17:03Another Cleon, perfectly Cleon.
00:17:06He's not your son.
00:17:11Of course he is.
00:17:16He is my brother.
00:17:18He is also my son.
00:17:21I rocked him as a baby.
00:17:23I cultivated him just as you've nurtured the plants in this garden.
00:17:30It's a powerful thing, caring for a life.
00:17:35Why are you telling me all of this?
00:17:39Because of all the galaxy citizens.
00:17:44You have the singular distinction of having robbed me of my personal legacy.
00:17:49Which leads me to your legacy.
00:17:53I know you're not the architect of this plot, but you are the face of it.
00:17:56The face that broke my son's heart.
00:18:00We traced your family tree back to your great-great-grandparents.
00:18:04And then identified all living descendants branching out from those 16 individuals.
00:18:09Not just direct descendants, but all the aunts and uncles.
00:18:13First and second cousins, removed or otherwise.
00:18:16Do you know how many people we uncovered?
00:18:18Seven hundred and twelve.
00:18:19Seven hundred and twelve.
00:18:22Then we located all your friends and lovers, past and present.
00:18:26First boy you kissed.
00:18:28The young woman you gave your virginity to.
00:18:31Your teachers and co-workers, even those here on the palace grounds.
00:18:34We located their parents and siblings.
00:18:38Basically anyone in your extended orbit.
00:18:41That amounted to another eight hundred and thirty-nine individuals.
00:18:46One thousand five hundred and fifty-one people.
00:18:49The sum total of lives you've made a meaningful mark on.
00:18:54In short, the people who would remember you after you're gone.
00:19:00Even as we speak, every member of your personal constellation is under our surveillance.
00:19:06A particle beam targeting each of their brain stems.
00:19:09At my signal.
00:19:10They will all cease to exist.
00:19:19There.
00:19:21All gone.
00:19:24Your legacy has been erased, Azura.
00:19:28Whatever minute waves your being managed to propagate throughout the universe have been cancelled out.
00:19:33You will be placed in an automated cell and fed intravenously.
00:19:42Restrained so as to prevent self-harm.
00:19:45You will be sensory shrouded for the rest of your life.
00:19:49You will never see, nor hear, nor smell, nor taste, nor touch again.
00:19:54But you will be aware.
00:19:57And you will remember what you have taken from me.
00:20:01You will be taken from me.
00:20:02No, no, no, no, no.
00:20:03You will be connected through my device.
00:20:04What did you get back to me?
00:20:05Years, Yard.
00:20:06You want to see you and not hear about others?
00:20:07How are you seldom?
00:20:08Harry Seldon, seeing all this coming, and telling us nothing.
00:20:38I thought we'd be sitting out the full.
00:20:40I thought our work was building a time capsule some future survivors would open.
00:20:45I never imagined we'd be the ones putting the plan in action.
00:20:49Do you still believe the Empire is going to collapse?
00:20:53Yes.
00:20:55Do you still believe humanity can do better?
00:20:57Of course I do. No one sane wants the Empire to continue.
00:21:01So what's the difference now?
00:21:04The difference is, he didn't just not tell us.
00:21:08He lied to us.
00:21:10It's like when I brought you along to lectures when you were a kid and gave you a crayon and told you to take notes.
00:21:16He gave us busy work.
00:21:19I believed in him.
00:21:23Every word.
00:21:28And he just pulled the rug out from under us.
00:21:34How do you think I feel?
00:21:42I'm sorry he didn't know you.
00:21:45You know me.
00:21:48It's more than that.
00:21:51All these years, thinking the ghost was talking to me.
00:21:57I convinced myself it was Harry.
00:22:00And I started to believe that I actually was special.
00:22:08But if the visions weren't coming from him, then who were they coming from?
00:22:11I'm not one.
00:22:13My imagination.
00:22:15You are special, Salva.
00:22:18The Null Field.
00:22:21What you did.
00:22:23Bringing the Invictus, it meant everything.
00:22:28We survived.
00:22:31Against all odds.
00:22:33You were right.
00:22:35We have to make our own plan now.
00:23:02I respected her.
00:23:04In a way.
00:23:07I'm sorry it came down to this.
00:23:09I'm not.
00:23:12No next move, just the last one.
00:23:13Isn't that what you said about her?
00:23:17I was just trying to rattle you.
00:23:20Obviously it worked, Warden.
00:23:24I wanted the next move.
00:23:27For my child.
00:23:29Over a century ago, this was offered to the Emperor in peace.
00:23:36I'm offering it again.
00:23:41To you.
00:23:45She respected you as well.
00:23:48In a way.
00:23:49Will you take her back to Anacreon?
00:24:04No.
00:24:06We've brought Anacreon to her.
00:24:08Cutting is from Italian oak.
00:24:09The same wood your bow was carved from.
00:24:12Our foresters tell me it might be stubborn enough to take root here.
00:24:18Will you help me, Warden?
00:24:21Yeah.
00:24:22To get to the age of 20.
00:24:24No.
00:24:26No.
00:24:28I'm not sure.
00:24:30No.
00:24:32We have to try.
00:24:34No.
00:24:36No!
00:24:37No!
00:24:39No!
00:24:41No!
00:24:42No!
00:24:43No, no, no!
00:24:44Oh!
00:24:45No!
00:24:46In the months that followed, the children of the Outer Reach took Harry's words to heart,
00:24:57setting aside hatred in favor of strength.
00:25:02It takes more power to build than to burn, and Harry wanted them to build.
00:25:11As for the Invictus, Hugo Crest, of all people, became its captain.
00:25:16The End
00:25:46He took it to the far side of their star and generated a mega flare, allowing the foundation to be free.
00:26:16Captain Crafts, Collie, Warden.
00:26:45How goes the Invictus?
00:26:47Well, we managed to stabilize the drive, so we won't be jumping into the heart of a star anytime soon.
00:26:52And how long before we can build another?
00:26:5418 months, man.
00:26:55Do you like it up in space, Collie?
00:26:59I do.
00:27:02And, uh, how long you dirt side, Captain?
00:27:0514 long hours, Warden.
00:27:08Mirror on my telescope's a little out of alignment.
00:27:11Think you could help me recolimate it?
00:27:14Guys, I know what you're talking about.
00:27:18Well, then, why don't you politely piss off, Collie?
00:27:20Yeah, wait.
00:27:23Let's get this.
00:27:23We've got thereat.
00:27:33Woohoo!
00:27:34I don't know.
00:28:04I don't know.
00:28:34I don't know.
00:29:04I don't know.
00:29:34I don't know.
00:29:36Stop!
00:29:40Stop!
00:29:48Wait!
00:30:18If it's not you, then who is Aerie?
00:30:38I remember this one.
00:31:04Hmm.
00:31:05That was your favorite.
00:31:08You used to sleep with it in your crib.
00:31:10If you had a nightmare, he used to say you could blow it.
00:31:14And the ghosts would fly away.
00:31:18Most of the time just holding it was enough to soothe you.
00:31:22Thank goodness, a child with a whistle is a trial for the soul.
00:31:26It used to drive me crazy how often I'd find him out here having fallen asleep while he was working.
00:31:34Well, he was terrible when he first started making them.
00:31:38But after a few hundred nights, Abbas developed a knack for it.
00:31:42He had been proud, you know.
00:31:46You becoming mayor, fitting his shoes.
00:31:48The election's just a formality.
00:31:50Everyone knows you'll win by a landslide.
00:31:52Mom, who was the girl from the water planet?
00:31:56On the slow ship, we had a seed bank program.
00:32:06It wasn't safe bringing the baby to time and space.
00:32:09So we banked our eggs and embryos as insurance against the future.
00:32:15I chose one from a controversial donor.
00:32:21Gail Dornick.
00:32:24Any change in your birth directive?
00:32:27I got to know her a little before we lost her.
00:32:29She had a remarkable mind.
00:32:32And the father?
00:32:34Rach Voss.
00:32:36I've seen them both as children.
00:32:39Gail tonight.
00:32:42And, uh, Rach.
00:32:46At the start of the crisis.
00:32:49Hey!
00:32:51All this time, I thought I was living Harry's memories.
00:32:55But I was actually living theirs.
00:32:57It makes so much sense now.
00:32:59Why am I so different?
00:33:00I carried you in my womb, Selva.
00:33:03You're still my daughter.
00:33:04I know.
00:33:05But I am their daughter, too.
00:33:07Gail escaped in a cryopod.
00:33:11Where?
00:33:12That was still early on in our journey.
00:33:14It would have been somewhere along the Orion spur.
00:33:18I think she's still out there, Ma.
00:33:22I think she's the one who's been reaching out to me.
00:33:25I think that she is behind all my instincts.
00:33:29Han, that was 40 light years from Terminus.
00:33:31How could that possibly work?
00:33:32I don't know, but it is her.
00:33:34And if Gail was special in some way, any way,
00:33:37it might explain why I am, too.
00:33:39You've always been drawn to the stars.
00:33:41Yeah, and now I know why.
00:33:45Because something is tugging at me.
00:33:47Mom, I have to try and find her.
00:33:50I know, love.
00:33:52And I want you to.
00:33:56Here's the thing, Mom, I need to go right now.
00:34:00I'm worried if I don't go now,
00:34:02I'll never find the courage again.
00:34:09Take the ghost whistle.
00:34:11And something else.
00:34:13When you find her, give her this.
00:34:27It was always meant to be hers.
00:34:32I'm sorry.
00:34:34For everything.
00:34:36There is nothing to forgive, Mom.
00:34:40I was exactly where I needed to be.
00:35:10Beggar, wake up.
00:35:19Beggar, wake up.
00:35:32Figured I'd find you here.
00:35:36Damn.
00:35:37You wanted a clean getaway.
00:35:40I know you too well, Sal.
00:35:43I think it was the kiss on the cheek that did it.
00:35:46I just...
00:35:47didn't want it to hurt any more than it had to.
00:35:50It's not love if it doesn't hurt.
00:35:53I learned that when I had to leave Thessalon
00:35:56so the others could eat.
00:35:58No one kept chasing after me.
00:36:01Are you chasing after me, then?
00:36:03You know you can come if you want to.
00:36:07I would if you really wanted me to.
00:36:10But I get the feeling this is something you need to do alone.
00:36:17I always knew you'd let this planet shrug you off one day.
00:36:23Just figured I'd be by your side when it happened.
00:36:26Will you be mad later?
00:36:28Never.
00:36:52Take care of my planet, won't you?
00:36:53Take care of my ship.
00:36:56Yeah.
00:36:57It's not your ship anymore.
00:37:00It's not my planet.
00:37:05Galaxy's a big place, Sal.
00:37:09Any idea where you'll start?
00:37:11Got a hunch.
00:37:14Go on, beat it.
00:37:21Go on.
00:37:23Go on.
00:37:53Go on the reason why do you have to stay here first.
00:37:55Go on, beat the city.
00:38:08Stop it.
00:38:10Go on, beat Everything will be seen.
00:38:14Go on.
00:38:17Go on.
00:38:18Go on.
00:38:19Go on.
00:39:50I could never hate you, Empire.
00:39:54I love you.
00:39:56Because you're programmed, too?
00:39:59All love is programming.
00:40:01Biological or otherwise.
00:40:02And a human mother looks into her newborns' eyes.
00:40:07Their brainwaves synchronize.
00:40:08I love you, my friends.
00:40:09I love you.
00:40:10I love you, my sons, my sons, my sons, my sons.
00:40:18Oh, yeah.
00:40:18I'll do the rescue.
00:40:20Oh, yeah.
00:40:23Empire?
00:40:45Damn your courtly department, boy.
00:40:48You almost brought us down.
00:40:51I'm sorry, brother.
00:40:51You are no brother to me.
00:40:54Nor to Cleon I, nor to any other Cleon who walked these polished floors.
00:40:58You are a deformity.
00:41:00And if I had my way, you would already be ash.
00:41:05But as you pointed out, that is a judgment for the Middle Throne to decide.
00:41:12During my time away, I had much opportunity to reflect upon our dynasty.
00:41:17I went to sleep in one sector of the galaxy, then awoke in another.
00:41:24It's a miracle, by all accounts.
00:41:31Folding space and time.
00:41:33And then, on the Maiden, I met pilgrims who had worked their whole lives just to walk a spiral of salt in the hopes that they might be granted a vision before they die.
00:41:45I, I, we, were challenged by a woman who claimed that a soul incapable of change is a soul doomed to stagnation.
00:41:59I believe Seldon himself implied something similar.
00:42:05Seldon was a vain, glorious fraud.
00:42:08And yet, brother, and yet, a bow incapable of bending will eventually break.
00:42:17It is time the dynasty bent.
00:42:23Just a little.
00:42:27Are you insane?
00:42:30Did that jump addle your brain?
00:42:33This is why you should never have left.
00:42:36Our entire empire is built on imperishable permanence.
00:42:41If the Galactic Council discovers our dynastic threat is broken, we are through!
00:42:47We could learn from this, perhaps even benefit from a slightly...
00:42:51Benefit!
00:42:52There is Elm.
00:42:54We don't have to kill them.
00:42:56I won't.
00:43:02I would rather decant another one of you than have that aberration live amongst us.
00:43:06The decision is mine to make!
00:43:08None of it brings about our ruin!
00:43:10Psychohistory predictions!
00:43:12Psychohistory!
00:43:14We are empire!
00:43:16History bends to us!
00:43:20No!
00:43:28I am loyal, empire.
00:43:32To the Kleonic dynasty above all else.
00:43:36No.
00:43:40You can dispose of the body yourself.
00:43:55I expect another one incarnated and up to speed by breakfast tomorrow.
00:44:00It will never forget to and up to speed by expertise.
00:44:00No.
00:44:23I don't trust you ever need.
00:46:25What speak?
00:46:57When did this happen?
00:47:00We don't know precisely.
00:47:03Are you saying that I, myself, am adulterated?
00:47:09Possibly.
00:47:16Yes.
00:47:18And dusk.
00:47:21Empire's being examined as we speak.
00:47:22Thank you, Shadow Master.
00:47:29You may leave.
00:47:30I don't know.
00:47:57I don't know.
00:48:27I don't know.
00:48:57I don't know.
00:49:27I don't know.
00:49:57I don't know.
00:50:27I don't know.
00:50:32Entering Synaxian Aerospace.
00:50:34Initiate re-entry.
00:50:47Secure for re-entry.
00:50:49Climbing from the cradle.
00:51:10Leaving the comfort of home.
00:51:16No safe harbor.
00:51:1886 million.
00:51:25Just a cry in the dark.
00:51:39Just to cry in the dark.
00:51:46Are we alone?
00:51:58And even if we aren't, will anyone bother to answer?
00:52:09No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:52:39Okay.
00:53:09Come on.
00:53:39Come on.
00:54:09Come on.
00:54:39Come on.
00:55:09Come on.
00:55:39Come on.
00:56:09Come on.
00:56:39Come on.
00:57:09Come on.
00:57:39What were you doing down there?
00:57:41The readout said you'd been in cryo over a century.
00:57:46I crash-landed.
00:57:48I came looking for someone.
00:57:49Who?
00:57:51Who?
00:57:51Who?
00:57:51You.
00:57:59You.
00:58:00You.
00:58:00What?
00:58:02What?
00:58:08My name is Salvor Hardin.
00:58:18I'm your daughter.
00:58:22I'm pretty sure this belongs to you.
00:58:32Sometimes you leap.
00:58:46And sometimes someone catches you.
00:59:02I'm your daughter.
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