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[Day] We've been attacked.
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How does that make you feel?
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I'm scared.
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Which is why the best face we can
project outward now is one of strength.
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[strains]
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- [Gaal sobs] What have you done?
- You can't be here.
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Don't fight it. Keep calm.
You can breathe.
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[Dusk] The new Dawn, just awoken.
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- Something's wrong.
- [Hugo] Something wrong?
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[Salvor] Just a weird feeling.
I'm gonna walk the perimeter.
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[Hugo] Those are corvettes. Gunships.
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[woman] Comms buoy's not responding.
It's gone dark.
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[Salvor] It's gotta be connected
to the Vault. The null field's expanding.
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And the very next day,
the Anacreons showed up.
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[Gaal narrating] Once, a man came to
Hari Seldon and asked to be told his fate.
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He wanted to know
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whether the predictive models could chart
the significance of his life.
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But Hari told him only the movements
of masses could be predicted.
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The fate of one individual
will always remain a mystery.
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[groans]
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[Gaal] The clockwork of civilization...
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the rise and fall of cultures...
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causes and worlds...
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These were answers
Hari Seldon had long since unriddled.
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Belief is a powerful weapon.
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That's why the Empire feared
Hari Seldon's predictions so much.
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Empires govern worldly concerns,
but what comes after? Our souls?
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These realms are the purview of faith.
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And faith is a sword
forged in the fires of the infinite.
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[woman] Empire?
Do you seek different amusement?
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You'll do. For the routine pleasures
in the routine manner.
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Which pleasures do you prefer, Empire?
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Do you offer the pleasure of nothing?
Is that on the menu?
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Is it true? No one's allowed to touch you?
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Bold, aren't you?
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I have only 24 hours of service to you.
I want to make the most of it.
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Then try to touch me.
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I said try.
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[gasps]
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The aura repels kinetic energy.
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I want you to try it again,
with a softer touch.
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Slower.
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Slower.
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[sighs]
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[breathes shakily]
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So, how...
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...does the rest work?
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[both chuckle]
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What?
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You are required, Empire.
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I understand Empire has
a physiological need for intimacy.
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But the current matter
supersedes this need.
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[grunts]
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[sighs]
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[Demerzel] Ambassador Thanwall.
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Most esteemed Empire, glory to the light...
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Out with it, Ambassador.
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Proxima Opal has passed, Empire.
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[Day, Dusk] Our condolences.
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Condolences. Heartfelt.
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[Thanwall] Thank you, Empire.
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Proxima Opal will be missed
and mourned by her flock.
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And now the conclave will elevate
her successor, Zephyr Gilat.
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A capable candidate. We like her.
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Carry our condolences forward, Ambassador.
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And inform Gilat
she's always welcome on Trantor.
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On the topic of a successor, Empire,
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there is some debate.
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Another candidate has been
gaining support.
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Zephyr Halima.
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Halima Ifa does not adhere to
accepted doctrine,
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as have our previous proximas.
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She is advocating for
a return to the Primary Octavo.
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Is she suicidal?
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Who is this woman to question our primacy?
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A-A-Apologies, Empire. I-I...
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- Did you know about this?
- Only moments ago.
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When is Opal's funeral?
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Two days hence, Empire.
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Say nothing of this conversation.
We will contact you shortly.
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I helped install the previous Proxima.
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I'll leave for the conclave
as soon as possible.
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Is that really necessary?
Can't you just holo-cast yourself in?
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[Dusk] Not this time.
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Luminism claims three trillion followers.
This schism requires a personal touch.
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What's the Primary Octavo?
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A heretical scripture. Pre-imperial.
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It directly links the soul
to individuated sentience.
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- What does that mean...
- Individuated sentience.
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Think, Brother Dawn.
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If a soul cleaves only to
an individual being,
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that calls into question
that which cannot be individuated.
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[sighs] All Cleons are
perfect genetic copies of the first.
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And therefore...
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We don't have souls.
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So, this Halima woman is saying
we're, what?
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Not human?
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Indirectly. But...
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And if the galaxy comes to believe
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their leaders are less than,
rather than more than themselves,
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they may cease to follow.
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We are a glass vessel...
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spun with a fine hand.
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If the pressures inside start to swirl
and we are not uniform...
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we may burst.
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- [Anacreon woman] Who are you?
- Salvor Hardin.
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Warden of Terminus.
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Anacreons aren't allowed on imperial soil.
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What are you doing here?
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Scrapping.
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That's a lot of armor for scrappers.
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We're looking for
the ship's navigation module.
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Any critical components were stripped
from this hulk decades ago.
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But, again,
a real scrapper would know that.
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You should leave.
Before the Empire catches wind of this.
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My people do not fear the Empire.
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[speaking Anacreon]
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[both speaking Anacreon]
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- [shouts in Anacreon]
- [Salvor] Look, I caught you by surprise
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and now you're improvising.
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But if you were gonna kill me,
you would have already.
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So what's the play?
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That tower. Take us there.
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Why?
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[grunts]
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Let me be clear, Warden.
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We know how to use
every resource we come across.
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The children we observed earlier,
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we've seen how they sneak away
just before dawn,
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straying far away from
the rest of your flock.
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If you won't lead us to the tower,
we'll simply utilize one of them.
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It's not that simple. We have a fence.
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We're aware of your fence.
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We saw you
perform maintenance on it earlier.
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Which makes you
the perfect person to take us through it.
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To the tower then!
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[speaks Anacreon]
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The fence uses DNA recognition.
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It'll radiate anyone
who isn't in the database.
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[fence thrums]
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I might be able to get one of you in.
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If we walk through together,
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the fence should write off
the second person as an error.
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Then take us all through it.
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This only works once. Maybe.
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The only thing I've ever dragged
through this fence was already dead.
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I can feel you tensing up. Don't.
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If she isn't back within a watch,
we'll raze your city to the ground.
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[in Anacreon] Go. Get the others.
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Establish a perimeter
and stay out of sight.
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[shouts in Anacreon]
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Wanna drive and I'll hold the gun?
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Tell me your name, at least.
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Are we best friends now?
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You've risked a lot coming here.
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We've risked everything, Warden.
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[high-pitched ringing]
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[shouts in Anacreon]
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- No. There was a boy in our path!
- Don't get cute. I have eyes.
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The tower's that way.
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I'm taking a shortcut.
Fewer watchmen this way.
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What is that?
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Stop.
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[droning]
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Stop.
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- [breathing heavily]
- [vehicle powers down]
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[Gaal] The stories about Salvor Hardin?
They usually begin here.
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- [breathing heavily]
- The warden and the ghost,
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inexplicably bound together.
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Thanks.
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[Mari] How did they slip past our radar?
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Flew in the nap of the earth. Maybe.
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Any sign of their ships?
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Ugh. They claimed to be scrappers.
Said they were after a navigation module.
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- Obviously bullshit.
- We need to contact the Empire.
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We can't do anything
without authorization.
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Come on, Mom.
We're an imperial outpost in name only.
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[sighs]
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When was the last time they even
contacted us? A decade ago?
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They won't defend us.
We need to do it ourselves.
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Easy. Violence is the last refuge...
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Of the incompetent, I know.
That's an old man's doctrine.
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It's an observation I made
when I was younger than you.
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Would Hari's plan have assumed
we'd wait for help or act on our own?
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Hari is not here, Mom.
We need to help ourselves.
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[muttering in Anacreon]
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Welcome back, best friend.
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You left the conversation just as we were
really getting to know each other.
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- [sighs]
- [Salvor] Headache?
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Teeth feel like they're falling out?
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[in Anacreon] What was that cursed thing?
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[in English] It was here
when we colonized Terminus.
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Didn't show up on any of our scans.
I guess it didn't show up on yours either.
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Why did it not affect you?
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Let's just say I'm the last person
on Terminus you wanted to come across.
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[chuckles] So...
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what now, Warden?
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[Salvor] She had a small army with her.
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An... And their tracks,
some of them were deep.
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Shorter stride lengths.
As if they were carrying heavy equipment.
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Like they're planning on digging in, Dad.
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- Well, what do you wanna do?
- I don't know.
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I've been following my instincts, and...
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I don't know, maybe it was just dumb luck.
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00:16:38,900 --> 00:16:41,277
Your instincts didn't just
lead you to the ships.
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They led you to her. And you stopped her.
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If you were better at math,
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you'd know that repeated luck was
more than just luck, Salvor.
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Whether your mother wants
to admit it or not,
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we have been following your lead from
the moment you pulled yourself upright.
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It's no accident
the people made you warden.
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So lead us.
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I have never had the pleasure, Empire.
How may I be of service?
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Captain Obrecht, is it?
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Shadowmaster, Empire.
Shadowmaster Obrecht.
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A fine likeness.
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[Dawn] What's the protocol for dealing
with a problem palace attendant?
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00:17:31,619 --> 00:17:33,746
[Obrecht] What level of attendant,
if I may ask?
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- Someone who works in the garden.
- May I ask the nature of the problem?
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You may not. I just want her name.
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I can ascertain that, Empire.
Along with anything else you may require.
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That's all for now.
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I saw at least a dozen Anacreons
outside the fence.
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Travik, take the southern loop.
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00:18:00,523 --> 00:18:02,191
Kalin, cover the west.
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00:18:02,274 --> 00:18:06,028
Yate, I want you on the east so you can
spot anyone coming over that ridge.
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00:18:06,112 --> 00:18:09,866
And if we see any of these guys,
what are we supposed to do?
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Nothing.
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Don't shoot at them, don't speak to them.
Just watch 'em and keep me informed.
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- What's this about Anacreons on Terminus?
- Calls herself Phara.
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Beyond that,
nothing about her story adds up.
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If anyone can tell
whether somebody's lying, it's you.
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That's just the thing.
I can't tell if she's lying
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or if she's just not telling the truth.
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Is there a difference?
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I've got a plan.
But I'm gonna need your help.
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What's this? Torture?
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00:18:38,144 --> 00:18:40,521
He's my manservant.
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Runs and fetches.
Reseals my boots when they need it.
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00:18:44,067 --> 00:18:49,405
I'm thinking a watch has passed,
as far as my weald-men are concerned.
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00:18:49,489 --> 00:18:50,865
Why are you really here, Phara?
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00:18:52,366 --> 00:18:54,368
Salvor has a talent for reading people.
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It's uncanny, really.
I was just telling her mother about it.
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She doesn't believe you.
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00:18:59,791 --> 00:19:02,460
Well, you told her you're my boss.
Now my praise rings hollow.
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[Salvor] What's your interest
in the Foundation Tower?
247
00:19:04,170 --> 00:19:08,174
The module. I already told you.
You keep asking me the same questions.
248
00:19:08,257 --> 00:19:11,135
I'm giving you a chance
to give better answers.
249
00:19:11,219 --> 00:19:12,553
Crowns.
250
00:19:15,598 --> 00:19:18,184
I know you're after something else.
251
00:19:18,267 --> 00:19:22,522
We don't have any Anacreon artifacts,
no heavy weapons, so what...
252
00:19:22,605 --> 00:19:23,856
This is going in circles.
253
00:19:25,316 --> 00:19:26,317
Explain it to her.
254
00:19:26,818 --> 00:19:28,498
[in Anacreon]
Just give her what she wants.
255
00:19:28,569 --> 00:19:30,655
Your accent's not terrible.
256
00:19:31,072 --> 00:19:33,783
You were taught by someone
in the port city, obviously.
257
00:19:34,617 --> 00:19:35,993
Those lazy vowels.
258
00:19:36,077 --> 00:19:37,495
I'm a trader.
259
00:19:37,995 --> 00:19:40,415
I do business with your people
now and then.
260
00:19:40,790 --> 00:19:43,584
Thought I smelled a whiff
of Thespin on you.
261
00:19:43,918 --> 00:19:46,629
I want the navigation module. That's it.
262
00:19:46,712 --> 00:19:47,880
[in English] Another lie.
263
00:19:48,423 --> 00:19:49,757
You speak Anacreon as well?
264
00:19:49,841 --> 00:19:50,925
Not a word.
265
00:19:51,008 --> 00:19:52,648
- Yet you know I'm lying?
- [Salvor] Cats.
266
00:19:55,054 --> 00:19:56,139
That was a 50-50 chance.
267
00:19:56,222 --> 00:19:57,598
Cats again. Who are you really?
268
00:20:01,227 --> 00:20:03,229
Twenty-five percent chance there.
269
00:20:03,312 --> 00:20:04,605
Now it's back to crowns.
270
00:20:05,982 --> 00:20:08,693
Twelve and a half percent.
And another crown. Why are you here?
271
00:20:09,652 --> 00:20:10,820
Another crown again.
272
00:20:23,916 --> 00:20:28,379
I'd give you the percentage,
but repeated luck is never luck.
273
00:20:33,634 --> 00:20:34,635
Who are you?
274
00:20:35,136 --> 00:20:37,597
We're scrappers. The module.
275
00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,725
You're not scrappers. And the navigation
module's a distraction...
276
00:20:40,808 --> 00:20:42,435
[Phara] Enough of these child games.
277
00:20:42,518 --> 00:20:45,188
Take this Thespin thug off his leash
and let him get on with it!
278
00:20:45,271 --> 00:20:46,272
Your scars...
279
00:20:47,565 --> 00:20:48,566
keloids.
280
00:20:53,488 --> 00:20:54,947
Your left eye...
281
00:20:56,532 --> 00:20:57,533
nano-glass.
282
00:20:57,617 --> 00:21:00,411
You lose it when
the Empire bombed Anacreon?
283
00:21:00,495 --> 00:21:03,664
I imagine you must have been, what,
five, six at the time?
284
00:21:03,748 --> 00:21:08,419
Neutron bombs have a low explosive yield
but a high amount of ionizing radiation.
285
00:21:08,503 --> 00:21:12,548
Now, I know about 50% of the population
died off within a week,
286
00:21:12,632 --> 00:21:15,676
another 20 or 30
within the remaining year.
287
00:21:16,260 --> 00:21:19,013
Odds are you came out the other end
an orphan, right?
288
00:21:20,598 --> 00:21:24,060
Probably lost a mom and dad.
289
00:21:24,894 --> 00:21:27,021
Boiled alive.
290
00:21:28,731 --> 00:21:30,817
Or maybe s-slower.
291
00:21:31,609 --> 00:21:32,610
Cancer.
292
00:21:35,071 --> 00:21:39,867
Thyroid for your mother.
Her voice, it changed before she died.
293
00:21:39,951 --> 00:21:42,578
Who else did you lose? A sister?
294
00:21:47,708 --> 00:21:48,793
A brother.
295
00:21:52,046 --> 00:21:53,714
A little brother.
296
00:21:53,798 --> 00:21:55,800
[shouting in Anacreon]
297
00:22:08,771 --> 00:22:11,023
[breathing heavily]
298
00:22:11,107 --> 00:22:13,443
There's a deadness inside her.
It's like a...
299
00:22:13,526 --> 00:22:16,821
It's like a well with no bottom,
just sucking everything in.
300
00:22:18,489 --> 00:22:19,699
She wants to die.
301
00:22:21,284 --> 00:22:24,996
She wants everyone to die. I felt it.
302
00:22:27,457 --> 00:22:28,958
[groans, breathing heavily]
303
00:22:30,710 --> 00:22:33,021
What she said when she broke,
did you understand any of it?
304
00:22:33,045 --> 00:22:35,673
Some, yeah. It's archaic Anacreon,
not the common vernacular.
305
00:22:35,757 --> 00:22:39,135
Well, she slipped up.
Because I understood something too.
306
00:22:39,927 --> 00:22:43,473
A name I remember from the holos.
Larken Keaen.
307
00:22:47,310 --> 00:22:48,936
During the Anthor Belt dispute,
308
00:22:49,020 --> 00:22:51,272
Anacreon and Thespis brought gifts
to the Emperor.
309
00:22:51,355 --> 00:22:52,857
My people's was the Book of Ablut...
310
00:22:52,940 --> 00:22:55,234
And Anacreon's was a bow
carved for its greatest hunter.
311
00:22:55,860 --> 00:22:57,528
- Larken Keaen.
- [Mari] Meaning?
312
00:22:57,612 --> 00:22:59,363
Phara's not just some junker.
313
00:23:00,198 --> 00:23:02,075
She's the Grand Huntress of Anacreon.
314
00:23:03,868 --> 00:23:05,870
[people yelling, screaming]
315
00:23:12,251 --> 00:23:15,505
All this unrest, who's responsible for it?
316
00:23:16,214 --> 00:23:18,841
Sinkers. A nom de guerre.
317
00:23:19,342 --> 00:23:24,889
After the heat sink meltdown on level 77.
It was caused when the Star Bridge fell.
318
00:23:24,972 --> 00:23:28,851
And 35 years later we're still grappling
with the aftereffects.
319
00:23:31,312 --> 00:23:36,484
The businesses of Empire is
a cascade of competing priorities.
320
00:23:37,110 --> 00:23:40,321
Brother Day will need your support
while I tend to the conclave.
321
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:42,490
It's overwhelming.
322
00:23:42,573 --> 00:23:43,783
For one man.
323
00:23:44,867 --> 00:23:47,412
Fortunately, there are three of us.
324
00:23:47,495 --> 00:23:51,165
Bad tidings also come in threes.
Have you heard the news, Brother?
325
00:23:51,916 --> 00:23:55,837
A communications buoy
in the Arcturus Sector has come off-line.
326
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,881
[Dawn] They must go off-line
all the time, right?
327
00:23:58,965 --> 00:24:01,259
We probably have thousands of them
across the galaxy.
328
00:24:01,342 --> 00:24:02,593
Tens of thousands.
329
00:24:02,677 --> 00:24:05,930
But only one that handles communications
in the Outer Reach.
330
00:24:07,181 --> 00:24:09,517
I see that you fail to grasp
the significance.
331
00:24:10,226 --> 00:24:11,644
It's Terminus.
332
00:24:13,146 --> 00:24:16,691
It's where Brother Dusk exiled
Hari Seldon's followers.
333
00:24:20,403 --> 00:24:25,158
The Reach. The conclave. Insurgency...
334
00:24:26,951 --> 00:24:29,120
Do you see a pattern forming here?
335
00:24:30,121 --> 00:24:31,122
Show them.
336
00:24:32,999 --> 00:24:37,253
Sensing vulnerability, soon other players
will begin to apply downward pressure.
337
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:42,592
An exhortation from one of the galaxy's
major religions is a given.
338
00:24:42,675 --> 00:24:45,511
Or perhaps a homegrown insurrection
here on Trantor.
339
00:24:46,179 --> 00:24:51,768
If the fall can be accelerated,
can it not also be slowed?
340
00:24:51,851 --> 00:24:52,977
Now look at you, Brother.
341
00:24:53,060 --> 00:24:56,481
So smugly self-assured
atop the middle throne.
342
00:24:56,564 --> 00:24:58,900
I used to practice that smile
in the mirror.
343
00:24:58,983 --> 00:25:01,069
Enough. I know how the scene ends.
344
00:25:01,152 --> 00:25:02,945
But have you embraced its lessons?
345
00:25:03,029 --> 00:25:06,032
Luminism.
The Sinker insurrection happening now.
346
00:25:06,115 --> 00:25:08,659
Seldon all but drew you a to-do list.
347
00:25:09,911 --> 00:25:10,912
And you ignored him.
348
00:25:10,995 --> 00:25:12,622
Because he was a charlatan.
349
00:25:12,705 --> 00:25:14,457
You offer nothing new.
350
00:25:14,999 --> 00:25:17,919
Just a younger grape...
351
00:25:18,503 --> 00:25:19,629
from the same vine,
352
00:25:20,129 --> 00:25:22,965
destined for the same old bottle.
353
00:25:23,049 --> 00:25:25,134
You can't save yourselves...
354
00:25:25,218 --> 00:25:27,178
but you can save your legacy.
355
00:25:28,846 --> 00:25:30,890
Hari Seldon is long dead.
356
00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:34,352
Murdered by his protégé, no less.
357
00:25:34,435 --> 00:25:37,063
The man was murdered.
But what about the movement, Brother?
358
00:25:39,315 --> 00:25:41,526
Martyrs tend to have a long half-life.
359
00:25:50,201 --> 00:25:54,122
Thanks to you, we are now staring down
the barrel of a genuine diplomatic crisis.
360
00:25:54,205 --> 00:25:56,165
What was I supposed to do, Lewis?
361
00:25:56,249 --> 00:25:58,089
Let Phara kill me
and then move on to the kids?
362
00:25:58,126 --> 00:25:59,812
You shouldn't have questioned her
without me.
363
00:25:59,836 --> 00:26:01,504
Be glad I did. We know who she is now.
364
00:26:01,587 --> 00:26:03,589
We have leverage.
We can bargain with her people.
365
00:26:03,673 --> 00:26:05,513
If this choice
inflames the city into violence,
366
00:26:05,550 --> 00:26:07,427
you have achieved
elaborate suicide for us all.
367
00:26:07,510 --> 00:26:09,887
Didn't Hari say
the Foundation survives the first crisis?
368
00:26:09,971 --> 00:26:13,766
Yes, he did. But, as I've told you before,
you are an outlier.
369
00:26:13,850 --> 00:26:14,976
- Meaning?
- Salvor.
370
00:26:15,059 --> 00:26:16,644
Meaning that you weren't accounted for.
371
00:26:16,727 --> 00:26:18,187
You have a connection with the Vault
372
00:26:18,271 --> 00:26:20,523
which couldn't have possibly
have been predicted.
373
00:26:20,606 --> 00:26:22,066
You are not baked into the model.
374
00:26:22,150 --> 00:26:23,669
You're saying I'm not part of God's plan.
375
00:26:23,693 --> 00:26:25,945
I am saying psychohistory
can't account for individuals.
376
00:26:26,028 --> 00:26:27,589
So you're saying
I've destroyed God's plan?
377
00:26:27,613 --> 00:26:29,949
- It's time to take a step back, Salvor.
- Step back?
378
00:26:30,032 --> 00:26:31,993
I thought the whole damn point
of the Foundation
379
00:26:32,076 --> 00:26:34,454
was preparing for the unthinkable.
380
00:26:34,537 --> 00:26:36,622
When I asked for more defensive weapons,
381
00:26:36,706 --> 00:26:39,250
you said the likelihood of an attack
seemed remote.
382
00:26:39,333 --> 00:26:41,377
When I wanted to run more drills, nothing.
383
00:26:41,961 --> 00:26:43,755
So here we are now, not prepared.
384
00:26:43,838 --> 00:26:48,050
I might be an outlier, but I'm not
the one screwing up the Plan, Lewis.
385
00:26:55,266 --> 00:26:57,310
Lewis Pirenne, director.
386
00:26:57,393 --> 00:27:01,314
Now, why would the Anacreon Council
send its highest-ranking military officer
387
00:27:01,397 --> 00:27:03,191
to an imperial outpost?
388
00:27:03,274 --> 00:27:05,860
Is that what you're pretending
your little doomsday cult is?
389
00:27:05,943 --> 00:27:07,779
Because I don't see the Empire anywhere.
390
00:27:07,862 --> 00:27:11,449
All I see are academics, laborers
and very few guns.
391
00:27:11,532 --> 00:27:12,825
You took down the comms buoy.
392
00:27:12,909 --> 00:27:16,454
Of course. We wanted to operate
in private, away from prying eyes.
393
00:27:16,537 --> 00:27:19,624
You have to know the Empire will send
someone to investigate eventually.
394
00:27:20,458 --> 00:27:21,751
Or is that the point?
395
00:27:21,834 --> 00:27:23,669
Your women are so much sharper
than your men.
396
00:27:23,753 --> 00:27:24,796
[chuckles]
397
00:27:24,879 --> 00:27:28,591
The barbarian kingdoms are exiled.
You have no business here.
398
00:27:28,674 --> 00:27:29,759
[speaks Anacreon]
399
00:27:30,301 --> 00:27:31,552
"Barbarians."
400
00:27:32,553 --> 00:27:34,847
Just a convenient slur
for anyone not like you.
401
00:27:35,431 --> 00:27:39,018
Trantor left us all here to die.
Your people and mine.
402
00:27:39,102 --> 00:27:40,895
We're just dying at different speeds.
403
00:27:40,978 --> 00:27:42,313
The Foundation isn't dying.
404
00:27:42,397 --> 00:27:45,983
We are fulfilling the mission
Hari Seldon entrusted us with.
405
00:27:46,067 --> 00:27:49,737
Seldon also predicted that the fall
would begin at the edge of the galaxy.
406
00:27:50,863 --> 00:27:52,281
- Here.
- The same science
407
00:27:52,365 --> 00:27:54,426
that saved the Imperial Palace
when the Star Bridge fell
408
00:27:54,450 --> 00:27:55,660
protects Terminus City.
409
00:27:55,743 --> 00:27:57,161
You mean your energy barrier?
410
00:27:57,245 --> 00:27:58,246
Mmm.
411
00:27:58,329 --> 00:28:02,291
A weapon's only as good as
the man who's wielding it.
412
00:28:13,553 --> 00:28:14,554
[shouts in Anacreon]
413
00:28:17,515 --> 00:28:18,766
Kalin, what's your situation?
414
00:28:18,850 --> 00:28:20,768
It's getting pretty crowded over here.
415
00:28:20,852 --> 00:28:23,104
- I think I need backup.
- Not happening.
416
00:28:23,187 --> 00:28:26,482
Salvor saw a dozen. You're telling me
we've got Anacreons all over?
417
00:28:26,566 --> 00:28:29,402
I'm telling you I'm seeing enough guns
to take out the whole town.
418
00:28:30,820 --> 00:28:31,904
[Obrecht] Empire.
419
00:28:36,325 --> 00:28:37,535
The matter we discussed?
420
00:28:38,786 --> 00:28:42,373
Her name is Azura Odili.
A palace botanist since the age of 13.
421
00:28:42,957 --> 00:28:46,419
Her father, deceased, was also
an agroecologist in the gardens.
422
00:28:46,961 --> 00:28:50,173
Her mother founded
a school for the ikebana, now closed.
423
00:28:51,632 --> 00:28:53,092
You said there was a problem?
424
00:28:54,761 --> 00:28:58,055
How are problems generally solved
in this situation?
425
00:28:58,806 --> 00:29:03,311
Any manner that achieves its goal.
My job is to eliminate problems, Empire.
426
00:29:15,948 --> 00:29:17,700
[Dawn] Azura Odili.
427
00:29:20,578 --> 00:29:22,580
Oh-dee-lee? Oh-dih-lee?
428
00:29:22,663 --> 00:29:23,748
Dee, Empire.
429
00:29:23,831 --> 00:29:25,750
You were outside my chambers earlier.
430
00:29:27,335 --> 00:29:29,962
- Want to know what you think you saw.
- I saw nothing, Empire.
431
00:29:30,046 --> 00:29:31,798
No. I believe you saw something.
432
00:29:31,881 --> 00:29:34,050
I only see what Empire wants me to see.
433
00:29:34,133 --> 00:29:36,385
I could have you removed
from your station,
434
00:29:37,470 --> 00:29:39,639
sent to scrub the heat sinks on level 80.
435
00:29:39,722 --> 00:29:42,975
I could do worse to you. Much worse.
436
00:29:43,059 --> 00:29:44,268
You know all this.
437
00:29:44,352 --> 00:29:46,854
[man] Empire, Brother Dusk
has asked me to summon you.
438
00:29:46,938 --> 00:29:48,272
Tell him I'm coming.
439
00:29:50,233 --> 00:29:51,734
Remove this entire bed.
440
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,113
From my chambers
the smell of the blossoms is overbearing.
441
00:29:55,196 --> 00:29:58,366
- Empire, you needn't bother with this...
- It's settled. You can go.
442
00:30:02,328 --> 00:30:03,830
Wolvesbreath helps with the pain.
443
00:30:04,664 --> 00:30:06,464
The brownish-green leaves
with the red stripe.
444
00:30:06,499 --> 00:30:08,060
They reduce the swelling and bruising...
445
00:30:08,084 --> 00:30:10,545
I don't recall asking
for your medical advice.
446
00:30:12,422 --> 00:30:13,423
Which?
447
00:30:36,487 --> 00:30:37,613
The pointed leaves.
448
00:30:50,626 --> 00:30:51,627
What is it?
449
00:30:52,128 --> 00:30:53,755
Lupi spiritus.
450
00:30:54,338 --> 00:30:57,842
Wolvesbreath, Empire.
From our medicinal garden.
451
00:30:57,925 --> 00:31:00,720
It's an analgesic and vasodilator.
452
00:31:00,803 --> 00:31:01,888
Is it poisonous?
453
00:31:01,971 --> 00:31:06,225
No. Wolvesbreath is used in tea
as well as tinctures.
454
00:31:06,309 --> 00:31:09,604
It stimulates the blood vessels,
promotes healing...
455
00:31:09,687 --> 00:31:10,855
Eat it.
456
00:31:15,651 --> 00:31:17,570
If you're not dead
within the next few hours,
457
00:31:17,653 --> 00:31:19,781
have a kilogram of these
sent to my quarters.
458
00:31:19,864 --> 00:31:21,074
Of course, Empire.
459
00:31:27,580 --> 00:31:30,333
Laylo Fulham, get your ass back home
this instant!
460
00:31:30,416 --> 00:31:31,477
Are they gonna get through?
461
00:31:31,501 --> 00:31:32,585
Course not.
462
00:31:33,503 --> 00:31:38,800
Go back to your home, people. Please.
It's not safe out here. Back up. Back up.
463
00:31:40,468 --> 00:31:42,095
You need to come out here. Now.
464
00:31:42,178 --> 00:31:43,262
Kind of busy here, Yate.
465
00:31:43,346 --> 00:31:44,889
I know, and I'm still calling.
466
00:31:44,972 --> 00:31:48,142
We've got Anacreon's troops massing
from the east, west, south,
467
00:31:48,226 --> 00:31:49,977
and presumably the north.
468
00:31:51,521 --> 00:31:53,731
Remember how to hold a rifle, old man?
469
00:31:53,815 --> 00:31:54,899
Barrel goes forward?
470
00:31:55,608 --> 00:31:58,361
We've spotted Anacreons
at multiple locations outside the fence.
471
00:31:58,986 --> 00:32:00,738
- I'll go west.
- We'll head north.
472
00:32:01,239 --> 00:32:03,616
I shouldn't leave.
Lewis is completely overmatched in there.
473
00:32:03,699 --> 00:32:05,159
I'll babysit him, I promise.
474
00:32:06,035 --> 00:32:07,203
All right.
475
00:32:08,371 --> 00:32:11,165
Is it true? You got some kind of
Anacreon chieftain in there?
476
00:32:11,249 --> 00:32:12,500
You been drinking, Muller?
477
00:32:12,583 --> 00:32:15,753
It's the end of the galaxy, isn't it?
Hari's prediction's coming true.
478
00:32:15,837 --> 00:32:18,256
You got hold of a bad rumor, Muller.
Local poacher's all.
479
00:32:18,339 --> 00:32:19,924
They're already here, aren't they?
480
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,261
Hey, why don't you just
take a break for a second.
481
00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:38,901
Hey!
482
00:32:39,610 --> 00:32:40,862
I won't hurt you.
483
00:32:44,323 --> 00:32:45,450
Just tell me who you are.
484
00:32:46,367 --> 00:32:47,535
[Hugo] Sal.
485
00:32:48,035 --> 00:32:49,036
Sal.
486
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,622
Sal. Hey, hey. What's wrong?
487
00:32:51,706 --> 00:32:53,666
I was just in the Imperial Library
on Trantor.
488
00:32:53,750 --> 00:32:56,711
- What do you mean you were there?
- I mean I was there. In the stacks.
489
00:32:57,378 --> 00:32:59,565
The ceiling was wooden,
there were all these marble busts.
490
00:32:59,589 --> 00:33:01,174
And there was a boy with a knife.
491
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:04,969
It was the same boy who
led me to the Anacreons.
492
00:33:06,304 --> 00:33:10,349
It's the Vault. I can feel it, Hugo.
It's trying to tell me something
493
00:33:10,433 --> 00:33:13,478
about the Anacreons and this crisis.
Everything.
494
00:33:13,561 --> 00:33:17,440
Okay, listen to me. I've always said
you should let this planet shrug you off.
495
00:33:18,483 --> 00:33:23,112
But watching you work, where you could
sense what Phara was feeling inside...
496
00:33:24,822 --> 00:33:25,823
that's special.
497
00:33:26,407 --> 00:33:28,076
Other people can't do that, Sal.
498
00:33:28,159 --> 00:33:29,786
I have absolute faith in you.
499
00:33:33,081 --> 00:33:35,875
[whispers] I have absolute faith in you.
500
00:33:56,187 --> 00:33:58,940
Who among you
is Master Statistician Tivole?
501
00:34:02,944 --> 00:34:06,030
Empire. May the light never dim.
502
00:34:06,114 --> 00:34:07,657
[all] May the light never dim.
503
00:34:07,740 --> 00:34:10,451
- You received my query.
- [Tivole] I did, Empire.
504
00:34:10,535 --> 00:34:12,703
But I can't say yet we have the results.
505
00:34:12,787 --> 00:34:15,832
How long has it been
since Dusk set you to this task?
506
00:34:16,416 --> 00:34:17,542
Three decades?
507
00:34:17,625 --> 00:34:21,796
What do you do
in your mausoleum of calculus
508
00:34:21,879 --> 00:34:25,174
if not achieve results?
509
00:34:26,968 --> 00:34:30,471
Progress, then. What is your progress?
510
00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:37,937
We believe the... the predictive models
of Hari Seldon to be counterfactual.
511
00:34:40,481 --> 00:34:42,650
And you believe this why?
512
00:34:43,317 --> 00:34:48,238
In the 35 years since Seldon uttered
his heretical proclamations,
513
00:34:48,322 --> 00:34:52,744
the Imperium has expanded, rather than
contracted, by every critical metric...
514
00:34:52,827 --> 00:34:53,827
Stop.
515
00:34:55,079 --> 00:34:56,456
Seldon's prophecies.
516
00:34:56,539 --> 00:35:01,169
Speak to me of his math,
this "ordinal analysis."
517
00:35:01,252 --> 00:35:03,921
It's a spread of fortune teller's cards
518
00:35:04,005 --> 00:35:07,967
which Seldon chose
to interpret as divination.
519
00:35:08,508 --> 00:35:09,510
Uh-huh.
520
00:35:09,593 --> 00:35:13,598
The verification he found
in the regression models is unsupported.
521
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,477
But what of these... these recent events?
522
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:18,852
The conclave? Luminism?
523
00:35:18,936 --> 00:35:23,816
Baseless conjecture.
Again, vague and unsupported. [chuckles]
524
00:35:23,900 --> 00:35:27,820
I mean, anyone could predict
a return to orthodoxy. [chuckles]
525
00:35:28,488 --> 00:35:33,117
Psychohistory is the fanciful work
of an old man's imagination.
526
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,888
If it weren't the fanciful work
of an old man's imagination, what then?
527
00:35:35,912 --> 00:35:39,874
What is the likelihood that it's all true?
Every prophecy?
528
00:35:40,708 --> 00:35:42,877
Vanishingly small, Empire.
529
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:44,295
But not zero.
530
00:35:46,631 --> 00:35:47,882
Correct?
531
00:35:48,841 --> 00:35:50,885
Not zero?
532
00:35:51,636 --> 00:35:54,806
What kind of idiots are you?
533
00:35:54,889 --> 00:35:58,059
A thousand imperial mathematicians...
534
00:35:58,142 --> 00:36:01,020
- [grunting]
- ...can't parse the numbers of one man?
535
00:36:01,104 --> 00:36:05,566
So there's nothing
anyone in the galaxy can do?
536
00:36:08,152 --> 00:36:11,781
Is that what it is?
Is that the best you've got?
537
00:36:13,658 --> 00:36:16,577
Tell me. Tell me!
538
00:36:18,621 --> 00:36:21,374
Tell me!
539
00:36:32,260 --> 00:36:34,554
[Gaal] In the twilight of a man's life...
540
00:36:34,637 --> 00:36:37,306
- [mechanical buzzing]
- ...when his biography is nearly complete,
541
00:36:37,932 --> 00:36:40,476
he grows desperate to know
the measure of his days...
542
00:36:42,437 --> 00:36:46,065
how his voice compares to
the chorus of those who've come before.
543
00:36:49,610 --> 00:36:52,947
Do I matter? Are my choices my own?
544
00:36:53,740 --> 00:36:57,493
Or is my destiny governed by
an unseen hand?
545
00:37:09,547 --> 00:37:11,632
Brother Day. Come to see us off?
546
00:37:11,716 --> 00:37:14,510
I was paid a visit by your statisticians.
547
00:37:14,594 --> 00:37:17,513
It's remarkable
how self-reinforcing their results are.
548
00:37:17,597 --> 00:37:21,976
I think it's best that you stay
and tend to matters on Trantor.
549
00:37:22,852 --> 00:37:26,439
Empire, a primary Cleon has not left
the bosom of Trantor
550
00:37:26,522 --> 00:37:28,649
since the dawn of the Genetic Dynasty.
551
00:37:28,733 --> 00:37:29,734
Demerzel is right.
552
00:37:30,610 --> 00:37:33,404
We have these protocols in place
for a reason.
553
00:37:33,488 --> 00:37:40,078
And I say our protocols have
made us complacent.
554
00:37:40,787 --> 00:37:42,872
When you sat on the middle throne,
as I do now,
555
00:37:42,955 --> 00:37:45,374
and were debating what to do about
Anacreon and Thespis,
556
00:37:45,458 --> 00:37:48,669
what our response should be,
do you remember what you said?
557
00:37:50,129 --> 00:37:51,130
I do.
558
00:37:52,215 --> 00:37:53,591
Like it was yesterday.
559
00:37:54,175 --> 00:37:55,426
I was seven.
560
00:37:55,510 --> 00:37:58,596
Our eldest brother had argued
for a bout of grace.
561
00:37:58,679 --> 00:38:01,432
You turned to me and said,
"What do you think, Ascending Dawn?"
562
00:38:02,725 --> 00:38:04,227
I knew you were against grace,
563
00:38:04,852 --> 00:38:07,772
that you wanted to bomb
the barbarian kingdoms.
564
00:38:07,855 --> 00:38:12,026
But I was scared. And I dared say so.
565
00:38:12,860 --> 00:38:15,279
Well, I'm not scared anymore.
566
00:38:16,114 --> 00:38:21,994
On your watch, the Star Bridge fell.
And from that scar insurgency was birthed.
567
00:38:22,078 --> 00:38:24,497
On your watch, two worlds were incinerated
568
00:38:24,580 --> 00:38:27,125
with not a care to
innocence or consequence.
569
00:38:27,208 --> 00:38:30,628
On your watch, Hari Seldon
and his followers were allowed to flee.
570
00:38:31,170 --> 00:38:34,590
You have bequeathed me
an Empire rent by impulsive action.
571
00:38:34,674 --> 00:38:38,594
The same will not be said of me.
Not on my watch.
572
00:38:39,178 --> 00:38:41,597
I would save our legacy.
573
00:38:41,681 --> 00:38:42,682
Brother...
574
00:38:44,016 --> 00:38:48,271
you are haunted by
the ghost of a man long dead.
575
00:38:48,354 --> 00:38:50,606
We all are, Brother.
576
00:38:55,236 --> 00:38:56,988
Your watch is over.
577
00:38:58,448 --> 00:39:02,785
You will stay on Trantor, tending to
the wounds you have allowed to fester.
578
00:39:02,869 --> 00:39:05,037
- [chuckles]
- Go.
579
00:39:05,955 --> 00:39:08,416
Return Brother Dusk's belongings
to the palace.
580
00:39:19,635 --> 00:39:23,556
Certainly now the Empire will
no longer be rent by impulsive action.
581
00:39:55,755 --> 00:39:56,881
You summoned me, Empire?
582
00:39:56,964 --> 00:39:59,675
A communications buoy has gone dark
in the Outer Reach.
583
00:40:01,010 --> 00:40:02,470
Take your team and investigate.
584
00:40:03,304 --> 00:40:04,514
At once, Empire.
585
00:40:05,014 --> 00:40:06,015
Dorwin.
586
00:40:06,933 --> 00:40:09,602
Our dispatches from the Foundation
have become sporadic.
587
00:40:09,685 --> 00:40:10,770
Pay them a visit.
588
00:40:10,853 --> 00:40:14,732
And remind the Foundation
that Empire will not be kept in the dark.
589
00:40:23,199 --> 00:40:24,826
[mechanical fluttering]
590
00:40:57,275 --> 00:40:59,110
[breathes shakily]
591
00:41:14,834 --> 00:41:17,628
[man speaking Anacreon]
592
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,132
- Is that, uh...
- Doesn't look good, does it?
593
00:41:21,215 --> 00:41:23,176
[man speaking Anacreon]
594
00:41:24,510 --> 00:41:26,262
[man speaking Anacreon]
595
00:41:33,144 --> 00:41:35,021
[Anacreons cheering]
596
00:41:37,607 --> 00:41:39,942
[speaking Anacreon]
597
00:41:40,026 --> 00:41:44,030
Who is in charge here, Lewis? You?
Or is it the Warden with the coin tricks?
598
00:41:44,113 --> 00:41:46,449
Because it seems
she's managed to complicate matters.
599
00:41:46,532 --> 00:41:48,868
- Let me be clear, Huntress Keaen...
- Grand Huntress.
600
00:41:48,951 --> 00:41:50,495
The only reason we have a crisis
601
00:41:50,578 --> 00:41:54,040
is because you trespassed
on the Emperor's personal domain.
602
00:41:54,123 --> 00:41:57,335
If only Salvor had taken me to the tower
and given me what I'd wanted,
603
00:41:57,418 --> 00:41:59,045
we'd already be off-planet.
604
00:41:59,128 --> 00:42:00,630
The module from our slow ship?
605
00:42:00,713 --> 00:42:03,216
[Phara] It's not as if
your people have any use for it.
606
00:42:03,716 --> 00:42:07,303
You're marooned on Terminus.
The Empire made sure of that.
607
00:42:07,386 --> 00:42:08,721
Lewis.
608
00:42:09,639 --> 00:42:10,640
Why do you need it?
609
00:42:11,140 --> 00:42:13,351
[Phara]
My people are technologically bankrupt.
610
00:42:13,434 --> 00:42:15,061
We're dying, Director.
611
00:42:15,853 --> 00:42:19,357
We have been ever since the Empire
set our atmosphere on fire.
612
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:23,277
Half our population lost
for a crime that we were innocent of.
613
00:42:23,361 --> 00:42:25,196
Unlike you, we have ships.
614
00:42:25,279 --> 00:42:28,866
We can leave our poisoned world,
find another star system.
615
00:42:28,950 --> 00:42:32,120
If only we had
the means to navigate the void.
616
00:42:32,203 --> 00:42:33,923
The Empire would crush us
for assisting you.
617
00:42:33,996 --> 00:42:35,748
We're forcing your hand, Director.
618
00:42:36,749 --> 00:42:38,626
Because we have nothing left to lose.
619
00:42:39,585 --> 00:42:42,797
You can't play chess with someone
who's willing to set the board on fire.
620
00:42:46,801 --> 00:42:48,845
[Salvor] Is that some kind of flak cannon?
621
00:42:48,928 --> 00:42:51,573
[Hugo] Wasting their time if they think
that's gonna penetrate the fence.
622
00:42:51,597 --> 00:42:55,059
None of this feels right.
Phara is smarter than this.
623
00:42:55,143 --> 00:42:57,562
They took out the comms buoy,
and they came in prepared.
624
00:42:57,645 --> 00:43:00,314
There's a larger strategy here,
and I am missing it somehow.
625
00:43:00,398 --> 00:43:02,710
What if I take my ship,
make a run for the stars, get help?
626
00:43:02,734 --> 00:43:06,112
No, no. They'd shoot you out of the sky
before you ever made it into orbit.
627
00:43:07,155 --> 00:43:08,966
Regretting you didn't bug out
when you had the chance?
628
00:43:08,990 --> 00:43:11,659
Done a lot of foolish things in my life,
Salvor Hardin.
629
00:43:11,743 --> 00:43:13,578
Sticking by your side is not one of them.
630
00:43:14,912 --> 00:43:16,330
Best manservant ever.
631
00:43:16,414 --> 00:43:19,000
[mechanical whirring]
632
00:43:27,633 --> 00:43:29,177
The Vault isn't Anacreon...
633
00:43:30,052 --> 00:43:31,095
or alien at all.
634
00:43:31,179 --> 00:43:32,638
It's gotta be connected to Hari.
635
00:43:32,722 --> 00:43:33,723
How do you know that?
636
00:43:33,806 --> 00:43:35,683
Because the vision I saw
when I blacked out,
637
00:43:36,309 --> 00:43:40,938
it was on Trantor in Hari's library,
with a boy holding a knife on me.
638
00:43:41,731 --> 00:43:43,399
What if it was a warning to stay away?
639
00:43:44,650 --> 00:43:46,152
What if Lewis is right?
640
00:43:46,235 --> 00:43:49,363
I'm an outlier, just like he says,
barging around, knocking things over,
641
00:43:49,447 --> 00:43:50,740
screwing up Seldon's plan?
642
00:43:50,823 --> 00:43:53,326
Salvor, what if you are Seldon's plan?
643
00:43:55,578 --> 00:43:59,290
[Gaal] The fate of one individual
will always remain a mystery.
644
00:43:59,373 --> 00:44:03,753
Remember my promise, Warden?
Razing your city to the ground?
645
00:44:03,836 --> 00:44:05,797
[Gaal] But the movements of masses,
646
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,425
the rise and falls of cultures,
causes and worlds...
647
00:44:10,259 --> 00:44:13,429
These were answers
Hari Seldon had long since unriddled.
648
00:44:14,097 --> 00:44:15,389
It's time.
649
00:44:15,473 --> 00:44:19,268
[Gaal] And the beginning of the end,
as befitting its name,
650
00:44:19,352 --> 00:44:21,145
took place on Terminus.
651
00:44:22,438 --> 00:44:24,982
[machine beeping]