1 00:02:09,512 --> 00:02:13,642 The Anthor Belt. Dad used to tell me stories about it. 2 00:02:15,018 --> 00:02:16,519 Wonder what he'd say now. 3 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:30,700 Would you believe I used to work on one of those things? 4 00:02:31,576 --> 00:02:33,995 Mining palladium. I remember. 5 00:02:34,079 --> 00:02:36,456 My back's sore just looking at all that equipment. 6 00:02:38,083 --> 00:02:40,918 I can't believe it's still there. Your people, they just left it? 7 00:02:41,001 --> 00:02:44,130 Without the Empire's tech, the industry just broke down. 8 00:02:45,006 --> 00:02:49,177 That's when I started doing long-haul routes. Another life. 9 00:02:54,349 --> 00:02:57,394 In other words, you abandoned your own people. 10 00:02:57,477 --> 00:03:00,230 Meant there was one less Thespin to fight over the scraps. 11 00:03:00,939 --> 00:03:02,607 Approaching coordinates. 12 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:15,161 There's nothing here. 13 00:03:16,037 --> 00:03:17,998 Look closer, Warden. 14 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:24,671 The Invictus? 15 00:03:29,134 --> 00:03:31,511 The crown jewel of Emperor Taurelian's fleet. 16 00:03:31,595 --> 00:03:32,929 You know of her? 17 00:03:33,013 --> 00:03:37,267 They say, in her day, the Invictus was the most powerful weapons platform 18 00:03:37,350 --> 00:03:39,311 the Empire had ever built. 19 00:03:39,394 --> 00:03:40,854 A world-killer. 20 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,653 Yeah, she disappeared without a trace 700 years ago. 21 00:03:48,737 --> 00:03:51,489 No debris. No distress signals. 22 00:03:51,573 --> 00:03:54,701 People reported sightings of her all across the galaxy, 23 00:03:54,784 --> 00:03:58,079 never responding to hails, never seen in the same place twice. 24 00:03:58,955 --> 00:04:00,624 And you just found her here. 25 00:04:01,541 --> 00:04:03,001 Like she was calling to me. 26 00:04:03,084 --> 00:04:04,753 The Invictus is a jumpship. 27 00:04:04,836 --> 00:04:08,506 The Empire considers jump technology a state secret. 28 00:04:08,590 --> 00:04:11,843 They'd sooner wipe out the entire Outer Reach 29 00:04:11,927 --> 00:04:13,196 than allow you to take this ship. 30 00:04:13,220 --> 00:04:14,679 Nobody knows she's here. 31 00:04:14,763 --> 00:04:16,973 You won't even be able to board. 32 00:04:17,057 --> 00:04:19,935 The air lock will never open for an Anacreon. 33 00:04:27,150 --> 00:04:28,860 Your imperial nanobots, 34 00:04:28,944 --> 00:04:31,404 programmed for expedited healing and identification... 35 00:04:33,156 --> 00:04:35,909 coded to access any imperial ship. 36 00:04:37,911 --> 00:04:39,537 That's why we needed you, Commander. 37 00:04:40,497 --> 00:04:41,998 You're our way in. 38 00:04:43,875 --> 00:04:46,878 Even if that actually works, you don't know where this ship has been 39 00:04:46,962 --> 00:04:48,672 or what happened to the crew. 40 00:04:49,338 --> 00:04:51,633 How do you even know if she's safe to approach? 41 00:04:52,926 --> 00:04:54,093 She isn't. 42 00:05:00,308 --> 00:05:03,895 The two craft we lost attempting to board. 43 00:05:05,063 --> 00:05:07,148 Her defense systems are still active. 44 00:05:08,108 --> 00:05:09,317 Get the suits ready. 45 00:05:09,818 --> 00:05:11,111 It's time. 46 00:05:26,918 --> 00:05:30,463 Do you think any of those mining bases still have active comms? 47 00:05:31,089 --> 00:05:33,091 It's unlikely. But it's possible. 48 00:05:34,509 --> 00:05:36,261 I've got a distress beacon. 49 00:05:38,263 --> 00:05:42,267 It's a neural implant, records everything I see and hear. 50 00:05:42,350 --> 00:05:46,855 If we can get to a dispatch capsule on the Invictus, we can send out a signal. 51 00:05:53,403 --> 00:05:56,656 All right, listen. It's a 10,000-meter jump. 52 00:05:56,740 --> 00:06:01,328 You want to drop fast, with as little extraneous movement as possible. 53 00:06:01,411 --> 00:06:05,206 On your final approach, you'll have to flip over and brake. 54 00:06:05,790 --> 00:06:07,500 The Invictus's automated rail guns 55 00:06:07,584 --> 00:06:10,712 are blind to objects under two meters in diameter. 56 00:06:10,795 --> 00:06:15,133 If we spread out and move with control, we should be invisible to them. 57 00:06:15,217 --> 00:06:16,718 You know what you're doing? 58 00:06:18,220 --> 00:06:19,221 Almost never, lover. 59 00:06:19,304 --> 00:06:21,097 Warden, up front. 60 00:06:21,181 --> 00:06:24,184 You must land on the inner ring to access the air lock. 61 00:06:24,267 --> 00:06:26,394 Miss the inner ring and you will be lost. 62 00:06:37,113 --> 00:06:38,531 I'll go on three. 63 00:06:39,824 --> 00:06:41,701 One. Two... 64 00:06:49,543 --> 00:06:50,794 Shit. 65 00:07:01,096 --> 00:07:02,097 Almost there. 66 00:07:35,797 --> 00:07:36,798 Good job, Warden. 67 00:07:37,924 --> 00:07:40,260 Sal, my suit's failing. It's no good. 68 00:07:40,343 --> 00:07:41,928 Thrusters aren't responding. 69 00:07:42,429 --> 00:07:44,389 No, no, no. 70 00:07:44,472 --> 00:07:46,349 - I can't... I can't get it... - I got you! 71 00:07:46,433 --> 00:07:49,436 - Sal! No, get back. - Hugo! No. No. 72 00:07:49,519 --> 00:07:50,520 Get back. 73 00:07:54,357 --> 00:07:57,193 - Sal. Sal... - Hugo! 74 00:07:57,277 --> 00:07:59,696 No. No. Hugo. 75 00:08:11,875 --> 00:08:14,753 Swallow your grief, Warden. We have no time for it now. 76 00:08:16,755 --> 00:08:19,257 Air lock's that way. Let's move. 77 00:08:35,941 --> 00:08:37,067 Excuse me, Empire. 78 00:08:37,150 --> 00:08:40,904 I know you're far too rational to have taken what I did as any sort of... 79 00:08:40,987 --> 00:08:44,282 Go on. I'm curious to hear just what you think you didn't do. 80 00:08:44,366 --> 00:08:48,495 If I hadn't knelt, it would've been a clear contradiction of my faith. 81 00:08:48,578 --> 00:08:51,248 So you knelt before a demagogue. 82 00:08:51,331 --> 00:08:54,834 - I was kneeling to the Mother. - I'm sorry, to the what? 83 00:08:54,918 --> 00:08:57,337 I'm not familiar with that term, 84 00:08:57,420 --> 00:08:59,422 motherless atrocity that I am. 85 00:09:00,340 --> 00:09:02,592 You know I don't agree with Halima's position. 86 00:09:02,676 --> 00:09:07,722 I should hope not. You're not precisely one with the reincarnation cycle yourself. 87 00:09:07,805 --> 00:09:11,434 I wonder what Halima would say if she were made aware of that. 88 00:09:11,517 --> 00:09:14,603 It's not in my interest to publicize your true nature. 89 00:09:14,688 --> 00:09:17,899 This was a staggering betrayal, Demerzel. 90 00:09:18,567 --> 00:09:20,902 It was a betrayal of your directive. 91 00:09:20,986 --> 00:09:25,115 As far as I understood it, you are incapable of disloyalty. 92 00:09:25,198 --> 00:09:28,076 Over all else, your fealty to the Cleonic Dynasty 93 00:09:28,159 --> 00:09:29,995 is embedded into your programming. 94 00:09:30,078 --> 00:09:31,621 And that is precisely my point. 95 00:09:31,705 --> 00:09:34,583 If kneeling were in violation of my protocol, 96 00:09:34,666 --> 00:09:37,252 I would not have been able to. Physically. 97 00:09:37,836 --> 00:09:41,590 The very signals I use to instruct my limbs to bend would have been blocked. 98 00:09:42,966 --> 00:09:48,221 An explanation that also conveniently justifies your actions. 99 00:09:48,305 --> 00:09:49,806 Here is my question, 100 00:09:50,473 --> 00:09:52,267 did you want to kneel? 101 00:09:53,476 --> 00:09:57,230 I am loyal to Empire above all else. 102 00:09:57,314 --> 00:09:59,190 - Forgive me, Empire... - Spit it out. 103 00:09:59,274 --> 00:10:01,943 It seems Zephyr Halima's speech has struck a chord. 104 00:10:02,611 --> 00:10:05,906 Ambassador Thanwall indicates that she has now become the front-runner. 105 00:10:07,490 --> 00:10:08,867 Well then... 106 00:10:10,243 --> 00:10:14,122 we have to shift her away from this pet subject. 107 00:10:16,333 --> 00:10:18,877 I've gotta figure out what she actually wants from me. 108 00:11:04,714 --> 00:11:07,509 I wouldn't have expected to see you down here, Cleon. 109 00:11:08,301 --> 00:11:10,136 The correct honorific is "Empire." 110 00:11:10,220 --> 00:11:13,848 I have great respect for those who attempt the Spiral. 111 00:11:13,932 --> 00:11:17,644 A sacred ritual, reserved for a proxima's passing. 112 00:11:18,770 --> 00:11:22,107 To walk is to humble oneself before the Triple Goddesses. 113 00:11:25,860 --> 00:11:28,029 I see someone's coached you well. 114 00:11:29,114 --> 00:11:33,493 Tell me, Lady Demerzel, have you had occasion to walk the Spiral? 115 00:11:33,577 --> 00:11:36,079 I have. Many years ago. 116 00:11:38,290 --> 00:11:41,918 Then you know just how transformative the journey can be... 117 00:11:43,253 --> 00:11:46,256 and how the body will suffer. 118 00:11:47,883 --> 00:11:50,302 This man was blinded by the sun. 119 00:11:51,469 --> 00:11:55,223 Many others die attempting to reach the Womb of the Mother. 120 00:11:55,307 --> 00:11:58,018 All very noble deaths, I'm sure. 121 00:11:58,101 --> 00:12:01,479 Zephyr Halima, Empire was hoping to speak frankly with you. 122 00:12:02,314 --> 00:12:05,191 I can appreciate an aggressive early play. 123 00:12:05,275 --> 00:12:09,821 And, well, you've succeeded in drawing me down here into the trenches. 124 00:12:09,905 --> 00:12:14,659 So, I applaud you. I'm here. And I'm listening. 125 00:12:15,368 --> 00:12:18,371 I'm not really sure what it is you're expecting me to say. 126 00:12:18,455 --> 00:12:20,123 What is your ask? 127 00:12:22,292 --> 00:12:24,586 End the Genetic Dynasty. 128 00:12:24,669 --> 00:12:27,547 If you're only fielding offers, consider the following. 129 00:12:27,631 --> 00:12:29,549 In addition to the desalination system, 130 00:12:29,633 --> 00:12:32,260 we will also establish a satellite security station 131 00:12:32,344 --> 00:12:34,304 for the dedicated protection of your people. 132 00:12:34,387 --> 00:12:37,265 Safety and clean water. 133 00:12:37,349 --> 00:12:39,476 We're misunderstanding each other here, Cleon. 134 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:42,145 My ask is not a tactic. 135 00:12:42,229 --> 00:12:44,648 I only preach what I believe. 136 00:12:44,731 --> 00:12:48,485 And I believe the Genetic Dynasty will be the ruin of us all. 137 00:12:48,568 --> 00:12:50,195 Luminists can see the future now? 138 00:12:50,278 --> 00:12:52,739 I do not claim to see the future. 139 00:12:52,822 --> 00:12:58,411 I only have a sense deep in my soul of what is true and what is wrong. 140 00:12:58,495 --> 00:12:59,746 Wrong? 141 00:12:59,829 --> 00:13:03,792 You don't even remotely comprehend what my familial line has accomplished. 142 00:13:03,875 --> 00:13:07,087 - My brothers and I... - Brothers? You are not brothers. 143 00:13:07,170 --> 00:13:09,798 You are the reverberations of a dead man's ego, 144 00:13:09,881 --> 00:13:12,884 by nature blind to all that you lack. 145 00:13:12,968 --> 00:13:16,096 The soulless creature cannot recognize itself. 146 00:13:17,055 --> 00:13:20,475 I believe the late Dr. Seldon made a similar observation? 147 00:13:22,686 --> 00:13:25,522 If that is truly what you believe, I am sorry. 148 00:13:25,605 --> 00:13:28,650 You will spend your life shouting into the void. 149 00:13:28,733 --> 00:13:31,069 The only reason you ventured down here 150 00:13:31,987 --> 00:13:35,574 is because you know people are listening to me. 151 00:13:36,241 --> 00:13:38,201 I'm sure, in preparation for your visit, 152 00:13:38,285 --> 00:13:43,331 you were counseled as to the staggering numbers of followers Luminism claims, 153 00:13:43,415 --> 00:13:48,420 all committed to acting in service of truth's light. 154 00:13:48,503 --> 00:13:52,382 Remind me, how many people did it take to bring down your Star Bridge? 155 00:13:53,174 --> 00:13:54,342 Are you threatening me? 156 00:13:54,426 --> 00:13:58,722 I'm only trying to answer your question, to articulate my ask. 157 00:13:59,306 --> 00:14:02,809 I'm not surprised it's left you confused. 158 00:14:02,893 --> 00:14:05,687 It's about something much greater than you. 159 00:14:05,770 --> 00:14:09,149 But I'm sure your adviser will help you to understand. 160 00:14:09,232 --> 00:14:13,153 Now, if you'll excuse me, I have souls that need ministering to. 161 00:14:36,051 --> 00:14:38,929 - Lewis, fall back. Fall back, Lewis. - What, Salvor? 162 00:14:39,012 --> 00:14:40,931 You and Jacenta are too close. Two meters! 163 00:14:41,014 --> 00:14:42,641 Oh, sorry. 164 00:14:48,897 --> 00:14:50,607 Take cover! 165 00:15:09,709 --> 00:15:12,754 If I open the doors, the guns will stop. 166 00:15:12,837 --> 00:15:14,548 Commander! 167 00:15:28,895 --> 00:15:30,230 Now! 168 00:15:38,488 --> 00:15:39,781 Come on. 169 00:15:59,968 --> 00:16:01,636 No! 170 00:16:05,974 --> 00:16:08,101 He served his purpose. 171 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,634 Not you, Warden. You're too dangerous unfettered. 172 00:16:40,717 --> 00:16:42,260 Hold out your hands. 173 00:16:49,059 --> 00:16:50,101 Now, move. 174 00:17:09,371 --> 00:17:10,747 Keep moving. 175 00:17:11,539 --> 00:17:13,667 Atmosphere's frozen. 176 00:17:14,167 --> 00:17:16,211 Must be a hull breach somewhere. 177 00:17:16,795 --> 00:17:21,466 The environmental systems must be off. We should find a regulation panel. 178 00:17:42,070 --> 00:17:44,446 The regulation panel. Over here. 179 00:18:00,755 --> 00:18:03,133 Okay. The system's archaic. 180 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,261 I'll have to input commands with manual code. 181 00:18:07,762 --> 00:18:10,765 I've sealed the breach so it's safe to restore atmosphere. 182 00:18:10,849 --> 00:18:11,933 Do it. 183 00:18:14,686 --> 00:18:17,272 We might have weather in here as the atmosphere regulates. 184 00:18:18,857 --> 00:18:21,610 And now for the gravity. Heads up. 185 00:18:32,871 --> 00:18:36,708 Those lights, what was that? Is that a power surge? 186 00:18:36,791 --> 00:18:38,126 I'm not sure. 187 00:18:38,210 --> 00:18:39,461 Now update security protocols. 188 00:18:39,544 --> 00:18:41,546 I want the internal defenses off-line. 189 00:18:41,630 --> 00:18:44,507 Security's a different system. That'll be closer to the bridge. 190 00:18:46,092 --> 00:18:47,469 Then we head there next. 191 00:19:04,110 --> 00:19:05,111 Sixteen seconds. 192 00:19:06,446 --> 00:19:11,076 Hey, the lights were pulsating consistently every 18 seconds, 193 00:19:11,159 --> 00:19:12,994 and now it's down to 16. 194 00:19:13,078 --> 00:19:14,955 Okay. So, what does that mean? 195 00:19:15,497 --> 00:19:18,458 - Like a countdown? - A countdown to what? 196 00:19:22,212 --> 00:19:23,421 The next jump. 197 00:19:25,882 --> 00:19:28,969 Two weeks ago, my people were out on a scavenging run. 198 00:19:29,803 --> 00:19:31,638 They happened to see the Invictus jump in. 199 00:19:31,721 --> 00:19:33,932 We think her drives are cycling on their own, 200 00:19:34,015 --> 00:19:36,142 setting random time intervals between jumps. 201 00:19:36,226 --> 00:19:39,271 We knew, if we wanted to get control of the ship, 202 00:19:39,354 --> 00:19:42,190 we had to board before she could jump away again. 203 00:19:42,274 --> 00:19:43,567 Jump away where? 204 00:19:46,736 --> 00:19:50,991 They have no idea. That's how the legend started. 205 00:19:51,074 --> 00:19:53,201 That's why the Invictus became a ghost ship. 206 00:19:55,453 --> 00:19:57,747 The crew must have lost control, 207 00:19:57,831 --> 00:20:02,294 and the ship started jumping from one random set of coordinates to the next. 208 00:20:03,712 --> 00:20:07,173 They got marooned out in the dark deep somewhere, 209 00:20:07,257 --> 00:20:08,842 out of comms range... 210 00:20:10,135 --> 00:20:12,262 maybe outside the galaxy completely. 211 00:20:13,722 --> 00:20:17,017 They ran out of food, turned on each other. 212 00:20:17,100 --> 00:20:19,227 How long do we have before the countdown gets to zero? 213 00:20:20,270 --> 00:20:21,897 At this rate... 214 00:20:22,772 --> 00:20:23,773 four hours. 215 00:20:24,524 --> 00:20:25,525 Okay. 216 00:20:26,818 --> 00:20:30,780 So we have four hours to get control, or she blinks away again. 217 00:20:48,131 --> 00:20:49,966 You understand the urgency now. 218 00:20:50,842 --> 00:20:53,178 If we fail and we're lucky, 219 00:20:53,261 --> 00:20:55,138 we end up in the heart of a sun 220 00:20:56,723 --> 00:20:58,683 or staring down the mouth of a black hole. 221 00:20:59,351 --> 00:21:03,897 If we're unlucky, we suffer much longer deaths. 222 00:21:08,652 --> 00:21:10,487 What are your feelings about Halima now? 223 00:21:12,322 --> 00:21:13,823 That was reckless. 224 00:21:14,783 --> 00:21:17,327 There's no question in my mind, that was a threat. 225 00:21:17,410 --> 00:21:19,537 That damn Hari Seldon predicted this. 226 00:21:19,621 --> 00:21:23,583 "An exhortation from one of the galaxy's major religions." 227 00:21:24,125 --> 00:21:28,171 As to Halima's threat, I will enhance the security measures at the palace. 228 00:21:28,255 --> 00:21:31,049 We can assemble a comms team to contain Halima's message, 229 00:21:31,132 --> 00:21:34,761 data filters triggered by certain phrases. "Genetic Dynasty." 230 00:21:34,844 --> 00:21:35,845 No. 231 00:21:35,929 --> 00:21:39,015 I refuse to play defense with this woman. 232 00:21:40,141 --> 00:21:44,104 If she wants to invoke something greater than me, I'll do the same. 233 00:21:45,355 --> 00:21:48,149 I'll prove both her and Seldon wrong. 234 00:21:55,782 --> 00:21:59,953 According to Zephyr Halima, I am soulless, 235 00:22:00,453 --> 00:22:03,164 and therefore incapable of growth. 236 00:22:03,915 --> 00:22:05,041 I disagree. 237 00:22:05,834 --> 00:22:09,796 But as she suggests, the soulless creature cannot recognize itself, 238 00:22:10,505 --> 00:22:14,509 which is why I must appeal to those with a much broader vantage, 239 00:22:15,260 --> 00:22:17,971 broader even than the zephyrs. 240 00:22:18,722 --> 00:22:23,184 I must appeal to the Triple Goddesses themselves. 241 00:22:34,279 --> 00:22:36,781 I will walk the great Spiral. 242 00:22:37,574 --> 00:22:42,245 And I will let the Mother, the Maiden and the Crone decide what is true, 243 00:22:43,496 --> 00:22:44,831 who is right... 244 00:22:47,918 --> 00:22:49,252 and who is wrong. 245 00:24:22,137 --> 00:24:23,263 How does this work? 246 00:24:23,346 --> 00:24:24,890 I'll show you. 247 00:25:37,837 --> 00:25:39,214 I've brought you something. 248 00:25:52,143 --> 00:25:53,687 Color-correction 'hesives. 249 00:25:53,770 --> 00:25:54,930 So you can see red and green. 250 00:25:57,357 --> 00:25:58,483 Thank you. 251 00:25:59,776 --> 00:26:03,947 But I can't. They'll draw attention. 252 00:26:04,698 --> 00:26:07,367 The others, Brother Dusk, Brother Day, 253 00:26:08,243 --> 00:26:09,244 they can't know. 254 00:26:09,828 --> 00:26:11,908 Maybe you could put them on when they're not looking. 255 00:26:12,497 --> 00:26:14,124 They're always looking. 256 00:26:14,749 --> 00:26:17,586 And if they start pulling that thread, it all comes undone. 257 00:26:20,213 --> 00:26:21,298 Yes, Empire. 258 00:26:22,090 --> 00:26:23,300 Please, Azura... 259 00:26:25,135 --> 00:26:26,261 call me Cleon. 260 00:26:28,638 --> 00:26:31,892 It's not just the color blindness. 261 00:26:32,475 --> 00:26:35,103 My thumbs clasp right over left. 262 00:26:36,521 --> 00:26:39,900 My brothers' clasp left over right. 263 00:26:40,609 --> 00:26:42,652 They love brassica. 264 00:26:43,862 --> 00:26:47,115 I find it so bitter I can barely stomach it. 265 00:26:48,033 --> 00:26:49,993 I put my shoes on in a different order. 266 00:26:50,076 --> 00:26:52,454 I point at things with a different crook in my finger. 267 00:26:52,537 --> 00:26:55,665 I eat starches before meats instead of the other way round. 268 00:26:55,749 --> 00:26:59,419 If they notice the 'hesives, they might notice all of it. 269 00:27:01,213 --> 00:27:02,672 Would that really be so terrible? 270 00:27:08,553 --> 00:27:09,930 I'll show you. 271 00:27:23,818 --> 00:27:26,404 This is the first. 272 00:27:26,488 --> 00:27:27,739 The Principium. 273 00:27:28,823 --> 00:27:30,951 The Cleon from whom we're all extracted. 274 00:27:32,410 --> 00:27:33,662 There's more. 275 00:27:44,673 --> 00:27:45,757 Are they alive? 276 00:27:47,259 --> 00:27:48,718 In a manner of speaking. 277 00:27:57,394 --> 00:27:58,895 They're absorbing information, 278 00:27:58,979 --> 00:28:01,231 so as to be up to date with our lives 279 00:28:01,314 --> 00:28:02,732 if they're ever needed. 280 00:28:03,275 --> 00:28:05,193 Needed? For what? 281 00:28:05,819 --> 00:28:11,700 If a Cleon is ever damaged or killed, these are his replacements. 282 00:28:27,382 --> 00:28:29,968 Every moment of my life is a test. 283 00:28:31,553 --> 00:28:36,016 And if I ever fail, if they ever learn how different I am, 284 00:28:37,475 --> 00:28:38,935 it'll be my last day. 285 00:28:41,396 --> 00:28:42,397 And his first. 286 00:28:43,315 --> 00:28:45,692 But they can't. You're Empire. 287 00:28:45,775 --> 00:28:47,068 No more than he is. 288 00:28:48,778 --> 00:28:52,908 My job, my reason for existing, is to be a perfect copy. 289 00:28:52,991 --> 00:28:54,618 And if I can't do that, then... 290 00:28:58,705 --> 00:29:01,374 The Empire must be protected from mistakes. 291 00:29:02,626 --> 00:29:03,710 Like me. 292 00:29:04,336 --> 00:29:06,588 So I can't take your gift, Azura. 293 00:29:06,671 --> 00:29:08,798 They can't know I'm correcting my sight. 294 00:29:10,050 --> 00:29:13,595 I have to blend in, or I die. 295 00:29:14,763 --> 00:29:17,599 Or you escape. You leave. 296 00:29:18,183 --> 00:29:20,977 They won't care. They'll just wake up your replacement. 297 00:29:21,061 --> 00:29:23,688 They won't let a rogue Emperor go free. They'll have me killed. 298 00:29:23,772 --> 00:29:26,316 Then we'll make it so they can't find you. 299 00:29:26,399 --> 00:29:28,860 I have the most recognizable face in the galaxy. 300 00:29:28,944 --> 00:29:29,945 Not if we change it. 301 00:29:30,612 --> 00:29:32,072 There are biohackers underground. 302 00:29:32,155 --> 00:29:33,755 They could do it with a single incision. 303 00:29:34,991 --> 00:29:37,702 They'd still track me through my nanobots. 304 00:29:40,914 --> 00:29:43,166 There are people who can filter them out. 305 00:29:44,125 --> 00:29:46,628 You think you're the first person who's wanted them gone? 306 00:29:52,467 --> 00:29:54,761 You showed me this place for a reason. 307 00:29:55,887 --> 00:29:58,306 The same reason you jumped off your balcony. 308 00:29:59,182 --> 00:30:00,809 You can't live like this. 309 00:30:02,602 --> 00:30:05,772 You've lived every moment of your life with people watching you. 310 00:30:06,982 --> 00:30:10,986 The Scar's different. You can lose yourself in it. 311 00:30:12,445 --> 00:30:15,115 For Empire, the Scar represents a failure. 312 00:30:16,825 --> 00:30:19,786 For the rest of Trantor, it represents an opportunity. 313 00:30:20,579 --> 00:30:26,751 For the first time in centuries, we can look up and see real clouds, real stars, 314 00:30:27,627 --> 00:30:32,215 not a simulation run by servers designed to keep us complacent. 315 00:30:35,343 --> 00:30:37,137 Will they let me through security with it? 316 00:30:37,220 --> 00:30:38,263 It's cloaked. 317 00:30:49,024 --> 00:30:51,318 It's nothing like your palace. 318 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,488 It's crowded. It's chaotic. 319 00:30:56,406 --> 00:30:57,657 But it's alive. 320 00:30:59,743 --> 00:31:01,328 And it's waiting for you. 321 00:31:02,245 --> 00:31:03,705 Come with me. 322 00:31:14,591 --> 00:31:16,801 You missed the dinner bell. 323 00:31:17,594 --> 00:31:22,140 - Sorry. - Punctuality. Routine. Respect. 324 00:31:23,266 --> 00:31:26,228 These may be practiced traits to the everyman, 325 00:31:26,311 --> 00:31:29,356 but they are innate to a Cleon. 326 00:31:29,940 --> 00:31:31,149 At least, they should be. 327 00:31:31,233 --> 00:31:32,317 Of course. 328 00:31:33,193 --> 00:31:37,322 I was just learning about Trantor. The rest of it. 329 00:31:37,906 --> 00:31:39,741 We are Trantor. 330 00:31:40,575 --> 00:31:43,828 Nothing outside the palace walls is relevant. 331 00:31:59,094 --> 00:32:00,136 Hari? 332 00:32:02,722 --> 00:32:04,808 Computer, what am I looking at? 333 00:32:04,891 --> 00:32:07,519 Hari Seldon Quantum Consciousness Protocol. 334 00:32:08,186 --> 00:32:09,938 It's a projection of some kind. 335 00:32:11,523 --> 00:32:14,484 Computer, identify the issue with Hari Seldon Protocol. 336 00:32:14,568 --> 00:32:16,570 Incomplete neural uplink. 337 00:32:16,653 --> 00:32:17,862 Help me. 338 00:32:18,863 --> 00:32:20,824 Computer, what was the source of uplink? 339 00:32:20,907 --> 00:32:24,411 Initiated with Raych Foss Arrival Protocol. 340 00:32:24,494 --> 00:32:25,495 Can you restart it? 341 00:32:25,579 --> 00:32:27,455 Authorization required. 342 00:32:28,373 --> 00:32:31,751 - Hari, can you hear me? - Help me. 343 00:32:31,835 --> 00:32:36,590 Okay. Listen to me. Focus on my voice. This is Gaal. 344 00:32:36,673 --> 00:32:38,133 Gaal! 345 00:32:38,216 --> 00:32:41,177 You've digitized your consciousness, but something went wrong. 346 00:32:41,261 --> 00:32:44,180 You're glitching, stuck in the loop of the past. 347 00:32:44,264 --> 00:32:45,849 Just concentrate on my voice. 348 00:32:46,558 --> 00:32:48,643 This is the present. This is now. 349 00:32:49,436 --> 00:32:51,730 That's it, Hari. Follow my voice. 350 00:32:51,813 --> 00:32:53,607 That is the past. This is now. 351 00:33:03,116 --> 00:33:04,659 What have you done to yourself, Hari? 352 00:33:05,243 --> 00:33:09,122 I had a data unit implanted in my brain before we left Trantor... 353 00:33:10,665 --> 00:33:12,959 synced to a port hidden in Raych's knife. 354 00:33:13,043 --> 00:33:17,130 Recorded all my thoughts, memories, everything, right up to the moment I... 355 00:33:19,049 --> 00:33:20,759 Something must've gone wrong. 356 00:33:22,052 --> 00:33:23,303 Where am I? 357 00:33:23,386 --> 00:33:26,723 On a ship called the Raven, headed to Helicon, 358 00:33:26,806 --> 00:33:27,974 your homeworld, Hari. 359 00:33:28,058 --> 00:33:29,559 Helicon. Yes. 360 00:33:32,229 --> 00:33:33,230 How long? 361 00:33:35,732 --> 00:33:37,442 Thirty-four years. 362 00:33:41,446 --> 00:33:43,490 You're not supposed to be here. 363 00:33:44,783 --> 00:33:45,784 Where's Raych? 364 00:33:46,785 --> 00:33:48,411 He sent me instead. 365 00:33:48,495 --> 00:33:51,414 He wouldn't do that. You're supposed to lead the First Foundation. 366 00:33:51,498 --> 00:33:52,666 He knew that. 367 00:33:53,208 --> 00:33:56,419 They'll be facing their first crisis soon. Who's in charge? 368 00:33:56,503 --> 00:33:58,588 Lewis Pirenne, I'd imagine. 369 00:33:58,672 --> 00:34:00,674 He'll get them through the settlement stage, 370 00:34:00,757 --> 00:34:03,134 but for what's coming next, they'll need someone else, you. 371 00:34:03,218 --> 00:34:04,511 Raych knew that. Where's Raych? 372 00:34:05,595 --> 00:34:07,722 It's hard to explain. 373 00:34:09,766 --> 00:34:11,893 You're dead, Hari. 374 00:34:14,521 --> 00:34:15,689 You know that, right? 375 00:34:18,942 --> 00:34:20,277 Raych murdered you. 376 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:21,444 They think I helped him. 377 00:34:22,654 --> 00:34:23,738 What? Why? 378 00:34:23,822 --> 00:34:27,325 I went to your cabin. Interrupted him. 379 00:34:28,201 --> 00:34:32,205 I saw him bent over you with the knife in your chest. 380 00:34:32,789 --> 00:34:37,043 He threw me in the lifeboat and stayed behind. 381 00:34:37,127 --> 00:34:38,378 What happened to him? 382 00:34:38,461 --> 00:34:39,838 They executed him. 383 00:34:40,881 --> 00:34:42,591 Raych is dead? 384 00:34:44,551 --> 00:34:45,886 Why, Hari? 385 00:34:47,554 --> 00:34:51,099 Hari? Why did he do it? 386 00:34:52,058 --> 00:34:53,101 Hari? 387 00:34:55,770 --> 00:34:57,188 Hari! 388 00:35:07,407 --> 00:35:10,744 We're running out of time. We need to make a move. Now. 389 00:35:10,826 --> 00:35:13,330 We take their weapons, level the playing field. 390 00:35:13,413 --> 00:35:15,790 I'm not a fighter. None of us are. 391 00:35:16,373 --> 00:35:19,628 Most people aren't, until they're left with no other choice. 392 00:35:20,295 --> 00:35:21,337 Stop! 393 00:35:36,811 --> 00:35:38,188 An energy barrier. 394 00:35:40,607 --> 00:35:43,318 It's gotta be a tech precursor to our fence on Terminus. 395 00:35:43,944 --> 00:35:46,613 I'm the only expert here who can safely override it. 396 00:35:48,031 --> 00:35:49,699 But you'll need to uncuff me. 397 00:35:53,620 --> 00:35:55,247 Do it, Warden. 398 00:35:55,330 --> 00:35:56,665 Or we all die for nothing. 399 00:36:16,685 --> 00:36:19,604 That's it. We're all coded in. 400 00:36:40,959 --> 00:36:42,627 Fifteen seconds. 401 00:36:44,296 --> 00:36:46,756 Cuffs back on. Hold out your hands. 402 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,008 What is this? 403 00:36:48,717 --> 00:36:52,220 The older ships used cooling tanks for the jumpdrives. Careful. 404 00:36:53,013 --> 00:36:54,139 Stop stalling. 405 00:37:06,860 --> 00:37:08,528 Keep moving. 406 00:37:20,832 --> 00:37:22,000 Lewis! 407 00:37:44,397 --> 00:37:45,523 No! No! 408 00:38:01,164 --> 00:38:02,791 No, Phara. 409 00:38:02,874 --> 00:38:03,875 We still need her. 410 00:38:05,752 --> 00:38:09,422 There might be more barriers, security protocols to override. 411 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,515 Rowan, please. 412 00:38:19,307 --> 00:38:22,477 We're losing all our experts, and we're running out of time. 413 00:38:22,561 --> 00:38:25,772 You wanna live to carry out your strike against the Empire? 414 00:38:25,855 --> 00:38:27,975 You're not gonna do it if you stay on board this ship. 415 00:38:28,024 --> 00:38:29,568 I'm never leaving the Invictus. 416 00:38:30,819 --> 00:38:32,237 And neither are you. 417 00:38:36,449 --> 00:38:39,703 You're gonna help us redirect the ship before she jumps again. 418 00:38:39,786 --> 00:38:43,164 And then we'll guide it right into the beating heart of Trantor. 419 00:38:45,959 --> 00:38:48,336 The Empire won't have a chance to run, 420 00:38:49,546 --> 00:38:51,339 just like my people did not. 421 00:38:53,216 --> 00:38:57,345 All of Trantor will be nothing but a heap of poisonous ash, 422 00:38:57,429 --> 00:39:00,724 all its evils rendered silent underneath it. 423 00:39:01,558 --> 00:39:04,144 We will deliver that justice to them, Warden. 424 00:39:04,227 --> 00:39:09,524 We will die to bring the Empire to its knees. 425 00:39:28,418 --> 00:39:30,420 Oxygen level at 2%. 426 00:39:31,087 --> 00:39:32,088 Hari? 427 00:39:33,173 --> 00:39:35,300 The ship's shut down without you. 428 00:39:36,676 --> 00:39:38,303 Temperature's dropped. 429 00:39:40,138 --> 00:39:42,390 I don't think I'll be able to breathe much longer. 430 00:39:42,474 --> 00:39:45,685 Please authorize reinstatement of life support systems. 431 00:39:50,482 --> 00:39:53,944 Please authorize reinstatement of life support systems. 432 00:39:57,447 --> 00:39:58,448 Hari? 433 00:39:59,616 --> 00:40:01,785 - Please authorize reinstatement... - Hari, please. 434 00:40:01,868 --> 00:40:04,329 - ...of life support systems. - Please, Hari. Please. 435 00:40:04,412 --> 00:40:05,789 Please. Please. 436 00:40:13,505 --> 00:40:15,257 Authorization complete. 437 00:40:35,068 --> 00:40:37,779 I owe you an explanation, Gaal. 438 00:40:37,862 --> 00:40:39,739 I recognize that now. 439 00:40:39,823 --> 00:40:41,324 Why did Raych do it? 440 00:40:41,408 --> 00:40:43,868 I don't understand. Why did he kill you? 441 00:40:44,452 --> 00:40:48,582 My death was an essential element to the success of the Plan. 442 00:40:48,665 --> 00:40:50,250 Don't understand. 443 00:40:50,333 --> 00:40:53,837 The Foundation needs more than a man to inspire it. 444 00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:57,090 It needs a myth that can endure for centuries. 445 00:40:59,593 --> 00:41:01,136 And it worked. 446 00:41:01,219 --> 00:41:04,806 Do you remember what our mortality projections had been for Terminus? 447 00:41:07,183 --> 00:41:09,477 34.2%. 448 00:41:09,561 --> 00:41:11,605 The actual rate was nearly half that. 449 00:41:12,397 --> 00:41:14,691 My death galvanized the Foundation. 450 00:41:14,774 --> 00:41:18,028 The Foundation isn't a religion, Hari. 451 00:41:18,612 --> 00:41:19,613 And you're not a god. 452 00:41:19,696 --> 00:41:22,657 No. Gods are impervious to knives. 453 00:41:23,617 --> 00:41:27,370 But you can kill them. You just stop believing in them. 454 00:41:28,788 --> 00:41:32,417 I don't buy it. I mean, you're egotistical, 455 00:41:32,500 --> 00:41:37,339 but I can't see you sacrificing your life just to turn yourself into this. 456 00:41:37,422 --> 00:41:39,883 - Why not just wait until... - I have Lethe Syndrome. 457 00:41:41,301 --> 00:41:43,386 Had Lethe Syndrome. 458 00:41:43,470 --> 00:41:45,013 Inherited from my father. 459 00:41:45,597 --> 00:41:49,351 Once the symptoms manifest, the cognitive decline is steep. 460 00:41:49,434 --> 00:41:50,894 Think it through. 461 00:41:50,977 --> 00:41:53,313 We reach Terminus, face famine and the elements, 462 00:41:53,396 --> 00:41:55,398 but I'm no longer the hand of our salvation, 463 00:41:55,482 --> 00:41:58,401 but the crackpot who dragged everyone to a frigid rock. 464 00:41:59,110 --> 00:42:02,030 But you told me it was your dream to see Terminus. 465 00:42:02,113 --> 00:42:05,617 You said you wanted to start the Foundation together. 466 00:42:06,201 --> 00:42:07,744 Yes. 467 00:42:07,827 --> 00:42:10,872 I said it loudly and often, didn't I? 468 00:42:10,956 --> 00:42:13,291 So often I started to bore myself. 469 00:42:14,376 --> 00:42:15,585 You were performing. 470 00:42:15,669 --> 00:42:18,046 I was engineering the narrative. 471 00:42:18,129 --> 00:42:20,131 That's a fancy way of saying you lied. 472 00:42:22,008 --> 00:42:23,635 Approaching debris disk. 473 00:42:33,478 --> 00:42:36,731 Helicon. Home. 474 00:42:38,525 --> 00:42:39,943 The debris field surrounds... 475 00:42:40,026 --> 00:42:41,736 Helicon's dark star. 476 00:42:42,737 --> 00:42:45,448 It's kept your homeworld hidden all these years. 477 00:42:46,241 --> 00:42:51,121 I know where we are, Hari. It's the why I'm struggling with. 478 00:42:52,372 --> 00:42:55,208 Did Raych know about this? Your death? This ship? 479 00:42:55,292 --> 00:42:57,002 Raych knew everything. 480 00:42:58,086 --> 00:43:02,716 I was gonna take my life. He was gonna stay behind to explain why... 481 00:43:03,300 --> 00:43:08,263 then, a week or so later, disappear and reunite with me here. 482 00:43:10,974 --> 00:43:13,518 He loved you. That wasn't a lie. 483 00:43:15,854 --> 00:43:17,814 You should've warned me. 484 00:43:17,898 --> 00:43:19,149 Would you have listened? 485 00:43:19,900 --> 00:43:23,111 I am so tired of this. 486 00:43:24,029 --> 00:43:27,949 You deciding what I need to know when I need to know it. 487 00:43:29,618 --> 00:43:31,328 What changed your plan? 488 00:43:32,203 --> 00:43:34,789 - You really need me to answer that? - Tell me. 489 00:43:35,582 --> 00:43:37,667 He wasn't ever going to leave you. 490 00:43:40,253 --> 00:43:42,422 So you made Raych kill you. 491 00:43:43,715 --> 00:43:45,634 That way he would have to leave me. 492 00:43:47,510 --> 00:43:49,387 - You used him. - That's unfair. 493 00:43:49,471 --> 00:43:50,513 You used both of us. 494 00:43:50,597 --> 00:43:52,557 Raych was always meant to be here. 495 00:43:53,141 --> 00:43:54,851 Not you. Raych. 496 00:43:54,935 --> 00:43:57,395 You were meant to stay on Terminus, to lead Terminus. 497 00:43:57,479 --> 00:44:01,483 Exactly! There was never a version of your plan 498 00:44:01,566 --> 00:44:04,236 where Raych and I were within light-years of each other. 499 00:44:05,070 --> 00:44:09,741 You didn't care about what we wanted, as long as your plan was safe! 500 00:44:10,242 --> 00:44:12,452 You're too smart to play the victim, Gaal. 501 00:44:13,995 --> 00:44:17,624 You welcomed your part in this the moment you solved Abraxas. 502 00:44:17,707 --> 00:44:18,708 I what? 503 00:44:18,792 --> 00:44:21,253 You could've submitted the answer anonymously. 504 00:44:21,336 --> 00:44:23,922 You chose recognition. 505 00:44:24,005 --> 00:44:26,508 No one forced you to come to Trantor. 506 00:44:26,591 --> 00:44:28,260 I came under false pretenses. 507 00:44:28,343 --> 00:44:31,137 You came knowing full well the attention it would bring you 508 00:44:31,221 --> 00:44:33,557 and the danger that put your family in. 509 00:44:34,474 --> 00:44:36,476 You made a choice, Gaal. 510 00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,187 You wanted a different life to the one mapped out for you. 511 00:44:39,271 --> 00:44:41,231 When we were hauled up in front of the Emperor, 512 00:44:41,314 --> 00:44:43,400 you made a choice to lie to him. 513 00:44:44,150 --> 00:44:48,238 "If you kill me, the fall accelerates." Isn't that what you told him? 514 00:44:48,321 --> 00:44:51,032 Fine. We're both hypocrites. 515 00:44:51,658 --> 00:44:54,661 If this was really only about the path psychohistory laid out, 516 00:44:54,744 --> 00:44:57,831 then you would've let Cleon kill you in that throne room. 517 00:44:58,540 --> 00:45:00,166 Your followers would've been exiled, 518 00:45:00,250 --> 00:45:02,752 and everything would've fallen into place as planned. 519 00:45:04,087 --> 00:45:05,422 That's true. 520 00:45:06,756 --> 00:45:08,550 So why didn't you? 521 00:45:08,633 --> 00:45:09,759 I wanted to live. 522 00:45:10,802 --> 00:45:12,721 Well, so did Raych. 523 00:45:14,222 --> 00:45:19,853 Now I'm here instead of on Terminus, and Raych is dead. 524 00:45:20,854 --> 00:45:23,940 - And that's on you. Not me. - Is it? 525 00:45:25,108 --> 00:45:27,485 Don't you dare put this on me. 526 00:45:27,569 --> 00:45:30,572 You weren't supposed to be anywhere near my cabin the night I died. 527 00:45:32,032 --> 00:45:33,617 You were meant to be swimming. 528 00:45:33,700 --> 00:45:37,412 Every night, 40 lengths of the pool. Counting primes like clockwork. 529 00:45:37,495 --> 00:45:39,122 I've heard enough from you. 530 00:45:43,627 --> 00:45:45,187 I liked you better when you were dying. 531 00:45:45,212 --> 00:45:48,757 - You came to my cabin. Why? - I was worried about Raych. 532 00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,468 - So why not go to his? - I did. He wasn't there. 533 00:45:51,551 --> 00:45:53,595 - Then what happened? - I don't know. I... 534 00:45:55,430 --> 00:45:57,224 Computer, divert from the debris field. 535 00:45:57,307 --> 00:45:59,476 Authorization required. 536 00:45:59,559 --> 00:46:01,228 Something is going to pierce the hull. 537 00:46:01,311 --> 00:46:03,897 Hari, if you're in the mainframe, you can turn us around. 538 00:46:03,980 --> 00:46:05,440 The shields are strong. 539 00:46:05,523 --> 00:46:07,359 Any micro-breaches will seal automatically. 540 00:46:07,442 --> 00:46:09,194 Turn us around. This is too much. 541 00:46:09,277 --> 00:46:11,321 - Why did you break your routine? - I can't... 542 00:46:11,404 --> 00:46:13,323 Why did you get out of that pool? 543 00:46:13,406 --> 00:46:14,991 I know what you're trying to do. 544 00:46:15,075 --> 00:46:17,702 You were worried about Raych. You went to his cabin. 545 00:46:17,786 --> 00:46:19,537 He wasn't there. Then what happened? 546 00:46:20,997 --> 00:46:24,709 86,981,803. 547 00:46:27,420 --> 00:46:28,755 I could feel it in the air. 548 00:46:28,838 --> 00:46:32,342 86,981,821. 549 00:46:32,425 --> 00:46:35,011 A sense of doom. 550 00:46:35,095 --> 00:46:36,721 I just... I had a feeling. 551 00:46:36,805 --> 00:46:38,723 86,981,827. 552 00:46:38,807 --> 00:46:41,101 What kind of a feeling? A memory? A vision? What? 553 00:46:41,184 --> 00:46:42,352 A compulsion? 554 00:46:45,564 --> 00:46:47,649 Like my body knew something before I did. 555 00:46:47,732 --> 00:46:49,484 Hari, the sky. 556 00:46:50,652 --> 00:46:52,946 Like knowing the Star Bridge would fall. 557 00:46:53,029 --> 00:46:55,282 Like knowing when they'd come to arrest me. 558 00:46:55,365 --> 00:46:56,575 How are you awake? 559 00:46:57,158 --> 00:46:58,660 Did you say something? 560 00:46:58,743 --> 00:47:00,579 No. But I was going to ask... 561 00:47:00,662 --> 00:47:03,081 Someone would speak before they did. 562 00:47:03,164 --> 00:47:05,083 The prodigy speaks. 563 00:47:05,166 --> 00:47:07,252 86,981,000... 564 00:47:07,335 --> 00:47:08,962 We're all different, Ms. Dornick. 565 00:47:09,045 --> 00:47:11,399 And if you don't know what it is, I urge you to figure it out 566 00:47:11,423 --> 00:47:14,134 before someone else does and uses it against you. 567 00:47:14,217 --> 00:47:16,678 86,981,827. 568 00:47:16,761 --> 00:47:17,804 Terminus. 569 00:47:17,888 --> 00:47:18,972 You're exiling us. 570 00:47:19,681 --> 00:47:20,974 Did you say something? 571 00:47:22,183 --> 00:47:24,019 The prodigy speaks. 572 00:47:24,519 --> 00:47:26,605 You're exiling us. 573 00:47:26,688 --> 00:47:27,772 I'm sorry. 574 00:47:28,732 --> 00:47:30,025 How are you awake? 575 00:47:31,443 --> 00:47:33,069 Did you say something? 576 00:47:33,153 --> 00:47:34,863 - I'm sorry. - You're exiling us. 577 00:47:35,822 --> 00:47:37,908 - How are you awake? - I'm sorry. 578 00:47:37,991 --> 00:47:39,576 Did you say something? 579 00:47:50,712 --> 00:47:54,049 That's why I came to your cabin. That's what you couldn't predict. 580 00:47:56,009 --> 00:47:59,221 I knew what was gonna happen before it did. 581 00:47:59,971 --> 00:48:02,515 Not through math, not through calculations... 582 00:48:04,601 --> 00:48:06,311 I think I can feel the future.