Over the past two seasons, fans have witnessed the intriguing, often at times fiery and frustrating, relationship between Dr Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) and his protégé Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) – but this episode finally saw it reach a point that we've been waiting for.
When Gaal wakes up, she discovers that, despite their agreement, Hari has unceremoniously left her in cryosleep for 148 years. Of course, Hari argues that this is because Gaal's time is "more valuable" than his, which may be true – but it certainly doesn't excuse not discussing the matter with her first.
However, next, he does something he should have done a long time ago - he hands her the Prime Radiant, complete with all the data, knowledge and secrets he has on the eight crises, marking an end to his approach of constantly leaving her in the dark. As he finally realises and tells her, "The road ahead is one you can travel on your own."
It's a long overdue action from Hari, especially considering that Demerzel (Laura Birn) and Empire have had access to the Radiant for some time but, with Gaal finally being handed the Radiant, she's finally able to act with agency and, crucially, with all the information at her disposal, rather than indefinitely attempting to guess what Hari's planning.
After he hands the Radiant over to Gaal, Hari retires to his quarters, telling his protégé that he'll see her tomorrow. It soon becomes clear that that was one last lie – although a somewhat kind one – as Gaal wakes up the next morning to realise that Hari has died.
View Green Video on the source websiteWhat that means is, in the final scenes of the episode, we see Gaal acting alone, and making one of the most interesting decisions of the show so far in taking a call with Brother Dawn (Cassian Bilton) and, potentially, forming some kind of alliance or agreement with him as she tells him: "Time to make yourself useful, Empire."
Considering the vast array of dangers emerging in the episode, from the Mule's (Pilou Asbæk) rapidly increasing influence to Brother Dusk's (Terrence Mann) chilling revelation of the Novacula, a black hole bomb (AKA Foundation's answer to the Death Star), an alliance as dramatic as this one could be crucial for Foundation going forward - and Gaal was only in a position to make it with all the information at her disposal.
Until now, despite her incredible capability as a mathematician and powers as a mentalic, she's always explicitly been in Hari's shadow, with her entire existence and reality shaped in some way by him. With Hari out of the equation, at least for a little bit, Gaal can finally make her mark and prepare for her run-in with the Mule on her own terms.
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