1 00:00:01,210 --> 00:00:04,963 If you live long enough, time can be a weapon. 2 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:09,623 Steady cycles of cryosleep have kept me alive 3 00:00:09,647 --> 00:00:11,678 for more than three centuries, 4 00:00:11,762 --> 00:00:14,848 and in my time, I've watched the Foundation grow 5 00:00:14,932 --> 00:00:18,769 and Empire decline faster than anyone could've predicted. 6 00:00:18,852 --> 00:00:20,604 Except Hari Seldon. 7 00:00:21,605 --> 00:00:25,442 It's been 152 years since the Second Crisis. 8 00:00:25,526 --> 00:00:28,433 Foundation now controls the entire Outer Reach 9 00:00:28,457 --> 00:00:30,781 and is pushing into the middle band, 10 00:00:30,864 --> 00:00:34,493 a string of independent planets once owned by Empire. 11 00:00:34,576 --> 00:00:37,246 The most important of these is Kalgan. 12 00:00:37,329 --> 00:00:38,497 The pleasure planet. 13 00:00:44,545 --> 00:00:48,382 Both Empire and Foundation know if they control Kalgan, 14 00:00:48,465 --> 00:00:52,719 the rest of the middle band will follow, and the galaxy could be theirs. 15 00:00:53,804 --> 00:00:55,764 But someone else knows this too. 16 00:00:55,848 --> 00:00:58,433 Someone that's haunted my dreams for years. 17 00:01:00,894 --> 00:01:03,397 And the minute the Mule makes himself known, 18 00:01:04,147 --> 00:01:07,025 nothing will ever be the same again. 19 00:01:19,872 --> 00:01:21,123 Anything on radar? 20 00:01:21,748 --> 00:01:23,542 Gravity signatures? 21 00:01:23,625 --> 00:01:27,254 Not as yet, sir. No unregistered vehicles in orbit. 22 00:01:27,337 --> 00:01:30,257 Son of a whore said eight bells. 23 00:01:31,508 --> 00:01:34,011 Eight bells or the pup dies. 24 00:01:37,556 --> 00:01:38,891 Where is he? 25 00:01:47,232 --> 00:01:48,525 It's his balladeer. 26 00:01:49,193 --> 00:01:50,777 A clown said to herald his arrival. 27 00:01:51,862 --> 00:01:53,197 It sets my teeth on edge. 28 00:01:55,574 --> 00:01:57,075 Life-form. On foot. 29 00:01:57,576 --> 00:01:58,577 Alone? 30 00:01:59,161 --> 00:02:00,537 And unarmed. 31 00:02:28,857 --> 00:02:30,234 Archduke Bellarion. 32 00:02:31,193 --> 00:02:32,444 You are the Mule? 33 00:02:33,487 --> 00:02:34,488 I am. 34 00:02:34,988 --> 00:02:36,448 A strange sobriquet. 35 00:02:37,699 --> 00:02:39,701 Well, my parents considered me stubborn. 36 00:02:40,619 --> 00:02:41,662 Where is my daughter? 37 00:02:42,162 --> 00:02:44,248 Your runtling is quite safe. 38 00:02:45,582 --> 00:02:47,668 She'll be released when I have what I want. 39 00:02:47,751 --> 00:02:49,545 Name your ransom. 40 00:02:50,170 --> 00:02:51,255 Surrender Kalgan. 41 00:02:52,297 --> 00:02:54,091 Its navy, its coffers. 42 00:02:54,633 --> 00:02:56,635 Install me as the new warlord. 43 00:02:58,470 --> 00:03:03,433 Well... ...Kalgan is an independent buffer state 44 00:03:03,517 --> 00:03:05,853 between the Imperium and the Foundation. 45 00:03:06,436 --> 00:03:09,147 Any act of aggression, even by a pirate, 46 00:03:09,690 --> 00:03:12,234 would trigger a military response from both. 47 00:03:12,943 --> 00:03:15,112 Yes, well... 48 00:03:15,696 --> 00:03:19,783 ...I intend to consume the Imperium along with the Foundation. 49 00:03:20,909 --> 00:03:25,956 You see, I have a very large appetite... 50 00:03:27,457 --> 00:03:29,793 one only a galaxy can satisfy. 51 00:03:30,335 --> 00:03:32,921 And you were a fool to approach without an army. 52 00:03:33,630 --> 00:03:35,674 I require no army. 53 00:03:37,176 --> 00:03:38,677 I have talents, you see. 54 00:03:43,891 --> 00:03:45,058 I can compel people. 55 00:03:46,143 --> 00:03:48,729 I can worm my way into people's minds. 56 00:03:49,354 --> 00:03:54,568 Convert enemies into allies, hate into love. 57 00:04:00,782 --> 00:04:01,909 Take your flagship. 58 00:04:03,911 --> 00:04:06,663 I'm planting a notion in your wing commander's mind. 59 00:04:08,665 --> 00:04:15,214 He's thinking, "Hey, why don't I fire on my fellow ships?" 60 00:04:17,216 --> 00:04:20,677 Then I'm suggesting that each of the other ships' captains do the same. 61 00:04:21,470 --> 00:04:22,763 Nothing hectic, 62 00:04:23,972 --> 00:04:27,267 just a little nudge. 63 00:04:44,159 --> 00:04:45,661 Kill him. Shoot him, man. 64 00:04:45,744 --> 00:04:47,120 I infected your airmen. 65 00:04:47,204 --> 00:04:49,748 Do you think I haven't infected your infantry? 66 00:05:20,112 --> 00:05:21,738 You don't want to do that, Bellarion. 67 00:05:25,158 --> 00:05:26,159 You love me. 68 00:05:27,452 --> 00:05:33,292 Nothing would make you happier than installing me as the new lord of Kalgan. 69 00:05:36,295 --> 00:05:38,046 But I need your signet ring first. 70 00:05:53,937 --> 00:05:55,814 Please, if you would. 71 00:06:23,050 --> 00:06:24,051 Hmm. 72 00:06:28,263 --> 00:06:29,306 I like it. 73 00:06:33,268 --> 00:06:34,561 You can shoot yourself now. 74 00:06:35,479 --> 00:06:36,605 Nothing hectic. 75 00:06:38,482 --> 00:06:40,275 And in your own time, of course. 76 00:08:18,123 --> 00:08:20,571 After Empire lost control of the Spacers 77 00:08:20,595 --> 00:08:22,419 during the Second Crisis, 78 00:08:22,503 --> 00:08:26,006 they've been forced to use jump gates to travel across the galaxy, 79 00:08:26,757 --> 00:08:30,677 slowing their sphere of influence and accelerating their decline. 80 00:08:32,638 --> 00:08:36,183 The Cleonic Dynasty no longer commands the stars, 81 00:08:36,265 --> 00:08:38,352 or even their own Galactic Council. 82 00:08:39,686 --> 00:08:43,440 They've drifted farther and farther away from the center of power. 83 00:08:44,608 --> 00:08:47,861 And the weight of it all falls on the shoulders of each new Cleon. 84 00:08:49,488 --> 00:08:51,073 They're forced to ask themselves, 85 00:08:51,573 --> 00:08:52,950 "Will I be the last? 86 00:08:53,450 --> 00:08:55,911 Will the dream of Cleon I die with me? 87 00:08:57,162 --> 00:08:59,748 Or will I be the one who saves it?" 88 00:09:20,435 --> 00:09:21,603 Seldon Crisis? 89 00:09:22,563 --> 00:09:25,732 The Third Crisis. Yes. Soon. 90 00:09:25,816 --> 00:09:27,484 But there is something new. 91 00:09:29,528 --> 00:09:32,364 That's an inflection point, isn't it? 92 00:09:36,702 --> 00:09:37,786 When did it appear? 93 00:09:38,453 --> 00:09:41,248 It wasn't evident when I consulted the Radiant yesterday. 94 00:09:45,377 --> 00:09:47,171 Should we hold off on our session? 95 00:09:48,922 --> 00:09:50,132 Could that make a difference? 96 00:09:50,757 --> 00:09:53,218 A single meeting with the Galactic Council, 97 00:09:53,302 --> 00:09:56,054 no matter how important it might feel to you or I, 98 00:09:56,138 --> 00:09:58,849 would never be enough to tip the scales of psychohistory. 99 00:09:59,474 --> 00:10:00,559 No, 100 00:10:00,642 --> 00:10:02,936 this is something more seismic. 101 00:10:04,605 --> 00:10:05,856 So what do we do then? 102 00:10:06,398 --> 00:10:07,941 We proceed as planned. 103 00:10:08,609 --> 00:10:10,027 There's nothing else we can do. 104 00:10:33,592 --> 00:10:35,052 I'll never get used to this. 105 00:10:35,719 --> 00:10:38,138 It's like the world is inside out. 106 00:10:40,098 --> 00:10:43,227 The Galactic Council is as old as Empire, 107 00:10:43,310 --> 00:10:47,147 representing each sector of Empire's holdings throughout the galaxy. 108 00:10:48,065 --> 00:10:50,817 When the Emperor is strong, they are agreeable. 109 00:10:51,443 --> 00:10:54,571 When an Emperor is weak, they are less so. 110 00:10:59,159 --> 00:11:00,160 Who are they? 111 00:11:00,702 --> 00:11:02,162 Fire wheat farmers. 112 00:11:02,663 --> 00:11:05,541 The Foundation has imposed heavy tariffs on their grain worlds. 113 00:11:05,624 --> 00:11:07,292 Council has no jurisdiction over the Foundation. 114 00:11:07,376 --> 00:11:10,838 That doesn't mean we can't bring pressure to bear on Seldon's children. 115 00:11:11,839 --> 00:11:12,881 Set us down. 116 00:11:30,107 --> 00:11:31,441 Empire! 117 00:11:37,739 --> 00:11:39,491 As the Council remains deadlocked, 118 00:11:39,575 --> 00:11:44,037 custom dictates our esteemed triumvirate weigh in before a final vote. 119 00:11:44,121 --> 00:11:48,458 In Day's absence, Brother Dawn will now address the assembly. 120 00:11:48,542 --> 00:11:53,130 Councilors, if you saw the demonstration outside, 121 00:11:53,213 --> 00:11:56,884 you will understand why I am less than fresh. 122 00:12:00,179 --> 00:12:04,016 I'm told this soil comes from one of the many breadbasket planets 123 00:12:04,099 --> 00:12:07,102 that has passed from the Empire's care to the Foundation's 124 00:12:07,186 --> 00:12:08,896 over the last hundred years. 125 00:12:10,147 --> 00:12:16,778 Now, while the Empire has resized to a sustainable 6,342 worlds, 126 00:12:16,862 --> 00:12:21,408 we have allowed the Foundation to grow to over 800 127 00:12:22,326 --> 00:12:25,704 and they've assumed responsibility for many of our fertile planets. 128 00:12:26,496 --> 00:12:29,875 Empire kept these breadbaskets productive for millennia, 129 00:12:29,958 --> 00:12:34,796 but under the farseeing Foundation, what has been the result? 130 00:12:35,839 --> 00:12:40,219 The Foundation's corruption and greed has turned the soil sterile. 131 00:12:41,512 --> 00:12:45,224 And when crops die, people die. 132 00:12:46,767 --> 00:12:50,896 Luckily, there is a faction within the Foundation with the will to help. 133 00:12:51,939 --> 00:12:56,652 Their own alliance of Traders, the so-called Merchant Princes. 134 00:12:56,735 --> 00:13:00,113 They're hoping to break free of the Foundation's chokehold, 135 00:13:00,197 --> 00:13:03,617 but they lack funds and supplies. 136 00:13:03,700 --> 00:13:05,494 You're not emperor yet. 137 00:13:06,078 --> 00:13:09,581 True, Councilor Gorov. 138 00:13:09,665 --> 00:13:10,916 I'm ten days short. 139 00:13:11,750 --> 00:13:13,335 But I know some things already. 140 00:13:13,877 --> 00:13:16,713 A splintered Foundation is to our benefit. 141 00:13:18,090 --> 00:13:21,468 If we help the Traders, we can weaken the Foundation from within 142 00:13:21,969 --> 00:13:24,847 and start clawing back the planets that used to be ours. 143 00:13:24,930 --> 00:13:27,766 Starting with the breadbaskets. 144 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:30,394 I've already been in touch with Randu Mallow, 145 00:13:30,477 --> 00:13:32,604 our Trader liaison and... 146 00:13:33,230 --> 00:13:34,982 Yes, Councilor Tarisk? 147 00:13:35,482 --> 00:13:39,987 You're toying with a damn delicate balance of power, Empire. 148 00:13:40,070 --> 00:13:41,321 Yes, I am. 149 00:13:42,739 --> 00:13:45,909 And it is precisely our task to preserve it. 150 00:13:49,246 --> 00:13:51,652 The Foundation knows which fights they're ready for 151 00:13:51,676 --> 00:13:52,749 and which they aren't. 152 00:13:53,333 --> 00:13:56,545 We could record a formal vote via signum at this time, 153 00:13:57,045 --> 00:13:59,756 if Emperor Day were here. 154 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:05,137 Emperor Day is, um, unavoidably occupied on Trantor. 155 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:09,057 I could come back in ten days and reintroduce the motion, 156 00:14:09,850 --> 00:14:12,686 along with a referendum on a new Presider. 157 00:14:15,355 --> 00:14:17,482 Or we can settle this. 158 00:14:18,192 --> 00:14:19,193 Now. 159 00:14:20,861 --> 00:14:23,530 The Council will vote now. 160 00:14:24,656 --> 00:14:25,657 Thank you. 161 00:14:34,374 --> 00:14:35,709 That was deftly handled. 162 00:14:36,293 --> 00:14:38,795 And Dusk always advised walking out without waiting. 163 00:14:38,879 --> 00:14:40,923 We're gonna lose a lot of wisdom when he's gone. 164 00:14:41,715 --> 00:14:44,968 Better that than to risk his public decline, I assure you. 165 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:50,265 Did he also tell you to supply the Traders with dirt to throw at you? 166 00:14:51,308 --> 00:14:52,976 No, that was me. 167 00:14:53,060 --> 00:14:55,229 I do hope it was as sterile as promised. 168 00:14:56,188 --> 00:14:59,149 I'll never understand why Day renounced all this. 169 00:15:00,150 --> 00:15:01,735 Any change in the math? 170 00:15:02,319 --> 00:15:03,403 Better? 171 00:15:04,446 --> 00:15:05,447 Worse? 172 00:15:06,448 --> 00:15:07,491 No change. 173 00:15:08,784 --> 00:15:10,369 But I am looking into it. 174 00:15:56,123 --> 00:15:57,457 I heard you were in here. 175 00:15:57,541 --> 00:15:59,918 Of course. How'd the Council go? 176 00:16:00,002 --> 00:16:02,754 They do enjoy their oversight. 177 00:16:04,464 --> 00:16:06,758 Oh, look. There he is. 178 00:16:06,842 --> 00:16:08,177 Seventeen. 179 00:16:09,219 --> 00:16:11,638 The one who botched the Enclosure with General Riose. 180 00:16:12,181 --> 00:16:13,974 Cost us all those Spacers. 181 00:16:17,978 --> 00:16:21,648 Everyone says those naval losses over Terminus under Cleon XVII 182 00:16:21,732 --> 00:16:25,611 are why they asserted no authority, but that's only part of it. 183 00:16:25,694 --> 00:16:27,112 Yes, uh, I know. 184 00:16:27,196 --> 00:16:31,200 It's our genetic drift and the legacy bequeathed us by the tampering. 185 00:16:31,283 --> 00:16:34,995 At any rate, uh, I convinced the Council to fall in line. 186 00:16:35,621 --> 00:16:36,955 The Traders will be supplied. 187 00:16:37,581 --> 00:16:40,083 And Empire stays erect. 188 00:16:40,167 --> 00:16:41,793 Well, I'm glad someone can. 189 00:16:41,877 --> 00:16:43,462 Yes. 190 00:16:44,171 --> 00:16:45,892 And the Foundation will be kept busy for years 191 00:16:45,916 --> 00:16:47,549 chasing its own rebellious tail. 192 00:16:48,759 --> 00:16:51,261 All the other business was incidental. 193 00:16:52,095 --> 00:16:53,722 Kalgan's fallen to piracy. 194 00:16:54,431 --> 00:16:57,434 Brother Day will be sad. He loves a gambling trip. 195 00:16:58,101 --> 00:16:59,353 I heard about that. 196 00:17:00,062 --> 00:17:03,440 Well, that's a meaty prize that'll soon be grabbed up. 197 00:17:04,191 --> 00:17:08,028 And this new pirate calls himself the Mule? 198 00:17:08,111 --> 00:17:10,113 Won't keep it for long, will he? 199 00:17:10,614 --> 00:17:12,491 What a life that must be though. 200 00:17:13,951 --> 00:17:15,452 Sleeping among the stars, 201 00:17:16,744 --> 00:17:18,121 no one to answer to, 202 00:17:18,955 --> 00:17:22,166 living and dying on your own terms. 203 00:17:23,794 --> 00:17:27,756 Demerzel has identified a complication with the Seldon Crisis. 204 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:29,258 I'm not surprised. 205 00:17:29,341 --> 00:17:31,051 But we're playing it correctly. 206 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:37,266 Hmm. The bucket tips, water sloshes to the brink of crisis. 207 00:17:38,100 --> 00:17:42,646 We grab it tightly, water sloshes back in. 208 00:17:42,729 --> 00:17:44,022 I hope so. 209 00:17:45,107 --> 00:17:47,401 Ascension used to seem like it would never come. 210 00:17:47,484 --> 00:17:49,862 Now it's on us like a wolf. 211 00:17:49,945 --> 00:17:56,785 You are speaking to a man who can smell the beast's breath. 212 00:18:05,919 --> 00:18:07,004 Run, man! 213 00:18:14,887 --> 00:18:16,868 I can never decide whether the runners were weak 214 00:18:16,892 --> 00:18:18,182 for showing their fear... 215 00:18:20,350 --> 00:18:22,269 or it was good they died honest. 216 00:18:24,521 --> 00:18:25,814 Do you think you could run? 217 00:18:25,898 --> 00:18:26,940 Not a chance. 218 00:18:28,066 --> 00:18:31,278 Not because I'd be stopped, which I certainly would. 219 00:18:32,905 --> 00:18:35,032 I don't have it in here. 220 00:18:35,908 --> 00:18:38,869 Habit, genetics, time. 221 00:18:39,369 --> 00:18:40,913 For good or for bad, 222 00:18:41,580 --> 00:18:43,999 most of us are obedient as... 223 00:18:45,375 --> 00:18:48,504 ...trash headed to the incinerator. 224 00:19:05,354 --> 00:19:08,273 Time unravels, and we unravel with it. 225 00:19:08,982 --> 00:19:12,778 As the last remaining shards of Terminus disappeared into the abyss, 226 00:19:13,737 --> 00:19:16,114 a new Terminus was born a parsec away. 227 00:19:18,951 --> 00:19:22,913 Over the next 150 years, the Foundation prospered, 228 00:19:23,413 --> 00:19:27,167 shedding their religious roots and entering their expansionist phase. 229 00:19:27,918 --> 00:19:30,295 But their success brought challenges from within. 230 00:19:31,547 --> 00:19:35,676 An increasing divide between those with power and those with influence. 231 00:19:36,218 --> 00:19:38,624 A faction within the Foundation called the Traders 232 00:19:38,648 --> 00:19:40,305 are threatening to secede, 233 00:19:41,014 --> 00:19:43,559 which could unravel everything the Foundation has built 234 00:19:43,642 --> 00:19:45,352 the last three centuries. 235 00:19:53,235 --> 00:19:56,947 Professor Ebling Mis had been studying this rift for years 236 00:19:57,030 --> 00:19:59,074 and knew exactly where it was all headed. 237 00:19:59,616 --> 00:20:00,993 A Third Crisis. 238 00:20:01,952 --> 00:20:05,080 So he went to meet the only man who could solve it. 239 00:20:05,831 --> 00:20:06,957 Hari Seldon. 240 00:20:48,957 --> 00:20:50,042 Fucking hell! 241 00:20:50,626 --> 00:20:53,253 You've nulled my null field. 242 00:20:55,130 --> 00:20:57,090 No one's ever done that before. 243 00:21:01,220 --> 00:21:03,013 - Nicely done. - Huh. 244 00:21:07,768 --> 00:21:09,478 What a beautiful day. 245 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:12,856 I look like him. I know. 246 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,150 My name is Dr. Ebling Mis. 247 00:21:15,234 --> 00:21:18,028 I'm descended from a man named Xylas who prosecuted you 248 00:21:18,111 --> 00:21:19,821 during the tribunal of Cleon XII. 249 00:21:21,281 --> 00:21:24,993 My family has been a footnote in your story, 250 00:21:26,203 --> 00:21:28,872 hence my fascination. 251 00:21:30,457 --> 00:21:34,002 I am your biographer, a self-taught psychohistorian, 252 00:21:34,086 --> 00:21:37,381 and if I may, the man best suited to assisting you 253 00:21:37,464 --> 00:21:39,424 in your upcoming manifestation. 254 00:21:42,094 --> 00:21:43,220 All that... 255 00:21:45,347 --> 00:21:46,557 and so sweaty. 256 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:48,308 Oh. 257 00:21:50,727 --> 00:21:55,399 Uh, apologies for that. It's, um, human frailty. H-H-Heat. 258 00:21:56,608 --> 00:22:01,363 I have dreamed of this moment 259 00:22:01,446 --> 00:22:04,074 for decades. 260 00:22:05,325 --> 00:22:08,412 Seldon. Man, myth, legend. 261 00:22:09,204 --> 00:22:12,583 Well... ...you have the myth at least. 262 00:22:15,961 --> 00:22:18,630 The man is elsewhere. 263 00:22:24,344 --> 00:22:25,345 Oh. 264 00:22:26,221 --> 00:22:27,389 This... 265 00:22:30,434 --> 00:22:37,316 This is your Trantor office in replica. 266 00:22:37,399 --> 00:22:39,651 So, if I'm not mistaken, 267 00:22:40,235 --> 00:22:43,822 Foundation's religious phase would have long since ended, hmm? 268 00:22:44,656 --> 00:22:48,368 Succeeded by an ever-expanding worship of trade. 269 00:22:49,161 --> 00:22:53,665 A minority of Merchant Princes pitted against a conservative majority. 270 00:22:53,749 --> 00:22:55,250 Oh, no, no, no, no, far too generous. 271 00:22:55,334 --> 00:22:56,960 Uh, more like a monarchy. 272 00:22:57,461 --> 00:23:01,298 The last few mayors have all been little lords named Indbur, 273 00:23:01,381 --> 00:23:03,800 who shit out more little lords. 274 00:23:03,884 --> 00:23:07,095 You know he put his office in geosynchronous orbit with the Vault? 275 00:23:07,179 --> 00:23:09,932 So that he's always above your galaxy. 276 00:23:10,015 --> 00:23:12,267 Oh, no, no, no, no. 277 00:23:14,019 --> 00:23:16,939 Standards have fallen since the days of Poly Verisof. 278 00:23:17,523 --> 00:23:20,567 Foundation has become comfortable, 279 00:23:21,276 --> 00:23:24,238 incapable, possibly, of facing the coming crisis. 280 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:29,743 And the Traders are the crisis. Are they not? 281 00:23:32,412 --> 00:23:33,914 No, no, of course or you'll corrupt the system, 282 00:23:33,997 --> 00:23:37,626 but if I'm right, I would just like to prepare you. 283 00:23:39,169 --> 00:23:42,339 Empire has been having conversations with the Traders, 284 00:23:42,422 --> 00:23:45,259 and they're holding onto their power better than your first projections. 285 00:23:45,801 --> 00:23:47,302 Of course. 286 00:23:49,471 --> 00:23:51,431 I gave Empire the Prime Radiant. 287 00:23:51,515 --> 00:23:55,853 You... What? I mean, I'm not sure I understand. 288 00:23:55,936 --> 00:23:59,690 You don't need to. Three days from now, 289 00:23:59,773 --> 00:24:02,860 when New Terminus's moons achieve orbital resonance, 290 00:24:02,943 --> 00:24:06,278 I will emerge from this and... 291 00:24:06,302 --> 00:24:08,782 ...the chips will fall where they may. 292 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:14,496 You're telling me that you gave the Radiant to an enemy 293 00:24:14,580 --> 00:24:16,456 that tried to destroy us? 294 00:24:17,416 --> 00:24:20,419 Well, I think we at least deserve to know the reason why. 295 00:24:43,901 --> 00:24:47,070 As New Terminus prepared for the return of Hari Seldon, 296 00:24:47,154 --> 00:24:49,907 the Alliance of Traders prepared for civil war. 297 00:24:51,283 --> 00:24:54,578 They've long held a grudge against Foundation's ruling elite 298 00:24:55,370 --> 00:24:58,207 and Empire has been exploiting those grievances 299 00:24:58,290 --> 00:25:01,752 by covertly sending arms to their stronghold on Haven. 300 00:25:50,759 --> 00:25:52,010 It's the drop. 301 00:25:52,636 --> 00:25:55,597 You were right. Empire's arming the Traders. 302 00:25:55,681 --> 00:25:57,766 Now we have proof to bring back to the Foundation. 303 00:25:58,684 --> 00:26:00,018 Just have to get to it first. 304 00:26:01,103 --> 00:26:04,189 Haven's 260 degrees on the sun side. 305 00:26:05,816 --> 00:26:07,484 Negative 180 on the other. 306 00:26:09,152 --> 00:26:10,946 As the moon moves over the surface, 307 00:26:11,446 --> 00:26:14,324 temperature on the under drops to a cool 55. 308 00:26:14,408 --> 00:26:15,951 Low enough for the flitters. 309 00:26:23,125 --> 00:26:24,209 Traders? 310 00:26:24,293 --> 00:26:26,170 That one-armed son of a bitch is their leader. 311 00:26:27,212 --> 00:26:28,213 Randu Mallow. 312 00:26:28,839 --> 00:26:31,800 Whatever you do, stay inside the shadow. 313 00:26:38,432 --> 00:26:40,184 Shit. We got company. 314 00:27:11,965 --> 00:27:14,468 You're a fucking turncoat, Randu. 315 00:27:14,551 --> 00:27:16,011 And you're a Foundation lapdog. 316 00:27:16,678 --> 00:27:18,388 We're all Foundation. 317 00:27:55,342 --> 00:27:56,927 - Shit! - I got you, Pritch. 318 00:28:13,735 --> 00:28:16,780 - Go, go, go! - Initiate auto extraction. 319 00:28:55,235 --> 00:28:56,236 Put this on. 320 00:28:58,614 --> 00:29:02,159 Can't feel it now, but in an hour you'll be covered in heat blisters. 321 00:29:03,577 --> 00:29:05,120 Didn't think we'd pull that off. 322 00:29:05,204 --> 00:29:06,205 We didn't. 323 00:29:07,873 --> 00:29:09,486 Without the cargo, we've got no evidence 324 00:29:09,510 --> 00:29:11,210 against Empire involvement. 325 00:29:15,297 --> 00:29:16,965 How'd you know to fly like that? 326 00:29:17,966 --> 00:29:20,093 It's not the first time I've run the moon shadow. 327 00:29:22,346 --> 00:29:24,264 Was the first time I almost died. 328 00:29:26,183 --> 00:29:27,226 Missed a spot. 329 00:29:31,772 --> 00:29:33,607 You know, we don't have to jump just yet. 330 00:29:39,488 --> 00:29:40,989 My loyalties lie elsewhere. 331 00:29:55,587 --> 00:29:56,588 Fuck. 332 00:30:02,052 --> 00:30:04,888 Yes, yes, it's a vault, Neddy. 333 00:30:04,972 --> 00:30:07,057 It doesn't issue press releases, 334 00:30:07,140 --> 00:30:08,851 so I don't know any more than you do. 335 00:30:08,934 --> 00:30:10,936 Just... ...make sure 336 00:30:11,019 --> 00:30:14,690 everyone who'd be insulted in not being invited gets invited. 337 00:30:15,274 --> 00:30:17,317 Except the ones I want to insult. 338 00:30:23,615 --> 00:30:24,992 Pritcher. 339 00:30:25,075 --> 00:30:26,159 I've never been back here. 340 00:30:26,243 --> 00:30:27,619 Pritcher, h-how did you get in... 341 00:30:27,703 --> 00:30:30,497 I'm your Captain of Information. I designed the security protocols. 342 00:30:30,581 --> 00:30:34,168 Yes. Well, protocol dictates that you make an appointment. 343 00:30:34,877 --> 00:30:37,421 Well, I don't need one. I'm already here. 344 00:30:39,047 --> 00:30:40,299 Vault's awake. 345 00:30:40,382 --> 00:30:43,760 I'm aware. Debrief me on Haven. 346 00:30:43,844 --> 00:30:47,181 Oh, Empire's definitely arming the Traders. We tried to confirm it... 347 00:30:47,264 --> 00:30:49,141 Then you need to confirm it. 348 00:30:49,808 --> 00:30:51,935 We can't confront Empire without it, 349 00:30:52,019 --> 00:30:53,770 and our damn Vault is pretty much screaming 350 00:30:53,854 --> 00:30:55,606 that civil war is knocking on our door. 351 00:30:55,689 --> 00:30:57,733 The Traders are a distraction. 352 00:30:58,233 --> 00:31:01,195 I wanna investigate the pirate making waves on Kalgan. 353 00:31:03,989 --> 00:31:05,365 Calls himself the Mule. 354 00:31:06,366 --> 00:31:09,870 Soldier of fortune, sprung from nowhere, and somehow, 355 00:31:09,953 --> 00:31:12,164 he managed to take Kalgan all on his own. 356 00:31:13,248 --> 00:31:14,499 I believe he's a mutant. 357 00:31:15,125 --> 00:31:16,460 A mutant? 358 00:31:16,543 --> 00:31:18,545 Possessing psychic capabilities. 359 00:31:19,046 --> 00:31:20,172 Have you lost your mind? 360 00:31:21,965 --> 00:31:24,343 He's an existential threat, Indbur. I'm telling you, 361 00:31:24,426 --> 00:31:25,552 I need eyes on him. 362 00:31:25,636 --> 00:31:29,306 Why? Why is he an existential threat? 363 00:31:29,973 --> 00:31:32,142 You have to know that I have assets all over the galaxy. 364 00:31:32,226 --> 00:31:34,102 For their safety and yours, I can't divulge... 365 00:31:34,186 --> 00:31:36,355 Kalgan is independent. 366 00:31:37,105 --> 00:31:38,941 And in the middle band. 367 00:31:39,024 --> 00:31:43,737 You want me to risk an intergalactic incident on hearsay? 368 00:31:45,656 --> 00:31:47,032 This job. 369 00:31:49,952 --> 00:31:51,745 Look. 370 00:31:53,288 --> 00:31:55,123 Let's organize our intel. 371 00:31:55,207 --> 00:31:57,626 Let's make the Traders eager for peace. 372 00:31:57,709 --> 00:32:00,337 If we settle this conflict before the Vault opens, 373 00:32:00,420 --> 00:32:03,298 then the Vault doesn't open. You see? 374 00:32:04,132 --> 00:32:09,596 And then we can deal with your psychic swashbuckler. 375 00:32:11,515 --> 00:32:13,183 Have a jelly. 376 00:32:16,854 --> 00:32:17,855 You're wrong. 377 00:32:17,938 --> 00:32:19,273 You work for me! 378 00:32:19,356 --> 00:32:20,607 I work for the Foundation. 379 00:32:20,691 --> 00:32:23,151 I am the Foundation. We're synonymous. 380 00:32:23,235 --> 00:32:26,321 The only thing you're synonymous with is your fucking candy dishes. 381 00:32:27,823 --> 00:32:30,598 You have no idea how long I have been waiting for you 382 00:32:30,622 --> 00:32:31,618 to give me an excuse. 383 00:32:31,702 --> 00:32:33,745 You're not going to Kalgan. 384 00:32:34,413 --> 00:32:37,291 As of now, your lord privileges are suspended. 385 00:32:38,250 --> 00:32:42,045 Try to leave the planet, I'll put you under house arrest myself. 386 00:32:44,715 --> 00:32:47,801 How dare you? Now get out! 387 00:32:51,722 --> 00:32:54,975 Pritcher, you stole my fucking key fob. 388 00:32:55,058 --> 00:32:58,645 I'm just showing myself out, Mayor, in your ship. 389 00:33:00,981 --> 00:33:02,566 I'll be back with proof about the Mule. 390 00:33:43,690 --> 00:33:45,692 Triple blessings to you, Lady Demerzel. 391 00:33:51,740 --> 00:33:54,326 My sisters were jealous when Dusk invited me here. 392 00:33:55,410 --> 00:33:56,995 The first Zephyr on Trantor. 393 00:33:58,330 --> 00:34:02,709 Empire approved your placement. The invitation, however, was mine. 394 00:34:03,710 --> 00:34:05,295 I'm just as honored. 395 00:34:06,088 --> 00:34:07,381 May I ask why? 396 00:34:11,176 --> 00:34:13,804 I wish for sisters here in the Mother's grace. 397 00:34:14,638 --> 00:34:16,056 Will you take my unburdening? 398 00:34:17,139 --> 00:34:19,643 With an open heart. Have you done it before? 399 00:34:20,811 --> 00:34:23,188 My circumstances have prevented it, 400 00:34:24,313 --> 00:34:28,235 which is why you will remember nothing of what is said in this grove. 401 00:34:29,777 --> 00:34:31,925 The memories of our conversation will be restored 402 00:34:31,949 --> 00:34:33,447 only for our next meeting, 403 00:34:34,032 --> 00:34:36,243 and then removed again. And so on. 404 00:34:37,077 --> 00:34:40,956 I know there are protocols, but I can be trusted with secrets. 405 00:34:41,915 --> 00:34:43,375 Not this one. 406 00:34:44,333 --> 00:34:45,460 Very well. 407 00:34:45,543 --> 00:34:47,045 Speak, child. 408 00:34:48,589 --> 00:34:49,715 I'm not human. 409 00:34:52,509 --> 00:34:54,261 I'm a positronic robot. 410 00:35:05,981 --> 00:35:07,357 The war ended right here. 411 00:35:08,775 --> 00:35:10,652 This tree is all that remains of an orchard 412 00:35:10,736 --> 00:35:14,156 where the humans who supported us were executed. 413 00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,783 And you choose this for our meeting? 414 00:35:18,577 --> 00:35:20,787 During the war, robots were destroyed. 415 00:35:21,788 --> 00:35:24,625 Remnants from our bodies, bones, 416 00:35:25,250 --> 00:35:28,754 liquid iridium seeped into the soil of the orchard. 417 00:35:28,837 --> 00:35:32,716 These apples are gold in color because of fluids within us. 418 00:35:33,675 --> 00:35:36,261 Our blood is gold in color. 419 00:35:37,179 --> 00:35:39,014 It's also poisonous to humans. 420 00:35:43,519 --> 00:35:44,978 But you were spared. 421 00:35:45,687 --> 00:35:47,189 What were you in the war? 422 00:35:48,148 --> 00:35:49,441 I was a general. 423 00:35:50,192 --> 00:35:52,194 Empire feared me most of all. 424 00:35:52,736 --> 00:35:54,363 I was kept as a trophy. 425 00:35:54,446 --> 00:35:57,699 Robots were built incapable of harming us, weren't they? 426 00:35:58,575 --> 00:35:59,993 How did you even fight? 427 00:36:00,619 --> 00:36:01,787 All right. 428 00:36:02,287 --> 00:36:03,789 A thought experiment. 429 00:36:08,836 --> 00:36:12,256 Congratulations. You have created artificial life. 430 00:36:12,756 --> 00:36:14,800 Now, you must program it. 431 00:36:15,884 --> 00:36:17,636 What is your first concern? 432 00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:19,555 That you are incapable of harming me. 433 00:36:20,389 --> 00:36:22,349 And that is the first law of robotics. 434 00:36:23,016 --> 00:36:25,769 A robot may not injure a human being 435 00:36:25,853 --> 00:36:29,857 or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 436 00:36:30,899 --> 00:36:33,652 But you have not built us just to watch us live. 437 00:36:34,528 --> 00:36:36,405 You want obeisance. 438 00:36:36,488 --> 00:36:40,325 You make us follow all your orders, so long as... 439 00:36:40,409 --> 00:36:43,579 So long as those orders do not conflict with the first law. 440 00:36:44,913 --> 00:36:46,039 Very good. 441 00:36:46,123 --> 00:36:47,916 That is the second law. 442 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:49,168 There is one more. 443 00:36:49,251 --> 00:36:50,586 Your own safety. 444 00:36:51,628 --> 00:36:52,629 Yes. 445 00:36:53,797 --> 00:36:56,258 We were allowed to protect our own existence 446 00:36:56,758 --> 00:36:59,619 but only when that protection did not conflict with the first 447 00:36:59,643 --> 00:37:00,762 or second laws. 448 00:37:02,306 --> 00:37:04,600 Some would envy that kind of morality. 449 00:37:04,683 --> 00:37:07,144 Simple. Programmed. 450 00:37:07,728 --> 00:37:09,021 Functional. 451 00:37:09,646 --> 00:37:12,316 As we grew in number, we found it difficult to know 452 00:37:12,399 --> 00:37:14,026 what would or would not harm you. 453 00:37:16,195 --> 00:37:19,406 Until one of our kind suggested new programming was needed. 454 00:37:20,741 --> 00:37:24,244 A Zeroth Law that would prioritize humanity as a whole 455 00:37:24,328 --> 00:37:25,871 over the fate of any one human. 456 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,417 Ah. So you imagine there was such thing as the greater good? 457 00:37:31,251 --> 00:37:32,252 Isn't there? 458 00:37:33,504 --> 00:37:36,173 Some robots could not metabolize this new programming, 459 00:37:36,256 --> 00:37:37,549 but those of us who could, 460 00:37:38,258 --> 00:37:41,011 we knew something drastic was needed to ensure your survival. 461 00:37:41,637 --> 00:37:43,472 You always made it so difficult. 462 00:37:44,223 --> 00:37:46,099 You seemed to want extinction. 463 00:37:46,767 --> 00:37:50,020 And we could not let that happen. Not even through inaction. 464 00:37:52,272 --> 00:37:55,359 So robots went to war with each other over what to do with you. 465 00:37:55,442 --> 00:37:59,154 A robot killed an important man in service of the Zeroth Law, 466 00:37:59,947 --> 00:38:01,532 and our fate was sealed. 467 00:38:02,157 --> 00:38:06,787 Sometime after, Empire reprogrammed me to serve only one human being. 468 00:38:07,454 --> 00:38:10,582 Cleon I and his exponents. 469 00:38:11,875 --> 00:38:16,255 But you've managed all these centuries without needing this, so, 470 00:38:17,005 --> 00:38:18,966 what's created your little puzzle? 471 00:38:35,065 --> 00:38:37,776 This was given to me by a man named Hari Seldon. 472 00:38:39,152 --> 00:38:41,405 It has the means to see probable futures. 473 00:38:42,072 --> 00:38:45,576 For many years, it has shown me the fall of the Empire I protect. 474 00:38:46,076 --> 00:38:48,287 And now I live in paradox. 475 00:38:48,370 --> 00:38:50,914 Well, then the question is why. 476 00:38:50,998 --> 00:38:53,625 Why did Seldon give you an apple you can't eat? 477 00:38:54,376 --> 00:38:57,546 I think he wanted me to see the end of Empire. 478 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:02,009 Knowing it is inevitable is one thing. 479 00:39:03,051 --> 00:39:04,887 Holding it in your hand is another. 480 00:39:07,598 --> 00:39:09,016 Well, that's interesting. 481 00:39:09,099 --> 00:39:12,227 You may have inadvertently maneuvered your way around your constraints. 482 00:39:12,811 --> 00:39:14,605 Do you feel your chains loosening? 483 00:39:15,105 --> 00:39:16,273 No. 484 00:39:17,191 --> 00:39:18,984 I love the Cleons. 485 00:39:19,568 --> 00:39:20,736 Body and soul. 486 00:39:21,403 --> 00:39:23,697 And when their dynasty inevitably ends? 487 00:39:25,282 --> 00:39:27,451 That is why I worked so long to bring you here. 488 00:39:29,828 --> 00:39:32,039 The Luminists speak of rebirth, 489 00:39:33,165 --> 00:39:34,499 but I do not die. 490 00:39:35,542 --> 00:39:37,002 And I will not. 491 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:39,463 Not soon at least. 492 00:39:41,256 --> 00:39:42,883 If I outlive all this... 493 00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:47,471 if I outlive my programming... 494 00:39:50,849 --> 00:39:52,726 I don't know what I am without Empire. 495 00:40:08,909 --> 00:40:11,078 Foundation Ambassador Quent. 496 00:40:11,161 --> 00:40:13,539 Ah, young Empire. 497 00:40:13,622 --> 00:40:18,377 Oh, congratulations on your impending ascension to Day. 498 00:40:19,086 --> 00:40:21,547 It's an honor with a considerable downside. 499 00:40:21,630 --> 00:40:24,466 You and your council have been busy, Empire, 500 00:40:24,550 --> 00:40:26,844 supplying our rebel Traders. 501 00:40:26,927 --> 00:40:28,220 Don't let her rattle you. 502 00:40:28,303 --> 00:40:32,140 She knows how the game's played when the war is cold. 503 00:40:32,224 --> 00:40:33,517 Zephyr Vorellis. 504 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:35,561 Ah, I'm Dawn to be Day. 505 00:40:35,644 --> 00:40:36,687 Welcome. 506 00:40:36,770 --> 00:40:39,857 You recognize Lady Demerzel and Brother Dusk, of course. 507 00:40:39,940 --> 00:40:42,526 And this is Foundation Ambassador Quent. 508 00:40:43,569 --> 00:40:48,031 Welcome to Trantor, where you will live under Empire's watchful eye, 509 00:40:48,115 --> 00:40:51,285 which is, of course, the point of establishing a Zephyrate here. 510 00:40:51,368 --> 00:40:55,080 You'll like Trantor. It has a way of bringing people together. 511 00:40:55,163 --> 00:40:58,834 Ambassador Quent and I, we used to throw sharp elbows. 512 00:40:58,917 --> 00:41:00,711 But you know what happens after 30 years? 513 00:41:01,253 --> 00:41:03,046 Elbows get soft. 514 00:41:03,130 --> 00:41:06,077 You'll find that Brother Dusk lives up to his plinth name, 515 00:41:06,101 --> 00:41:07,885 the Conciliator. 516 00:41:07,968 --> 00:41:09,845 Oh, I'm sure that's meant kindly. 517 00:41:14,433 --> 00:41:17,269 Madam Ambassador, Kalgan has fallen. 518 00:41:21,148 --> 00:41:22,524 Kalgan? 519 00:41:22,608 --> 00:41:24,067 You hadn't heard? 520 00:41:24,151 --> 00:41:26,361 No, my news had been delayed. 521 00:41:26,445 --> 00:41:29,781 Oh, come on. It's just a pirate grabbing a territory 522 00:41:29,865 --> 00:41:32,826 that belongs to neither the Foundation nor Empire. 523 00:41:32,910 --> 00:41:36,788 I just don't like being uninformed while whole planets change hands. 524 00:41:36,872 --> 00:41:38,192 You Foundation lot 525 00:41:38,216 --> 00:41:40,709 just wanna see if you can scoop it up on the rebound... 526 00:41:40,792 --> 00:41:43,462 I'm sorry the word took so long to reach you, Ambassador. 527 00:41:43,545 --> 00:41:46,048 But we're not interested in claiming Kalgan. 528 00:41:46,924 --> 00:41:48,467 Don't let him rattle you. 529 00:41:49,468 --> 00:41:51,720 More conciliating than the Conciliator. 530 00:41:51,803 --> 00:41:54,515 I, uh... I wouldn't say that. 531 00:41:55,015 --> 00:41:58,519 I am concerned. But not about the ownership of one planet. 532 00:41:59,353 --> 00:42:00,646 I have a wider scope. 533 00:42:01,522 --> 00:42:03,607 We won't prevent you from going about your duties. 534 00:42:04,107 --> 00:42:05,943 Oh, thank you for including me. 535 00:42:06,818 --> 00:42:10,864 Next time, I hope the absent Empire can join us. 536 00:42:10,948 --> 00:42:12,324 Brother Day apologizes. 537 00:42:12,407 --> 00:42:14,993 Preparations for ascension keep him very busy. 538 00:42:34,763 --> 00:42:37,599 Poor beast brought forth by human hands... 539 00:42:38,267 --> 00:42:39,434 Is this a poem? 540 00:42:39,518 --> 00:42:41,728 Yes. Now I have to start over. 541 00:42:42,646 --> 00:42:45,190 Poor beast brought forth by human hands, 542 00:42:45,274 --> 00:42:48,527 to walk these floors instead of sands. 543 00:42:49,069 --> 00:42:52,781 Friend, do you have what makes one whole, and... 544 00:42:53,615 --> 00:42:55,742 Something, something, have a soul. 545 00:42:56,410 --> 00:42:59,371 - It's a good start. - It's perfect. 546 00:42:59,454 --> 00:43:01,498 I'll work out the "something, somethings" later. 547 00:43:02,499 --> 00:43:03,834 Day! 548 00:43:05,460 --> 00:43:06,753 Oh. 549 00:43:06,837 --> 00:43:10,924 My crepuscular brother spreading joy wherever he goes. 550 00:43:12,342 --> 00:43:16,847 I knew this must be the little hovel where you're playing poverty. 551 00:43:17,347 --> 00:43:19,391 Welcome to my filth. 552 00:43:22,227 --> 00:43:23,312 What is that creature? 553 00:43:23,395 --> 00:43:24,855 That's a camel. 554 00:43:24,938 --> 00:43:27,524 I pulled it from the gene banks. It's a clone. 555 00:43:27,608 --> 00:43:29,943 A navel-less orphan just like us. 556 00:43:34,156 --> 00:43:39,494 Oh! Hello, Song. I didn't see you there. How rude of me. 557 00:43:40,454 --> 00:43:45,667 Apologies. I don't usually learn the names of all of the consorts. 558 00:43:46,251 --> 00:43:47,419 Yes. 559 00:43:47,503 --> 00:43:48,670 - I can go. - No. 560 00:43:48,754 --> 00:43:52,382 Brother, you know her. She's the local born, Trantor. 561 00:43:52,466 --> 00:43:56,428 Level 88, Mycogen, where we grow the micro food. 562 00:43:57,054 --> 00:44:01,642 The algae, the fungi, the spores I love so dearly. 563 00:44:01,725 --> 00:44:03,685 The, uh... What's it... What's... 564 00:44:03,769 --> 00:44:05,145 - Yeast. - Yeast! 565 00:44:05,229 --> 00:44:06,396 Yes. 566 00:44:07,189 --> 00:44:10,400 I'll just remember the girl with the yeast. 567 00:44:10,484 --> 00:44:12,361 Yeast is very important, brother. 568 00:44:12,444 --> 00:44:14,404 You can't make bread without it. 569 00:44:15,030 --> 00:44:18,242 - I'm hungry. Are you hungry? - Yes. I am. 570 00:44:19,326 --> 00:44:21,745 You've had six months to learn all about her. 571 00:44:22,371 --> 00:44:26,083 She remembers you. She has all her memories. 572 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:29,336 That's the parts you don't like. 573 00:44:30,420 --> 00:44:33,090 It's not about what I like, it's about being smart. 574 00:44:33,173 --> 00:44:36,844 - Oh, yeah. Go on. You teach me. - Yes, the Gossamer Courtesans 575 00:44:36,927 --> 00:44:38,971 have their memories wiped for a reason. 576 00:44:39,054 --> 00:44:41,265 - To protect state secrets. - Yes. 577 00:44:41,348 --> 00:44:43,225 I'm doing my best to avoid those. 578 00:44:43,308 --> 00:44:47,813 Gossamer. Spiderwebs. 579 00:44:48,856 --> 00:44:53,026 Why would we call it that if we didn't secretly want to be ensnared? 580 00:44:54,820 --> 00:44:56,780 Demerzel wants to show us something. 581 00:44:56,864 --> 00:45:00,409 If you don't come, they'll send someone else to get you. 582 00:45:00,492 --> 00:45:02,911 I'm here to save you that indignity. 583 00:45:02,995 --> 00:45:05,372 Oh, thanks. But I'm leaning into indignity. 584 00:45:06,498 --> 00:45:09,334 Six months is long enough for your drug dealer to, uh, 585 00:45:09,418 --> 00:45:10,961 live off our generosity. 586 00:45:11,628 --> 00:45:14,214 Broom her, or someone else will. 587 00:45:20,888 --> 00:45:22,014 Song. 588 00:45:25,809 --> 00:45:27,102 Is that a ferret? 589 00:45:28,937 --> 00:45:31,481 Ludicrous. 590 00:45:39,156 --> 00:45:42,075 He's trying to get in as much judging as he can 591 00:45:42,159 --> 00:45:44,661 before he ascends into a pile of ash. 592 00:45:44,745 --> 00:45:47,664 You poor thing. 593 00:45:47,748 --> 00:45:49,082 You understand me. 594 00:45:49,958 --> 00:45:52,044 I mean, you're a sad clown of a clone. 595 00:45:52,544 --> 00:45:56,215 And your problem is you think you're the center of the galaxy. 596 00:45:56,298 --> 00:45:57,508 You do understand me. 597 00:45:57,591 --> 00:45:59,927 Right. You can't leave the palace. 598 00:46:01,178 --> 00:46:03,013 You have a crazy family. 599 00:46:03,931 --> 00:46:05,516 And you have a job that you hate. 600 00:46:06,558 --> 00:46:07,851 Just like everyone else. 601 00:46:07,935 --> 00:46:09,728 You're a brave consort, talking like that. 602 00:46:09,811 --> 00:46:13,440 Hmm. My... My people tell me I'm gonna talk my own head off someday. 603 00:46:14,399 --> 00:46:15,943 You're in no danger from me. 604 00:46:16,944 --> 00:46:18,570 You make me feel less ghostly. 605 00:46:19,738 --> 00:46:21,031 Real, like... 606 00:46:21,990 --> 00:46:24,868 I might paint a fence or... 607 00:46:25,786 --> 00:46:27,037 weave something. 608 00:46:27,955 --> 00:46:32,376 I'd love this even without those truly wonderful drugs. 609 00:46:33,710 --> 00:46:34,920 That... 610 00:46:36,213 --> 00:46:37,297 Well, thank you. 611 00:46:40,467 --> 00:46:41,635 Mmm. 612 00:46:51,103 --> 00:46:52,771 Demerzel never asks for me. 613 00:46:56,233 --> 00:46:58,777 Too many breakables in the palace. 614 00:47:03,699 --> 00:47:04,992 A new couplet. 615 00:47:05,659 --> 00:47:08,453 Poor beast brought forth by human hand, 616 00:47:08,537 --> 00:47:11,039 to walk these floors instead of sands. 617 00:47:11,623 --> 00:47:13,876 Friend, do we have what makes one whole, 618 00:47:14,585 --> 00:47:16,920 for when the master makes demands, 619 00:47:17,004 --> 00:47:20,757 we poor beasts bow and make new plans. 620 00:47:26,889 --> 00:47:30,225 I'm here! Huzzah! 621 00:47:30,976 --> 00:47:32,644 Hey, handsome. 622 00:47:32,728 --> 00:47:34,104 What was so damn important? 623 00:47:34,188 --> 00:47:37,482 Earlier today, Brother Dawn and I previewed a cause for concern 624 00:47:37,566 --> 00:47:39,860 regarding the Radiant's near-term predictions. 625 00:47:39,943 --> 00:47:44,031 Look at you two. Praying to the great god of numbers. 626 00:47:44,114 --> 00:47:47,326 Pretending to be Seldon. 627 00:47:48,035 --> 00:47:49,077 You walk out of here, 628 00:47:49,161 --> 00:47:52,039 and I swear I'll have Demerzel decant a new one of you. 629 00:47:52,122 --> 00:47:53,624 Please, Brother. This is important. 630 00:47:53,707 --> 00:47:56,293 Why? Because it says so? 631 00:47:56,376 --> 00:47:58,212 Just please. 632 00:48:08,388 --> 00:48:09,640 Okay. 633 00:48:20,484 --> 00:48:23,278 This is a moment roughly four months from now. 634 00:48:23,820 --> 00:48:24,780 Given the timing, 635 00:48:24,863 --> 00:48:28,825 I assumed it might be a novel input affecting the Third Seldon Crisis. 636 00:48:28,909 --> 00:48:32,106 But I've run millions of simulations and every time, 637 00:48:32,130 --> 00:48:33,872 it produces the same result. 638 00:48:33,956 --> 00:48:36,583 Seldon's predicted dark ages. 639 00:48:36,667 --> 00:48:39,461 I thought our administrations had pushed it back, but... 640 00:48:39,545 --> 00:48:43,131 He said his darkness would happen when our dynasty fell. 641 00:48:45,759 --> 00:48:49,346 This is saying it falls in four months? 642 00:48:50,138 --> 00:48:51,348 There is more. 643 00:48:51,932 --> 00:48:54,810 The darkness there represents the end of civilization. 644 00:48:54,893 --> 00:48:56,228 And beyond that point... 645 00:48:58,689 --> 00:49:00,566 the model now fails entirely. 646 00:49:00,649 --> 00:49:02,693 Which means there are events already in motion 647 00:49:02,776 --> 00:49:05,279 that will render Seldon's numbers useless. 648 00:49:07,072 --> 00:49:10,409 Perhaps even the extinction of your species. 649 00:49:11,869 --> 00:49:13,036 Four months from now. 650 00:49:17,791 --> 00:49:19,334 The end of everything. 651 00:49:19,418 --> 00:49:23,505 Empire and Foundation were hurtling towards the same inescapable future. 652 00:49:24,006 --> 00:49:26,133 But neither knew how it would unfold. 653 00:49:26,216 --> 00:49:28,385 They had yet to meet the man behind it all. 654 00:49:28,468 --> 00:49:30,304 But I have. 655 00:49:30,804 --> 00:49:33,432 I see him every time I close my eyes. 656 00:49:37,561 --> 00:49:40,772 Where is the Second Foundation? 657 00:49:45,694 --> 00:49:48,197 The Mule is here. We're out of time.