Foundation is nearing the halfway point of season three. Episode five, “ Where Tyrants Spend Eternity ,” began to show us how Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) hopes to gain an advantage over the sinister Mule (Pilou Asbæk). Her plan tapped into a much-loved trope that Star Wars series Andor also made excellent use of : sci-fi spycraft.

“Where Tyrants Spend Eternity” is also tense throughout and ends up involving a horrific, large-scale tragedy (another Andor similarity), building to a final scene that teases a confrontation we’ll presumably see more of next week. While there are other subplots percolating in “Tyrants,” the main thrust concerns Gaal’s alliance with Brother Dawn (Cassian Bilton), the youngest of the three Cleon clones who make up Empire.

In earlier episodes, we saw

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