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Foundation 2021 Season 1 Episode 3
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00:01Previously on Foundation
00:03The Empire will fall
00:05Nothing we do can prevent this
00:08Threaten the peace and pay a dear price
00:11Tell the living and the dead you fail to save them
00:15They called it the Vault
00:17Holly! Holly come back!
00:19I want to see the ghost
00:21It projected a field designed to keep people away
00:24Nothing has ever gotten through the Knob Field
00:29And nothing ever will
00:54Jumping, go back below
00:59beans away
01:02Fantastic
01:07Join the signaling
01:08A victory
01:11A victory
01:14A victory
01:16A victory
01:19A victory
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03:29There are things you will never know.
03:32I may someday know death.
03:34Yes.
03:36But I doubt you will feel it arrive too soon.
03:43I should have seen the completion of the Star Bridge.
03:47Me.
03:49My mind.
03:51My eyes.
03:53We should have ridden up through the orbital platform together
03:56and looked down on all that we had made.
04:00And one day we will.
04:04Your continuity is assured.
04:13Do you think of him often?
04:15You know the way I am.
04:16I don't forget anything.
04:19Or anyone.
04:22Empire is always on my mind.
04:25The platform's orbit is dying at an accelerated rate.
04:29Or so say the physicists who worry it'll just fall on their heads.
04:33Their job is to worry over those things.
04:36Is it not ours?
04:37Perhaps it is still yours but no longer mine.
04:47As it is no longer his.
04:49How you spend these last days is up to you.
04:52Every one of you is different.
04:56Somehow I doubt that.
04:58But thank you for trying to make me feel unique as I shuffle off this stage.
05:02It was hardest on him.
05:10He only had the infant Dawn to place on the throne.
05:13A baby with his eyes.
05:16Identical in every respect.
05:19But a baby nonetheless.
05:22When I think of him, that's what I think.
05:25He also had you.
05:27You.
05:27Please see Master Ilan, Empire.
05:32He's waiting for your final fitting.
05:53Shall we?
05:54The details.
06:01They're perfect.
06:06For the pig stitching.
06:08The jade, I think.
06:16Shoo.
06:17Shoo.
06:17Shoo.
06:24I am sorry, Empire.
06:30I've lost weight.
06:31I am sure your frame is...
06:33I'm shrinking.
06:35The world is beginning to see me from a distance.
06:38The garment is singularly long.
06:42It will be a privilege to wear it at my ascension.
06:47Thank you, Empire.
06:49Shoo.
06:50Shall we finish the job?
06:51Oh.
06:56Ilan.
06:58Let's let the girl have the stage.
07:16Brother Dusk?
07:17I didn't know you'd be here.
07:24Anacreon.
07:26Thespis.
07:27I wonder if you will speak of them after I'm gone.
07:30We have broken the barbarians.
07:31Cast them adrift.
07:33What would you have us say that you haven't said?
07:36I don't know.
07:37I'm still trying to decide what to say that I haven't said.
07:40About the outer reach?
07:41About anything.
07:42About whether any of this is truly within our power to control.
07:48However many words I have left, I would hate to waste them.
07:52You waste them when you speak of the outer reach.
07:54I speak of Selden.
07:56A man long dead.
07:58And soon forgotten.
08:00Does that mean his words have no more worth in this empire?
08:03Brother, the empire is strong.
08:10Cleon the First's legacy.
08:12I wonder if there's a way to save it.
08:15Stabilize it with propulsive lifts.
08:17Push it out into the heavens.
08:19To what end?
08:20To the end that we not destroy the last remnants of Cleon the First's dream.
08:25For lack of our own.
08:27Brother Dusk.
08:37We are the great dream of Cleon the First.
08:41Not the Starbridge.
08:49The dreamer.
08:54The scholar.
08:55The scholar.
08:57And the alchemist.
09:05And me.
09:22I've tried my whole life.
09:24But I don't think I've ever been able to make that phase.
09:30Come.
09:31Your brothers have your last gift.
09:34I would like to thank you, brothers, for this beautiful meal.
09:39I can taste the care you put into each bite.
09:43Your time and your attention is deeply appreciated.
09:49You're very welcome, brother.
09:52But this is not the gift.
09:54I know.
09:54I believe you need to be the firstborn sail.
09:57But I've told you not to pray.
10:02Do not do you want to apply to be the right.
10:06You're right to be on your side.
10:07You're very well.
10:07I feel cured.
10:08I don't know what to do you.
10:09I don't know what to do you.
10:10I feel so good.
10:11I feel so good.
10:11I feel like.
10:11I'm sorry.
10:12ervice daar ahead.
10:12You're ν•˜λ‹ˆκΉŒ.
10:13I don't know what to do you.
10:13I know what to do you.
10:14Imagine here.
10:15And a little bit of space.
10:16I feel the reader.
10:16I feel like you're that kind of, you're right.
10:17It's not just a good shape.
10:18I feel like you're about to be mad.
10:19Welcome to Trantor, the Eye of the Empire.
10:41It's been so long.
10:45He was glorious, wasn't he?
10:49Indeed.
10:51And we will build something greater in his honor for you.
10:56Please respect and enjoy your peace.
11:37I don't know.
12:07I don't know.
12:37I don't know.
12:38I don't know.
12:39I don't know.
12:40I don't know.
12:41I've never heard that song before.
12:43Or have I?
12:47No wonder the Empire loves you so.
12:54I find I cannot quite look on that child as an innocent.
13:00Even if Selden wasn't right, there is something unnatural in that.
13:08You must go.
13:11You should rest.
13:18Strange.
13:23Watching yourself being born.
13:30To be continued.
14:23Sleep. I'll see you tomorrow.
14:40I saw you tonight, watching our first brother in the old Starbridge.
14:46But are we not enough without why you miss him?
14:55Oh, no, sweet brother.
14:58You are enough.
15:00It's just that you always leave me.
15:16Yeah.
15:17Dad.
15:18I love you.
15:19I love you.
15:21I love you.
15:23I love you.
15:25You're enough.
15:27You're enough.
15:29I love you.
15:31I don't know.
16:01I don't know.
16:31I don't know.
17:01I don't know.
17:31I don't know.
17:32I don't know.
17:33I don't know.
17:34I don't know.
17:41It's okay.
17:43You're all right.
17:50Everything is all right.
17:52No.
18:00Something's wrong.
18:01I don't know.
18:08I don't forget anything.
18:24Or anyone.
18:25Empire is always on my mind.
18:31I don't know.
18:40I don't know.
18:41I don't know.
18:42I don't know.
18:43I don't know.
19:13Shh...
19:35To be alive is to know ghosts.
19:44We hear their whispers if we listen.
19:51We're haunted by prophets all.
19:57Are you certain you want it erased, Brother Dorne?
20:01Yes. I've outgrown it.
20:03We ignore the dead at our peril.
20:13And as Empire cycled through a generation of Kleons, the Foundation began colonizing Terminus.
20:23The Empire underestimated Harry. We all did.
20:27Harry had predicted the Kleons would opt for exile over execution.
20:33That his followers' endpoint would be Terminus.
20:37Every aspect of their arrival was predetermined.
20:51Every aspect of their arrival was predetermined.
20:59When the colonists would land.
21:01Where they would build their outpost.
21:05So, imagine their surprise when they discovered that something else was already there.
21:15What in Selwyn's name is that?
21:23What in Selwyn's name is that?
21:25What in Selwyn's name is that?
21:33What in Selwyn's name is that?
21:35What in Selwyn's name is that?
21:39What in Selwyn's name is that?
21:57It wasn't in the surveys.
21:59Shall we go back?
22:01Go back where, Mari?
22:02This is always a one-way journey.
22:04I'll check it out.
22:05No.
22:07We go together.
22:09We go.
22:16Lowry.
22:17You alright?
22:18Yeah, yeah, yeah.
22:19Come on. Come on.
22:20I'm just a little lightheaded.
22:26Get back!
22:30Abbas, get back!
22:39Bye!
22:40Love, bye!
22:45It became known as the Vault.
22:47And over the decades, countless myths grew up around it.
22:49grew up around it. It was an ancient artifact left by aliens. A surveillance
22:59outpost sent ahead by the Cleons. All the settlers knew for certain was that the
23:06vault wouldn't allow anyone to approach it. And so they kept away.
23:19The slow ship was scuttled. A refuge built from its bones. And what was once
23:40mysterious, became mundane.
23:48Her teachers say she's difficult. She's an outsider.
23:54Good. You're not listening to me, Abbas. She's a dreamer. She's distracted.
24:03She's a thinker, like you. She's not distracted. She's aware.
24:13Just look at her. She's fascinated by it.
24:21It's pretty.
24:23It's dangerous.
24:25What do you think's inside it?
24:27We don't know.
24:29Then how do you know it's dangerous?
24:37Come on.
24:39Let's go.
24:43Let's go.
25:00Let's go.
25:33There you go.
25:48Get away.
26:03There you go.
26:33One of these days, you'll get me and you'll be so sorry.
26:39Oh, you're looking good.
26:40Yep, coordinated.
26:42Which parts?
26:43Right boot with left boot.
26:44How did I miss that?
26:46How goes the wild work?
26:48Just got back from patrolling the highlands.
26:50Black and bed are shrinking.
26:52Ice loons are already heading south.
26:53Well, it means we can have a nice warm spring.
26:55Tell me you don't miss it.
26:57But the stench of sulfur and the frostbite, now being a warden suits you a lot better than
27:04it ever did me.
27:07Wow.
27:08That's a big one, eh?
27:09Yeah.
27:10Bishop's claw.
27:11Female.
27:12Maybe 600 kilos.
27:14She's been testing the fence late at night the last few weeks.
27:17I'm going to call her Maple.
27:18She's a loner.
27:22So, my wife, you got me out here this time in the morning, huh?
27:27I know when my daughter's procrastinating.
27:29Come on.
27:31I did a little test.
27:36Something's wrong with the null field.
27:38And what made you check it now?
27:41I don't know.
27:42A feeling.
27:44I checked it out.
27:45I got evidence.
27:46Of course.
27:47And have you told her yet?
27:48I wanted you to know first.
27:49I appreciate that, but it is for her to know.
27:54I stress the evidence part.
27:56I don't know.
28:26I don't know.
28:27Thanks for the effort to talk to Selden.
28:29Cleon 12 established our refuge.
28:32In terms of timekeeping, the water clock is the more precise instrument.
28:35Right.
28:37But it also requires water to work, doesn't it?
28:40Well, obviously.
28:42What happens when the water runs out, Norvis George?
28:44For a sundial, all you need is the gnomon.
28:46That's the blade sticking out of it.
28:48And, of course, the sun.
28:50Harry Selden entrusted us with rebuilding civilization after the collapse.
28:57We can't assume anything.
28:59Whether or not our future survivors will be able to read.
29:01Or what language they'll speak.
29:02We don't even know what worlds they'll be scattered upon.
29:06What if they find themselves on Cygnus Prime?
29:10Well, the only moisture to be gained is from weeping vines.
29:13So, yes, this water clock is more precise.
29:18But the sundial is more practical.
29:20We can't provide for every condition or contingency our descendants will face.
29:24By the same token, we can't preserve every innovation.
29:26So, we have to choose.
29:27And keep choosing.
29:30Until the fall comes.
29:32I would have picked the water clock.
29:34And you could have if you were still training.
29:37Sorry, that was...
29:38I know you're suited to where you are.
29:40Keeping us safe.
29:41Making sure the Foundation survives.
29:42I'm making sure you survive the Foundation.
29:44It's the same thing.
29:45We are the Foundation.
29:46I am not, but you believe.
29:48And that is fine.
29:50No.
29:50Do not make this sound like a cult.
29:51Some of us in our generation, some of us know what real religious father looks like.
29:55Do you even want to know what I came here to tell you?
30:02You know, I don't like being near it.
30:04Yep, well, Dad said you'd want evidence in this.
30:06You've got to experience for yourself.
30:10The Null Field is expanding.
30:13Field used to start there.
30:15Now it starts here.
30:18If it keeps expanding, we might need to clear out the town.
30:21I remember the first time I found you out here.
30:49Four years old.
30:52Little of the night.
30:54Standing right under it like it was...
30:56Nothing.
30:59And you wouldn't turn when I called your name.
31:02Yeah, I thought it was calling to me.
31:04The ghost.
31:07Like an imaginary friend.
31:08I lay on the ground and tried to crawl to you, but the pain was too great.
31:14You just...
31:16Looked at me.
31:19I couldn't understand why the vault was hurting you, but not me.
31:23You're special, Salva.
31:26You always have been.
31:30Then why keep it a secret?
31:35Your father and I didn't want people treating you differently.
31:37Yeah, but they do, Mom.
31:39They always have.
31:44I make them uncomfortable.
31:46Just like the vault.
31:47Is it calling to you now?
31:48Not in words.
31:54Make your case.
31:58I think it's waking up.
32:00You and the other encyclopedists, you've been preparing for some distant crisis.
32:08But I think it's here.
32:11Now.
32:11Hey, now.
32:40Hey, hey.
32:41Oh, you can't get me.
32:42Come here, come on.
32:43Come on, guys.
32:44Hurry up, hurry up, let's go.
32:46Holly, come on.
32:47Hurry up.
32:48Hugo!
32:55Hugo!
32:56Hugo!
32:56Come on, boy, Hugo!
32:58Gentlemen, ladies, what can I do for you grown adults?
33:01You got anything for us?
33:04Corellian chocolate.
33:05Knock yourselves out.
33:06We don't want chocolate.
33:08How about some beer?
33:09I'll let you come back and see me.
33:11We've got hair on your chest.
33:12And don't come begging for it like wayward puppies.
33:15We're not begging, we're, um, trading.
33:17Oh, that's odd.
33:18What, for what?
33:19How about our sparkling wit and company?
33:22Hard pass.
33:26Tell you what.
33:28You clowns could help me load out.
33:30I might be able to scrounge up something a little more age-appropriate for you.
33:33Deal.
33:34I'll do it.
33:35We all will.
33:36Go on, then.
33:37Come on, guys.
33:38Come on, guys.
33:38Come on, guys.
33:39Come on.
33:40Come on.
33:54That smells terrible.
33:56It should.
33:57It's sealant for my gumboots.
33:59More onions than I expected?
34:01I may have used the wrong recipe.
34:03That would be a tragic mishap.
34:04Is it okay?
34:09What's wrong?
34:11There's a man in my kitchen.
34:17How long are you here?
34:1929 long hours.
34:23And how's the rest of the galaxy?
34:25I speak.
34:27You should see it sometime.
34:29Should I?
34:34Arena 4.
34:43Only one continent, but it's tropical all over.
34:46It's got bugs the size of dogs, and they're just as cuddly.
34:49Dropped off medicine, I picked up fruit,
34:51such as the itinerant life of the Wayward Purveyor.
34:54Where'd you take the fruit?
34:55To Hesperus, which you could describe as well as me by now.
34:58But I was off on a whirlwind tour of this little cluster.
35:02And once they started trading, they couldn't stop.
35:06Little rectangular situation of workers and sugar, rum, cash.
35:12Oh, and you think you've got a handful of moons.
35:14You should see what they've got.
35:15This guy looks like spilled coins.
35:17Spilled coins?
35:18Mm-hmm.
35:19I'd love to see that.
35:21Well, you need to go.
35:22Get off this ball of ice.
35:23I've got responsibilities here.
35:27Ah, but you didn't pick them.
35:28No, they're still mine.
35:30And...
35:31Is it possible now you've got reasons to not know what they are?
35:34What reasons are important to this place?
35:37Yeah, it's possible.
35:38It's a little egotistical, but it's possible.
35:40I didn't say I was important.
35:41I said I can't leave.
35:45Speaking of leaving, would you like dinner now or after?
35:47After sounds good.
35:50Oh.
35:51Oh, my God.
36:21What are you doing?
36:51Is there something wrong?
36:53Just a weird feeling.
36:55I'm going to walk the perimeter.
36:57Well, because that's where the weird feeling's coming from.
36:59No, that isn't here.
37:02This is just a walk.
37:03So if I said, uh, let me get my pants, you'd say?
37:07No pants for the next 25 hours.
37:12Okay.
37:13We'll be mad later.
37:16Never.
37:16What are you doing out there?
37:38Stop!
37:49Stop!
37:51It's after curfew!
37:52Hello?
38:10Hello?
38:11Hello?
38:12Hello?
38:12Hello?
38:12I don't know.
38:42Who are you?
39:12What the hell?
39:38I heard a shot. What's up?
39:42Am I crazy? Or is that ship Anacreon?
39:49I thought you were crazy.
39:51But not about that.
39:52And then there are three.
40:04Hail them.
40:05We already have. No answer.
40:06And they're ignoring our approach vectors.
40:09Should we send one of our shuttles out to meet them?
40:11Your unarmed shuttles.
40:13Those are corvettes.
40:15Gunships.
40:15Why is he here?
40:17Because he knows what gunships look like.
40:19Also, he's Thespian.
40:20Been off well since the bombings.
40:22Impossible. That would make you...
40:24Pushing 70.
40:25But I spent half that cry sleeping between ports.
40:27When you tow freight to Anacreon, it pays to be blood-neutral.
40:30Anacreon is under Imperial sanction.
40:33Grow up, Lewis.
40:33Maybe it's a mistake. Maybe they've wandered off course.
40:37They're literally trying to sneak in under our radar.
40:39We are a scientific outpost. We have nothing of value here.
40:42Ma'am, have the Anacreans ever made landfall here before?
40:44No Anacreans, no Thesbans, no one in 30 years.
40:47Under Imperial edict, Terminus is off-limit to all of them.
40:51It's got to be connected to the vault.
40:52What?
40:52The gnaw field's expanding.
40:56I noticed it yesterday.
40:57At what rate?
40:58And the very next day, the Anacreans showed up.
40:59Technically, we are in Imperial outpost.
41:02And Lord knows the Anacreans have a bone to pick with the Empire.
41:05Are you suggesting the vault might be an Anacrean?
41:07I was suggesting the vault knew something and reacted.
41:10Maybe it even warned us.
41:11Are you saying the vault was signaling you?
41:14Because you're somehow special?
41:17Salvor is an outlier.
41:19We need to think whether the plan could have possibly predicted...
41:22Man, Selden's gone.
41:25When are any of you going to start thinking for yourselves?
41:27All right, that's enough.
41:29We don't need to make this complicated.
41:31The Anacreans have ignored our hails and they are violating Imperial Aerospace.
41:36Our course of action is obvious.
41:37We'll uplink to the communications buoy as soon as we hit the next rotational window.
41:42We'll call the Empire and they will come.
41:46Where are you going?
41:47To check out the armory.
41:49If the Anacreans come knocking before the Empire, I'd like to know what kind of violence we can muster.
41:57When was the last time these were broken down?
41:58So we're a little complacent.
42:00We've got an iron pistol if that helps.
42:01Mom, anything we could use in the curation stores?
42:03A few hand axes, a shepherd sling from Weaver's World.
42:06I should have been on top of this.
42:07Not your job.
42:08No?
42:09I keep you safe, remember?
42:10Come on, come on.
42:11General, I propose alcohol at a junction like this.
42:13Rotational windows open.
42:17Handshake protocol just takes a few seconds.
42:33What's wrong?
42:34Comm's buoy is not responding to any of our pings.
42:36It's gone dark.
42:38Use another one then.
42:39There isn't another one.
42:41So what does that mean?
42:41We can't contact the Empire.
42:46We'll keep trying.
42:47Don't panic.
42:49It'll be something as simple as a meteor shower.
42:51A little clear.
42:52On the heels of an Anacrean flyby.
42:55Assuming the Anacreans intend landfall here, how long before they arrive?
43:00Based on their current approach, I'd say another 40 hours.
43:03Mom!
43:11Mom!
43:15Mom!
43:15Let's go.
43:45Whoa.
43:50What is that?
43:54Psychohistory.
43:55All of Harry's work expressed as a mathematical equation.
43:59I took it from his office the night after his funeral.
44:03His numbers are the basis for why we do what we do.
44:07On the ship, there were two people who could actually understand it.
44:10Harry Seldon and Gail Dornick.
44:15Can you make anything of it?
44:20Me? Well, not likely.
44:22Salva.
44:24If you were part of the plan, it would make it a lot easier for me to believe in all this.
44:29Oh.
44:32I don't know.
45:02Yeah, well, big surprise.
45:06It was worth a shot.
45:08Was it?
45:09I told you, difference not the same as special.
45:11I don't know.
45:17Calm Spooie's down.
45:32Well, that is an ominous happenstance.
45:36You should probably hightail it.
45:40Oh, yeah?
45:43The Anacreans will be here in two days.
45:46Maybe less.
45:48You would be safer anywhere but here.
45:50The scenery's so beautiful this time of year.
45:53Vast wastelands of frozen loom shit.
45:56I'm serious, Ugo.
45:57You tend to be.
46:00I'm not going anywhere.
46:02This isn't your fight.
46:03Oh, yeah?
46:04Whose fight is it, then?
46:07Hmm?
46:11Selands.
46:14Well, it's not your fight either.
46:18Come away with me.
46:19I can't.
46:22Why not?
46:26Because I have to protect them.
46:30To be alive is to know ghosts.
46:33The Empire feared Harry because he could forecast the future.
46:38But in reality, all he was doing was re-examining the past.
46:42What do you want?
46:49Pay attention to the patterns and we can presage what comes next.
46:58To be alive is to know ghosts.
47:01We hear their whispers if we listen.
47:03You again.
47:25You again.
47:25You again.
47:27a man.
47:43A man.
47:51What?
47:52A man.
47:53A man.
47:54Hey, there.
48:04What got you, Mabel?
48:13This is gonna hurt.
48:24Easy.
48:30Drop your weapon.
48:38Who are you?
48:40Sauvahardin.
48:42Warden of Terminus.
48:49Anacreans aren't allowed on Imperial soil.
48:55What are you doing here?
48:57The ghosts of the dead haunt the skeletons
49:00that were once our homes.
49:02They surround us.
49:04And they are hungry for what's ours.
49:24And they are hungry for what's ours.
49:28And it is an situação.
49:30Those ghosts are too late.
49:38So do they normally hang out of it?
49:41No.
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