Foundation season three has ended ( we’re still reeling) and we are more than thrilled that a fourth season is on the way. Though Apple TV+’s Asimov adaptation has a lot of things to recommend about it—complex characters, dynamic worldbuilding, a plot that celebrates the wonders of math—you also can’t count out the Lee Pace factor.

The charismatic, cult-beloved actor has been a pivotal part of all three seasons. Though Foundation takes place across hundreds of years, the galaxy it’s set in is ruled by clones who are replaced over time. Pace plays the Cleon clone named Brother Day, and the iterations of him we’ve met across three seasons have been widely varied.

In season one, Cleon XIII underwent a grueling religious pilgrimage to prove he had a soul—and therefore cut off a wou

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