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Foundation - Season 3 - Episode 06: The Shape of Time
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01:57I had started to believe I would never meet her.
02:03But that man on Kelgen...
02:05The one in the club.
02:07Pritcher.
02:10I touched his mind.
02:12He was like me.
02:16It took some time to untangle.
02:19But now I realize...
02:21He gave me a great gift.
02:24A name to go with the face that troubles my sleep.
02:32Gael Dornick.
02:36She's visited me in a thousand dreams and now she's here.
02:42In our time.
02:44At my throat.
02:48I have to find Gael Dornick before she finds me.
02:54I have to destroy her.
02:59Even if I have to burn everything to do it.
03:06Get the others.
03:08Prepare the Black Tongue.
03:09Where?
03:11Now.
03:13Right.
03:14Now.
03:16Gael Dornick.
03:17It has been more than 300 years.
03:20You are looking well.
03:22How?
03:23I followed Brother Dawn to Clarion.
03:25He was in communication with you.
03:28Is he?
03:30Where is he?
03:31Maintenance LX-17B suffered an explosive decompression.
03:35Twelve seconds later, Dawn's Nanite stopped transmitting his vitals.
03:39He died for you.
03:40Or because of you.
03:42And you're going to tell me why.
03:44Don't pretend to grieve while you have his replacement in a tank.
03:47I raised him!
03:49I watched his first steps!
03:53I protected him.
03:56He was afraid of you.
03:58Are you?
04:11I assumed Dr. Seldon informed you I was a robot.
04:15I see I was mistaken.
04:21You will tell me everything, Miss Dornick.
04:25How Dawn came to be your instrument.
04:27Why you're setting him this task.
04:29And why I shouldn't end your life this instant.
04:34Sorry.
04:46Don't be frightened, puppy.
04:50Will the Foundation take me away from you?
04:54No.
04:58You and I.
05:00We're good at making people love us.
05:04Approaching new terminus.
05:12Ready?
05:14I don't know.
05:15I like being famous, but this feels more like being important.
05:18No, Tori.
05:19Famous and important are the same thing.
05:21That was in our wedding vows, remember?
05:32Foundation Station.
05:33This is Tor and Mallow of the Chaser.
05:35Requesting permission to dock.
05:37I have a member of the Traitor Alliance on board.
05:43Chaser, this is Warden Fallon Greer.
05:45Do not approach unless authorized.
05:47Repeat, do not approach.
05:49Comply or you will be met with force.
05:51Races keep happening to us.
05:53Listen.
05:54Shooting us down would be about the dumbest move possible.
05:56Which is how I just know.
05:58And we're sitting right there making the calls.
06:01Threats detected.
06:02Chaser weapons inadequate for defense.
06:08Warden Greer, we're here at the behest of Captain Pritcher.
06:14Is he back?
06:15He can confirm our status.
06:18Pritcher?
06:19Yes.
06:20Captain Pritcher.
06:22Captain Han Pritcher.
06:27Ducking permitted.
06:28Come on through.
06:29Oh.
06:46Visitors?
06:46No, they're staying.
06:52Hi, Randu.
07:03More of a Tauron weapon.
07:04Cheers.
07:05You brought this all down on me.
07:07That why you picked him?
07:08All I asked your nephew to do was look pretty and get me in a door.
07:13We both think Embers out of his death.
07:16Truce?
07:24I only need the one hand for that.
07:26No more hitting each other.
07:29They'll never take us seriously.
07:32Didn't see nothing.
07:35You two.
07:36What exactly did you think would happen?
07:38Captain, you came to Randu Mallow's nephew.
07:41Had every reason to believe that whatever you were on to might have repercussions for
07:44the traitors.
07:45You dragged us in.
07:46You know, you don't get to treat us like we're children.
07:49You're the one who got the dizzies on your mission and ran away, remember?
07:53Huh?
07:54That's why you're locked in here, being rude to us when all we did was what you couldn't.
07:59And do you know what?
08:00If someone would actually just listen to us, we could be of some real help.
08:04If I could, I would play and show you.
08:09But they took it away.
08:11The instrument.
08:14It's on New Terminus.
08:17Be nice.
08:18I am nice.
08:22Magnifico.
08:24It's a good name.
08:27An artist's name.
08:29The Mule likes it when you play.
08:31So do the people in the club.
08:33You make it easier for them, don't you?
08:36I provide the Mule's dark fanfare.
08:38Giving timber to his wonders.
08:42Would you work against the Mule, Magnifico?
08:48I only play to eat and live another hollow day.
08:52I would gladly play for another purpose.
08:56Yeah.
09:05Magnifico Giganticus.
09:08Today it is sincere.
09:10You'll come with me now, so I can assess the advantages you might offer us.
09:14No.
09:16Not without her.
09:17Not without my lady, her pet, and leader Uncle Randu.
09:23Greases the wheels.
09:25I'll deal with you all at once.
09:47I'll deal with you all at once.
09:54Please.
09:54Get.
09:54Get.
10:03All right.
10:08Exploded, destroying hundreds of Imperial Triarium 3 cruisers during the advance.
10:13Most of the fleet were reported to be in Kalgan space, before convoys went dark.
10:18You're saying some of the Imperial fleet fell into trouble, or something.
10:23Over Kalgan, I think.
10:26Bad business.
10:27Bad business.
10:29Worse than you know.
10:35What's this?
10:38Sweet from the Micro Farms.
10:41Every one of them tastes different.
10:44Trouble is, sometimes you get one that tastes better than anything, and you can't have it again.
10:52Ooh.
11:07Not like a box.
11:22No.
11:24No.
11:37No.
11:38No.
11:41You can't have it again.
11:42No.
11:43No.
11:43No.
11:43No.
11:44No.
11:56Hello. Can I help you? Do we know each other?
12:06Yes. Yes, we do.
12:22Harry knew you were a robot. How long did he know?
12:26From the moment we met, he knew. I do not know how.
12:29The whole time.
12:31The Imperium is 12,000 years old, Doctor.
12:35Are we really to believe that it could be gone in just 500?
12:40A rotten tree trunk appears strong until the storm breaks it in two.
12:46The whole time I thought he was playing to the Cleons,
12:49but he was making the Foundation's case directly to you.
12:52He had already made his case.
12:54Dr. Seldon correctly argued that the formation of the Foundation
12:56and the preservation of Empire were not mutually exclusive goals.
13:00At least not in the short term.
13:02My memories were used to complete his dataset.
13:05To finish the model, he needed more data.
13:08I provided it.
13:11You've been psycho-history with him.
13:14Then you agreed with his plan once. Do you still?
13:18Domizel. I am his plan. That's what Doran was serving when he agreed to help me.
13:24Any competent engineer builds in redundancy. The Cleons have backups.
13:27Why wouldn't the Foundation?
13:38Another Foundation.
13:41I have studied the Prime Radiant for a century and a half.
13:44For some time now, I'd become aware of certain unknown predictor of variables impinging upon the math.
13:50Shadows, whose existence I came to infer.
13:53I could not precisely quantify.
13:55You're saying the shadows are you?
13:59The makeup of the Second Foundation's different.
14:02We're not blind like the First Foundation.
14:07We have access to the math like you, but we also have certain aptitudes.
14:13Telepathy, extrasensory perception.
14:15Is the mule one of you?
14:17No. No. He's like us, but he's malignant.
14:22His abilities are far beyond anything we can do.
14:25He can convert people, rewrite their behavior.
14:29And the enclosure around Kalgan.
14:32I needed it to fail.
14:34We can empire, send the mule to your doorstep, and then lay siege to him using Foundation ships.
14:40I should have been able to deduce your gambit through the Radiant.
14:44The mule and I are outliers.
14:46And the math seems to break whenever you factor us into the future.
14:51Especially my future.
14:53I told you, mentalics have abilities.
14:56I can project my consciousness forward.
14:59Information cannot travel backwards on the timeline.
15:02Even you can't help but think linearly when you talk about time.
15:05But that's not how the spacers do it.
15:08They talk about time as a shape.
15:11The way that we think about space.
15:12Dimensional. Capable of faulting.
15:14You're not a spacer.
15:15Well, the first time that I went through jump space, I was warned that I couldn't stay awake.
15:22How are you awake?
15:26My mind and body were somehow able to stay together, and what I saw, I saw my lifetime as a
15:34line, and then as a plane, and then I wrapped that plane around me like a blanket, and it was
15:40a shape that I could manipulate.
15:41And I recognize I've been pulling parts of my life toward myself.
15:47All I know is I see things before they happen, at least what's most probable.
15:53I've known about the mule for 152 years.
15:57He's hunting me, and he will not stop.
16:00Four months from now, there will be a battle.
16:03He will find me, and try and pry the home of the second foundation from my mind.
16:09Show me.
16:10I can't. If you were human, I might be able to, but I...
16:14There may be a way.
16:16But I doubt you will enjoy it.
16:41Last I heard you were gladly accepting arms from Empire.
16:44I see you're now accepting fugitives as well.
16:47We take what we're given and make do.
16:48That's how it's always been.
16:50Yes.
16:51Sedition is passed down like a birth defect in your family tree.
16:54That's because you Envers never give us the recognition we deserve.
16:58Well, we're done waiting for a seat at the table.
17:00We brought our own this time.
17:02Let's say I half believe you.
17:04I believe at any rate that Magnifico has value to a space pirate who's got some people, not me, all
17:10lathered up.
17:11Under the circumstances, I'm inclined to send you right back to your master.
17:15He's not a dog.
17:16And he's not yours to bargain with.
17:18We brought him here in good faith on the condition that you would open talks with Haven.
17:22He claims you have no owner, then acts like you belong to him.
17:26Is this a man you can trust?
17:27You think the situation is tender now?
17:28See what it looks like if I go back to the Trader Alliance empty-handed.
17:31Watch your tone, Trader. You are under my jurisdiction.
17:35You think our situation-
17:36He's coming here.
17:40The mule.
17:42Marion Burr, he's coming for Foundation and Empire.
17:46Told me himself.
17:48But I have looked into the mule's eyes and there is nothing in him but cruelty and want.
17:55He will come for us. All of us.
17:58Now, my uncle hates you, sir, desperately.
18:02But he is still here and all he asks is some consideration for our people.
18:07The vault is opening up today. Look who's in this room.
18:13Selden is going to appear and when he does, he might end up talking about the choices you make right
18:18here, in this moment.
18:22Just listen to Magnifico play.
18:26That'll do for a start.
18:29Alright.
18:31The leadership of the Foundation will listen some.
18:34My brigadiers, my commanders, everyone who matters.
18:39Don't make me look like a fool.
19:02In one of my previous capacities, I was required to interrogate various human subjects.
19:08I can extrude filaments from my body and access your brain directly via your sinuses and autoacoustic nerves.
19:15Sounds unpleasant.
19:16It is.
19:19Give it to him.
19:21Give it to him.
19:57There's an old foundation, say.
20:02Selden helps those who help themselves.
20:08As Magnifico played his way into the leadership's hearts, the moons reached orbital resonance and the eclipse began.
20:18It is.
20:19It is.
20:20It is.
20:23For the first time, the competing factions within the Foundation were unified by the gravity of the moment.
20:30They finally understood, deep in their bones, how the mule's powers can be amplified with the visisona in his position.
20:40But without it, he is vulnerable.
20:45And if the Foundation and the Traders can put their differences aside, they can solve this new crisis together.
20:57It strips you down.
21:02That's the way it works.
21:04It disarms you.
21:06It's how we took Calgan so easily.
21:08But as long as we have it and he doesn't, we can defend ourselves.
21:15United by their new sense of purpose, the entire Foundation watched as the eclipse reached totality.
21:23And just as Selden had promised, the vault began to open.
21:41Captured moon in retrograde.
21:43And opposite moon have met.
21:45Time to ring the dinner bell, Inbur.
21:48You know, I'd kind of like to meet this Selden fella everyone's always banging on about.
21:56Anyone else?
22:17Oh, uh, these are for you.
22:29That's very gracious, Empire.
22:34So, uh, it's nice.
22:39It's, uh, it's very relaxing and, um, and there's a window.
22:50So, that's good.
23:05Empire, if I'm permitted,
23:07to ask,
23:11is this part of the arrangement?
23:15Or what I mean is, do you always follow up after?
23:23Am I in trouble?
23:25What do you remember?
23:27You choosing me?
23:30The transport back here?
23:34Nothing else?
23:36Isn't that the idea.
23:39Did you ever wonder why I kept you on for longer than a night?
23:47Maybe it's ego.
23:52But I just assumed I was very good at sex.
24:00Wasn't that?
24:04Sex was bad.
24:05No, I only mean, I'm, I mean it was more than that.
24:16It was...
24:17Put this behind your ear.
24:19What is it?
24:20It's all the time they stole from you.
24:23All your memories.
24:24Wait, I don't...
24:25I stole them back from our memoriam.
24:28For you.
24:30I know it's unorthodox, me coming here, but a few days ago, you would have wanted these memories back.
24:38I don't understand.
24:40What do you want from me?
24:41I selected you.
24:43I selected you, yes.
24:43But as I explained the process, you asked if I would let you keep your memories.
24:49That's nothing new.
24:50We're asked it all the time.
24:52People get cold feet.
24:53They don't like us rooting around in their brains.
24:55But when you asked, you believed I would do it.
24:59You looked at me and saw a person who might do you a kindness.
25:04So, I did.
25:05I threw out the rules for you.
25:07And we lived together.
25:08And you loved me.
25:11You did.
25:13And we had plans.
25:14I was gonna come here with you.
25:16We were going to live out a very dark time in the galaxy.
25:20Right here.
25:22Just put this on.
25:23No!
25:24We had an arrangement.
25:27A business arrangement, and it came with a lot of money.
25:29But I don't want to remember it.
25:31I have a life here, and I'm very certain that you're wrong about what we were.
25:36I'm not!
25:42I'm not.
25:45I know about your beliefs.
25:47The inheritance.
25:49And if you put this on,
25:52you'll find that you experienced something that must qualify as a miracle.
26:00You've met a robot.
26:08I need to feel like I'm drowning.
26:10Like I can't breathe.
26:13That will not be a problem.
26:22No!
26:30No!
26:52Where is the second foundation, the place you made your home and pinned your hopes?
27:07Tell me!
27:15You saw?
27:18I've tried to figure out where the battle happens, I just don't have enough points of reference.
27:23I do.
27:24That was Trantor.
27:27The Imperial Library.
27:31That doesn't make any sense.
27:35Have you ever gone further? Beyond the moment of quantum decoherence?
27:41I've tried, but there's nothing, after that point there's nothing, just, just black.
27:48I want to see it.
27:50You wanna, you wanna do that again?
27:52I phrased it as a suggestion.
27:56Just get it over with.
27:57I'm not sure it's gone.
27:59I'm sorry.
28:00I'm sorry.
28:03I'm sorry, George.
28:05I'm sorry.
28:11I'm sorry.
28:14I'm sorry.
28:22I don't know.
28:59I don't know.
29:16I suffered a system failure and psyched through a heart reboot which resulted in a localized EMP.
29:52Gravitational waves emanating from a black hole.
29:55So for months from now are we orbiting the ergosphere of a black hole.
30:00I don't know.
30:30I don't know.
31:02I don't know.
31:03I don't know.
31:46I don't know.
32:10I don't know.
32:24I don't know.
32:29I came here with an army.
32:29I came with some fucking candy.
32:33And I came alone.
32:38What is...
32:41I didn't know what else to do.
32:42You called someone.
32:43Who did you...
32:45Oh!
32:46Oh!
32:46Stand away from her!
32:48Oh!
32:51Oh!
32:53Oh!
32:59Oh!
33:06Oh!
33:08Oh!
33:08Oh!
33:09Oh!
33:12Oh!
33:16Oh!
33:28Oh!
33:29Oh!
33:42Oh!
33:45Oh!
33:45Oh!
33:45Oh!
33:45Oh!
33:45Oh!
33:49Oh!
33:57Oh!
33:58Oh!
33:59Oh!
34:01Oh!
34:01Oh!
34:03Oh!
35:22I mean, how did he build this?
35:25How is this even possible?
35:27Hello, Ebbling.
35:31How's my biographer?
35:34Oh, um, I've been getting everything into place for you.
35:38Thought we'd be taller.
35:39He's a hologram, lovely.
35:41Yeah, all the more reason.
35:44I am Harry Selden.
35:47I am Trenton Imber III, mayor of New Terminus and leader of the Foundation.
35:53Oh, yes.
35:54Dr. Mist told me of the Indeba's extended tenure over the Foundation.
35:59Oh, thank you.
36:00Excuse me.
36:02When the Foundation was first proposed over three centuries ago, Empire controlled over 10,000 worlds.
36:10Today, that number's barely 6,000.
36:13Empire is contracting, and Foundation has grown a healthy merchant class.
36:18But we have a member of the Alliance of Traders present.
36:25Randall Mallow.
36:28Mallow, no less.
36:30How fitting.
36:32You've likely been involved in a Cold War your entire life.
36:36Torn between sedition and outright insurrection.
36:40A too undisciplined outer arm of the Foundation, pitted against a too authoritarian central government.
36:47The result was obvious.
36:50A revolt by the Independent Traders.
36:54War, though inevitable, can be mitigated.
36:57And beyond this crisis, psychohistory sees something beautiful.
37:01A union of worlds.
37:08But what about the mule?
37:12The mule, Dr. Selden.
37:16The Foundation and the Traders have agreed to a ceasefire so we can fight him.
37:24We know he's important.
37:26We know he is.
37:31What is the mule?
37:37Where is the mule?
37:40Might be the better question.
37:42The answer is already here.
37:46Warden, what is it?
37:47I'm not controlling it.
37:49Alas, the Architect.
37:53Tucked away like a tortoise hiding in his shell.
37:59Do you have a way to look up?
38:02There's a sword dangling on a string right above you.
38:14The Black Tongue!
38:17The Black Tongue!
38:20While you have been pontificating down there, I've been proliferating up here.
38:26Those are our own ships firing on each other.
38:36Just calling the herd before I take the reins.
38:39Then we'll all march on transe together.
38:42That was always my plan.
38:45Tell me, was this part of your plan?
38:56Dr. Seldon?
39:01Help us!
39:15I'm feeling a little tippled, hey.
39:23It's the Null Field.
39:25Seldon's putting it back up.
39:29Run!
39:30Run!
39:39You have given me much to consider, Mr. Ornick.
39:42But will you help us?
39:44You have successfully made the case for what you've characterized as visions.
39:48But until these future events come to pass, I have no way of proving whether these are
39:52actual premonitions or simply hallucinations.
39:56You think I'm crazy.
39:59You're asking me to take action based on your belief.
40:02And until I can assure myself that helping you will not harm the dynasty, the most I will
40:07do in this moment is permit you to live.
40:11You were fortunate tonight, Ms. Ornick.
40:13When I grasp your throat, I assume you will not survive our conversation.
40:23What is it?
40:27Galaxies awash with transmissions.
40:33The Mule has attacked near Terminus.
40:35He will have commandeered the Foundations whisperfully, which means he could be on Trento's doorstep
40:40in a heartbeat.
40:47Pritch.
40:48Pritch, it's me.
40:50If you can answer me, please, just, just tell me you're, you're safe.
41:02Pritch.
41:04Pritch.
41:06Pritch.
41:07Pritch.
41:08Pritch.
41:10Pritch.
41:11Pritch.
41:12Pritch.
41:13Pritch.
41:14Pritch.
41:17Pritch.
41:17Pritch.
41:19Pritch.
41:24Pritch.
41:25Pritch.
41:28Pritch.
41:29Pritch.
41:31Pritch.
41:33Pritch.
41:34Pritch.
41:36Pritch.
41:38Pritch.
41:39Pritch.
41:42Pritch.
41:44Pritch.
41:45Pritch.
41:56Ow!
42:03Hey!
42:16Hey! Hey!
42:45Hey!
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