Foundation approaches the halfway point of the third season. Episode five, ”Where tyrants spend eternity“Started showing us as Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) hopes to gain an advantage of the sinister mule (Pilou asbæk). Her plan attached herself to a very beloved troupe that Star Wars Series Andor also made excellent use of: science fiction espionage. 
“Where tyrants spend eternity” also stretches everywhere and ends up involving a terrible, large -scale tragedy (another Andor similarity), building to a final scene that worries a confrontation, we are supposed to see more of the next week. While there are other subplots collecting in “tyrants”, the main push concerns Gaal’s alliance with brother Dawn (Cassian Bilton), the youngest of the three Cleon clones that make up an empire.
In earlier episodes, we saw Dawn’s curiosity about a specific artifact in the Imperial Library told Gaal that Cleon came along with the right mindset to join her cause. We already know that Gaal’s partner, Pritcher (Brandon P. Bell), is secretly working for the second foundation, despite his role as the head of the main foundation. He is a double agent of the highest order, but he is not directly involved with Gaal’s plan in this episode.
Incredibly, Gaal is perfectly capable of arranging the show by itself. She thinks with every detail, first paying a dawn visit in a hologram form, then showing herself to Trantor personally to convince him how dangerous the mule is. What they have to do, she insists, is to force Kalgan’s “moat”, the first planet to fall under the rule of the mule. As Foundation Fans saw in the second season, this involves completely surrounding a planet with the Imperial Fleet. It didn’t turn out thenAnd no one is quick to repeat a catastrophic moment in history – which does not prevent dawn from trying (and failing) from getting his brothers from his side.
Dawn’s influence is limited by itself, and Demerzel (Laura Birn), the ancient robot programmed to act Only In ways that will serve an empire, think that surroundings are a bad idea. Thus the Galaxy Council, which grew in power slightly, as the grip of an empire on the galaxy was loose.
The Only A solution, Gaal insists, is to follow her plan, which will require dawn to push over a transcription-absolutely not in respect of Demerzel-then to choose a council to blackmail, thus forcing a vote that will illuminate the moat.
As Dawn saw, Gaal has certain talents that make her ready spy. She is open to her psychic abilities, which Dawn suspects have played a role to force him to help her. But this is pushed out for now; Tired of being said that he is too insignificant to make any key political decisions, he is decided to do whatever is needed to get that area approved.
This is why Gaal needs him so badly: with his high security, Dawn can brush right into the home of his chosen Patsy – a counselor named Tarisk (Sule Rimi) – and plant incriminating information that they can use against him. Tarisk was a friend to Dawn, but he also has the most exploitable strategic leverage. “If we fail, Foundation and Empire are burning together,” Gaal emphasizes.
“I’m Cleon. We’re not raised,” Dawn replies; He is ready to betray Tarison. With Gaal leading him together – and a giant, brilliant hood cover covering his dresses, perhaps not the most unconscious choice – the young Cleon enters into Tarik’s apartment and uploads evidence that falsely implies him to help him the bloody blemish puzzle of the mule. When the counselor enters unexpectedly, Dawn holds firmly even when the man begs him to reconsider. If the Galaxy Council votes to close Kalgan, it will endanger Tarik’s wife and children, who went there during a sick holidays just before the mule’s arrival. But if Tarisk does not support Dawn’s play, Dawn will expose him as a traitor.
“So I ruin my career, or risk the life of my family,” Tarisk says, before angrily calling dawn “Tirana tyrant.” But then the tables turn. We see Tarison, the family man, has Mistress Cowering in a nearby closet. She heard everything. Dawn hardly hesitates before shooting her, a terrible choice, which, however, motivates a shaken Taric to speak in the meeting and push the moat.
This is the most outstanding dawn ever Foundation-More seasons have seen him try to escape the takeover of an empire for personal reasons instead of galaxy forms-and his new boldness is not without consequences. First, he is triumphant. The moat forms around Kalgan. But then the mule sends a troubled delivery to the Galaxy Council, revealing that he is long left before the Imperial Fleet arrived. What’s worse, he left a bomb back, powerful enough to destroy not only the whole planet (Tarisk stretches his family just in time to look at them) but also all ships in his orbit.
Dawn, suddenly the least popular Cleon since the miserable season of the second season, has to make a quick output while realizing the terrible truth. His actions only resulted in the deaths of millions of innocents, and an empire is now without spatial force to speak. Dawn … it was a pawn. Gaal’s pawn.
Though she breathlessly tries to explain her Had lie to him to keep Harry’s predictive plan on the road – a Big Part of it is the end of an empire, which he only personally rushes-he is furious. Foundation Viewers will recognize that this is the same kind of anger when she realized that Harry will not always come with her own plans; Clearly, she learned to manipulate from the landlord.
And just as Gaal did with Harry, Dawn decides to leave as far away from the person who cheated on him is the only way forward. It is a pity he is on a space station with limited options.
The episode ends with its fate uncertain thanks to explosive airing, but Gaal’s count is even more critical. The last thing we see in episode five very much A foolish mood.
Is this the end of FoundationSpy era – especially with Pritcher, whose own treatments have finally caught him, tongueing in prison – or more trick and espionage will last in the coming weeks? New episodes arrive on Friday on Apple TV+.
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