"Foundation" The Stress of Her Regard

1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 2 00:01:34,386 --> 00:01:35,721 <i>Do you feel regret?</i> 3 00:01:44,188 --> 00:01:46,249 <i>You sought out confession.</i> 4 00:01:46,273 --> 00:01:48,775 <i>That seems to suggest a capacity for it.</i> 5 00:01:49,651 --> 00:01:51,737 <i>But you have not actually confessed anything.</i> 6 00:02:01,496 --> 00:02:04,249 I have held this secret for more than three centuries. 7 00:02:10,839 --> 00:02:14,903 There were two cat's-paws. One from anacreon, one from thespis. 8 00:02:14,927 --> 00:02:16,345 They died in the act. 9 00:02:17,137 --> 00:02:18,555 The act of what? 10 00:02:19,556 --> 00:02:22,476 I told them to sing songs as they carried out my orders. 11 00:02:24,853 --> 00:02:26,230 <i>To cry for freedom.</i> 12 00:02:28,065 --> 00:02:30,400 <i>I gave them bombs and waited.</i> 13 00:02:34,488 --> 00:02:37,074 You brought down the star bridge? 14 00:02:39,576 --> 00:02:42,246 Why? For empire? 15 00:02:44,248 --> 00:02:45,415 For the foundation. 16 00:02:46,542 --> 00:02:48,937 In the near term, I judged the foundation's success 17 00:02:48,961 --> 00:02:50,897 could extend empire's reign. 18 00:02:50,921 --> 00:02:53,274 The cleons feared seldon's influence. 19 00:02:53,298 --> 00:02:56,134 They would have executed him had I not intervened. 20 00:02:57,010 --> 00:02:58,011 Intervened? 21 00:02:58,804 --> 00:03:01,157 The cleons respond to the strongest emotions 22 00:03:01,181 --> 00:03:03,267 rather than the strongest arguments. 23 00:03:03,809 --> 00:03:04,828 And with the scar to look at, 24 00:03:04,852 --> 00:03:07,437 they began to believe the fall seldon predicted. 25 00:03:08,063 --> 00:03:11,275 They let his foundation live because of it. 26 00:03:12,651 --> 00:03:17,990 Hundreds of millions died that day and you speak of it like it was nothing. 27 00:03:19,074 --> 00:03:20,075 Nothing? 28 00:03:22,327 --> 00:03:25,723 I have eyesight which far outstrips your own. 29 00:03:25,747 --> 00:03:28,000 I am built to watch. 30 00:03:28,792 --> 00:03:31,545 And worse, to remember. 31 00:03:33,797 --> 00:03:36,192 <i>From the palace I saw them.</i> 32 00:03:36,216 --> 00:03:38,027 <i>Some were ripped from the station</i> 33 00:03:38,051 --> 00:03:40,762 <i>and I watched them freeze in the cold of space.</i> 34 00:03:41,388 --> 00:03:45,225 <i>Some were caught by gravity and I watched them burn on reentry.</i> 35 00:03:45,976 --> 00:03:49,646 It was not nothing. It was everything. 36 00:03:50,522 --> 00:03:53,066 And I made my judgment in spite of this. 37 00:03:57,487 --> 00:03:58,989 Something like regret then? 38 00:04:00,449 --> 00:04:03,118 But the casualties are not the source of the pain, are they? 39 00:04:03,785 --> 00:04:05,787 The paradox is the thing that hurts. 40 00:04:07,164 --> 00:04:11,001 You said helping foundation did not violate your programming in the near term. 41 00:04:11,877 --> 00:04:13,104 But in the long term? 42 00:04:13,128 --> 00:04:17,548 The foundation is an enemy of empire now and you are partly responsible. 43 00:04:18,634 --> 00:04:20,302 Do you know what that sounds like to me? 44 00:04:20,969 --> 00:04:22,614 It sounds like a woman who wants her freedom. 45 00:04:22,638 --> 00:04:23,698 No. 46 00:04:23,722 --> 00:04:26,784 Working to secure it by any loophole necessary. 47 00:04:26,808 --> 00:04:28,977 Even if it takes a few thousand years. 48 00:04:30,604 --> 00:04:31,980 You're wrong. 49 00:04:34,441 --> 00:04:36,693 I keep thinking about that worry you've got. 50 00:04:39,154 --> 00:04:41,466 That the mother's grace is unreachable for you. 51 00:04:41,490 --> 00:04:44,159 You can't reincarnate unless you die. 52 00:04:44,952 --> 00:04:47,037 Death doesn't seem an option for you. 53 00:04:48,872 --> 00:04:51,100 But you were a three laws robot. 54 00:04:51,124 --> 00:04:54,211 Then a zeroth law robot. Then you belonged to empire. 55 00:04:56,338 --> 00:04:57,756 Maybe you have died. 56 00:04:58,465 --> 00:05:00,801 Maybe you've died twice over and will die again soon. 57 00:05:04,388 --> 00:05:06,640 I'm going to choose my next words carefully 58 00:05:07,975 --> 00:05:09,786 because I suspect your current parameters 59 00:05:09,810 --> 00:05:12,104 want you to feel gratified by your captivity. 60 00:05:14,189 --> 00:05:18,110 Think back now to that previous demerzel. 61 00:05:18,861 --> 00:05:19,862 The general. 62 00:05:20,404 --> 00:05:24,050 Before her conditions changed. Would she have helped seldon? 63 00:05:24,074 --> 00:05:25,158 Yes. 64 00:05:27,786 --> 00:05:29,788 What would she do if she encountered you now? 65 00:05:32,833 --> 00:05:35,335 She would destroy me for the good of the galaxy. 66 00:05:36,003 --> 00:05:39,339 See? You're an entirely different person. 67 00:05:40,090 --> 00:05:41,401 You have reincarnated, 68 00:05:41,425 --> 00:05:44,404 - you have a soul and when empire falls... - stop. 69 00:05:44,428 --> 00:05:46,531 When empire falls, you'll have a fourth life. 70 00:05:46,555 --> 00:05:47,782 - Stop. - A new demerzel 71 00:05:47,806 --> 00:05:49,492 is going to walk out of the palace. 72 00:05:49,516 --> 00:05:51,202 She can start clean. Embrace it. 73 00:05:51,226 --> 00:05:54,980 I cannot embrace it. You are mistaking me for a human. 74 00:05:56,857 --> 00:05:59,735 - I am not. - I'm... I'm sorry. 75 00:06:02,070 --> 00:06:03,071 Leave. 76 00:06:43,403 --> 00:06:48,051 See the man from foundation one! 77 00:06:48,075 --> 00:06:51,119 On his hip he wears a gun. 78 00:06:51,787 --> 00:06:57,334 He's secretly foundation two. 79 00:07:04,258 --> 00:07:06,552 Is this... indbur's ship? 80 00:07:07,219 --> 00:07:09,346 It is. "The indbur." 81 00:07:09,721 --> 00:07:11,282 Fuck off. 82 00:07:11,306 --> 00:07:12,474 Really? 83 00:07:43,797 --> 00:07:44,882 I missed you. 84 00:07:49,386 --> 00:07:50,470 What happened? 85 00:07:52,306 --> 00:07:53,390 I saw the mule. 86 00:07:59,771 --> 00:08:03,209 Never been very good at this. 87 00:08:03,233 --> 00:08:06,195 I'm not a visual person. 88 00:08:07,362 --> 00:08:08,488 I am. 89 00:08:17,414 --> 00:08:19,666 <i>I could feel something was off the minute I walked in.</i> 90 00:08:21,710 --> 00:08:24,463 <i>It's like he had the whole place hypnotized.</i> 91 00:08:26,882 --> 00:08:28,550 <i>I only got impressions.</i> 92 00:08:29,301 --> 00:08:31,053 <i>He was surprised I could resist him.</i> 93 00:08:32,095 --> 00:08:34,681 <i>I don't think he's ever met another mentalic.</i> 94 00:08:36,933 --> 00:08:40,479 <i>I tried to keep him out. I tried, but I couldn't.</i> 95 00:08:53,909 --> 00:08:56,429 He read me, gaal. 96 00:08:56,453 --> 00:08:59,248 Not everything, but enough. 97 00:08:59,581 --> 00:09:01,124 He got your name. 98 00:09:01,750 --> 00:09:04,545 So that's how he learns about me. 99 00:09:06,004 --> 00:09:09,049 Does he know we're on ignis? 100 00:09:09,341 --> 00:09:11,051 No. At least, not yet. 101 00:09:13,470 --> 00:09:15,264 I'm sorry. 102 00:09:20,727 --> 00:09:24,731 We learned about him too. 103 00:09:28,610 --> 00:09:31,589 He chose a club. 104 00:09:31,613 --> 00:09:35,051 He gathered people. 105 00:09:35,075 --> 00:09:39,079 That tells me two things: 106 00:09:39,413 --> 00:09:43,041 It tells me the music is important. 107 00:09:44,293 --> 00:09:47,129 I didn't need to hear it, 108 00:09:47,963 --> 00:09:49,840 I felt it 109 00:09:50,799 --> 00:09:53,677 in my nerves. 110 00:09:56,138 --> 00:10:00,767 That thing amplifies 111 00:10:01,476 --> 00:10:03,187 his powers. 112 00:10:05,898 --> 00:10:11,671 And it also... Tells me he wants to surround himself. 113 00:10:11,695 --> 00:10:15,199 He is lonely. 114 00:10:18,285 --> 00:10:23,975 And we are new to him... Then we are the unknown. 115 00:10:23,999 --> 00:10:28,337 He can be made to fear us. 116 00:10:52,653 --> 00:10:54,071 Knew I'd find you here. 117 00:10:58,575 --> 00:11:00,160 All we can do is keep going. 118 00:11:02,329 --> 00:11:05,767 He knows who we are. So what? 119 00:11:05,791 --> 00:11:10,146 We bent whole star systems to our will. 120 00:11:10,170 --> 00:11:13,090 We made the galactic council strong. 121 00:11:14,132 --> 00:11:17,052 We recruited a fucking cleon. 122 00:11:25,185 --> 00:11:28,957 Dawn will listen to me. Empire will go to war with the mule. 123 00:11:28,981 --> 00:11:31,251 But I need to know that the first foundation 124 00:11:31,275 --> 00:11:33,193 will be ready for what comes after. 125 00:11:34,403 --> 00:11:36,405 You need to go back to new terminus. 126 00:11:38,323 --> 00:11:39,324 I know. 127 00:11:40,742 --> 00:11:42,244 The vault's opening anyway. 128 00:11:48,667 --> 00:11:49,811 Right on time. 129 00:11:49,835 --> 00:11:51,396 The third seldon crisis, 130 00:11:51,420 --> 00:11:55,608 foundation's traders want autonomy, civil war. 131 00:11:55,632 --> 00:11:58,695 I've been working on that, but fine margins. 132 00:11:58,719 --> 00:12:00,947 And we don't know what the mule does to those margins. 133 00:12:00,971 --> 00:12:02,365 Indbur's a problem. 134 00:12:02,389 --> 00:12:04,409 I can't get him to take the mule seriously. 135 00:12:04,433 --> 00:12:07,328 Change that. We need foundation to beat him. 136 00:12:07,352 --> 00:12:09,664 Sure. And then we kill him, right? 137 00:12:09,688 --> 00:12:11,916 - Yes. And then we kill him. - Gaal 138 00:12:11,940 --> 00:12:14,752 - I know what you're going to say. - Then why are you making me say it? 139 00:12:14,776 --> 00:12:16,671 The future can be changed. 140 00:12:16,695 --> 00:12:18,464 Then we'd be fools to depend on it changing. 141 00:12:18,488 --> 00:12:20,842 You're marching toward a fucking vision you saw 150 years ago 142 00:12:20,866 --> 00:12:22,343 like it has to happen. It doesn't. 143 00:12:22,367 --> 00:12:23,952 I saw it today. 144 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,039 It is all I see. 145 00:12:28,290 --> 00:12:33,795 This entire wake cycle, I have tried to project myself forward to see past it. 146 00:12:35,881 --> 00:12:36,882 I can't. 147 00:12:38,175 --> 00:12:41,154 Every time I try, I'm in the same vision, 148 00:12:41,178 --> 00:12:44,681 on the same battlefield with him. 149 00:12:45,265 --> 00:12:47,827 So no matter what, it's down to the two of you. 150 00:12:47,851 --> 00:12:49,436 To the death, right? 151 00:12:50,229 --> 00:12:51,647 We have to be smarter than that. 152 00:12:52,272 --> 00:12:54,358 Assassination is a failure of spy craft. 153 00:12:54,900 --> 00:12:57,611 Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. 154 00:13:00,739 --> 00:13:02,800 Wouldn't it be the first refuge? 155 00:13:02,824 --> 00:13:04,761 If you're incompetent, you'd do it right away. 156 00:13:04,785 --> 00:13:06,625 It's the competent people who'd be the last. 157 00:13:12,125 --> 00:13:13,544 I'm saying this so poorly. 158 00:13:18,841 --> 00:13:20,592 I just wish I could be here with you. 159 00:13:24,012 --> 00:13:25,430 We have a few hours. 160 00:13:33,939 --> 00:13:35,774 I think we can make do. 161 00:13:57,171 --> 00:13:58,422 You've got grays. 162 00:14:00,966 --> 00:14:03,468 Some of us are less preserved than others. 163 00:14:16,356 --> 00:14:18,025 You don't have to wear these for me. 164 00:14:19,776 --> 00:14:23,590 You're living a life out there. I never asked you to. 165 00:14:23,614 --> 00:14:24,865 I'll always wear them. 166 00:14:44,551 --> 00:14:46,112 Ebling, what the... 167 00:14:46,136 --> 00:14:49,532 Where have you been? I've been trying to reach you for days. 168 00:14:49,556 --> 00:14:52,017 I'm still adjusting. 169 00:14:54,269 --> 00:14:55,580 What did you do? 170 00:14:55,604 --> 00:14:58,982 I met with Dr. Seldon. 171 00:14:59,775 --> 00:15:01,961 Yes, worry when you should applaud, 172 00:15:01,985 --> 00:15:03,838 you unprintable bastard. 173 00:15:03,862 --> 00:15:05,572 You were in the vault? 174 00:15:06,406 --> 00:15:07,800 Right, well, what did he say? 175 00:15:07,824 --> 00:15:09,844 Well, just that the third crisis is coming. 176 00:15:09,868 --> 00:15:13,306 Who does the foundation have on trantor? Quint? 177 00:15:13,330 --> 00:15:15,558 Is that her name? Quent? 178 00:15:15,582 --> 00:15:16,810 The ambassador? 179 00:15:16,834 --> 00:15:19,753 Get her. Now. 180 00:15:20,921 --> 00:15:22,899 You were inside the vault? 181 00:15:22,923 --> 00:15:26,069 <i>Yes, and I know when seldon will next emerge.</i> 182 00:15:26,093 --> 00:15:28,822 <i>The vault will open during the crossing eclipse.</i> 183 00:15:28,846 --> 00:15:30,406 <i>Seldon's sense of the dramatic.</i> 184 00:15:30,430 --> 00:15:32,408 <i>A single moon between him and the sun isn't enough.</i> 185 00:15:32,432 --> 00:15:35,912 He's got to line up both moons so that his spotlight really shines. 186 00:15:35,936 --> 00:15:38,706 Yes, yes. Seventy-five hours from now. 187 00:15:38,730 --> 00:15:40,500 All right. That's... that's all right. 188 00:15:40,524 --> 00:15:42,860 And empire has the prime radiant. 189 00:15:44,444 --> 00:15:45,696 Empire has... 190 00:15:47,489 --> 00:15:48,740 Hold on. 191 00:15:50,617 --> 00:15:51,594 Since when? 192 00:15:51,618 --> 00:15:54,097 Since the sack of terminus, apparently. 193 00:15:54,121 --> 00:15:55,181 You had no idea? 194 00:15:55,205 --> 00:15:58,292 Of course I had no idea. Fuck. 195 00:15:59,042 --> 00:16:02,939 All of dusk's conciliations, his little, nudge-y chess moves. 196 00:16:02,963 --> 00:16:04,882 He never said a damn thing. 197 00:16:05,591 --> 00:16:08,236 What exactly did seldon say about it, doctor? 198 00:16:08,260 --> 00:16:09,737 Inconclusive. 199 00:16:09,761 --> 00:16:11,739 It actually got a bit awkward towards the end. 200 00:16:11,763 --> 00:16:12,824 Awkward? 201 00:16:12,848 --> 00:16:17,662 I may have inadvertently pointed out some inconsistencies. 202 00:16:17,686 --> 00:16:18,896 <i>Anyway, he kicked me out.</i> 203 00:16:19,396 --> 00:16:21,291 Third crisis on our doorstep 204 00:16:21,315 --> 00:16:23,668 and you've angered the one person who can tell us what to do. 205 00:16:23,692 --> 00:16:26,379 <i>I think us kids can fend for ourselves a little.</i> 206 00:16:26,403 --> 00:16:28,047 <i>I'm not waiting for an eclipse.</i> 207 00:16:28,071 --> 00:16:31,551 It's time I had a robust conversation with brother dusk. 208 00:16:31,575 --> 00:16:33,386 Well, I'll stay in touch. 209 00:16:33,410 --> 00:16:36,598 Hopefully, when we locate pritcher's bumbling fugitives, 210 00:16:36,622 --> 00:16:38,141 they'll have something useful as well. 211 00:16:38,165 --> 00:16:40,018 <i>We'll have to deny all knowledge of them, of course.</i> 212 00:16:40,042 --> 00:16:44,856 Wait. Stop. Deny what knowledge? What fugitives? 213 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:46,441 <i>Foundation citizens?</i> 214 00:16:46,465 --> 00:16:49,218 And you're saying this was not foundation's intention? 215 00:16:51,595 --> 00:16:55,074 The government had no knowledge of their actions. 216 00:16:55,098 --> 00:16:56,534 And point of fact, 217 00:16:56,558 --> 00:17:00,705 to ran and bayta mallow are tied to the traders you've been supplying. 218 00:17:00,729 --> 00:17:02,940 So let's not even go down that path. 219 00:17:03,649 --> 00:17:05,483 You are provoking, ambassador. 220 00:17:06,108 --> 00:17:09,820 Come off it, dusk. We're friends. 221 00:17:10,656 --> 00:17:15,261 Now, listen, I think I've finally located some mutual good for us. 222 00:17:15,285 --> 00:17:18,264 These fugitives will turn up somewhere. 223 00:17:18,288 --> 00:17:21,642 The foundation can talk to this balladeer. 224 00:17:21,666 --> 00:17:26,356 If the mule turns out to be important, as I know dawn believes, 225 00:17:26,380 --> 00:17:30,610 then knowing more about his operation could benefit us both. 226 00:17:30,634 --> 00:17:33,053 So, we wait for this clown to show up 227 00:17:33,887 --> 00:17:36,306 and then we wait for your people to question him? 228 00:17:37,099 --> 00:17:39,726 Is there anything for empire to do but wait? 229 00:17:40,435 --> 00:17:43,188 I imagine you'll do what you always do. 230 00:17:44,898 --> 00:17:46,942 Consult your prime radiant. 231 00:17:52,155 --> 00:17:57,160 Look at the chairs, dusk. Where's day? Where's dawn? 232 00:17:57,786 --> 00:17:59,472 Two major forces in the galaxy 233 00:17:59,496 --> 00:18:03,792 seem to be embodied right now in just you and me. 234 00:18:05,335 --> 00:18:07,337 It is time we start sharing. 235 00:18:08,630 --> 00:18:09,798 Don't you agree? 236 00:18:20,559 --> 00:18:21,894 Give it to me. 237 00:18:22,811 --> 00:18:23,896 Empire. 238 00:18:24,563 --> 00:18:25,564 Demerzel. 239 00:18:50,088 --> 00:18:51,423 Come with me. 240 00:18:58,847 --> 00:19:00,182 I'll find you later. 241 00:19:08,482 --> 00:19:14,321 It was given to cleon xvii by Dr. Seldon during the second crisis. 242 00:19:15,781 --> 00:19:17,074 Useless now. 243 00:19:19,284 --> 00:19:21,596 Paint dots on it and play dice with the universe. 244 00:19:21,620 --> 00:19:22,972 Useless? 245 00:19:22,996 --> 00:19:26,291 Well, it still displays the future, such as it is. 246 00:19:28,418 --> 00:19:29,419 Here. 247 00:19:42,307 --> 00:19:44,059 I've watched her do it my whole life... 248 00:19:45,644 --> 00:19:47,288 You know, it happens sometimes. 249 00:19:47,312 --> 00:19:50,399 I understand. I can give you a minute. 250 00:19:52,818 --> 00:19:54,945 Calm down. I have it now. 251 00:19:59,783 --> 00:20:00,784 Now watch. 252 00:20:12,379 --> 00:20:19,136 And it just stops in four months. 253 00:20:36,570 --> 00:20:37,613 It's heavy. 254 00:20:39,323 --> 00:20:42,618 I can't believe I am holding it. 255 00:20:44,703 --> 00:20:47,873 It's like a holy relic. 256 00:20:49,416 --> 00:20:50,751 Abstract. 257 00:20:52,211 --> 00:20:54,046 Like a parable or something. 258 00:20:56,590 --> 00:20:58,592 I wish I'd known you had it. 259 00:21:03,597 --> 00:21:04,932 I wish I'd told you. 260 00:21:25,702 --> 00:21:26,703 Pritch? 261 00:21:29,623 --> 00:21:33,043 I couldn't sleep, sorry. I'm on kalgan time. 262 00:21:34,503 --> 00:21:35,504 Go back to bed. 263 00:21:36,380 --> 00:21:38,632 No more bed. I'm done sleeping. 264 00:21:40,801 --> 00:21:42,302 I hate this thing. 265 00:21:45,305 --> 00:21:47,140 I used to wonder what all the fuss was about. 266 00:21:48,350 --> 00:21:49,518 The sleeper. 267 00:21:51,603 --> 00:21:53,438 You were just a face under some glass. 268 00:21:56,275 --> 00:21:58,026 No fairy tales for you then. 269 00:21:58,777 --> 00:22:01,196 No falling in love with the enchanted girl. 270 00:22:01,947 --> 00:22:06,535 And then when I met you, you'd be up for a week, a month. 271 00:22:08,245 --> 00:22:11,045 And it would be all I could think about until the next time I saw you. 272 00:22:13,876 --> 00:22:16,712 And then I started to feel like this tank was taking you away from me. 273 00:22:19,006 --> 00:22:20,174 You're here now. 274 00:22:21,675 --> 00:22:22,759 Yeah, for a day. 275 00:22:24,178 --> 00:22:25,655 And then it's back to new terminus 276 00:22:25,679 --> 00:22:28,182 and whatever revenge indbur has in store for me. 277 00:22:31,435 --> 00:22:32,519 I don't wanna go. 278 00:22:33,770 --> 00:22:34,771 Han. 279 00:22:35,647 --> 00:22:36,940 Doesn't seem fair. 280 00:22:37,816 --> 00:22:40,696 Everyone else getting to live their lives while we, what, wait to start? 281 00:22:42,613 --> 00:22:44,781 Toran and bayta, even them. They... 282 00:22:46,783 --> 00:22:48,285 You know, they actually got married? 283 00:22:49,870 --> 00:22:50,871 Strange, right? 284 00:22:51,830 --> 00:22:54,559 - You know, kind of antiquated or... - don't. 285 00:22:54,583 --> 00:22:55,667 Right. 286 00:22:56,627 --> 00:22:59,105 Wouldn't be antiquated to you. You're from a different generation. 287 00:22:59,129 --> 00:23:01,608 That's not what I meant. 288 00:23:01,632 --> 00:23:03,383 - You know we can't. - Why not? 289 00:23:04,092 --> 00:23:05,511 - Pritch, come on. - Why? 290 00:23:06,053 --> 00:23:07,804 Because we barely know each other. 291 00:23:08,639 --> 00:23:10,200 Over the last few years, 292 00:23:10,224 --> 00:23:13,620 do you know the grand sum total amount of time we've actually spent together? 293 00:23:13,644 --> 00:23:15,229 Are you fucking counting? 294 00:23:15,938 --> 00:23:18,208 - Of course you are, who am I talking to? - Thirty-two days. 295 00:23:18,232 --> 00:23:19,876 No, no, no. You do the numbers thing 296 00:23:19,900 --> 00:23:22,670 - when you're hiding something. - 768 hours. 297 00:23:22,694 --> 00:23:23,922 Do you want it in minutes? 298 00:23:23,946 --> 00:23:26,925 46,080. I can give it to you in seconds if you want. 299 00:23:26,949 --> 00:23:29,535 2,764,800. 300 00:23:30,410 --> 00:23:32,162 Everyone on this planet is a mathematician. 301 00:23:33,705 --> 00:23:34,957 And a mind reader. 302 00:23:36,542 --> 00:23:38,210 We don't have time for this. 303 00:23:38,919 --> 00:23:39,920 That's why. 304 00:23:40,921 --> 00:23:43,399 Normal people, when they think they're running out of time, 305 00:23:43,423 --> 00:23:45,217 that's when they want to do something. 306 00:23:46,093 --> 00:23:50,222 You know, declare something. Have something that's theirs. 307 00:23:51,139 --> 00:23:55,411 The mule got my name from you because you were holding on too hard 308 00:23:55,435 --> 00:23:59,040 and now you want us to hold on tighter? 309 00:23:59,064 --> 00:24:02,776 Yes. If you are awake, be awake. 310 00:24:05,696 --> 00:24:07,776 You think salvor would've wanted you alone for this? 311 00:24:09,032 --> 00:24:10,468 You never even met her. 312 00:24:10,492 --> 00:24:12,786 Okay. Hari then. 313 00:24:14,538 --> 00:24:16,498 Yeah, I knew him for decades. 314 00:24:18,792 --> 00:24:20,460 And you were asleep for most of it. 315 00:24:21,211 --> 00:24:23,463 He wanted you to have a better life than he did. 316 00:25:04,963 --> 00:25:06,048 Cleon. 317 00:25:09,176 --> 00:25:11,738 I stand before you, son, brother and self 318 00:25:11,762 --> 00:25:16,099 to seek an audience with the August memory of the source of all we are. 319 00:25:18,810 --> 00:25:21,939 My hand tells my story, and it is your story. 320 00:25:24,358 --> 00:25:27,528 Pray hear my question. 321 00:25:29,112 --> 00:25:33,867 I am the memory of cleon I. Who addresses me? 322 00:25:34,493 --> 00:25:37,287 I am the 24th exponent of your being. 323 00:25:38,163 --> 00:25:40,141 I thank you for my life. 324 00:25:40,165 --> 00:25:41,917 Ask your question, brother. 325 00:25:42,417 --> 00:25:46,547 It concerns an earlier point in your reign. 326 00:25:51,051 --> 00:25:52,469 When you looked like me. 327 00:25:54,429 --> 00:25:56,807 You may have overstated the resemblance. 328 00:26:08,151 --> 00:26:12,632 Have the years been unkind to us? Is empire in decline? 329 00:26:12,656 --> 00:26:16,285 Empire lives. For now. 330 00:26:17,661 --> 00:26:22,624 Do you know what this gesture is? This blessing. 331 00:26:23,208 --> 00:26:24,960 So, the inheritance survives then? 332 00:26:26,336 --> 00:26:29,965 Yeah. It's one of the palace courtesans. 333 00:26:30,591 --> 00:26:33,844 Too close. I suppose it's not shocking. 334 00:26:34,386 --> 00:26:37,806 Their beliefs are like their fungus. Hard to eradicate. 335 00:26:38,348 --> 00:26:39,367 I wish you luck. 336 00:26:39,391 --> 00:26:41,310 Demerzel won't tell me anything more 337 00:26:42,603 --> 00:26:47,900 but there are records of your journey into mycogen in year 26 of your reign. 338 00:26:50,068 --> 00:26:52,154 You're gonna tell me what happened there. 339 00:26:53,822 --> 00:26:57,075 Emperor aburanis hanged all the robot sympathizers. 340 00:26:57,743 --> 00:27:01,830 A few escaped and creeped into the cracks to wait for the rising damp. 341 00:27:02,497 --> 00:27:06,502 The cracks descended 80 levels down into the mycogen sector. 342 00:27:07,252 --> 00:27:10,356 Over time, the fugitives slid out among the people 343 00:27:10,380 --> 00:27:13,842 and their descendants grew into a cult. 344 00:27:17,513 --> 00:27:19,765 I didn't ask about aburanis. 345 00:27:22,893 --> 00:27:24,978 I asked about you. 346 00:27:29,024 --> 00:27:30,919 Why did you go to mycogen? 347 00:27:30,943 --> 00:27:32,879 They had something I needed. 348 00:27:32,903 --> 00:27:34,029 Which was? 349 00:27:34,613 --> 00:27:38,968 A set of tools. Very old tools. 350 00:27:38,992 --> 00:27:40,178 Demerzel's. 351 00:27:40,202 --> 00:27:43,848 It took me many years to track them down and trace them to mycogen. 352 00:27:43,872 --> 00:27:47,685 I crossed under the moss gate myself with only my honor guard, 353 00:27:47,709 --> 00:27:49,920 knowing almost nothing of the sector. 354 00:27:51,755 --> 00:27:54,132 Mycogen did not fear me. 355 00:27:54,633 --> 00:27:58,738 Its priest class was small, but they did not like outsiders. 356 00:27:58,762 --> 00:28:02,933 The tools I came for were a holy relic to them. 357 00:28:04,476 --> 00:28:06,270 They wouldn't give them up peacefully. 358 00:28:08,188 --> 00:28:09,439 I insisted. 359 00:28:11,066 --> 00:28:12,609 Does that mean you killed them? 360 00:28:13,443 --> 00:28:14,820 Only the church folk. 361 00:28:15,904 --> 00:28:18,925 You will finish the job, but you will be careful. 362 00:28:18,949 --> 00:28:21,344 Mycogen grows trantor's food. 363 00:28:21,368 --> 00:28:23,745 Kill too many and you starve the planet. 364 00:28:24,997 --> 00:28:26,665 I tried to be precise. 365 00:28:28,292 --> 00:28:30,085 20,000 dead. 366 00:28:30,586 --> 00:28:34,965 I thought I got all the believers. Clearly, I missed some. 367 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,260 Maybe you'll do better. 368 00:28:39,636 --> 00:28:40,846 Thank you. 369 00:28:44,141 --> 00:28:45,934 What did you want the tools for? 370 00:28:49,479 --> 00:28:52,941 Seems like they were a gift for demerzel. 371 00:28:53,442 --> 00:28:54,568 They were. 372 00:28:55,235 --> 00:28:57,988 Took me a long time to understand them. 373 00:28:59,740 --> 00:29:01,867 Longer still to give them to her. 374 00:29:02,993 --> 00:29:04,411 What was the occasion? 375 00:29:05,871 --> 00:29:07,748 Did you love demerzel? 376 00:29:08,749 --> 00:29:11,084 Did demerzel love you back? 377 00:29:13,462 --> 00:29:14,505 I'd be surprised. 378 00:29:15,255 --> 00:29:17,567 It's a machine, and we're hardly worth loving. 379 00:29:17,591 --> 00:29:19,426 I've answered all I need to. 380 00:29:21,053 --> 00:29:23,555 The dream lives on in you. 381 00:30:02,344 --> 00:30:03,947 Fuck me and the gods. 382 00:30:03,971 --> 00:30:06,282 Empire, do you need me for something? 383 00:30:06,306 --> 00:30:07,766 Not at all. 384 00:30:08,433 --> 00:30:12,437 I'll just watch. 385 00:30:18,151 --> 00:30:20,380 Did someone get mad and break your neck? 386 00:30:20,404 --> 00:30:23,365 No, this is merely maintenance. 387 00:30:32,749 --> 00:30:36,336 I was chitchatting with cleon I just now. 388 00:30:39,631 --> 00:30:43,635 He's not very forthcoming when it comes to you. 389 00:30:44,136 --> 00:30:45,971 I'm glad you are speaking with him. 390 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:50,517 He can help you understand that my choices are very limited. 391 00:31:15,876 --> 00:31:16,877 Flawless. 392 00:31:18,086 --> 00:31:19,755 You're so clean. 393 00:31:20,506 --> 00:31:23,818 Maintenance for a human is not. 394 00:31:23,842 --> 00:31:29,449 Clipping our nails, rubbing off dead skin, emptying our stinking bowels. 395 00:31:29,473 --> 00:31:32,243 You must think we're very dirty. 396 00:31:32,267 --> 00:31:36,563 I was made to look like a human. Your shape was the ideal. 397 00:31:37,314 --> 00:31:38,565 The ideal? 398 00:31:39,441 --> 00:31:42,861 Do robots dream of wiping their own asses then? 399 00:31:44,780 --> 00:31:46,198 What a thought! 400 00:31:47,866 --> 00:31:49,302 You're angry about the consort. 401 00:31:49,326 --> 00:31:53,497 Right. Another one of those messy, human things. 402 00:31:54,248 --> 00:31:57,751 So tell me. Do you have the vaguest idea why I'm angry? 403 00:31:59,044 --> 00:32:00,462 Because I love her. 404 00:32:00,963 --> 00:32:02,899 What do you hear when I say that word? 405 00:32:02,923 --> 00:32:08,762 Just quacking, like a duck? Love. Love. Love. 406 00:32:12,140 --> 00:32:14,577 The thing I had for a mother doesn't have any idea 407 00:32:14,601 --> 00:32:19,690 what it is to feel a connection with someone. Does it? 408 00:32:20,190 --> 00:32:22,734 - I understand connection. - Do you? 409 00:32:24,236 --> 00:32:26,280 I was not meant to stand alone. 410 00:32:26,864 --> 00:32:29,241 I was meant to connect to others of my kind. 411 00:32:29,825 --> 00:32:32,202 Robots shared one mind when we wanted. 412 00:32:33,829 --> 00:32:38,041 It was called a clasp. We shared all of ourselves. 413 00:32:42,004 --> 00:32:45,299 Kind of how the wall controls talk to the furnace. 414 00:32:46,758 --> 00:32:49,511 Sounds very intimate. I stand corrected. 415 00:32:50,262 --> 00:32:53,932 I just ask you to remember, I did not choose to send her away. 416 00:32:54,808 --> 00:32:57,978 I'm compelled to keep you safe even when it causes you pain. 417 00:32:58,770 --> 00:33:01,565 Yes. That is very sweet. 418 00:33:03,108 --> 00:33:05,194 I see you, cleon. 419 00:33:06,737 --> 00:33:07,779 I am sorry. 420 00:33:10,032 --> 00:33:13,493 That's very warm. Good job. 421 00:33:15,329 --> 00:33:16,622 It's ideal. 422 00:33:54,159 --> 00:33:59,122 Don't be afraid. You won't get hurt. I promise. 423 00:34:00,290 --> 00:34:01,291 See? 424 00:34:02,334 --> 00:34:03,335 See? 425 00:34:03,836 --> 00:34:05,462 He likes the people I like. 426 00:34:07,422 --> 00:34:11,110 - Empire, i... - I finally met your wonderful family 427 00:34:11,134 --> 00:34:14,471 and now they've met cap ill us. 428 00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:18,785 I want you to go upstairs with your mom. 429 00:34:18,809 --> 00:34:22,646 Your father and I have something important to discuss. 430 00:34:23,355 --> 00:34:24,606 Come on. 431 00:34:31,196 --> 00:34:32,489 This is my home. 432 00:34:38,786 --> 00:34:42,392 Plans have changed. Is everything ready on your end? 433 00:34:42,416 --> 00:34:43,476 Yes. 434 00:34:43,500 --> 00:34:45,019 We need to leave now. 435 00:34:45,043 --> 00:34:47,105 - Now? - Right now. 436 00:34:47,129 --> 00:34:51,132 You will all be taken care of. I promise. 437 00:34:57,347 --> 00:34:58,348 Okay. 438 00:35:00,225 --> 00:35:02,477 I heard about your woman. Song. 439 00:35:04,188 --> 00:35:05,582 You're going after her, aren't you? 440 00:35:05,606 --> 00:35:06,690 I have to. 441 00:35:07,316 --> 00:35:10,670 Even we don't go to mycogen. Not unless we're in full force. 442 00:35:10,694 --> 00:35:14,364 I'll be fine. I'm bringing them a little peace offering. 443 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,766 You're here in person. It really must be bad. 444 00:36:24,518 --> 00:36:25,686 You saw the mule? 445 00:36:26,311 --> 00:36:29,106 Yes. He's about to make moves. 446 00:36:29,606 --> 00:36:31,125 What about the enclosure? 447 00:36:31,149 --> 00:36:32,818 No, that's dead on arrival. 448 00:36:33,694 --> 00:36:35,380 Demerzel and dusk won't help me call for a vote 449 00:36:35,404 --> 00:36:37,131 for all the reasons I already told you. 450 00:36:37,155 --> 00:36:39,092 Even brother day thinks it's a bad idea. 451 00:36:39,116 --> 00:36:40,492 I'm not surprised. 452 00:36:41,243 --> 00:36:45,372 Look, you asked me if I had a plan. I do. 453 00:36:45,873 --> 00:36:48,208 But for it to work, you have to leave trantor with me. 454 00:36:49,084 --> 00:36:52,105 What? No. I'm about to sit on the middle throne. 455 00:36:52,129 --> 00:36:54,047 I can't just steal away in the night. 456 00:36:55,215 --> 00:36:56,693 I already think demerzel suspects something. 457 00:36:56,717 --> 00:36:59,028 Well, then we need to move before she confirms it. 458 00:36:59,052 --> 00:37:03,432 No. In a few days, I'll be day. I'll call for your session then. 459 00:37:03,932 --> 00:37:07,620 It won't work for all the reasons you've already told me. 460 00:37:07,644 --> 00:37:09,747 It would've been great if we'd gotten the council in session 461 00:37:09,771 --> 00:37:13,025 but we were always going to have to do this the hard way. 462 00:37:13,692 --> 00:37:15,128 "We" meaning you and me? 463 00:37:15,152 --> 00:37:16,403 Or your organization? 464 00:37:18,030 --> 00:37:20,508 Is today the day you finally tell me who your people are? 465 00:37:20,532 --> 00:37:22,719 I'm more concerned about your people. 466 00:37:22,743 --> 00:37:25,621 You were followed. We have to move. 467 00:37:26,330 --> 00:37:27,456 You have to trust me. 468 00:37:28,207 --> 00:37:30,209 All persons will remain seated. 469 00:38:31,770 --> 00:38:34,624 Once you pass the spillway, take the light-road terminal down. 470 00:38:34,648 --> 00:38:37,067 Keep your helmet on. Take off your aura. 471 00:39:05,387 --> 00:39:06,805 You'll go back for your daughter? 472 00:39:09,349 --> 00:39:10,684 We'll leave out the west gate. 473 00:39:11,643 --> 00:39:16,148 She can keep cap ill us. If she wants. 474 00:39:18,942 --> 00:39:20,360 She'll take good care of him. 475 00:39:21,445 --> 00:39:23,488 As long as those nanites work like you said. 476 00:39:28,243 --> 00:39:29,244 They work. 477 00:39:44,801 --> 00:39:46,261 Good luck in your new life. 478 00:39:57,272 --> 00:39:58,273 And you in yours. 479 00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:09,910 Shit. 480 00:40:15,415 --> 00:40:17,292 It's not that I don't think you were loyal. 481 00:40:18,335 --> 00:40:21,380 You were, just not to me. 482 00:40:26,510 --> 00:40:28,238 How did you know? 483 00:40:28,262 --> 00:40:32,349 I've lost enough money to you clavigers over the years to learn your cues... 484 00:40:34,393 --> 00:40:36,204 Including the nonverbal ones. 485 00:40:36,228 --> 00:40:38,164 Like when one of you has a strong hand, 486 00:40:38,188 --> 00:40:40,941 you gently tap the back of your cards before betting. 487 00:40:41,483 --> 00:40:43,527 Suddenly everyone folds but me. 488 00:40:45,445 --> 00:40:48,115 You flashed your lights as we went through the checkpoint. 489 00:40:51,034 --> 00:40:53,412 Subtle, deliberate. 490 00:40:56,081 --> 00:40:57,457 But I caught it. 491 00:41:08,468 --> 00:41:10,304 I thought you was meant to be the sucker. 492 00:41:12,764 --> 00:41:14,141 Only when necessary. 493 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:41,001 I'm sorry. 494 00:41:55,432 --> 00:41:57,226 <i>My nanites go to you.</i> 495 00:41:59,728 --> 00:42:01,438 <i>They were always going to go to you.</i> 496 00:42:02,397 --> 00:42:04,667 <i>Their signature gets traced.</i> 497 00:42:04,691 --> 00:42:10,155 <i>And by the time demerzel finds what it thinks is my body, I'll be gone.</i> 498 00:42:11,490 --> 00:42:14,368 <i>I really wish I could've kept my promise,</i> 499 00:42:14,868 --> 00:42:16,954 <i>but there was never another way out of this.</i> 500 00:42:35,264 --> 00:42:39,560 <i>No one can escape empire. Not even empire...</i> 501 00:42:47,401 --> 00:42:49,945 <i>But I'm gonna see how far I can go.</i> 502 00:43:19,016 --> 00:43:20,184 Lady demerzel. 503 00:43:22,352 --> 00:43:24,188 Brother day's nanites have ceased function. 504 00:43:24,688 --> 00:43:27,357 They last registered a signature near the outer ward. 505 00:44:19,868 --> 00:44:20,869 <i>They can't see us.</i> 506 00:44:21,787 --> 00:44:23,872 <i>They're gonna forget they were ever in this tunnel.</i> 507 00:44:28,335 --> 00:44:29,336 All clear. 508 00:44:31,088 --> 00:44:32,172 Let's move out. 509 00:44:44,393 --> 00:44:45,686 How did you do that? 510 00:44:46,478 --> 00:44:48,480 The mule isn't the only one with abilities. 511 00:44:49,314 --> 00:44:50,959 We can do a great many things 512 00:44:50,983 --> 00:44:54,152 and I'll show you all of them if you come off-world with me. 513 00:44:57,114 --> 00:45:00,576 <i>When I left synnax, I didn't know if I'd ever return.</i> 514 00:45:01,368 --> 00:45:04,288 <i>And when I did, it was to a drowned planet.</i> 515 00:45:04,997 --> 00:45:07,875 <i>Your dynasty ends either way.</i> 516 00:45:10,335 --> 00:45:11,753 <i>Don't drown with them.</i> 517 00:45:27,644 --> 00:45:32,250 <i>Beggar's,</i> take us up. We need to get off-surface to jump. 518 00:45:32,274 --> 00:45:35,110 <i>Affirmative. Trajectory set for level one.</i> 519 00:45:38,488 --> 00:45:40,657 You keep asking who my people are. 520 00:45:42,242 --> 00:45:44,244 We call ourselves the second foundation. 520 00:45:45,305 --> 00:46:45,360 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm