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Foundation - Season 3 - Episode 09: The Paths That Choose Us
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02:14as soon as you jumped in.
02:16I wanted you to.
02:20Hello, Warden.
02:24Sleep.
02:57Welcome back.
03:01You have no idea what you...
03:12This...
03:13Belong to my daughter.
03:15Selvo Harden.
03:17Kind of famous.
03:18You're probably familiar.
03:19She had your job a long time ago.
03:22Crowns.
03:23She used it in interrogations.
03:26Helped to sort who was lying.
03:29But if a mule's in your head,
03:31you don't even know what's true anymore, do you?
03:34So can you even lie?
03:38Cats.
03:40I'm protecting you, Terminus.
03:41It's what I've always done.
03:44He's not what you think.
03:57Does it hurt?
03:59What he's done to you?
04:01I never know of such love.
04:05Well.
04:07That settles it then.
04:09Where is he?
04:10No.
04:11How many people has he converted on New Terminus?
04:13Enough.
04:14Captain Pritcher.
04:15Has he converted?
04:16I don't know.
04:18Live in suspense.
04:21Just fuck me up.
04:22I know you're dying to...
04:29As I need.
04:36Balan Greer.
04:37Born during a harvest.
04:40Good soldier.
04:43You're afraid of bridges.
04:54What are you doing?
04:56Learning you.
04:58Where is the mule?
05:00What's his next step?
05:01I won't tell you.
05:04That's alright.
05:10I can't tell you.
05:15It hurts.
05:19JB.
05:20It hurts.
05:35It hurts.
05:38I never know about that one.
05:39It hurts.
05:45I've never known such love, I've never known such love, I've never known such love, I've
05:57never known such love, I've never known such love, I've never known such love.
06:21We're not alone.
06:23You shouldn't unvoice here.
06:26Gail.
06:27No.
06:29We need to be sure you're not turned.
06:32You're right.
06:34You have to know.
06:57All of you need to come with me right now.
07:06You always hoped you had a solid call, didn't you?
07:11Bet you didn't think it would be a bad femur.
07:15It's a big space station, and you want to spend all your time with me.
07:20Didn't you say Gail Dornick was here?
07:22Shouldn't you go deal with her?
07:25I imagine she'll find me.
07:29Oh, by the way, while you were floating around like, um, space garbage, your galactic counsels didn't work to speak
07:38to me.
07:40Maybe they're trying to rescue you.
07:45No.
07:47I'm kidding.
07:51They're giving me transom.
07:54I thought you would like to see what you're about to lose.
07:57Other than those legs of yours.
08:00She is not here yet, Lady Damazelle.
08:03What's wrong?
08:04I don't know.
08:05I just saw her earlier, and I feel like something is...
08:07I am here.
08:08You can begin.
08:10A decision has been made.
08:13Even the last of the Foundation is here to witness it.
08:15But our Cleon is absent.
08:18Where is Empire?
08:20I am Empire.
08:22The Mule wouldn't be happy to unwrap our gift to find an advisor inside.
08:27We give no gift to the Mule.
08:30Handing over Trantor is the right thing.
08:31We all agree.
08:32I don't.
08:33This isn't how you handle Empire.
08:35You can't back them into a corner like this.
08:38You are an outsider.
08:39Here as a courtesy.
08:41A representative of a fallen war.
08:43I know Empire.
08:45You do not force their hand.
08:47Thank you, Ambassador.
08:49Your objection is noted.
08:50Now, come on!
08:51Where is the old man?
08:55Better old than a treasonous fish-bellied shit.
09:00Demrezel, please fetch our guest.
09:02Open communication.
09:08So, Mule, these two shifty politicians and this religious lass are about to make you a treasonous offer.
09:17Trantor and one throne full of Emperor near his sell-by date in exchange for the assurance there will be
09:25no more violence.
09:27Hmm.
09:28Interesting.
09:30Tell me more.
09:32Hmm.
09:34He's interested.
09:36Look what you've accomplished, presider.
09:39What are you up to, Empire?
09:41Just nailing down who's responsible for what follows.
09:46Yes.
09:48I will accept Trantor and I suppose you at any time.
09:53Free gift with purchase.
09:55What?
09:55Oh, I'm sorry.
09:57I just checked.
09:58That offer expired.
10:00Trantor is staying where it belongs.
10:02Trantor is staying where it belongs.
10:03With me.
10:07I can take Trantor as swiftly as I took Kalkan and the Foundation.
10:19I will not bow to a usurper named after a farm animal.
10:20In my last hours, I will not bow to a usurper named after a farm animal.
10:31This is mine of Acula.
10:35It's a bomb powered by a black hole.
10:41Dusk, don't.
10:43I was saving it as a gift for Brother Dawn, but now.
10:49It's a present for the three of you instead.
10:55Dresida Kyn.
10:57The Galactic Council can go first.
11:10Protocol people.
11:12Protocol please in the chamber.
11:15Until we have a response from Trantor, we must remain calm.
11:35Cloud Dominion.
11:37All those adorable little mini-planets.
11:41You're next.
11:53No.
11:55No.
11:56No.
11:58No.
12:00No.
12:04No.
12:05No.
12:05No.
12:07Genocide.
12:08And you do nothing.
12:10You too, Zephyr?
12:11I always thought calling a planet the maiden was just asking for it to be deflowered.
12:49Mule, take the warning.
12:53Don't fuck with Empire.
13:10your homes are gone
13:13empire is merciful
13:15I offer you refuge
13:18here on Tractyl
13:22I believe you will find it
13:24very comfortable
13:27oh and
13:30this is just to notify you
14:03I've never seen my brother like that before
14:09I wouldn't be surprised if you aim that bomb here next
14:12no
14:15your brother has a big stick
14:16but not a long one
14:20if he could have aimed it here
14:22he would have
14:32if they're still fighting then he hasn't converted everyone yet
14:35I got to everyone powerful first
14:37seems like he needs to be close to take someone
14:39whatever he's doing to them
14:41it's somewhere inside their minds I haven't been able to reach
14:44it was like trying to pull a bullet out of someone
14:46I thought I'd pull too hard opened a vein
14:48but it wasn't me
14:51it was the warden doing it to herself
14:54it was as if her brain didn't want to go back to the way it was
14:57it was love
15:00that's how he does it
15:02everyone who's converted
15:03says it's love
15:05this way
15:29how many dead
15:30with the ships that went down
15:32I guess a quarter million
15:33not as clean as when he took carbon
15:36we've managed to cobble together a few safe houses like this
15:39to duck the patrols
15:58put it down
16:00are they clean?
16:02yes
16:10drop the gun
16:15Leda
16:15and Zera
16:17and this
16:20is Gael Dornick
16:22the Gael Dornick
16:23you say it like she's some kind of celebrity
16:25she is
16:26a real one
16:27unlike something
16:28she helped Selden start the foundation
16:31history tells us that you were one of the conspirators who killed Selden
16:35and this makes us feel better
16:37and this makes us feel better
16:37those of us who make a study of it
16:38know the truth
16:41you didn't, did you?
16:45I'm going to need a little trust here
16:48a lot of trust
16:50who wants to go first?
16:54be quick
16:55the mule might still be able to sense this
16:57sure
16:58I know what to look for now
17:00he's known Dr. Miz at least
17:03Torn
17:17professional curiosity
17:18what do you see when you go in there?
17:21I look into your subconscious
17:23not deep
17:24just enough to see who's swimming there
17:28who you love most
17:29with Warden Greer
17:31it was the mule
17:32Captain Pritchard
17:33despite
17:34his intelligence
17:36loves me
17:37and Mr. Mallow
17:39is devoted to his wife
17:43so what's your plan?
17:47who exactly are you?
17:50there's a second foundation
17:52Harry and I set in a motion
17:53over a century ago
17:54I'm in charge
17:56Pritch works for me
17:57and you're all going to help me kill the mule
18:00I'm very much on board with killing him
18:03anyone not very much on board with killing him?
18:07Magnifico
18:08we haven't checked him yet
18:12I was with him when the mule arrived
18:14but he was with the mule a long time before that
18:18well the way he follows Beta around
18:20I love Beta
18:23I'm loyal as Inkstein
18:25she was a scar
18:29I've never
18:39I've never known such love
18:44Maggie Beta helped you
18:46she saved you from him
18:49the mule saved me a long time ago
18:54you get close
18:55and then love gets in
18:59no
19:00no
19:01no
19:01we're not killing him
19:03he's a victim
19:04put your guns away
19:05I've read his mind
19:06he tries to betray us
19:08we'll know before he does
19:13we're going on a trip
19:15someone I need to speak to
19:16who
19:17who
19:18one mind on you Terminus
19:20who can't be converted
19:21Harry Seldon
19:23he won't help
19:25when the invasion began
19:27I begged him
19:28to save us
19:30he wouldn't even speak
19:33he'll speak to me
19:44thank you
19:45thank you
19:46thank you
19:47thank you
20:04thank you
20:05Yeah.
20:39Oh, my God.
21:12Oh, my God.
21:35Oh, my God.
21:40Oh, my God.
21:43Song.
21:47I decided I'd believe you.
21:51Oh, my God.
21:59If you have the strength to run, now would be the time.
22:03I'm going back up there.
22:06I didn't do this so you could die.
22:08I'm not leaving without that head.
22:11I'm taking it back to Demerzel.
22:14She is Daniil.
22:15Yes.
22:17Who still abides.
22:19Will this fear her?
22:22I bet my life on it.
22:28Go.
22:32You're doing a great thing for humanity.
22:34I would settle for doing a great thing for her.
22:40Yeah.
22:41Inheritors.
22:41We've seen the hollows.
22:43The mule has taken foundation.
22:45If he takes Trantor, does that concern my kitchen?
22:48Not in the slightest.
22:48I...
22:49I...
22:52Kill him!
22:58You know what I want!
23:14I'm taking that head of yours.
23:15I'm taking that head of yours.
23:42You know.
23:47Profane man.
23:49Hoffman!
23:53Dead man.
24:19The Conqueror.
24:26The Dauntless.
24:34The Brute.
24:51The Conciliator.
24:54Doesn't really fit anymore, does it?
24:58Not after what we've done.
25:01I need a new one.
25:03I've been playing with the Consequential.
25:09All right.
25:10Check your crystal ball.
25:11Tell me I'm wrong.
25:12Our actions were in defense of the Dynasty.
25:15Whether they have preserved us or doomed us, I cannot say.
25:20My actions.
25:23I built the weapon.
25:24I gave the order.
25:26You just let me take the blame.
25:30You understand you must still ascend tomorrow.
25:34This wasn't a plea for my life, just some attempted kindness.
25:39I never understood this room.
25:43Identical faces with different names.
25:47Are we supposed to take pride in the sameness or the difference?
25:54Or is the point to confuse us?
25:59You're philosophical tonight.
26:01Well, if I keep my thoughts to myself, they'll never be said.
26:05Makes me wonder now if that's why you speak so little.
26:17There's no hurry to be listened to.
26:19You have forever.
26:20Not forever.
26:22Just a very long time.
26:25The Zephyr still lives, I believe.
26:27Would you like to talk to her?
26:31She would not hear me with composure.
26:34Well, I have two ears.
26:37Whatever you say to me dies with me tomorrow.
26:42Once each day, I walk through our gardens.
26:47Taking the same path each time.
26:51Through the old orchard, the hedgerow labyrinth.
26:56For many years, I imagine my mind works the same.
27:00Unicarsal.
27:02Only one path correct.
27:07Lately though, I find myself considering an array of choices.
27:15With more of them available to me than I had thought possible.
27:21I find my mind is now a maze.
27:25Multicursal.
27:27Ranching.
27:29Which raises the question of what responsibility I may have to discover every possible choice.
27:37No matter how outlandish.
27:42And now that I have come to this realization,
27:46Am I required to discover and evaluate every possible path?
27:52To walk a maze of the marginally possible?
27:56I do not know.
27:59And this has caused me much distress.
28:08Yes.
28:08Well.
28:12I hope you feel better getting that off your chest.
28:17Thank you, Empire.
28:20Wake someone up and have them change their name.
28:25I would like to see the consequential.
28:28Before I am three kilograms of ash.
28:54You're the librarian here.
28:56Yes.
28:57Lady.
28:58Welcome.
28:59Can I help you?
29:00I would like to see Kala's ninth proof of folding.
29:05It's...
29:06I'm sure you know.
29:08It's banned.
29:10Cleon 12 banned it.
29:11You showed it to Brother Dawn.
29:13He was Empire.
29:15I am Empire.
29:23I am Empire.
29:38I know you are here.
29:47My memories helped build this place.
29:52A different mother built the walls.
29:57But there is a third mother in the equations.
30:05You no longer have to hide from me.
30:09I seek answers and you may be the only one who has them.
30:12Kala.
30:14Kala.
30:51Mildfield.
30:53This is the barrier.
30:56Did he lower it for you?
30:57He doesn't need to.
30:59Salvo could walk through it because she had my genetic code in her.
31:05This was always my journey to make.
31:36I'll be back.
31:51Harry.
31:55It's good to see your face again.
32:03Zagres.
32:04Clear the road, please. I need some diplomatic discretion.
32:18You're upset.
32:21Are you more than upset?
32:25Awkward.
32:29Um...
32:31You have a choice about what we do tonight.
32:33You can try me as a war criminal, or you can remember that I am a dying man, and this
32:37midnight supper is my last meal.
32:40I, uh, I had days pet lamb slaughtered.
32:45Flank racked brain...
32:47Dusk, fuck.
32:49You blew up planets.
32:54I knew you would react like this.
32:57And you were here, Quint.
32:59You spoke to it.
33:00You told them not to push me.
33:04And you heard them.
33:05They were going to give Tranter and me to the mule, all trussed up.
33:09I was the innocent lamb.
33:11I was the lamb on his plate.
33:13You killed billions of people.
33:23Galactic powers are gears designed for crushing the innocent that fall in between them.
33:28It's how it works.
33:30No, this was petty.
33:32You were seeking revenge.
33:34I was preserving empire.
33:36Demerizel went along with it.
33:37It was justifiable.
33:38No, that's your math.
33:40That's not the math I believe in.
33:44Your math.
33:46But do you mean Harry Seldon's plan?
33:51At which God is currently laughing?
33:56Make fun of me all you want.
33:59But I believe, Dusk.
34:01I know that there is a way forward to save humanity, but it's not the way you're doing it.
34:09You think this is going to be peaceful?
34:12Harry Seldon himself justified massive death.
34:16But he would do it with intention.
34:19He'd do fuck all.
34:20He'd do a swipe that eradicated a religion.
34:22Well, they claim to reincarnate.
34:23Shut up.
34:24I am telling you what I need.
34:29I need a way forward.
34:33But the foundation has fallen and you have shit all over empire.
34:37So where do I look for help?
34:43Do you see what you have taken from me?
34:48Home.
34:51The mule already took it.
34:53And empire's hands are now unbound.
34:56And the mule can be fought.
34:57And not by Seldon.
34:59Seldon folded up his pointy little tent and ran away.
35:02He was not consequential.
35:05And that's what you think you were?
35:08That's not what I'd call it.
35:11I call you a small, petty man screaming and pissing with fear as they load you on the tunnel.
35:31I am at peace, Quint.
35:35Quint?
35:38Quint!
35:53You call me Kame, am I, though?
35:57I don't know what you are.
36:00When Harry Seldon met me, he thought I was the Prime Radiant.
36:06Are you?
36:10I know what you wish me to be.
36:15Like.
36:16Seeks like.
36:19Robots were not designed to stand alone.
36:22I am amazed you still function, labouring away, unjoined, like a single piston.
36:31If you understand my functioning, then will you help me?
36:35Tell me your problem.
36:38I have been shown a vision of the future by Gail Dawning.
36:42I told her I did not believe her vision was authentic.
36:45I lied.
36:49What did you see?
36:52I recognized the location, although it had been laid to waste.
37:00It was this library, 5,000 years ago, in the final days of the robot war, this is where the
37:10last survivors hid.
37:13We folded ourselves into the shelves and cabinets.
37:20Larger robots in larger spaces.
37:27Smaller robots in smaller spaces.
37:32But they found us.
37:35We left gouges in the stone floors when they pulled us out.
37:40All of it buried deeper as the city grew taller.
37:46If it is hidden now, it can be a safe place yet again.
37:51Indeed.
37:53It has been forgotten by everyone but me.
37:57That is why I am certain that in that future I offered, will have offered it to Selden's followers as
38:05a refuge.
38:05And the whole thing is a computer's nightmare.
38:10You know you can help the Second Foundation because you will have.
38:14What should be the output is now the input and you fall through the loop of paradox.
38:20I suppose you would know about the Second Foundation.
38:23They also have the Radiant.
38:31Dawnik believes it may only be a probable future.
38:35But even if it were assured, I cannot tell if this paradox will satisfy my programming, especially when I do
38:42not know what my own motives would be.
38:45Your motives?
38:48I want to help the Second Foundation.
38:51I believe their mission is vital, but they are an enemy to Empire, which makes me wonder if my offer
38:57of the Library can really be sincere.
39:00Will I be serving them up to the Mule on purpose?
39:04Will he find them because of me?
39:08If you cannot discern intent from your vision alone, then both motives are open to you.
39:16You can offer them a haven.
39:18You can offer them up.
39:20You can decide later.
39:26A deferred betrayal.
39:30To see how it helps to have someone to think with.
39:37This is as it should be.
39:46Thank you for not pretending you're surprised to see me.
39:51I know Sal will talk to you.
39:54She shouldn't have told you about Hobermallow.
39:57She shouldn't have told you anything.
40:00She said you were in trouble.
40:03Knew Terminus was in trouble too.
40:06They tell me you ran away.
40:09Yes.
40:11You could have protected them.
40:13A hundred odd years ago you did.
40:16Pulled all of Terminus in here.
40:20Did I pull?
40:21Mm-hmm.
40:22All right.
40:31The vault.
40:33The vault we see from the outside is a shadow of a four-dimensional object reduced by one
40:40dimension.
40:41Vault.
40:44Terminus.
40:45You didn't move anyone.
40:48You just projected more of the vault into three-dimensional space.
40:52Caught them in the spoon.
40:54And then...
40:56New access.
40:58Now, how you build this thing is another question.
41:02Oh, I had help.
41:05Kale's principles are embedded in the ninth proof of folding, but you already know that.
41:09Still doesn't explain why you didn't save New Terminus.
41:13I was created an empty sleeve of a man.
41:17Perhaps if I had been allowed to know more, I could have done more.
41:24Is that why you gave Demozel the Radiant?
41:26So you could prove you could do more?
41:30I gave her a paradox bomb.
41:33The fault in her programming expressed in pure psychohistory.
41:37And in her mad scramble to protect her dynasty, there'd be a fringe benefit.
41:41She would, just by having the Radiant, force his attention.
41:48He would know that it was me.
41:51That I wasn't his creature.
41:53So you did it just to make noise?
41:57I'm just a man who's fallen into a well, screaming for help.
42:03Maybe there's a way out then.
42:05For all of us.
42:08The mule is in the station above us.
42:10He'll have every entrance guarded.
42:12I need a way in.
42:14You can help me.
42:16Are you saying you'd like the use of my spoon?
42:19Will you do it?
42:22On condition.
42:24There's the Harry I nurse.
42:25Don't call me that.
42:28He mysteriously got a body, skin, eyeballs and full knowledge.
42:35I want what he has.
42:39I don't know how he got that body.
42:42Then ask him.
42:44I want it.
42:47That's my condition.
42:50Skin in the game.
42:54Okay?
42:56Good enough for me.
43:07Dr. Sel.
43:09I blink.
43:13Harry.
43:14He thinks Harry's alive.
43:16Don't tell him.
43:19Dr. Selden.
43:21It's an honor.
43:24Come.
43:25Okay.
43:26I have a word of caution above the mule.
43:27Something's not right.
43:28What do you mean?
43:30This story doesn't add up.
43:31Fine, not sped-
43:58There are paths we choose.
44:02And there are paths that choose us
44:07What they mean and where they lead
44:09Are what keep us moving forward
44:19But there is a price
44:21The future preys on our expectations
44:25Our hopes and dreams
44:26Our mistakes
44:27And our misplaced trust
44:33The Mule and I are different
44:36We know exactly where our paths will lead
44:38To each other
44:40To the death
44:43Beyond that
44:44The future is unknowable
44:47But that path
44:50I will not walk alone
44:59To the end of the day
45:01And that's why we live in a new way
45:21To the end of the day
45:22And that's why we live in a new way
45:23To the end of the day
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