This article contains spoilers for "Foundation" season 3.

By the end of "Foundation" season 3, the Galactic Empire is in free fall, the First Foundation is in flux, the Second Foundation is ascendant, and the Mule has been revealed (with a twist) . One overlooked but important development from this action-packed season, though, didn't come in the finale. It quietly snuck into a conversation in the penultimate episode, "The Paths That Choose Us."

Toward the end, Demerzel (Laura Birn) enters the very important Galactic Library , where she has a meeting with Kalle (or whoever Rowena King's character actually is). As Demerzel struggles to compute how to help the Second Foundation while knowing it's a threat to the Empire she serves, Kalle summarizes the struggle, saying:

"The whole th

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