This week’s “foundation” has taken a killer spy turn

Foundation Approach to the half of season three. Episode five, “Where Tyrants, spends eternity”, began to show us how Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) hopes to gain an advantage over the sinister mule (Pilou Asbæk). His plan has exploited a much appreciated trope which Star Wars series Andor Also made an excellent use of: science fiction Spycraft.

“Where tyrants pass eternity” is also tense throughout and ends up involving a horrible and large -scale tragedy (another Andor Similarity), building with a final scene that teases a confrontation, we will probably see more next week. Although there are other sub-intrigues that percolate in “Tyrants”, the main thrust concerns Gaal’s alliance with Brother Dawn (Cassian Bilton), the youngest of the three cleon clones that make up the Empire.

In the previous episodes, we have seen how Dawn’s curiosity about a specific artifact in the imperial library made Gaal known that a key had accompanied the right mentality to join his cause. We already know that Gaal’s partner, Pritcher (Brandon P. Bell), secretly works for the second foundation, despite his role as the intelligence of the main foundation. He is a double agent of the highest order, but he is not directly involved in Gaal’s plan in this episode.

Unsurprisingly, Gaal is perfectly capable of directing the show by itself. She thought about each detail, first making a visit to Dawn in the form of a hologram, then appearing on Trantor in person to convince him how dangerous the mule is. What they have to do, she insists is forcing a “pregnant” of Kalgan, the first planet to fall under the reign of the mule. As Foundation Fans have seen in the season two, which completely involves a planet with the imperial fleet. It did not work at the time, and no one is in a hurry to repeat a disastrous moment in history – which does not prevent Dawn from trying (and fail) from putting his brothers on his side.

Dawn’s influence is limited by himself, and Demerzel (Laura Birn), the old robot has programmed to act only In a way that will serve empire, thinks that a speaker is a bad idea. The same goes for the galactic council, which has increased in power a little while the grip of Empire on the galaxy has loosened.

THE only The solution, insists Gaal, is to follow his plan, which will oblige Dawn to sneak in Trantor – an absolute non -no -tone with regard to Demerzel – then by choosing a member of the council to make sing, thus forcing a vote which will clarify the enclosure.

As Dawn saw, Gaal has certain talents who make her a ready spy. She is open to her psychic capacities that Dawn Suspects played a role in having forced him to help her. But this is dismissed for the moment; Tired of being informed that it is too unimportant to make key political decisions, it is determined to make everything you need to have this enclosure approved.

Here is why Gaal so badly needs him: with his high security authorization, Dawn can break directly in the house of their chosen Patsy – an advisor named Tarisk (Sule Rimi) – and plants incriminating information that they can use against him. Tarisk was a friend of Dawn, but he also has the most usable strategic lever effect. “If we fail, the Foundation and the Empire burn together,” said Gaal.

“I am a key. We are not raised to be nice, ”replies Dawn; He is ready to betray Tarisk. With Gaal the guidance – and a giant and brilliant hooded cap covering his dresses, perhaps not the safest choice – the young cleon enters the apartment of Tarisk and downloads evidence which implies it falsely by helping the bloody coup of the mule. When the advisor has unexpectedly, Dawn holds firm even when the man begs him to reconsider. If the galactic council votes to enclose Kalgan, it will endanger the woman and the children of Tarisk, who went there on vacation to the bad element just before the arrival of the mule. But if Tarisk does not support Dawn’s game, Dawn will exhibit him as a traitor.

“So I ruin my career, or I put the life of my family in danger,” says Tarisk, before calling Dawn with anger “a budding tyrant”. But then the tables turn. We see Tarisk, the family man, has a mistress curling in a neighboring closet. She heard everything. Dawn barely hesitates before shooting him, a terrible choice which nevertheless motivates a Tarik shaken to speak during the meeting and to put pressure for the enclosure.

It is the most important that a dawn has ever been Foundation– The more reactive seasons have seen him try to escape the reach of the Empire for personal reasons rather than galactic reasons – and his new audacity is not without consequences. First of all, he is triumphant. The enclosure is formed around Kalgan. But then, the mule sends a mockery transmission to the galactic council, revealing that it was long Before the arrival of the imperial fleet. Worse, he left a bomb behind, powerful enough to destroy not only the whole planet (Tarik tightens his family just in time to watch them perish) but also all the ships of his orbit.

Dawn, suddenly the least popular Cléon since the miserable cleon of season two, the 14th, must make a rushed outing while achieving the terrible truth. His actions have just killed millions of innocent people, and the Empire is now without any spatial force to speak. Dawn… was a pawn. Gaal’s Pawn Dawn.

Although she tries out of breath to explain her had Ly him in order to keep the predictive plan of Hari Seldon on the right track – a big Part of this is the end of the Empire that it is simply accelerated personally – it is furious. Foundation Viewers will recognize that it is the same kind of anger that Gaal felt when she realized that Hari was not always to come with her own plans; Obviously, she learned to manipulate the master.

And just as Gaal did with Hari, Dawn decides to move away as much as possible from the person who deceived him is the only way to follow. Too bad it is aboard a space station with limited options.

The episode ends with its uncertain fate thanks to an explosive SAS, but even more worrying is the calculation that Gaal will face. The last thing we see in episode five is Demerzel on a key hunting mission, advancing Gaal’s ship in a very Higher mood.

Is this the end of FoundationThe spy era – in particular with Pritcher, whose own transactions finally caught up with him, languid in prison – or more deception and espionage follow in the coming weeks? New episodes arrive on Fridays on Apple TV +.

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