1 00:01:11,855 --> 00:01:19,855 Synced & corrected by -robtor- www.addic7ed.com 2 00:01:27,129 --> 00:01:29,548 When I was a child, I told my mother 3 00:01:29,631 --> 00:01:32,759 I wanted to learn every planet in the Galactic Empire... 4 00:01:34,803 --> 00:01:37,890 beginning in the center and moving out to Star's End. 5 00:01:39,183 --> 00:01:41,226 Each night, she told me stories. 6 00:01:43,645 --> 00:01:46,190 I traveled light-years... 7 00:01:48,150 --> 00:01:51,236 my mind expanding to hold more and more worlds. 8 00:01:53,947 --> 00:01:55,908 But I never reached Terminus. 9 00:01:56,992 --> 00:02:01,914 Straddling the farthest reaches of civilization, unsettled by man... 10 00:02:03,248 --> 00:02:04,416 it was the end. 11 00:02:10,839 --> 00:02:14,676 And its story remained dark to me until many years later. 12 00:02:15,928 --> 00:02:17,513 Until it became my story. 13 00:02:19,433 --> 00:02:20,851 Until it became... 14 00:02:21,917 --> 00:02:23,585 the only story. 15 00:02:51,046 --> 00:02:53,048 - Don't do that. - Sorry. 16 00:02:54,341 --> 00:02:57,052 - Where are the others? - We're meeting them at the fence. 17 00:02:57,077 --> 00:02:58,078 We're a bit late. 18 00:03:00,578 --> 00:03:01,996 Come on, guys. 19 00:03:12,484 --> 00:03:14,027 - Gia! - It's so rocky. 20 00:03:20,117 --> 00:03:21,118 Shit. 21 00:03:23,081 --> 00:03:24,124 A bishop's claw. 22 00:03:24,921 --> 00:03:27,507 - Up-valley. - We need to be real quiet. 23 00:03:33,375 --> 00:03:36,086 The null field starts all the way up there. Near that rock. 24 00:03:37,979 --> 00:03:40,190 They called it "the Vault." 25 00:03:40,387 --> 00:03:42,097 All the colonists knew for certain 26 00:03:42,122 --> 00:03:45,041 was that it projected a field designed to keep people away. 27 00:03:45,851 --> 00:03:47,728 No one could breach it. 28 00:03:52,793 --> 00:03:54,711 Right, you gonna go first? 29 00:03:54,902 --> 00:03:56,445 I thought you were first? 30 00:03:57,517 --> 00:03:59,644 You go first and put your marker past the rock, 31 00:04:00,311 --> 00:04:02,313 - I'll let you touch my tit. - Gia. 32 00:04:02,451 --> 00:04:03,452 For one minute. 33 00:04:03,477 --> 00:04:04,895 Ten seconds. 34 00:04:05,309 --> 00:04:07,270 Or you can look at 'em both for 30. 35 00:04:08,248 --> 00:04:09,499 Swear on your moon. 36 00:04:10,292 --> 00:04:11,293 Four-sworn. 37 00:04:14,227 --> 00:04:17,021 - You get nothing if you win. - Get to watch him piss his pants. 38 00:04:19,885 --> 00:04:21,303 He isn't gonna make it. 39 00:04:22,137 --> 00:04:23,263 Come on, Keir. 40 00:04:50,612 --> 00:04:51,613 Keir. 41 00:04:53,018 --> 00:04:53,977 Are you okay? 42 00:04:54,002 --> 00:04:56,588 - Your brother is an assclaw. - Gia, stop laughing at him. 43 00:04:57,506 --> 00:05:00,592 - He's pathetic. - I was almost there. I was close. 44 00:05:00,676 --> 00:05:02,034 Poly, where you going? 45 00:05:02,059 --> 00:05:04,137 - Shit. Poly! - Poly, come back! 46 00:05:04,221 --> 00:05:06,390 - We don't have a deal. - I know. 47 00:05:07,101 --> 00:05:08,436 I wanna see the ghost. 48 00:05:12,563 --> 00:05:13,772 Okay. 49 00:05:38,658 --> 00:05:39,909 Shit. 50 00:05:42,050 --> 00:05:44,411 - Poly? - He's not moving. 51 00:05:45,137 --> 00:05:46,638 Poly? 52 00:05:47,431 --> 00:05:50,173 - We gotta get help. - What you standing there for then? 53 00:06:19,505 --> 00:06:21,381 They're all gone. Eat. 54 00:06:28,055 --> 00:06:29,114 I saw the ghost. 55 00:06:29,139 --> 00:06:30,307 You saw me. 56 00:06:31,692 --> 00:06:32,693 Eat. 57 00:06:34,394 --> 00:06:36,647 You should've turned back, like your boy Keir. 58 00:06:36,672 --> 00:06:39,508 People who've tried to get closer have been hurt. Really. 59 00:06:39,533 --> 00:06:40,700 You weren't. 60 00:06:40,847 --> 00:06:43,141 You got the record and you're okay. 61 00:06:44,363 --> 00:06:45,364 Am I? 62 00:06:45,447 --> 00:06:48,116 Your mark is so far, no one's ever seen it. 63 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:52,204 That's because it doesn't exist. And neither does the ghost. 64 00:06:56,369 --> 00:06:59,706 When do you think it's going to tell us what it is, Warden? 65 00:07:00,631 --> 00:07:01,715 Call me Salvor. 66 00:07:03,006 --> 00:07:05,092 And you assume it cares anything about us? 67 00:07:06,185 --> 00:07:07,186 It doesn't. 68 00:07:08,590 --> 00:07:12,552 It's not just people it keeps away. It's everything. It's birds, insects. 69 00:07:12,830 --> 00:07:16,458 No one's ever gotten through the null field, and no one ever will. 70 00:07:16,812 --> 00:07:20,399 It's warning us to stay away. So stop tempting fate. 71 00:07:21,275 --> 00:07:23,193 Go. Be careful. 72 00:07:23,855 --> 00:07:26,983 - There's a bishop's claw... - Up-valley. I know. 73 00:07:32,703 --> 00:07:36,748 Salvor Hardin. Hober Mallow. The Mule. 74 00:07:36,773 --> 00:07:38,858 I would learn these names one day. 75 00:07:40,504 --> 00:07:42,494 _ 76 00:07:42,504 --> 00:07:46,884 The heroes and villains fighting for the salvation of mankind. 77 00:07:47,718 --> 00:07:49,553 But to understand our future, 78 00:07:49,578 --> 00:07:52,956 we have to remember the past and the ones who caused it all. 79 00:07:54,226 --> 00:07:55,435 A mathematician. 80 00:07:56,351 --> 00:07:57,477 A martyr. 81 00:07:57,978 --> 00:07:59,188 A murderer. 82 00:08:00,898 --> 00:08:05,027 And the most important player of all, Hari Seldon. 83 00:08:15,144 --> 00:08:16,937 She'll be on her way soon. 84 00:08:22,886 --> 00:08:25,013 It will all work out, Raych. 85 00:08:25,672 --> 00:08:27,174 Everything is dying. 86 00:08:27,768 --> 00:08:29,812 That doesn't mean it won't all work out. 87 00:08:30,761 --> 00:08:33,013 Do you ever wish there was another way? 88 00:08:33,038 --> 00:08:34,539 Every day, son. 89 00:08:37,017 --> 00:08:38,894 But this is the optimal time. 90 00:08:54,701 --> 00:08:57,871 86,960,947. 91 00:08:58,956 --> 00:09:02,125 86,960,957. 92 00:09:02,791 --> 00:09:05,794 86,960,971. 93 00:09:06,004 --> 00:09:09,299 - 86,960,987... - It's time. 94 00:09:10,843 --> 00:09:14,054 Gaal? Are you ready? 95 00:09:16,390 --> 00:09:17,391 Yes. 96 00:09:21,696 --> 00:09:24,949 All my life, I looked out and dreamed of being somewhere else. 97 00:09:25,774 --> 00:09:28,235 Now I realize how much I'll miss this view. 98 00:09:28,260 --> 00:09:30,387 I have to remember it perfectly. 99 00:09:31,678 --> 00:09:32,846 No, you don't. 100 00:09:34,158 --> 00:09:36,118 We can petition the Seer priests. 101 00:09:37,286 --> 00:09:39,540 It's not too late for you to stop this. 102 00:09:39,785 --> 00:09:41,665 It's not too late for you to stay. 103 00:09:41,748 --> 00:09:42,791 No. 104 00:09:44,126 --> 00:09:46,403 There's no place for me here anymore, Mom. 105 00:09:46,879 --> 00:09:49,006 I'll die if I stay here. 106 00:09:50,299 --> 00:09:52,342 But on Trantor, I'll be safe. 107 00:09:53,687 --> 00:09:54,772 Accepted. 108 00:09:57,420 --> 00:09:58,797 Hold your head high. 109 00:10:19,995 --> 00:10:21,538 That's her. 110 00:10:31,256 --> 00:10:32,997 They all hate me. 111 00:10:33,021 --> 00:10:34,384 You don't hate me, do you? 112 00:10:34,409 --> 00:10:37,662 Never, Gaal. I'll always love you. 113 00:10:43,709 --> 00:10:45,752 My greatest joy. 114 00:11:30,316 --> 00:11:31,317 Come with me. 115 00:11:31,859 --> 00:11:33,485 We'd be lost out there. 116 00:11:37,245 --> 00:11:38,329 Go. 117 00:11:44,663 --> 00:11:45,855 I love you. 118 00:11:47,457 --> 00:11:48,584 Go, child. 119 00:12:37,341 --> 00:12:39,426 Beginning transfer sequence. 120 00:12:39,510 --> 00:12:42,888 Please move to jumppods and secure for travel. 121 00:12:47,017 --> 00:12:49,353 Did you say something? 122 00:12:49,436 --> 00:12:51,821 No. But I was going to ask 123 00:12:51,845 --> 00:12:54,274 if this was your first time on an imperial jumpship. 124 00:12:54,611 --> 00:12:57,823 Yes. It is. I'm a bit nervous. 125 00:12:57,986 --> 00:13:00,614 Just place your hand on the screen. 126 00:13:00,639 --> 00:13:02,724 - And it will scan your metrics. - Thank you. 127 00:13:05,197 --> 00:13:07,324 - Jerril. - Gaal. 128 00:13:07,349 --> 00:13:08,517 Synnax? 129 00:13:08,705 --> 00:13:10,749 Picked up just a hint of it in your accent. 130 00:13:10,832 --> 00:13:12,459 You don't hear it much at the Core, 131 00:13:12,484 --> 00:13:14,736 but I travel near the rim worlds sometimes. 132 00:13:15,587 --> 00:13:17,881 Whoever took the prayer stones out did a great job. 133 00:13:18,265 --> 00:13:20,601 You wouldn't see the scars if you didn't know to look. 134 00:13:21,358 --> 00:13:23,151 Sorry if I overstepped. 135 00:13:23,262 --> 00:13:24,321 It doesn't screw me up, 136 00:13:24,346 --> 00:13:26,765 but some people come out of the jump feeling a little hungover. 137 00:13:26,849 --> 00:13:28,559 I don't drink. 138 00:13:28,642 --> 00:13:31,562 My parents dove an algae farm, and we woke up pretty early. 139 00:13:31,645 --> 00:13:34,189 You're gonna sleep through this. They make sure of it. 140 00:13:34,214 --> 00:13:36,716 They can't have the grav on during the jump. I don't know why. 141 00:13:36,859 --> 00:13:38,944 Well, the grav generators output a waveform 142 00:13:39,027 --> 00:13:40,696 that corrupts the jumpdrive's ability 143 00:13:40,779 --> 00:13:43,532 to plot fourth-dimensional points at transdimensional speeds. 144 00:13:44,493 --> 00:13:46,370 Why are you going to Trantor? 145 00:13:47,119 --> 00:13:49,204 I'm going to work with Hari Seldon. 146 00:13:49,859 --> 00:13:51,694 I won a math contest. 147 00:13:51,811 --> 00:13:55,735 Wow. Hari Seldon. And you from Synnax. 148 00:13:56,420 --> 00:13:58,213 It was a pretty big contest. 149 00:14:03,261 --> 00:14:07,056 Commencing jump in three, two, one. 150 00:15:14,993 --> 00:15:16,453 How are you awake? 151 00:15:32,266 --> 00:15:34,434 It's a pity we have to sleep through the jump. 152 00:15:35,185 --> 00:15:37,104 It's supposed to be quite the light show. 153 00:15:38,313 --> 00:15:39,815 But if you're not a Spacer, 154 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:42,968 you can find your body and mind taking different trips. 155 00:15:43,110 --> 00:15:44,736 I slept through the whole thing. 156 00:15:44,820 --> 00:15:46,697 ...and prepare to disembark. 157 00:15:49,283 --> 00:15:50,450 Wow. 158 00:15:50,951 --> 00:15:55,038 If the Empire is good for anything, they can damn well build. 159 00:16:00,439 --> 00:16:01,899 This is incredible. 160 00:16:39,291 --> 00:16:43,754 Welcome to Trantor, the eye of the Empire. 161 00:16:46,340 --> 00:16:50,302 Please respect and enjoy the peace. 162 00:16:58,101 --> 00:16:59,603 Are those soldiers? 163 00:17:00,996 --> 00:17:03,124 Probably didn't make the news on your world, 164 00:17:03,847 --> 00:17:06,850 some sort of kerfuffle at the galaxy's edge, 165 00:17:06,893 --> 00:17:08,685 Anacreon and Thespis. 166 00:17:09,445 --> 00:17:12,062 Imperial appraisers got caught in the cross fire, 167 00:17:12,086 --> 00:17:13,242 so now it's a big deal. 168 00:17:18,038 --> 00:17:19,790 Sponsor and contact? 169 00:17:19,873 --> 00:17:23,335 Dr. Hari Seldon. Streeling University. 170 00:17:23,836 --> 00:17:25,712 Expected return to home planet? 171 00:17:26,380 --> 00:17:30,592 I'm not going back. This is my home now. 172 00:17:30,676 --> 00:17:35,097 Any car on the stalk. Please respect and enjoy the peace. 173 00:17:35,122 --> 00:17:36,123 Thank you. 174 00:17:39,810 --> 00:17:41,770 Now that I know you a little better, 175 00:17:42,342 --> 00:17:44,677 I won't waste my breath explaining everything. 176 00:17:44,702 --> 00:17:45,911 This part is great though. 177 00:17:46,900 --> 00:17:49,570 Please make your way to any available car. 178 00:17:50,445 --> 00:17:53,991 This car will commence its descent down the stalk momentarily. 179 00:17:54,541 --> 00:17:56,209 I'm gonna stay awake the whole ride. 180 00:17:56,326 --> 00:17:57,327 Me too. 181 00:18:18,140 --> 00:18:23,437 It takes 14 hours to drop from Trantor Station to the planet's surface. 182 00:18:25,731 --> 00:18:28,317 Although, technically, it's not the surface. 183 00:18:28,942 --> 00:18:32,237 Billions of citizens spend their lives beneath Trantor's outer shell, 184 00:18:33,155 --> 00:18:36,158 toiling away on a hundred subterranean levels 185 00:18:36,183 --> 00:18:38,936 without ever seeing the sun or the stars. 186 00:18:48,295 --> 00:18:51,882 Whatever remained of the natural world belonged to the Emperors. 187 00:18:53,218 --> 00:18:54,344 Dawn. 188 00:18:55,046 --> 00:18:56,047 Day. 189 00:18:57,358 --> 00:18:58,359 Dusk. 190 00:19:00,184 --> 00:19:01,936 The Genetic Dynasty. 191 00:19:02,567 --> 00:19:06,779 Clones of Cleon I, decanted at different ages. 192 00:19:21,671 --> 00:19:23,089 Master Orlio. 193 00:19:24,248 --> 00:19:25,415 Empire. 194 00:19:25,999 --> 00:19:27,918 How long have you worked for us? 195 00:19:28,001 --> 00:19:30,170 Sixty-eight privileged years, Empire. 196 00:19:31,463 --> 00:19:33,757 Started cleaning the Mural when I was 12. 197 00:19:33,782 --> 00:19:36,868 Gone from one end to the other four times over since then. 198 00:19:37,010 --> 00:19:39,388 Know every grain of chroma by heart now. 199 00:19:39,471 --> 00:19:44,434 Tell me, are there some colors more resistant to cleaning than others? 200 00:19:45,102 --> 00:19:46,103 Plum. 201 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:47,641 Periwinkle. 202 00:19:48,605 --> 00:19:51,567 Saffron is a particularly truculent pigment. 203 00:19:51,650 --> 00:19:55,529 What about crimson? Is crimson truculent? 204 00:19:56,338 --> 00:19:57,339 Empire? 205 00:19:57,364 --> 00:19:58,574 It's come to our attention 206 00:19:58,599 --> 00:20:02,353 that a tract authored by Hari Seldon was discovered in your quarters. 207 00:20:02,387 --> 00:20:04,848 Apologies, Empire. It was foolish of me. 208 00:20:04,873 --> 00:20:06,010 It's just that I'd... 209 00:20:06,050 --> 00:20:10,109 Heard whispers of his proclamations and were curious. 210 00:20:11,233 --> 00:20:14,945 They refer to Seldon as "the Raven," don't they? 211 00:20:16,592 --> 00:20:20,262 I hear he's rather critical of the Imperium. 212 00:20:20,345 --> 00:20:24,516 Well, I'm happy to report that his words are baseless trash, 213 00:20:24,541 --> 00:20:26,584 and atrociously written, if I might add. 214 00:20:26,727 --> 00:20:30,147 Nevertheless, the man has amassed a following. 215 00:20:30,655 --> 00:20:35,577 People who hinge their hopes on every word Raven Seldon utters. 216 00:20:37,072 --> 00:20:40,659 Words have a way of fanning into wildfires, Orlio. 217 00:20:40,689 --> 00:20:42,733 I am loyal, Empire. I would never... 218 00:20:42,758 --> 00:20:46,720 I know you won't, which is why I broached this subject in person. 219 00:20:47,303 --> 00:20:48,596 Empire... 220 00:20:58,467 --> 00:21:01,345 What are your lessons this morning, Brother Dawn? 221 00:21:02,179 --> 00:21:03,847 The Outer Reach kingdoms. 222 00:21:03,872 --> 00:21:06,499 I learned an old Anacreon song about hunting. 223 00:21:06,642 --> 00:21:10,938 Well, there is much truth in music. 224 00:21:11,892 --> 00:21:15,604 A boy bleeds a fawn with a knife and then takes shelter in her coat. 225 00:21:15,734 --> 00:21:17,694 That one's not really a hunting song. 226 00:21:17,778 --> 00:21:20,405 That's a dirty song about a boy's first time with a woman. 227 00:21:23,826 --> 00:21:26,954 Play it back in your mind. And don't confuse the two. 228 00:21:27,052 --> 00:21:29,930 Brother Day, please leave the peacock to the cooks. 229 00:21:29,955 --> 00:21:32,583 You'll be no less fascinating to your biographers. 230 00:21:32,751 --> 00:21:35,212 Brother Dusk imagines I do this to be colorful. 231 00:21:35,796 --> 00:21:38,966 And Brother Day puts more words in my mouth than he does poultry. 232 00:21:39,108 --> 00:21:40,484 It's the lard. 233 00:21:40,509 --> 00:21:43,887 The cooks inject it under the skin with a needle right before roasting. 234 00:21:43,912 --> 00:21:46,790 - Do you know why they use a needle? - Because it's efficient? 235 00:21:46,879 --> 00:21:48,964 Because they're afraid if they use a knife, 236 00:21:48,989 --> 00:21:52,123 as is the time-honored way, they might rip the skin, 237 00:21:52,147 --> 00:21:55,172 and I'll send them to a stew-pot stall 50 levels down. 238 00:21:55,607 --> 00:21:59,461 All of which is a problem. Why? 239 00:21:59,486 --> 00:22:02,698 Because when people are afraid to do their job right, 240 00:22:03,158 --> 00:22:05,077 they're certain to do it wrong. 241 00:22:05,102 --> 00:22:08,352 - That's poor stewardship. - It's poor roast peacock. 242 00:22:10,038 --> 00:22:12,291 Not everything is a teachable moment. 243 00:22:12,914 --> 00:22:14,332 Empire. 244 00:22:14,543 --> 00:22:15,711 Demerzel. 245 00:22:15,794 --> 00:22:18,797 The delegations from Thespis and Anacreon are arriving. 246 00:22:18,881 --> 00:22:21,008 - How did they seem? - Peevish. 247 00:22:21,717 --> 00:22:25,679 Barbarian kingdoms. They're more trouble than they're worth. 248 00:22:26,835 --> 00:22:30,088 Have Outer Reach Trade bring tariff projections to the residence. 249 00:22:31,351 --> 00:22:32,601 Dress nice. 250 00:22:32,833 --> 00:22:34,271 Have someone brush your hair. 251 00:22:35,397 --> 00:22:37,774 It's not the most important thing we'll do this week, 252 00:22:37,799 --> 00:22:41,510 but it's the most important thing they'll do in their lifetime. 253 00:23:01,131 --> 00:23:05,636 Anacreon and Thespis. Observe the mannerisms of each party. 254 00:23:13,722 --> 00:23:16,349 They hate each other. 255 00:23:18,065 --> 00:23:21,777 Their enmity is legendary. But war is expensive. 256 00:23:21,802 --> 00:23:24,763 And so we have called them onto the carpet to broker a peace. 257 00:23:38,836 --> 00:23:40,212 Thanks for the company. 258 00:23:40,237 --> 00:23:43,616 Good luck with the new job. I hope Hari Seldon is worth the trip. 259 00:23:43,641 --> 00:23:45,017 Thanks. 260 00:23:49,988 --> 00:23:51,072 Cute. 261 00:23:54,555 --> 00:23:57,141 Raych, Raych, Raych. Where are you? 262 00:24:03,735 --> 00:24:05,696 - That's me. - What? 263 00:24:06,405 --> 00:24:07,739 That's me, Raych. 264 00:24:09,700 --> 00:24:13,287 I work for Hari. Dr. Seldon. 265 00:24:14,108 --> 00:24:16,313 - Baggage Claim is this way. - No. 266 00:24:16,763 --> 00:24:18,941 No. This is all I have. 267 00:24:19,668 --> 00:24:20,669 Okay. 268 00:24:21,347 --> 00:24:23,308 Then the rest of planet is this way. 269 00:24:27,926 --> 00:24:29,970 It's supposed to be a perfect replica. 270 00:24:30,515 --> 00:24:32,517 Not that we'd know under the outer shell. 271 00:24:33,018 --> 00:24:36,146 Half of level 64 is just servers running skies. 272 00:24:39,369 --> 00:24:42,038 Is there still a Seer church here on Trantor? 273 00:24:42,512 --> 00:24:45,557 Down there, I think. Level 22. 274 00:24:48,447 --> 00:24:49,740 I'd like to see it. 275 00:24:52,201 --> 00:24:53,202 What? 276 00:24:54,745 --> 00:24:55,996 Sorry, I've... 277 00:24:57,664 --> 00:25:00,000 I've never met anyone from Synnax before. 278 00:25:09,426 --> 00:25:12,262 An expression of compassion and stewardship, 279 00:25:12,346 --> 00:25:14,723 the Mural of Souls, 280 00:25:14,748 --> 00:25:18,627 worked on every day by the senior member of the Genetic Dynasty. 281 00:25:18,675 --> 00:25:23,263 The Mural depicts the four-century age of peace and the Galactic Family. 282 00:25:23,367 --> 00:25:26,996 Notice the active chroma? How the pigment subtly moves? 283 00:25:32,889 --> 00:25:34,850 Provincial Ambassador Xandem. 284 00:25:36,578 --> 00:25:39,665 Do you have a question or a comment about the Mural? 285 00:25:40,397 --> 00:25:44,360 We were just marveling at the Empire's benevolent reach. 286 00:25:44,837 --> 00:25:46,296 For it is a marvel. 287 00:25:49,091 --> 00:25:52,678 86,963,537. 288 00:25:52,761 --> 00:25:55,973 86,963,549. 289 00:25:56,056 --> 00:25:59,434 86,963,563. 290 00:25:59,518 --> 00:26:02,855 963,567. 291 00:26:03,355 --> 00:26:07,067 86,963,573... 292 00:26:07,092 --> 00:26:10,137 - Are you praying? - No. Why? 293 00:26:11,530 --> 00:26:12,573 Your lips were moving. 294 00:26:12,598 --> 00:26:15,434 Yeah. When I'm nervous, I count primes. 295 00:26:22,311 --> 00:26:23,896 Hari said you'd wanna see this. 296 00:26:45,983 --> 00:26:49,153 Gaal, meet Hari. 297 00:26:51,904 --> 00:26:53,155 Dr. Seldon. 298 00:26:54,441 --> 00:26:57,569 I am so honored you invited me here. 299 00:26:57,968 --> 00:26:59,803 What did you think of the Imperial Library? 300 00:26:59,828 --> 00:27:02,748 It's amazing. So many books in one place. 301 00:27:02,831 --> 00:27:05,751 I imagine books were hard to come by on Synnax. 302 00:27:07,037 --> 00:27:08,914 Please, sit. 303 00:27:15,427 --> 00:27:16,448 So, 304 00:27:16,472 --> 00:27:18,847 you know Kalle's Ninth Proof of Folding? 305 00:27:19,473 --> 00:27:22,392 Yes, I couldn't have solved Abraxas without it. 306 00:27:22,476 --> 00:27:24,518 No one else thought to use it. 307 00:27:24,542 --> 00:27:26,855 Not in 500 years. 308 00:27:27,859 --> 00:27:29,193 Why do you think that is? 309 00:27:30,234 --> 00:27:32,778 Kalle's writing is poetic. 310 00:27:32,861 --> 00:27:36,198 It's beautiful, but it's hard to imagine there's any rigor there. 311 00:27:36,902 --> 00:27:39,362 So serious scholars don't read her. 312 00:27:41,995 --> 00:27:43,080 Why did you? 313 00:27:43,580 --> 00:27:46,917 I went to Kalle for the rhythm of the words at first. 314 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,502 I missed the math. 315 00:27:48,892 --> 00:27:51,255 But when I read between the lines, 316 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:53,949 I realized she was proposing a radical theory 317 00:27:53,974 --> 00:27:57,060 about rings of integers in non-Archimedean local fields. 318 00:27:57,261 --> 00:27:58,762 Indeed she was. 319 00:28:00,055 --> 00:28:01,515 It does make me wonder, though, 320 00:28:01,540 --> 00:28:05,130 how you've managed to stumble across Kalle's Ninth Proof 321 00:28:05,154 --> 00:28:06,378 in the first place, 322 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,021 given where you were. 323 00:28:10,649 --> 00:28:12,870 This isn't Synnax, Gaal. 324 00:28:12,894 --> 00:28:15,112 Curiosity isn't a crime here. 325 00:28:16,039 --> 00:28:17,248 I was lonely. 326 00:28:18,505 --> 00:28:21,049 Almost no one there thought like I thought. 327 00:28:22,190 --> 00:28:25,026 But math doesn't take sides. It doesn't judge. 328 00:28:25,581 --> 00:28:31,128 I imagine you were lonely, a mind like yours in a place like that. 329 00:28:38,635 --> 00:28:41,383 Kalle's original proof manuscript. 330 00:28:41,407 --> 00:28:43,557 Written in her native Thraxian. 331 00:29:00,616 --> 00:29:02,784 They're going to arrest me tomorrow. And you. 332 00:29:02,809 --> 00:29:04,936 - What? - It's almost a certainty. 333 00:29:05,078 --> 00:29:06,663 Arrest? Why? 334 00:29:06,688 --> 00:29:09,051 There's a nonzero chance it won't happen. 335 00:29:09,075 --> 00:29:11,151 But it's not a number worth discussing. 336 00:29:12,131 --> 00:29:13,837 No. This has to be a mistake. 337 00:29:13,921 --> 00:29:16,715 People lie, Gaal. Numbers don't. 338 00:29:16,798 --> 00:29:19,176 Are you familiar with my work? Psychohistory? 339 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,514 - Every mathematician has read your... - Do you agree with the concept? 340 00:29:22,638 --> 00:29:25,015 In theory. But I don't know what it has to do with... 341 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:26,333 It's not a theory. 342 00:29:26,475 --> 00:29:29,645 It's the destiny of the human race expressed in numbers. 343 00:29:29,728 --> 00:29:31,897 And it's the reason the Empire will take us. 344 00:29:31,980 --> 00:29:33,774 They're worried you can predict the future. 345 00:29:33,857 --> 00:29:35,908 They're worried people believe I can. 346 00:29:35,932 --> 00:29:37,986 And they don't like the future I predict. 347 00:29:38,270 --> 00:29:39,354 Which is what? 348 00:29:42,449 --> 00:29:45,577 Trantor is going to be destroyed. The Empire will fall. 349 00:29:45,661 --> 00:29:48,914 You understand, these aren't things I'm anxious to tell people. 350 00:29:48,997 --> 00:29:50,457 It's just what the math tells me. 351 00:29:50,541 --> 00:29:54,920 Why let me come all this way just to arrest me? 352 00:29:55,003 --> 00:29:57,756 That's a good question. You tell me. 353 00:30:29,997 --> 00:30:31,790 Because I solved Abraxas. 354 00:30:32,708 --> 00:30:35,043 They think I'm the only one who can prove you wrong. 355 00:30:35,127 --> 00:30:38,088 And you are, if I was. But I'm not. 356 00:30:39,256 --> 00:30:41,486 Did you know all this when you were showing me the sights? 357 00:30:41,511 --> 00:30:43,868 There's more at stake here than you can imagine, Gaal. 358 00:30:45,931 --> 00:30:48,538 I risked my life coming here. 359 00:30:49,057 --> 00:30:52,269 And now you want me to risk it again just to support your numbers? 360 00:30:52,294 --> 00:30:55,047 That's not entirely accurate, is it, Gaal? 361 00:30:55,148 --> 00:30:57,833 You left Synnax one step ahead of arrest yourself. 362 00:30:57,858 --> 00:31:00,694 So you know math is never just numbers. 363 00:31:00,777 --> 00:31:03,113 In the wrong hands, it's a weapon. 364 00:31:03,947 --> 00:31:07,349 In the right hands, deliverance. 365 00:31:10,965 --> 00:31:12,092 Go. 366 00:31:14,202 --> 00:31:15,357 Get some sleep. 367 00:31:15,918 --> 00:31:18,670 It should take them most of the night to divine your hotel. 368 00:31:18,754 --> 00:31:19,903 We'll talk soon. 369 00:31:21,882 --> 00:31:24,199 I know it's not the prize you came here for... 370 00:31:25,540 --> 00:31:26,916 but it will have to do. 371 00:31:27,054 --> 00:31:29,473 - I can't keep this. - Of course you can. 372 00:31:29,556 --> 00:31:32,133 This building will burn one day. 373 00:31:32,912 --> 00:31:34,978 Stealing is a mercy. 374 00:31:50,452 --> 00:31:52,579 I've read all his work, psychohistory. 375 00:31:52,663 --> 00:31:55,707 I just never imagined he'd use it this way. 376 00:31:55,791 --> 00:31:58,752 The Empire isn't gonna hurt you. They need you. 377 00:31:58,836 --> 00:32:00,838 You don't know that. And neither does he. 378 00:32:00,921 --> 00:32:01,980 - Gaal... - No. 379 00:32:02,005 --> 00:32:04,216 You haven't seen it. 380 00:32:04,963 --> 00:32:07,215 When a planet wants you dead, you die. 381 00:32:09,132 --> 00:32:12,761 Ambassador Xandem, Planet Anacreon, Outer Reach. 382 00:32:16,061 --> 00:32:17,312 Empire. 383 00:32:21,817 --> 00:32:25,320 Carved from the oldest tree in the Tallyn Forest. 384 00:32:25,946 --> 00:32:27,698 The same wood used to carve the bow 385 00:32:27,723 --> 00:32:30,851 of Anacreon's greatest hunter, Larken Keaen. 386 00:32:31,493 --> 00:32:33,036 Thank you, Ambassador. 387 00:32:34,454 --> 00:32:36,290 Did you enjoy the Mural of Souls? 388 00:32:36,373 --> 00:32:40,169 Yes, Empire. I have never seen anything like it. 389 00:32:41,443 --> 00:32:45,405 Honored Diplomat Shae Un Shae, Planet Thespis, Outer Reach. 390 00:32:49,270 --> 00:32:50,647 Empire. 391 00:32:53,140 --> 00:32:54,725 A Thespin Book of Ablution. 392 00:32:55,309 --> 00:32:59,563 The filigree was recently smithed to honor the imperial peace. 393 00:33:00,397 --> 00:33:02,816 Thank you, Honored Diplomat. 394 00:33:03,859 --> 00:33:07,321 And thank you, both delegations, for making the journey to Trantor. 395 00:33:08,405 --> 00:33:09,805 Not that you had a choice. 396 00:33:11,825 --> 00:33:15,537 For nine centuries, the Anthor Belt Agreement served your planets well. 397 00:33:15,562 --> 00:33:18,064 Last year, Thespis identified a rogue asteroid, 398 00:33:18,089 --> 00:33:21,884 which they believe drifted from the area governed by the agreement. 399 00:33:23,337 --> 00:33:25,047 We took no official position. 400 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,191 Just our 10%. 401 00:33:28,768 --> 00:33:32,439 Anacreon believes Thespis acts in bad faith. 402 00:33:32,869 --> 00:33:37,768 The Empire believes imperial blood has been shed 403 00:33:37,793 --> 00:33:41,255 on a cold rock 50,000 light-years from home. 404 00:33:46,749 --> 00:33:50,544 For any of these three beliefs, a thousand wars have been fought. 405 00:33:51,325 --> 00:33:54,870 The next days will determine if there will be another. 406 00:33:57,621 --> 00:34:01,542 Respect and enjoy the peace. 407 00:34:01,625 --> 00:34:04,711 Respect and enjoy the peace. 408 00:34:17,262 --> 00:34:20,639 Brother Dawn, what do you make of that? 409 00:34:20,811 --> 00:34:23,397 The Thespins want to remind you 410 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:27,025 how important the Anthor Belt asteroids are to their religion. 411 00:34:27,109 --> 00:34:29,987 But look there. In the metal filigree. 412 00:34:30,070 --> 00:34:33,197 The pattern in the sigil is made of heavy palladium. 413 00:34:33,222 --> 00:34:36,934 The metal from the rogue asteroid. How much would you say of the sigil? 414 00:34:37,077 --> 00:34:41,206 - Maybe a fifth of it? - Closer to a quarter. 415 00:34:41,231 --> 00:34:45,151 Currently, the Thespins tithe 10% of the mined ore to us. 416 00:34:45,710 --> 00:34:47,337 This is their way of quietly saying 417 00:34:47,362 --> 00:34:50,741 they'll go all the way to 25% if we side with them. 418 00:34:50,882 --> 00:34:55,469 There's no metal here at all. Not even in the arrow tips. 419 00:34:55,987 --> 00:34:58,907 That's right. Why? 420 00:34:59,057 --> 00:35:01,476 The Anacreons need palladium. 421 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:02,978 They have none. 422 00:35:03,502 --> 00:35:07,441 It's like the hunting song. It's not at all about hunting. 423 00:35:09,523 --> 00:35:12,859 Art is simply politics' sweeter tongue. 424 00:35:13,822 --> 00:35:17,034 The customs of the Outer Reach may seem idiosyncratic. 425 00:35:17,717 --> 00:35:22,139 But our attention to detail is how we maintain the peace. 426 00:35:22,215 --> 00:35:26,052 And if the people step out of line, we hit them with a big stick. 427 00:35:26,316 --> 00:35:27,525 Thank you. 428 00:35:32,257 --> 00:35:34,885 Seldon and the girl. 429 00:35:36,930 --> 00:35:38,557 Don't overthink the stick. 430 00:35:40,599 --> 00:35:43,143 The Seer church. Do we have time? 431 00:35:46,104 --> 00:35:47,105 Yeah. 432 00:35:54,531 --> 00:35:57,409 She can sit. He will stand. 433 00:35:58,368 --> 00:36:00,454 But he will need to disarm. 434 00:36:07,647 --> 00:36:09,315 The heretic and I will talk. 435 00:36:18,762 --> 00:36:19,847 Upon awakening... 436 00:36:20,430 --> 00:36:21,974 Upon awakening... 437 00:36:21,999 --> 00:36:23,751 We speak the words. 438 00:36:23,892 --> 00:36:25,978 And the words make us seen. 439 00:36:26,180 --> 00:36:27,807 Do you know who I am? 440 00:36:28,814 --> 00:36:32,484 I know that she has torn the Sleeper's words from her face 441 00:36:32,509 --> 00:36:34,677 and can't be seen by God. 442 00:36:34,820 --> 00:36:36,572 But do you know who I am? 443 00:36:36,597 --> 00:36:39,016 She has solved one of life's ancient puzzles 444 00:36:39,043 --> 00:36:41,296 and cheapened the worth of life in the solving. 445 00:36:41,321 --> 00:36:43,365 Of course I know. 446 00:36:46,165 --> 00:36:50,586 On Synnax, she is almost as famous as her new god, Seldon. 447 00:36:50,611 --> 00:36:53,530 - He's not a god. - No, he is not. 448 00:36:54,967 --> 00:37:00,180 He will die as all men like him die, unseen by God. 449 00:37:00,304 --> 00:37:04,099 As will his followers. As will she. 450 00:37:05,726 --> 00:37:08,855 Gaal Dornick. I'll say this once, 451 00:37:09,697 --> 00:37:13,670 because I am the highest-ranking and only Seer priest on this 452 00:37:13,940 --> 00:37:15,865 forsaken world. 453 00:37:17,156 --> 00:37:20,826 If you are in trouble, I can help you. 454 00:37:23,744 --> 00:37:25,162 Is that what you want? 455 00:37:51,438 --> 00:37:52,981 You want me to stay? 456 00:37:53,006 --> 00:37:54,757 Will that stop them from arresting me? 457 00:37:55,317 --> 00:37:56,360 No. 458 00:37:56,860 --> 00:37:58,278 I'll be all right. 459 00:37:59,064 --> 00:38:00,900 - I'll see you. - Will you? 460 00:38:01,448 --> 00:38:02,866 Of course. 461 00:38:41,483 --> 00:38:44,402 Some like to pray one last time. 462 00:38:45,450 --> 00:38:46,535 Did you? 463 00:38:47,716 --> 00:38:48,759 No. 464 00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,030 What did you make of her? 465 00:39:36,668 --> 00:39:38,462 They haven't gotten to her yet. 466 00:39:38,545 --> 00:39:39,630 Yet. 467 00:39:40,292 --> 00:39:41,544 What do you make of her? 468 00:39:41,715 --> 00:39:44,885 She solved Abraxas on her own. I'm sure of that. 469 00:39:46,178 --> 00:39:50,349 As for the other question, well, we shall see. 470 00:40:41,358 --> 00:40:43,318 My name's Lors Avakim. 471 00:40:43,402 --> 00:40:44,987 Hari sent me. 472 00:40:46,572 --> 00:40:47,573 Where is he? 473 00:40:49,032 --> 00:40:51,910 Arrested. As he predicted. 474 00:40:52,828 --> 00:40:54,913 You've both been charged with high treason, 475 00:40:54,997 --> 00:40:57,708 conspiracy to destabilize the Imperium. 476 00:40:59,001 --> 00:41:00,586 This is a nightmare. 477 00:41:00,622 --> 00:41:04,793 Hari wants you to know how sorry he is for involving you in this. 478 00:41:04,843 --> 00:41:06,011 It's not his fault. 479 00:41:10,439 --> 00:41:11,649 Is it? 480 00:41:12,764 --> 00:41:14,308 We can speak freely now. 481 00:41:15,130 --> 00:41:17,715 Once the Imperium learned of Hari's conclusions, 482 00:41:17,740 --> 00:41:20,409 they made no secret of trying to disrupt the project. 483 00:41:20,459 --> 00:41:24,209 Did Hari bring me here as bait? Because I can prove him wrong? 484 00:41:24,234 --> 00:41:26,194 He's not wrong, Ms. Dornick. 485 00:41:27,162 --> 00:41:29,846 But yes on the bait part. 486 00:41:50,135 --> 00:41:51,512 Are you all right? 487 00:41:51,595 --> 00:41:55,390 The hook hurts, but I'm trying not to wriggle too much. 488 00:41:59,041 --> 00:42:00,543 All rise. 489 00:42:06,068 --> 00:42:10,197 The tribunal of Cleon XII is convened. 490 00:42:11,388 --> 00:42:16,810 Your Exalted, the offenders, Dr. Hari Seldon and Gaal Dornick, 491 00:42:17,491 --> 00:42:21,203 are accused of crimes so grave that they threaten not just Trantor 492 00:42:21,228 --> 00:42:23,439 but the entire galaxy's existence. 493 00:42:24,289 --> 00:42:27,417 I will prove that Dr. Seldon and his followers 494 00:42:27,442 --> 00:42:31,195 engaged in a conspiracy designed to destroy the confidence in our empire. 495 00:42:34,549 --> 00:42:37,135 Dr. Seldon. Will you rise? 496 00:42:37,837 --> 00:42:40,465 You hail from the world of Helicon, yes? 497 00:42:40,490 --> 00:42:41,551 Yes. 498 00:42:41,605 --> 00:42:44,398 Will you state your current position here on Trantor? 499 00:42:44,481 --> 00:42:48,402 I'm a professor of probability theory at Streeling University. 500 00:42:49,444 --> 00:42:53,031 Specifically, the area of psychohistory. 501 00:42:53,115 --> 00:42:54,825 Define that for us, please. 502 00:42:54,908 --> 00:42:58,579 Psychohistory is a predictive model 503 00:42:58,662 --> 00:43:04,209 designed to forecast the behavior of very large populations. 504 00:43:04,293 --> 00:43:09,256 In plainspoken terms, you claim to be able to predict the future? 505 00:43:09,339 --> 00:43:12,801 Well, I don't know what you're going to have for dinner, 506 00:43:12,826 --> 00:43:14,202 if that's what you're asking. 507 00:43:14,227 --> 00:43:15,812 You know what I'm asking. 508 00:43:15,837 --> 00:43:18,867 The Galactic Empire comprises some eight trillion individuals. 509 00:43:18,891 --> 00:43:21,810 Would you say that was a large enough sample to make a prediction? 510 00:43:21,835 --> 00:43:22,836 It is. 511 00:43:22,861 --> 00:43:26,114 And do you have a prediction for that particular sample? 512 00:43:28,775 --> 00:43:29,776 I do. 513 00:43:32,321 --> 00:43:33,655 Indulge us. 514 00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,477 Trantor and the Galactic Empire will lie in ruins 515 00:43:36,501 --> 00:43:38,059 within five centuries. 516 00:43:40,204 --> 00:43:41,622 Silence, brethren. 517 00:43:41,647 --> 00:43:45,818 Accepting your statement for the moment, can you prove it's true? 518 00:43:46,357 --> 00:43:50,194 Only to another mathematician conversant in ordinal analysis. 519 00:43:52,247 --> 00:43:53,540 How convenient. 520 00:43:54,301 --> 00:43:56,979 Your truths are so esoteric 521 00:43:57,003 --> 00:43:58,180 - they escape the grasp - They're not my truths. 522 00:43:58,205 --> 00:44:00,833 - of nearly every citizen. - They belong to science. 523 00:44:00,974 --> 00:44:05,229 The Imperium is 12,000 years old, Doctor. 524 00:44:05,312 --> 00:44:11,652 Are we really to believe that it could be gone in just 500? 525 00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:14,074 - Maybe quicker. - Quicker? 526 00:44:14,238 --> 00:44:19,785 A rotten tree trunk appears strong until the storm breaks it in two. 527 00:44:20,212 --> 00:44:23,257 Consider recent events in the Outer Reach. 528 00:44:23,413 --> 00:44:25,224 We're not here to consider any other... 529 00:44:25,249 --> 00:44:26,667 But you must! 530 00:44:28,635 --> 00:44:30,303 The Empire will fall. 531 00:44:31,089 --> 00:44:33,175 Order will vanish. 532 00:44:33,238 --> 00:44:35,866 Interstellar wars will be endless. 533 00:44:35,962 --> 00:44:40,870 Ten thousand worlds reduced to radioactive cinders. 534 00:44:41,390 --> 00:44:44,476 Nothing we do can prevent this. 535 00:44:45,227 --> 00:44:50,232 This... period of barbarism. 536 00:44:52,276 --> 00:44:54,111 How long do you claim it will last? 537 00:44:54,194 --> 00:44:56,363 Thirty thousand years, Advocate. 538 00:44:57,781 --> 00:45:01,910 I submit to the court that Dr. Seldon's "predictions" 539 00:45:01,935 --> 00:45:05,063 are actually intended to destroy public confidence. 540 00:45:05,579 --> 00:45:07,914 I'm not a revolutionary. 541 00:45:07,939 --> 00:45:09,774 Well, then what are you? 542 00:45:10,627 --> 00:45:12,838 You've already said the future cannot be changed. 543 00:45:12,863 --> 00:45:17,451 So what exactly is the purpose of your project? 544 00:45:18,218 --> 00:45:21,096 I'm trying to soften the fall. 545 00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,185 It cannot be prevented, 546 00:45:26,210 --> 00:45:29,839 this mass of events rushing to meet us. 547 00:45:29,913 --> 00:45:33,583 But we can shorten the dark ages that follow. 548 00:45:33,854 --> 00:45:35,063 How much? 549 00:45:36,149 --> 00:45:39,486 If we embrace your plan, how much? 550 00:45:40,324 --> 00:45:44,286 We should be in the dark for a thousand years, Advocate. 551 00:45:45,191 --> 00:45:50,155 And if that is all, we should thank the gods for it. 552 00:46:09,144 --> 00:46:11,104 My name's not really Jerril. 553 00:46:12,893 --> 00:46:14,561 But you can keep calling me that. 554 00:46:15,770 --> 00:46:17,689 We've been watching you for some time. 555 00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,681 From the moment you solved the Abraxas Conjecture, in fact. 556 00:46:21,732 --> 00:46:22,983 I brought you a gift. 557 00:46:23,659 --> 00:46:27,204 He calls it the Prime Radiant. It's beautiful, isn't it? 558 00:46:27,287 --> 00:46:31,291 He claims it contains all of his predictions concerning the Empire, 559 00:46:31,375 --> 00:46:33,585 expressed as a mathematical equation. 560 00:46:33,669 --> 00:46:35,754 Did he allow you to examine it? 561 00:46:36,380 --> 00:46:37,381 No. 562 00:46:38,215 --> 00:46:39,883 Now, don't you think that's curious? 563 00:46:39,967 --> 00:46:42,057 He devises a theory so opaque 564 00:46:42,081 --> 00:46:44,029 that no one in the galaxy can understand it, 565 00:46:44,054 --> 00:46:46,223 and when he finds an individual who can, 566 00:46:46,248 --> 00:46:48,125 he doesn't allow her a look behind the curtain. 567 00:46:48,154 --> 00:46:49,488 Why? 568 00:46:49,618 --> 00:46:53,705 Because history is littered with charlatans and false messiahs. 569 00:46:54,356 --> 00:46:57,150 What if he's telling the truth? What if psychohistory is real? 570 00:46:57,175 --> 00:46:58,885 If his equations are flawed, 571 00:46:58,910 --> 00:47:01,413 you have a moral obligation to expose them. 572 00:47:10,381 --> 00:47:12,050 And if they hold true? 573 00:47:12,207 --> 00:47:14,543 Disavow them and go home. 574 00:47:14,568 --> 00:47:18,739 And I promise you, Empire will find a way to express his gratitude. 575 00:47:20,174 --> 00:47:22,301 I'll make the calculus simple for you, Gaal. 576 00:47:22,384 --> 00:47:24,887 If you say Hari's a liar, he dies. 577 00:47:24,970 --> 00:47:27,181 If you don't, you die. 578 00:47:27,264 --> 00:47:29,892 So, we should just all bury our heads in the sand then? 579 00:47:29,975 --> 00:47:31,810 If his equations hold true, 580 00:47:31,835 --> 00:47:35,130 then Empire will set about solving the problem as we always have, 581 00:47:35,272 --> 00:47:37,608 without terrifying trillions of people. 582 00:47:38,108 --> 00:47:40,152 And I should believe in you, a spy? 583 00:47:41,778 --> 00:47:44,198 You should believe in the minds that built Trantor, 584 00:47:44,281 --> 00:47:46,450 built the jumpdrive, that built the Star Bridge. 585 00:47:46,475 --> 00:47:49,895 Where I come from, they call those scientists, not politicians. 586 00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,297 I know where you come from, Gaal. 587 00:47:54,202 --> 00:47:56,079 They were called heretics and drowned. 588 00:47:57,794 --> 00:48:00,506 And I also know what happened on the jumpship. 589 00:48:01,673 --> 00:48:03,050 During the jump... 590 00:48:05,052 --> 00:48:06,158 you were awake. 591 00:48:06,887 --> 00:48:08,160 You were aware. 592 00:48:10,456 --> 00:48:12,833 - Why did you lie to me about it? - I don't know. 593 00:48:15,020 --> 00:48:16,104 It scares me. 594 00:48:17,439 --> 00:48:18,565 What does? 595 00:48:19,066 --> 00:48:20,715 Being different. 596 00:48:20,968 --> 00:48:22,591 We're all different, Ms. Dornick. 597 00:48:23,362 --> 00:48:26,198 My sister didn't speak until she was seven. 598 00:48:26,223 --> 00:48:27,549 And even then, just nouns. 599 00:48:27,574 --> 00:48:29,535 But you're something else. 600 00:48:30,118 --> 00:48:32,704 And if you don't know what it is, I urge you to figure it out 601 00:48:32,729 --> 00:48:35,482 before someone else does and uses it against you. 602 00:49:28,594 --> 00:49:32,097 You claim your plan can reduce the coming darkness. 603 00:49:33,098 --> 00:49:34,099 How? 604 00:49:34,183 --> 00:49:35,772 The ancients are rumored 605 00:49:35,796 --> 00:49:38,145 to have built a repository for the world's wisdom. 606 00:49:38,228 --> 00:49:39,813 According to myth, it burned down. 607 00:49:39,897 --> 00:49:42,774 I'm proposing something less centralized. 608 00:49:43,311 --> 00:49:45,772 An Encyclopedia Galactica. 609 00:49:47,029 --> 00:49:51,325 After the fall, as civilization climbs from the ashes, 610 00:49:52,284 --> 00:49:56,038 the coming generations will have something to build upon, 611 00:49:56,538 --> 00:49:57,956 a foundation. 612 00:49:58,790 --> 00:50:01,053 They won't have to reinvent the wheel. 613 00:50:01,077 --> 00:50:04,087 The knowledge will already exist. 614 00:50:04,171 --> 00:50:06,821 But it isn't just knowledge we'd be saving, 615 00:50:07,341 --> 00:50:09,343 but humanity's story. 616 00:50:10,928 --> 00:50:13,222 Our story. 617 00:50:15,265 --> 00:50:18,101 Trantor already has an imperial library. 618 00:50:18,936 --> 00:50:19,937 For how long? 619 00:50:20,521 --> 00:50:23,524 Now, that statement does bring us to the heart of the matter. 620 00:50:23,607 --> 00:50:25,768 You said you could prove your theorem 621 00:50:25,807 --> 00:50:28,487 to someone conversant in ordinal analysis. 622 00:50:30,906 --> 00:50:32,950 Gaal Dornick, please rise. 623 00:50:34,826 --> 00:50:36,453 Approach the dais, if you would. 624 00:50:45,379 --> 00:50:49,132 You're from Synnax, correct? We should say that. 625 00:50:49,157 --> 00:50:50,200 I am. 626 00:50:50,342 --> 00:50:52,302 You've had your prayer stones removed. 627 00:50:52,346 --> 00:50:54,431 You almost look like one of us. 628 00:50:54,488 --> 00:50:57,699 My understanding of your world is that to remove the prayer stones 629 00:50:57,850 --> 00:50:59,643 is to break with the Seer Church. 630 00:50:59,726 --> 00:51:00,727 Is that right? 631 00:51:00,811 --> 00:51:03,480 That is church doctrine, yes. 632 00:51:03,564 --> 00:51:08,318 Tell me, are they still killing scientists and mathematicians? 633 00:51:08,819 --> 00:51:11,363 If you're talking about the Purge, then... 634 00:51:12,157 --> 00:51:16,703 The church's term is "the Cleanse," Your Exalteds. 635 00:51:16,827 --> 00:51:18,662 When was it, according to church doctrine, 636 00:51:18,687 --> 00:51:21,649 that it stopped being heresy to study math? 637 00:51:21,790 --> 00:51:22,958 It never stopped. 638 00:51:23,041 --> 00:51:26,461 And yet you solved the Abraxas Conjecture. 639 00:51:27,009 --> 00:51:28,010 Yes. 640 00:51:28,039 --> 00:51:31,042 On a world where they burned the universities down. 641 00:51:31,466 --> 00:51:33,427 You must have been lonely there. 642 00:51:34,094 --> 00:51:36,343 I can imagine how it must have felt 643 00:51:36,367 --> 00:51:39,516 to be recognized by Dr. Hari Seldon. 644 00:51:40,893 --> 00:51:42,728 To be given a job. To be valued. 645 00:51:42,811 --> 00:51:44,188 What do you want to know? 646 00:51:44,271 --> 00:51:47,316 I want to know if there is any possible way... 647 00:51:49,318 --> 00:51:52,696 you can be objective about Hari Seldon. 648 00:51:54,364 --> 00:51:56,241 I don't know. Maybe I can't. 649 00:51:57,534 --> 00:51:59,286 Maybe that's why he brought me here. 650 00:51:59,995 --> 00:52:01,580 Last night you were given a chance 651 00:52:01,605 --> 00:52:04,817 to assess the accuracy of Dr. Seldon's claims. 652 00:52:04,842 --> 00:52:06,511 Did you arrive at a conclusion? 653 00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:11,131 Yes. 654 00:52:11,715 --> 00:52:12,674 And? 655 00:52:16,178 --> 00:52:18,764 Dr. Seldon's calculations... 656 00:52:19,684 --> 00:52:20,727 are correct. 657 00:52:21,165 --> 00:52:23,459 The Empire is dying. 658 00:52:24,937 --> 00:52:25,979 Kill them. 659 00:52:27,648 --> 00:52:28,815 End this. 660 00:52:42,871 --> 00:52:44,478 Hari, the sky. 661 00:52:45,639 --> 00:52:47,724 Something's wrong with the Star Bridge. 662 00:53:14,194 --> 00:53:16,613 Please respect and enjoy the peace. 663 00:53:18,323 --> 00:53:20,284 Expected return to home planet? 664 00:53:20,309 --> 00:53:21,519 Three days. 665 00:53:21,660 --> 00:53:24,121 - Please respect and enjoy the peace. - Thank you. 666 00:53:30,460 --> 00:53:34,089 This car will commence its descent down the stalk momentarily. 667 00:53:34,551 --> 00:53:36,053 You may feel a jolt. 668 00:53:36,842 --> 00:53:40,095 Please secure yourself before commencing descent. 669 00:55:20,910 --> 00:55:22,503 My God. 670 00:56:58,710 --> 00:57:02,005 The tether wrapped around the planet like a garrote. 671 00:57:02,030 --> 00:57:03,656 It cut 50 levels down. 672 00:57:03,799 --> 00:57:05,259 - Emperor... - Shut up! 673 00:57:16,436 --> 00:57:17,809 There are reports 674 00:57:17,833 --> 00:57:22,067 of Anacreon and Thespin war cries before the explosion. 675 00:57:22,292 --> 00:57:23,610 Songs of rebellion. 676 00:57:23,635 --> 00:57:25,887 We had no part in this, we... 677 00:57:25,948 --> 00:57:29,285 We will, of course, be returning your gifts. 678 00:57:30,367 --> 00:57:36,164 86,963,777. 679 00:57:39,126 --> 00:57:44,423 86,963,791. 680 00:57:50,637 --> 00:57:51,847 What are you doing here? 681 00:57:52,022 --> 00:57:53,649 I petitioned the committee. 682 00:57:56,153 --> 00:57:58,531 They're saying a hundred million dead. 683 00:57:59,479 --> 00:58:01,607 The Outer Reaches may be in rebellion. 684 00:58:02,303 --> 00:58:04,305 The attack's changed everything. 685 00:58:07,029 --> 00:58:09,740 Hari said there's a nonzero chance you'll die, 686 00:58:09,765 --> 00:58:11,642 but nonzero is still a number. 687 00:58:12,492 --> 00:58:15,245 They're gonna kill Hari, Gaal. 688 00:58:17,331 --> 00:58:18,675 You don't have to die with him. 689 00:58:18,699 --> 00:58:20,542 I've already said his math was right. 690 00:58:21,957 --> 00:58:25,378 Say you looked at it again. Say you were wrong. 691 00:58:26,212 --> 00:58:27,714 You've lost faith. 692 00:58:29,068 --> 00:58:30,486 I'm sorry. 693 00:58:30,610 --> 00:58:32,028 She doesn't need that. 694 00:58:39,652 --> 00:58:40,904 Get up. 695 00:58:45,140 --> 00:58:48,059 Shall I speak first, or will you? 696 00:58:48,237 --> 00:58:50,239 By all means, Dr. Seldon. 697 00:58:51,406 --> 00:58:52,407 Speak. 698 00:58:52,491 --> 00:58:53,951 You hold us responsible. 699 00:58:54,034 --> 00:58:55,369 How could I not? 700 00:58:55,394 --> 00:58:59,523 My science can predict societal actions. Trends. Not individual ones. 701 00:58:59,982 --> 00:59:02,693 But I'm not surprised it happened. 702 00:59:02,876 --> 00:59:04,086 Why is that? 703 00:59:04,111 --> 00:59:05,696 You're stretched too thin. 704 00:59:07,339 --> 00:59:10,300 That's why the kingdoms of the Outer Reach struck first. 705 00:59:10,325 --> 00:59:12,202 And who can blame them? 706 00:59:12,970 --> 00:59:15,331 Sensing vulnerability, soon other players 707 00:59:15,355 --> 00:59:17,516 will begin to apply downward pressure. 708 00:59:17,599 --> 00:59:22,688 An exhortation from one of the galaxy's major religions is a given. 709 00:59:22,771 --> 00:59:25,148 Or perhaps a homegrown insurrection here on Trantor. 710 00:59:25,173 --> 00:59:27,509 Star Bridge. Who did this? 711 00:59:28,235 --> 00:59:29,945 I don't know. 712 00:59:29,988 --> 00:59:33,659 Tell me why I shouldn't kill you and your followers right now. 713 00:59:33,684 --> 00:59:35,144 My followers aren't responsible! 714 00:59:35,169 --> 00:59:37,130 If you do, you'll be dead within the year. 715 00:59:40,372 --> 00:59:42,207 The prodigy speaks. 716 00:59:51,175 --> 00:59:52,426 So speak. 717 00:59:54,701 --> 00:59:58,914 Your agent Jerril asked me to check Dr. Seldon's work. 718 00:59:59,057 --> 01:00:01,185 I went a little farther in the equation. 719 01:00:01,707 --> 01:00:05,731 If you kill him, the fall accelerates. 720 01:00:05,814 --> 01:00:08,901 Well, that's a convenient data point for your side. 721 01:00:09,401 --> 01:00:12,070 Only he can shorten the darkness. 722 01:00:13,322 --> 01:00:15,032 Kill him, you kill hope. 723 01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:17,534 Kill hope... 724 01:00:18,715 --> 01:00:20,175 they kill you. 725 01:00:23,749 --> 01:00:25,209 What are the odds? 726 01:00:27,669 --> 01:00:31,840 The only two people who can save the galaxy are in this room. 727 01:00:34,086 --> 01:00:35,963 And one of them is wrong. 728 01:00:36,425 --> 01:00:37,676 I agree. 729 01:00:39,890 --> 01:00:44,353 If the fall can be accelerated, can it not also be slowed? 730 01:00:44,853 --> 01:00:45,951 Yes. 731 01:00:46,643 --> 01:00:48,148 By a few centuries. 732 01:00:48,232 --> 01:00:50,067 Don't keep us in the dark. 733 01:00:50,692 --> 01:00:52,319 End imperial cloning. 734 01:00:54,446 --> 01:00:58,116 Imperial cloning stopped the wars. 735 01:00:58,141 --> 01:01:00,518 Imperial cloning brought peace. 736 01:01:00,627 --> 01:01:04,088 Our genetic dynasty has reigned for almost four centuries. 737 01:01:04,113 --> 01:01:06,059 Surely you can understand the value 738 01:01:06,083 --> 01:01:09,118 in a younger mind who shares your intellect. 739 01:01:09,915 --> 01:01:13,001 Well, I see the value in difference, 740 01:01:13,131 --> 01:01:14,383 in the new. 741 01:01:14,883 --> 01:01:16,468 You offer nothing new. 742 01:01:16,552 --> 01:01:18,971 Just a younger grape... 743 01:01:20,848 --> 01:01:22,391 from the same vine, 744 01:01:22,416 --> 01:01:25,294 destined for the same old bottle. 745 01:01:29,064 --> 01:01:31,441 You can't save yourselves... 746 01:01:33,068 --> 01:01:35,112 but you can save your legacy. 747 01:01:35,195 --> 01:01:37,948 Yours or mine, Dr. Seldon? 748 01:01:53,570 --> 01:01:55,155 How long did it take you... 749 01:01:58,325 --> 01:02:00,244 to trigger the Prime Radiant? 750 01:02:00,971 --> 01:02:02,723 I got it on the second try. 751 01:02:06,067 --> 01:02:07,902 You knew they'd offer it to me. 752 01:02:14,318 --> 01:02:15,986 Hari, when I looked at it, I... 753 01:02:17,738 --> 01:02:20,699 I really thought they'd try and make it seem more of a fair fight. 754 01:02:20,724 --> 01:02:22,601 But they didn't bother, did they? 755 01:02:22,743 --> 01:02:23,744 Did we? 756 01:02:26,413 --> 01:02:28,123 The hook still hurting you? 757 01:02:29,625 --> 01:02:34,505 Xylas used the same phrase you did. "I was lonely." 758 01:02:35,005 --> 01:02:36,965 They were listening. 759 01:02:37,049 --> 01:02:38,592 And you knew they were listening. 760 01:02:38,675 --> 01:02:41,261 - They're listening now. - Fine. 761 01:02:41,345 --> 01:02:43,055 What do you want them to hear? 762 01:02:43,639 --> 01:02:47,935 Abraxas was the bait. Not you. 763 01:02:48,570 --> 01:02:50,488 I just moved before they did. 764 01:02:51,271 --> 01:02:54,316 You have more agency here, Gaal, than you realize. 765 01:03:14,838 --> 01:03:19,009 The Emperor has determined that your deaths are not the optimal outcome 766 01:03:19,034 --> 01:03:20,619 for the good of the Imperium. 767 01:03:20,801 --> 01:03:24,054 You will be allowed to refine your work on psychohistory, 768 01:03:24,137 --> 01:03:25,889 to build your Foundation. 769 01:03:28,642 --> 01:03:30,060 But not on Trantor. 770 01:03:31,311 --> 01:03:32,437 Terminus. 771 01:03:32,521 --> 01:03:36,775 It is uninhabited, sitting in the Periphery, 772 01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:38,718 along the galaxy's Outer Reach. 773 01:03:38,861 --> 01:03:41,405 Anacreon and Thespis are also in the Periphery. 774 01:03:41,430 --> 01:03:44,725 Yes, the barbarian kingdoms will be your neighbors. 775 01:03:45,742 --> 01:03:47,411 You will journey via slow ship. 776 01:03:47,494 --> 01:03:50,539 The Empire forbids you access to jumpdrive technology. 777 01:03:50,622 --> 01:03:52,207 You're exiling us. 778 01:03:52,291 --> 01:03:56,170 On Terminus, you will not trouble Trantor, 779 01:03:56,195 --> 01:03:59,073 and there will be no disturbance of the Emperor's peace. 780 01:04:00,132 --> 01:04:02,926 The galaxy will know that you are fighting the fall. 781 01:04:03,594 --> 01:04:06,096 If psychohistory proves fraudulent, 782 01:04:07,189 --> 01:04:11,610 your Foundation will be allowed to wither and vanish. 783 01:04:12,186 --> 01:04:13,770 And if it's successful, 784 01:04:14,871 --> 01:04:19,292 you'll co-opt it and use it to bolster your regime. 785 01:04:22,946 --> 01:04:25,115 Terminus. I've never even heard of it. 786 01:04:25,199 --> 01:04:28,869 There's no reason you would. It's 50,000 light-years away. 787 01:04:28,952 --> 01:04:31,121 Without a jumpdrive, the journey there... 788 01:04:31,178 --> 01:04:34,890 - 878 days. - Approximately. 789 01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:36,668 We'll be fine. 790 01:04:36,705 --> 01:04:38,915 There'll be hardships, no question. 791 01:04:39,463 --> 01:04:42,633 Terminus orbits a red dwarf. 792 01:04:42,669 --> 01:04:45,547 Its seasons are extreme. Metal and mineral poor. 793 01:04:45,572 --> 01:04:46,824 You know it well. 794 01:04:49,705 --> 01:04:51,290 Exile was always the plan. 795 01:04:52,226 --> 01:04:54,895 And Terminus was always the optimal location. 796 01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:56,505 Out in the Periphery. 797 01:04:56,647 --> 01:04:59,316 Imperial support without imperial eyes. It's perfect. 798 01:04:59,399 --> 01:05:00,484 How many others knew? 799 01:05:00,567 --> 01:05:01,693 Only Raych. 800 01:05:04,947 --> 01:05:06,907 What you said to the Emperor... 801 01:05:06,990 --> 01:05:09,785 How much farther into my math did you look? 802 01:05:10,315 --> 01:05:11,891 What did you actually see? 803 01:05:12,329 --> 01:05:14,289 - I couldn't quite figure it. - So, you lied? 804 01:05:14,373 --> 01:05:15,791 I hypothesized. 805 01:05:16,959 --> 01:05:20,337 On Synnax, no one wanted to hear that our seas were rising. 806 01:05:21,213 --> 01:05:24,112 I thought if I could make people listen, that I could save them. 807 01:05:24,633 --> 01:05:28,679 Change is frightening, especially to those in power. 808 01:05:28,704 --> 01:05:30,790 And I could feel the Empire's fear. 809 01:05:32,683 --> 01:05:36,520 When I looked into the Prime Radiant, I could see the darkness. 810 01:05:36,603 --> 01:05:40,232 It took my breath away at first. It was crushing. 811 01:05:41,248 --> 01:05:43,166 But then I looked deeper, 812 01:05:43,191 --> 01:05:44,637 and I could see 813 01:05:44,661 --> 01:05:48,404 this tiny sliver of light at the very end of it all. 814 01:05:50,319 --> 01:05:53,322 And I realized it's not the fall they're afraid of. 815 01:05:53,871 --> 01:05:56,456 It's the chance that your plan will actually succeed. 816 01:05:58,468 --> 01:06:00,970 It takes more power to build than to burn. 817 01:06:01,957 --> 01:06:03,750 And I want to build, Hari. 818 01:06:04,923 --> 01:06:06,675 You'll get your chance. 819 01:06:07,952 --> 01:06:10,140 This isn't the Foundation's first crisis, 820 01:06:10,164 --> 01:06:11,581 and it won't be our last. 821 01:06:11,805 --> 01:06:15,309 Something tells me you already know what the next crisis will be. 822 01:06:16,293 --> 01:06:19,713 The Emperor's peace will be maintained. 823 01:06:25,110 --> 01:06:29,239 From Synnax to Trantor. Now Terminus. 824 01:06:29,740 --> 01:06:32,159 You came here hoping to save your world. 825 01:06:32,242 --> 01:06:34,661 I'm asking you to dream bigger. 826 01:06:35,679 --> 01:06:39,432 Why stop at one world? Why not save the galaxy? 827 01:06:40,738 --> 01:06:42,031 Why not indeed. 828 01:07:06,608 --> 01:07:09,709 _ 829 01:07:11,406 --> 01:07:13,534 Hari had planned for it all, 830 01:07:13,559 --> 01:07:16,061 things only he saw over the horizon. 831 01:07:17,155 --> 01:07:19,582 _ 832 01:07:19,623 --> 01:07:22,043 Psychohistory could forecast the behavior 833 01:07:22,067 --> 01:07:25,254 of entire populations with stunning accuracy. 834 01:07:25,337 --> 01:07:30,008 But, when it came to individuals, things got murkier. 835 01:07:34,639 --> 01:07:36,877 No one could approach the Vault. 836 01:07:36,901 --> 01:07:39,936 No one but an outlier like Salvor Hardin. 837 01:07:41,203 --> 01:07:42,746 And I always wondered... 838 01:07:44,559 --> 01:07:46,603 when Hari was formulating his plan, 839 01:07:47,359 --> 01:07:51,947 did he realize the galaxy's fate would rest on what she found inside? 840 01:07:53,156 --> 01:07:54,741 I think he did. 841 01:07:55,865 --> 01:07:58,242 And I think that's what he feared the most. 842 01:08:03,162 --> 01:08:08,144 Synced & corrected by -robtor- www.addic7ed.com