1 00:00:51,073 --> 00:00:55,744 My mother used to say that going to sleep was a leap of faith. 2 00:00:58,581 --> 00:01:02,543 Our souls wander when we dream, or so she told me. 3 00:01:07,298 --> 00:01:09,425 And if we say our devotions, 4 00:01:10,509 --> 00:01:13,679 our souls will find their way back before we wake. 5 00:01:18,100 --> 00:01:20,811 Climbing from our cradle is another leap. 6 00:01:22,646 --> 00:01:24,565 So is leaving the comfort of home. 7 00:01:28,194 --> 00:01:33,115 For some, it's setting sail, hurtling ourselves into the void. 8 00:01:35,201 --> 00:01:40,622 We send messages into space hoping someone will answer, 9 00:01:41,749 --> 00:01:45,920 praying we find safe harbor over the horizon. 10 00:02:12,279 --> 00:02:14,573 Anacreon and Thespis, 11 00:02:14,657 --> 00:02:17,618 you've been at each other's throats so long, 12 00:02:18,285 --> 00:02:21,997 the origin of your enmity is almost irrelevant. 13 00:02:22,581 --> 00:02:24,542 We have legitimate grounds for our hatred. 14 00:02:24,625 --> 00:02:27,795 The First Betrayal and a thousand atrocities since. 15 00:02:27,878 --> 00:02:29,880 No one knows what really happened that night. 16 00:02:31,590 --> 00:02:33,133 The First Betrayal. 17 00:02:33,717 --> 00:02:38,097 A Thespin king newly wed to an Anacreon huntress. 18 00:02:39,056 --> 00:02:42,935 The two emerging powers of the Outer Reach united in marriage. 19 00:02:43,018 --> 00:02:45,520 Are you gonna teach us our own history now, dead man? 20 00:02:45,603 --> 00:02:48,065 The Thespin dog slit her throat on their wedding bed. 21 00:02:48,858 --> 00:02:50,234 So the legend goes. 22 00:02:50,317 --> 00:02:52,528 Are you suggesting our history's wrong? 23 00:02:52,611 --> 00:02:58,200 History is written by the victor, and neither of you seem to be winning. 24 00:02:58,284 --> 00:02:59,743 There was a witness. 25 00:02:59,827 --> 00:03:03,038 The only witness, an Anacreon handmaid who testified 26 00:03:03,122 --> 00:03:06,542 that King Throy un Thark got drunk the night of the wedding 27 00:03:07,334 --> 00:03:11,046 and, in a fit of rage, murdered your huntress. 28 00:03:11,130 --> 00:03:12,840 The handmaid lied. 29 00:03:12,923 --> 00:03:15,509 The nature of the lie is relevant here. 30 00:03:16,385 --> 00:03:19,847 On her deathbed, the handmaid made a confession. 31 00:03:20,556 --> 00:03:24,393 The real murderer was Cleon II. 32 00:03:24,977 --> 00:03:27,938 The first clone in the Genetic Dynasty realized 33 00:03:28,022 --> 00:03:31,108 that a plan could unfold over several lifetimes. 34 00:03:31,192 --> 00:03:33,527 He saw where this new alliance could lead, 35 00:03:33,611 --> 00:03:39,658 so he had his shadowmaster seduce the handmaiden, drug the newlyweds, 36 00:03:39,742 --> 00:03:43,329 murder your huntress and implicate your king. 37 00:03:43,996 --> 00:03:46,457 Why fight two upstart kingdoms 38 00:03:46,540 --> 00:03:51,295 when you can exploit their racial animus and have them fight each other? 39 00:03:53,047 --> 00:03:54,882 The clones played you. 40 00:03:55,758 --> 00:03:59,094 But today, thanks to the Foundation, 41 00:03:59,595 --> 00:04:03,766 we could put back together what Empire has broken. 42 00:04:03,849 --> 00:04:08,437 No. We are not uniting with them now, no matter how this started. 43 00:04:08,521 --> 00:04:11,524 And even if we did, Empire is too strong. 44 00:04:11,607 --> 00:04:13,275 Now you have the Invictus. 45 00:04:13,359 --> 00:04:15,486 The Invictus is only one ship. 46 00:04:15,569 --> 00:04:18,072 One ship can be the first of many. 47 00:04:18,155 --> 00:04:22,993 If both your peoples will set aside hatred in favor of strength, 48 00:04:23,619 --> 00:04:25,329 as those poor newlyweds did, 49 00:04:25,412 --> 00:04:30,376 then you'll find here the skills necessary to build more ships. 50 00:04:31,001 --> 00:04:34,547 For the Plan to succeed, the Foundation needs three pillars, 51 00:04:34,630 --> 00:04:37,383 just as a stool needs three legs. 52 00:04:37,466 --> 00:04:39,969 It needs all the children of the Outer Reach. 53 00:04:40,052 --> 00:04:41,554 That is the way I designed it. 54 00:04:41,637 --> 00:04:45,516 So, Hari, you knew the Invictus would be discovered? 55 00:04:46,016 --> 00:04:49,770 Hello, Mari. Good to see you again. 56 00:04:51,730 --> 00:04:52,814 Where's Gaal? 57 00:04:52,898 --> 00:04:54,732 She never made it to Terminus. 58 00:04:55,901 --> 00:04:57,236 And you are? 59 00:04:59,196 --> 00:05:00,281 Salvor Hardin. 60 00:05:01,490 --> 00:05:02,575 Mari's daughter. 61 00:05:03,826 --> 00:05:05,703 I'm the one who opened the Vault 62 00:05:05,786 --> 00:05:08,289 and who wrestled that damn ship onto our doorstep. 63 00:05:08,789 --> 00:05:13,127 Well, Salvor Hardin, it appears thanks are in order. 64 00:05:13,794 --> 00:05:16,255 As to the mystery of the Invictus, 65 00:05:16,338 --> 00:05:19,842 its appearances were one of the first tests I gave my predictive models. 66 00:05:20,342 --> 00:05:24,763 Where others saw chaos, I found a pattern. 67 00:05:25,389 --> 00:05:29,059 I don't understand. We're not revolutionaries. 68 00:05:29,143 --> 00:05:30,728 You said so yourself at the trial. 69 00:05:31,312 --> 00:05:33,689 Well, I might have lied about that. 70 00:05:52,499 --> 00:05:54,585 I am grateful, Brother Dusk. 71 00:05:54,668 --> 00:05:57,296 That I saved our dynasty from infiltration? 72 00:05:58,422 --> 00:06:02,885 I wonder, Day, if you'd stayed on Trantor and not traveled to the Maiden, 73 00:06:03,677 --> 00:06:05,804 would you have apprehended his differences? 74 00:06:07,139 --> 00:06:11,936 You and I are the same. I have to believe I would have. 75 00:06:14,271 --> 00:06:17,274 The more important question is what do we do now? 76 00:06:18,776 --> 00:06:20,486 You know what we have to do. 77 00:06:36,085 --> 00:06:37,086 Out. 78 00:06:42,174 --> 00:06:44,301 We're still unraveling the exact methodology, 79 00:06:44,385 --> 00:06:48,514 but apparently they corrupted your nanoparticle regimen some time ago. 80 00:06:49,682 --> 00:06:50,891 You're not one of us. 81 00:06:52,476 --> 00:06:55,104 Your DNA has been altered in a dozen ways. 82 00:06:55,604 --> 00:06:57,022 You look like us. 83 00:06:59,525 --> 00:07:01,235 You sound like us, but... 84 00:07:07,908 --> 00:07:09,660 How long have you known? 85 00:07:09,743 --> 00:07:11,120 That I'm different? 86 00:07:13,622 --> 00:07:15,791 I used to steal away and watch holos of you... 87 00:07:18,168 --> 00:07:19,336 eating breakfast, 88 00:07:20,754 --> 00:07:22,214 sitting in the throne room. 89 00:07:22,715 --> 00:07:25,718 I counted how often you smiled at your subjects, 90 00:07:26,385 --> 00:07:29,638 whether you sat with your hands together or apart, 91 00:07:29,722 --> 00:07:31,807 how often you drank from your cup at meals. 92 00:07:32,308 --> 00:07:34,560 I knew even then that I wasn't like you. 93 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:37,771 But I wanted to be. 94 00:07:48,699 --> 00:07:49,950 What are you going to do? 95 00:07:50,034 --> 00:07:52,077 You conspired with insurgents. 96 00:07:52,161 --> 00:07:53,579 I wasn't conspiring. 97 00:07:53,662 --> 00:07:56,207 You trusted your secrets to our enemies and fled the palace. 98 00:07:56,290 --> 00:07:58,690 - She tricked me! - Because she had a foothold in your heart! 99 00:07:58,751 --> 00:08:00,377 And who created that foothold? 100 00:08:01,003 --> 00:08:02,004 Look at us! 101 00:08:02,588 --> 00:08:05,257 We have no mothers, no aunts, no uncles. 102 00:08:05,341 --> 00:08:06,842 We have sex with concubines 103 00:08:06,926 --> 00:08:09,136 whose memories are erased the moment we leave them! 104 00:08:10,221 --> 00:08:12,348 Have you never longed to leave this place? 105 00:08:14,016 --> 00:08:17,853 Have you never felt stifled by the weight of our ascendants? 106 00:08:19,647 --> 00:08:23,067 Can you truly say that all you've ever wanted 107 00:08:23,150 --> 00:08:28,197 was to be an installment in a long, long line of us, 108 00:08:29,657 --> 00:08:32,159 living out a script written centuries ago? 109 00:08:36,622 --> 00:08:39,917 All my life, I've wanted to call you "Father." 110 00:08:41,043 --> 00:08:42,545 But you're not my father. 111 00:08:44,088 --> 00:08:45,923 We're not even people, Day. 112 00:08:47,466 --> 00:08:52,555 We're just... echoes of the first Cleon. 113 00:08:55,349 --> 00:08:58,561 So is a corrupted echo more original than a perfect one? 114 00:09:00,729 --> 00:09:02,815 Or does it fade away to nothing? 115 00:09:11,407 --> 00:09:14,451 So the curation, everything we've been doing here, 116 00:09:14,534 --> 00:09:15,702 has all been for nothing? 117 00:09:15,786 --> 00:09:17,580 Not for nothing, Mari. 118 00:09:18,163 --> 00:09:20,624 Your time here on Terminus hasn't been wasted. 119 00:09:21,333 --> 00:09:23,294 It got you out from under the Empire's grasp. 120 00:09:23,377 --> 00:09:24,378 It hardened you. 121 00:09:24,461 --> 00:09:28,507 But the Foundation was never about curating knowledge. 122 00:09:30,384 --> 00:09:32,219 It was about curating people. 123 00:09:35,389 --> 00:09:37,933 You, the original settlers, 124 00:09:38,475 --> 00:09:43,564 you possess qualities vital in forming the seeds of a new civilization. 125 00:09:44,315 --> 00:09:48,986 And you, Anacreons and Thespins, you are the consummate survivors. 126 00:09:49,653 --> 00:09:52,698 Consigned to history by the Empire and yet, 127 00:09:53,741 --> 00:09:56,952 together, you represent the future. 128 00:09:58,078 --> 00:10:01,332 The human race is an ever-evolving story 129 00:10:01,415 --> 00:10:05,878 told over thousands of years by a countless number of voices. 130 00:10:07,171 --> 00:10:08,380 But for a long time now, 131 00:10:08,464 --> 00:10:12,593 that chorus has been suffocated and quietly erased. 132 00:10:13,177 --> 00:10:17,514 Because under the Genetic Dynasty, there is only room for one story. 133 00:10:17,598 --> 00:10:18,933 One voice. 134 00:10:19,016 --> 00:10:22,937 We cannot become who we must become if the Empire is allowed to persist. 135 00:10:24,522 --> 00:10:27,900 That path leads to the annihilation of the human race. 136 00:10:28,609 --> 00:10:33,572 Even if we embrace this destiny of yours, the Empire will be here within weeks. 137 00:10:33,656 --> 00:10:37,117 He's right. They were already investigating the comms buoy. 138 00:10:37,201 --> 00:10:39,828 It's only a matter of time before they send reinforcements. 139 00:10:39,912 --> 00:10:45,167 The Empire won't come. Not yet. Not if they think you're already dead. 140 00:10:45,668 --> 00:10:48,963 Take the Invictus to the far side of your star, 141 00:10:49,046 --> 00:10:53,717 activate the quantum drive, but maintain your position in subspace... 142 00:10:53,801 --> 00:10:56,178 The energy signature would read as a mega-flare. 143 00:10:57,680 --> 00:10:59,680 A mega-flare would wipe out all life in the system. 144 00:10:59,723 --> 00:11:02,893 The Empire comprises tens of thousands of worlds. 145 00:11:02,977 --> 00:11:06,230 A dangerous star with dead planets in a distant arm of the galaxy 146 00:11:06,313 --> 00:11:10,484 won't merit further investigation even if it did once host the Foundation. 147 00:11:11,193 --> 00:11:13,654 It could work. It could. 148 00:11:14,154 --> 00:11:16,365 As long as don't we stray beyond the Outer Reach, 149 00:11:17,366 --> 00:11:18,742 we'd be invisible to them. 150 00:11:18,826 --> 00:11:19,994 We'd be free. 151 00:11:20,077 --> 00:11:21,370 You'd be free, 152 00:11:22,204 --> 00:11:26,458 to bide your time, to build, to become who you need to become. 153 00:11:28,377 --> 00:11:30,087 So, are you the ghost then? 154 00:11:31,338 --> 00:11:32,548 I suppose I am. 155 00:11:32,631 --> 00:11:34,300 - What's it like to die? - Keir. 156 00:11:34,383 --> 00:11:35,634 What? I want to know. 157 00:11:39,096 --> 00:11:40,389 Did you see anything? 158 00:11:42,099 --> 00:11:44,226 Those are complex questions. 159 00:11:44,310 --> 00:11:48,105 Then answer a simple one. How'd you get here? 160 00:11:49,064 --> 00:11:50,524 What's your name, son? 161 00:11:50,608 --> 00:11:53,027 Poly. Poly Verisof. 162 00:11:53,611 --> 00:11:57,281 Well, Poly Verisof, shortly before I died, 163 00:11:57,948 --> 00:12:03,287 I swallowed a pill containing millions of self-replicating molecular machines. 164 00:12:03,996 --> 00:12:08,000 As per my mortality directive, my casket was jettisoned out into space. 165 00:12:08,792 --> 00:12:11,629 Those machines began breaking down my body tissue 166 00:12:11,712 --> 00:12:14,256 into all its constituent elements. 167 00:12:14,340 --> 00:12:16,926 Then those machines recycled those elements, 168 00:12:17,009 --> 00:12:20,679 scooping up more material, ice, micrometeoroids, et cetera, 169 00:12:20,763 --> 00:12:23,515 assembling the Vault's internal scaffolding. 170 00:12:24,183 --> 00:12:26,185 You're saying the Vault isn't just your tomb? 171 00:12:27,353 --> 00:12:28,854 The Vault is you? 172 00:12:29,355 --> 00:12:32,358 You've been on Terminus this whole time, watching us? 173 00:12:32,441 --> 00:12:37,071 No. It wouldn't have been wise for me to have been sentient all this time. 174 00:12:37,154 --> 00:12:40,282 That kind of isolation can undo even the strongest minds. 175 00:12:40,783 --> 00:12:44,912 No, the process of my awakening was triggered by the Anacreons. 176 00:12:45,412 --> 00:12:46,872 When the null field expanded. 177 00:12:47,414 --> 00:12:50,167 It takes time to rebuild consciousness, Salvor. 178 00:12:50,251 --> 00:12:53,379 The null field is just part of the Vault's automatic defense system. 179 00:12:53,963 --> 00:12:55,548 Will we see you again? 180 00:12:55,631 --> 00:12:57,299 I expect so, Poly. 181 00:12:58,467 --> 00:13:02,763 This isn't the Foundation's first crisis, and it won't be the last. 182 00:13:03,347 --> 00:13:07,351 You've bought a reprieve, but war with Empire is inevitable. 183 00:13:08,143 --> 00:13:13,941 In the meantime, remember this day. Remember what we're striving towards. 184 00:13:14,024 --> 00:13:17,278 I know a thousand years can seem like an eternity, 185 00:13:17,778 --> 00:13:21,407 but it's the blink of an eye when measured against the whole of human history, 186 00:13:21,490 --> 00:13:26,161 and it could so easily slip through our fingers if we're not vigilant. 187 00:13:29,915 --> 00:13:33,377 No, wait! So, that's it? That's all we get? 188 00:13:33,460 --> 00:13:35,129 I've given you what you need. 189 00:13:36,046 --> 00:13:37,882 What about the visions you've been sending me? 190 00:13:37,965 --> 00:13:39,133 Visions? 191 00:13:39,216 --> 00:13:40,217 Yes. 192 00:13:40,718 --> 00:13:43,762 The ghost. You've been talking to me since I was a kid. 193 00:13:43,846 --> 00:13:45,264 And I had these visions. 194 00:13:45,347 --> 00:13:47,600 I've seen you on Trantor, on the slow ship. 195 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:51,270 They guided me. You helped me solve the crisis. 196 00:13:52,605 --> 00:13:53,606 Curious. 197 00:13:55,649 --> 00:13:57,568 Well, Salvor Hardin, 198 00:13:58,944 --> 00:14:00,946 whatever messages you've been receiving, 199 00:14:01,030 --> 00:14:04,450 I assure you they haven't come from me. 200 00:15:28,075 --> 00:15:29,076 Walk with me. 201 00:15:34,081 --> 00:15:36,876 I know people hate me, consider me evil. 202 00:15:37,668 --> 00:15:39,336 But it is my detachment, 203 00:15:41,046 --> 00:15:42,756 my indifference to suffering, 204 00:15:43,340 --> 00:15:45,342 that allows me to rule effectively. 205 00:15:46,635 --> 00:15:48,929 The galaxy is so vast, 206 00:15:50,389 --> 00:15:52,308 the problems so large, 207 00:15:52,391 --> 00:15:55,394 that I must turn a blind eye to the individual. 208 00:15:59,231 --> 00:16:00,232 Look there. 209 00:16:02,484 --> 00:16:06,363 It's a strange burden not being allowed to carry a burden. 210 00:16:08,365 --> 00:16:11,702 My brothers and I shift it amongst ourselves because we're a family. 211 00:16:14,830 --> 00:16:17,791 And we love one another in our own way. 212 00:16:19,460 --> 00:16:21,462 I'm sure you find that hard to believe. 213 00:16:23,380 --> 00:16:26,300 Do you ever think about your legacy, Azura? 214 00:16:28,093 --> 00:16:30,679 The mark you leave behind after you're gone? 215 00:16:34,558 --> 00:16:38,646 As a child, I wanted to be better than the Cleons who came before. 216 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:45,152 Smarter, braver, more dazzling in the justice I handed out. 217 00:16:48,864 --> 00:16:51,659 But as I matured, my aspirations evolved. 218 00:16:52,493 --> 00:16:54,745 I no longer wanted to be the best. 219 00:16:55,246 --> 00:17:00,709 I wanted to be the same. Predictable courage, predictable justice. 220 00:17:00,793 --> 00:17:06,423 I wanted my son to be the same too. Another Cleon. Perfectly Cleon. 221 00:17:06,507 --> 00:17:07,591 He's not your son. 222 00:17:11,053 --> 00:17:12,263 Of course he is. 223 00:17:16,559 --> 00:17:20,062 He is my brother. He is also my son. 224 00:17:22,022 --> 00:17:23,524 I rocked him as a baby. 225 00:17:24,525 --> 00:17:28,946 I cultivated him just as you've nurtured the plants in this garden. 226 00:17:30,614 --> 00:17:33,158 It's a powerful thing, caring for a life. 227 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:37,079 Why are you telling me all of this? 228 00:17:39,331 --> 00:17:41,667 Because of all the galaxy's citizens... 229 00:17:43,919 --> 00:17:48,256 you have the singular distinction of having robbed me of my personal legacy. 230 00:17:49,257 --> 00:17:51,010 Which leads me to your legacy. 231 00:17:53,012 --> 00:17:56,307 I know you're not the architect of this plot, but you are the face of it. 232 00:17:56,390 --> 00:17:58,851 The face that broke my son's heart. 233 00:18:00,561 --> 00:18:03,814 We traced your family tree back to your great-great-grandparents, 234 00:18:03,898 --> 00:18:08,194 and then identified all living descendants branching out from those 16 individuals. 235 00:18:08,819 --> 00:18:11,697 Not just direct descendants, but all the aunts and uncles, 236 00:18:12,781 --> 00:18:15,701 first and second cousins, removed or otherwise. 237 00:18:15,784 --> 00:18:17,703 Do you know how many people we uncovered? 238 00:18:18,662 --> 00:18:20,456 712. 239 00:18:22,374 --> 00:18:25,419 Then we located all your friends and lovers, past and present. 240 00:18:25,502 --> 00:18:29,506 First boy you kissed, the young woman you gave your virginity to. 241 00:18:30,925 --> 00:18:34,803 Your teachers and coworkers, even those here on the palace grounds. 242 00:18:35,512 --> 00:18:40,809 We located their parents and siblings. Basically, anyone in your extended orbit. 243 00:18:41,977 --> 00:18:45,731 That amounted to another 839 individuals. 244 00:18:46,232 --> 00:18:49,109 1,551 people. 245 00:18:50,986 --> 00:18:53,864 The sum total of lives you've made a meaningful mark on. 246 00:18:54,823 --> 00:18:59,662 In short, the people who would remember you after you're gone. 247 00:19:01,288 --> 00:19:02,373 Even as we speak, 248 00:19:02,456 --> 00:19:06,460 every member of your personal constellation is under our surveillance, 249 00:19:06,544 --> 00:19:09,630 a particle beam targeting each of their brain stems. 250 00:19:09,713 --> 00:19:13,884 At my signal, they will all cease to exist. 251 00:19:19,265 --> 00:19:20,266 There. 252 00:19:21,350 --> 00:19:22,434 All gone. 253 00:19:24,645 --> 00:19:26,939 Your legacy has been erased, Azura. 254 00:19:27,982 --> 00:19:31,694 Whatever minute waves your being managed to propagate throughout the universe 255 00:19:31,777 --> 00:19:33,320 have been canceled out. 256 00:19:37,157 --> 00:19:41,745 You will be placed in an automated cell and fed intravenously, 257 00:19:42,371 --> 00:19:44,707 restrained so as to prevent self-harm. 258 00:19:45,583 --> 00:19:48,544 You will be sensory shrouded for the rest of your life. 259 00:19:48,627 --> 00:19:53,716 You will never see, nor hear, nor smell, nor taste, nor touch again. 260 00:19:55,384 --> 00:19:56,719 But you will be aware. 261 00:19:58,262 --> 00:20:01,807 And you will remember what you have taken from me. 262 00:20:29,543 --> 00:20:30,669 Hari Seldon, 263 00:20:32,379 --> 00:20:37,509 seeing all this coming and telling us nothing. 264 00:20:37,593 --> 00:20:39,553 I thought we'd be sitting out the fall. 265 00:20:40,429 --> 00:20:41,430 I thought our work 266 00:20:41,513 --> 00:20:44,892 was building a time capsule some future survivors would open. 267 00:20:44,975 --> 00:20:47,375 I never imagined we'd be the ones putting the Plan in action. 268 00:20:49,271 --> 00:20:51,398 Do you still believe the Empire's gonna collapse? 269 00:20:52,983 --> 00:20:53,984 Yes. 270 00:20:54,777 --> 00:20:56,779 Do you still believe humanity can do better? 271 00:20:57,363 --> 00:21:00,324 Of course I do. No one sane wants the Empire to continue. 272 00:21:00,991 --> 00:21:02,368 So, what's the difference now? 273 00:21:04,036 --> 00:21:07,164 The difference is, he didn't just not tell us, 274 00:21:08,457 --> 00:21:09,750 he lied to us. 275 00:21:10,251 --> 00:21:12,604 It's like when I brought you along to lectures when you were a kid 276 00:21:12,628 --> 00:21:14,838 and gave you a crayon and told you to take notes. 277 00:21:16,298 --> 00:21:17,633 He gave us busywork. 278 00:21:18,717 --> 00:21:20,010 I believed in him. 279 00:21:23,639 --> 00:21:24,640 Every word. 280 00:21:28,310 --> 00:21:30,229 And he just pulled the rug out from under us. 281 00:21:34,024 --> 00:21:35,401 How do you think I feel? 282 00:21:41,866 --> 00:21:43,367 I'm sorry he didn't know you. 283 00:21:45,661 --> 00:21:46,704 Know me. 284 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:49,290 It's more than that. 285 00:21:51,125 --> 00:21:55,296 All these years thinking the ghost was talking to me. 286 00:21:57,298 --> 00:21:59,049 I convinced myself it was Hari, 287 00:22:00,050 --> 00:22:06,849 and I started to believe that I actually was special. 288 00:22:08,475 --> 00:22:10,186 But if the visions weren't coming from him, 289 00:22:10,269 --> 00:22:12,104 then who were they coming from? 290 00:22:12,897 --> 00:22:15,566 No one? My imagination? 291 00:22:16,233 --> 00:22:18,235 You are special, Salvor. 292 00:22:20,404 --> 00:22:21,488 The null field. 293 00:22:22,364 --> 00:22:25,951 What you did, bringing the Invictus, it meant everything. 294 00:22:29,288 --> 00:22:30,497 We survived... 295 00:22:32,708 --> 00:22:33,792 against all odds. 296 00:22:34,460 --> 00:22:35,836 You were right. 297 00:22:38,088 --> 00:22:40,049 We have to make our own plan now. 298 00:23:02,655 --> 00:23:05,616 I respected her, in a way. 299 00:23:07,826 --> 00:23:09,286 I'm sorry it came down to this. 300 00:23:10,412 --> 00:23:11,413 I'm not. 301 00:23:12,748 --> 00:23:15,960 No next move, just a last one. Isn't that what you said about her? 302 00:23:18,254 --> 00:23:20,422 I was just trying to rattle you. 303 00:23:20,506 --> 00:23:21,966 Obviously it worked, Warden. 304 00:23:25,094 --> 00:23:28,681 I wanted the next move for my child. 305 00:23:30,516 --> 00:23:33,894 Over a century ago, this was offered to the emperor in peace. 306 00:23:37,022 --> 00:23:38,357 I'm offering it again... 307 00:23:41,861 --> 00:23:42,862 to you. 308 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,910 She respected you as well, in a way. 309 00:24:01,839 --> 00:24:04,049 Will you take her back to Anacreon? 310 00:24:04,925 --> 00:24:08,012 No. We've brought Anacreon to her. 311 00:24:08,762 --> 00:24:12,558 The cutting is from a Tallyn oak, the same wood your bow was carved from. 312 00:24:13,100 --> 00:24:16,645 Our foresters tell me it might be stubborn enough to take root here. 313 00:24:19,023 --> 00:24:20,316 Would you help me, Warden? 314 00:24:22,067 --> 00:24:23,068 Yeah. 315 00:24:52,223 --> 00:24:53,599 In the months that followed, 316 00:24:53,682 --> 00:24:56,727 the children of the Outer Reach took Hari's words to heart, 317 00:24:57,311 --> 00:25:00,356 setting aside hatred in favor of strength. 318 00:25:02,650 --> 00:25:08,113 It takes more power to build than to burn, and Hari wanted them to build. 319 00:25:11,659 --> 00:25:13,035 As for the Invictus, 320 00:25:13,118 --> 00:25:16,622 Hugo Crast, of all people, became its captain. 321 00:26:07,298 --> 00:26:09,842 He took it to the far side of their star 322 00:26:09,925 --> 00:26:14,930 and generated a mega-flare, allowing the Foundation to be free. 323 00:26:42,541 --> 00:26:43,751 Captain Crast. 324 00:26:44,335 --> 00:26:45,419 - Poly. - Warden. 325 00:26:46,212 --> 00:26:47,504 How goes the Invictus? 326 00:26:47,588 --> 00:26:49,423 We managed to stabilize the drives, 327 00:26:49,506 --> 00:26:52,051 so we won't be jumping into the heart of a star anytime soon. 328 00:26:52,134 --> 00:26:54,011 And how long before we can build another? 329 00:26:54,094 --> 00:26:55,638 Eighteen months, ma'am. 330 00:26:58,390 --> 00:27:00,768 - You like it up in space, Poly? - I do. 331 00:27:02,811 --> 00:27:05,105 And how long are you dirt-side, Captain? 332 00:27:05,689 --> 00:27:07,191 Fourteen long hours, Warden. 333 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,111 Mirror on my telescope's a little out of alignment. 334 00:27:11,612 --> 00:27:13,989 Think you could help me recollimate it? 335 00:27:15,115 --> 00:27:16,909 Guys, I know what you're talking about. 336 00:27:18,494 --> 00:27:21,038 Well, then why don't you politely piss off, Poly? 337 00:29:40,678 --> 00:29:41,679 Stop! 338 00:29:48,769 --> 00:29:49,979 Wait! 339 00:30:36,942 --> 00:30:38,861 If it's not you, then who is it, Hari? 340 00:31:04,094 --> 00:31:05,346 I remember this one. 341 00:31:06,513 --> 00:31:07,681 That was your favorite. 342 00:31:08,933 --> 00:31:10,726 You used to sleep with it in your crib. 343 00:31:11,936 --> 00:31:14,772 If you had a nightmare, he used to say you could blow it, 344 00:31:16,023 --> 00:31:18,359 and the ghosts would fly away. 345 00:31:20,402 --> 00:31:22,947 Most of the time, just holding it was enough to soothe you. 346 00:31:23,572 --> 00:31:26,408 Thank goodness. A child with a whistle is a trial for the soul. 347 00:31:28,994 --> 00:31:31,622 He used to drive me crazy how often I'd find him out here 348 00:31:31,705 --> 00:31:34,959 having fallen asleep while he was working. 349 00:31:36,252 --> 00:31:38,712 He was terrible when he first started making them. 350 00:31:39,213 --> 00:31:43,050 But after a few hundred nights, Abbas developed a knack for it. 351 00:31:45,886 --> 00:31:49,473 He'd have been proud, you know? You becoming mayor, filling his shoes. 352 00:31:50,224 --> 00:31:53,811 The election's just a formality. Everyone knows you'll win by a landslide. 353 00:31:53,894 --> 00:31:57,231 Mom, who's the girl from the water planet? 354 00:32:05,364 --> 00:32:07,992 On the slow ship, we had a seed bank program. 355 00:32:08,075 --> 00:32:10,744 It wasn't safe bringing the baby to term in space, 356 00:32:10,828 --> 00:32:16,041 so we banked our eggs and embryos as insurance against the future. 357 00:32:17,167 --> 00:32:19,503 I chose one from a controversial donor. 358 00:32:22,590 --> 00:32:23,632 Gaal Dornick. 359 00:32:25,009 --> 00:32:26,760 Any change in your birth directive? 360 00:32:28,554 --> 00:32:30,639 I got to know her a little before we lost her. 361 00:32:30,723 --> 00:32:32,600 She had a remarkable mind. 362 00:32:33,309 --> 00:32:34,518 And the father? 363 00:32:35,227 --> 00:32:36,687 Raych Foss. 364 00:32:36,770 --> 00:32:38,480 I've seen them both as children. 365 00:32:40,941 --> 00:32:41,984 Gaal tonight. 366 00:32:43,485 --> 00:32:45,237 And Raych... 367 00:32:47,573 --> 00:32:49,408 at the start of the crisis. 368 00:32:50,075 --> 00:32:51,076 Hey! 369 00:32:51,785 --> 00:32:55,456 All this time I thought I was living Hari's memories. 370 00:32:56,207 --> 00:32:57,708 But I was actually living theirs. 371 00:32:58,542 --> 00:33:01,212 It makes so much sense now, why I am so different. 372 00:33:01,295 --> 00:33:05,257 I carried you in my womb, Salvor. You're still my daughter. 373 00:33:05,341 --> 00:33:08,177 I know. But I am their daughter too. 374 00:33:10,721 --> 00:33:13,098 Gaal escaped in a cryo-pod. Where? 375 00:33:13,724 --> 00:33:15,392 I was still early on in our journey. 376 00:33:15,476 --> 00:33:18,479 It would've been somewhere along the Orion Spur. 377 00:33:19,396 --> 00:33:21,023 I think she's still out there, Mom. 378 00:33:22,983 --> 00:33:26,445 I think she's the one who's been reaching out to me. 379 00:33:26,529 --> 00:33:29,990 I think that she is behind all my instincts. 380 00:33:30,074 --> 00:33:31,992 Hon, that was 40 light-years from Terminus. 381 00:33:32,076 --> 00:33:33,410 How could that possibly work? 382 00:33:33,494 --> 00:33:34,828 I don't know, but it is her. 383 00:33:34,912 --> 00:33:40,251 And if Gaal was special in some way, any way, it might explain why I am too. 384 00:33:40,334 --> 00:33:42,545 You've always been drawn to the stars. 385 00:33:42,628 --> 00:33:44,505 Yeah, and now we know why. 386 00:33:46,465 --> 00:33:48,133 'Cause something is tugging at me. 387 00:33:49,552 --> 00:33:51,428 Mom, I have to try and find her. 388 00:33:52,471 --> 00:33:53,639 I know, love. 389 00:33:56,559 --> 00:33:57,643 And I want you to. 390 00:33:59,436 --> 00:34:01,516 Here's the thing though, Mom. I need to go right now. 391 00:34:02,398 --> 00:34:05,150 I'm worried if I don't go now, I'll never find the courage again. 392 00:34:11,240 --> 00:34:14,201 Take the ghost whistle. And something else. 393 00:34:23,043 --> 00:34:25,713 When you find her, give her this. 394 00:34:28,257 --> 00:34:30,050 It was always meant to be hers. 395 00:34:32,595 --> 00:34:35,973 I'm sorry. For everything. 396 00:34:37,516 --> 00:34:39,560 There's nothing to forgive, Mom. 397 00:34:41,437 --> 00:34:43,689 I was exactly where I needed to be. 398 00:35:20,476 --> 00:35:21,560 Beggar, wake up. 399 00:35:32,904 --> 00:35:34,365 Figured I'd find you here. 400 00:35:37,159 --> 00:35:38,160 Damn. 401 00:35:38,744 --> 00:35:40,496 You wanted a clean getaway. 402 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:42,581 I know you too well, Sal. 403 00:35:44,124 --> 00:35:46,210 Think it was the kiss on the cheek that did it. 404 00:35:46,293 --> 00:35:50,297 I just didn't want it to hurt any more than it had to. 405 00:35:51,215 --> 00:35:52,675 It's not love if it doesn't hurt. 406 00:35:53,968 --> 00:35:57,388 I learned that when I had to leave Thespis so the others could eat. 407 00:35:58,597 --> 00:36:00,349 And no one came chasing after me. 408 00:36:02,226 --> 00:36:03,811 Are you chasing after me, then? 409 00:36:06,105 --> 00:36:07,940 You know, you can come if you want to. 410 00:36:08,607 --> 00:36:10,609 I would if you really wanted me to. 411 00:36:11,861 --> 00:36:14,905 But I get the feeling this is something you need to do alone. 412 00:36:18,993 --> 00:36:21,704 I always knew you'd let this planet shrug you off one day. 413 00:36:24,206 --> 00:36:26,500 Just figured I'd be by your side when it happened. 414 00:36:28,043 --> 00:36:29,211 Will you be mad later? 415 00:36:31,338 --> 00:36:32,339 Never. 416 00:36:53,527 --> 00:36:55,112 Take care of my planet, won't you? 417 00:36:55,863 --> 00:36:57,239 Take care of my ship. 418 00:36:57,323 --> 00:36:59,241 She's not your ship anymore. 419 00:37:00,993 --> 00:37:02,161 It's not my planet. 420 00:37:06,498 --> 00:37:07,958 Galaxy's a big place, Sal. 421 00:37:09,835 --> 00:37:11,503 Any idea where you'll start? 422 00:37:12,171 --> 00:37:13,172 Got a hunch. 423 00:37:15,090 --> 00:37:16,091 Go on. Beat it. 424 00:37:21,805 --> 00:37:22,806 Go. 425 00:37:23,933 --> 00:37:24,934 Go on. 426 00:38:07,017 --> 00:38:08,394 Goodbye, Salvor Hardin. 427 00:39:39,151 --> 00:39:40,152 Empire. 428 00:39:44,490 --> 00:39:45,491 It's time. 429 00:39:48,702 --> 00:39:49,703 You must hate me. 430 00:39:51,455 --> 00:39:53,290 I could never hate you, Empire. 431 00:39:54,291 --> 00:39:55,292 I love you. 432 00:39:56,627 --> 00:39:58,045 Because you're programmed to. 433 00:39:59,129 --> 00:40:02,716 All love is programming, biological or otherwise. 434 00:40:03,801 --> 00:40:06,428 When a human mother looks into her newborn's eyes, 435 00:40:06,971 --> 00:40:08,764 their brain waves synchronize. 436 00:40:44,633 --> 00:40:45,634 Empire. 437 00:40:45,718 --> 00:40:47,970 Damn your courtly deportment, boy. 438 00:40:48,929 --> 00:40:50,723 You almost brought us down. 439 00:40:50,806 --> 00:40:52,141 I'm sorry, Brother, I... 440 00:40:52,224 --> 00:40:55,144 You are no brother to me, nor to Cleon I, 441 00:40:55,227 --> 00:40:57,855 nor to any other Cleon who walked these polished floors. 442 00:40:57,938 --> 00:41:00,232 You are a deformity. 443 00:41:00,316 --> 00:41:03,819 And if I had my way, you would already be ash. 444 00:41:05,446 --> 00:41:06,822 But as you pointed out, 445 00:41:06,906 --> 00:41:10,367 that is a judgment for the middle throne to decide. 446 00:41:12,828 --> 00:41:14,163 During my time away, 447 00:41:14,246 --> 00:41:17,625 I had much opportunity to reflect upon our dynasty. 448 00:41:20,252 --> 00:41:23,172 I went to sleep in one sector of the galaxy, 449 00:41:23,255 --> 00:41:24,924 then awoke in another. 450 00:41:26,634 --> 00:41:29,553 It's a miracle, by all accounts, 451 00:41:30,888 --> 00:41:33,182 folding space and time. 452 00:41:33,682 --> 00:41:35,768 And then, on the Maiden, 453 00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,730 I met pilgrims who had worked their whole lives 454 00:41:39,813 --> 00:41:41,732 just to walk a spiral of salt, 455 00:41:41,815 --> 00:41:45,444 in the hopes that they might be granted a vision before they die. 456 00:41:46,862 --> 00:41:47,863 I... 457 00:41:50,908 --> 00:41:54,286 We were challenged by a woman who claimed 458 00:41:54,370 --> 00:41:59,750 that a soul incapable of change is a soul doomed to stagnation. 459 00:42:01,252 --> 00:42:04,547 I believe Seldon himself implied something similar. 460 00:42:05,631 --> 00:42:08,551 Seldon was a vainglorious fraud. 461 00:42:08,634 --> 00:42:09,760 And yet, Brother... 462 00:42:10,261 --> 00:42:11,262 And yet... 463 00:42:13,138 --> 00:42:17,434 a bough incapable of bending will eventually break. 464 00:42:19,645 --> 00:42:22,398 It is time the dynasty bent. 465 00:42:22,940 --> 00:42:24,233 Just a little. 466 00:42:27,486 --> 00:42:28,571 Are you insane? 467 00:42:30,322 --> 00:42:31,991 Did that jump addle your brain? 468 00:42:33,242 --> 00:42:36,412 This is why you should never have left. 469 00:42:36,996 --> 00:42:41,041 Our entire empire is built on imperishable permanence. 470 00:42:41,125 --> 00:42:43,419 If the Galactic Council discovers 471 00:42:43,502 --> 00:42:46,356 - our dynastic thread is broken... - Galactic Council? They'd never know. 472 00:42:46,380 --> 00:42:48,382 - ...we are through! - We could learn from this. 473 00:42:48,465 --> 00:42:51,886 - Perhaps even benefit from a slight... - Benefit? 474 00:42:51,969 --> 00:42:53,822 - Demerzel. - How dare you lay your hands on me? 475 00:42:53,846 --> 00:42:55,931 - You've grown weak. - Please don't let them kill me. 476 00:42:56,015 --> 00:42:57,349 - I won't. - This is nonsense. 477 00:43:02,313 --> 00:43:06,609 I would rather decant another one of you, than have that aberration live amongst us. 478 00:43:06,692 --> 00:43:08,444 The decision is mine to make! 479 00:43:08,527 --> 00:43:10,196 Not if it brings about our ruin! 480 00:43:10,279 --> 00:43:11,989 Psychohistory predicted... 481 00:43:12,072 --> 00:43:13,532 Psychohistory? 482 00:43:13,616 --> 00:43:18,621 We are Empire. History bends to us! 483 00:43:19,872 --> 00:43:21,081 No! 484 00:43:29,298 --> 00:43:30,883 I am loyal, Empire, 485 00:43:32,051 --> 00:43:35,012 to the Cleonic Dynasty above all else. 486 00:43:36,013 --> 00:43:37,014 No. 487 00:43:49,318 --> 00:43:51,862 You can dispose of the body yourself. 488 00:43:55,574 --> 00:44:00,204 I expect another one incarnated and up to speed by breakfast tomorrow. 489 00:46:26,058 --> 00:46:27,726 What? Speak. 490 00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,147 The rebels' plans to undermine the dynasty 491 00:46:33,107 --> 00:46:35,317 appear to be more extensive than we first believed. 492 00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:43,200 We thought the gene editing was limited solely to Dawn's person, 493 00:46:43,826 --> 00:46:45,870 that it was done after he was incarnated. 494 00:46:46,620 --> 00:46:48,289 But after more extensive testing, 495 00:46:49,039 --> 00:46:51,166 it seems they've adulterated the source itself. 496 00:46:52,418 --> 00:46:54,628 Then all replacement clones... 497 00:46:55,462 --> 00:46:57,047 ...are no longer pure copies. 498 00:46:58,799 --> 00:47:00,551 When did this happen? 499 00:47:00,634 --> 00:47:02,261 We don't know precisely. 500 00:47:03,679 --> 00:47:09,768 Are you saying that I, myself, am adulterated? 501 00:47:12,229 --> 00:47:13,230 Possibly. 502 00:47:15,983 --> 00:47:16,984 Yes. 503 00:47:19,028 --> 00:47:20,154 And Dusk? 504 00:47:21,030 --> 00:47:22,948 Empire's being examined as we speak. 505 00:47:26,827 --> 00:47:28,120 Thank you, Shadowmaster. 506 00:47:29,663 --> 00:47:30,664 You may leave. 507 00:50:32,096 --> 00:50:34,515 Entering Synnaxian aerospace. 508 00:50:46,318 --> 00:50:47,820 Initiate reentry. 509 00:50:47,903 --> 00:50:49,655 Secure for reentry. 510 00:51:09,383 --> 00:51:10,801 Climbing from the cradle. 511 00:51:12,761 --> 00:51:14,638 Leaving the comfort of home. 512 00:51:17,182 --> 00:51:18,601 No safe harbor. 513 00:51:20,686 --> 00:51:24,940 86,982,283. 514 00:51:25,024 --> 00:51:29,195 86,982,331... 515 00:51:32,740 --> 00:51:36,994 86,982,341. 516 00:51:41,582 --> 00:51:44,001 Just a cry in the dark. 517 00:51:47,296 --> 00:51:48,297 Are we alone? 518 00:51:59,141 --> 00:52:03,395 And even if we aren't, will anyone bother to answer? 519 00:52:40,766 --> 00:52:41,976 Okay. 520 00:54:44,598 --> 00:54:45,766 Go away. 521 00:57:29,138 --> 00:57:31,932 Hey. Hey, can you hear me? 522 00:57:35,227 --> 00:57:36,353 It's okay. 523 00:57:36,437 --> 00:57:38,564 It's okay. You're okay. It's okay. 524 00:57:39,398 --> 00:57:41,692 What were you doing down there? 525 00:57:41,775 --> 00:57:44,486 The readout said you'd been in cryo over a century. 526 00:57:45,821 --> 00:57:47,364 I crash-landed. 527 00:57:48,407 --> 00:57:49,700 I came looking for someone. 528 00:57:51,035 --> 00:57:52,119 Who? 529 00:58:00,336 --> 00:58:01,337 You. 530 00:58:03,589 --> 00:58:04,590 What? 531 00:58:08,761 --> 00:58:12,514 My name is Salvor Hardin. 532 00:58:18,771 --> 00:58:19,897 I'm your daughter. 533 00:58:23,817 --> 00:58:25,569 I'm pretty sure this belongs to you. 534 00:58:43,462 --> 00:58:45,047 Sometimes you leap. 535 00:58:46,882 --> 00:58:50,010 And sometimes, someone catches you.