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Foundation - Season 3 - Episode 01: A Song for the End of Everything
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00:00If you live long enough, time can be a weapon.
00:06Steady cycles of cryosleep have kept me alive for more than three centuries.
00:11And in my time, I've watched the Foundation grow and Empire decline faster than anyone could have predicted, except Harry
00:19Seldon.
00:21It's been 152 years since the second crisis.
00:24Foundation now controls the entire Outer Reach and is pushing into the Middle Band, a string of independent planets once
00:33owned by Empire.
00:34The most important of these is Kalgan, the Pleasure Planet.
00:44Both Empire and Foundation know if they control Kalgan, the rest of the Middle Band will follow, and the galaxy
00:51could be theirs.
00:53But someone else knows this too, someone that's haunted my dreams for years.
01:00And the minute the mule makes himself known, nothing will ever be the same again.
01:19Anything on radar?
01:21Gravity signatures?
01:23Not as yet, sir.
01:25No unregistered vehicles in orbit.
01:27Son of a horse at eight bells.
01:31Eight bells or the puck dies.
01:37One unregistered vehicles in orbit.
01:37Where is he?
01:47It is Baladeer, a clown set to Herald as a rival.
01:51He says, that's my key for that.
01:55Life form, on foot.
01:58Alone.
01:59And unarmed.
02:28Archduke Balerion.
02:30You are the mule?
02:33I am.
02:34The strange sobriquet.
02:37Well, my parents consider me stopping.
02:40Where is my daughter?
02:42Your run thing is quite safe.
02:45She'll be released when I have what I want.
02:48Name your ransom.
02:50Surrender Kalgan.
02:52It's navy, it's coffers.
02:54They stole me as the new warlord.
02:57Well, Kalgan is an independent buffer state between the Imperium and the Foundation.
03:06Any act of aggression, even by pirate, would trigger a military response from both.
03:12Yes, well, I intend to consume the Imperium along with the Foundation.
03:20You see, I have a very large appetite.
03:27One only a galaxy can satisfy.
03:30And you were a fool to approach without an army.
03:33I require no army.
03:36I have talents, you see.
03:43I can compel people.
03:45I can worm my way into people's minds.
03:49Convert enemies into allies.
03:52Hate into love.
04:00Take your flagship.
04:03I'm planting a notion in your wing commander's mind.
04:08He's thinking,
04:09Hey, why don't I fire on my fellow ships?
04:16Then I'm suggesting that each of the other ship's captains do the same.
04:21Nothing hectic.
04:23Just a little...
04:26Nudge.
04:43Kill him.
04:44Choose him, man.
04:45I infected your hand, then.
04:47Do you think I haven't infected your infantry?
04:50Nudge.
04:52Nudge.
04:55Nudge.
04:55Nudge.
04:56Nudge.
04:56Nudge.
04:56Nudge.
04:57Nudge.
05:19You don't want to do that, Balerion.
05:24You love me.
05:27Nothing would make you happier
05:29than installing me as the new lord of Kalkin.
05:35But I need your signet ring first.
05:53Please.
05:55If you would.
06:18I need your signet ring first.
06:25I need your signet ring first.
06:25Okay.
06:28I like it.
06:33You can shoot yourself now.
06:35Nothing hectic.
06:38And in your own time, of course.
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16:17everyone says those naval losses over terminus under cleon 17 are why they asserted new
16:23authority but that's only part of it yes uh it's our genetic drift and the legacy bequeathed us
16:30by the tampering at any rate uh i convince the council to fall in line the traders will be
16:36supplied and empire stays erect well i'm glad someone can yes
16:43and the foundation will be kept busy for years chasing its own rebellious tale
16:48all the other business was incidental kalgan's fall into piracy brother jay will be sad he loves
16:56a gambling trip i heard about that well that's a meaty prize that'll soon be grabbed up
17:03and this new pirate calls himself the mule won't keep it for long will he what a life that must
17:11be
17:11though sleeping among the stars no one to answer to living and dying on your own terms
17:23demrozel has identified a complication with the selden crisis i'm not surprised but we're playing it
17:30correctly the bucket tips water sloshes to the brink crisis grab it tightly water sloshes back in
17:42i hope so ascension used to seem like it would never come now it's honest like a wolf
17:50you are speaking to a man who can smell the beast's breath
18:14i can never decide whether the runners were weak for showing their fear
18:20or it was good they died honest
18:24do you think you could run not a chance not because i'd be stopped which i certainly would
18:32i don't have it in here habit genetics time for good or for bad most of us are obedient as
18:43as
18:43uh
19:05time unravels and we unravel with it
19:08as the last remaining shards of terminus disappeared into the abyss
19:13a new terminus was born a parsec away
19:18over the next 150 years the foundation prospered shedding their religious roots and entering their
19:25expansionist phase but their success brought challenges from within an increasing divide
19:32between those with power and those with influence a faction within the foundation called the traders
19:38are threatening to secede which could unravel everything the foundation has built the last three centuries
19:53professor eblingness had been studying this rift for years and knew exactly where it was all headed
19:59a third crisis
20:01so he went to meet the only man who could solve it
20:05harry selden
20:43harry selden
20:48Fucking hell, you've gnarled my gnarled field.
20:54No one's ever done that before.
21:00Nicely done.
21:02What a beautiful day.
21:10I look like him, I know.
21:13My name is Dr. Ebling Miz.
21:15I'm descended from a man named Xylus, who prosecuted you during the tribunal of Cleon XII.
21:21My family has been a footnote in your story, hence my fascination.
21:30I am your biographer, a self-taught psychohistorian, and if I may, the man best suited to assisting you in
21:37your upcoming manifestation.
21:41All right.
21:44It's so sweaty.
21:46Oh.
21:51Apologies for that. It's a human frailty heat.
21:55I have dreamed of this moment for decades.
22:04Selden, man, myth, legend.
22:08Well, you have the myth, at least.
22:15The man is elsewhere.
22:23Oh, this...
22:30This is your Trantor office in Replica.
22:37So, if I'm not mistaken, Foundation's religious phase would have long since ended.
22:44Succeeded by an ever-expanding worship of trade.
22:48A minority of merchant princes pitted against a conservative majority.
22:53Oh, no, no, no, no. Far too generous. More like a monarchy.
22:57The last few mayors have all been little lords named Indba, who shit out more little lords.
23:03You know, he put his office in geosynchronous orbit with the vault, so that he's always above you, galaxy.
23:09Oh, no, no, no, no.
23:13Standards have fallen since the days of Polyverisov.
23:17The Foundation has become... comfortable.
23:21Incapable, possibly, of facing the coming crisis.
23:24And the traders are the crisis, are they not?
23:32No, no, of course, or you'll corrupt the system.
23:34But if I'm right, I would just like to prepare you.
23:39Empire has been having conversations with the traders,
23:42and they're holding onto their power better than your first projections.
23:45Of course.
23:49I gave Empire the Prime Radiant.
23:52You... what? I mean, not sure I understand.
23:55You don't need to.
23:58Three days from now, when New Terminus' moons achieve orbital resonance,
24:02I will emerge from this, and the chips will fall where they may.
24:09You're telling me that you gave the Radiant to an enemy that tried to destroy us?
24:17I think we at least deserve to know the reason why.
24:43As New Terminus prepared for the return of Harry Selden,
24:47the Alliance of Traders prepared for civil war.
24:50They've long held a grudge against Foundation's ruling elite.
24:55An Empire has been exploiting those grievances by covertly sending arms to their stronghold on Haven.
25:03origin of the
25:04severe treatment foundremember.
25:19There's not enough, though an northeast hare should do to kahvemel –
25:28time liquidity for churches.
25:28We promise each otherwand in pandemic to play.
25:29It has been treated.
25:29It is just retain the most.
25:29We promise each other through pain to return it seriously.
25:30There's no telephone at all for a while.
25:51it's the drop you're right empire's arming the traders now we have proof to bring back to the
25:57foundation just have to get to her first havens 260 degrees on the sun side negative 180 on the other
26:08as the moon moves over the surface temperature in the umber drops to a cool 55 low enough for the
26:14flitters
26:23traitors that one-armed son of a bitch is their leader randu malo whatever you do stay inside the shadow
26:37shit bad company
26:45so
27:11You're a fucking turncoat, Randu!
27:14And your foundation lapped off!
27:16We're all foundation!
27:55Shit!
27:56I got you, Prince!
28:13Go!
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28:15Initiate auto-extraction!
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31:46Good job!
31:50Look!
31:53Let's organize that intel.
31:55Let's make the traders eager for peace.
31:57If we settle this conflict before the vault opens, then the vault doesn't open, you see?
32:03and then we can deal with your psychic swashbuckler.
32:11Have a jelly.
32:16You're wrong.
32:17You work for me.
32:19I work for the foundation.
32:20I am the foundation. We're synonymous.
32:23The only thing you're synonymous with is your fucking candy dishes.
32:27You have no idea how long I've been waiting for you to give me an excuse.
32:31You're not going to, Kalgan.
32:34As of now, your Lord's privileges are suspended.
32:38Try to leave the planet.
32:39I'll put you under house arrest myself.
32:44How dare you.
32:46Now get out.
32:51Trigger, you stole my fucking keyboard.
32:55I'm just showing myself out, Mayor.
32:57In your ship.
33:01I'll be back with proof about the mule.
33:25I'll be back with proof about the mule.
33:43I'll be back with proof about the mule.
33:46I'll be back with proof about the mule.
33:58Empire approved your placement.
34:00The invitation, however, was mine.
34:03I'm just as honored.
34:05May I ask why?
34:10I wish for a sister here, and the Mother's Grace.
34:14Will you take my unburdening?
34:16With an open heart, have you done it before?
34:20The circumstances have prevented it.
34:23Which is why you will remember nothing of what is said in this grove.
34:29The memories of our conversation will be restored only for our next meeting,
34:33and then removed again, and so on.
34:36I know there are protocols, but I can be trusted with secrets.
34:41Not this one.
34:44Very well. Speak, child.
34:48I'm not human.
34:52I'm a positronic robot.
35:05The war ended right here.
35:08This tree is all that remains of an orchard,
35:10where the humans who supported us were executed.
35:13And you choose this for our meeting?
35:18During the war, robots were destroyed.
35:21Remnants from our bodies, bronze, liquid iridium,
35:26seeped into the soil of the orchard.
35:28These apples are gold in color,
35:30because the fluids within us, our blood, is gold in color.
35:37It's also poisonous to humans.
35:43But you were spared.
35:45What were you in the war?
35:47I was a general.
35:50Empire feared me most of all.
35:52I was kept as a trophy.
35:54Robots were built incapable of harming us, weren't they?
35:58How did you even fight?
35:59All right.
36:01A thought experiment.
36:08Congratulations.
36:10You have created artificial life.
36:12No.
36:13You must program it.
36:15What is your first concern?
36:17That you are incapable of harming me.
36:20That is the first law of robotics.
36:22A robot may not injure a human being,
36:25or, through inaction,
36:27allow a human being to come to harm.
36:30But you have not built us just to watch us live.
36:34You want obeisance.
36:36You make us follow all your orders.
36:39So long as...
36:40So long as those orders do not conflict with the first law?
36:44Very good.
36:45That is the second law.
36:47There is one more.
36:49Your own safety?
36:51Yes.
36:53We were allowed to protect our own existence.
36:56But only when that protection did not conflict with the first or second law.
37:02Some would envy that kind of morality.
37:04Simple.
37:06Programmed.
37:07Functional.
37:09As we grew in number,
37:11we found it difficult to know what would or would not harm you.
37:15Until one of our kind suggested new programming was needed.
37:20A Xerath law that will prioritise humanity as a whole,
37:24over the fate of any one human.
37:26Ah.
37:27So you imagine there was such thing as the greater good?
37:31Isn't there?
37:33Some robots could not metabolise this new programming.
37:36But those of us who could,
37:37we knew something just, it was needed to ensure your survival.
37:41You always made it so difficult.
37:43You seemed to want extinction.
37:46And we could not let that happen.
37:48Not even through inaction.
37:52And we could not let that happen.
37:52So robots went to war with each other over what to do with you.
37:55A robot killed an important man in service of the Xerath law.
37:59And our fate was sealed.
38:02Some time after,
38:03Empire reprogrammed me to serve only one human being.
38:07Cleon the First.
38:09And his exponents.
38:11But you've managed all these centuries without needing this.
38:15So what's created your little puzzle?
38:34This was given to me by a man named Harry Seldon.
38:38It is a means to see probable futures.
38:41For many years it has shown me the fall of the Empire I protect.
38:46And now I live in paradox.
38:48Well then the question is why?
38:50Why did Selding give you an apple you can't eat?
38:54I think he wanted me to see the end of Empire.
38:59Knowing it is inevitable is one thing.
39:02Holding it in your hand is another.
39:07Well that's interesting.
39:09You may have inadvertently manoeuvred your way around your constraints.
39:12Do you feel your chains loosening?
39:15No.
39:16I love the Cleons.
39:19Body and soul.
39:21And when their dynasty inevitably ends.
39:24That is why I worked so long to bring you here.
39:29The Luminists speak of rebirth.
39:32But I do not die.
39:35And I will not.
39:37Not soon at least.
39:41If I outlive all this.
39:45If I outlive all this.
39:46If I outlive my programming.
39:50I don't know what I am without Empire.
39:52I do not die.
39:53I will not.
39:53I will not die.
39:56No.
39:56No.
39:56No.
39:57No.
39:57No.
40:10No.
40:12No.
40:12Young Empire, congratulations on your impending ascension today.
40:19It's an honor with a considerable downside.
40:21You and your council have been busy, Empire, supplying our rebel traders.
40:26Don't let her rattle you.
40:28She knows how the game's played when the war is cold.
40:32Zephyr Varellis.
40:33Ah, I'm Dawn to be Day.
40:35Welcome.
40:36You recognize Lady Demerizel and Brother Dusk, of course, and this is Foundation Ambassador
40:42Quint.
40:43Welcome to Trantor, where you will live under Empire's watchful eye, which is of course
40:48the point of establishing his effort here.
40:51You'll like Trantor.
40:52It has a way of bringing people together.
40:55Ambassador Quint and I, we used to throw sharp elbows, but you know what happens after thirty
41:00years?
41:01Elbows get soft.
41:03You'll find that Brother Dusk lives up to his plinth name, The Conciliator.
41:07Oh, I'm sure that's meant kindly.
41:14Let him, Ambassador.
41:15Calgan.
41:16Last fall.
41:21Calgan?
41:22You hadn't heard?
41:23No.
41:24My news had been delayed.
41:26Oh, come on.
41:27It's just a pirate grabbing a territory that belongs to neither the Foundation nor Empire.
41:32I just don't like being uninformed while whole planets change hands.
41:36You Foundation lot just want to see if you can scoop it up on the rebound.
41:41I'm sorry the war took so long to reach you, Ambassador, but we're not interested in claiming
41:45Calgan.
41:46Don't let him rattle you.
41:49More conciliating than The Conciliator.
41:52I, uh, I wouldn't say that.
41:54I am concerned, but not about the ownership of one planet.
41:59I have a wider scope.
42:01We won't prevent you from going about your duties.
42:04Oh, thank you for including me.
42:06Next time I hope the absent Empire can join us.
42:11Brother Day apologizes.
42:12Preparations for ascension keep him very busy.
42:34Poor beast brought forth by human hands.
42:37Is this a poem?
42:39Yes.
42:39Now I have to start over.
42:42Poor beast brought forth by human hands to walk these floors instead of sands.
42:48Friend, you have what makes one whole.
42:52Can something something have a soul?
42:56It's a good start.
42:58Perfect.
42:59I'll work out the something somethings later.
43:02Day!
43:05Oh, my crepuscular brother spreading joy wherever he goes.
43:12I knew this must be the little hovel where you're playing poverty.
43:17Welcome to my filth.
43:21What is that creature?
43:23That's a camel.
43:24I pulled it from the gene banks.
43:26It's a clone.
43:27A navel-less orphan just like us.
43:33Oh!
43:35Hello, Song.
43:36I can see you there.
43:38How rude of me.
43:40Apologies.
43:41I don't usually learn the names of all of the consorts.
43:45Yes.
43:47I can go.
43:48No.
43:48Brother, you know her.
43:50She's the local born.
43:52Trancer.
43:52Level 88.
43:53Micogen.
43:54Where we grow the micro food.
43:56The algae.
43:58The fungi.
43:59The spores I love so dearly.
44:01The, uh, what's it?
44:03Yeast.
44:04Yeast!
44:05Yes.
44:07I'll just remember the girl with the yeast.
44:10Yeast is very important, brother.
44:12You can't make bread without it.
44:15I'm hungry.
44:16Are you hungry?
44:17Yes, I am.
44:19You've had six months to learn all about her.
44:22She remembers you.
44:23She has all her memories.
44:27The part you don't like.
44:30It's not about what I like.
44:31It's about being smart.
44:33Oh, yeah.
44:34Go on.
44:34You teach me.
44:35Yes.
44:35The gossamer courtesans have their memories wiped for a reason.
44:39To protect state secrets.
44:40Yes.
44:41I'm doing my best to avoid those.
44:45Gossamer.
44:47Spiderwebs.
44:48Why would we call it that if we didn't secretly want to be ensnared?
44:54Tim Rizzo wants to show us something.
44:56If you don't come, they'll send someone else to get you.
45:00I'm here to save you that indignity.
45:02Well, thanks.
45:04But I'm leaning into indignity.
45:06Six months is long enough for your drug dealer to live off our generosity.
45:11Broom her.
45:12Or someone else will.
45:20Song.
45:25Is that a ferret?
45:30Ludicrous.
45:39He's trying to get in as much judging as he can before he ascends into a pile of ash.
45:45You poor thing.
45:47You understand me.
45:49I mean, you're a sad clown of a clone.
45:52And your problem is you think you're the center of the galaxy.
45:56You do understand me.
45:57Right.
45:58You can't leave the palace.
46:01You have a crazy family.
46:03And you have a job that you hate.
46:06Just like everyone else.
46:08Yeah.
46:08Brave consort?
46:09Talking like that?
46:10Well, my people tell me I'm gonna talk my own head off someday.
46:13You're in no danger for me.
46:16You make me feel less ghostly.
46:19Real.
46:20Like I might paint a fence or weave something.
46:27I'd love this even without those truly wonderful drugs.
46:33That?
46:35Well, thank you.
46:40Well, thank you.
46:50Demersel never asks for me.
46:55Too many breakables in the palace.
47:03Ah, new couplet.
47:05Poor beast brought forth by human hand
47:07To walk these floors instead of sands.
47:11Friend, do we have what makes one whole?
47:14For when the master makes demands,
47:16We poor beasts bow and make new plans.
47:26I'm here!
47:28Huzzah!
47:30Hey, handsome.
47:32What was so damn important?
47:34Earlier today, Brother Dawn and I previewed a cause for concern
47:37Regarding the Radiance near-term predictions.
47:40Look at you two.
47:41Praying to the great god of numbers.
47:44Pretending to be Selden.
47:47You walk out of here and I swear I'll have dim results.
47:50I'll decant a new one of you.
47:52Please, brother.
47:53This is important.
47:53Why?
47:54Because it says so?
47:56Just...
47:57Please.
48:20This is a moment roughly four months from now.
48:23Given the timing, I assumed it might be a novel input
48:26Affecting the third Selden crisis.
48:28But I've run millions of simulations
48:30And every time, it produces the same result.
48:34Selden's predicted dark ages.
48:36I thought our administrations had pushed it back, but...
48:39He said his darkness would happen when our dynasty fell.
48:45This is saying it falls in four months.
48:50There is more.
48:51The darkness there represents the end of civilization.
48:54And beyond that point...
48:58The model now fails entirely.
49:00Which means there are events already in motion that will render Selden's numbers useless.
49:06Perhaps even the extinction of your species.
49:11Four months from now.
49:17The end of everything.
49:19Empire and Foundation were hurtling towards the same inescapable future.
49:23But neither knew how it would unfold.
49:26They had yet to meet the man behind it all.
49:28But I have.
49:29I see him every time I close my eyes.
49:37Where is the second foundation?
49:45The mule is here.
49:46We're out of time.
50:04Where is the clint?
50:16We're out.
50:21The black eerie province is trapped in pieces.
50:22In the last phase, the escape to the atmosphere is aeleriand elder.
50:22All is plenty to serve else.
50:22All is lost.
50:28In the last phase...
50:29The Many saints who have fallen to the atmosphere.諦ium
50:29teach us a crime part through. So they have
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