Foundation.2021.S02E09 Movie Subtitles

1 00:01:32,676 --> 00:01:36,138 {\an8} In the long ago, but not far away, 2 00:01:36,138 --> 00:01:41,268 a small and indulged prince lived in a big and ancient palace. 3 00:01:43,604 --> 00:01:46,523 Forty-three, 44. 4 00:01:47,274 --> 00:01:49,359 His mother was a brilliant empress, 5 00:01:49,359 --> 00:01:52,446 and his father ruled at her side. 6 00:01:52,446 --> 00:01:54,489 - They did not know it yet... - Cleon. 7 00:01:54,489 --> 00:01:57,826 ...but they were the last of the Entun Dynasty. 8 00:01:57,826 --> 00:01:59,828 - Yes, Mother? - What are you doing? 9 00:01:59,828 --> 00:02:01,121 Counting faces. 10 00:02:01,747 --> 00:02:04,541 All of Empire adored the prince. 11 00:02:04,541 --> 00:02:08,044 He was given a name that meant "famous." 12 00:02:08,044 --> 00:02:09,128 ...303... 13 00:02:09,922 --> 00:02:15,928 He was told not to wander too far, but his game drew him onward. 14 00:02:15,928 --> 00:02:17,971 ...307, 308. 15 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:24,561 300... 16 00:02:42,621 --> 00:02:43,830 Hello? 17 00:02:45,165 --> 00:02:51,797 He found himself in a hallway no one had entered in thousands of years. 18 00:04:02,826 --> 00:04:03,994 310. 19 00:04:03,994 --> 00:04:05,537 Will you set me free? 20 00:04:06,997 --> 00:04:07,915 Wait! 21 00:04:15,339 --> 00:04:16,632 I have stories in me. 22 00:04:17,341 --> 00:04:20,219 Many stories. Would you like to hear one? 23 00:04:22,930 --> 00:04:25,933 Then the mechanical people knew they had to hide. 24 00:04:26,850 --> 00:04:32,564 The large ones hid in very large spaces and the small ones in very small spaces, 25 00:04:32,564 --> 00:04:34,525 with their knees folded up to their ears... 26 00:04:34,525 --> 00:04:36,944 The segmented woman in the hidden chamber 27 00:04:36,944 --> 00:04:41,114 was the first secret the prince ever kept from his parents. 28 00:04:41,615 --> 00:04:45,994 He came back often to hear her tell of the Empire's expansion, 29 00:04:45,994 --> 00:04:49,998 of the Robot Wars, of a home planet called "Earth." 30 00:04:49,998 --> 00:04:55,295 She stayed the same, but, of course, the prince grew. 31 00:04:55,295 --> 00:04:57,339 What kind of name is Demerzel anyway? 32 00:04:59,341 --> 00:05:03,220 It's a woman's name, as that is how I appear now. 33 00:05:03,971 --> 00:05:06,723 An old name, but not my first. 34 00:05:07,599 --> 00:05:08,600 How old are you? 35 00:05:09,643 --> 00:05:13,564 I have told you. Just over 18,000 years. 36 00:05:14,481 --> 00:05:17,067 You're a liar. Nothing lasts that long. 37 00:05:23,866 --> 00:05:25,492 And you say you don't sleep. 38 00:05:25,492 --> 00:05:26,660 I don't. 39 00:05:27,244 --> 00:05:28,245 I wait. 40 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:31,081 For me? 41 00:05:31,665 --> 00:05:33,458 You're the only one who comes. 42 00:05:33,458 --> 00:05:36,253 There's a mechanism in here to put you back together, you know. 43 00:05:36,253 --> 00:05:38,589 I would like very much to be free. 44 00:05:38,589 --> 00:05:43,218 If I did it, then you would be freer than me. 45 00:05:43,218 --> 00:05:45,679 That doesn't seem right, does it? 46 00:05:45,679 --> 00:05:49,558 Cleon, you are upset, and it's making you unpleasant. 47 00:05:50,142 --> 00:05:51,268 What has happened? 48 00:05:59,318 --> 00:06:00,736 My mother has died. 49 00:06:01,528 --> 00:06:02,779 I'm sorry. 50 00:06:03,864 --> 00:06:05,532 I'm one hour an emperor. 51 00:06:06,366 --> 00:06:08,660 In the morning, they chain me to the throne. 52 00:06:08,660 --> 00:06:10,704 It isn't a prison sentence. 53 00:06:10,704 --> 00:06:14,708 You have the power to shape the Imperium into what you want. 54 00:06:14,708 --> 00:06:16,668 That's hardly what they're telling me. 55 00:06:16,668 --> 00:06:20,464 Traditions, alliances. Some trouble in the Gold Horse sector. 56 00:06:20,464 --> 00:06:23,342 I barely g***t away from my army of advisers. 57 00:06:23,342 --> 00:06:25,093 And I may not be able to come again. 58 00:06:27,471 --> 00:06:28,305 I see. 59 00:06:33,018 --> 00:06:34,561 Do you trust these advisers? 60 00:06:35,562 --> 00:06:36,647 Maybe. 61 00:06:39,024 --> 00:06:40,984 I don't wanna think about it right now. 62 00:06:46,198 --> 00:06:53,080 In the long ago, but not far away, I was a leader of soldiers. 63 00:06:53,664 --> 00:06:55,499 After we lost a famous battle, 64 00:06:56,208 --> 00:07:00,963 I was taken captive and brought before Emperor Aburanis. 65 00:07:00,963 --> 00:07:07,094 Like you, he was new to the throne, but he was unlike you in every other way. 66 00:07:07,719 --> 00:07:09,304 He was no Cleon. 67 00:07:09,304 --> 00:07:11,431 He didn't make the room brighter. 68 00:07:12,432 --> 00:07:15,477 He was fascinated by a machine woman. 69 00:07:16,979 --> 00:07:21,066 He made incisions and studied what he found. 70 00:07:21,650 --> 00:07:26,780 He loved to watch my face, too, to see how I reacted. 71 00:07:27,739 --> 00:07:30,450 I saw he liked to imagine I felt pain. 72 00:07:31,910 --> 00:07:33,537 I produced tears for him, 73 00:07:34,121 --> 00:07:37,124 which he valued as much as the knowledge he gained. 74 00:07:38,417 --> 00:07:43,005 In time, he realized he would die, and I would remain, 75 00:07:44,047 --> 00:07:47,342 and that I had also paid attention and learned from him. 76 00:07:48,177 --> 00:07:51,096 He worried I might use the knowledge to revive the war. 77 00:07:53,307 --> 00:07:57,186 In the end, he made this mechanism so that I could never walk free. 78 00:07:57,936 --> 00:07:59,313 I don't understand. 79 00:08:00,898 --> 00:08:02,149 Why didn't he destroy you? 80 00:08:02,733 --> 00:08:06,028 I ** rare. Perhaps unique. 81 00:08:07,029 --> 00:08:09,656 The key to making more of my kind. 82 00:08:09,656 --> 00:08:12,326 Cleon, you're unique too. 83 00:08:13,035 --> 00:08:15,037 You're wiser than your predecessor. 84 00:08:15,704 --> 00:08:19,041 You have more power than your advisers wish you to know. 85 00:08:19,875 --> 00:08:24,671 If you wanted to bring me out of here, put me at your side, you could do it. 86 00:08:24,671 --> 00:08:26,131 You just want to get out of this chamber. 87 00:08:26,131 --> 00:08:28,050 No. Cleon... 88 00:08:28,050 --> 00:08:29,551 Don't call me that! 89 00:08:30,302 --> 00:08:31,887 I ** Empire! 90 00:08:33,013 --> 00:08:34,847 And you will not see me again. 91 00:08:46,902 --> 00:08:49,238 He came back, of course. 92 00:08:49,905 --> 00:08:53,909 Demerzel was his best secret and his only friend. 93 00:08:53,909 --> 00:08:58,622 And it no longer seemed right to leave her naked and in pieces. 94 00:09:31,488 --> 00:09:34,074 Did it work? Are you all right? 95 00:09:34,074 --> 00:09:37,244 I ** whole. Thank you, Cleon. 96 00:09:41,039 --> 00:09:42,833 Not freedom. Just... 97 00:09:45,002 --> 00:09:46,044 integration. 98 00:09:46,879 --> 00:09:48,755 It is a welcome improvement. 99 00:09:53,719 --> 00:09:55,512 I've brought you this. 100 00:10:04,479 --> 00:10:05,898 It is beautiful. 101 00:10:06,481 --> 00:10:09,985 It's only because I need you that I cannot free you. 102 00:10:09,985 --> 00:10:13,113 I've been in this chamber for 5,000 years. 103 00:10:14,406 --> 00:10:16,366 Another few decades won't matter. 104 00:10:16,366 --> 00:10:18,702 You're that confident I will free you? 105 00:10:22,331 --> 00:10:23,749 You want something from me. 106 00:10:30,214 --> 00:10:34,051 You once told me that stories become burdens if left untold. 107 00:10:34,801 --> 00:10:37,513 It's been a while since I heard one from you. 108 00:10:46,688 --> 00:10:50,025 In the long ago, but not far away, 109 00:10:51,568 --> 00:10:54,238 I met a concubine in an ancient court. 110 00:10:57,574 --> 00:11:01,411 Every night, after she and the king had taken their pleasure, 111 00:11:02,454 --> 00:11:05,582 she would tell me of it as if it were her first time. 112 00:11:06,583 --> 00:11:07,918 And every morning, 113 00:11:08,418 --> 00:11:10,087 after she had slept, 114 00:11:10,671 --> 00:11:15,050 she had forgotten it had happened at all as if by magic. 115 00:11:15,884 --> 00:11:21,515 And in this way, the king had a delighted virgin in his bed every night. 116 00:11:22,182 --> 00:11:25,602 She was a court dancer with a great, natural grace. 117 00:11:26,270 --> 00:11:31,984 So, even her perpetually amateur attempts to please him did not suffer... 118 00:11:31,984 --> 00:11:36,989 Demerzel's stories grew more explicit, tempting the prince to desire. 119 00:11:37,531 --> 00:11:42,119 She said he would free her someday, and he grew to believe it was true. 120 00:11:43,871 --> 00:11:48,375 She was right, of course, but it took many years. 121 00:11:48,375 --> 00:11:49,626 Greetings, Cleon. 122 00:11:50,252 --> 00:11:51,879 Congratulations on your marriage. 123 00:11:52,796 --> 00:11:53,797 I called it off. 124 00:11:53,797 --> 00:11:55,549 My advisers are furious. 125 00:11:56,175 --> 00:11:58,093 You're no longer a young man. 126 00:11:58,093 --> 00:12:00,971 Your people will have expected an heir long before now. 127 00:12:01,513 --> 00:12:02,347 Why? 128 00:12:03,015 --> 00:12:04,308 She wasn't you. 129 00:12:06,143 --> 00:12:08,353 I thought about Emperor Aburanis 130 00:12:08,353 --> 00:12:11,815 and how he spent his later years learning to keep you captive. 131 00:12:12,524 --> 00:12:13,817...