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Foundation 2021 Season 1 Episode 1
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00:01:57farthest reaches of civilization. Unsettled by man, it was the end.
00:02:10And its story remained dark to me until many years later. Until it became my story.
00:02:18Until it became the only story.
00:02:27What is that?
00:02:49Don't do that.
00:02:51Sorry.
00:02:53What are the ends?
00:02:55Uh, we're meeting them at the fence. We're a bit late.
00:02:59Come on guys.
00:03:01Oh dear, it's so hot.
00:03:20Shit.
00:03:22A Bishop's Claw?
00:03:23A valley?
00:03:25We need to go quiet.
00:03:31Long field starts all the way up there. Hit that rock.
00:03:36They called it the Vault.
00:03:39All the colonists knew for certain was that it projected a field designed to keep people away.
00:03:44No one could breach it.
00:03:51Rui, you gonna go first?
00:03:53I thought you were first.
00:03:55You go first and put your marker past the rock.
00:03:58I'll let you touch my tit.
00:04:00Gia.
00:04:01For one minute.
00:04:02Ten seconds.
00:04:04Or you can look at them both for thirty.
00:04:07Swear on your moon.
00:04:09I swear on.
00:04:13You get nothing if you win.
00:04:14Get to watch him piss his pants.
00:04:19He's not gonna make it.
00:04:21Come on, Kier.
00:04:31Go.
00:04:40Come on, Kier.
00:04:41Come, Kier.
00:04:42Are you okay?
00:04:43Are you okay?
00:04:47Your brother is an asshole.
00:04:52Jesus, stop laughing!
00:04:56Are you okay?
00:04:58I was almost there.
00:04:59That was smooth.
00:05:00Polly, where are you going?
00:05:01Shit.
00:05:02Pull it!
00:05:03Polly, come by!
00:05:04We don't have a deal!
00:05:05I know.
00:05:06I want to see the ghost.
00:05:12Okay.
00:05:26Shit.
00:05:38Polly!
00:05:39He's not moving.
00:05:40Polly!
00:05:41We gotta get help.
00:05:42Polly!
00:05:43I'm sorry!
00:05:44I'm sorry!
00:05:45I'm sorry!
00:05:47We gotta get help.
00:05:48Polly, stop in that phone.
00:05:49I'm sorry!
00:06:15They're all gone. Eat.
00:06:27I saw the ghost.
00:06:29You saw me.
00:06:31Eat.
00:06:34You should have turned back like your boy, Kier.
00:06:36People who've tried to get closer have been hurt.
00:06:38Really.
00:06:39You weren't.
00:06:40You got the record, and you're okay.
00:06:44Am I?
00:06:45You mark it so far, no one's ever seen it.
00:06:48That's because it doesn't exist.
00:06:50And neither does the ghost.
00:06:56When do you think it's going to tell us what it is, Gordon?
00:07:00Call me Salvor.
00:07:02And you assume it cares anything about us?
00:07:06It doesn't.
00:07:08It's not just people it keeps away.
00:07:10It's everything.
00:07:11It's birds, insects.
00:07:13No one's ever gotten through the gnoll field,
00:07:14and no one ever will.
00:07:16It's warning us to stay away.
00:07:19So stop tempting fate.
00:07:21Go.
00:07:22Be careful.
00:07:23There's a bishop's claw.
00:07:25Up valley.
00:07:26I know.
00:07:26Salvor Hardan.
00:07:35I would learn these names one day.
00:07:39The heroes and villains fighting for the salvation of mankind.
00:07:46But to understand our future, we have to remember the past and the ones who caused it all.
00:07:53A mathematician, a martyr, a murderer, and the most important player of all, Harry Seldon.
00:08:05She'll be on her way soon.
00:08:22It will all work out, Rage.
00:08:25Everything is dying.
00:08:27That doesn't mean it won't work out.
00:08:30Do you ever wish there was another way?
00:08:33Every day, son.
00:08:37But this is the optimal time.
00:08:40It's time.
00:08:42It's time.
00:08:46Gail.
00:08:47Are you ready?
00:08:52Yes.
00:08:53Yes.
00:08:54All my life, I looked.
00:08:56All my life, I looked out and dreamed of being somewhere else.
00:08:59Now, I realize how much I'll miss this view.
00:09:00I have to remember it perfectly.
00:09:01It's time.
00:09:02Gail.
00:09:03Are you ready?
00:09:04I have to remember it perfectly.
00:09:05No, you don't.
00:09:06No, you don't.
00:09:07We can petition the Sea of Priests.
00:09:08We can petition the Sea of Priests.
00:09:11It's not too late for you to stop this.
00:09:12It's not too late for you to stop this.
00:09:16Yes.
00:09:21All my life, I looked out and dreamed of being somewhere else.
00:09:25Now I realize how much I'll miss this view.
00:09:28I have to remember it perfectly.
00:09:31No, you don't.
00:09:34We can petition this year, Breeze.
00:09:37It's not too late for you to stop this.
00:09:40It's not too late for you to stay.
00:09:42No.
00:09:44There's no place for me here anymore, Mum.
00:09:47I'll die if I stay here.
00:09:50But Enchanta, I'll be safe.
00:09:54Accepted.
00:09:57Hold your head high.
00:10:13That's her.
00:10:18That's her.
00:10:20That's her.
00:10:29She's gone.
00:10:31They all hate me.
00:10:33You don't hate me, do you?
00:10:34Never, Gail.
00:10:36I'll always love you.
00:10:43My greatest joy.
00:10:45Joy.
00:10:50MUSIC
00:10:51MUSIC
00:10:55MUSIC
00:10:58MUSIC
00:10:59MUSIC
00:11:01MUSIC
00:11:15Come with me.
00:11:32We'd be lost out there.
00:11:37Go.
00:11:37I love you.
00:11:47Go, child.
00:11:48Go, child.
00:12:18Go, child.
00:12:48Say something?
00:12:49No, but I was going to ask if this was your first time on an Imperial jump ship.
00:12:54Yes, it is.
00:12:56I'm a bit nervous.
00:12:58Just place your hand on the screen.
00:13:00It will scan your metrics.
00:13:02Gerald.
00:13:05Gail.
00:13:07Cynix.
00:13:08Picked up just a hint of it in your accent.
00:13:11You don't hear it much of the core, but I travel near the Rimwell sometimes.
00:13:15Whoever took the prayer stones out did a great job.
00:13:18You wouldn't see the scars if you didn't know to look.
00:13:21Sorry if I overstepped.
00:13:23It doesn't screw me up, but some people come out of the jump feeling a little hungover.
00:13:27I don't drink.
00:13:28Our parents dove an algae farm and we woke up pretty early.
00:13:31You're going to sleep through this and make sure of it.
00:13:34You can't have the grab on during the jump.
00:13:36I don't know why.
00:13:37Well, the grab generator is output away from that corrupts a jump driver's ability to plot
00:13:41fourth-dimensional points at trans-dimensional speeds.
00:13:43Why are you going to try and tour?
00:13:47I'm going to work with Harry Seldon.
00:13:50I won a math contest.
00:13:51Wow.
00:13:53Harry Seldon.
00:13:54And you from Cynix.
00:13:56It was a pretty big contest.
00:14:03Commencing a job in three, two, one.
00:14:13I won a math contest.
00:14:43I won a math contest.
00:15:13How'd the hell work?
00:15:32It's a pity we had to sleep through the jump.
00:15:35It's supposed to be quite the light show.
00:15:36but if you're not a spacer
00:15:39you can find your body and mind
00:15:41taking different trips
00:15:42I slept through the whole thing
00:15:44wow
00:15:50if the empire is good for anything
00:15:53they can damn well build
00:15:54this is incredible
00:16:06I slept through the whole thing
00:16:36welcome to Tranta
00:16:41the eye of the empire
00:16:43please respect
00:16:47and enjoy the peace
00:16:50were there soldiers?
00:17:00probably didn't make the news on your world
00:17:03some sort of kerfuffle
00:17:05the galaxy's edge in Acreon and Cespis
00:17:08imperial appraisers got caught in the crossfire
00:17:12so now it's a big deal
00:17:13sponsor and contact
00:17:19Dr. Harry Seldon
00:17:21Streeling University
00:17:23expected return to home planet
00:17:25I'm not going back
00:17:28this is my home now
00:17:30any car in the stock
00:17:32please respect and enjoy the peace
00:17:34thank you
00:17:35now that I know you a little better
00:17:41I won't waste my breath explaining everything
00:17:44this party's great
00:17:45this party's great
00:17:45don't worry
00:17:46please make your way
00:17:47to any available car
00:17:49this car will commence
00:17:51its descent down
00:17:52stopped momentarily
00:17:54I'm going to stay awake the whole ride
00:17:56me too
00:17:57it takes 14 hours to drop from Trantor station
00:18:21to the planet's surface
00:18:23although technically it's not the surface
00:18:28billions of citizens spend their lives beneath Trantor's outer shell
00:18:32toiling away on a hundred subterranean levels
00:18:35without ever seeing the sun or the stars
00:18:38whatever remained of the natural world
00:18:50belonged to the emperors
00:18:51dawn
00:18:53day
00:18:55dusk
00:18:58the genetic dynasty
00:19:01clones of Cleon I
00:19:03decanted at different ages
00:19:06master orleo
00:19:22empire
00:19:25how long have you worked for us
00:19:2768 privileged years empire
00:19:30started cleaning the mural when I was 12
00:19:33gone from one end to the other
00:19:35four times over since then
00:19:36now every grain of chroma by heart now
00:19:39tell me
00:19:40are there some colors more resistant to cleaning than others
00:19:44plum
00:19:45periwinkle
00:19:47saffron is a particularly truculent pigment
00:19:51what about crimson
00:19:52is crimson truculent
00:19:55empire
00:19:57it's come to our attention that a tract authored by harry selden
00:20:00was discovered in your quarters
00:20:02apologies empire it was foolish of me
00:20:04it's just that I
00:20:06heard whispers of his proclamations and were curious
00:20:10they refer to selden as the raven
00:20:13don't they
00:20:14i hear he's rather critical of the imperium
00:20:19well i'm happy to report that his words are baseless trash
00:20:24and atrociously written if i might add
00:20:26nevertheless
00:20:28man has a master following
00:20:30people who hinge their hopes on every word raven selden utters
00:20:35words have a way of fanning into wildfires orleo
00:20:40i am loyal empire i would never
00:20:43i know you won't
00:20:44which is why i broached this subject in person
00:20:46empire
00:20:47what are your lessons this morning brother dawn
00:21:01the outer reach kingdoms
00:21:03i learned an old anachron song about hunting
00:21:06well there is a much truth in music
00:21:10a boy bleeds a phone with a knife
00:21:13then takes shelter in her coat
00:21:15that one's not really a hunting song
00:21:17that's a dirty song about a boy's first time with a woman
00:21:20play back in your mind
00:21:25and don't confuse the two
00:21:26brother day please leave the peacock to the cooks
00:21:30you'll be no less fascinating to your biographers
00:21:32brother dusk imagines i do this to be colorful
00:21:35and brother day puts more words in my mouth than he does poultry
00:21:38it's the lard
00:21:40the cooks injected under the skin with a needle right before roasting
00:21:44do you know why they use a needle
00:21:45because it's deficient
00:21:46because they're afraid if they use a knife
00:21:49as is the time honored way
00:21:50they might rip the skin
00:21:52and i'll send them to a stew pot store 50 levels down
00:21:55all of which is a problem
00:21:57why
00:21:59because when people are afraid to do the job right
00:22:02they're certain to do it wrong
00:22:04that's poor stewardship
00:22:06it's poor roast peacock
00:22:08not everything is a teachable moment
00:22:12empire
00:22:13the delegations from thespis and anachron are arriving
00:22:18how do they seem
00:22:19peevish
00:22:20barbarian kingdoms
00:22:23more trouble than they're worth
00:22:25about to reach trade bring tariff projections to the residents
00:22:29dress nice
00:22:32have someone brush your hair
00:22:34it's not the most important thing we'll do this week but it's the most important thing they'll do in their lifetime
00:22:41anachron and thespis observe the mannerisms of each party
00:22:58anachron and thespis
00:23:02observe the mannerisms of each party
00:23:05they hate each other
00:23:15their enmity is legendary
00:23:19but war is expensive
00:23:21and so we have called them onto the carpet to broker a peace
00:23:24thanks for the company
00:23:39good luck with the new job
00:23:41i hope harry selden is worth the trip
00:23:43thanks
00:23:44thanks
00:23:44cute
00:23:50rish rish rish rish
00:23:56where are you
00:23:57that's me
00:24:04what
00:24:05that's me
00:24:07rish
00:24:07i work for hair
00:24:10doctor selden
00:24:12baggage claim is this way
00:24:15no
00:24:16no
00:24:17this is
00:24:18all i have
00:24:19oh okay
00:24:20and the rest of the planet is this way
00:24:23supposed to be a perfect replica
00:24:29not that we know under the outer shell
00:24:32half of level 64 is just servers running skies
00:24:36is there still a seer church here on trantul?
00:24:42down there i think
00:24:43level 22
00:24:45i'd like to see it
00:24:49what?
00:24:54sorry i've
00:24:55i've never met anyone from synex before
00:24:59an expression of compassion and stewardship
00:25:12the mural of souls
00:25:14worked on every day by the senior member of the genetic dynasty
00:25:18the mural depicts the fourth century age of peace
00:25:21and the galactic family
00:25:23notice the active chrome
00:25:25how the pigment subtly moves
00:25:27provincial ambassador zendem
00:25:34do you have a question
00:25:37or a comment
00:25:38about the mural
00:25:39we were just
00:25:41marveling
00:25:42that the empire's benevolent reach
00:25:44for it is a marvel
00:25:46were you
00:26:07praying?
00:26:08no why your lips were moving yeah and when I'm nervous I can't primes
00:26:21Mary said you'd want to see this
00:26:38Gail meet Harry
00:26:48Dr. Selden I am so honored you invited me here
00:26:57what did you think of the Imperial Library
00:26:59it's amazing so many books in one place
00:27:02I imagine books were hard to come by on Synax
00:27:05please sit
00:27:08so you know Kale's ninth proof of folding
00:27:18yes I couldn't have solved a practice without it
00:27:22no one else thought to use it
00:27:24not in 500 years
00:27:26why do you think that is
00:27:29Kale's writing is poetic
00:27:32it's beautiful but it's hard to imagine
00:27:35there's any rigor there
00:27:36so serious scholars don't read her
00:27:39why did you
00:27:43I went to Kale for the rhythm of the words at first
00:27:46I missed the math but when I read between the lines I realized she was
00:27:52proposing a radical theory about rings of integers in non Archimedean local fields
00:27:57indeed she was
00:28:00it does make me wonder though how you managed to stumble across Kale's ninth proof in the first place
00:28:06given where you were
00:28:10this isn't Synax Gail
00:28:12curiosity isn't a crime here
00:28:15I was lonely
00:28:17almost no one there thought like I thought
00:28:20but math doesn't take sides it doesn't judge
00:28:24I imagine you were lonely
00:28:27a mind like yours in a place like that
00:28:30Kale's original proof manuscript written in her native Thraxian
00:28:42I'm going to arrest me tomorrow and you what it's almost a certainty arrest why there's a non-zero chance it won't happen
00:28:55there's a non-zero chance it won't happen but it's not a number worth discussing
00:29:10no this has to be a mistake
00:29:13people why Gail
00:29:15numbers don't
00:29:16are you familiar with my work
00:29:18psychohistory
00:29:19every mathematician has read your
00:29:21do you agree with the concept
00:29:22in theory but I don't know what it has to do with
00:29:25oh it's not a theory
00:29:25it's the destiny of the human race expressed in numbers
00:29:29and it's the reason the empire will take us
00:29:32they're worried you can predict the future
00:29:33they're worried people believe I can
00:29:35and they don't like the future I predict
00:29:38which is what?
00:29:42Trantor is going to be destroyed
00:29:44the empire will fall
00:29:45you understand these aren't things I'm anxious to tell people
00:29:49it's just what the math tells me
00:29:50why let me come all this way
00:29:53just to arrest me
00:29:54that's a good question
00:29:56you tell me
00:29:57I'm sorry
00:29:58how did you want to do it?
00:30:00so
00:30:01I'm so scared
00:30:04that's what I assume
00:30:06and it occurs
00:30:07I think it's just what the magical
00:30:07andGold Side
00:30:07and why i grew up
00:30:08miss a moment
00:30:09yes
00:30:10and why
00:30:10no
00:30:11i come
00:30:14miss me
00:30:14missgar
00:30:17missgar
00:30:18missgar
00:30:21missgar
00:30:22missgar
00:30:23missgar
00:30:24missgar
00:30:27Because I solved Abraxas.
00:30:32They think I'm the only one who can prove you wrong.
00:30:35And you are, if I was, but I'm not.
00:30:39Did you know all this when you were showing me the sights?
00:30:41There's more at stake here than you can imagine, Gale.
00:30:46I risked my life coming here.
00:30:49And now you want me to risk it again just to support your numbers.
00:30:52That's not entirely accurate, is it, Gale?
00:30:54Well, you left Synax one step ahead of Arrest yourself.
00:30:58So you know math is never just numbers.
00:31:01In the wrong hands, it's a weapon.
00:31:04In the right hands, deliverance.
00:31:10Go.
00:31:14Get some sleep.
00:31:16It should take the most of the night to divine your hotel.
00:31:19We'll talk soon.
00:31:21I know it's not the prize you came here for.
00:31:25But it will have to do.
00:31:27I can't keep this.
00:31:28Of course you can.
00:31:29This building will burn one day.
00:31:33Stealing is a mercy.
00:31:34I've read all his work.
00:31:52It's like a history.
00:31:52I just never imagined he'd use it this way.
00:31:56The Empire isn't going to hurt you.
00:31:58They need you.
00:31:59You don't know that.
00:32:00And neither does he.
00:32:01No, you haven't seen it.
00:32:04When a planet wants you dead, you die.
00:32:09Ambassador Xander, planet Anacreon, Outer Reach.
00:32:12Ashekhti, Udehi Majespite, Empire.
00:32:22Carved from the oldest tree in the Tallinn forest.
00:32:26The same wood used to carve the bow of Anacreon's greatest hunter, Larkin Cain.
00:32:30Thank you, Ambassador.
00:32:34Did you enjoy the mural of souls?
00:32:36Yes, Empire.
00:32:37I have never seen anything like it.
00:32:41Honored diplomat Shea and Shea, planet Thespis, Outer Reach.
00:32:45A Thespian Book of Ablushum.
00:32:54The filigree was recently smithed to honor the Imperium Peace.
00:33:00Thank you, honored diplomat.
00:33:02And thank you, both delegations, for making the journey to Tranto.
00:33:08I thought you had a choice.
00:33:11For nine centuries, the Anthor Belt Agreement served your planets well.
00:33:15Last year, Thespis identified a rogue asteroid which they believe drifted from the area governed by the agreement.
00:33:23We took no official position.
00:33:26Just our ten percent.
00:33:27Anacreon believes Thespis acts in bad faith.
00:33:33The Empire believes
00:33:34Imperial blood has been shed on a cold rock 50,000 light years from home.
00:33:46For any of these three beliefs, a thousand wars have been fought.
00:33:51The next days will determine if there will be another.
00:33:54Respect and enjoy the peace.
00:34:02Respect and enjoy the peace.
00:34:17Brother Don, what do you make of that?
00:34:21The Thespans, what to remind you, are important.
00:34:24The Anthor Belt asteroids are to their religion.
00:34:27But look there.
00:34:29In the metal filigree.
00:34:30The pattern in the sigil is made of heavy palladium.
00:34:33The metal from the rogue asteroid.
00:34:35How much would you say of the sigil?
00:34:37Maybe a fifth of it?
00:34:39Closer to a quarter.
00:34:41Currently, the Thespans tithe ten percent of the mind ore to us.
00:34:45This is their way of quietly saying they'll go all the way to twenty-five percent if we side with them.
00:34:51There's no metal here at all.
00:34:53Not even in the arrow tips.
00:34:55That's right.
00:34:58Why?
00:34:59The Anacrians need palladium.
00:35:01They have none.
00:35:03It's like the hunting song.
00:35:05It's not at all about hunting.
00:35:07Art is simply politics, sweeter tongue.
00:35:14The customs of the outer reach may seem idiosyncratic.
00:35:17But our attention to detail is how we maintain the peace.
00:35:22And if the people step out of line, we hit them with a big stick.
00:35:27Mm-hmm.
00:35:32Selden.
00:35:33And the girl.
00:35:36Don't overthink the stick.
00:35:40The Seer Church.
00:35:42Do we have time?
00:35:46Yeah.
00:35:52She can sit.
00:35:55He will stand.
00:35:58But he will need to disarm.
00:36:07The Heretic and I will talk.
00:36:18Upon awakening.
00:36:20Upon awakening.
00:36:22You speak the words.
00:36:24The words make a scene.
00:36:26Do you know who I am?
00:36:28I know that she has torn the sleeper's words from her face and can't be seen by God.
00:36:34But do you know who I am?
00:36:36She has solved one of life's ancient puzzles and cheapened the worth of life into solving it.
00:36:41Of course I know.
00:36:46On Cinex, she's almost as famous as her new God, Selden.
00:36:50He's not a God.
00:36:51No, he is not.
00:36:54He will die as all men like him die.
00:36:58Unseen by God.
00:37:00As will his followers, as will she.
00:37:03You, Galdonik, I'll say this once.
00:37:09Because I am at highest ranking and only see a priest on this forsaken world.
00:37:15If you are in trouble, I can help you.
00:37:23Is that what you want?
00:37:25Do you want me to stay?
00:37:38Will that stop him from arresting me?
00:37:55No.
00:37:56I'll be all right.
00:37:58I'll see you.
00:38:00Will you?
00:38:00Of course.
00:38:02Of course.
00:38:30Some like to pray one last time.
00:38:45Did you eat?
00:38:47No.
00:38:48Oh, my God.
00:38:53I'll be home first.
00:38:53I'll be home first.
00:38:54I'll be home first.
00:39:00Oh, my God.
00:39:07All right.
00:39:07What did you make of her?
00:39:35They haven't gotten her yet.
00:39:38Yet.
00:39:39What do you make of her?
00:39:41She's sold a Braxis on her, I'm sure of that.
00:39:45As for the other question, we shall see.
00:40:05What do you make of her?
00:40:21My name's Lord Avakin.
00:40:43Harry sent me.
00:40:46Where is he?
00:40:49Arrested, as he predicted.
00:40:52You've both been charged with high treason.
00:40:55Conspiracy to destabilize the Imperium.
00:40:58This is a nightmare.
00:41:00Harry wants you to know how sorry he is for involving you in this.
00:41:04It's not his fault.
00:41:06Is it?
00:41:11We can speak freely now.
00:41:14Once the Imperium learned of Harry's conclusions, they made no secret of trying to disrupt the project.
00:41:20Did Harry bring me here as bait?
00:41:22Because I can prove him wrong.
00:41:24He's not wrong, Miss Dornick.
00:41:26But yes.
00:41:27On the bait point.
00:41:29You all right?
00:41:30Hook hurts, but I'm trying not to wriggle too much.
00:41:57All rise.
00:42:00The Tribunal of Cleon XII is convened.
00:42:10You're exalted.
00:42:12The offenders, Dr. Harry Selden and Gail Dornick, are accused of crimes so grave that they threaten not just Trantor, but the entire galaxy's existence.
00:42:23I will prove that Dr. Selden and his followers engaged in a conspiracy designed to destroy the confidence in our empire.
00:42:30Dr. Selden, will you rise?
00:42:36You hail from the world of Helicon, yes?
00:42:38Yes.
00:42:39Will you state your current position here on Trantor?
00:42:43I'm a professor of probability theory at Streeling University, specifically the area of psychohistory.
00:42:52Define that for us, please.
00:42:54Psychohistory is a predictive model designed to forecast the behavior of very large populations.
00:43:03In plain spoken terms, you claim to be able to predict the future.
00:43:09Well, I don't know what you're going to have for dinner, if that's what you're asking.
00:43:13You know what I'm asking.
00:43:15The Galactic Empire comprises some eight trillion individuals.
00:43:18Would you say that was a large enough sample to make a prediction?
00:43:21It is.
00:43:22And do you have a prediction for that particular sample?
00:43:28I do.
00:43:32Indulge us.
00:43:33Trantor and the Galactic Empire will lie in ruins within five centuries.
00:43:40Silence, brethren.
00:43:41Accepting your statement for the moment, can you prove it's true?
00:43:46Only to another mathematician conversant in ordinal analysis.
00:43:49How convenient.
00:43:53Your truths are so esoteric, they escape the grasp of nearly every citizen.
00:43:57They're not my truths.
00:43:58They belong to science.
00:44:00The Imperium is twelve thousand years old, Doctor.
00:44:04Are we really to believe that it could be gone in just five hundred?
00:44:10Maybe quicker.
00:44:12Quicker?
00:44:13A rotten tree trunk appears strong until the storm breaks it in two.
00:44:20Consider recent events in the Outer Reach.
00:44:23We're not here to consider any other-
00:44:25But you must!
00:44:28The Empire will fall.
00:44:30Order will vanish.
00:44:33Interstellar wars will be endless.
00:44:35Ten thousand worlds reduced to radioactive cinders.
00:44:41Nothing we do can prevent this.
00:44:45This period of barbarism.
00:44:52How long do you claim it will last?
00:44:53Thirty thousand years, advocate.
00:44:57I submit to the court that Dr. Seldon's predictions are actually intended to destroy public confidence.
00:45:05I'm not a revolutionary.
00:45:07Well then, what are you?
00:45:10You've already said the future cannot be changed, so what exactly is the purpose of your project?
00:45:16I'm trying to soften the fall.
00:45:23It cannot be prevented.
00:45:25There's massive events rushing to meet us.
00:45:29But we can shorten the dark ages that follow.
00:45:33How much?
00:45:35If we embrace your plans, how much?
00:45:38We should be in the dark for a thousand years, advocate.
00:45:44And if that is all, we should thank the gods for it.
00:46:08My name's not really Gerald.
00:46:12But you can keep calling me that.
00:46:15We've been watching you for some time.
00:46:17From the moment you solve the Abraxas conjecture, in fact.
00:46:21I brought you a gift.
00:46:23He calls it the Prime Radiant.
00:46:26It's beautiful, isn't it?
00:46:27He claims it contains all of his predictions concerning the Empire,
00:46:31expressed as a mathematical equation.
00:46:33Did he allow you to examine it?
00:46:36No.
00:46:38Now, don't you think that's curious?
00:46:39He devises a theory so opaque that no one in the galaxy can understand it.
00:46:44And when he finds an individual who can, he doesn't allow her to look behind the curtain.
00:46:48Why?
00:46:50Because history is littered with charlatans and false messiahs.
00:46:54What if he's telling the truth? What if psychohistory is real?
00:46:57If his equations are flawed, you've a moral obligation to expose them.
00:47:09And if they hold true?
00:47:12Disavow them and go home.
00:47:14And I promise you Empire will find a way to express his gratitude.
00:47:19I'll make the calculus simple for you, Gail.
00:47:22If you say Harry's a liar, he dies.
00:47:25If you don't, you die.
00:47:27So we should just all bury our heads in the sand then?
00:47:29If his equations hold true, then Empire will set about solving the problem, as we always have, without terrifying trillions of people.
00:47:38And I should believe in you, a spy.
00:47:39You should believe in the mines that built Trantor, built the jump drive, that built the star bridge.
00:47:46Where I come from, they call those scientists, not politicians.
00:47:49I know where you come from, Gail.
00:47:52They were called heretics and drowned.
00:47:56I also know what happened on the jump ship.
00:48:00During the jump, you were awake.
00:48:05You were awake.
00:48:07You were aware.
00:48:10Why did you lie to me about it?
00:48:11I don't know.
00:48:14It scares me.
00:48:17What does?
00:48:19Being different.
00:48:21We're all different, Miss Dorney.
00:48:23My sister didn't speak until she was seven.
00:48:26Even then, just nouns.
00:48:27But you're something else.
00:48:29And if you don't know what it is, I urge you to figure it out before someone else does and uses it against you.
00:48:35You're like, no, we don't do this.
00:48:37Also, I do want to explain your life as a living, but the chocolate is something that takes place.
00:48:39I feel the other half of your work and I'm going to make them continue.
00:48:41You're going to stay there.
00:48:43You're going to stay there.
00:48:44I'm going to be a good care.
00:48:45I'm going to stay there.
00:48:47Bye.
00:48:49I'm going to be a good care.
00:48:51I will eat it, I'm going to have to be a good chicken.
00:48:53I'm going to ask you about it and leave the good cooking house.
00:48:55And if you're going to do it?
00:48:57I've got to keep going.
00:49:00I'll take a good job.
00:49:02I'm going to stay there.
00:49:03You claim your plan can reduce the coming darkness.
00:49:31How?
00:49:34The ancients are rumored to have built a repository for the world's wisdom.
00:49:38According to myth, it burnt down.
00:49:40I'm proposing something less centralized, an Encyclopedia Galactica.
00:49:47After the fall, a civilization climbs from the ashes.
00:49:52The coming generations will have something to build upon, a foundation.
00:49:59They won't have to reinvent the wheel.
00:50:01The knowledge will already exist.
00:50:04But it isn't just knowledge we'd be saving, but humanity's story.
00:50:11Our story.
00:50:15Trantor already has an imperial library.
00:50:17For how long?
00:50:20Well, that statement does bring us to the heart of the matter.
00:50:23You said you could prove your theorem to someone conversant in ordinal analysis.
00:50:30Gal Dornick, please rise.
00:50:34Approach the dais, if you would.
00:50:36You're from Synax, correct?
00:50:47We should say that.
00:50:48I am.
00:50:49You've had your prayer stones removed.
00:50:51You almost look like one of us.
00:50:54My understanding of your world is that to remove the prayer stones is to break with the seer
00:50:58church.
00:51:00Is that right?
00:51:01That is church doctrine, yes.
00:51:03Tell me, are they still killing scientists and mathematicians?
00:51:09If you're talking about the purge, then...
00:51:12The church's term is the cleanse, your exalted.
00:51:17When was it, according to church doctrine, that it stopped being heresy to study math?
00:51:21It never stopped.
00:51:23And yet, you solved the Abraxas conjecture?
00:51:26Yes.
00:51:27On a world where they burned the universities down.
00:51:31You must have been lonely there.
00:51:34I can imagine how it must have felt to be recognized by Dr. Harry Selden.
00:51:41To be given a job, to be valued.
00:51:43What do you want to know?
00:51:44I want to know if there is any possible way you can be objective about Harry Selden.
00:51:53I don't know.
00:51:55Maybe I can't.
00:51:57Maybe that's why he brought me here.
00:52:00Last night you were given a chance to assess the accuracy of Dr. Selden's claims.
00:52:05Did you arrive at a conclusion?
00:52:10Yes.
00:52:12Dr. Selden's calculations are correct.
00:52:21The Empire is dying to see.
00:52:25Kill them.
00:52:27End this.
00:52:29Harry, the sky.
00:52:46Something's wrong with the star bridge.
00:52:52Let's go.
00:52:53Please respect it, man.
00:53:03Enjoy the release.
00:53:05Expecting return to home planet?
00:53:07Oh, three days.
00:53:21Okay.
00:53:22Please respect and enjoy the peace.
00:53:30This car will commence its descent down the stalk momentarily.
00:53:34You may feel a jolt.
00:53:36Please secure yourself before commencing descent.
00:53:40I like this.
00:53:46If you want to be someone else, you want to be.
00:53:52Can't you please report us?
00:53:54Can't you stop, Daryamie?
00:53:56I'm not sure you're going to be.
00:53:58Do you have a sense of security?
00:53:59Do you have a sense of security?
00:54:06In the consciousness of the consciousness of the living and the living and the living,
00:54:08Petra Yama!
00:54:38Petra Yama!
00:55:08Petra Yama!
00:55:19Vaccination!
00:55:22Terre Yama!
00:55:38I don't know.
00:56:08I don't know.
00:56:38The tether wrapped around the planet like a garret.
00:57:01It cut 50 levels down.
00:57:03Emperor, shut up!
00:57:05There are reports of Anacrian and Thespian war cries before the explosion.
00:57:22Songs of rebellion.
00:57:23We had no part to this, we...
00:57:25We will, of course, be returning your gifts.
00:57:3086,900...
00:57:3263,000...
00:57:3586,900...
00:57:4163,000...
00:57:43What are you doing here?
00:57:52I petitioned the committee.
00:57:56They're saying 100 million dead.
00:57:58The Outer Reaches may be in rebellion.
00:58:02The attacks changed everything.
00:58:07Harry said there's a non-zero chance you'll die, but non-zero is still a number.
00:58:12You're gonna kill Harry.
00:58:14You.
00:58:14You don't have to die with him.
00:58:18I've already said his math was right.
00:58:21Say you looked at it again.
00:58:24Say you will.
00:58:26You've lost faith.
00:58:29I'm sorry.
00:58:30She doesn't need that.
00:58:31Get her.
00:58:44Shall I speak first?
00:58:47Or will you?
00:58:48By all means, Dr. Selden.
00:58:51Speak.
00:58:52You hold us responsible.
00:58:54How could I not?
00:58:55My science can predict societal actions, trends, not individual ones.
00:58:59But I'm not surprised it happened.
00:59:03Why is that?
00:59:04You're stretched too thin.
00:59:07That's why the kingdoms of the Outer Reach struck first.
00:59:10And who can blame them?
00:59:11Hmm?
00:59:13Sensing vulnerabilities, soon other players will begin to apply downward pressure.
00:59:17An exhortation from one of the galaxy's major religions is a given,
00:59:22or perhaps a homegrown, insurrection here on Tron.
00:59:25Starbridge!
00:59:26Who did this?
00:59:27I don't know.
00:59:30Tell me why I shouldn't kill you and your followers.
00:59:33Right now.
00:59:34My followers aren't responsible!
00:59:35If you do, you'll be dead within the year.
00:59:39The prodigy speaks.
00:59:50So speak.
00:59:52Your agent, Gerald, asked me to check Dr. Selden's work.
00:59:59I went a little farther in the equation.
01:00:01If you kill him, the fall accelerates.
01:00:06That's a convenient data point for your son.
01:00:09Only he can shorten the darkness.
01:00:13Kill him, you kill Hope.
01:00:16Kill Hope.
01:00:17Kill him, you kill him.
01:00:18They kill you.
01:00:20Hmm.
01:00:23What are the odds?
01:00:27The only two people who can save the galaxy are in this room.
01:00:33And one of them is wrong.
01:00:36I agree.
01:00:37If the fall can be accelerated, can it not also be slowed?
01:00:45Yes.
01:00:46By a few centuries.
01:00:48Don't keep us in the dark.
01:00:50End Imperial cloning.
01:00:54Imperial cloning stopped the wars.
01:00:58Imperial cloning brought peace.
01:01:00Our genetic dynasty has reigned for almost four centuries.
01:01:04Surely you can understand the value in a younger mind who shares your intellect.
01:01:10Well, I see the value in difference in the new.
01:01:15You offer nothing new.
01:01:17Just a younger grape.
01:01:20From the same vine.
01:01:22Destined for the same old bottle.
01:01:25You can't save yourselves.
01:01:32But you can save your legacy.
01:01:35Yours or mine, Dr. Selden?
01:01:53How long did it take you?
01:01:55To trigger the Prime Radiant.
01:02:01I got it on the second try.
01:02:06You knew they'd offer it to me.
01:02:14Harry, when I looked at it, I...
01:02:15You know, I really thought they'd try and make it seem more of a fair fight,
01:02:20but they didn't bother, did they?
01:02:22Did we?
01:02:25The Hulk still hurting you?
01:02:30Silas used the same phrase you did.
01:02:33I was lonely.
01:02:35They were listening.
01:02:37You knew they were listening.
01:02:39They're listening now.
01:02:40Fine.
01:02:40I mean, what do you want them to hear?
01:02:44Abraxas was the bait.
01:02:46Not you.
01:02:48I just moved before they did.
01:02:51You have more agency here, Gail, than you realize.
01:02:54The Emperor has determined that your deaths are not the optimal outcome for the good of the Imperium.
01:03:20You will be allowed to refine your work on psychohistory, to build your foundation.
01:03:25But not on Trantor.
01:03:31Terminus.
01:03:32It is uninhabited.
01:03:35Sitting in the periphery, along the galaxy's outer reach.
01:03:38And Acryl and Thespis are also in the periphery.
01:03:41Yes.
01:03:42The barbarian kingdoms will be your neighbors.
01:03:45You will journey via slow ship.
01:03:47The Empire forbids you access to jump-drive technology.
01:03:50You're exiling us.
01:03:52On Terminus.
01:03:53You will not trouble Trantor.
01:03:55And there will be no disturbance of the Emperor's peace.
01:03:59The galaxy will know that you are fighting the Fall.
01:04:03If psychohistory proves fraudulent, your foundation will be allowed to wither and vanish.
01:04:12And if it's successful, you'll co-opt it.
01:04:17And use it to bolster your regime.
01:04:19Terminus, I've never even heard of it.
01:04:25There's no reason you would.
01:04:26It's 50,000 light years away.
01:04:29About a jump-drive, the journey there, 1900...
01:04:31878 days.
01:04:34Approximately.
01:04:35We'll be fine.
01:04:36There'll be hardships, no question.
01:04:40Terminus.
01:04:41Orbit's a red dwarf.
01:04:42The seasons are extreme.
01:04:44Metal and mineral pour.
01:04:45You know it well.
01:04:46Exile was always the plan.
01:04:52Terminus was always the optimal occasion.
01:04:55Out on the periphery.
01:04:56Imperial support without imperial eyes is perfect.
01:04:59How many others knew?
01:05:00Only Raish.
01:05:05What you said to the Emperor, how much farther into my mass did you look?
01:05:10What did you actually see?
01:05:12I couldn't quite figure it.
01:05:13So you lied.
01:05:14I hypothesized.
01:05:16On Sinax, no one wanted to hear that our seas were rising.
01:05:21I thought if I could make people listen, that I could save them.
01:05:24Change is frightening.
01:05:26Especially to those in power.
01:05:28And I could feel the Empire's fear.
01:05:30When I looked into the Prime Radiant, I could see the darkness.
01:05:36It took my breath away at first.
01:05:38It was crushing.
01:05:39But then I looked deeper and I could see this tiny sliver of light at the very end of it all.
01:05:48And I realized it's not the fall they're afraid of, it's the chance that your plan will actually succeed.
01:05:56It takes more power to build than to burn.
01:06:00And I want to build, Harry.
01:06:02And I want to build, Harry.
01:06:03You'll get your chance.
01:06:06I want to build, Harry.
01:06:06I want to build, Harry.
01:06:07This isn't the Foundation's first crisis and it won't be our last.
01:06:11Something tells me you already know what the next crisis will be.
01:06:16The Emperor's peace will be maintained.
01:06:25From Sinax to Trantor, now Terminus.
01:06:30You came here hoping to save your world.
01:06:32I'm asking you to dream bigger.
01:06:34Why stop at one world?
01:06:37Why not save the galaxy?
01:06:40Why not indeed?
01:07:04Harry had planned for it all.
01:07:13Things only he saw over the horizon.
01:07:20Psychohistory could forecast the behavior of entire populations with stunning accuracy.
01:07:25But when it came to individuals, things got murkier.
01:07:34No one could approach the vault.
01:07:37No one but an outlier like Salvo Hardin.
01:07:41And I always wondered.
01:07:44When Harry was formulating his plan,
01:07:47did he realize the galaxy's fate would rest in what she found inside?
01:07:53I think he did.
01:07:55And I think that's what he feared the most.
01:07:58That's what he feared the most.
01:08:08I'm really thankful for him.
01:08:10I am a really Winston-Gal пред� constructions with the Earth.
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